You must be an American... what is *with* you people always reaching for the lawyer every time some little conflict with another person comes up. Stop being a pussy and fight your own battles.
All he has to do is ask his employer if he can have the code. Get the agreement in writing, yes. Hire a lawyer? What the fuck? If I was his employer and he hired a lawyer, I'd fire him.. and don't say I couldn't, I'd find a reason.
simply ask your employer to sign a copyright disclaimer. Something along the lines of: [Company Name] disclaims any copyright on the work [Software Name]. And get the directors of the company to sign it over. If you want to be really bold, ask them to assign the copyright to you instead of just disclaiming any ownership they might have over the copyright. Companies are often happy to do this if the work honestly isn't of any value to them.
and I can't understand how other people handle not locking their fuel flap. You lock your car, which is covered by insurance, but you leave the fuel for the taking? Thankfully, I've yet to see a film where someone turns a car into a Molotov cocktail by inserting a rag into the fuel cap and lighting it up.. thankfully, because kids have a thing for emulating what they see in films.
My fuel flag does have the means to be opened from inside the car.. so I guess I could just do that when approaching Sir-Pumps-A-lot.
Yes, for example, people are always complaining about the half-life of radioactive waste.. but what exactly is the half-life of carbon-dioxide? At least the waste from fission reactors can be processed and stored easily.. the same cannot be said for CO2.
I actually had no idea that Fedora was GNOME oriented.. I thought Ubuntu had that distinction.. point is, the last thing I think when people say GNOME is "Suse", "Novel" or "Miguel".
aka, Little Old Lady Theory. A democracy rests on the kind of people who care more about how the vote is counted than about who wins and loses.. in other works, little old ladies. Ask yourself, are the little old ladies asking for all this technology or it is someone else? Someone with less than honorable motives?
Apple products Just Work except for when they Just Don't and then you are Just Fucked.
You won't find anywhere on your iPhone to configure the applications because you shouldn't need to.. but if you do, call tech support cause there aint no way to fix it self and the same goes for everything else made by Apple. It's proprietary technology and that's nothing but a disgrace in this day and age.
Umm, if you could copy cigarettes would you consider it necessary to invent a law to prevent it or would you consider that an insane law that could only exist if the government were corrupt and taking bribes from cigarette manufacturers?
instead of repeating the instructions over and over again, put up a sign.
Why do they keep saying "please have your boarding pass in your hand when you go through the metal detector" over and over again? Just put a sign on the metal detector.
Of course, when I see how incompetent they are at passing on a simple instruction like that I know they are there to do nothing but make idiots "feel safe".
See, this is where rational thought seems to disappear:
Plastic explosives are very stable, and almost impossible to detonate with out a blasting cap. So how are you getting that onto the plane? Wouldn't your own statement here imply that a shoe would have to contain a non-stable explosive to be useful? And if that is the case then how do you walk on it? It's called logic and people don't seem to exercise it when talking about airport security.
Quite simply, they can't "scan" the code you send them to synthesize.. if they could do that with any hope of being a reasonable security precaution then biological research would be a heck of a lot further along than it already is.
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Ahh, sorry. I was thinking of Sugar specifically.
It does *not* include GTK+.. but I think the python canvas widget it uses to draw on is actually part of GNOME, yes.
Seen any Eben Moglen lectures? For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorfgQlEJv8
If you can handle his monotones, he really has some cool stuff to say.
Anyone know what program he's talking about? Or is he just talking about the wireless drivers?
Not sure there is much of anything GNU on it. Even the shell utils are busybox, not GNU.
You must be an American... what is *with* you people always reaching for the lawyer every time some little conflict with another person comes up. Stop being a pussy and fight your own battles.
All he has to do is ask his employer if he can have the code. Get the agreement in writing, yes. Hire a lawyer? What the fuck? If I was his employer and he hired a lawyer, I'd fire him.. and don't say I couldn't, I'd find a reason.
simply ask your employer to sign a copyright disclaimer. Something along the lines of: [Company Name] disclaims any copyright on the work [Software Name]. And get the directors of the company to sign it over. If you want to be really bold, ask them to assign the copyright to you instead of just disclaiming any ownership they might have over the copyright. Companies are often happy to do this if the work honestly isn't of any value to them.
That's a retarded view of security, for which you should be ashamed.
and I can't understand how other people handle not locking their fuel flap. You lock your car, which is covered by insurance, but you leave the fuel for the taking? Thankfully, I've yet to see a film where someone turns a car into a Molotov cocktail by inserting a rag into the fuel cap and lighting it up.. thankfully, because kids have a thing for emulating what they see in films.
My fuel flag does have the means to be opened from inside the car.. so I guess I could just do that when approaching Sir-Pumps-A-lot.
timmarhy is one of these idiots who thinks the greenhouse effect is a myth.
Yes, for example, people are always complaining about the half-life of radioactive waste.. but what exactly is the half-life of carbon-dioxide? At least the waste from fission reactors can be processed and stored easily.. the same cannot be said for CO2.
You must be American. He's talking about the Sun. Woosh.
I actually had no idea that Fedora was GNOME oriented.. I thought Ubuntu had that distinction.. point is, the last thing I think when people say GNOME is "Suse", "Novel" or "Miguel".
aka, Little Old Lady Theory. A democracy rests on the kind of people who care more about how the vote is counted than about who wins and loses.. in other works, little old ladies. Ask yourself, are the little old ladies asking for all this technology or it is someone else? Someone with less than honorable motives?
Apple products Just Work except for when they Just Don't and then you are Just Fucked.
You won't find anywhere on your iPhone to configure the applications because you shouldn't need to.. but if you do, call tech support cause there aint no way to fix it self and the same goes for everything else made by Apple. It's proprietary technology and that's nothing but a disgrace in this day and age.
Umm, if you could copy cigarettes would you consider it necessary to invent a law to prevent it or would you consider that an insane law that could only exist if the government were corrupt and taking bribes from cigarette manufacturers?
Except that Trolltech are happily selling proprietary licenses for Qt, trollboy.
Agreed, economic value doesn't correspond with entertainment value.. why is that hard?
Jesus, GNOME != Suse.. GNOME != Miguel.
and a big gas pipeline.
and brought democracy huh?
instead of repeating the instructions over and over again, put up a sign.
Why do they keep saying "please have your boarding pass in your hand when you go through the metal detector" over and over again? Just put a sign on the metal detector.
Of course, when I see how incompetent they are at passing on a simple instruction like that I know they are there to do nothing but make idiots "feel safe".
Hex? Meh, over on the C64 and Vic 20 we spent the day coding in decimal.
Quite simply, they can't "scan" the code you send them to synthesize.. if they could do that with any hope of being a reasonable security precaution then biological research would be a heck of a lot further along than it already is.