Cenam is right, If you don't want people asking questions that don't fit with your opinion, that is facist.
I'm sick and tired of the slashdot party members always saying stupid things like : "If you ask a question which does not fit our opinion, you do not belong here". Have you ever considered that there are always 2 sides to every story? [the part which is relevant to this story] I asked a fair and legitimate question, why the hell would you want to code something so that it compiles in 4 languages ? I speak 3 languages and can programme in 20, yet I see no reason for multilingual coding. Personally, I believe this is a great waste of time which is only reported because Slashdot loves stupid geek tricks. Perhaps we should get more 'news that matters' instead of stuff that splatters.
This is hardly worth any note, it goes against any notion of efficient coding and practicality. However, it seems that there are those of you who believe they are better qualified to judge programming skill. I ask you if you can reprogram an operating system, create an internet protocol or even design a successful encryption system. Because then you will be qualified to judge me as an equal, not a slashdot party member.
What sort of lunatic wants code that compiles in 4 languages, anyway? Isn't it bad enough that microsoft creates gigabytes of code bloat, let alone all the geeks who are now going to try multi-lingual code?
Crimes Amendment Bill (No 6) seeks to make hacking illegal if you're not the police or secret service, allows police & secret service to read all email regardless of the Privacy Act 1993 & Bill of Rights 1989. Telecommunications Interception Act seems to give police & secret service unlimited rights to tap any phone, cellphone, fax, internet connection at the phone exchange or ISP if they get a secret warrent. These proposals also include a provision to force crypto key escrow on all users of encryption, with keys being stored with Police & Secret Service headquarters in Wellington. Basically, it means the police & secret service get to read all emails, faxes, listen in to all phonecalls & know where your cellphone is at all times. Both of these proposed laws are being pushed by Paul Swain, Minster of commerce, communications & IT.
What I want to know is: do they have the capability to actually go through every electronic communication? and if the internet information is encrypted, how hard does it have to be to make it unbreakable?
Citizens are only allowed 128 bit, anything better is 'military grade' [in other words, they couldn't break it in 1976] Unfortunately, your only legal strong crypto in the USA, UK, China & other police states is Steganography. Steganography is hidden messages within messages, it's the thing in A Beautiful Mind that was regarded as madness. But it works pretty well. Note: my system is 300 kilobytes, 2400 orders of complexity harder than 128 bit. It won't be broken by a NSA black box in your lifetime.
If you can keep a secret, you can make a profit. If NSA knows all your secrets, NSA can take your profits. NSA does this already with european firms having their secrets sold off to the highest US bidder.
Personally I'd rather not get prosecuted for doing stuff that is legal in my country, just because american senators are paid millions by disney. Actually, to hell with the laws my country wants to copy from the USA too... I've decided to smuggle 300 kb crypto I've got to some free-speech advocates I know in america.
The real issue with ebooks is that you want something to read in the car or on the toilet. Then the other thing is, how do you get a new ebook in the middle of a forest ? It's not like the nice lady on the next farm can afford to go online for a few hours so that you can get an ebook. A better example is MP3's, I have 6 days, 6 hours of stuff. I might buy some CD's if I find them in the stores, but I won't hold my breath waiting for the store to get that album I want.
I designed a brand logo protection scheme that was based on machine-detectable watermarks 4 years ago. It's possible to make graphics, sounds or movies that can only be played from a website. However, you can't be assured that the encryption will prevent someone from taking the decoded content and then pass it along. Fortunately, the company I was doing it for stole the idea without realising the weak points in the system. Today, 2 companies use it in the NZ banking system and the random number generator is still open to any script kiddie who knows their IP number. Digital Rights Management is a joke, only people who live in countries that prohibit strong crypto believe it can live up to the hype.
