Previously you had to use an ASL-like license because unless you wanted to assign your copyright to the ASF you needed to adjust the wording of the license to include your name and your organization.
I think it shouldn't be too much trouble for you to 1) read the license you are attaching to your software and 2) be able to adapt it to your needs. It's like complaining that the pre-printed rental contract you bought at the stationary shop already didn't have your name and address printed on it.
Welcome to slow computer country. Live CDs like Knoppix are great, especially for demo purposes or as a rescue disk, but they are not exactly fast, especially if you are starting larger programs. And have fun once the graphics guy wants/needs to use some software that is only on the Office CD and vice versa.
Regarding security: Sure, the files on the CDs are imutable, but one would still be able to access the real valuable stuff which is your users' data if the machine is running some service that is vulnerable. And fixing security problems would mean re-creating and burning loads of new CDs.
Just that roof tiles tend to break if you apply large enough hailstones to them. So you can even profit from that if you have a roof (assuming it really works).
I thought that the whole point of open source is so nobody can take the software, change it, and then sell it as their own.
This applies fully only to GPL and closely related licenses. BSD-like licenses enable people to do exactly this while IMO still being open source licenses. Open source != Open Source.
Just that your average consumer will not even read the article. As soon as the cognitive process decodes "WARNING ! COMPUTER BABBLE AHEAD !" they will automagically skip the article, be it on the front page or somewhere else and go "HEY ! LOOK ! "Insert favorite female celebrity here" is having a baby !"
(*Argh* 2nd try, the damn thing though the stuff now in quotes being in brackets before was an exotic HTML tag and skipped it)
Just that your average consumer will not even read the article. As soon as the cognitive process decodes "WARNING ! COMPUTER BABBLE AHEAD !" they will automagically skip the article, be it on the front page or somewhere else and go "HEY ! LOOK ! is having a baby !"
Yes, but still high-speed trains can use the old tracks if there is no new high-speed enabled track around which happens in Germany all the time with the ICE. Of course then it ceases being high-speed and just becomes an ordinary train going sometimes not faster than 70 km/h. But at least it can bridge gaps in the high-speed track network in that way easily.
Well, an easy example... if you have nothing to hide, why do you post anonymously ? I'm sure you have your reasons and I don't mind. But honestly, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE ?;->
At least in Germany the C64 was really big. There certainly were the Apple II's, but they were too expensive for a lot of the home and hobbyist market and were more regarded as professional tools, even if they also made a lot of inroads in German schools. Then there were the 8-bit Ataris and the Schneider-computers, a Z80-based German speciality (build by or together with UK-based Amstrad) with a peculiar 3'' (NOT 3,5'') floppy, which also got a certain market share. But in the mid-80s the C-64 really was a blockbuster and there were amazing software for the C64 and even more amazing hardware hacks.
I think an important reason why they died was that they were not able to follow up the 64's success. The C-128 was an interesting but not very well integrated mix of a Z80-CP/M system, a C-64 with compatibility problems and the C-128 mode, the smaller models (C-16, C-116) never caught on, and the Amiga, while being the real dream machine back then was just too expensive when it came to market for most people and needed to long to deliver all promised features.
Well, IMO Germany just rode the bubble as anybody else, which caused lots of really dumb idiots to get IT jobs. Additionally the German unemployment system shunted lots of people who never worked on computers and never had the intention to into IT via state-funded retraining (and AFAIK still is *argh*). Like in the US, a lot of these people where let go when the bubble burst (a lot still stick around, as it is much harder in Germany to lay of people than in the US).
Also we started a so-called Green-card program (no relation to the US one, as it is limited to max. of 5 years stay, AFAIK without option of extension) to bring in qualified IT-workers from outside the EU. This happened as during the bubble years the IT industry went constantly crying for more and more highly-trained IT staff they were not able to get inside the EU. But on one hand it never really got too much interest due to the braindead conditions of the program, on the other hand some of the few who took up the challenge also got the chop as soon as IT went down.
There certainly was a shortage of good IT people in Germany, but IMO it never was really that dramatic as the IT industries made it to be. I know a lot of companies that hired lots of expensive staff as a reserve, never really used them and layed them off as soon as the bubble burst. I don't think the shortage contributed anything to the current economic situation over here as it just was an artificial shortage created by overexcitement during the bubble years. Also people are now starting to get on the offshore-outsourcing train, too, both to India and (very interesting over here, as it is basically right next door) Eastern Europe and Russia.
