You remember correctly./. headlined the story as "Debian is frozen" without, apparently, reading the announcement - which was a proposal (now apparently implemented) of freezing in stages. But not the actual freeze.
It was yet another one of those "did the/. editor even read the link?"
I live in Washington DC, and there is no difference in the accuracy.
Besides, I can't imagine how you would do this. Each satellite transmits one signal (in a channel) for the whole earth, it's not possible to target a different signal at, say, DC, than you have going to the rest of the world. Either S/A is on for the whole world or off for the whole world.
...reminiscent of the Open Group's guidelines for the use of its Unix trademark, which mandated, for example, that covered operating systems always be refered to as "Unix operating systems" and never just "Unix".
IANAL but I believe this is mandated by trademark law. You cannot trademark a noun, only an adjective. If it turns into a noun, it becomes public domain. That's why you always hear the trademark owner say "Foobar(r) brand zibwats" not "Foobar(r)".
Did anyone actually read the referenced message? It doesn't sound to me like it's frozen - for each of the three parts (base system, boot floppies and standard packages, optional packages), testing comes first, then that part will be frozen.
Is this a correct? If so, it seems like a big difference from being frozen.
And a lot better than the previous practice, I might add.
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Boy you have a strange idea of going down "rarely". 15 full days in two years? That would be unacceptable to me. In the 14 months I've had DSL (from Covad) it's been down a total of maybe 24-36 hours. I have 384K symmetric and pay $50/month (paying for ADSL so the could throttle the upstream, but they haven't).
Actually, the only copyrights the US government is permitted to hold are those it acquires from some other entity - either donated or purchased. Work generated by US government employees as part of their duties is in the public domain.
Which raises an interesting question. In order to assert the GPL, you must have a copyright. The modifications to Linux done by US government employees must have been copyrighted by a non-government entity. Who is it? It could be the employees themselves (as individuals), or it could have been "given" (I won't say assigned, because there's nothing to assign) to someone like Linus. But anyone can claim copyright if they want.
The F117, etc. issue is a red herring. Contractor or not, classified information is protected from copying and distribution not by copyright law, but rather more stringent laws:-)
Boucher also, in a masterstroke of good timing, was the one who introduced the bill to authorize the commercial internet (at that time, the ARPAnet). This was in 1992, just as the Mosaic browser came out.
We've used the
Portland Group Fortran & C compilers for a while. They are quite good; they have F90 (F95 adds only the forall, I believe, and I think that's supported too), HPF, and a lot of traditional extensions (VAX, Cray, SGI, etc.) Tech support is very quick and knowledgeable.
Allegro Common Lisp works fine on both Debian and Mandrake. I've had no problems with either the trial version or the licensed version, going back to ACL 4.3. I don't know why they say "Red Hat"; it annoys me because they don't even say "Linux" so it's hard to find in their product list. On the other had they say "LinuxPPC" for their power PC version.
I suspect all that's needed is basic library agreement like glibc.
Thanks for noting the root cause of the ILOVEYOU "virus":
For this we can blame Microsoft, but also ourselves. The company may have left the front door unlocked by placing features above security. But it's Microsoft's customers who actually opened the door to this thing by clicking on a strange attachment--the very thing that everybody says you shouldn't do.
No one else in the mainstream media bothered to note this. Guess being a monopoly gives you a buy, huh?
People were happy with Ma Bell before it was broken up. After they were broken up, competition increased, services increased, and prices dropped, in some cases precipitously. People were happier. Would you like to go back to the old long-distance pricing rather than your current 7 cents/minute? I didn't think so.
Even so, whether customers are happy or not is irrelevant to a finding against MS. The gov't didn't charge them with making customers unhappy. They charged them with illegally abusing their monopoly power. It is hard to argue with the ruling (did you read it?). Maybe some think the law shouldn't exist, but that's a different issue entirely.
He disagrees with the BSD licensing scheme since it doesn't try to obliterate the idea of making money from writing software.
Have you read what he's written? He's not against making money from writing software - quite the contrary, he makes an explicit point of allowing and encouraging it (and certainly, there are many people making money from writing GPLed software). He's against the proprietarization of software. There's a big difference. BSD derivatives can be made proprietary, i.e., freedom to distribute source can be reserved to some person or group. Linux (and other GPL software) derivatives cannot.
