That is not the case. Our web site uses java applet which does not work in AOL's current browser for some reason. We get quite a lot of people from AOL visiting the site who either have IE installed or who install it after we tell them that they should (I wonder if it's time to change all the links from NC4.79 to Mozilla)
I decided to upgrade from 1.3.whatever that I was running to the latest 1.3.20, and I didn't feel like building from ports, so I just did pkg_add -r apache When it was finished, I tried running it, but I wouldn't. I had to go through the configuration file and change everything. WTF? Why did they change config format all of a sudden? Of course it turned out that it installed 2.0.x. I still don't know why it happened though:)
I've always thought that the games like Sims are disturbing. I mean it's one thing to play a game were you do somethign you can't really do in the real life , like waste hordes of orcs or travel throught the City of Doors, but play in life?
Every time I hear somebody rant about something like Mr Doctorow does about AltaVista, I think "this guy probably has no clue". In 90% of the cases I'm right. AltaVista was a great search engine. Google is better, but it doesn't give him or anyone right to put it down like this. It's not like Google was created out of the void. It was creating on the ground prepared by AltaVista and it had to perform according to high standards set by it.
The maintainer of the library, Maxim Moshkow, has created a separate page devoted to the issue:
http://www.lib.ru/COPYRIGHT/
In case you can't read Russian it basically lists authors, translators and publishing companies which have given their permissions to publish their stuff on the site. Then he goes to say that in case that an author or other copyright holder has a problem with the fact that his/her work is in the library it will be taken down on the first request. Even if you don't know Russian you can get an idea of how long is the list of people who gave their permissions to publish their work.
I don't know much about details of copyright, like when it becomes public domain in Russia etc, but I'd say that large portion of the Moshkov's repository is more or less legal. All decent contemprorary authors have given their permission to to publish on the site. Those who didn't can shove it up their asses. Why would you want to read them anyway?
P.S. And in case you wondered -- yes, Moshkow is Unix system admin;)
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That is not the case. Our web site uses java applet which does not work in AOL's current browser for some reason. We get quite a lot of people from AOL visiting the site who either have IE installed or who install it after we tell them that they should (I wonder if it's time to change all the links from NC4.79 to Mozilla)
I decided to upgrade from 1.3.whatever that I was running to the latest 1.3.20, and I didn't feel like building from ports, so I just did pkg_add -r apache :)
When it was finished, I tried running it, but I wouldn't. I had to go through the configuration file and change everything. WTF? Why did they change config format all of a sudden? Of course it turned out that it installed 2.0.x. I still don't know why it happened though
I've always thought that the games like Sims are disturbing. I mean it's one thing to play a game were you do somethign you can't really do in the real life , like waste hordes of orcs or travel throught the City of Doors, but play in life?
Every time I hear somebody rant about something like Mr Doctorow does about AltaVista, I think "this guy probably has no clue". In 90% of the cases I'm right.
AltaVista was a great search engine. Google is better, but it doesn't give him or anyone right to put it down like this. It's not like Google was created out of the void. It was creating on the ground prepared by AltaVista and it had to perform according to high standards set by it.
The maintainer of the library, Maxim Moshkow, has created a separate page devoted to the issue:
;)
http://www.lib.ru/COPYRIGHT/
In case you can't read Russian it basically lists authors, translators and publishing companies which have given their permissions to publish their stuff on the site. Then he goes to say that in case that an author or other copyright holder has a problem with the fact that his/her work is in the library it will be taken down on the first request. Even if you don't know Russian you can get an idea of how long is the list of people who gave their permissions to publish their work.
I don't know much about details of copyright, like when it becomes public domain in Russia etc, but I'd say that large portion of the Moshkov's repository is more or less legal. All decent contemprorary authors have given their permission to to publish on the site. Those who didn't can shove it up their asses. Why would you want to read them anyway?
P.S. And in case you wondered -- yes, Moshkow is Unix system admin
He wasn't mathematician but rather structural engineer or something of that sort. I think he was into ship building actually.