Why should *all* software be open-source? People have to make a living, and that includes those who write commercial software.
That's not really my point. But the example I gave was about a software that would benefit immensely from being freeed. Personally, there's no way I'll use it until it gets free.
That being said, RMS made comments about how we should only use Free Software. I thought, foolish, and then I realized, I do only use free software, except Netscape 4.x, and it's going to change soon. Oh yeah and MySQL, which is not completely free, but almost is (at least I can change it, redistribute it, patch it... you can't just sell it the way you want).
And to answer your question, I'm a 27 yr old software engineer who makes a good living working on/with Free Software... do you feel stupid now?
Why should *all* software be open-source? People have to make a living, and that includes those who write commercial software.
That's not really my point. But the example I gave was about a software that would benefit immensely from being freeed. Personally, there's no way I'll use it until it gets free.
That being said, RMS made comments about how we should only use Free Software. I thought, foolish, and then I realized, I do only use free software, except Netscape 4.x, and it's going to change soon. Oh yeah and MySQL, which is not completely free, but almost is (at least I can change it, redistribute it, patch it... you can't just sell it the way you want).
RMS was speaking. He pointed that a lot of companies (if not most) with booths were selling proprietary software. Indeed, it sucked. For example, there was a booth for "Wooooshhh...", a surf accelerator. I tried to explain the demonstrator that I would not install their Java client (nor their Win32 client since I don't do 'doze), and that should they decide to open-source their client, it could be integrated into other browsers for everybody's benefit. But the loser was just a salesperson and did'nt understand shit to what I was saying.
if UCITA passes, a UCITA-esque EULA could become the standard EULA, and if some network protocol for some proprietary app somewhere becomes an industry standard, the prohibition on reverse-engineering would nail Open Source groups to the wall and ream them with a wheedwhacker.
We could always take care of this in the Free World...
No you're considering that the right to be a communist is not important. You left it out and there's a good reason for it. You have completely distorted the poem towards a completely meaningless and pointless plagiarism. You've removed all its substance to it.
Score 3, insightful? I give it a -10, -3 for demagogy, -3 for unoriginality, -5 for godwin-compliance.
See, I've met a few holocaust survivors -- jews and ex-communists. I've actually visited a death camp. I've seen plenty of documents, photographs, thousands of naked dead bodies being thrown in a hole in the ground with bulldozers.
And when I see you making just an implied comparison of this with the shrinkwrap license problem, I can't help but think that you're an ignorant and pathetic loser
So moderate me down. I know what I'm talking about.
Whatever. The thing is, the average salary, for a given profile (same diploma, same experience, same field) increases of at least 10% a year, if not more.
So I guess Mr Jonathan Erickson has a nice explanation for the fact that there is a IT labor shortage in Europe, as all the newspapers make headlines about it, as I'm called out of nowhere (and I'm not even looking for a job!) by startups... so Mr. Erickson???
There is a IT worker labor shortage all over Europe as well. Those who deny it in the US and attribute it to tech company's greed are silly -- after all, those company could easily delocalize.
The expression was coined by sociologist Alfred Sauvy, after the pre-revolutionary french division of the state in three parts: the aristocrats, the church, and the third state -- all the other people, you could'nt even call them citizen. When the revolution came, the third state, that is to say, 99% of the people, slaughtered (and rightly so) the 2 first states.
In Paris. Let me tell you something -- the process can be as fun here as with INS. At least, there is a big difference, and it's not in the law, but an american isn't likely to be thrown away if his/her visa expires (I have a good friend who's been working / staying in France illegally for 8 years) even if caught by the police, whereas the opposite does not seem to be true.
France is a REALLY bureaucratic country (kafkaian in a way), OTOH maybe you just don't get as much screwed if everything is not 100% allright unlike in the US. There is no such lawyer frenzy here, that's why.
Being famous has a lot of sex appeal, especially when there's a naughty twist to it ("I'm a bad hacker boy, baby!") So, even though you're not aiming for world domination like Linus, have you experienced the scantly clad teenage female fans phenonmenon yet?:PPP
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It's really non-news: dev. kernel go out very often, and this article does not even mention anything special about it. Not even a security fix or something. Why do you post that?