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Let's face it, file sharing only grows the market. file sharing doesn't cost entertainment companies money because people might not buy things they don't hear on the radio or see on TV. For example, I have an ebook [13 MB PDF] of The Hobbit & Lord of The Rings. I decided to buy Lord of The Rings because I wanted to read it in the middle of a forest my friend lives in. I then decided to see the Lord of The Rings (1) movie a few times, because I like the story and I love to see New Zealand. I have actually spent more than I would have if I only bothered to see the movie, so this piracy issue is rubbish spread by paranoid accountants. [please note: I live in New Zealand & have been to places where LoTR was filmed]
If your arguement was true, then I should not have learned about computers when I was 4 and just waited until I went to university. The problem is, how would you know what to do if you weren't used to what computers can do? So please tell me, who is more competant: the person who has used computers all their life, or the recent graduate in computer science?
I have asked Jef Raskin about the proposed new features of the GUI in my Kaos [BSD] operating system, he wants some stupid CLI inside all applications. This may sound reasonable to certain slashdot readers, but it's a mongrel of an idea: does anyone need to type in caps to execute commands while working in any program? He would prefer an unituitive multiple command sequence to a seperate GUI window.
BFD, I suppose by your logic, those New Zealanders and Australians who work for American companies know what it's like to live in New York. If I was an idiot, I would give you the full picture on certain technology which is banned from development in the USA. Nothing personal, but the NSA aren't the best people to deal with new and interesting information. I would be glad to give you new information I have, but you would find out that Big Brother doesn't respect the laws or the constitution of your country at all. If I am successful in my current project, the technology will find it's way to freedom. If I fail, it will never be heard of again. [and nor will I]
I know external metadata is flawed, in case you didn't notice I was being polite to someone who is still thinking about metadata in the same way as apple did in 1984.
As for me being an idiot, a common method of implementing AI programs is to use insects as the template. I am merely going one step further by defining an evolutionary basis for individual agents that behave in an emotional manner. It is possible that you are one of the geeks who is insulted by the use of game theory, a method widely used to anticipate change.
And if you are one of the herd of americans who views the internet as a place to insult foreigners, I don't care. I'm lucky enough to live 1 minute from the beach, in the capital city of a country that is home to Lord of The Rings.
I really don't have time for petty personal disputes whenever there is a procedural expert or 'ideas person' around, I'm just trying to get things done & I have no time to waste on trivial matters raised during consultation.
WHy bother with writing a new database when there is CDDB or Open CDDB online? you can submit new songs or get track names to any CD (or song submitted) for free.
ID3 tags are in most modern MP3 players, the catagory you want is Religious. [which covers diet rock, evangelism, boring crap, stuff that sucks and blows at the same time & annoying tunes you hear in elevators] You could also put mood music in Unclassifiable, which is useful if you are currently listening to stuff you'd hate to hear when you grow up.
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Yeah, that was probably one of my crapfloods about Kaos when I had decided to announce what I was doing. And yes, you're right it is useful to store the ID3 tags in the database FS because you get faster and better search results for files.
Now that's a good idea, create a webpage that plays an MP3 you have while you watch porn... I have 6 days & 6 hours of MP3's, there has to be tons of songs that suit porn. Perhaps a slogan for this sort of site would be "come here for MP3 & cum there for porno"?
maybe those MP3's are on a mac, or an iPod. Most of my 6 days of MP3's are under 32 chars long. Metadata is a better way of doing things, it is possible to use XML for MIME filetyping so that the browser is capable of displaying data in the way you want.
As for reality of doing it in Linux, you'd need major support by a few major distributers or the main programmers to get the critical support that Linux needs for a projecty such as this to survive. I know this is not the party line, but BSD has a better chance of getting this supported as it is a decentralised group of programmers. Linus Torvalds is on record as saying that he needs a full time deputy to take care of non-core duties, yet a new filesystem would require the full cooperation of the kernel programmer.
We should assume that by metadata, it means more sophisticated metadata than mac HFS/HFS+. Obviously a database file system, preferably in XML so that we can easily get support for MIME filetypes online if need be.
