Tom, the term you're looking for is "Source Available", not "Open Source". Your source isn't open because I can't use it for commercial purposes.
-russ
If it's "open" then why can't I sell it, or services based on it? Not very "open" is it? Instead, I tell people to use the term "Source Available" for software where the source is available but not completely open.
-russ
Open Source means that the source is open for use by anyone for anything. Source-Available means that you can get the source, but you are limited by the license as to what you can do with it. Please use the correct term, and do not confuse people.
-russ
If the source is open, then it's open for use by all, for anything. If the source is available, then your software is Source-Available, not Open Source. Bungi's code is Source-Available.
-russ
It's not Open Source. Instead, it's Source-Available software. That's the kind of software where the source is available but its use is restricted. For example, BitKeeper is Source-Available software.
-russ
I got one of these puppies for Christmas a few years ago. I've got the serial data being pumped into my desktop, and from there I put it up on the web.
-russ
You silly people! *Wheels* of Zeus. GPS. Get it?? It's a Segway that drives itself!!! You program in your destination, and hang on for dear life.
-russ
You asked "when *don't* monopoliies hurt people?" The answer is: whenever they don't get monopoly prices. The theory behind regulated monopolies is that they *would* get monopoly prices by virtue of their natural monopoly (remember, this is just a theory). And monopoly prices are bad because they lead to a reduction in total value to society. Monopolies want them because they lead to higher profits. People don't want them because monopoly prices cost people more than the profits they return to the monopoly.
This is to be differentiated from ordinary prices in a competitive market, which give the greatest amount of value to society as a whole.
-russ
Do you realize that, on the northern coast, it can get to be 120 degrees?? Hell, *nobody* lives there if they can help it. They all go up into the mountains close to the Ethiopia where it's temperate. You know, in the 90's. But that's even too hot for me, so I think "no thanks".
-russ
Not clear whether the oil reserves exist or not; much less are rich. The geography is right, and Conoco did a seismic survey. But after the revolution, property rights were uncertain. Hard to drill for oil if you don't know you'll be able to retain ownership of your drilling rig.
From what I've heard, anybody who wants to go drill oil in (some parts of) Somalia should just ask for permission. If the clan that owns the property gives you permission, then you can buy their protection (akin to paying taxes) and you'll be fine.
-russ
Why can't we simply buy the oil? There are many sellers; must we fight to secure all of them? Sure, the price might go up, but it the military free?
-russ
Does anybody want yopy.org? It's coming up for renewal, and I have no interest in renewing it. But neither do I want a domain name speculator to get it.
-russ
This is truly embarrassing, but even though I remember typing spispopd many time, I don't remember which game it was in. Nor, for that matter, did I ever know what it stood for. Thanks!
-russ
I used 1/2" flexible NMT, aka smurf tubing, so-called because of its baby-blue color. It's big enough to hold three cat-5 wires. I would have preferred 1", or 3/4", but the 1/2" was all that the electrician's supply store had in stock. I realized that I wanted conduit shortly before the drywall was to go up; after I had installed all the cat5 I thought I would need.
-russ
I had no trouble pulling cat5 through smurf tubing (actually pushing) without a string. Even if I had, it's quite simple to attach a string to a bit of plastic bag and suck it through using a vacuum cleaner.
-russ
I wired every room with two runs of cat5: one for telephone, one for data. I ran conduit to a few rooms. The conduit has proven much more valuable than the cat5. And given the expense of terminating and testing every run, it would have been much cheaper to run conduit (NMT aka smurf tubing) to every room.
-russ
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Tom, the term you're looking for is "Source Available", not "Open Source". Your source isn't open because I can't use it for commercial purposes.
-russ
If it's "open" then why can't I sell it, or services based on it? Not very "open" is it? Instead, I tell people to use the term "Source Available" for software where the source is available but not completely open.
-russ
Open Source means that the source is open for use by anyone for anything. Source-Available means that you can get the source, but you are limited by the license as to what you can do with it. Please use the correct term, and do not confuse people.
