The DMCA may not exist in many countries, but it is what 'DVD Jon' was initially accused of violating though Norway is neither in the US or in the EU. That's how far out there the Microsoft / RIAA lobby is. The EU countries have since suffered the nastier DMCA equivalent, the EUCD.
SHOUTcast is just a bad copy of icecast. Keep using icecast for your audio and video streaming and do not accept lesser, closed source imitations.
I do hope that the specific VLC developers involved with the shoutcast fiasco get the drubbing they deserve, if for no other reason than as an example for others and as payment for the trouble they've caused the rest of the project. It's 2010, closed source does not belong on the net and FOSS developers have no business undercutting FOSS projects.
...and if you think huffington post is a reliable source of information...
And if you look around, nearly all the radio stations that were around 30 years ago are now gone completely or their call letters used by Cumulus, ClearChannel or similar propaganda engine. If you look around at newspapers, you'll see that nearly all the newspapers have disappeared in all but title. Some still kind of exist, but are something more like the bare minimum to expect from a high school paper. How can any country have open and democratic elections with out a forum for discussing facts and debating positions?
Many heavy FOSS users end up contributing and occasionally leading development efforts. The myopic focus on companies that 'sell' software is not a metric that helps. If you compare the amount of licenses bought or sold, then FOSS won't show up on the chart. We saw that in the late 1990's when Microsoft marketeers went around to Fortune 500 and other companies and asked the CFO if, based on purchasing, any FOSS was used in-house. That's just letting Microsoft Marketeers (or as they now call themselves, Researchers) mince words to block out the rest of the universe. To that point, there are probably ten thousand companies that use software for every one that markets itself as a development house.
Keep focus on using the software. FOSS is more flexible and wins hands-down when the discussion is about the advantages of using the software.
No, but killing it off completely would help admins and end-users.
Some admins do bear some of the responsibility so some of the hurt does have to land on them. Microsoft is not some vague poltergeist, it is a group of individual people with names, faces and addresses. Shut them down and you shut Microsoft down. Probably some jobs could be found for them. Like with keeping embezzlers away from accounting, and junkies away from prescription drugs, you will need to find a place for them well away from ICT.
It's 2010, why is Glyn of all people still talking about selling software instead of using it? Is this a fumble like in 1999 when he mistook deIcaza for a FOSS developer? Are we all so far down the Microsoft money pit that no one is even allowed to think about using the software?
That's what it's all about as far as many are concerned: using the software. Even the opening stipulation in the GPL and the GNU Manifesto are about using the software.
Volkswagen, last I checked, was a contributor to the linux kernel and a user of many other components. It has a market cap of over 32 billion. Amazon, though recently targeted for knee-capping by Microsoft goombas, has a market cap of around 55 billion. Juniper Networks was using open source, at least prior to taking on Microsofters, and had a market cap of around 10 billion. Even Apple, which seems to be succumbing to Microsoft made its comeback around GNU/Darwin. How long they can keep doing that before Microsoft party members can sabotage the company or inject their toxic personnel is anyone's guess.If you look around, it's not hard to find large companies with market caps in the range of many tens of billions of dollars that are using Free and Open Source Software to make lots of money.
Close. It wasn't code that was injected, it was proprietary binaries. In other words, closed source kills. Yes, the same general category that gives us billions of lost hours from crappy drivers for good hardware. The same general category that is responsible for providing an incubator for the world's botnets.
That makes what Novell, Black Duck and other branches of Microsoft are doing so profoundly bad when they try to re-label their proprietary binaries 'open source' without releasing the full source. Just releasing some of the source doesn't count, it's as bad as all-binary proprietary. By release, that means read, edit and re-compile. Anything less is just plain dangerous.
You'd think that countries would learn. Or at least the US would learn. As things are, TSA is shaking people down for baby milk instead of doing something useful like nuking each and every NTFS partition on every harddrive that passes through customs. During a transitory period of a year or two, they could take it easy on the scum by just erasing every file ending in.com,.exe, or.dll and handing them a Fedora live CD. Tracking down and locking up the present and former executives of Microsoft and its partners would be another step forward. Off to Gitmo with the lot.
Well there you go. The shareholders are part owners. Their role in the Deep Water incident need to be recognized. When fines are assessed and damages collected they, along with all of the executives and the whole board of directors, can be tapped for money.
That's the Reagan / Thatcher party line all right, and not tied to any realities. The handful of news organizations resulted from the being pushed together. In many cases, nearly all in the areas I've been, the mergers have been of ideological reasons more than economic and the hard times follow the merger rather than the other way around. What I refer to as the collapse is very recent and is the result of having less than a dozen faux news sources (including Faux News) all shoveling the same rather content-free drivel.
