I know about 20 linux users. Probably two of them use nvidia hardware.
For some of us, free software matters and closed drivers are not an options. For some others, closed drivers are okay, but not much good when you're on ppc and the drivers are x86 only.
No, he has presented evidence that Bush is a very poor public speaker. He has not proven that he is, and he didn't even suggest, never mind prove, that Bush is highly intelligent.
Personally I would be interested in any compelling evidence of Bush's intelligence. He has never struck me as one of the leading intellectuals of the administration.
if some organization invests several years of research to produce a new algorithm that does something wonderful, say a heuristic for the bin packing problem that's an order of magnitude faster than its next competitor, then why shouldn't they get the benefit of licensing that technology to everybody in the world
Because they discovered it. They didn't invent it. The maths already existed - it just took someone to find it. Nobody "owns" maths no matter how much money they might have to spend on discovering it.
There is no positive good in software patents. The only use they have is in killing off competition and maintaining a monopoly.
Real innovation in software is not in ideas or "inventions" (which are easy) but in implementations. (which is of course covered by copyright law already and works well when enforced)
Hopefully if the lawmakers see people like IBM doing things like this and in the end realise the system is broken and eventually do something about it.
A license is something which allows you to do something that would otherwise be prohibited by law.
What exactly does this "license" grant you the rights to do. If you think its "use the software" then you are wrong. You are already allowed to use software because there are no laws prohibiting it.
Conversely, the GNU GPL for example is a License because it grants you (limited) rights to copy and distribute software. That's because by default the law prohibits you from copying and distributing software. Notice that the GNU GPL says nothing about use. You do not need a license to use software.
A EULA _can_ be a contract depending on how it is worded. Whether it's binding when you haven't signed it is another question. IANAL, but AFAIK contracts usually have to be written or spoken. A bit on a disk saying "someone pressed accept" is probably not enough IMO.
This goes against the whole idea of Free Software.
No it does NOT.
The whole idea of free software is that anyone is free to develop the software in whatever way they want to develop it. If you don't like how the developers are doing it, fork the kernel and do it your way. Who are you to dictate whether the idea is to make a "working, useful product"? The idea is whatever the developer wants the idea to be.
Secondly, your suggestion that this new model will produce "half-baked cripple-ware" is unwarranted. When the distributers make stability fixes, what makes you think they won't be applied to mainline just like they are now?
Finally, about compiling your own kernel. You know how to use patch don't you? Take a look at gentoo kernels, some of them contain the exact same patches that redhat ship. Debian, Slakware and others can do exactly the same.
When I saw the brasseye programme, besides finding it funny, I thought it was brave of Morris and his team to tackle such a subject in the UK and though naively that it would perhaps open some real debate on the issue. Instead I was ashamed at the reposnse of much of the public who were largely led blind by a few irresponsible tabloids.
For fucks sake, the programme included an evil paedophile who disguised himself as a school to attract children! Why are people so afraid of such an obviously-not-real approach?
In reality its their own fear and ignorance that is hurting them of course, but they aren't able to admit it.
It could do. Now is the time to write to your MP again reminding her/him of what you said before. (you did write before, right?)
Explain that it is now becoming clearer than ever that software patents will be damaging and that the pro-patent lobby has failed to mis-lead governments in the way it wished to.
Make it clear that govermnents are starting to realise this, starting with the Dutch, and ask your MP to urge your government to do the same.
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Opening themselves to criminal and civil charges
What criminal charges?
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I know about 20 linux users. Probably two of them use nvidia hardware.
For some of us, free software matters and closed drivers are not an options. For some others, closed drivers are okay, but not much good when you're on ppc and the drivers are x86 only.
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Please don't feed the trolls.
No, he has presented evidence that Bush is a very poor public speaker. He has not proven that he is, and he didn't even suggest, never mind prove, that Bush is highly intelligent.
Personally I would be interested in any compelling evidence of Bush's intelligence. He has never struck me as one of the leading intellectuals of the administration.
Most things that the republicans have to say make me dislike them even more.
Please don't hide their idiocy by DDOSing their servers. We want to let them spread the news of their incompetent lunacy as far and wide as possible.
As a physicist, I can tell you that a carnot engine is the most efficient engine that the laws of physics allow.
Needless to say, the internal combustion engine is not an example of a carnot engine.
if some organization invests several years of research to produce a new algorithm that does something wonderful, say a heuristic for the bin packing problem that's an order of magnitude faster than its next competitor, then why shouldn't they get the benefit of licensing that technology to everybody in the world
Because they discovered it. They didn't invent it. The maths already existed - it just took someone to find it. Nobody "owns" maths no matter how much money they might have to spend on discovering it.
