The bill is here.. And the reforms where aproved on 05/12/02. It does not say anything about the government getting rights on public domain stuff though. (Unless I misread some of the legalesse stuff)
No, well, what the internet needs is a new mail protocol, it should not be propietary, and it should address all the concerns related to mail now (Authentication, Confidentiality). just like SSH corrected the telnet and rexecd problems.
Well the main problem on TCP, will be the scalability. Few, small transactions on a LAN can work correctly, so if your application ever will run on that environment, then everything should be OK.
Problem would arise if the system would increase the number of transactions, the size of them, or the area of the network (From LAN to MAN, or WAN).
From experience, I worked on "debugging" an small database application that used UDP. They added remote dial in clients. While it worked smoothly on a LAN, with few routers, at the moment that dial in customers started trying to update data on the system the fun started:). The original developer, assumed that they'd never change the environment, and had an scheme for fix retransmitions that worked OK on the LAN, but constantly gave the dial in clients a bad time.
IIRC VM systems can run on logical partitions, each one witha set of different resources. So, you will have a system that is running OS390 and Linux on bare metal at the same time.
Would be a fork on gcc and glibc. The comunity would loses the expertise of gcc developers.
However how long it would take before the so called expertise is attained again by the comunity? We're talking about years? Months? With the open source push, I do not think t would be too long after a fork before we have a decent compiler again.
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The bill is here.. And the reforms where aproved on 05/12/02. It does not say anything about the government getting rights on public domain stuff though. (Unless I misread some of the legalesse stuff)
OK, the proposal is here, submited by our dear friend Enrique Jackson:
http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/58/2002/dic/ 20021215.html#Minu20021215DerechosAutor>
I've found the reference on the 100 years, but not on the collection of rights from government, but I'm not good on legalesse
No, well, what the internet needs is a new mail protocol, it should not be propietary, and it should address all the concerns related to mail now (Authentication, Confidentiality). just like SSH corrected the telnet and rexecd problems.
Time for a new mail RFC?
Well the main problem on TCP, will be the scalability. Few, small transactions on a LAN can work correctly, so if your application ever will run on that environment, then everything should be OK.
Problem would arise if the system would increase the number of transactions, the size of them, or the area of the network (From LAN to MAN, or WAN).
From experience, I worked on "debugging" an small database application that used UDP. They added remote dial in clients. While it worked smoothly on a LAN, with few routers, at the moment that dial in customers started trying to update data on the system the fun started :). The original developer, assumed that they'd never change the environment, and had an scheme for fix retransmitions that worked OK on the LAN, but constantly gave the dial in clients a bad time.
What if we start a project looking for a message on PI?
We can even try different rational numbers...
Lets imagine, that we found "thou salt not travel faster than light...."
I can see it starting now:
How about logical partitions...
.guess mode on
IIRC VM systems can run on logical partitions, each one witha set of different resources. So, you will have a system that is running OS390 and Linux on bare metal at the same time.
.guess mode off
Would be a fork on gcc and glibc. The comunity would loses the expertise of gcc developers.
However how long it would take before the so called expertise is attained again by the comunity? We're talking about years? Months? With the open source push, I do not think t would be too long after a fork before we have a decent compiler again.
nuf said.
What is the name of the ACClarke novel about an elevator to an geostationary satellite? That could be a good option....
Jaculatoria....
San isidro de Sevilla, sabio y escritor, Que mi correo no traiga un virus destructor...