Thing to keep in mind is that some of the HTML on Slashdot is user-created. So Slashdot would have to add a validation script to the submit process in order for it to maintain XHTML pages. So don't expect/. code to be pure XHTML any time soon.
MathML is an XML. It should validate. Any document it is part of should validate. Don't blame Mozilla for the world's problems.
Is it just me, or do these all-in-one gadgets fly in the face of the UNIX idea of compartmentalized utilities that do one specific function, and that's it? If you want something more powerful, just chain them together.
True, which makes them more complex and more likely to break. Problem is that there's a lot more room for comparmentalized utilities on a hard drive than there is for compartmentalized devices in my shirt pocket.
Short version of above: once a large enough star leaves the main sequence, you can come up with an order-of-magnitude guess as to when it will blow. This guess, by the way, would likely be expressed according to observed time (i.e., our time), not absolute time.
Your company's tactics are clearly intended to violate the spirit of the GPL: to make the code unusuable. Usually when there's a violation of the spirit there's also a violation of the letter.
Incorporating code is NOT incidental use, by the way. Frankly, I don't see how the license of any tool can enforce a license on code (or text) that was created with it as a tool (e.g., a license on emacs couldn't force you to copyleft a novel you wrote on it), because the created code/text doesn't incorporate copyrighted intellectual property of the creator of the tool. But in your scenario, you ARE incorporating someone else's IP in your project, creating a derivative work, and so are guilty of violating the copyright on that IP - unless you follow the license.
Compare it to a translation: you are reproducing the meaning of the GPLed code with different words, which after all is what translation is. A translation of a copyrighted work must be licensed by the holder of the work's copyright.
If you (note that I said you, not your company: the moral responsibility here is the programmers', not the suits') do not want to follow the spirit of the GPL, I'd suggest looking for similar code that isn't GPLed but has a license that does not "contaminate" derivative works. If you can't find any, then you should take the 30% hit and write your own code. If it's such a lucrative project, and if the distribution of clear source code would represent a threat to your profit stream from the product, I would think you would be willing to accept such an expense to protect your own intellectual property - because if you violate the GPL and get caught, you could lose it all in court.
I am not an attorney, and the above does not constitute legal advice. You might want to ask an attorney of your own for advice, as you may find yourself caught in a situation in which you will be making yourself liable for the actions of your company.
Apple buy Corel? Why? WordPerfect hasn't gained any real ground as an application since 8.0; even an old WordPerfect hand like me can't stand using WP10 anymore. It's like using WordStar in 1995.
And the other Corel applications are all competitors with Adobe, and I don't think Apple wants to push Adobe out of the Mac market (given the importance of Adobe's apps to Mac's core users, graphics pros).
I'm sorry, but that ain't going to happen any time soon. OminWeb has some great end-user features, but their HTML engine is essentially roughly at the Netscape 3.0 level. The _only_ thing it has going for it in the page rendering department is the Fuzzy Text.
OmniWeb's support of Unicode (thanks to Cocoa) is second to none on the platform; even Mozilla doesn't compete (IE doesn't have it at all). So if you ever use non-Latin languages, you're much better off with OmniWeb. (Actually, they do have a good deal of CSS support, too, though nothing to compete with Mozilla or IE; so I'd say that parts of it are at Netscape 4, parts at Netscape 3, and parts at Netscape 6.5 or higher).
I know. But it takes a minute or two to figure these things out.
That's the point of a diary, to document the process of discovery, rather than to provide a review. He DID figure it out eventually.
Problem is that OS X doesn't set up a root account for you unless you tell it to (i.e., doesn't allow root account access from the UI), so at first you think that maybe your primary user account is root.
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Mac OS X might be UNIX's best hope, but as it's not Linux, I don't see how you can say it's Linux's best hope, let alone that "It's Linux with the usability that Joe Sixpack can handle." Different license, different kernel architecture, different filesystem . . .
That said, the more Unices or UNIX-likes there are, the more compatible everyone will be, and the better off we'll be. (Of course, the same could be said of Windows)
Another hidden bennie of subscription - Instant Karma! Just say you've paid and you get an "Insightful"
Seriously, now, folks, put your money where your mouth is. If people should be willing to pay you for doing open source work, you should be willing to pay/. for providing open source news.
I don't see any references to Paul Allen on the Transmeta web site. However, at Paul Allen's own site, he says that he remains on the Microsoft board, though of course he is no longer an employee there (hasn't been since 1983). At the web site of his investment company, Vulcan (Flash-y), Transmeta is listed in the portfolio, but considering all of his other holdings, the fact that it isn't listed very prominently on his personal site, and he isn't on the board, I doubt that he identifies as much with Transmeta as he does with MS.