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It would be nice if the author had given basic bibliographic information up front - title, author, publisher. It's customary in book reviews.
You remember correctly. /. headlined the story as "Debian is frozen" without, apparently, reading the announcement - which was a proposal (now apparently implemented) of freezing in stages. But not the actual freeze.
/. editor even read the link?"
It was yet another one of those "did the
I don't think the GPL has such a clause.
And if you had followed the link in that story, you would have found that woody is not frozen. It was merely a proposal to begin the freeze process.
I live in Washington DC, and there is no difference in the accuracy.
Besides, I can't imagine how you would do this. Each satellite transmits one signal (in a channel) for the whole earth, it's not possible to target a different signal at, say, DC, than you have going to the rest of the world. Either S/A is on for the whole world or off for the whole world.
IANAL but I believe this is mandated by trademark law. You cannot trademark a noun, only an adjective. If it turns into a noun, it becomes public domain. That's why you always hear the trademark owner say "Foobar(r) brand zibwats" not "Foobar(r)".
Did anyone actually read the referenced message? It doesn't sound to me like it's frozen - for each of the three parts (base system, boot floppies and standard packages, optional packages), testing comes first, then that part will be frozen.
Is this a correct? If so, it seems like a big difference from being frozen.
And a lot better than the previous practice, I might add.
Boy you have a strange idea of going down "rarely". 15 full days in two years? That would be unacceptable to me. In the 14 months I've had DSL (from Covad) it's been down a total of maybe 24-36 hours. I have 384K symmetric and pay $50/month (paying for ADSL so the could throttle the upstream, but they haven't).
Actually, the only copyrights the US government is permitted to hold are those it acquires from some other entity - either donated or purchased. Work generated by US government employees as part of their duties is in the public domain.
:-)
Which raises an interesting question. In order to assert the GPL, you must have a copyright. The modifications to Linux done by US government employees must have been copyrighted by a non-government entity. Who is it? It could be the employees themselves (as individuals), or it could have been "given" (I won't say assigned, because there's nothing to assign) to someone like Linus. But anyone can claim copyright if they want.
The F117, etc. issue is a red herring. Contractor or not, classified information is protected from copying and distribution not by copyright law, but rather more stringent laws
Boucher also, in a masterstroke of good timing, was the one who introduced the bill to authorize the commercial internet (at that time, the ARPAnet). This was in 1992, just as the Mosaic browser came out.
We've used the
Portland Group
Fortran & C compilers for a while. They are quite good; they have F90 (F95 adds only the forall, I believe, and I think that's supported too), HPF, and a lot of traditional extensions (VAX, Cray, SGI, etc.) Tech support is very quick and knowledgeable.
Allegro Common Lisp works fine on both Debian and Mandrake. I've had no problems with either the trial version or the licensed version, going back to ACL 4.3. I don't know why they say "Red Hat"; it annoys me because they don't even say "Linux" so it's hard to find in their product list. On the other had they say "LinuxPPC" for their power PC version.
I suspect all that's needed is basic library agreement like glibc.
Thanks for noting the root cause of the ILOVEYOU "virus":
No one else in the mainstream media bothered to note this. Guess being a monopoly gives you a buy, huh?People were happy with Ma Bell before it was
broken up. After they were broken up, competition
increased, services increased, and prices dropped,
in some cases precipitously. People were happier.
Would you like to go back to the old long-distance
pricing rather than your current 7 cents/minute?
I didn't think so.
Even so, whether customers are happy or not
is irrelevant to a finding against MS. The gov't didn't charge them with making customers unhappy.
They charged them with illegally abusing their monopoly power. It is hard to argue with the ruling (did you read it?). Maybe some think the
law shouldn't exist, but that's a different issue
entirely.
Have you read what he's written? He's not against making money from writing software - quite the contrary, he makes an explicit point of allowing and encouraging it (and certainly, there are many people making money from writing GPLed software). He's against the proprietarization of software. There's a big difference. BSD derivatives can be made proprietary, i.e., freedom to distribute source can be reserved to some person or group. Linux (and other GPL software) derivatives cannot.