What the hell is wrong with that. I make some hardware, I put linux on it. I say here's my code, feel free to read it, to tell me what you think might need updating, and feel free to make your own, but my hardware will only run my version of the sofware. Thats freedom to me.
If you don't want anyone else to write/modify software for your hardware, don't leach off of GPL software. Write your own, or buy a license from MS to run it. Nothing is forcing 'you - the hardware manufacturer' to use GPL software. If you don't want to give you customers the freedom to modify the code, don't use GPL software.
I currently have an problem with one of the wireless router manufacturers. Unlike Linksys, which has provided all the tools/code to development new firmware loads for their router, this company has decided to release a tar-ball with only the open-source software, and the company maintains that the actual file-format is propietary and will not be released(nor any tools to generate that file). They have also stated that they have additional proprietary software which they will not release. Even the web pages for the router configuration are "not-software" so we don't have to release them.
This is definitely not in the spirit of the GPL and appears to me (IANAL) in violation of the GPL. Specifically section 2:
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works.
But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
And section 3:
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files,
plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
However, if the changelog is important for understanding the source, then I would interpret the GPL as regarding the changelog as part of the source code for the project, and therefore subject to the redistribution clause of the GPL.
There is no way that the changelog could be considered part of the source. Where in the GPL license does it say a project has to have a changelog?
It's so obvious to outsiders that republicans are lyars, and we're like, "why can't Americans see the truth?".
You have to remember over 50% of the voters, voted against BUSH, and more voted for GORE than BUSH. Yet due to the screwed-up Electorial College (which may have served a purpose long ago but is useless now), we unfortunately got BUSH.
Good. The induce act was unnecessary as the napster case already showed.
The MPAA is not happy with the way the courts have decided the more recent cases related to Morpheus and the other P-2-P companies which don't have a central database of the shared material. They want a stronger law so that they can shutdown all P-2-P software/companies.
Your first statement was right... It is INFINITE. Everytime it gets close to some of the oldest works entering public domain, the government retroactively extends copyrights another 20 years.
Yep, same message here... What is so strange is during the entire time I've had BT up, my upload speeds have stayed between 8-9 KB/s (I told the client to limit it to 8 KB/s - half my upload pipe), yet my downloads have been 0 KB/s for the majority of the time. I was able to get a few fast bursts upto about 70 and staying around 30 KB/s, but this is so much slooower that FTP where I see 150-180 KB/s from a good server. I've had this going for the last 10 hours and am still only at 20%... On a good FTP server I would have been done in about 6 hrs for 3 CDs.
All I see from the "Pro"-BT people is how great BitTorrent is, and how much better it is than FTP or other options, but I've been disappointed every time I've used it, and performance this time seems even worse than normal (Tracker time-out problems for the last 40 mins... and still No connection).
BitTorrent needs to fix this tracker bottle-neck problem!
If the poster would have read the first paragraph, they would have seen it was at 250 million years ago not 2 Billion...
Scientists believe they are on the track of the biggest mass murderer in the two-billion year history of life. A buried crater off Australia could be the first direct evidence of a celestial assassin that wiped out more than 80% of life on Earth 250m years ago.
Yes, apparently the submitter apparently can't read the numbers in the boxes... It's their S type laptop that has the wide screen: S Type . There you can see the screen is 1280 x 800.
It was nowhere near 2 weeks to get 9.2 for the non-"Club" members - at least one of the club members put it out on bit-torrent right away and provided a link here on/.
Mandrakes price for the "Club" seems too high for free software (yes I know about free speech vs. free beer). If they priced it about $20/year, I would likely sign-up, but at their 'recommended' silver level, it's $120/year, that's about $30 more than I can buy the OEM version of Windows XP just for the privilage to download the new releases when they are available. (And it was the club members that were affected by the CD-ROM issue in the 9.2 release.)
The spec doesn't even disallow modifying the variables. I tried it, compiles and runs... the only thing the spec would likely say is that the behaviour is then undefined. The following works fine:
#define isDigitPlus1(x) ((--x) >= '0' && (--x)
You just end up with different behaviour across different compilers.
How does that protect you from the information theft that occurs with others that you have to deal with? If you have to see the doctor, and had it billed to insurance, most likely you're Social Security Number was seen by many people. Anyone of them could copy the number name and start opening accounts. I guess you could avoid the doctor offices too.
