I'm curious where this idea comes from. The horse absolutely is the cart. This only makes sense in wagons because the fractured nature of the community makes it so there is more than one wagon style. In buggies, which command 95% of the market, the horse and the cart are considered the same by the end user.
Most people don't make system calls to change a directory. They use user space applicatons like a filemanager or a shell, usually from inside a window manager. Thus, to use a car analogy:-) one person says, "I hate the chevy v-8 because I hate the feel of their suspension." Another replies, "The v-8 is the engine. You hate the suspension." To which you are saying, "It doesn't matter, no one will ever want to use their v-8 if it can't corner, I prefer a 4 cylinder because it has CD player controls are more intuitive, anyway."
Software is easier to install on Linux. It configures itself. It runs software faster (a physicist friend has a fortran program that he likes to use to test systems, it ran 60% slower on Vista than on the same computer after installing Ubuntu). If you have hardware that works with Linux, it seems to me you have a winner.
I disagree that the majority of people want to tinker with their OS, unless you mean themes and skins and such. Linux is much more configurable that way, although there are second party products to make up this lack for windows. If by tinker you mean things like recompile the kernel, well it might be a "pain in the ass" on Linux, but it is *impossible* on windows. If you want to surf the net, do email and chat, and all the simple appliance things then Linux is enough. If you want to do ab initio quantum modeling, Linux is the only way to go.
Yeah well but...its not like you can buy any off the shelf part and expect it to work in a mac. However, there are stores you can go to that carry only mac compatible hardware. Ask, who has more compatible blah-cards, Linux or Mac? It doesn't matter because the Mac people won't accidentally buy something thinking its going to work. Thats what matters.
Agreed re: hardware problems, but from the other side. Bought a wireless network laser printer recently. It says "Vista, WinXP, OS X" on the box. We have two Vista laptops and one Ubuntu laptop in this office. Guess who could access the printer? Yep. The Vista laptops are still using an old HP Deskjet. Using the offical install CD made no difference for them.
Mainstream commercial applications are sometimes as easy to install for Windows as they are for Linux. Until the license codes mess up and you end up on the phone with tech support who emails your new codes to your previous email address and increments the number of machines you've installed it on, as happened to a colleague with MatLab recently (and similar to a problem I saw with Mathematica). The combination of one-click repositories and no license codes is hard to beat. Now its true that using these commercial apps on Linux leads to similar problems with licensing schemes, however in terms of installation and configuration, Linux just plain rocks. It works. You just can't say that about installing software on Windows.
Grandma sure does have something to hide! If she tried to walk down to the library butt naked, she'd be told "no! Cover it up!". Same thing should apply to her email...
Actually, no. "[N]either the parties' submissions nor the Court's own research has revealed any case holding the mere owner of an internet account contributorily or vicariously liable for the infringing activities of third persons." So you aren't liable. They need to prove that you did it, not that it was done using your IP#.
They did have probably cause that this guy was the file sharer they were looking for. It was the IP address of his computer, in his house, that they were looking for.
Nope. Wrong.
"[N]either the parties' submissions nor the Court's own research has revealed any case holding the mere owner of an internet account contributorily or vicariously liable for the infringing activities of third persons.....In addition to the weakness of the secondary copyright infringement claims against Ms. Foster, there is a question of the plaintiffs' motivations in pursuing them..... [T]here is an appearance that the plaintiffs initiated the secondary infringement claims to press Ms. Foster into settlement after they had ceased to believe she was a direct or "primary" infringer."
-Hon. Lee R. West
District Judge
Western District of Oklahoma
February 6, 2007
Capitol v. Foster
2007 WL 1028532
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Not sure I like "effectively LGPL", as it seems a funny way of saying userspace. The Linux Kernel is *not* LGPL, it is for sure GPL2. Seems like you could confuse people into thinking they have LGPL access to the kernel when they do not.
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At that point BSD was clouded by FUD surrounding ATT's lawsuit. This provided the vacuum that the Linux kernel swelled to fill. Solaris (or, really SunOS then) didn't have any such problem. If Sun had gone open source early with their Unix, they would have stole the show. Its nice to make a hero out of a developer, but this really didn't have anything to do with the history.
But in this particular case the software in question uses a GPLed library. Therefor, couldn't the copyright holder of said library sue the author for copyright infringement?
They money, but its finite. FTFA: They've lost what? Like 2/3 of their cash and short term investments in like 4 years? At that rate they won't last a decade...
Its not "available for theft". The sign saying "free" indicates they aren't stealing the CD. If someone broke into a backpack and took the CD, then that would be theft. You could say they had made it available for infringement...
Actually they did contend that the act of ripping the CD to MP3s was in itself a violation of copyright.
The judge had asked whether the copies were themselves unauthorized. The RIAA has taken the position, in testimony at the Capitol v. Thomas trial, on its web site, and in congressional testimony, that copying files from a cd onto one's hard drive is a copyright infringement (despite the fact that its attorneys had stated otherwise to the US Supreme Court). The RIAA was answering the question "yes".
