Cant prove I agreed to any restricting license for code that was RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC.
You released it, you don't have any confirmable controlls on it.. It's mine to do as I please.
Who is to say I didn't get it from somewhere else, that had the GPL stripped of it and replaced with " THIS IS FREE TO USE ".. Prove me wrong. You cant.
You may *think* it does, and you may act as such, but until a judge actually rules on it its all just supposition..
Personally I don't think it holds water, and ill do whatever I please with any code that was released. It's the price you pay for letting people see your code.
Don't like it? Sue me, i didnt agree to your license and since you didnt force me to prove i read it and agreed before i viewed your code, you lose.
The common guy wont be able to do much of what you describe.
They can barely stop the VCR from blinking 12:00, how do you expect them to comprehend the concept of undoing some low level system hardware..
The common man is 90% of any market..
Just a side note, yes the 'dongle' can, and will at some point, be placed at the CPU level.. And all supporting chips.. "End to end" trusted computing i think they call it..
So how many of these are being used for P2P serving?
"But Judge, I wasn't me that was sharing those files "
Before you laugh, I had a Linux 'router' broken into about 8 years ago. I of course caught it in nightly auditing, but it happened.
Turned my machine into a porn ftp server and a bridge to break into the next person.. If I hadn't been auditing, might have been months before discovery..
If by chance the industries are ever successful in driving out the 'copyright infringing P2P networks', then they have just killed the consumer broadband market. ( and removed their source for free advertising in the process )
If you have nothing to download, then why have broadband? So you can get faster popus?
I'm sure I'm being redundant here and will be moderated as such, but this is the beginning of the end of the open movement and digital freedom in general..
Unless someone like IBM ponies up to pay the fees to get things authenticated to be on the 'trusted list', nothing we have will run in 5 years.
Sure, you say 'but it can be turned off', and that is true, today.. In time that wont be an option and it will be mandatory at some point in the near future for most people. Sure some will find ways around it, but not the common man which is most of the market anyway.
Anyone synthesized a Pentium in a FPGA yet? We may have to start 'making' our own chips and boards here soon if we want to remain free....
It also wouldn't include past commercial products you have done for other companies ( or took part in ).
That said though, him signing such a broad contract was stupid anyway, even if he did need a job.. Best case you have to goto court to fight and pay an attorney to retain your rights.. Worst case is you dont fight, and lose your rights by default.
Admittedly I'm not a lawyer but I really don't see a 'past works' clause being legally enforceable. ( I don't think that 'unrelated ideas' are captureable either. but that might be a 'transferable right'
Aside from that, the 'past work' has shared ownership by others since you incorporated GPL code, so you cant transfer ownership to your company even if it was legal to grab your past works from you.
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While OT, i also do what i please with CDs and movies.
However i dont profit off that as morally that would be wrong.
GPL / BSD / Free released code.. no moral issuse. Nor do i belive any legal issues exist.
But time will tell.
Sorry, but no i wont volunteer to goto court. Its too costly, even when you win.
Sorry, but in china they dont belive that "free speech" is a right of the people.
So its not a 'record', its more of a difference in opinion.
Cant fire the owner.
.. Prove me wrong. You cant.
Cant prove I agreed to any restricting license for code that was RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC.
You released it, you don't have any confirmable controlls on it.. It's mine to do as I please.
Who is to say I didn't get it from somewhere else, that had the GPL stripped of it and replaced with " THIS IS FREE TO USE "
It's just the risk of release, get over it.
Until its challenged it has no legal weight.
You may *think* it does, and you may act as such, but until a judge actually rules on it its all just supposition..
Personally I don't think it holds water, and ill do whatever I please with any code that was released. It's the price you pay for letting people see your code.
Don't like it? Sue me, i didnt agree to your license and since you didnt force me to prove i read it and agreed before i viewed your code, you lose.
Hope hes ready to get his takedown notices..
Has anyone has to use the courts to enforce the GPL?
Has it actually stood up as being of any relevance?
No, not an anti GPL troll here, im really curious if we have yet to PROVE it has legal weight behind it.
Was hoping the SCO/IBM thing would do it, but that apparently has fizzled out..
The common guy wont be able to do much of what you describe.
They can barely stop the VCR from blinking 12:00, how do you expect them to comprehend the concept of undoing some low level system hardware..