The collapse is easily traceable to media consolidation. Forty years ago you had multiple, profitable local papers in each city with completely separate editorial staff and their own pool of reporters. Now you have basically the same McNews rag everywhere so not only is there no choice, the one or two that are left are not worth the effort of reading. Say thanks to Murdoch, Turner, Disney and Reagan for the death of news. Allowing the copyrighting facts will only tip US education into a worse state than it is now, which seems to be what the FTC proposal is about. Fixing the news problem is a very separate issue and it is quite likely that one effective remedy is rolling back the regulations about radio and newspaper ownership to what they were before consolidation started.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
If the EU doesn't uphold this, it's members will.
You might find that certain common software's licensing violates that article.
It is but a few years ago M$ got slammed for spending more on marketing than anything else. After that, they just changed the line item for marketing to read 'research and development' and kept using the money for marketing.
One additive that gives strength to concrete the Roman built with is blood. It doesn't have to be human blood. Funny how the quality of concrete and steel deteriorated during the period 1200 - 1500. I wonder what could have been going on in Europe then.;) Blood still works well, but does tend to tint the material pinkish or reddish for a long time.
Re-read the post, it applies to competent web site administrators. If MS IIS is there then you have staffing problems and incompetency at two levels: the asshole who deployed MS IIS, and the asshole manager that signed off on using MS IIS instead of getting the proper tools and skills.
Obviously some can be made to grow back, but so much valuable soil has been lost to the sea from deforestation.
More has been lost to urban and suburban sprawl, having been scraped away and replaced with asphalt. Land is not just tiles on a map. There are small areas where it is very easy to grow crops and other areas nearby where expenditure immense effort and resources still won't give as good a yield.
Collapse is a very well written book with very strongly supporting evidence and observations. In my travels in other parts of the world, I came to a similar conclusion as Jared Diamond. It's not fiction and not for the faint of heart.
One area where web changeovers fail nowadays is in redirecting old URLs to new ones. Web services and web design are not taught anywhere anymore and the skills are fading. Nonetheless, it is possible for any competent web administrator to deploy >a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite to point both users and search engines to the new pages.
The 'older versions' would be specific snapshots of the draft (in no particular order): Introduced in House, Engrossed in House, Enrolled Bill, Referred to Senate, Reported in Senate, Received in Senate, etc. It's like v0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.5, 1.0RC1, 1.0RC2, 1.0, etc. You get the point.
The legislative process already follows a development process rather similar to open source software development. Many can review and provide input, or just yammer. Only a few have commit privileges. At specific events, a line is drawn and a version of the bill is released.
If you follow some of the hearings, a lot of time is devoted to reading out loud what are essentially diffs expressed in prose. We can keep that for tradition's sake but it does not preclude using a proper versioning system.
one possible reason to use a distributed versioning system would be to allow schools to tear off a chunk and play with it.
Likely the best websites from the US Government...are the Library of Congress site and the Supreme Court site. Both of them are extremely informative, and have a massive wealth of information that is readily available.
Development of legislation is quite byzantine and revision (mis)management during the drafting can make for some very serious readability problems. Currently it is nearly impossible to have time, even for a full-time politician with staff, to have time for their team to individually work through all changes and revisions of a draft of a bill.
Using a version control system (CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Git) makes it very easy to track individual changes and who made them. It also makes it trivially easy to integrate all the changes and show a snapshot of the current draft or one from any arbitrarily earlier version.
Code bases for large software projects are unwieldy, constantly changing and have many authors yet need full transparency and accountability to succeed. So are drafts of legislation. Using a versioning system in our legislative process is long overdue.
No, he hasn't. He has been giving away Warren Buffet's money. Stop lying. If you look deeper than the headlines, you'll see that the Foundation is more like a Political Action Committee than anything else.
Yeah, but this isn't a security flaw due to an oversight or simple mistake. This is a massive downright idiotic flaw! How the HELL did this make it into a product?
Because the claims that Microsoft has good, or even competent, programmers, engineers and managers is at best a myth. That myth has been put to rest many, many years ago, but the marketing, astroturfing, and lobbying firms keep bringing it up again and again. Anyone repeating that is probably on the payroll of one of those firms or so dumb that they should be bitchslapped into next week for opening their mouth.
Seriously, these problems are synonymous with Microsoft and the passivity that allows them to promote bad engineering as acceptable has to stop.
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What? A fermata symbol?