There is no technical reason why you can't have temporary files [or their modern equivalent] in a failsafe environment that persists even when the computer crashes. I agree with the new metadata file approach, it's sort of like the mac HFS. But, I would also use a local metadata database to backup metadata transfers when the excrement hits the air-cooling system. It's possible to store these ID3 tags as part of the XML MIME info, then you can search for music at filesystem access speed rather than read the guts of the file for the ID3.
And before you ask: yes, this is a part of the Kaos operating system I'm working on.
You're right, a modern metadata file system [Be or newer, not as old as HFS/HFS+] should support MIME filetyping. By using MIME, your files will always open in an app that can handle those files regardless of which app made it.
Of course, this is something I've been doing for a few months now as a vital part of the Kaos operating system.
I'm not buying a clone of MS office, I'm going to license a better, faster & cheaper office suite. [even if it is Java, it's faster than MS bloat] I'm not copying code like a certain MS policy, it maybe that other people would try to put their favorite code into my work. [if they do, I'd like them to use a better license than GPL]
The linux kernel is a monolithic architecture that is as ugly as a concrete bloc of high rise buildings, it's a strange way of the past that should be remodeled for the benefit of the users. Actually, I'm not willing to let anyone else sell it because that would remove the assured security I have with the individual encryption key discs. I could allow mass production of the software and the code, but the main point of individual disc production is to distribute a large amount of secure encryption data. [exceeds US military spec and is illegal to develop or export from USA, UK, China & other Big Brother states]
> The main design of public domain code is that you can't charge for it, and the main design of commercial code is that you charge for binaries only. Because I don't want to charge for my code, are commercial programs evil? Of course not, they don't affect me if I don't use them.
> (Let's just leave MS out of this, as MS arguably does affect people who don't want to use them, with CPU taxes and defacto standards. In the ideal world, commercial software doesn't affect me if I don't want it to.)
Actually no, I have a Dual G4 450 and the use of a Dual G4 1 gig at home. I don't use MS office as I have better office suites which are fully compatible with MS office files, which is why I'm going to license a MS compatible office suite and stick it in the GUI of my Kaos BSD. [real people work with the real world] > No one's forcing you to use any code whatsoever, or license any of your code under any license. Read the GPL, you should see a clause which states you have to release your sourcecode. Gates is right on this point, GPL is a virus that can seriously affect the ecosystem of any code it infects.
> The GPL is exactly why I don't worry about people freeloading. And while you're talking about companies stealing you're work, I have to point out that you are locking up other people's work. Even if the kernel is 'barely the same', that means part of it was done by oter people who did not get paid. And I'm betting that you're using other people's utilities like 'ls' and 'bash'. Even if you've vetted the code line by line, it's still theirs.
Good guess, it was a system designed to lock up brang logo graphics which was stolen by a couple of companies who have now turned into a major part of the New Zealand e-banking system. I don't care about them stealing it because it has a deliberate design flaw in the encryption. As for the kernel, it's a new design that only MIT has tried before [and failed]. I'm coding it from scratch, so my encryption is embedded in the core of the exokernel. BTW, commands aren't part of the kernel at all [unless you've got a badly written linux].
My code is open source, I just think you should buy the program if you're going to use the code. I don't force people to keep it a hobby or any stupid restrictions RMS may dream up. > But you're making a commercial version, so the only way the license helps you is snarfing all the other people's code. I don't have any problem with that, that's the reason it's under that license, but it seems like you're getting alot more help than some licenses.
Not really, The parts where I'm using existing code is for compatability purposes, mainly in the command system. I'm looking at putting in a more useful command set, with an empathsis on memorable words instead of weird abreviations.
I'm not saying that, it's just that I have had some very large (and now very rich) corporations freeload my work before, even though it was covered by copyright and I was doing it to get a job with them. It's possible under the BSD license to do something not for profit and something for profit within the same project. I have an issue with both extremes screwing up the essential concept of liberty, it's possible to charge for work you do like an encryption system & to not ask money for simple things like an email client.