In its concept, it's perfect. It makes elegant use of the available bandwidth: it uses the bandwidth of several GSM channels if possible. They will probably charge by the amount of data transmitted, and even though it's expensive, I personally don't mind: you're not going to download the latest kernel with it, nor browse HTML pages with megabytes of images anyway. No, you will be connected virtually all the time, and that's what's great about it.
I just go a box with an Abit/BE6 board, it indeed has 4 IDE channels, but two of them are UDMA/66. They seem to be a bitch to use on Linux. How do you use them?
The future is in serial buses, not in SCSI, both for the big server markets and the luser market. Firewire is already there, it might not be the standard though, given the lack of Intel chipset support. Why are serial buses superior? After all, the more wires you put, the more data you pull, don't you? Not quite: synchronising those 2^n lines is a bitch. Also, as the price go down, it will make low-tech parts (copper, plugs, pcbs) less expensive.
I'm talking here about what I know for France: most EULA are UNenforceable here. Probably, even illegal. The infamous warranty that does not warrant anything, for example, is illegal according to consumer groups.
re: etoy.com. The judge did'nt order that the domain name was suspended. The judge ordered that etoy.com stopped using www.etoy.com. There's no reason why etoy's mail should be suspended (as happens when their domain is on hold). Plus they already has unplugged www.etoy.com, complying with the order. So the NSI move was useless, illegal and unmotivated. Further on, according to NSI's policy, eToyS.com SHOULD BE suspended, as their name conflicts with etoy's, which was in use way before. And note that eToys' trademark transfer (they bought it back from Etna Toys) had been ruled INVALID.
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There is gcc for HP48 -- will they include it? (Actually, it's a cross compiler, but hey ..)
Why should *all* software be open-source? People have to make a living, and that includes those who write commercial software.
That's not really my point. But the example I gave was about a software that would benefit immensely from being freeed. Personally, there's no way I'll use it until it gets free.
That being said, RMS made comments about how we should only use Free Software. I thought, foolish, and then I realized, I do only use free software, except Netscape 4.x, and it's going to change soon. Oh yeah and MySQL, which is not completely free, but almost is (at least I can change it, redistribute it, patch it ... you can't just sell it the way you want).
And to answer your question, I'm a 27 yr old software engineer who makes a good living working on/with Free Software ... do you feel stupid now?
Why should *all* software be open-source? People have to make a living, and that includes those who write commercial software.
That's not really my point. But the example I gave was about a software that would benefit immensely from being freeed. Personally, there's no way I'll use it until it gets free.
That being said, RMS made comments about how we should only use Free Software. I thought, foolish, and then I realized, I do only use free software, except Netscape 4.x, and it's going to change soon. Oh yeah and MySQL, which is not completely free, but almost is (at least I can change it, redistribute it, patch it ... you can't just sell it the way you want).
Only slightly related:
RMS was speaking. He pointed that a lot of companies (if not most) with booths were selling proprietary software. Indeed, it sucked. For example, there was a booth for "Wooooshhh ...", a surf accelerator. I tried to explain the demonstrator that I would not install their Java client (nor their Win32 client since I don't do 'doze), and that should they decide to open-source their client, it could be integrated into other browsers for everybody's benefit. But the loser was just a salesperson and did'nt understand shit to what I was saying.
if UCITA passes, a UCITA-esque EULA could become the standard EULA, and if some network protocol for some proprietary app somewhere becomes an industry standard, the prohibition on reverse-engineering would nail Open Source groups to the wall and ream them with a wheedwhacker.
We could always take care of this in the Free World ...
"I consider what I had to say to be important."
No you're considering that the right to be a communist is not important. You left it out and there's a good reason for it. You have completely distorted the poem towards a completely meaningless and pointless plagiarism. You've removed all its substance to it.
Score 3, insightful? I give it a -10, -3 for demagogy, -3 for unoriginality, -5 for godwin-compliance.
