(3) is not a problem if the people do not distribute the software. It is fine to modify and use GPL'ed code internally. The GPL only covers the rules for distributing the software. So basically, unless you plan to sell the product, this isn't a problem. Note that (2) in the original list is too narrowly defined; even if credit is given, our goals with the GPL (of increasing the free software code base) are not met when someone takes the code and makes a non-free derivation.
(4) If TCP/IP were replaced tomorrow with a new open protocol for which only a GPL'ed implementation existed, people could still write and market a non-free implementation. They just wouldn't be allowed to take my GPL'ed work and use it in a way I don't approve of.
But my real response to (4) is that, as a hardened free software advocate, I could care less whether or not people have a non-free implementation of any protocol.
(5) If companies want to release non-free code that is their prerogative. Eventually, I believe, the free implementations are going to surpass the proprietary implementations in quality, and make the proprietary model unviable. If they want to continue to make non-free products at that point, that is their prerogative.
The apple server isn't slashdotted (yet). It just wants a specific referring page, or it wants you to come straight in. Click the link from the article, get the error message, click in your URL window, and hit return again.
You can also find the trailer at planetmirror. This completes my collection; now I'll have a full CD-ROM full of stuff to keep me excited until the release date.
I've been hearing people complaining about Episode I ever since it came out. That seems to be the official policy around here judging by the commentary from the editor.
But I liked Episode I. Most of my coworkers and classmates did, too. While finishing my senior design project in spring of 2000, two of us on the group wanted to listen to the TPM soundtrack -- over and over and over again. I still listen to it all the time at work. (Got the ultimate edition!)
I thought Ep. I was spectacularly exciting. In fact, the only thing I didn't really like was the podraces.:) My comment to people who hadn't seen it the next day at work was "The lightsaber battles alone were worth paying $50 to see." I still stand by that statement; I loved it! And I think III is going to be one of the best stories ever told. Maybe it will take everyone (but me) by surprise.
Actually I think II is going to take a lot of people by surprise. Sure, I'm going to be there opening night. Not because I'll watch anything Lucas puts out, but because I've liked everything Lucas has put out. If I'm the only one who likes it, it just makes it feel like Lucas is putting out a custom movie for me and my friends.
I find it hard to think that half of Slashdot would show up for Star Wars: the return of the 17th century parlor comedy when nearly all of slashdot seems to agree with you.
It's still higher than the price range you wanted, but I picked up a refurbished blueberry ibook for $700. It was in good condition, other than a scratched up (but quite functional) trackpad, and runs Debian GNU/Linux perfectly.
Seems like I remember a time when used laptops were dirt cheap, but I think I might have imagined it.
My weirdo co-worker [slashdot.org] is also going get the Titanium but will scrap OS X and install PPC Linux. Honestly, I have no idea why.
I'm weird like that, too. I bought a refurbished ibook and am running Debian on it. (Of course, it didn't come with OSX, but I could have bought it separately.)
Now how in the world is my other comment offtopic? I just don't want to pay if there's something messed up in my account, and I'm starting to suspect there is.
Part of what always made slashdot fun was thinking I'd get to moderate some day. If my account's hung by some technical glitch, I don't want to pay until I know it's fixed.
Rob, I have 50 karma and have never been asked to moderate. I love this site, but I'm very confused. Some people talk like they moderate every day. On use Perl; I get to moderate once a week. (Ask Pudge about me.)
Everything seems to be set up all right on this end. I've clicked "willing to moderate." How often do people usually get to moderate? Is it just that there's so many valid moderators that it's going to take forever and I should just be patient? Or is there something stopping me from moderating?
If you look into this, find there's a problem, fix it, and email me, I'll pay up immediately!
Actually, I've seen very little whining. Of course, I browse at +4. But most people seem to be saying what you're saying, "Why does everyone think this is so unfair?" I'm not sure anyone does, actually.
I'm 40+ karma, and I'm not bothered. I've also decided not to pay for now, though.
Okay, now that's the most interesting.sig I've seen in a while.
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We need to insist that if DRM technology is mandated (perish the thought!) it respect the full extent of the law: the technology needs to read the date of the material and REFUSE to protect it if its copyright has expired.
I just want to write software
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I just want to write free software and give it to the world. I want the thrill of producing something with my peers that is as good or better as what the commercial world offers.
We're not interested in breaking copyrights; I don't even listen to any music from the last 30 years, and the only movies I watch are Star Wars. (Well, almost.)
The net effect of this is to reserve the privilege of publishing software to the elite few that can be certified as providing DRM. The Internet brought publishing to the masses -- now the big guys want to shut that off with trademark domain name rackets, etc. The free software revolution brought the art of producing software, the high art of hackery, to the masses. Now that's going to be shut off, too.