-russ
If the source is open, then it's open for use by all, for anything. If the source is available, then your software is Source-Available, not Open Source. Bungi's code is Source-Available.
-russ
It's not Open Source. Instead, it's Source-Available software. That's the kind of software where the source is available but its use is restricted. For example, BitKeeper is Source-Available software.
-russ
They don't claim that it's Open Source. It's the Slashdot author, iMacGuy, who was careless in his choice of headlines.
Unfortunately, "Open Source" was a crappy certification mark in the first place, because it's too descriptive.
-russ
I got one of these puppies for Christmas a few years ago. I've got the serial data being pumped into my desktop, and from there I put it up on the web.
-russ
You silly people! *Wheels* of Zeus. GPS. Get it?? It's a Segway that drives itself!!! You program in your destination, and hang on for dear life.
-russ
You asked "when *don't* monopoliies hurt people?" The answer is: whenever they don't get monopoly prices. The theory behind regulated monopolies is that they *would* get monopoly prices by virtue of their natural monopoly (remember, this is just a theory). And monopoly prices are bad because they lead to a reduction in total value to society. Monopolies want them because they lead to higher profits. People don't want them because monopoly prices cost people more than the profits they return to the monopoly.
This is to be differentiated from ordinary prices in a competitive market, which give the greatest amount of value to society as a whole.
-russ
The Marines were protecting the food supply. They pulled out, and the Rangers and Delta Ops came in to do nation-building duty.
-russ
"oil reserves" refers to "known" oil reserves in that table. If you don't drill, you don't know. And nobody's drilled in Somalia -- *ever*.
-russ
Do you realize that, on the northern coast, it can get to be 120 degrees?? Hell, *nobody* lives there if they can help it. They all go up into the mountains close to the Ethiopia where it's temperate. You know, in the 90's. But that's even too hot for me, so I think "no thanks".
-russ
Not clear whether the oil reserves exist or not; much less are rich. The geography is right, and Conoco did a seismic survey. But after the revolution, property rights were uncertain. Hard to drill for oil if you don't know you'll be able to retain ownership of your drilling rig.
From what I've heard, anybody who wants to go drill oil in (some parts of) Somalia should just ask for permission. If the clan that owns the property gives you permission, then you can buy their protection (akin to paying taxes) and you'll be fine.
-russ
Why can't we simply buy the oil? There are many sellers; must we fight to secure all of them? Sure, the price might go up, but it the military free?
-russ
The bug in the headboard? For picking up pillow talk, obviously.
-russ
Is it GNU (GNU's Not Unix) or is it Linux? Linux tries to be like Unix, and so goes GNU, but that doesn't make them the same thing.
-russ
Does anybody want yopy.org? It's coming up for renewal, and I have no interest in renewing it. But neither do I want a domain name speculator to get it.
-russ
Of course, that picture looks nothing like me, so I'm safe, right?
-russ
This is truly embarrassing, but even though I remember typing spispopd many time, I don't remember which game it was in. Nor, for that matter, did I ever know what it stood for. Thanks!
-russ
That's "Carl Marks", not "Carl Marx". Can't you spel, you idiot?
-russ
Bingo. If the author really understood economics, he would have come up with the same answer you did.
-russ
I used 1/2" flexible NMT, aka smurf tubing, so-called because of its baby-blue color. It's big enough to hold three cat-5 wires. I would have preferred 1", or 3/4", but the 1/2" was all that the electrician's supply store had in stock. I realized that I wanted conduit shortly before the drywall was to go up; after I had installed all the cat5 I thought I would need.
-russ
You *sure* it says that???
-russ
I had no trouble pulling cat5 through smurf tubing (actually pushing) without a string. Even if I had, it's quite simple to attach a string to a bit of plastic bag and suck it through using a vacuum cleaner.
-russ
I wired every room with two runs of cat5: one for telephone, one for data. I ran conduit to a few rooms. The conduit has proven much more valuable than the cat5. And given the expense of terminating and testing every run, it would have been much cheaper to run conduit (NMT aka smurf tubing) to every room.
-russ