The problem with OS/2 is that it's still making money for IBM - Serenity Systems bought a source license (with royalties) and continues ecelopment of an OS/2 based operating system called eComStation, which is still actively developed. It's far from dormant software.
Your "example" doesn't disprove the post you replied to - you are free to record the public performance, you cannot distribute it tho as the performer still holds the copyright for the performance. You own the recording, but you can't do much with it.
Fuck that, yes they should turn off the DNS servers, and there is only one valid reason why they should - the FBI has no duty of care to *any* of these people to keep their Internet running. Turn the servers off, let the Internet break for these people, let them learn the lesson they should be learning.
Except there have been several lawsuits which have upheld various parts of EULAs - having an unenforceable section does not automatically invalidate the entire agreement or contract.
But people continue to post false absolutes like yours on Slashdot.
Oh wait, you tried to dismiss all those countries you disagree with by calling them uncivilized... yeah, that makes your argument a good one.
PDO might be standard, but there is a huge install of legacy codebases out there which don't use it.
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That's fine, if they want to stick with a fork which is buggy, insecure and unmaintained, I have no issues with that - just as maintaining an older PHP4 project became the bane of my life (having to switch from distro packages to my own build just so I could stay on a very old version of PHP), it's the pain which forces you to do something about it.
Coincidentally, my own experience supports my comment - there have been major breaking changes in PHP versions, and PHP has still moved on in adoption rates, so I don't think this would be an issue.
That's what major version bumps are for. Make it a breaking change, rather than make it something that festers in the codebase forever. If the method is broken, then the solution is not to let apps continue to use it.
Make it a breaking change, bump the major version up, force people to upgrade through obsolescence and we would be in a much better situation.
PHP is well beyond fixing - mysql_escape_string and mysql_real_escape_string prove it, otherwise the first method would have been fixed rather than "replaced".
The best you can hope for these days is overlaying a framework.
Three places I know of had install bases of between 60 and 300 Windows 98 SE desktops managed by Novell services before switching to Windows XP, missing Windows 2000 and NT entirely. 98 was a lot cheaper than NT in those days...
And my personal experience of Vista is that it certainly isn't as bad as the rep it gets on here - I'm actually convinced most commenters here on Slashdot have never actually used it, and are just regurgitating bile spewed by the original haters. I used Vista for 8 months, and during that time it worked as well as Windows 7 does now on the same hardware - there was certainly no "freezing for 2-3 minutes while it thrashed the hard drive".
People say that a lot and tend to attribute it to the skipped versions being crap, but personally I don't consider it much of a point - most companies I know also skipped Windows 2000 Pro, despite it being better than Windows 98, so you end up with 98 -> XP -> Windows 7 and then probably on to Windows 9. More explanation can be attributed to versions doing a "good enough" job until their availability becomes an issue, and then an upgrade is forced.
Why would the existence of a British company, founded in 1968, have any bearing on what an American company should be called in 1978? There is no requirement for your trading name to be globally unique when you pick it. I'm sure Jobs and Woz trawled the names of other companies in order to find one that suited them...
I'm sorry, but you are essentially saying "crime" can't be taken down, as its not a centrally controlled organisation, militia, terrorist organisation - these people, whether part of a larger "organisation" or not, committed a crime and should be punished for it (if found guilty).
LulzSec, Anonymous etc has got nothing to do with hippy shit like "free thinking" and everything to do with getting away with what they can, when they can - if people purporting to be acting under their banner commit crimes, then those people should be prosecuted.
Its cute and all to try and claim oppression for these idiots, but they are bringing it on themselves by acting outside of the law - the only way this could be a Rosa Parks scenario is if Rosa Parks was arrested for fire bombing the bus companies headquarters.
I'd say GM is less likely for one other reason - no one is going to splice something into a sequence and then immediately go and throw it out into a field and graze cattle on it, while that is exactly what happens when you use traditional hybridisation techniques. GM has a huge obstacle course of tests that must happen before it gets into the wild.
Really? Tell me how Mozilla justifies paying on average $60Million for software development ($88Million in general salaries), bearing in mind that if all their 250 or so employees are only costed against software development, then that gives them an average salary of $245,000. Of course, rough numbers all based off the 2010 financials, and I low balled the calculations deliberately because not all those 250 or so employees are costed against software development...
Mozilla, long the poster child for open source, seems certainly to be in it for the money... I wonder how much their CEO gets.
Also interesting is the list of investments Mozilla has - hedge funds, corporate funds etc etc etc.
It's not nonsense and you are infact wrong - few other licenses require the onerous actions that the GPL does, as noted by the fact that you can right now use loads of other licenses in apps submitted to the Apple app store.
Apple is entitled to run their app store in any way they wish, they are also entitled to not have to take on any additional legal responsibilities because the app store users want to use a particular license.
The GPL is the entity that is often incompatible, and it certainly is in this case.
Firstly, the license terms of the app store do not override the license terms of the software included - while the app store may saying they are not responsible for X, that doesn't override the GPL requiring X, the GPL terms are still 100% in force.
Secondly, they would not just have to provide the ability to download the source, they would have to verify that the source provided matched the binary supplied, as well as all build and environment dependancies. All overhead for the app store provider specific to one license group.
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The problem with OS/2 is that it's still making money for IBM - Serenity Systems bought a source license (with royalties) and continues ecelopment of an OS/2 based operating system called eComStation, which is still actively developed. It's far from dormant software.
Your "example" doesn't disprove the post you replied to - you are free to record the public performance, you cannot distribute it tho as the performer still holds the copyright for the performance. You own the recording, but you can't do much with it.
