Well, one of the issues that may have delayed the bill is a wait for certain corporate sponsors to jump on. A few very large corporations that vend Linux systems were asked, and apparently declined. I happen to have been in the room when Boucher asked them to sign on, and I guess they either didn't reply positively, or just didn't reply.
Boucher is one of very few people on the hill who will give us the time of day. We need him. He's been talking about this bill for some time, and has run into resistance - no surprise - but we want it introduced again. He also plans more than one bill, and the next one will have more of what you want.
I have used a 21-inch monitor, way far back on my desk... actually behind the desk on a shelf, with huge fonts, for years. At Pixar, they called it "the world's most expensive TTY", as I usually work in one screen-sized terminal window. I have improved my eyesight substantially and went from needing glasses to needing none. With my 45th birthday rapidly approaching, I'm noticing some slight degradation in my sight due to aging, but avoiding strain helps a lot.
This isn't so much about attribution as it is about promoting the idea of free software. The BSD folks, etc., don't have the same sort of political platform - GNU does, and it's one that's important to our future.
With all of the folks out there trying to change Linux into just another SCO, placing NDAs on it, and in general simply not understanding what the advantage of free software is, it's time for you to reverse the trend. Say it! GNU/Linux.
Be part of the soultion.
The last few times I've had an issue to bring to Michael Robertson's attention on the community's behalf, he's always fixed the problem, and he's done it promptly.
Please download that microsoft word file and hold on to it folks. I need you as witnesses that the hidden text in the file really was on the site. Do this before they remove or fix the file.
Run "strings" on the file. It's at the end. A few people's names.
It's standards compliant XHTML with CSS. But Mozilla 1.1 positions the menu incorrectly. Can someone tell me why my style sheet works correctly on Moz 1.0 and not 1.1 ? Is it me, or a Gecko bug?
Well, the most I can do in California is attempt to offset the efforts of MPAA, who are very close to Senator Boxer and some others. They aren't going to accept an issue caucus right now. But I am working on a platform that multiple parties can sign on to.
I'm not sure I want to repeat Nader's history with the Greens. I like the Greens and the Libertarians, I work with those folks on issues, but I don't think that my promoting their individual parties should take precedence over my achieving actual change. That might happen better through a major party.
I do not get royalties or residuals. I did get some stock, which I used to pay for my home. So, I was out of the stock market when it crashed, thank goodness, and don't have the debt load of most people like me. I am not rich, sorry.
Oops, sorry about the repetition. I don't use that preview button enough. Now, everyone's sure about my party affiliation:-) . And before you ask, those other parties like the greens are cool, but they don't win many elections. Didn't someone say that politics is the art of the possible...
One of the problems of running for office is that you have to represent all of the people, not just a single issue (OK, a bunch of technology and civil liberty issues). I haven't tried that yet. A congress person's job is pretty unpleasant, and Valerie hates the DC weather (she's comparing it to Northern California). But I don't rule out running for office in the future. For now, I get to Washington about once a month to lobby and give speeches.
There is the small problem that I'm a registered democrat, and would be running against the most liberal people in congress if I stayed where I'm living, and I don't want to do that. For example, my congress person, Barbara Lee, is the only one to have voted against the war. Which leaves Senator Boxer, and I am not sure this is realistic. I am, by the way, a registered Democrat.
Well, I guess "being fired" gets news - but I would rather the article was just about me and not about HP. Besides, everybody knew I was leaving due to the two articles here previously, and it really was an amicable parting.
The kernel developers are a pretty open-minded bunch. Eric's design was cool, he explained it to me a few years back, and it has seen use in other projects than the kernel. But I could see that it would be difficult for the kernel developers to accept:
It required Python to build the kernel.
It was complicated. It included an entire theorem prover. This was sort of cool in that it would not allow you to generate a non-working configuration, but really more than was required for the job.
Its language was arcane. The main language idiom is the suppress-unless statement, which is sort of the logical negation of if-then statements.
And some folks questioned his motivation for getting this grandiose project into the kernel - was it just to help out, or was it primarily to establish additional hacker reputation for Eric? I'd be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this - he did the work.
I think he had a chance of getting it in, but he would have had to refactor the entire thing, write it over in C, make the language cleaner, and I guess that didn't come about. But to his credit, he didn't just talk about it. He generated a working software product with functionality that did not previously exist in Open Source as far as I could tell. His project is worth studying, and I'd encourage works derived from his ideas.
I'm sure there's a paper about it online.
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This is soooooo unlikely I don't think you need to worry about it.
Such a ruling would have a similar effect on many kinds of copyrighted material, not just GPL software.
I think you should learn a bit more before you even hazard an opinion on this, sorry. It's not a gray area at all.
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These folks are major toast.
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Run "strings" on the file. It's at the end. A few people's names.
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OOOoooh, I am going to make big hay with that. Thanks!
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There is the small problem that I'm a registered democrat, and would be running against the most liberal people in congress if I stayed where I'm living, and I don't want to do that. For example, my congress person, Barbara Lee, is the only one to have voted against the war. Which leaves Senator Boxer, and I am not sure this is realistic. I am, by the way, a registered Democrat.
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All I can do is try to use my notoriety for good :-)
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- It required Python to build the kernel.
- It was complicated. It included an entire theorem prover. This was sort of cool in that it would not allow you to generate a non-working configuration, but really more than was required for the job.
- Its language was arcane. The main language idiom is the suppress-unless statement, which is sort of the logical negation of if-then statements.
- And some folks questioned his motivation for getting this grandiose project into the kernel - was it just to help out, or was it primarily to establish additional hacker reputation for Eric? I'd be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this - he did the work.
I think he had a chance of getting it in, but he would have had to refactor the entire thing, write it over in C, make the language cleaner, and I guess that didn't come about. But to his credit, he didn't just talk about it. He generated a working software product with functionality that did not previously exist in Open Source as far as I could tell. His project is worth studying, and I'd encourage works derived from his ideas. I'm sure there's a paper about it online.Bruce
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