But you are certainly right in the respect that you still should have no greater problems finding a job if you have good skills and maybe are a specialist on some still interesting field. But that should apply both to Germany and the US.
No good. Germany is in an even worse situation in regards to IT employment than the US. While in the US the economy finally seems to take off we over here are far from a turnaround and Germany's economy still is in crisis mode, both spending- and employment-wise
You don't need to be a Microsoft or SCO to have fun vandalizing other people's systems. This is the same mentality like when someone destroys bus stops, telephone booths and other public property or the flower beds in the park some volunteers put up the week before on their own time and money. It is against the common good, but being an asshole that person just doesn't care.
Unfortunately, Gnome and KDE are eroding network transparency in X11. For example, they use some of their own preferences files, accessed via the file system, which means that preferences come from the remote machine, not the desktop.
But is this not as it should be ? It surely is an inconvenience in an Linux/Unix workstation-only environment, but what about using it via an X-server on Windows, Mac, Thin Clients/xterms ?
This was what I was more or less saying (or at least intending to):-) Thanks for the URL in any case.
Regarding your remark about the nuclear weapon production you touch a really hot topic and one of the main arguments a lot of people had against the Schneller Bruter-technology. As Germany does not have nuclear weapons and a lot of people thought it should also not assist others in building them (especially during the prime of Germany's anti-war and anti-armament movement during the 80s) by supplying weapon-grade plutonium, the Bruter was fought almost fiercest of all nuclear power projects back then besides the nuclear reprocessing plant planned in Bavaria (for the same reasons).
The interesting thing about the cited article is that they don't say anything about the diverse technical problems that lead to the reactor's shutdown. It is true that Chernobyl created an immense pressure on the German nuclear industry, especially through the late 80s, but the conservative German federal government back then,which is the main controlling instance for Germany's nuclear industry, was and still is strictly pro-nuclear energy. Also there are still a lot of nuclear power plants active all over Germany, so the decision to shut the plant down was mostly due to technical problems coupled with misbehaviour by the operating company.
Certainly they won't mention that, as they want to sell their technology.
Yes and no. The "Schneller Bruter" was indeed built for more than 10 years and for an obscene amount of money on the lower Rhine but never went operational on one hand due to massive environmental protests, but also (and I think that was perhaps the main cause) because the technology was not mature enough and the whole plant would likely not have been economically interesting. It has now been turned into an amusement park by some company (never was loaded with radioactive fuel, so no problem).
But the one you mean was a separate project in Hamm-Uetrop that went live for a couple of years in the 80s but was shut down in '89 due to technical problems (for more details read some of the relevant threads above).
Hm. Good question. Basically it can be done by pressurising the coffee machine, as the boiling temperature of a liquid depends also on the pressure of the environment it is in. Question is what happens once you release the coffee. Most likely a lot will just vaporize as stream, like in an espresso machine. But there also should be enough liquid left, which should be hotter than 100 degrees C for a certain period of time. Not for too long, but long enough in an isolated cup to cause real damage once you pour it over you. I also think that the depth of the damage inside the victims sub-dermal tissue is strongly dependand on the temperature of the hot substance, so basically every degree counts.
Yes, you are basically right, and you are not.;-) Indeed pouring boiling water on you almost never is a good idea, but the strongly increased temperature McD's used to sell their coffee at apparently caused immensely more damage to human skin and the tissue below it than just spilling your vanilla boiling water from your home coffee pot. As I read in another report about this case, McD knew just too well about this fact, but they just didn't care. You may not be too far off about the idiot part, but McD acted irresponsibly nevertheless.
I recently saw a movie where the head surgeon made all the operation on little children with brain tumors. He was almost let go as this clearly disallowed anyone else to aquire the needed skill set.
Hey, great example ! No problem with anyone tinkering with some kids' brains, in case something breaks they just recompile and reboot, right ? No need for a highly trained expert. Yeah right. Especially as the movie medicine is exactly like the real one.
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Previously you had to use an ASL-like license because unless you wanted to assign your copyright to the ASF you needed to adjust the wording of the license to include your name and your organization.
I think it shouldn't be too much trouble for you to 1) read the license you are attaching to your software and 2) be able to adapt it to your needs. It's like complaining that the pre-printed rental contract you bought at the stationary shop already didn't have your name and address printed on it.