It does confuse one, though, to imagine Paul Allen and Linus Torvalds involved in the same company, doesn't it?
I don't know about the rest of the Europe, but in Finland you don't even have to sign the rights away for _software_: the employer automatically owns all software you write. This is sick, BSA has had their will once again. Other copyrightable immaterial works are owned by the author unless he gives the rights away. Everything that is patentable is also automatically the employer's if case it is somehow related to a field the company practices -- even if it is not related to _your_ work. Sick.
For a comparandum, under US law (IANAL) a work is considered a work for hire (and therefore copyrightable or patentable by the author/inventor's employer rather than by the author/inventor) if 1.) the work was created as part of the author/inventor's normal job duties, or 2.) the employer and the author/inventor have an agreement assigning to the employer all the author/inventor's rights in works relevant to the employer's business.
You think right, Anonymous Coward. Somebody mod that boy up.
FWIW, Newbury Comics is a comic-books/music store on Newbury Street in Boston that's been around for at least 20 years (well, first time I went was 17 years ago) that was spun out into a chain of mostly music stores.
The authors get a small chunk of cash too (I don't remember the percentage for standard media, but on this model they'd probably end up getting a lot less than that $0.0023).
First, it is 70 years, not 75. Second, here's the real issue: in 1978, the law was changed to extend copyright terms to 50 years after the death of the author. In 1998, the law was changed to extend copyright terms an additional 20 years. What happens if in 2018 the law is changed to extend copyright terms an additional 20 years? Then the idea behind "limited" terms is completely abandoned. That's the grounds for getting this law thrown out.
So let me get this straight: this is redundant, but 10,000 "imagine what a beowulf cluster of these babies would be like" jokes are not? A little metamoderation would be helpful around here.
[Go ahead, take two karma points away from me for this one. I don't care.]
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Thing to keep in mind is that some of the HTML on Slashdot is user-created. So Slashdot would have to add a validation script to the submit process in order for it to maintain XHTML pages. So don't expect /. code to be pure XHTML any time soon.
MathML is an XML. It should validate. Any document it is part of should validate. Don't blame Mozilla for the world's problems.
I'm a subscriber. I have my subscription settings set up to hide all ads, everywhere. So why am I seeing ads all of a sudden?
Why is this on topic? Because I didn't see any ads until I opened this page. Now I see them on my preferences pages, too.
Is it just me, or do these all-in-one gadgets fly in the face of the UNIX idea of compartmentalized utilities that do one specific function, and that's it? If you want something more powerful, just chain them together.
True, which makes them more complex and more likely to break. Problem is that there's a lot more room for comparmentalized utilities on a hard drive than there is for compartmentalized devices in my shirt pocket.
Short version of above: once a large enough star leaves the main sequence, you can come up with an order-of-magnitude guess as to when it will blow. This guess, by the way, would likely be expressed according to observed time (i.e., our time), not absolute time.
Your company's tactics are clearly intended to violate the spirit of the GPL: to make the code unusuable. Usually when there's a violation of the spirit there's also a violation of the letter.
Incorporating code is NOT incidental use, by the way. Frankly, I don't see how the license of any tool can enforce a license on code (or text) that was created with it as a tool (e.g., a license on emacs couldn't force you to copyleft a novel you wrote on it), because the created code/text doesn't incorporate copyrighted intellectual property of the creator of the tool. But in your scenario, you ARE incorporating someone else's IP in your project, creating a derivative work, and so are guilty of violating the copyright on that IP - unless you follow the license.
Compare it to a translation: you are reproducing the meaning of the GPLed code with different words, which after all is what translation is. A translation of a copyrighted work must be licensed by the holder of the work's copyright.
If you (note that I said you, not your company: the moral responsibility here is the programmers', not the suits') do not want to follow the spirit of the GPL, I'd suggest looking for similar code that isn't GPLed but has a license that does not "contaminate" derivative works. If you can't find any, then you should take the 30% hit and write your own code. If it's such a lucrative project, and if the distribution of clear source code would represent a threat to your profit stream from the product, I would think you would be willing to accept such an expense to protect your own intellectual property - because if you violate the GPL and get caught, you could lose it all in court.
I am not an attorney, and the above does not constitute legal advice. You might want to ask an attorney of your own for advice, as you may find yourself caught in a situation in which you will be making yourself liable for the actions of your company.
Last I checked, AppleWords is Carbon, not Cocoa. http://osonline.org/mac/index.phtml?storyID=570
Apple buy Corel? Why? WordPerfect hasn't gained any real ground as an application since 8.0; even an old WordPerfect hand like me can't stand using WP10 anymore. It's like using WordStar in 1995.
And the other Corel applications are all competitors with Adobe, and I don't think Apple wants to push Adobe out of the Mac market (given the importance of Adobe's apps to Mac's core users, graphics pros).