Free as in liberty doesn't mean free as in cost. Liberty is that thing you americans claim to have, yet your president eliminated 6 months ago. [PATRIOT ACT] I think that anonymous coward is right, the GPL is free as in cheapskate, not free as in speech. In contrast, I use the BSD license to make code that is free as in liberty and speech, not free as in beer. The reason is that I'd rather you buy my software, if you want to customise it, you do it in such a way that I retain the right to sell my software with your modifications if you want others to use your mods to my system. You can decide if you want to charge for your mods or not, which is a better way of doing stuff than infecting it so the origninal programmer is stuck with your way.
The main problem is that the GPL is designed so that you have to give away source code, which is not freedom. If RMS would admit that, I'd be happy because people would not get the wrong impression from his weasel-word definition of free. The main problem when you do want to make a commercial product which is open source is keeping people from contributing GPL code because the license infects everything it comes into contant with. This means I could release an open source product like mozilla under a fair license, then have some GPL coder ruin my effort just because they want to force other people what to do.
Kaos is a "new BSD" because it's barely the same internally as other BSDs, it has a completely different kernel architecture not just a slightly different GUI theme. [this is not a new linux distro effort] Not really, I'm barely using any of the original work in BSD, mainly for compatibility on older machines. The things I'm doing can't be done legally in the USA or UK [exceeds military grade encryption laws]
It must be some kind of hippie paradise where you live. no student loans, no bank loans, no credit card debt, no overdraft... I've already had 2 major companies steal my previous work, so I'm not in the mood for anymore freeloading. Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Eric Raymond, Mitch Kapor, are they all trolls?
Actually working without getting paid for it is slavery, the person who uses slaves is freeloading labor. Not really, to be honest the greatest contribution of Berkeley in my system would be the license.
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Cenam is right, If you don't want people asking questions that don't fit with your opinion, that is facist.
I'm sick and tired of the slashdot party members always saying stupid things like : "If you ask a question which does not fit our opinion, you do not belong here". Have you ever considered that there are always 2 sides to every story?
[the part which is relevant to this story]
I asked a fair and legitimate question, why the hell would you want to code something so that it compiles in 4 languages ?
I speak 3 languages and can programme in 20, yet I see no reason for multilingual coding. Personally, I believe this is a great waste of time which is only reported because Slashdot loves stupid geek tricks.
Perhaps we should get more 'news that matters' instead of stuff that splatters.
This is hardly worth any note, it goes against any notion of efficient coding and practicality. However, it seems that there are those of you who believe they are better qualified to judge programming skill.
I ask you if you can reprogram an operating system, create an internet protocol or even design a successful encryption system. Because then you will be qualified to judge me as an equal, not a slashdot party member.
What sort of lunatic wants code that compiles in 4 languages, anyway?
Isn't it bad enough that microsoft creates gigabytes of code bloat, let alone all the geeks who are now going to try multi-lingual code?
Crimes Amendment Bill (No 6) seeks to make hacking illegal if you're not the police or secret service, allows police & secret service to read all email regardless of the Privacy Act 1993 & Bill of Rights 1989.
Telecommunications Interception Act seems to give police & secret service unlimited rights to tap any phone, cellphone, fax, internet connection at the phone exchange or ISP if they get a secret warrent.
These proposals also include a provision to force crypto key escrow on all users of encryption, with keys being stored with Police & Secret Service headquarters in Wellington.
Basically, it means the police & secret service get to read all emails, faxes, listen in to all phonecalls & know where your cellphone is at all times.
Both of these proposed laws are being pushed by Paul Swain, Minster of commerce, communications & IT.
What I want to know is: do they have the capability to actually go through every electronic communication? and if the internet information is encrypted, how hard does it have to be to make it unbreakable?
Citizens are only allowed 128 bit, anything better is 'military grade' [in other words, they couldn't break it in 1976]
Unfortunately, your only legal strong crypto in the USA, UK, China & other police states is Steganography.
Steganography is hidden messages within messages, it's the thing in A Beautiful Mind that was regarded as madness. But it works pretty well.
