The problem Yahoo! seems to be skirting is that Google has mass adoption already and they can't seem to find a way around it. Google gets this adoption b/c it has its fingers into every online ad outlet known to the Internet gods. Yahoo! needs to get its hands dirty and lay off the technology and fix its business penetration first...
Sun didn't just make vague statements to me about OpenSolaris; they made promises about it being an open development project. That's the only way they could get someone like me to provide free labor for their benefit. Given Sun's recent track record on breaking promises, another one doesn't surprise me at all.
This well is poisoned; the company has consumed its own future and any pretense that the projects will ever govern themselves (as opposed to being governed by whatever pointy-haired boss is hiding behind the scenes) is now a joke. Sun should move on, dissolve the charter that it currently ignores, and adopt the governing style of MySQL. That company doesn't pretend to let their community participate in decisions, and yet they still manage to satisfy most of their users. Let everyone else go back to writing code/documentation for hire.
Standards are not supposed to be set by competing on who has more friends with more cash to spend, but by experts collaborating on the strength and merit of the standard. You obviously missed the whole point. Standards bodies are not the place for this type of competition and it's alarming to think this is how other standards could be compromised.
No, because everyone with a copy of CUPS licensed under the GPL has code that comes with a license that guarantees their freedom to redistribute it regardless of what the copyright owner thinks/does.
The GPLv2 (or LGPL) licenses do not convey copyright ownership. Even though anyone in the world is free to use/redistribute/modify/rename/etc, the source code copyright ownership is still retained by the developer that contributed the code. Some organizations require copyright assignment of code contributed into the base where the contributing developers give up their ownership of the code they created and assign their copyright to the project (or in some cases, a commercial organization). Once the developer assigns copyright over, the project/commercial organization can do whatever they want with it - including relicensing it under a completely different, closed, commercial license. I doubt however, that Apple will make any devious use of CUPS as the GPL versions are still available and could simply fork continuing with GPL. Copyright ownership does, however, make it easy for Apple to do what it wants with CUPS integration into Mac OS X without ever having to worry about the GPL license.
And in other news, Microsoft claims Netflix' online site violates 237 of its patents on Windows and Office. And still in other news, Amazon.com says Netflix' one button into the queue feature also violates Amazon.com's one click order patent.
Arguing over software patents has become the "in thing"... everybody's doing it. Prior art is so yesterday.
Have you ever seen a well run IT dept in a charity? Now you know why.
Not to mention, MSFT is the crack dealer for charities - they slash prices (price discrimination?) by giving them substantial acquisition discounts - then 3 yrs later the 'grim reaper' from MSFT comes in (if they're big enough of a charity), inventories all the licenses in use and makes them pay the piper.
Would you wait for the rest of the house to burn down and rebuild the entire house from scratch... or put out the fire on the counter and replace the counter...?
Have to disagree. For those without $1M of FSF funds to run around fighting granted, bad patents, it's much more difficult to fight in a come-from-behind position when XYZ Patent Troll Inc. already has a patent granted. Litigating patents is expensive. It's cheaper to lop off the 10% that are obvious "spam patents" before they're ever granted than to let all 10% (that would be like 4,000 these days) go through and clean up later...
Next they'll have a Windows version: it will come preloaded with 150 viruses, worms, and network security tools. Just put it in your shirt pocket, walk through your office and infect coworkers' PCs.
And of course... it's always your fault b/c you were the last intelligent person to touch the computer - as if all the people who know nothing were too clueless to actually screw something up... ha
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The problem Yahoo! seems to be skirting is that Google has mass adoption already and they can't seem to find a way around it. Google gets this adoption b/c it has its fingers into every online ad outlet known to the Internet gods. Yahoo! needs to get its hands dirty and lay off the technology and fix its business penetration first...
Standards are not supposed to be set by competing on who has more friends with more cash to spend, but by experts collaborating on the strength and merit of the standard. You obviously missed the whole point. Standards bodies are not the place for this type of competition and it's alarming to think this is how other standards could be compromised.
No, because everyone with a copy of CUPS licensed under the GPL has code that comes with a license that guarantees their freedom to redistribute it regardless of what the copyright owner thinks/does.
The GPLv2 (or LGPL) licenses do not convey copyright ownership. Even though anyone in the world is free to use/redistribute/modify/rename/etc, the source code copyright ownership is still retained by the developer that contributed the code. Some organizations require copyright assignment of code contributed into the base where the contributing developers give up their ownership of the code they created and assign their copyright to the project (or in some cases, a commercial organization). Once the developer assigns copyright over, the project/commercial organization can do whatever they want with it - including relicensing it under a completely different, closed, commercial license. I doubt however, that Apple will make any devious use of CUPS as the GPL versions are still available and could simply fork continuing with GPL. Copyright ownership does, however, make it easy for Apple to do what it wants with CUPS integration into Mac OS X without ever having to worry about the GPL license.
And in other news, Microsoft claims Netflix' online site violates 237 of its patents on Windows and Office. And still in other news, Amazon.com says Netflix' one button into the queue feature also violates Amazon.com's one click order patent.
Arguing over software patents has become the "in thing"... everybody's doing it. Prior art is so yesterday.
would you trust those systems to anything else?
Now we just need all those XP systems replaced with Linux systems - Windows clients are the biggest security holes a Linux server ever experiences.
Have you ever seen a well run IT dept in a charity? Now you know why.
... fud.
Not to mention, MSFT is the crack dealer for charities - they slash prices (price discrimination?) by giving them substantial acquisition discounts - then 3 yrs later the 'grim reaper' from MSFT comes in (if they're big enough of a charity), inventories all the licenses in use and makes them pay the piper.
Fud, fud fud fud,
Would you wait for the rest of the house to burn down and rebuild the entire house from scratch... or put out the fire on the counter and replace the counter...?
Have to disagree. For those without $1M of FSF funds to run around fighting granted, bad patents, it's much more difficult to fight in a come-from-behind position when XYZ Patent Troll Inc. already has a patent granted. Litigating patents is expensive. It's cheaper to lop off the 10% that are obvious "spam patents" before they're ever granted than to let all 10% (that would be like 4,000 these days) go through and clean up later...
I'm going to file a software patent for both filing patenting software patents - that'll show 'em. Then I get royalties on every patent filed.. nice.
What if this guy doesn't even know anything?
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Next they'll have a Windows version: it will come preloaded with 150 viruses, worms, and network security tools. Just put it in your shirt pocket, walk through your office and infect coworkers' PCs.
found it interesting Microsoft is using MP3 encoding for this and not Windows Media... hmm...
And of course... it's always your fault b/c you were the last intelligent person to touch the computer - as if all the people who know nothing were too clueless to actually screw something up... ha
Hmm... this could go on forever...
Duped.
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It was Tuttled!
Since when do you need anything special to access a Windows drive??
My fav is the book "Don't click the Blue 'e'"
Don't be fooled - Solaris 10 is as bad a move as Solaris 8 on Intel...
Just wait 1 yr when Sun's inability to reinvest leaves it smoked by Linux... the game is almost over for these neverending strategy changing bandits.