There is no positive good in software patents. The only use they have is in killing off competition and maintaining a monopoly.
Real innovation in software is not in ideas or "inventions" (which are easy) but in implementations. (which is of course covered by copyright law already and works well when enforced)
Hopefully if the lawmakers see people like IBM doing things like this and in the end realise the system is broken and eventually do something about it.
No it is not a license. (usually)
A license is something which allows you to do something that would otherwise be prohibited by law.
What exactly does this "license" grant you the rights to do. If you think its "use the software" then you are wrong. You are already allowed to use software because there are no laws prohibiting it.
Conversely, the GNU GPL for example is a License because it grants you (limited) rights to copy and distribute software. That's because by default the law prohibits you from copying and distributing software. Notice that the GNU GPL says nothing about use. You do not need a license to use software.
A EULA _can_ be a contract depending on how it is worded. Whether it's binding when you haven't signed it is another question. IANAL, but AFAIK contracts usually have to be written or spoken. A bit on a disk saying "someone pressed accept" is probably not enough IMO.
... is to not store it all in one place.
Centralised databases of sensitive data are evil.
IMHO this will just increase the fragmentation between the vendor kernels
Interesting assertion. Care to explain how? (without saying "it seems obvious")
There should really be one, and only one stable kernel used by all the vendors.
You miss one of the very large points about how open source works. That aside, what do you expect to gain by having only one kernel?
We have enough problems with binary compatibility in Linux already.
If you mean with GNU/Linux then I agree, but not with Linux. Name any incompatabilities caused by kernel differences alone? There are almost none.
Firstly,
This goes against the whole idea of Free Software.
No it does NOT.
The whole idea of free software is that anyone is free to develop the software in whatever way they want to develop it. If you don't like how the developers are doing it, fork the kernel and do it your way. Who are you to dictate whether the idea is to make a "working, useful product"? The idea is whatever the developer wants the idea to be.
Secondly, your suggestion that this new model will produce "half-baked cripple-ware" is unwarranted. When the distributers make stability fixes, what makes you think they won't be applied to mainline just like they are now?
Finally, about compiling your own kernel. You know how to use patch don't you? Take a look at gentoo kernels, some of them contain the exact same patches that redhat ship. Debian, Slakware and others can do exactly the same.
I will back you up on this for one.
When I saw the brasseye programme, besides finding it funny, I thought it was brave of Morris and his team to tackle such a subject in the UK and though naively that it would perhaps open some real debate on the issue. Instead I was ashamed at the reposnse of much of the public who were largely led blind by a few irresponsible tabloids.
For fucks sake, the programme included an evil paedophile who disguised himself as a school to attract children! Why are people so afraid of such an obviously-not-real approach?
In reality its their own fear and ignorance that is hurting them of course, but they aren't able to admit it.
It could do. Now is the time to write to your MP again reminding her/him of what you said before. (you did write before, right?)
Explain that it is now becoming clearer than ever that software patents will be damaging and that the pro-patent lobby has failed to mis-lead governments in the way it wished to.
Make it clear that govermnents are starting to realise this, starting with the Dutch, and ask your MP to urge your government to do the same.
xfce and firebird mostly. sometimes abiword.
other stuff i use such as vim is always blisteringly fast regardless, but xfce and firebird just felt faster.
Are you sure?
I upgraded my p133 and it feels much faster for interactive use.
I have had some of the best help and advice from users. Where do you get your help from?
Have you any clue as to how many years more advanced than Linux Solaris is at the high end?
Go on then, enlighten us.
since Bill Gates has a measurably greater impact on society, he deserves greater compensation for wrongs done to him
Doesn't it matter whether his impact is good or bad?
A suicide bomber can have a great impact on society.
Nice. Can you point me to the link for the amd64 version please?
This algorithm is neither dumb nor obvious
It's not "dumb" maybe.
But obvious? The trouble is that to one not skilled in the art, everything seems non obvious.
A good test for obviousness is:
Can you think of a more obvious method?
They need to learn that we want to but non DRM protected files. If we can't buy them we will get them for free.
:-(
Back to kazaa etc....
What does WTF mean?
yes - it's a bit larger. it's not a5 in size itself, but it's called an "a5 envelope" because it's designed to contain a5 sized paper.