The common man is 90% of any market..
Just a side note, yes the 'dongle' can, and will at some point, be placed at the CPU level.. And all supporting chips.. "End to end" trusted computing i think they call it..
For in-town driving, where posted limits rarely exceed 40, a 50mph top speed would work well..
Plus you dont have to deal with 18 wheelers blowing you off the hiway since its SOOO light...
Need to stick one of these powerplants in a current electric car..
So how many of these are being used for P2P serving?
"But Judge, I wasn't me that was sharing those files "
Before you laugh, I had a Linux 'router' broken into about 8 years ago. I of course caught it in nightly auditing, but it happened.
Turned my machine into a porn ftp server and a bridge to break into the next person.. If I hadn't been auditing, might have been months before discovery..
While i agree with you totally, and do that myself for shows i wasnt home for, or didnt happen to record that night, the 'industry' does not agree.
Do the courts agree with us or the industry? That will be the real question.
Cant anyone use the term properly anymore?
And its just social enginnering/salesmanship anyway.. No magic in what they did..
If by chance the industries are ever successful in driving out the 'copyright infringing P2P networks', then they have just killed the consumer broadband market. ( and removed their source for free advertising in the process )
If you have nothing to download, then why have broadband? So you can get faster popus?
This happens now with some Thinkpads.. you lose the admin key.. *poof* your laptop and data are toast.
Sure might be a way around it, somehow.. but you think 'joe user' will know what to do?
I'm sure I'm being redundant here and will be moderated as such, but this is the beginning of the end of the open movement and digital freedom in general..
Unless someone like IBM ponies up to pay the fees to get things authenticated to be on the 'trusted list', nothing we have will run in 5 years.
Sure, you say 'but it can be turned off', and that is true, today.. In time that wont be an option and it will be mandatory at some point in the near future for most people. Sure some will find ways around it, but not the common man which is most of the market anyway.
Anyone synthesized a Pentium in a FPGA yet? We may have to start 'making' our own chips and boards here soon if we want to remain free....
How do i know my open kernel is safe...
Im sure you go thru and audit EVERY line of code of EVERY piece of 'open' software you use..
Give me a break. you are still having to trust others..
It also wouldn't include past commercial products you have done for other companies ( or took part in ).
That said though, him signing such a broad contract was stupid anyway, even if he did need a job.. Best case you have to goto court to fight and pay an attorney to retain your rights.. Worst case is you dont fight, and lose your rights by default.
Either way you screw yourself by the agreement.
Admittedly I'm not a lawyer but I really don't see a 'past works' clause being legally enforceable. ( I don't think that 'unrelated ideas' are captureable either. but that might be a 'transferable right'
Aside from that, the 'past work' has shared ownership by others since you incorporated GPL code, so you cant transfer ownership to your company even if it was legal to grab your past works from you.
Yes it was intentional, it gives them free advertisement and drums up support for the return of the series in the fans..
Nothing wrong with what they did, though being honest about it would have been nice. " here is a pre-release, come watch the real thing "
Audio would be no big deal to me.
I currently run KDE ( freebsd ) on a PII/400 thinkpad and it does fine, so the G3 shoudl be better then that..
Can i expect the PPC version to run ok on my G3 Bronze?
What sort of stuff isnt going to work? ( yes, i did RTFA, didnt see what i was looking for )
Problem is that i still have paid support for 2000 server ( and workstation ) that is STILL in effect.
Would be nice if they continued support for it since I paid for it and my time hasnt expired.. From the looks of the article, im just out of luck.
While im sure you meant it as a joke, there is some truth to you statement..
We did have an opportunity to take back some market with all the user discontent that was breeding out there.
But instead we clambered around arguing what desktop environment was better... and not actually *doing* anything that the public knows about.
So is this when they finally cut off ( and piss off ) all the *millions* of users that still have 98/NT/2000?
Users that cant upgrade unless they get newer hardware. Users that know what they have now does the job and have resisted the 'upgrade scam'.
Looking at their pages, but dont see it, yet.. Are they going to release the code for the rest of us to look at?
Pretty impressive when its still in a fpga..
So, would this fall under the 'least common denominator' concept of the WTO?
"see, we hold a patent over there, so you must honor it over here"