It is useful for all those people, for whom BSD license is not enough free.
Not free enough? Hell! BSD licence explicitly allows you use the software to kill babies and make money - or, if you prefer, kill money and make babies! You can't get free-er than the BSD licence!
If you were old enough, you might remember that Mick studied at the London School of Economics (very prestigious school for future CEOs) before realising that the way to make money was to act stupid and sing imitations of black music. (Elvis was probably in Economics 101 in those days, even if not officially).
Buy an IBM PC 300PL - it exactly meets your requirements,
And it will run any P2 or P3 processor (with a suitable BIOS upgrade.) No need for those really hot P4s. And you can flash the sign-on screen to be your company's logo
I know it may come as a surprise to some of you, but FDR, the Mafia, and US legislation only affect a tiny fraction of the earth's surface. They have NO control over activities on the rest of the planet.
The 8 hour day is a common standard in most of the world that has fixed working hours.
My personal experience is that writing code a fixed number of hours per day is fatal to a project. People either put in the hours, and deliver crap, or screw up completely, causiing damage that takes twice as many hours to fix.
If the project is not feasible on 8-hour days, its Not feasible Buy a copy of "The mythical man month" and resign now, before you get tarred with the brush of disaster.
It was reported on/. quite recently that some country was considering making it illegal to charge an educational establishment for a software licence.
Is there a country where lawyers have to wrestle with alligators in the dark before they qualify? If so, I want to move there. (Cos then they will know how their clients feel about dealing with them.)
In 1970, the GLC (Then under the conservative leader"Horace Cutler" ), had an enquiry into the "appalling state of traffic in London". I forget what the conclusion was, but amoongst the data was that 90% of journes were by public transport, so if a further 10% were moved from cars to public transport, the problem would be solved!
The hippies had a counter-culture enquirly and proposed Free public transport It was a full report, with costings, etc, which showed that the subsidies would actually be lower than they were at the time.
This proposal was actually presented to the GLC. The response was Free public transport? - that's communism, we are not having it here! Actually, no communist country has ever had free public transport - they all have/had subsidised flat-fare systems.
However, the consept was slagged off without serious discussion.(And Ken Livingstone was elected as leader of the GLC.)
Today, only 10% of journeys are by public transport, because its hideously expensive, and the service is crap.
London traffic would move a lot easier if cyclists and those damn stupid buses were banned.
So you noticed how there is always less of a problem driving during bus strikes!
Personally, I think that operating one-man busses in London should count as a "crime against humanity" - lets drop a cruise missile on Cambridge Heath Bus Depot!
Last I heard, 20 pedestrians a year are killed, run over by pushbike riders in London (Figures from The Evening Standard!) This excedes deaths from AIDS!
No figures are available for the number of people killed by cars trying to avoid Pzza delivery riders, but it must be at least 100.
No one drives in London for fun. Driving in London is hell. They will all pass the cost to whoever pays their bills (can you say Strike?)
I mean, seriously, are you going to decide not to get your photocopier serviced because the repair guy needs £5 to drive to your workplace? Is a commodity broker on £100k going to care about £5?
Sure there will be a serious shortage of police, teachers, and plumbers - but nothing new there!
I voted for Red Ken, but this is just plain stupid.
The patent is certainly valid but, don't panic just yet.
Well... No, its certainly NOT valid. A patent cannot be valid if it is "obvious to any skilled practitioner of the relevant trade".
On this basis, almost all US patents are not infact valid.
The Patent Office is not required to do the research before granting the patent. It is up to a challenger.
The main problem with the patent system is that the legal process is way to expensive. If some of you geeks had trained as lawyers instead of programmers, this roblem would be solved quite rapidly.
Perhaps American workers will ultimately stop being over-paid, but the rest of the world won't suffer because of this.
Just as soon as the Arabs accept payment for oil in Euros. Given GWB's apparent support for Israel, this could happen any minute.
The dollar derives its value from the fact that all Oil consumers MUST pay in dollars, so to buy oil, you must first buy dollars, while the oil producers have dollars more than they can spend.