See, I've met a few holocaust survivors -- jews and ex-communists. I've actually visited a death camp. I've seen plenty of documents, photographs, thousands of naked dead bodies being thrown in a hole in the ground with bulldozers.
And when I see you making just an implied comparison of this with the shrinkwrap license problem, I can't help but think that you're an ignorant and pathetic loser
So moderate me down. I know what I'm talking about.
Whatever. The thing is, the average salary, for a given profile (same diploma, same experience, same field) increases of at least 10% a year, if not more.
So I guess Mr Jonathan Erickson has a nice explanation for the fact that there is a IT labor shortage in Europe, as all the newspapers make headlines about it, as I'm called out of nowhere (and I'm not even looking for a job!) by startups ... so Mr. Erickson???
There is a IT worker labor shortage all over Europe as well. Those who deny it in the US and attribute it to tech company's greed are silly -- after all, those company could easily delocalize.
The expression was coined by sociologist Alfred Sauvy, after the pre-revolutionary french division of the state in three parts: the aristocrats, the church, and the third state -- all the other people, you could'nt even call them citizen. When the revolution came, the third state, that is to say, 99% of the people, slaughtered (and rightly so) the 2 first states.
In Paris. Let me tell you something -- the process can be as fun here as with INS. At least, there is a big difference, and it's not in the law, but an american isn't likely to be thrown away if his/her visa expires (I have a good friend who's been working / staying in France illegally for 8 years) even if caught by the police, whereas the opposite does not seem to be true.
France is a REALLY bureaucratic country (kafkaian in a way), OTOH maybe you just don't get as much screwed if everything is not 100% allright unlike in the US. There is no such lawyer frenzy here, that's why.
Being famous has a lot of sex appeal, especially when there's a naughty twist to it ("I'm a bad hacker boy, baby!") So, even though you're not aiming for world domination like Linus, have you experienced the scantly clad teenage female fans phenonmenon yet? :PPP
It's really non-news: dev. kernel go out very often, and this article does not even mention anything special about it. Not even a security fix or something. Why do you post that?
Damn, could'nt you have used the same user database for slashcode.com??? It's a bit of a pain in the a** to reregister. Anyway.
tidy -asxml yourfile.html > yournewfile.xhtml
Get tidy here.
Apparently LinuxOne can't even afford a real lawyer. Have you met one who would speak thusly?
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In its concept, it's perfect. It makes elegant use of the available bandwidth: it uses the bandwidth of several GSM channels if possible. They will probably charge by the amount of data transmitted, and even though it's expensive, I personally don't mind: you're not going to download the latest kernel with it, nor browse HTML pages with megabytes of images anyway. No, you will be connected virtually all the time, and that's what's great about it.
I just go a box with an Abit/BE6 board, it indeed has 4 IDE channels, but two of them are UDMA/66. They seem to be a bitch to use on Linux. How do you use them?
The future is in serial buses, not in SCSI, both for the big server markets and the luser market. Firewire is already there, it might not be the standard though, given the lack of Intel chipset support. Why are serial buses superior? After all, the more wires you put, the more data you pull, don't you? Not quite: synchronising those 2^n lines is a bitch. Also, as the price go down, it will make low-tech parts (copper, plugs, pcbs) less expensive.
I'm talking here about what I know for France: most EULA are UNenforceable here. Probably, even illegal. The infamous warranty that does not warrant anything, for example, is illegal according to consumer groups.
Do you mean that crackers need a whole bunch of holes before they start breaking into your systems?
I don't think so ...
re: etoy.com. The judge did'nt order that the domain name was suspended. The judge ordered that etoy.com stopped using www.etoy.com. There's no reason why etoy's mail should be suspended (as happens when their domain is on hold). Plus they already has unplugged www.etoy.com, complying with the order. So the NSI move was useless, illegal and unmotivated. Further on, according to NSI's policy, eToyS.com SHOULD BE suspended, as their name conflicts with etoy's, which was in use way before. And note that eToys' trademark transfer (they bought it back from Etna Toys) had been ruled INVALID.