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I'm curious where this idea comes from. The horse absolutely is the cart. This only makes sense in wagons because the fractured nature of the community makes it so there is more than one wagon style. In buggies, which command 95% of the market, the horse and the cart are considered the same by the end user.
Most people don't make system calls to change a directory. They use user space applicatons like a filemanager or a shell, usually from inside a window manager. Thus, to use a car analogy :-) one person says, "I hate the chevy v-8 because I hate the feel of their suspension." Another replies, "The v-8 is the engine. You hate the suspension." To which you are saying, "It doesn't matter, no one will ever want to use their v-8 if it can't corner, I prefer a 4 cylinder because it has CD player controls are more intuitive, anyway."
Software is easier to install on Linux. It configures itself. It runs software faster (a physicist friend has a fortran program that he likes to use to test systems, it ran 60% slower on Vista than on the same computer after installing Ubuntu). If you have hardware that works with Linux, it seems to me you have a winner.
I disagree that the majority of people want to tinker with their OS, unless you mean themes and skins and such. Linux is much more configurable that way, although there are second party products to make up this lack for windows. If by tinker you mean things like recompile the kernel, well it might be a "pain in the ass" on Linux, but it is *impossible* on windows. If you want to surf the net, do email and chat, and all the simple appliance things then Linux is enough. If you want to do ab initio quantum modeling, Linux is the only way to go.
Yeah well but...its not like you can buy any off the shelf part and expect it to work in a mac. However, there are stores you can go to that carry only mac compatible hardware. Ask, who has more compatible blah-cards, Linux or Mac? It doesn't matter because the Mac people won't accidentally buy something thinking its going to work. Thats what matters.
Someone mod this guy as funny. That is some of the driest wit I've read this week!
Agreed re: hardware problems, but from the other side. Bought a wireless network laser printer recently. It says "Vista, WinXP, OS X" on the box. We have two Vista laptops and one Ubuntu laptop in this office. Guess who could access the printer? Yep. The Vista laptops are still using an old HP Deskjet. Using the offical install CD made no difference for them.
Mainstream commercial applications are sometimes as easy to install for Windows as they are for Linux. Until the license codes mess up and you end up on the phone with tech support who emails your new codes to your previous email address and increments the number of machines you've installed it on, as happened to a colleague with MatLab recently (and similar to a problem I saw with Mathematica). The combination of one-click repositories and no license codes is hard to beat. Now its true that using these commercial apps on Linux leads to similar problems with licensing schemes, however in terms of installation and configuration, Linux just plain rocks. It works. You just can't say that about installing software on Windows.
Grandma sure does have something to hide! If she tried to walk down to the library butt naked, she'd be told "no! Cover it up!". Same thing should apply to her email...
Actually, no. "[N]either the parties' submissions nor the Court's own research has revealed any case holding the mere owner of an internet account contributorily or vicariously liable for the infringing activities of third persons." So you aren't liable. They need to prove that you did it, not that it was done using your IP#.
Nope. Wrong.
There are measures for IQ, but none that are possible for wisdom. "Wisdom" is like "soul" or "vital essence" that way. Metaphysical rather than physical.
But data going to an IP number? You can't take an IP number to court.
Not GPL3, though.
Not sure I like "effectively LGPL", as it seems a funny way of saying userspace. The Linux Kernel is *not* LGPL, it is for sure GPL2. Seems like you could confuse people into thinking they have LGPL access to the kernel when they do not.
At that point BSD was clouded by FUD surrounding ATT's lawsuit. This provided the vacuum that the Linux kernel swelled to fill. Solaris (or, really SunOS then) didn't have any such problem. If Sun had gone open source early with their Unix, they would have stole the show. Its nice to make a hero out of a developer, but this really didn't have anything to do with the history.
Yeah, we all know that Stanford Law Center is a hick town community college. No body listens to Stanford.
But in this particular case the software in question uses a GPLed library. Therefor, couldn't the copyright holder of said library sue the author for copyright infringement?
"You cannot force someone to give you GPL code unless they distribute it or its products to you."
That is true if they distribute source code. If instead they distribute binaries, they have to make the source code available to all third parties.
They money, but its finite. FTFA: They've lost what? Like 2/3 of their cash and short term investments in like 4 years? At that rate they won't last a decade...
KDE does have the best context menus. It hurts a little bit going backwards when I need to use other systems.
Fair use doesn't violate the copyright act. Fair use is an exception that acts as a defense against claims of copyright infringement.
Its not "available for theft". The sign saying "free" indicates they aren't stealing the CD. If someone broke into a backpack and took the CD, then that would be theft. You could say they had made it available for infringement...
Could you provide a reference? I can't seem to find this loophole. I remember when Clinton and the Congress couldn't agree on a budget...
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