Free software is not freeware. My understanding is that freeware is not copyrighted. Or if it is, it is free as in free beer. For some reason a lot of those freeware authors also stipulate "You cannot use it for things I don't want you to use it for." e.g. commercial purposes, government, defense, etc. If you were using, say, LGPL'd libraries you would never have to pull a library from your software just because you wanted to make money from it. That is truely free software.
I don't see what the problem is here. What they are doing is posting for free information that you probably could have bought from them before. If Amazon were to buckle under pressure (not likely) they would still sell the information. Who do you want to have information, everyone on the web, or anyone who cares to pay Amazon for the information?
Think about it. See that ad banner at the top of the screen? Don't you think that they are keeping agregate information about what pages are being viewed which domains? Ok, Rob runs his own ad servers, but what about the rest?
Why would companies ban employees from going to Amazon? Any company would know that there is already a ton of information being bought and sold about them, don't you think? At least now it is out for everyone to see. Their competitors already knew this stuff, I am sure.
Hmm, as long as we are laughing at the expense of other (hey I think it's funny too) I thought I would throw in my own stories.
When I was programming in BASIC on an old IBM PC (12 years ago) I knew how to save files to the floppy, but I didn't know how to delete them. I heard that if you opened the drive when the light was on you could lose all your files, so I tried that. It didn't work. I heard that if you put a magnet on the disk it would erase the files. It didn't affect it at all. 360K floppies have never gone bad on me.:-)
Same time period, I once accidentally erased or corrupted the STARTREK.EXE game. I called the adult who had set up the computer for me. He had made a backup of everything into a c:\arc directory. So he managed to navigate me to the c:\arc\games directory and told me to "copy startrek dot exe space backslash games star dot exe" so I typed to STAR.EXE instead of *.EXE (which in a DOS copy means use the same name as the first file). STAR seemed likely since it was Star Trek after all.
Then there was a time I thought I had a virus because the computer screen background was completely red all the time instead of black. Turned out the video cable was loose.
1)Coppermine = Xeon with 1/2 the cache. K7 is faster than a Xeon already - how will coppermine beat it?
Xeons are not based on the coppermine core. There are PIII's based on them, Intel is saying that they will start making coppermine based Celerons in the future. See zdnn.com for the story.
Obviously you did not read his paper carefully. Nobody stepped up to take his place so here he is. That was the whole point of his "take my job please" paper. The moral of the story is if you don't like how he advocates open source then do it yourself.
PC stands for Personal Computer you hapless techno-weenie. I used an original IBM PC all the way until 1993. It was one of the ones with a B stamped on the back, so it was a little bit souped up in terms of on-motherboard RAM (what, 256KB I think, the rest of the 640K was on a sixpack serial/parallel/memory/clock/joystick card). It had an upgraded BIOS chip, from 1984 I think so it could use a hard drive. Mine had a Seagate 20MB drive. I replaced the Intel chip with some third party chip someone gave me, and it had a 8087 math coprocessor. Unfortunately the cassette port went when I had to replace an ISA slot that melted because of my (8-bit) sound blaster for some reason. But the point (yes there is one) is that on the front there was an elegant little metal square that said IBM Personal Computer
I don't know about the other licenses, but of all the GPL'd software, you are free to modify. What are you waiting for? Get out your compiler and start porting that software.
That reminds me. Is there a gratis & libre compiler that can produce Windows executables? I know DJGPP can make 32bit DOS apps. What about compiling against the win32 API? That would rock. I could use something like that myself. If there isn't, that should be Anonymous Coward's first project.
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Why do "Real Seattlites" have such contempt for Eastsiders. Isn't it all pretty much one big city anyway? Is it the same thing as in NM we always complained about Texans, it's just that we were more spread out?
I was in Seattle last weekend. You have to admit you still have more than your fair share of Starbucks/etc. *grin* If you look in the trash cans on the street they are full of just coffee cups.
Don in Bellevue. (well, I work in Everett) (I only lived there 7 months so far, moved from New Mexico, so I'm probably not-like-them, whatever that may be.)
They didn't have a script in BWP. Also, the movie was not made for $30,000. More like $300,000 due to the amount of post-production before wide release. Still, it's three orders of magnitude from Titanic.
Ya. This is good for hiding the fact that you are sending encrypted data. But I'm sure it could be figured out if someone was really watching you and you did it the same ways often enough.
I think we have found a new category of Frequently Posted Comments. It has already been observed that: "First Post", "Does it run Linux?", "Wow imagine running it on a beowulf!", and "Yeah but when are they going to release it under the GPL?" are required comments for any good slashdot article, now I would like to formally recognize a new ubiquitous comment: "You people would say different if Microsoft does it. You slashdotters are all hypocrites." I've seen it a few dozen times this month.
I think the difference is that there is something we can do about it. When you see something going on that you think is wrong (I have no complaint about the penguin thing, but if I did...) and you think calling PETA would help then go for it. I don't see what you could do about the Rawanda thing except maybe writing your politicians. Yeah that will do a lot of good.
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Free software is not freeware. My understanding is that freeware is not copyrighted. Or if it is, it is free as in free beer. For some reason a lot of those freeware authors also stipulate "You cannot use it for things I don't want you to use it for." e.g. commercial purposes, government, defense, etc. If you were using, say, LGPL'd libraries you would never have to pull a library from your software just because you wanted to make money from it. That is truely free software.
You should have gone with your instincts on this one. West.
The grammer in that paper is apalling. I hope that english is not the author's native language.
You mean:
The grammar in that paper is appalling. I hope that English is not the author's native language.