The DMCA may not exist in many countries, but it is what 'DVD Jon' was initially accused of violating though Norway is neither in the US or in the EU. That's how far out there the Microsoft / RIAA lobby is. The EU countries have since suffered the nastier DMCA equivalent, the EUCD.
SHOUTcast is just a bad copy of icecast. Keep using icecast for your audio and video streaming and do not accept lesser, closed source imitations.
I do hope that the specific VLC developers involved with the shoutcast fiasco get the drubbing they deserve, if for no other reason than as an example for others and as payment for the trouble they've caused the rest of the project. It's 2010, closed source does not belong on the net and FOSS developers have no business undercutting FOSS projects.
...and if you think huffington post is a reliable source of information...
And if you look around, nearly all the radio stations that were around 30 years ago are now gone completely or their call letters used by Cumulus, ClearChannel or similar propaganda engine. If you look around at newspapers, you'll see that nearly all the newspapers have disappeared in all but title. Some still kind of exist, but are something more like the bare minimum to expect from a high school paper. How can any country have open and democratic elections with out a forum for discussing facts and debating positions?
Many heavy FOSS users end up contributing and occasionally leading development efforts. The myopic focus on companies that 'sell' software is not a metric that helps. If you compare the amount of licenses bought or sold, then FOSS won't show up on the chart. We saw that in the late 1990's when Microsoft marketeers went around to Fortune 500 and other companies and asked the CFO if, based on purchasing, any FOSS was used in-house. That's just letting Microsoft Marketeers (or as they now call themselves, Researchers) mince words to block out the rest of the universe. To that point, there are probably ten thousand companies that use software for every one that markets itself as a development house.
Keep focus on using the software. FOSS is more flexible and wins hands-down when the discussion is about the advantages of using the software.
No, but killing it off completely would help admins and end-users. Some admins do bear some of the responsibility so some of the hurt does have to land on them. Microsoft is not some vague poltergeist, it is a group of individual people with names, faces and addresses. Shut them down and you shut Microsoft down. Probably some jobs could be found for them. Like with keeping embezzlers away from accounting, and junkies away from prescription drugs, you will need to find a place for them well away from ICT.
It's 2010, why is Glyn of all people still talking about selling software instead of using it? Is this a fumble like in 1999 when he mistook deIcaza for a FOSS developer? Are we all so far down the Microsoft money pit that no one is even allowed to think about using the software?
That's what it's all about as far as many are concerned: using the software. Even the opening stipulation in the GPL and the GNU Manifesto are about using the software.
Volkswagen, last I checked, was a contributor to the linux kernel and a user of many other components. It has a market cap of over 32 billion. Amazon, though recently targeted for knee-capping by Microsoft goombas, has a market cap of around 55 billion. Juniper Networks was using open source, at least prior to taking on Microsofters, and had a market cap of around 10 billion. Even Apple, which seems to be succumbing to Microsoft made its comeback around GNU/Darwin. How long they can keep doing that before Microsoft party members can sabotage the company or inject their toxic personnel is anyone's guess.If you look around, it's not hard to find large companies with market caps in the range of many tens of billions of dollars that are using Free and Open Source Software to make lots of money.
Close. It wasn't code that was injected, it was proprietary binaries. In other words, closed source kills. Yes, the same general category that gives us billions of lost hours from crappy drivers for good hardware. The same general category that is responsible for providing an incubator for the world's botnets.
That makes what Novell, Black Duck and other branches of Microsoft are doing so profoundly bad when they try to re-label their proprietary binaries 'open source' without releasing the full source. Just releasing some of the source doesn't count, it's as bad as all-binary proprietary. By release, that means read, edit and re-compile. Anything less is just plain dangerous.
You'd think that countries would learn. Or at least the US would learn. As things are, TSA is shaking people down for baby milk instead of doing something useful like nuking each and every NTFS partition on every harddrive that passes through customs. During a transitory period of a year or two, they could take it easy on the scum by just erasing every file ending in .com, .exe, or .dll and handing them a Fedora live CD. Tracking down and locking up the present and former executives of Microsoft and its partners would be another step forward. Off to Gitmo with the lot.
Well there you go. The shareholders are part owners. Their role in the Deep Water incident need to be recognized. When fines are assessed and damages collected they, along with all of the executives and the whole board of directors, can be tapped for money.
That's the Reagan / Thatcher party line all right, and not tied to any realities. The handful of news organizations resulted from the being pushed together. In many cases, nearly all in the areas I've been, the mergers have been of ideological reasons more than economic and the hard times follow the merger rather than the other way around. What I refer to as the collapse is very recent and is the result of having less than a dozen faux news sources (including Faux News) all shoveling the same rather content-free drivel.