I'm sorry, but that ain't going to happen any time soon. OminWeb has some great end-user features, but their HTML engine is essentially roughly at the Netscape 3.0 level. The _only_ thing it has going for it in the page rendering department is the Fuzzy Text.
OmniWeb's support of Unicode (thanks to Cocoa) is second to none on the platform; even Mozilla doesn't compete (IE doesn't have it at all). So if you ever use non-Latin languages, you're much better off with OmniWeb. (Actually, they do have a good deal of CSS support, too, though nothing to compete with Mozilla or IE; so I'd say that parts of it are at Netscape 4, parts at Netscape 3, and parts at Netscape 6.5 or higher).
I know. But it takes a minute or two to figure these things out. That's the point of a diary, to document the process of discovery, rather than to provide a review. He DID figure it out eventually.
Problem is that OS X doesn't set up a root account for you unless you tell it to (i.e., doesn't allow root account access from the UI), so at first you think that maybe your primary user account is root.
Ok, I can see that. thx.
Mac OS X might be UNIX's best hope, but as it's not Linux, I don't see how you can say it's Linux's best hope, let alone that "It's Linux with the usability that Joe Sixpack can handle." Different license, different kernel architecture, different filesystem . . . That said, the more Unices or UNIX-likes there are, the more compatible everyone will be, and the better off we'll be. (Of course, the same could be said of Windows)
This is just an experiment to see if you can slashdot PayPal.
Another hidden bennie of subscription - Instant Karma! Just say you've paid and you get an "Insightful"
Seriously, now, folks, put your money where your mouth is. If people should be willing to pay you for doing open source work, you should be willing to pay /. for providing open source news.
Last you remember was probably before several months of footprint and startup time work.
Konqueror is a damned good piece of work, but side by side, current Mozilla builds are better.
I don't see any references to Paul Allen on the Transmeta web site. However, at Paul Allen's own site, he says that he remains on the Microsoft board, though of course he is no longer an employee there (hasn't been since 1983). At the web site of his investment company, Vulcan (Flash-y), Transmeta is listed in the portfolio, but considering all of his other holdings, the fact that it isn't listed very prominently on his personal site, and he isn't on the board, I doubt that he identifies as much with Transmeta as he does with MS.
It does confuse one, though, to imagine Paul Allen and Linus Torvalds involved in the same company, doesn't it?
Just wait until the next Netscape comes out, based on Mozilla 1.0. The community will build it; the users will come!
I don't know about the rest of the Europe, but in Finland you don't even have to sign the rights away for _software_: the employer automatically owns all software you write. This is sick, BSA has had their will once again. Other copyrightable immaterial works are owned by the author unless he gives the rights away. Everything that is patentable is also automatically the employer's if case it is somehow related to a field the company practices -- even if it is not related to _your_ work. Sick.
For a comparandum, under US law (IANAL) a work is considered a work for hire (and therefore copyrightable or patentable by the author/inventor's employer rather than by the author/inventor) if 1.) the work was created as part of the author/inventor's normal job duties, or 2.) the employer and the author/inventor have an agreement assigning to the employer all the author/inventor's rights in works relevant to the employer's business.
I assume that since it is their product, the GBA, then they get to determine who is a developer, and who is not.
So does this mean that Microsoft gets to determine who's a developer for Windows and who is not? Get real!
You think right, Anonymous Coward. Somebody mod that boy up. FWIW, Newbury Comics is a comic-books/music store on Newbury Street in Boston that's been around for at least 20 years (well, first time I went was 17 years ago) that was spun out into a chain of mostly music stores.
The authors get a small chunk of cash too (I don't remember the percentage for standard media, but on this model they'd probably end up getting a lot less than that $0.0023).
First, it is 70 years, not 75. Second, here's the real issue: in 1978, the law was changed to extend copyright terms to 50 years after the death of the author. In 1998, the law was changed to extend copyright terms an additional 20 years. What happens if in 2018 the law is changed to extend copyright terms an additional 20 years? Then the idea behind "limited" terms is completely abandoned. That's the grounds for getting this law thrown out.
its content ranges from "The X-Men" and "Space Mutation" to "The Matrix" to pieces on the Real Jesus and Radiohead.
That's a range? Basically sounds like Newberry Comics to me.
So let me get this straight: this is redundant, but 10,000 "imagine what a beowulf cluster of these babies would be like" jokes are not? A little metamoderation would be helpful around here. [Go ahead, take two karma points away from me for this one. I don't care.]
Make all elections 100% publicly funded (I believe that england does this and each candidate can only spend something like 10,000 pounds
And the British government is completely free of ethically questionable policy decisions. Ever read the The Register?