Here's a tip. "..." means there is more to the sentence. In this case, the more was "that sell software.." Apple don't sell software, they sell computers. Red Hat doesn't sell software, they sell support. The rest of the shit you mentioned, totally irrelevant cause you can't read.
It happens all the time. That's what the BSA does.
I don't know how it is in the US. I think they show up and try to get in the door without a warrant first, then they go to the FBI if you're being troublesome. When you consider that a "voluntary" audit will only cost you money, but an FBI raid may end you up in jail, most people will take the voluntary audit.
In other parts of the world, they typically just take along one representative from local law enforcement.
Heh, the BSA goes to a judge and the judge gives them power to force entry and seize all hardware at your facilities. Depending on where you are, the local or federal police will even help them.
These things are pretty much handed out like candy.
You mean other than the fact that civil law around the world makes it legal to build private police forces like this to enforce copyright? That these private police forces can enter private property, seize assets that contain confidential information, and are accountable to no-one? The BSA and other copyright police forces have more power to search than the FBI. Not withstanding the obvious civil rights concerns, or the privacy concerns, copyright owners have the power to look at any computer system, any piece of source code even, that they may find interesting. Who gets to look and where they get to look is determined entirely by who has the best lawyers. In most parts of the world, the local police will happily aid in the use of force to inspect.
I'm waiting for the next upgrade to the TRIPS treaties to see whether or not copyright police forces have started demanding covert inspection rights.. making it legal for them to plant spies in your business to see if you have all the appropriate licenses or whether any of your source code is violating their IP, without the messiness of a raid. Maybe they'll ask for widespread surveillance rights too.
Yep, and that, not this, will be her campaign for president. I heard recently that the only other serious candidate is a black dude. So yeah, the US being what it is, I guess she has already won.
maybe people write mods because they love the game/engine they are modding.. and so the only thing one has to do to get good open source games is to provide a competitive engine in a timely manner. Yes, only.
Bah, says you. It's a storm! The reason the sky lights up could be because there's insane amounts of high energy plasma being dragged into the atmosphere. If Startrek DS9 has taught me anything, it is that all women from Trill are hot, and space storms are an inexpensive and improbable source of free propulsion.
Has anyone bothered to fly into the aurora borealis with, like, some sensors strapped to fuselage? Seems kinda like one of the first things you'd try once you had a plane that could fly up to high altitudes.. surely someone has sent weather baloons into the aurora borealis. Of course, it would be piss funny if it turns out that outfitting an X1 era plane with a magnetic field generator and flying it into the aurora borealis gave it some sort of magnetic boost, like riding a wave, and this was fast enough to enter orbit.
What it says is the concept of patent retaliation. Suppose Microsoft has some patents which cover some of the code in this software (they probably do). You are using the software under this license. Without the license, you'd have no legal right to use the software (from both a copyright and a patent standpoint). If you decide that some of this software violates one of your patents and try to sue Microsoft for it, this line of the license automatically revokes your patent license, meaning you can't use the software anymore.
So, for the hypothetical situation that you mentioned... You make what kind of change? A change that implements one of your patents? If that's the case, you can't sue them because another part of the license says that in order to contribute to this project you have to give a patent license to anyone who uses the software.. for that patent that you implemented. So you must be talking about a change that isn't implementing one of your patents.. ok. So now, in your hypothetical situation, Microsoft makes a change to the software which violates one of your patents. You want to sue them, fine, you do that. This statement says that any patent licenses you've received from the contributor you're suing (in this case Microsoft) are now void. Which, essentially means, you can't use the software anymore, but if you don't care about that, you can still try to sue Microsoft. Good luck with that.
Please take off your: jacket, shoes, backpack (and take the laptop out of the backpack and put it in a seperate tray), hat, belt, mobile phone, keys, wallet (if it contains more than 3 rfid based entry keycards). Yes, I travelled international recently. It's not even consistent.. some places they'll make you take off your belt, other places, no, that's fine.
Time before last I took a suit coat with me. Big solid metal coat hanger with nice sharp edges. They just let me carry it onto the plane. Had I tried to take a similar piece of metal on (say, a boxcutter) they would have denied me. Hmmm, wonder if there's a little big of class disparity there.
Actually, I'd always thought of pro-2nd ammendment people as being bi-partisan, as in, all politicians are disgraceful.. and one thing I've always liked about the gun nuts is that they don't threaten anybody, they just go and do it. Bullets speak louder than words.
Dude, go up, look at my posts, I *said* Brisbane was urban sprawl. I was making the statement that where people in the US associate urban sprawl with "can't walk anywhere because a car will run me down", Australians have urban sprawl that you can actually walk around in. I suggest you work on both your reading compehension and your manners. Oh, and I don't own a car.
The point of my post was that there are many parts of the US which are "sprawl" in the sense that they have huge block sizes and an assumption of car usage. The europeans seems to be out in force telling us that "sprawl" means something different to this.. well, words have multiple meanings, get used to it.
Yeah, that's insane. Mind you, this is probably why the US has that system of putting mail in your own mailbox and the postman comes and picks it up. Elsewhere in the world, if you want to send a letter, you go to the post office or drop it in one of the post boxes like you can also do in the US.
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Here's a tip. "..." means there is more to the sentence. In this case, the more was "that sell software.." Apple don't sell software, they sell computers. Red Hat doesn't sell software, they sell support. The rest of the shit you mentioned, totally irrelevant cause you can't read.
The article is about the UK, why do you americans always assume we are talking about the US?