Any minute this will change, and no one will want UDS any more What does the US export to support the dollar? Apart from Gansta rap and hollywood moves? Nothing They did export planes, but Airbus is cheaper to buy and run.
Incidentally, a significant amount of cheap electonics IS made in Europe. (Ever heard of Dell, Compaq, or IBM?)
I think that Joe average can tell that when he searched for "Free Software" and the answer is "Barnes and Noble" and "Alamo Car Rentals" something is wrong.
He may think its his fault, but he will likely use a different search engine next time, or give up using search engines entirely.
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After spending £400,000 on research, I can now reveal that "They are in Asia",
WIth a big enough research grant, I might be able to uncover more details.
You could ask mine - their Point of Sale terminals are running Win98, and they had all crashed when I went there a few minutes ago. It took me ten minutes to persuade them to try re-booting one so I could buy something. Other customers just left, bewildered.
Perhaps embedded Linux is just what the doctor ordered?
Well I wouldn't recommend Fujitsu at all, ans certianly not to anyone used to dealing with IBM. I have a lifebook and a Thinkpad. When I had problems replacing the Thinkpad HD wiht one 10* bigger than it was suppliesd with, I went to IBM';s web site, and got all the data I needed. WHen I wanted to do the same with my Fujitsu, there was NOTHING. AN e-mail elicited the reply "anything over 8 months old is old hat - the grand wisard says no help today".
In other words, No support from IBM is still more support than most others will ever give you. (And they p*ssed me off by dumping OS/2).
But what would the criteria be? Exception for no-cost?
This has been answered a million times already - You are exempt if you supply the tools to enable the user to fix it himself Ie Open source is automatically exempt because you can check for bugs yourself and ITS FIXABLE That's why we like it.
Would you buy a car with the bonnet (hood) welded down so you cant fix the engine? That is what closed source software is. That is why enhanced quality/reliability standards should apply to it.
but look at Enron. They played fast and free with almost everything they did, and Arthur Anderson went along with it. Now, since AA got convicted, the Enron stockholders are going after THEM instead of Enron. Responsibility was neatly deflected from one to the other because it was EASY to.
NO... AA were auditors - employed by the shareholders to protect them, (and the taxman) from inaccurate/dodgy accounting. AA did not do what they were paid for.IE obtained their payments by false pretences. Arthur aught to go to jail himself, like anyone else stealing from pensioners by pretending to be from the Utililities. (Most shareholders are pensioners).
Of course, Enron directors are also apparently guilty of all manner of illegal activities, but I'm not sure its been proved yet.
Maybe where you come from, but not in Hollywood. Hollywood is on the planet Zog, where things happen in a way that normal earthlings can only experience by taking massive doses of cocaine.
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Not free enough? Hell! BSD licence explicitly allows you use the software to kill babies and make money - or, if you prefer, kill money and make babies! You can't get free-er than the BSD licence!
Whats wrong with Kroupware? It sounds so much more professional than Vomitweare
If you were old enough, you might remember that Mick studied at the London School of Economics (very prestigious school for future CEOs) before realising that the way to make money was to act stupid and sing imitations of black music. (Elvis was probably in Economics 101 in those days, even if not officially).
And it will run any P2 or P3 processor (with a suitable BIOS upgrade.) No need for those really hot P4s. And you can flash the sign-on screen to be your company's logo
"Stolen from www.ourco.com"
might be suitable text or maybe
Linux stops here
The 8 hour day is a common standard in most of the world that has fixed working hours.
My personal experience is that writing code a fixed number of hours per day is fatal to a project. People either put in the hours, and deliver crap, or screw up completely, causiing damage that takes twice as many hours to fix.
If the project is not feasible on 8-hour days, its Not feasible Buy a copy of "The mythical man month" and resign now, before you get tarred with the brush of disaster.
This is actualy a system to prevent users from BUYING CDs.
This includes the enormous cost of explaining where the ANY key is! Not to mention the use of the cup holder.
It was reported on /. quite recently that some country was considering making it illegal to charge an educational establishment for a software licence.
