From what I can tell from reading it, just about everything has been invalidated except for that which concerned vehicles. My opinion it should have also included vehicles.
That's like buying a new model car and the dealer saying, "Sorry it just keeps stalling on you, but it's a newer model and were still working out all the bugs. In the mean time, here's a coupon for a free oil change, just don't complain to loudly."
But what if your not modifying the GPL code, what if your only using the GPL code as the operating system it is and your proprietary code/program never consisted of GPL code, it just runs on it.
Under the license, if you distribute GPL software in a product, you must also distribute the software's source code. And not just the GPL code, but also the code for any "derivative works" you've created--even if publishing that code means anyone can now make a knockoff of your product.
That doesn't sound right, I was under the impression the only portion that they had an obligation to release is the part that was free in the first place. If they create something proprietary that they insert that wasn't taken from a GPL source, then they only need to provide the portion that was originally GPL'd, not their proprietary portions.
Am I misunderstanding the purpose the the GPL or did it change somewhere along the lines?
Not only will this increase the accuracy of filters (by running the retrieved content through the spam filter as well) but this would effectively be a massive distributed DOS attack on spammers. This isn't a new idea nor is it without its problems but I think it's definitely an idea whose time has come.
The problem I have with this is not only are the spammers making money by the fact that they are sending out 10's or thousands of emails a day. but now the individual who may have hired the spammer (assuming the links within are them) are going to get paid because a system supposedly followed the link. A DOS type thing won't happen until many thousands of machines are using the same type of filtering that does that sort of thing. Or am I mistaken in this theory?
It says the providers are backing this, but I've seen no mention on the opinions of the users other then what we have here on Slashdot. What we need is an online petition which can then be forwarded to the providers so they know how many users may be against this proposal.
In some respects, the providers may think this is a service for the user which the users may want, but if we don't tell them one way or another, it could happen regardless.
Does anyone know about how to approach such a setup of a petition?
As per other releases, ISOs will be available to everyone/mirrors two weeks after the CDs have been on sale.
Unless your referring to SuSE, which for the past couple releases hasn't offered ISO's. With the exception of the evaluation ISO's which let you play with it.
My Magic Eightball is great for answering questions from our sales department. Saves a lot of time on some of those questions that rely on actual thinking.
I was able to read up to the results section due to being/.'d but what I have read was quite interesting. I like the idea of prioritizing which packets go out first by what their intent is rather then everything goes out and fights for the bandwidth.
My worry is that this may be a way for Microsoft to prevent programs like OpenOffice, Hancom or others from opening documents created with a Microsoft product. There's no mention, but it wouldn't be the first time Microsoft did something to this effect.
I know your comment was meant to be funny but, I'm going to comment as if I didn't see the humour if you don't mind:)
For one, the governments arn't as trusting with the OS as MS would like. That's why you hear stories that government agencies already have many systems or are looking have having many systems running linux which they can freely view and examine to determine how safe their data will be on their systems.
By making this move, MS is hoping to prevent or stem the flow of government agencies from switching to linux and other OS's that MS doesn't control.
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From what I can tell from reading it, just about everything has been invalidated except for that which concerned vehicles. My opinion it should have also included vehicles.
I agree, make a profit, but don't rape the customer.
And in the off chance that it somehow replaces regular crude oil, would we start to see price increases?
Exactly what I was thinking.
That's like buying a new model car and the dealer saying, "Sorry it just keeps stalling on you, but it's a newer model and were still working out all the bugs. In the mean time, here's a coupon for a free oil change, just don't complain to loudly."
I like the theme allot, I'm even downloading it now. The only downside I see is that I won't be able to put it on the Windows machine I have at work.
Then sues the world for infringing on it's newly acquired patent.
What next? Speak Pig-Latin to avoid future infringements?
FYI, it's a Pelican box, I have several that I use for SCUBA diving.
Isn't there an easier way to display the results, liek a chart or something. 400M per file download is a bit extream.
This is an instance, in my opinion, where jury nullification (http://www.greenmac.com/eagle/ISSUES/ISSUE23-9/07 JuryNullification.html ) would apply. The law in this case is harmful to the public because it would have kept the information hidden.
Well, seeing as how the majority of the world is using their software, they probably think it's obviously good enough, otherwise it wouldn't be used.
Total bull, but that's why they haven't change anything in IE for so many years.
Nahh, it's the quote on the end of the link.
Should be PSP411.
- "The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand
- companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."
These aren't home users, these are businesses that should have IT staff monitoring or looking at them regularly.New?! :)
heh, I must be ancient.
As of about a minute ago, server went from, "Sorry guys, server can't take /." to 404 error not found.
But what if your not modifying the GPL code, what if your only using the GPL code as the operating system it is and your proprietary code/program never consisted of GPL code, it just runs on it.
Am I misunderstanding the purpose the the GPL or did it change somewhere along the lines?
It says the providers are backing this, but I've seen no mention on the opinions of the users other then what we have here on Slashdot. What we need is an online petition which can then be forwarded to the providers so they know how many users may be against this proposal.
In some respects, the providers may think this is a service for the user which the users may want, but if we don't tell them one way or another, it could happen regardless.
Does anyone know about how to approach such a setup of a petition?
My Magic Eightball is great for answering questions from our sales department. Saves a lot of time on some of those questions that rely on actual thinking.
I was able to read up to the results section due to being /.'d but what I have read was quite interesting. I like the idea of prioritizing which packets go out first by what their intent is rather then everything goes out and fights for the bandwidth.
My worry is that this may be a way for Microsoft to prevent programs like OpenOffice, Hancom or others from opening documents created with a Microsoft product. There's no mention, but it wouldn't be the first time Microsoft did something to this effect.
I know your comment was meant to be funny but, I'm going to comment as if I didn't see the humour if you don't mind :)
For one, the governments arn't as trusting with the OS as MS would like. That's why you hear stories that government agencies already have many systems or are looking have having many systems running linux which they can freely view and examine to determine how safe their data will be on their systems.
By making this move, MS is hoping to prevent or stem the flow of government agencies from switching to linux and other OS's that MS doesn't control.