Red Hat deserve their place amongst the corporate elite and are an excellent representative of the large enterprise IT market. In my experience, they bully customers just as well as other non-Linux open source companies, so good for them.
Once the data as been recovered, what are NASA's plans to archive and prevent the data from being lost over the next 40, or 400 years? How will they plan on making the data available to general public?
I don't know.
(sorry, your comment just looked really interrogative)
It's bad enough that Apple loads their phone with anti-features, here's an edition which the Chinese government also gets the privilege of crippling even further. What's next, a special edition shipped with elephant poop? Knowing Apple and knowing consumers, that will just make it sell better... *sigh*
Information such as links to your profile, your friends' profiles, pictures, groups, what-have-you. Such information is probably strictly Facebook's property
If you're my friend, that's a fact about me. Why should Facebook own that fact?
I think this has more to do with you wanting to move your data, not them just handing it out. There is a huge difference.
I don't really agree. The bits aren't being loaded carefully in moving boxes and transported by truck. Copies of digitally stored information are cheap and if you own your own data facebook shouldn't have any objections to you using your own data elsewhere.
Placing bits of information on a pedestal like they were a Gutenberg bible is a bit like the thinking behind disallowing copying of a DVD for backup purposes. You can't really own bits, and the information they represent isn't facebook's to begin with.
If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in a patent infringement lawsuit against a Microsoft implementation of any Covered Specification, then this personal promise does not apply with respect to any Covered Implementation made or used by you
Is that a patent retaliation clause? Interesting.
Anyhow, the way I read that, you can't sue Microsoft if they make use of one of your patents in their own implementations, albeit limited to the specifications covered in this initiative. That probably wasn't very interesting in the context of what had previously been released under this scheme (HealthVault Service Specification, UI Automation v1.0 , etc.), but.Net/Mono is much more serious technology and therefore more likely to contain or sprout patents.
So, considering that isn't it more likely that it's the indie developer (less likely to take out patents on own work) who wouldn't mind this promise rather than any commercial technology provider (more likely to take out patents on own work)? If that logic holds then one effect of this Microsoft initiative would be to prevent the emergence of any real commercial Mono competition to.Net.
It will be largely useless without the slang and secdb components
If you didn't have a python/java/$LANGUAGE interpreter and no python/java/$LANGUAGE documentation you'd probably still be able to glean the logic and algorithms from the code. The trade secret is the algorithms not the computer instructions representing them.
It isn't that there's something magical about teh intarwebs or facebook that enables these activists, the regime in Egypt is also taking a somewhat lenient approach to the whole affair. There's precious little internet censorship in Egypt (matter of fact, can't think of any real examples, not as blatant as for example thepiratebay.org getting blocked in Italy and Denmark for example).
The worst internet censorship I saw (haven't been to all the countries in the area, mind) was actually in Tunisia where bogus MSIE error pages would be thrown back at me. In firefox. Not too long after the WSIS conference in fact, to ladle the irony on. Even sites like BoingBoing was blocked, but then I can kind of understand that:) Consider also, if facebook and social networking internet-style was so effective at fostering political opposition, there's be more successful grass-roots opposition in for example Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan, etc.
There's been some arrests of bloggers in Egypt, but if you watch the Egyptian blogging community it's pretty clear they can get away with far more than many other countries. Wasn't there legislation being written in Italy that bloggers were to be held up against the same laws as journos?
In any case, with internet penetration being what it is in Egypt, even a very successful digital opposition campaign will only have limited effect on a national aggregate. I wonder if the traditional coffee shop networks or SMS for that matter (if you really want something technological to tout) as a vehicle for collective social action isn't orders of magnitude more effective.
Not to rant too hard (the blogging community there sprang from the LUG I helped set up, so I got to observe in a sense), but as an experiment in citizen media the Egyptian blogging community has at the very least outdone traditional media in one respect: sensationalising. I'd be careful where I dish out my kudos, Mr. New York Times.:)
Just for the sake of being proactive (and on-topic, oh horror!), a colleague is a usability expert and has acquired a fascination with free software. I thought that jumping in and rolling up his sleeves would be a good induction, so here's asking: anyone sitting on an interesting project with a need for (and willingness to listen to) such a one?
Are you also okay with someone patenting "object oriented", "client/server", and "clustering"? Because they are all expressions used to refer to specific architectures.
I know some terms get overused, but letting people patent them isn't the best way to combat hype.
This news comes just as the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA)
If they'd just spent a little more time thinking it through, they could probably have come up with something more appropriate like Field Aerosol Recognition Thermal Sensing Nonionic Interference Failtested Frankly Erotic Robot. The resulting acronym would, I am sure, have been more memorable.
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I know, you'd think that by 12 they might have grown out of it.