The last thing the GPL needs is to have it's primary defender fighting it's most well-known user.
Just that Apache does not use the GPL but their own licenses.
Welcome to slow computer country. Live CDs like Knoppix are great, especially for demo purposes or as a rescue disk, but they are not exactly fast, especially if you are starting larger programs. And have fun once the graphics guy wants/needs to use some software that is only on the Office CD and vice versa.
Regarding security: Sure, the files on the CDs are imutable, but one would still be able to access the real valuable stuff which is your users' data if the machine is running some service that is vulnerable. And fixing security problems would mean re-creating and burning loads of new CDs.
A "SuSE vs Microsoft" stance would help seeing as SuSE is a Germany based distro
... now swallowed up by a big bad American company. That argument used to work, but now is more or less dead.
Just that roof tiles tend to break if you apply large enough hailstones to them. So you can even profit from that if you have a roof (assuming it really works).
But the great thing is that there are plenty of file managers for linux
You know that there are also lots of alternative file managers for Windows, do you ? If you want you can even replace the Windows Explorer with them.
I thought that the whole point of open source is so nobody can take the software, change it, and then sell it as their own.
This applies fully only to GPL and closely related licenses. BSD-like licenses enable people to do exactly this while IMO still being open source licenses. Open source != Open Source.
Just that your average consumer will not even read the article. As soon as the cognitive process decodes "WARNING ! COMPUTER BABBLE AHEAD !" they will automagically skip the article, be it on the front page or somewhere else and go "HEY ! LOOK ! "Insert favorite female celebrity here" is having a baby !"
(*Argh* 2nd try, the damn thing though the stuff now in quotes being in brackets before was an exotic HTML tag and skipped it)
Just that your average consumer will not even read the article. As soon as the cognitive process decodes "WARNING ! COMPUTER BABBLE AHEAD !" they will automagically skip the article, be it on the front page or somewhere else and go "HEY ! LOOK ! is having a baby !"
Try www.knoppix.de, seems still to work (for how long is the question though)
Yes, but still high-speed trains can use the old tracks if there is no new high-speed enabled track around which happens in Germany all the time with the ICE. Of course then it ceases being high-speed and just becomes an ordinary train going sometimes not faster than 70 km/h. But at least it can bridge gaps in the high-speed track network in that way easily.
Well, an easy example... if you have nothing to hide, why do you post anonymously ? I'm sure you have your reasons and I don't mind. But honestly, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE ? ;->
At least in Germany the C64 was really big. There certainly were the Apple II's, but they were too expensive for a lot of the home and hobbyist market and were more regarded as professional tools, even if they also made a lot of inroads in German schools. Then there were the 8-bit Ataris and the Schneider-computers, a Z80-based German speciality (build by or together with UK-based Amstrad) with a peculiar 3'' (NOT 3,5'') floppy, which also got a certain market share. But in the mid-80s the C-64 really was a blockbuster and there were amazing software for the C64 and even more amazing hardware hacks.
I think an important reason why they died was that they were not able to follow up the 64's success. The C-128 was an interesting but not very well integrated mix of a Z80-CP/M system, a C-64 with compatibility problems and the C-128 mode, the smaller models (C-16, C-116) never caught on, and the Amiga, while being the real dream machine back then was just too expensive when it came to market for most people and needed to long to deliver all promised features.
HA ! Multiple kittens in a basket ? How big is this basket then ? CRUELTY AGAINST ANIMALS !!!
Well, IMO Germany just rode the bubble as anybody else, which caused lots of really dumb idiots to get IT jobs. Additionally the German unemployment system shunted lots of people who never worked on computers and never had the intention to into IT via state-funded retraining (and AFAIK still is *argh*). Like in the US, a lot of these people where let go when the bubble burst (a lot still stick around, as it is much harder in Germany to lay of people than in the US).
Also we started a so-called Green-card program (no relation to the US one, as it is limited to max. of 5 years stay, AFAIK without option of extension) to bring in qualified IT-workers from outside the EU. This happened as during the bubble years the IT industry went constantly crying for more and more highly-trained IT staff they were not able to get inside the EU. But on one hand it never really got too much interest due to the braindead conditions of the program, on the other hand some of the few who took up the challenge also got the chop as soon as IT went down.