Fundamentally there's no difference between a gigantic big-city newspaper and a tiny neighborhood newsletter. Both should be accorded the same rights and protections. Well, fundamentally there's no difference between Microsoft and me, except Microsoft is big enough to be able to survive this DRM stuff. If it goes through, I won't be able to write software any more. Children won't be able to legally learn to program in the 4th grade like I did. Software will only come from crufty companies, and you can forget about free software (as in speech or as in beer, either one). There will be NO innovation anymore, and society will get what it justly deserves for passing such laws. I guess at that point only a revolution will bring back liberty.
Richard Stallman once wrote an essay dipicting a future of software controls and unreasonable DRM. In the story, debuggers had been declared illegal because their primary purpose was to subvert copyright protections. I laughed the first time I read it, thinking that was ludicrous.
GPL it and set up a page with all of the things you've got (history, the video, etc.). Search engines will pick it up, and you never know who will find it while investigating history. (I love doing that kind of thing and finding a page about something like that would make my day. I'll bet a lot of others feel the same way, too.)
On the other hand, they're not going to order me to kill my child if the genetic code isn't good enough, are they? I'm seeing a future in the catacombs, here.
What happens when the governments start screening every child that is born for any inherent form of "weakness"?
It is a long jump from "I had my offspring screened," to "the U.S. gov't now screens all children (which requires a constitutional amendment, I'm sure)." Just because the first situation happened doesn't mean the second is right around the corner. I'm sure we all agree the second is wrong, but that doesn't mean the first one is.
If you want a child so badly, lady, go ADOPT ONE.
That's easy for you and me to say. But we're not in her situation.
It can be in the top right if you want.... Or at least mine can. Am I the only one with movable slashboxes? Or were you only saying it wouldn't be at the extreme top right (like up against the browser scroll bar)?
Well, if you're going to be that way about it...
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... then you could've mentioned the OS that first brought UNIX to my home - starting on a Zip drive in a Mac LCIII: NetBSD.
I left the BSD world for Linux over a year ago, but I still get tired of seeing the world's most portable OS left out.
For some strange reason this message will probably be followed by trolls that sound a lot like {Net,*}BSD is dying. Ignore them.
Slashdot Mirror
(3) is not a problem if the people do not distribute the software. It is fine to modify and use GPL'ed code internally. The GPL only covers the rules for distributing the software. So basically, unless you plan to sell the product, this isn't a problem. Note that (2) in the original list is too narrowly defined; even if credit is given, our goals with the GPL (of increasing the free software code base) are not met when someone takes the code and makes a non-free derivation.
(4) If TCP/IP were replaced tomorrow with a new open protocol for which only a GPL'ed implementation existed, people could still write and market a non-free implementation. They just wouldn't be allowed to take my GPL'ed work and use it in a way I don't approve of.
But my real response to (4) is that, as a hardened free software advocate, I could care less whether or not people have a non-free implementation of any protocol.
(5) If companies want to release non-free code that is their prerogative. Eventually, I believe, the free implementations are going to surpass the proprietary implementations in quality, and make the proprietary model unviable. If they want to continue to make non-free products at that point, that is their prerogative.
The apple server isn't slashdotted (yet). It just wants a specific referring page, or it wants you to come straight in. Click the link from the article, get the error message, click in your URL window, and hit return again.
You can also find the trailer at planetmirror. This completes my collection; now I'll have a full CD-ROM full of stuff to keep me excited until the release date.
I've been hearing people complaining about Episode I ever since it came out. That seems to be the official policy around here judging by the commentary from the editor.
But I liked Episode I. Most of my coworkers and classmates did, too. While finishing my senior design project in spring of 2000, two of us on the group wanted to listen to the TPM soundtrack -- over and over and over again. I still listen to it all the time at work. (Got the ultimate edition!)
I thought Ep. I was spectacularly exciting. In fact, the only thing I didn't really like was the podraces. :) My comment to people who hadn't seen it the next day at work was "The lightsaber battles alone were worth paying $50 to see." I still stand by that statement; I loved it! And I think III is going to be one of the best stories ever told. Maybe it will take everyone (but me) by surprise.
Actually I think II is going to take a lot of people by surprise. Sure, I'm going to be there opening night. Not because I'll watch anything Lucas puts out, but because I've liked everything Lucas has put out. If I'm the only one who likes it, it just makes it feel like Lucas is putting out a custom movie for me and my friends.
I find it hard to think that half of Slashdot would show up for Star Wars: the return of the 17th century parlor comedy when nearly all of slashdot seems to agree with you.
To change the subject, has every heard about Virtual Episodes VII, VIII, and IX?
It's still higher than the price range you wanted, but I picked up a refurbished blueberry ibook for $700. It was in good condition, other than a scratched up (but quite functional) trackpad, and runs Debian GNU/Linux perfectly.
Seems like I remember a time when used laptops were dirt cheap, but I think I might have imagined it.
CSE, graduated 2000. Currently working on a masters.