Fuck that, yes they should turn off the DNS servers, and there is only one valid reason why they should - the FBI has no duty of care to *any* of these people to keep their Internet running. Turn the servers off, let the Internet break for these people, let them learn the lesson they should be learning.
Except there have been several lawsuits which have upheld various parts of EULAs - having an unenforceable section does not automatically invalidate the entire agreement or contract.
But people continue to post false absolutes like yours on Slashdot.
Oh wait, you tried to dismiss all those countries you disagree with by calling them uncivilized... yeah, that makes your argument a good one.
Would you go to do your grocery shopping and only find out how much each item you have bought is at the cashier? I think not...
I thought thats exactly what happens in most of the US, what with sales tax etc added at the till?
Azure also has a cost calculator, here https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
PDO might be standard, but there is a huge install of legacy codebases out there which don't use it.
That's fine, if they want to stick with a fork which is buggy, insecure and unmaintained, I have no issues with that - just as maintaining an older PHP4 project became the bane of my life (having to switch from distro packages to my own build just so I could stay on a very old version of PHP), it's the pain which forces you to do something about it.
Coincidentally, my own experience supports my comment - there have been major breaking changes in PHP versions, and PHP has still moved on in adoption rates, so I don't think this would be an issue.
Most languages can store session data out of process these days...
You could look at Facebooks HipHop tool, transforms PHP syntax into C/C++.
From what I've heard, that's pretty much what Facebook did - start off with PHP and eventually evolved their own language from it.
That's what major version bumps are for. Make it a breaking change, rather than make it something that festers in the codebase forever. If the method is broken, then the solution is not to let apps continue to use it.
Make it a breaking change, bump the major version up, force people to upgrade through obsolescence and we would be in a much better situation.
PHP is well beyond fixing - mysql_escape_string and mysql_real_escape_string prove it, otherwise the first method would have been fixed rather than "replaced".
The best you can hope for these days is overlaying a framework.
Three places I know of had install bases of between 60 and 300 Windows 98 SE desktops managed by Novell services before switching to Windows XP, missing Windows 2000 and NT entirely. 98 was a lot cheaper than NT in those days...
And my personal experience of Vista is that it certainly isn't as bad as the rep it gets on here - I'm actually convinced most commenters here on Slashdot have never actually used it, and are just regurgitating bile spewed by the original haters. I used Vista for 8 months, and during that time it worked as well as Windows 7 does now on the same hardware - there was certainly no "freezing for 2-3 minutes while it thrashed the hard drive".
People say that a lot and tend to attribute it to the skipped versions being crap, but personally I don't consider it much of a point - most companies I know also skipped Windows 2000 Pro, despite it being better than Windows 98, so you end up with 98 -> XP -> Windows 7 and then probably on to Windows 9. More explanation can be attributed to versions doing a "good enough" job until their availability becomes an issue, and then an upgrade is forced.
Why would the existence of a British company, founded in 1968, have any bearing on what an American company should be called in 1978? There is no requirement for your trading name to be globally unique when you pick it. I'm sure Jobs and Woz trawled the names of other companies in order to find one that suited them...
I'm sorry, but you are essentially saying "crime" can't be taken down, as its not a centrally controlled organisation, militia, terrorist organisation - these people, whether part of a larger "organisation" or not, committed a crime and should be punished for it (if found guilty).
LulzSec, Anonymous etc has got nothing to do with hippy shit like "free thinking" and everything to do with getting away with what they can, when they can - if people purporting to be acting under their banner commit crimes, then those people should be prosecuted.
Its cute and all to try and claim oppression for these idiots, but they are bringing it on themselves by acting outside of the law - the only way this could be a Rosa Parks scenario is if Rosa Parks was arrested for fire bombing the bus companies headquarters.
It's not necessarily obvious - more than 60% of the Boeing 787 (without engines) was not designed by Boeing but by its risk sharing partners...
I'd say GM is less likely for one other reason - no one is going to splice something into a sequence and then immediately go and throw it out into a field and graze cattle on it, while that is exactly what happens when you use traditional hybridisation techniques. GM has a huge obstacle course of tests that must happen before it gets into the wild.
Really? Tell me how Mozilla justifies paying on average $60Million for software development ($88Million in general salaries), bearing in mind that if all their 250 or so employees are only costed against software development, then that gives them an average salary of $245,000. Of course, rough numbers all based off the 2010 financials, and I low balled the calculations deliberately because not all those 250 or so employees are costed against software development...
Mozilla, long the poster child for open source, seems certainly to be in it for the money... I wonder how much their CEO gets.
Also interesting is the list of investments Mozilla has - hedge funds, corporate funds etc etc etc.
http://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla%20Foundation%20and%20Subsidiaries%202010%20Audited%20Financial%20Statement.pdf
So you would be as dismissive if Iran bombed the Pentagon or the Whitehouse?
HTC designed and manufactured it, Google just rebranded it.
It's not nonsense and you are infact wrong - few other licenses require the onerous actions that the GPL does, as noted by the fact that you can right now use loads of other licenses in apps submitted to the Apple app store.
Apple is entitled to run their app store in any way they wish, they are also entitled to not have to take on any additional legal responsibilities because the app store users want to use a particular license.
The GPL is the entity that is often incompatible, and it certainly is in this case.
Firstly, the license terms of the app store do not override the license terms of the software included - while the app store may saying they are not responsible for X, that doesn't override the GPL requiring X, the GPL terms are still 100% in force.
Secondly, they would not just have to provide the ability to download the source, they would have to verify that the source provided matched the binary supplied, as well as all build and environment dependancies. All overhead for the app store provider specific to one license group.
The fact that the GPL would need specific accommodation makes it the incompatible party, regardless of what came first, second or last.
MS never even hinted they were dropping .Net, that's been rather successful FUD by certain other parties.