Having gone through this a few years back, it not as simple as you state. They didn't have any personal Credit Card numbers, just the SS # and they opened new accounts with that. Luckily one of the companies actually took time and flag the application for inconsistencies... Credit Report showed working at a computer company, yet the application said I cut hair... not many people make that kind of job change. The lady actually track me down, and I was able to clean it up relatively easy. If I had to wait for the next review of my credit report (which is recommended every year) with could be upto 12 months before this is detected, would make it much harder to clean up.
When a few companies was questioning me, as if I was involved in the scheme: "How did you find out about this if you weren't involved", it was quite satisfying to respond: "Mrs. X at company Y actually inspected the credit application and contacted me to verify that I didn't sign-up. She was the first to notify me and you can reach her at: xxx-xxxx. Don't blame me for your companies lack of verification."
Nikon is good, but they have no true DSLRs anywhere near the price range of the Digital Rebel. The closest they have is the Coolpix 5700. It's a good camera, certainly, but it's not an SLR. It's an all-in-one-system.
So Nikon has the D100 at $1499 (after a recent price drop), not quite the $899 price of the Digital Rebel, but I wouldn't call it "no where near".
So the industry keeps thinking it can pull one over on the consumers and make more money, but it's just the lawyers that will win on this one...
Just like:
Screen sizes include areas you can't actually see. 15" really means 13.8"...
Harddrive sizes are not what they seem. 1M == 1,000,000 bytes not 1024*1024.
The computer industry will keep making disceptive ads and lawyers doing class-action suits against them will keep getting rich. My guess is that the computer industry still make more money than they lose to the lawyers, so everyone is better off but the consumer...
With all the new powers congress gave to Bush's AG - Mr. John Asscroft... it's us Americans that need anonymizing services. I won't rehash what most of you know about the Patriot Act and the Patriot Act II (that was resurrected as the "Victory Act" after enormous backlash after an initial version of it leaked). If you want further info, try searching on google.com...
The 'one' Fortune 500 company that bought the licenses, had to be Microsoft. I'm sure they have linux boxes for competitive analysis, review, etc. There is no better way to supply cash to someone that is doing your dirty work, than to pay for these licenses. If they just handed over cash, it would look too fishy.
You're welcome (just be sure to click through the coupon on my site, I would like the affiliate credit;-) )... Be aware that the rebate is "Limit one rebate per name, address, receipt or household.", and it's ONLY valid today.
buy.com has this on sale for only $189 after $50 mail-in rebate. It's their 'price mistake of the day' item. There is currently a free shipping coupon available at my site. See link below in my signiture to find the coupon.
So how many of you think that Microsoft is the "one Fortune 500" company to buy licenses... It would make sense- why not give move money over to SCO to allow them to continue suing (gives them a valid reason to hand over money), and gives other companies the impression that a major company has determined the "bogus" license fees are valid. Then other companies would think, maybe we need to investigate the claims more seriously since someone already paid.
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If you don't want anyone else to write/modify software for your hardware, don't leach off of GPL software. Write your own, or buy a license from MS to run it. Nothing is forcing 'you - the hardware manufacturer' to use GPL software. If you don't want to give you customers the freedom to modify the code, don't use GPL software.
I currently have an problem with one of the wireless router manufacturers. Unlike Linksys, which has provided all the tools/code to development new firmware loads for their router, this company has decided to release a tar-ball with only the open-source software, and the company maintains that the actual file-format is propietary and will not be released(nor any tools to generate that file). They have also stated that they have additional proprietary software which they will not release. Even the web pages for the router configuration are "not-software" so we don't have to release them.
This is definitely not in the spirit of the GPL and appears to me (IANAL) in violation of the GPL.
Specifically section 2:
And section 3:
There is no way that the changelog could be considered part of the source. Where in the GPL license does it say a project has to have a changelog?
You have to remember over 50% of the voters, voted against BUSH, and more voted for GORE than BUSH. Yet due to the screwed-up Electorial College (which may have served a purpose long ago but is useless now), we unfortunately got BUSH.
The MPAA is not happy with the way the courts have decided the more recent cases related to Morpheus and the other P-2-P companies which don't have a central database of the shared material. They want a stronger law so that they can shutdown all P-2-P software/companies.
Looks like the domain has been taken seen '02...