I agree with you.
I don't see what the problem is here. What they are doing is posting for free information that you probably could have bought from them before. If Amazon were to buckle under pressure (not likely) they would still sell the information. Who do you want to have information, everyone on the web, or anyone who cares to pay Amazon for the information?
Think about it. See that ad banner at the top of the screen? Don't you think that they are keeping agregate information about what pages are being viewed which domains? Ok, Rob runs his own ad servers, but what about the rest?
Why would companies ban employees from going to Amazon? Any company would know that there is already a ton of information being bought and sold about them, don't you think? At least now it is out for everyone to see. Their competitors already knew this stuff, I am sure.
Hey why not? You can get redhat for $1.99 (plus shipping, but it's not much relatively speaking if you buy like 20 CDs at once) from cheapbytes
That, and the documentation. The Mandrake one (from Macmillian anyway) comes with three linux books on CD... woo.
Hmm, as long as we are laughing at the expense of other (hey I think it's funny too) I thought I would throw in my own stories.
:-)
When I was programming in BASIC on an old IBM PC (12 years ago) I knew how to save files to the floppy, but I didn't know how to delete them. I heard that if you opened the drive when the light was on you could lose all your files, so I tried that. It didn't work. I heard that if you put a magnet on the disk it would erase the files. It didn't affect it at all. 360K floppies have never gone bad on me.
Same time period, I once accidentally erased or corrupted the STARTREK.EXE game. I called the adult who had set up the computer for me. He had made a backup of everything into a c:\arc directory. So he managed to navigate me to the c:\arc\games directory and told me to "copy startrek dot exe space backslash games star dot exe" so I typed to STAR.EXE instead of *.EXE (which in a DOS copy means use the same name as the first file). STAR seemed likely since it was Star Trek after all.
Then there was a time I thought I had a virus because the computer screen background was completely red all the time instead of black. Turned out the video cable was loose.
That would make him Speaker for the Dead. Coincidence?
1)Coppermine = Xeon with 1/2 the cache. K7 is faster than a Xeon already - how will coppermine beat it?
Xeons are not based on the coppermine core. There are PIII's based on them, Intel is saying that they will start making coppermine based Celerons in the future. See zdnn.com for the story.
You've got the source code. Put your code where your mouth is.
Obviously you did not read his paper carefully. Nobody stepped up to take his place so here he is. That was the whole point of his "take my job please" paper. The moral of the story is if you don't like how he advocates open source then do it yourself.
PC stands for Personal Computer you hapless techno-weenie. I used an original IBM PC all the way until 1993. It was one of the ones with a B stamped on the back, so it was a little bit souped up in terms of on-motherboard RAM (what, 256KB I think, the rest of the 640K was on a sixpack serial/parallel/memory/clock/joystick card). It had an upgraded BIOS chip, from 1984 I think so it could use a hard drive. Mine had a Seagate 20MB drive. I replaced the Intel chip with some third party chip someone gave me, and it had a 8087 math coprocessor. Unfortunately the cassette port went when I had to replace an ISA slot that melted because of my (8-bit) sound blaster for some reason. But the point (yes there is one) is that on the front there was an elegant little metal square that said IBM Personal Computer
I wouldn't worry. What's the worst that can happen? :)
Actually Suck is a Wired division.
I don't know about the other licenses, but of all the GPL'd software, you are free to modify. What are you waiting for? Get out your compiler and start porting that software.
That reminds me. Is there a gratis & libre compiler that can produce Windows executables? I know DJGPP can make 32bit DOS apps. What about compiling against the win32 API? That would rock. I could use something like that myself. If there isn't, that should be Anonymous Coward's first project.
Why do "Real Seattlites" have such contempt for Eastsiders. Isn't it all pretty much one big city anyway? Is it the same thing as in NM we always complained about Texans, it's just that we were more spread out?
I was in Seattle last weekend. You have to admit you still have more than your fair share of Starbucks/etc. *grin* If you look in the trash cans on the street they are full of just coffee cups.
Don in Bellevue. (well, I work in Everett)
(I only lived there 7 months so far, moved from New Mexico, so I'm probably not-like-them, whatever that may be.)
They didn't have a script in BWP. Also, the movie was not made for $30,000. More like $300,000 due to the amount of post-production before wide release. Still, it's three orders of magnitude from Titanic.
Plutonium! You mean this sucker is nuclear?
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No no no. It's electrical. But I needed a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 Gw of electricity
When this baby hits 88 MPH, you're gonna see some serious shit.
I think you mean UUDDLRLRBA start (or select start for two players). At least for Contra on the NES.
At first I thought you were asking a CORBA question. heh.
So which is it? Are they "quasi-cracker" or "going corporate"? There's no pleasing some people.
Ya. This is good for hiding the fact that you are sending encrypted data. But I'm sure it could be figured out if someone was really watching you and you did it the same ways often enough.
I think we have found a new category of Frequently Posted Comments. It has already been observed that: "First Post", "Does it run Linux?", "Wow imagine running it on a beowulf!", and "Yeah but when are they going to release it under the GPL?" are required comments for any good slashdot article, now I would like to formally recognize a new ubiquitous comment: "You people would say different if Microsoft does it. You slashdotters are all hypocrites." I've seen it a few dozen times this month.
I think the difference is that there is something we can do about it. When you see something going on that you think is wrong (I have no complaint about the penguin thing, but if I did...) and you think calling PETA would help then go for it. I don't see what you could do about the Rawanda thing except maybe writing your politicians. Yeah that will do a lot of good.
See what I mean?