Note: my system is 300 kilobytes, 2400 orders of complexity harder than 128 bit. It won't be broken by a NSA black box in your lifetime.
If you can keep a secret, you can make a profit. If NSA knows all your secrets, NSA can take your profits.
NSA does this already with european firms having their secrets sold off to the highest US bidder.
Personally I'd rather not get prosecuted for doing stuff that is legal in my country, just because american senators are paid millions by disney.
Actually, to hell with the laws my country wants to copy from the USA too... I've decided to smuggle 300 kb crypto I've got to some free-speech advocates I know in america.
The real issue with ebooks is that you want something to read in the car or on the toilet.
Then the other thing is, how do you get a new ebook in the middle of a forest ? It's not like the nice lady on the next farm can afford to go online for a few hours so that you can get an ebook.
A better example is MP3's, I have 6 days, 6 hours of stuff. I might buy some CD's if I find them in the stores, but I won't hold my breath waiting for the store to get that album I want.
I designed a brand logo protection scheme that was based on machine-detectable watermarks 4 years ago. It's possible to make graphics, sounds or movies that can only be played from a website.
However, you can't be assured that the encryption will prevent someone from taking the decoded content and then pass it along.
Fortunately, the company I was doing it for stole the idea without realising the weak points in the system.
Today, 2 companies use it in the NZ banking system and the random number generator is still open to any script kiddie who knows their IP number.
Digital Rights Management is a joke, only people who live in countries that prohibit strong crypto believe it can live up to the hype.
Let's face it, file sharing only grows the market. file sharing doesn't cost entertainment companies money because people might not buy things they don't hear on the radio or see on TV.
For example, I have an ebook [13 MB PDF] of The Hobbit & Lord of The Rings. I decided to buy Lord of The Rings because I wanted to read it in the middle of a forest my friend lives in.
I then decided to see the Lord of The Rings (1) movie a few times, because I like the story and I love to see New Zealand.
I have actually spent more than I would have if I only bothered to see the movie, so this piracy issue is rubbish spread by paranoid accountants.
[please note: I live in New Zealand & have been to places where LoTR was filmed]
http://www.wipout.net/essays/0216holt.htm
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This essay is pretty good, but suffers from some examples that aren't that interesting.
Clearly the best is the Sri Lankan essay on medicines and Microsoft software license costs.
http://www.wipout.net/essays/0314kumar.ht
BTW, sorry about that FP stuff. CLearly we all suck...
Personally, I don't care that much for corporate buzzwords.
BTW, FP...
If your arguement was true, then I should not have learned about computers when I was 4 and just waited until I went to university.
The problem is, how would you know what to do if you weren't used to what computers can do?
So please tell me, who is more competant: the person who has used computers all their life, or the recent graduate in computer science?
I have asked Jef Raskin about the proposed new features of the GUI in my Kaos [BSD] operating system, he wants some stupid CLI inside all applications.
This may sound reasonable to certain slashdot readers, but it's a mongrel of an idea: does anyone need to type in caps to execute commands while working in any program?
He would prefer an unituitive multiple command sequence to a seperate GUI window.
BFD, I suppose by your logic, those New Zealanders and Australians who work for American companies know what it's like to live in New York.
If I was an idiot, I would give you the full picture on certain technology which is banned from development in the USA.
Nothing personal, but the NSA aren't the best people to deal with new and interesting information.
I would be glad to give you new information I have, but you would find out that Big Brother doesn't respect the laws or the constitution of your country at all.
If I am successful in my current project, the technology will find it's way to freedom. If I fail, it will never be heard of again. [and nor will I]
I know external metadata is flawed, in case you didn't notice I was being polite to someone who is still thinking about metadata in the same way as apple did in 1984.
As for me being an idiot, a common method of implementing AI programs is to use insects as the template.
I am merely going one step further by defining an evolutionary basis for individual agents that behave in an emotional manner.