Banging rocks is clearly the way to go. CHRIST already...
Red Hat deserve their place amongst the corporate elite and are an excellent representative of the large enterprise IT market. In my experience, they bully customers just as well as other non-Linux open source companies, so good for them.
You probably want interwiki.
So, you're punctual, thieving, drunk, lazy, simple minded, and British.
So, just like the Irish then, you mean?
I don't know.
(sorry, your comment just looked really interrogative)
Rarely is this troll topical...
I would, but it keeps dying. Don't believe me? Ask Netcraft.
Nope. I hear you Americans have it tough though.
It's bad enough that Apple loads their phone with anti-features, here's an edition which the Chinese government also gets the privilege of crippling even further. What's next, a special edition shipped with elephant poop? Knowing Apple and knowing consumers, that will just make it sell better... *sigh*
If you're my friend, that's a fact about me. Why should Facebook own that fact?
I don't really agree. The bits aren't being loaded carefully in moving boxes and transported by truck. Copies of digitally stored information are cheap and if you own your own data facebook shouldn't have any objections to you using your own data elsewhere.
Placing bits of information on a pedestal like they were a Gutenberg bible is a bit like the thinking behind disallowing copying of a DVD for backup purposes. You can't really own bits, and the information they represent isn't facebook's to begin with.
Umm, no. Flash.
I'm looking forward to leaked Microsoft emails about deliveries of fresh pants to Ballmer's office.
Speak up, fella. I'd like to hear the other 99% of the software industry to hear that.
There's a summary now?
I was making do with the first eight characters of the headlines.
So, in response to "Is IE Us", I'll have to say no. No it isn't.
More interestingly, you can really see that the new key markets strategy the Spread Firefox campaign has kicked off is really paying off.
If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in a patent infringement lawsuit against a Microsoft implementation of any Covered Specification, then this personal promise does not apply with respect to any Covered Implementation made or used by you
Is that a patent retaliation clause? Interesting.
Anyhow, the way I read that, you can't sue Microsoft if they make use of one of your patents in their own implementations, albeit limited to the specifications covered in this initiative. That probably wasn't very interesting in the context of what had previously been released under this scheme (HealthVault Service Specification, UI Automation v1.0 , etc.), but .Net/Mono is much more serious technology and therefore more likely to contain or sprout patents.
So, considering that isn't it more likely that it's the indie developer (less likely to take out patents on own work) who wouldn't mind this promise rather than any commercial technology provider (more likely to take out patents on own work)? If that logic holds then one effect of this Microsoft initiative would be to prevent the emergence of any real commercial Mono competition to .Net.
If you didn't have a python/java/$LANGUAGE interpreter and no python/java/$LANGUAGE documentation you'd probably still be able to glean the logic and algorithms from the code. The trade secret is the algorithms not the computer instructions representing them.
The worst internet censorship I saw (haven't been to all the countries in the area, mind) was actually in Tunisia where bogus MSIE error pages would be thrown back at me. In firefox. Not too long after the WSIS conference in fact, to ladle the irony on. Even sites like BoingBoing was blocked, but then I can kind of understand that :) Consider also, if facebook and social networking internet-style was so effective at fostering political opposition, there's be more successful grass-roots opposition in for example Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan, etc.
There's been some arrests of bloggers in Egypt, but if you watch the Egyptian blogging community it's pretty clear they can get away with far more than many other countries. Wasn't there legislation being written in Italy that bloggers were to be held up against the same laws as journos?
In any case, with internet penetration being what it is in Egypt, even a very successful digital opposition campaign will only have limited effect on a national aggregate. I wonder if the traditional coffee shop networks or SMS for that matter (if you really want something technological to tout) as a vehicle for collective social action isn't orders of magnitude more effective.
Not to rant too hard (the blogging community there sprang from the LUG I helped set up, so I got to observe in a sense), but as an experiment in citizen media the Egyptian blogging community has at the very least outdone traditional media in one respect: sensationalising. I'd be careful where I dish out my kudos, Mr. New York Times. :)
In the US maybe. Political bloggers have gotten very far in other parts of the world for a while already... (Just off the top of my head
Just for the sake of being proactive (and on-topic, oh horror!), a colleague is a usability expert and has acquired a fascination with free software. I thought that jumping in and rolling up his sleeves would be a good induction, so here's asking: anyone sitting on an interesting project with a need for (and willingness to listen to) such a one?
I know some terms get overused, but letting people patent them isn't the best way to combat hype.
If they'd just spent a little more time thinking it through, they could probably have come up with something more appropriate like Field Aerosol Recognition Thermal Sensing Nonionic Interference Failtested Frankly Erotic Robot. The resulting acronym would, I am sure, have been more memorable.
They are probably waiting for the Duke Nukem Forever port.