Is there a country where lawyers have to wrestle with alligators in the dark before they qualify? If so, I want to move there. (Cos then they will know how their clients feel about dealing with them.)
The hippies had a counter-culture enquirly and proposed Free public transport It was a full report, with costings, etc, which showed that the subsidies would actually be lower than they were at the time.
This proposal was actually presented to the GLC. The response was Free public transport? - that's communism, we are not having it here! Actually, no communist country has ever had free public transport - they all have/had subsidised flat-fare systems.
However, the consept was slagged off without serious discussion.(And Ken Livingstone was elected as leader of the GLC.)
Today, only 10% of journeys are by public transport, because its hideously expensive, and the service is crap.
Personally, I think that operating one-man busses in London should count as a "crime against humanity" - lets drop a cruise missile on Cambridge Heath Bus Depot!
No figures are available for the number of people killed by cars trying to avoid Pzza delivery riders, but it must be at least 100.
No one drives in London for fun. Driving in London is hell. They will all pass the cost to whoever pays their bills (can you say Strike?) I mean, seriously, are you going to decide not to get your photocopier serviced because the repair guy needs £5 to drive to your workplace? Is a commodity broker on £100k going to care about £5?
Sure there will be a serious shortage of police, teachers, and plumbers - but nothing new there!
I voted for Red Ken, but this is just plain stupid.
Well ... No, its certainly NOT valid. A patent cannot be valid if it is "obvious to any skilled practitioner of the relevant trade".
On this basis, almost all US patents are not infact valid.
The Patent Office is not required to do the research before granting the patent. It is up to a challenger.
The main problem with the patent system is that the legal process is way to expensive. If some of you geeks had trained as lawyers instead of programmers, this roblem would be solved quite rapidly.
Just as soon as the Arabs accept payment for oil in Euros. Given GWB's apparent support for Israel, this could happen any minute.
The dollar derives its value from the fact that all Oil consumers MUST pay in dollars, so to buy oil, you must first buy dollars, while the oil producers have dollars more than they can spend.
Any minute this will change, and no one will want UDS any more What does the US export to support the dollar? Apart from Gansta rap and hollywood moves? Nothing They did export planes, but Airbus is cheaper to buy and run.
Incidentally, a significant amount of cheap electonics IS made in Europe. (Ever heard of Dell, Compaq, or IBM?)
He may think its his fault, but he will likely use a different search engine next time, or give up using search engines entirely.
WIth a big enough research grant, I might be able to uncover more details.
I dont thing they are running WIndows - If they were, it would need to be rebooted every millisecond at that speed!
You could ask mine - their Point of Sale terminals are running Win98, and they had all crashed when I went there a few minutes ago. It took me ten minutes to persuade them to try re-booting one so I could buy something. Other customers just left, bewildered.
Perhaps embedded Linux is just what the doctor ordered?
We don't need seatbelt laws, we have Darwin Awards
In other words, No support from IBM is still more support than most others will ever give you. (And they p*ssed me off by dumping OS/2).
Clearly NOT the case in the house of commons.
This has been answered a million times already - You are exempt if you supply the tools to enable the user to fix it himself Ie Open source is automatically exempt because you can check for bugs yourself and ITS FIXABLE That's why we like it.
Would you buy a car with the bonnet (hood) welded down so you cant fix the engine? That is what closed source software is. That is why enhanced quality/reliability standards should apply to it.
NO ... AA were auditors - employed by the shareholders to protect them, (and the taxman) from inaccurate/dodgy accounting. AA did not do what they were paid for.IE obtained their payments by false pretences. Arthur aught to go to jail himself, like anyone else stealing from pensioners by pretending to be from the Utililities. (Most shareholders are pensioners).
Of course, Enron directors are also apparently guilty of all manner of illegal activities, but I'm not sure its been proved yet.
What about if the GM food people want to charge me when I go to the toilet, because their genes will escape into the wild?
How comes GM make food and cars, and Ford don't?
Maybe where you come from, but not in Hollywood. Hollywood is on the planet Zog, where things happen in a way that normal earthlings can only experience by taking massive doses of cocaine.