It is possible that you are one of the geeks who is insulted by the use of game theory, a method widely used to anticipate change.
And if you are one of the herd of americans who views the internet as a place to insult foreigners, I don't care.
I'm lucky enough to live 1 minute from the beach, in the capital city of a country that is home to Lord of The Rings.
I really don't have time for petty personal disputes whenever there is a procedural expert or 'ideas person' around, I'm just trying to get things done & I have no time to waste on trivial matters raised during consultation.
WHy bother with writing a new database when there is CDDB or Open CDDB online? you can submit new songs or get track names to any CD (or song submitted) for free.
ID3 tags are in most modern MP3 players, the catagory you want is Religious.
[which covers diet rock, evangelism, boring crap, stuff that sucks and blows at the same time & annoying tunes you hear in elevators]
You could also put mood music in Unclassifiable, which is useful if you are currently listening to stuff you'd hate to hear when you grow up.
Yeah, that was probably one of my crapfloods about Kaos when I had decided to announce what I was doing.
And yes, you're right it is useful to store the ID3 tags in the database FS because you get faster and better search results for files.
Now that's a good idea, create a webpage that plays an MP3 you have while you watch porn...
I have 6 days & 6 hours of MP3's, there has to be tons of songs that suit porn. Perhaps a slogan for this sort of site would be "come here for MP3 & cum there for porno"?
maybe those MP3's are on a mac, or an iPod. Most of my 6 days of MP3's are under 32 chars long.
Metadata is a better way of doing things, it is possible to use XML for MIME filetyping so that the browser is capable of displaying data in the way you want.
As for reality of doing it in Linux, you'd need major support by a few major distributers or the main programmers to get the critical support that Linux needs for a projecty such as this to survive.
I know this is not the party line, but BSD has a better chance of getting this supported as it is a decentralised group of programmers.
Linus Torvalds is on record as saying that he needs a full time deputy to take care of non-core duties, yet a new filesystem would require the full cooperation of the kernel programmer.
We should assume that by metadata, it means more sophisticated metadata than mac HFS/HFS+. Obviously a database file system, preferably in XML so that we can easily get support for MIME filetypes online if need be.
There is no technical reason why you can't have temporary files [or their modern equivalent] in a failsafe environment that persists even when the computer crashes.
I agree with the new metadata file approach, it's sort of like the mac HFS. But, I would also use a local metadata database to backup metadata transfers when the excrement hits the air-cooling system.
It's possible to store these ID3 tags as part of the XML MIME info, then you can search for music at filesystem access speed rather than read the guts of the file for the ID3.
And before you ask: yes, this is a part of the Kaos operating system I'm working on.
You're right, a modern metadata file system [Be or newer, not as old as HFS/HFS+] should support MIME filetyping.
By using MIME, your files will always open in an app that can handle those files regardless of which app made it.
Of course, this is something I've been doing for a few months now as a vital part of the Kaos operating system.
I'm not buying a clone of MS office, I'm going to license a better, faster & cheaper office suite. [even if it is Java, it's faster than MS bloat]
I'm not copying code like a certain MS policy, it maybe that other people would try to put their favorite code into my work. [if they do, I'd like them to use a better license than GPL]
The linux kernel is a monolithic architecture that is as ugly as a concrete bloc of high rise buildings, it's a strange way of the past that should be remodeled for the benefit of the users.
Actually, I'm not willing to let anyone else sell it because that would remove the assured security I have with the individual encryption key discs.
I could allow mass production of the software and the code, but the main point of individual disc production is to distribute a large amount of secure encryption data. [exceeds US military spec and is illegal to develop or export from USA, UK, China & other Big Brother states]
> The main design of public domain code is that you can't charge for it, and the main design of commercial code is that you charge for binaries only. Because I don't want to charge for my code, are commercial programs evil? Of course not, they don't affect me if I don't use them.
> (Let's just leave MS out of this, as MS arguably does affect people who don't want to use them, with CPU taxes and defacto standards. In the ideal world, commercial software doesn't affect me if I don't want it to.)