Thought for a minute I recognized your name. Saw your bio, and you weren't who I thought you were, but we did graduate from the same school. (2000).
My weirdo co-worker [slashdot.org] is also going get the Titanium but will scrap OS X and install PPC Linux. Honestly, I have no idea why.
I'm weird like that, too. I bought a refurbished ibook and am running Debian on it. (Of course, it didn't come with OSX, but I could have bought it separately.)
Am I the only person on slashdot who suspects that maybe this probably isn't that desirable to geek chicks?
Correct me if I'm wrong. Please.
First 90%. I passed that mark awhile ago. I watched the same process in much smaller scale on use Perl;.
RedHat and the Linux terminal server project might be the way to go.
Now how in the world is my other comment offtopic? I just don't want to pay if there's something messed up in my account, and I'm starting to suspect there is.
Part of what always made slashdot fun was thinking I'd get to moderate some day. If my account's hung by some technical glitch, I don't want to pay until I know it's fixed.
Rob, I have 50 karma and have never been asked to moderate. I love this site, but I'm very confused. Some people talk like they moderate every day. On use Perl; I get to moderate once a week. (Ask Pudge about me.)
Everything seems to be set up all right on this end. I've clicked "willing to moderate." How often do people usually get to moderate? Is it just that there's so many valid moderators that it's going to take forever and I should just be patient? Or is there something stopping me from moderating?
If you look into this, find there's a problem, fix it, and email me, I'll pay up immediately!
Actually, I've seen very little whining. Of course, I browse at +4. But most people seem to be saying what you're saying, "Why does everyone think this is so unfair?" I'm not sure anyone does, actually.
I'm 40+ karma, and I'm not bothered. I've also decided not to pay for now, though.
Okay, now that's the most interesting .sig I've seen in a while.
We need to insist that if DRM technology is mandated (perish the thought!) it respect the full extent of the law: the technology needs to read the date of the material and REFUSE to protect it if its copyright has expired.
I just want to write free software and give it to the world. I want the thrill of producing something with my peers that is as good or better as what the commercial world offers.
We're not interested in breaking copyrights; I don't even listen to any music from the last 30 years, and the only movies I watch are Star Wars. (Well, almost.)
The net effect of this is to reserve the privilege of publishing software to the elite few that can be certified as providing DRM. The Internet brought publishing to the masses -- now the big guys want to shut that off with trademark domain name rackets, etc. The free software revolution brought the art of producing software, the high art of hackery, to the masses. Now that's going to be shut off, too.
Fundamentally there's no difference between a gigantic big-city newspaper and a tiny neighborhood newsletter. Both should be accorded the same rights and protections. Well, fundamentally there's no difference between Microsoft and me, except Microsoft is big enough to be able to survive this DRM stuff. If it goes through, I won't be able to write software any more. Children won't be able to legally learn to program in the 4th grade like I did. Software will only come from crufty companies, and you can forget about free software (as in speech or as in beer, either one). There will be NO innovation anymore, and society will get what it justly deserves for passing such laws. I guess at that point only a revolution will bring back liberty.
Richard Stallman once wrote an essay dipicting a future of software controls and unreasonable DRM. In the story, debuggers had been declared illegal because their primary purpose was to subvert copyright protections. I laughed the first time I read it, thinking that was ludicrous.
GPL it and set up a page with all of the things you've got (history, the video, etc.). Search engines will pick it up, and you never know who will find it while investigating history. (I love doing that kind of thing and finding a page about something like that would make my day. I'll bet a lot of others feel the same way, too.)
No, I didn't! Wow!
On the other hand, they're not going to order me to kill my child if the genetic code isn't good enough, are they? I'm seeing a future in the catacombs, here.
You have good points, but I have some criticisms.
What happens when the governments start screening every child that is born for any inherent form of "weakness"?
It is a long jump from "I had my offspring screened," to "the U.S. gov't now screens all children (which requires a constitutional amendment, I'm sure)." Just because the first situation happened doesn't mean the second is right around the corner. I'm sure we all agree the second is wrong, but that doesn't mean the first one is.
If you want a child so badly, lady, go ADOPT ONE.
That's easy for you and me to say. But we're not in her situation.
Personally, I like Slash. What's that? You say your website isn't an interactive forum? Oh, dear.
Since it would be unconstitutional to deny a state part of its representation in Congress, I think you just violated your own proposed law. :)
Some people spell pergery "perjury."
It can be in the top right if you want. ... Or at least mine can. Am I the only one with movable slashboxes? Or were you only saying it wouldn't be at the extreme top right (like up against the browser scroll bar)?
... then you could've mentioned the OS that first brought UNIX to my home - starting on a Zip drive in a Mac LCIII: NetBSD.
I left the BSD world for Linux over a year ago, but I still get tired of seeing the world's most portable OS left out.
For some strange reason this message will probably be followed by trolls that sound a lot like {Net,*}BSD is dying. Ignore them.