There certainly was a shortage of good IT people in Germany, but IMO it never was really that dramatic as the IT industries made it to be. I know a lot of companies that hired lots of expensive staff as a reserve, never really used them and layed them off as soon as the bubble burst. I don't think the shortage contributed anything to the current economic situation over here as it just was an artificial shortage created by overexcitement during the bubble years. Also people are now starting to get on the offshore-outsourcing train, too, both to India and (very interesting over here, as it is basically right next door) Eastern Europe and Russia.
But you are certainly right in the respect that you still should have no greater problems finding a job if you have good skills and maybe are a specialist on some still interesting field. But that should apply both to Germany and the US.
No good. Germany is in an even worse situation in regards to IT employment than the US. While in the US the economy finally seems to take off we over here are far from a turnaround and Germany's economy still is in crisis mode, both spending- and employment-wise
You don't need to be a Microsoft or SCO to have fun vandalizing other people's systems. This is the same mentality like when someone destroys bus stops, telephone booths and other public property or the flower beds in the park some volunteers put up the week before on their own time and money. It is against the common good, but being an asshole that person just doesn't care.
Unfortunately, Gnome and KDE are eroding network transparency in X11. For example, they use some of their own preferences files, accessed via the file system, which means that preferences come from the remote machine, not the desktop.
But is this not as it should be ? It surely is an inconvenience in an Linux/Unix workstation-only environment, but what about using it via an X-server on Windows, Mac, Thin Clients/xterms ?
This was what I was more or less saying (or at least intending to) :-) Thanks for the URL in any case.
Regarding your remark about the nuclear weapon production you touch a really hot topic and one of the main arguments a lot of people had against the Schneller Bruter-technology. As Germany does not have nuclear weapons and a lot of people thought it should also not assist others in building them (especially during the prime of Germany's anti-war and anti-armament movement during the 80s) by supplying weapon-grade plutonium, the Bruter was fought almost fiercest of all nuclear power projects back then besides the nuclear reprocessing plant planned in Bavaria (for the same reasons).
The interesting thing about the cited article is that they don't say anything about the diverse technical problems that lead to the reactor's shutdown. It is true that Chernobyl created an immense pressure on the German nuclear industry, especially through the late 80s, but the conservative German federal government back then ,which is the main controlling instance for Germany's nuclear industry, was and still is strictly pro-nuclear energy. Also there are still a lot of nuclear power plants active all over Germany, so the decision to shut the plant down was mostly due to technical problems coupled with misbehaviour by the operating company.
Certainly they won't mention that, as they want to sell their technology.
Yes and no. The "Schneller Bruter" was indeed built for more than 10 years and for an obscene amount of money on the lower Rhine but never went operational on one hand due to massive environmental protests, but also (and I think that was perhaps the main cause) because the technology was not mature enough and the whole plant would likely not have been economically interesting. It has now been turned into an amusement park by some company (never was loaded with radioactive fuel, so no problem).
But the one you mean was a separate project in Hamm-Uetrop that went live for a couple of years in the 80s but was shut down in '89 due to technical problems (for more details read some of the relevant threads above).
And I don't have a woman, both of insentitive clods you !
Hm. Good question. Basically it can be done by pressurising the coffee machine, as the boiling temperature of a liquid depends also on the pressure of the environment it is in. Question is what happens once you release the coffee. Most likely a lot will just vaporize as stream, like in an espresso machine. But there also should be enough liquid left, which should be hotter than 100 degrees C for a certain period of time. Not for too long, but long enough in an isolated cup to cause real damage once you pour it over you. I also think that the depth of the damage inside the victims sub-dermal tissue is strongly dependand on the temperature of the hot substance, so basically every degree counts.
Yes, you are basically right, and you are not. ;-) Indeed pouring boiling water on you almost never is a good idea, but the strongly increased temperature McD's used to sell their coffee at apparently caused immensely more damage to human skin and the tissue below it than just spilling your vanilla boiling water from your home coffee pot. As I read in another report about this case, McD knew just too well about this fact, but they just didn't care. You may not be too far off about the idiot part, but McD acted irresponsibly nevertheless.
I recently saw a movie where the head surgeon made all the operation on little children with brain tumors. He was almost let go as this clearly disallowed anyone else to aquire the needed skill set.
Hey, great example ! No problem with anyone tinkering with some kids' brains, in case something breaks they just recompile and reboot, right ? No need for a highly trained expert. Yeah right. Especially as the movie medicine is exactly like the real one.