It happens all the time. That's what the BSA does.
I don't know how it is in the US. I think they show up and try to get in the door without a warrant first, then they go to the FBI if you're being troublesome. When you consider that a "voluntary" audit will only cost you money, but an FBI raid may end you up in jail, most people will take the voluntary audit.
In other parts of the world, they typically just take along one representative from local law enforcement.
Heh, the BSA goes to a judge and the judge gives them power to force entry and seize all hardware at your facilities. Depending on where you are, the local or federal police will even help them.
These things are pretty much handed out like candy.
You mean other than the fact that civil law around the world makes it legal to build private police forces like this to enforce copyright? That these private police forces can enter private property, seize assets that contain confidential information, and are accountable to no-one? The BSA and other copyright police forces have more power to search than the FBI. Not withstanding the obvious civil rights concerns, or the privacy concerns, copyright owners have the power to look at any computer system, any piece of source code even, that they may find interesting. Who gets to look and where they get to look is determined entirely by who has the best lawyers. In most parts of the world, the local police will happily aid in the use of force to inspect.
I'm waiting for the next upgrade to the TRIPS treaties to see whether or not copyright police forces have started demanding covert inspection rights.. making it legal for them to plant spies in your business to see if you have all the appropriate licenses or whether any of your source code is violating their IP, without the messiness of a raid. Maybe they'll ask for widespread surveillance rights too.
which sells software. Yawn.
Yeah, Chaser rocks.
Yep, and that, not this, will be her campaign for president. I heard recently that the only other serious candidate is a black dude. So yeah, the US being what it is, I guess she has already won.
Meh, legal action... for communicating.. right. Sounds like a great world you're advocating there.
Yep, cause people handing out leaflets in the streets, that's *never* been effective.
maybe people write mods because they love the game/engine they are modding.. and so the only thing one has to do to get good open source games is to provide a competitive engine in a timely manner. Yes, only.
Bah, says you. It's a storm! The reason the sky lights up could be because there's insane amounts of high energy plasma being dragged into the atmosphere. If Startrek DS9 has taught me anything, it is that all women from Trill are hot, and space storms are an inexpensive and improbable source of free propulsion.
Has anyone bothered to fly into the aurora borealis with, like, some sensors strapped to fuselage? Seems kinda like one of the first things you'd try once you had a plane that could fly up to high altitudes.. surely someone has sent weather baloons into the aurora borealis. Of course, it would be piss funny if it turns out that outfitting an X1 era plane with a magnetic field generator and flying it into the aurora borealis gave it some sort of magnetic boost, like riding a wave, and this was fast enough to enter orbit.
What it says is the concept of patent retaliation. Suppose Microsoft has some patents which cover some of the code in this software (they probably do). You are using the software under this license. Without the license, you'd have no legal right to use the software (from both a copyright and a patent standpoint). If you decide that some of this software violates one of your patents and try to sue Microsoft for it, this line of the license automatically revokes your patent license, meaning you can't use the software anymore.
So, for the hypothetical situation that you mentioned... You make what kind of change? A change that implements one of your patents? If that's the case, you can't sue them because another part of the license says that in order to contribute to this project you have to give a patent license to anyone who uses the software.. for that patent that you implemented. So you must be talking about a change that isn't implementing one of your patents.. ok. So now, in your hypothetical situation, Microsoft makes a change to the software which violates one of your patents. You want to sue them, fine, you do that. This statement says that any patent licenses you've received from the contributor you're suing (in this case Microsoft) are now void. Which, essentially means, you can't use the software anymore, but if you don't care about that, you can still try to sue Microsoft. Good luck with that.
Please take off your: jacket, shoes, backpack (and take the laptop out of the backpack and put it in a seperate tray), hat, belt, mobile phone, keys, wallet (if it contains more than 3 rfid based entry keycards). Yes, I travelled international recently. It's not even consistent.. some places they'll make you take off your belt, other places, no, that's fine.
Time before last I took a suit coat with me. Big solid metal coat hanger with nice sharp edges. They just let me carry it onto the plane. Had I tried to take a similar piece of metal on (say, a boxcutter) they would have denied me. Hmmm, wonder if there's a little big of class disparity there.
The illusion of safety.
Actually, I'd always thought of pro-2nd ammendment people as being bi-partisan, as in, all politicians are disgraceful.. and one thing I've always liked about the gun nuts is that they don't threaten anybody, they just go and do it. Bullets speak louder than words.
That actually does look free.
Dude, go up, look at my posts, I *said* Brisbane was urban sprawl. I was making the statement that where people in the US associate urban sprawl with "can't walk anywhere because a car will run me down", Australians have urban sprawl that you can actually walk around in. I suggest you work on both your reading compehension and your manners. Oh, and I don't own a car.
No-one said sprawl was the sole cause of obesity.
The point of my post was that there are many parts of the US which are "sprawl" in the sense that they have huge block sizes and an assumption of car usage. The europeans seems to be out in force telling us that "sprawl" means something different to this.. well, words have multiple meanings, get used to it.
How about you go fuck yourself, tourist.
Great, look at every other suburb. This is my home dickwad, I think I know what I'm talking about.
most of the suburbs of Brisbane.
No-one said it was open source, but it's interesting that people assume "source available" means "open source".
Yeah, that's insane. Mind you, this is probably why the US has that system of putting mail in your own mailbox and the postman comes and picks it up. Elsewhere in the world, if you want to send a letter, you go to the post office or drop it in one of the post boxes like you can also do in the US.