Actually no, I have a Dual G4 450 and the use of a Dual G4 1 gig at home. I don't use MS office as I have better office suites which are fully compatible with MS office files, which is why I'm going to license a MS compatible office suite and stick it in the GUI of my Kaos BSD. [real people work with the real world]
> No one's forcing you to use any code whatsoever, or license any of your code under any license.
Read the GPL, you should see a clause which states you have to release your sourcecode. Gates is right on this point, GPL is a virus that can seriously affect the ecosystem of any code it infects.
> The GPL is exactly why I don't worry about people freeloading. And while you're talking about companies stealing you're work, I have to point out that you are locking up other people's work. Even if the kernel is 'barely the same', that means part of it was done by oter people who did not get paid. And I'm betting that you're using other people's utilities like 'ls' and 'bash'. Even if you've vetted the code line by line, it's still theirs.
Good guess, it was a system designed to lock up brang logo graphics which was stolen by a couple of companies who have now turned into a major part of the New Zealand e-banking system. I don't care about them stealing it because it has a deliberate design flaw in the encryption.
As for the kernel, it's a new design that only MIT has tried before [and failed]. I'm coding it from scratch, so my encryption is embedded in the core of the exokernel. BTW, commands aren't part of the kernel at all [unless you've got a badly written linux].
My code is open source, I just think you should buy the program if you're going to use the code. I don't force people to keep it a hobby or any stupid restrictions RMS may dream up.
> But you're making a commercial version, so the only way the license helps you is snarfing all the other people's code. I don't have any problem with that, that's the reason it's under that license, but it seems like you're getting alot more help than some licenses.
Not really, The parts where I'm using existing code is for compatability purposes, mainly in the command system. I'm looking at putting in a more useful command set, with an empathsis on memorable words instead of weird abreviations.
I'm not saying that, it's just that I have had some very large (and now very rich) corporations freeload my work before, even though it was covered by copyright and I was doing it to get a job with them.
It's possible under the BSD license to do something not for profit and something for profit within the same project.
I have an issue with both extremes screwing up the essential concept of liberty, it's possible to charge for work you do like an encryption system & to not ask money for simple things like an email client.
Free as in liberty doesn't mean free as in cost. Liberty is that thing you americans claim to have, yet your president eliminated 6 months ago. [PATRIOT ACT]
I think that anonymous coward is right, the GPL is free as in cheapskate, not free as in speech. In contrast, I use the BSD license to make code that is free as in liberty and speech, not free as in beer.
The reason is that I'd rather you buy my software, if you want to customise it, you do it in such a way that I retain the right to sell my software with your modifications if you want others to use your mods to my system.
You can decide if you want to charge for your mods or not, which is a better way of doing stuff than infecting it so the origninal programmer is stuck with your way.
The main problem is that the GPL is designed so that you have to give away source code, which is not freedom. If RMS would admit that, I'd be happy because people would not get the wrong impression from his weasel-word definition of free.
The main problem when you do want to make a commercial product which is open source is keeping people from contributing GPL code because the license infects everything it comes into contant with.
This means I could release an open source product like mozilla under a fair license, then have some GPL coder ruin my effort just because they want to force other people what to do.
Kaos is a "new BSD" because it's barely the same internally as other BSDs, it has a completely different kernel architecture not just a slightly different GUI theme. [this is not a new linux distro effort]
Not really, I'm barely using any of the original work in BSD, mainly for compatibility on older machines. The things I'm doing can't be done legally in the USA or UK [exceeds military grade encryption laws]
It must be some kind of hippie paradise where you live. no student loans, no bank loans, no credit card debt, no overdraft... I've already had 2 major companies steal my previous work, so I'm not in the mood for anymore freeloading.
Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Eric Raymond, Mitch Kapor, are they all trolls?
Actually working without getting paid for it is slavery, the person who uses slaves is freeloading labor.
Not really, to be honest the greatest contribution of Berkeley in my system would be the license.