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Registrant:
Streetlight Communications, LLC
704 Bush St Apt 501 San Francisco, CA 94108-3436
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: BUSHSHIT.COM
Created on: 22-Sep-02
Expires on: 22-Sep-05
Your first statement was right... It is INFINITE. Everytime it gets close to some of the oldest works entering public domain, the government retroactively extends copyrights another 20 years.
All I see from the "Pro"-BT people is how great BitTorrent is, and how much better it is than FTP or other options, but I've been disappointed every time I've used it, and performance this time seems even worse than normal (Tracker time-out problems for the last 40 mins... and still No connection).
BitTorrent needs to fix this tracker bottle-neck problem!
Yes, apparently the submitter apparently can't read the numbers in the boxes... It's their S type laptop that has the wide screen: S Type . There you can see the screen is 1280 x 800.
It would be a little more interesting if it didn't appear to have been posted on April 1st.
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http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/01/Apr/mcrhf.
Mandrakes price for the "Club" seems too high for free software (yes I know about free speech vs. free beer). If they priced it about $20/year, I would likely sign-up, but at their 'recommended' silver level, it's $120/year, that's about $30 more than I can buy the OEM version of Windows XP just for the privilage to download the new releases when they are available. (And it was the club members that were affected by the CD-ROM issue in the 9.2 release.)
How does that protect you from the information theft that occurs with others that you have to deal with? If you have to see the doctor, and had it billed to insurance, most likely you're Social Security Number was seen by many people. Anyone of them could copy the number name and start opening accounts. I guess you could avoid the doctor offices too.
Having gone through this a few years back, it not as simple as you state. They didn't have any personal Credit Card numbers, just the SS # and they opened new accounts with that. Luckily one of the companies actually took time and flag the application for inconsistencies... Credit Report showed working at a computer company, yet the application said I cut hair... not many people make that kind of job change. The lady actually track me down, and I was able to clean it up relatively easy. If I had to wait for the next review of my credit report (which is recommended every year) with could be upto 12 months before this is detected, would make it much harder to clean up.
When a few companies was questioning me, as if I was involved in the scheme: "How did you find out about this if you weren't involved", it was quite satisfying to respond: "Mrs. X at company Y actually inspected the credit application and contacted me to verify that I didn't sign-up. She was the first to notify me and you can reach her at: xxx-xxxx. Don't blame me for your companies lack of verification."
So Nikon has the D100 at $1499 (after a recent price drop), not quite the $899 price of the Digital Rebel, but I wouldn't call it "no where near".
The computer industry will keep making disceptive ads and lawyers doing class-action suits against them will keep getting rich. My guess is that the computer industry still make more money than they lose to the lawyers, so everyone is better off but the consumer...
Does the term "NON-Beta" mean anything to you? The original poster asked for a non-Beta release and both initial responses point to beta versions...
With all the new powers congress gave to Bush's AG - Mr. John Asscroft... it's us Americans that need anonymizing services. I won't rehash what most of you know about the Patriot Act and the Patriot Act II (that was resurrected as the "Victory Act" after enormous backlash after an initial version of it leaked). If you want further info, try searching on google.com...
The 'one' Fortune 500 company that bought the licenses, had to be Microsoft. I'm sure they have linux boxes for competitive analysis, review, etc. There is no better way to supply cash to someone that is doing your dirty work, than to pay for these licenses. If they just handed over cash, it would look too fishy.
Cool, all I have to do is pull the power plug out and my system is secure...
;-) Thanks...
I'll just sit with my laptop (unplugged from the wall) and use 802.11b and know that my system is secure
You're welcome (just be sure to click through the coupon on my site, I would like the affiliate credit ;-) ) ...
Be aware that the rebate is "Limit one rebate per name, address, receipt or household.", and it's ONLY valid today.
Look at their 'Price mistake of the Day' off their front page. It lists it at $239..
buy.com has this on sale for only $189 after $50 mail-in rebate. It's their 'price mistake of the day' item. There is currently a free shipping coupon available at my site. See link below in my signiture to find the coupon.
Anyone want to bet that the ONE company that actually paid SCO for a Linux license is Microsoft????
...until they can get the flesh color right automatically ;-)
So how many of you think that Microsoft is the "one Fortune 500" company to buy licenses...
It would make sense- why not give move money over to SCO to allow them to continue suing (gives them a valid reason to hand over money), and gives other companies the impression that a major company has determined the "bogus" license fees are valid. Then other companies would think, maybe we need to investigate the claims more seriously since someone already paid.