The collapse is easily traceable to media consolidation. Forty years ago you had multiple, profitable local papers in each city with completely separate editorial staff and their own pool of reporters. Now you have basically the same McNews rag everywhere so not only is there no choice, the one or two that are left are not worth the effort of reading. Say thanks to Murdoch, Turner, Disney and Reagan for the death of news. Allowing the copyrighting facts will only tip US education into a worse state than it is now, which seems to be what the FTC proposal is about. Fixing the news problem is a very separate issue and it is quite likely that one effective remedy is rolling back the regulations about radio and newspaper ownership to what they were before consolidation started.
If the EU doesn't uphold this, it's members will.
You might find that certain common software's licensing violates that article.
It is but a few years ago M$ got slammed for spending more on marketing than anything else. After that, they just changed the line item for marketing to read 'research and development' and kept using the money for marketing.
One additive that gives strength to concrete the Roman built with is blood. It doesn't have to be human blood. Funny how the quality of concrete and steel deteriorated during the period 1200 - 1500. I wonder what could have been going on in Europe then. ;) Blood still works well, but does tend to tint the material pinkish or reddish for a long time.
That's where their "researchers" got the idea in the first place.
Hey. I resemble that remark!
Re-read the post, it applies to competent web site administrators. If MS IIS is there then you have staffing problems and incompetency at two levels: the asshole who deployed MS IIS, and the asshole manager that signed off on using MS IIS instead of getting the proper tools and skills.
Obviously some can be made to grow back, but so much valuable soil has been lost to the sea from deforestation.
More has been lost to urban and suburban sprawl, having been scraped away and replaced with asphalt. Land is not just tiles on a map. There are small areas where it is very easy to grow crops and other areas nearby where expenditure immense effort and resources still won't give as good a yield.
Collapse is a very well written book with very strongly supporting evidence and observations. In my travels in other parts of the world, I came to a similar conclusion as Jared Diamond. It's not fiction and not for the faint of heart.
One area where web changeovers fail nowadays is in redirecting old URLs to new ones. Web services and web design are not taught anywhere anymore and the skills are fading. Nonetheless, it is possible for any competent web administrator to deploy >a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite to point both users and search engines to the new pages.
So in other words, the disaster was more or less planned on purpose.
The 'older versions' would be specific snapshots of the draft (in no particular order): Introduced in House, Engrossed in House, Enrolled Bill, Referred to Senate, Reported in Senate, Received in Senate, etc. It's like v0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.5, 1.0RC1, 1.0RC2, 1.0, etc. You get the point.
The legislative process already follows a development process rather similar to open source software development. Many can review and provide input, or just yammer. Only a few have commit privileges. At specific events, a line is drawn and a version of the bill is released.
If you follow some of the hearings, a lot of time is devoted to reading out loud what are essentially diffs expressed in prose. We can keep that for tradition's sake but it does not preclude using a proper versioning system.
one possible reason to use a distributed versioning system would be to allow schools to tear off a chunk and play with it.
Yes, that's what he did in the past. It's sad and ironic that in the article he's just another being used to market the pyramid scam Microsoft.
Likely the best websites from the US Government...are the Library of Congress site and the Supreme Court site. Both of them are extremely informative, and have a massive wealth of information that is readily available.
Development of legislation is quite byzantine and revision (mis)management during the drafting can make for some very serious readability problems. Currently it is nearly impossible to have time, even for a full-time politician with staff, to have time for their team to individually work through all changes and revisions of a draft of a bill.
Using a version control system (CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Git) makes it very easy to track individual changes and who made them. It also makes it trivially easy to integrate all the changes and show a snapshot of the current draft or one from any arbitrarily earlier version.
Code bases for large software projects are unwieldy, constantly changing and have many authors yet need full transparency and accountability to succeed. So are drafts of legislation. Using a versioning system in our legislative process is long overdue.
No, he hasn't. He has been giving away Warren Buffet's money. Stop lying. If you look deeper than the headlines, you'll see that the Foundation is more like a Political Action Committee than anything else.
Yeah, but this isn't a security flaw due to an oversight or simple mistake. This is a massive downright idiotic flaw! How the HELL did this make it into a product?
Because the claims that Microsoft has good, or even competent, programmers, engineers and managers is at best a myth. That myth has been put to rest many, many years ago, but the marketing, astroturfing, and lobbying firms keep bringing it up again and again. Anyone repeating that is probably on the payroll of one of those firms or so dumb that they should be bitchslapped into next week for opening their mouth.
Seriously, these problems are synonymous with Microsoft and the passivity that allows them to promote bad engineering as acceptable has to stop.