Does the GPL require that source code of modified versions be posted to the public?
The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.
But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL.
If I know someone has a copy of a GPL-covered program, can I demand he give me a copy?
No. The GPL gives him permission to make and redistribute copies of the program if he chooses to do so. He also has the right not to redistribute the program, if that is what he chooses.
That's a per capita list. On the actual list the US is more than three times richer than its closest rival, Japan, a country who's taxpayers do pay for their own maglev trains.
Also, it's not a definitive list I agree, but this one suggests that they are also the fattest.
I admit that Michigan and NY may not be the wealthiest of the states but they're no Louisiana. Still, two out of three ain't bad.
If your car killed my wife when it jumped a red light I wouldn't care who was driving it. The license place would be registered to you and it would be you I would be coming after.
It costs a awful lot for little net difference. People will keep getting sick Yeah, I think we should stop spending money on healthcare entirely. We've spent billions on it over the years and the ungrateful bastards STILL get sick!
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$29 Billon at the last count. It has the same budget as the entire WHO and dwarfs the amount the US government spends on aid.
Gee, building a maglev train in the richest part of the world's richest country to carry the world's richest, fattest taxpayers, wouldn't THAT be a gift to humanity?
Indeed. Perhaps someone should start some kind of giant car pool where everyone drives a car owned by someone else, then no one would be liable for breaking any traffic laws. Wouldn't that be a beautiful place to live?
WTF? did I miss something? What do microsoft have to do with this? And how did this get to +5?
While suing a charity is not a very nice thing to do and generally isn't good PR, this doesn't actually seem to be a patent troll. LANCOR do actually make real things and OLPC did buy some of those things and some features from those things appeared in OLPC's things. Seems to me to be exactly the kind of case that patent law was invented for.
Whether the claim has merit or not is up to the court but it clearly isn't spurious. And implying Microsoft have something to do with it is just plain slander.
While I completely agree with most of your sentiments the red-light camera route is a dead end. They are (unlike UAVs) targetted at a specific offence at a specific location, one that has serious safety implications.
When they send you the ticket there is a bit which says "If you weren't driving let us know who was and we'll send the ticket to them". It has to be a fair assumption that as the owner if you weren't driving it you have a good idea who it was and even if you don't as you own the car you have to be somewhat responsible for it (unless it's stolen). You can choose not to tell them of course, but the penalty for that is to pay the fine yourself.
Just in case the poster really believes what he wrote:
It is sometimes difficult for Americans to comprehend that very few countries understand the concept of the free speech and a free press
Got that from USA Today did we? Or is it just what you were told in school? According to the Press Freedom Index the only European nation to rank lower than the US is Bulgaria (as far as I can see).
For example, in our 21st Century, most European countries will prosecute individuals for thought crimes
I assume you're talking about the French and German anti-Nazi laws? They're not really thought crimes as you can only get prosecuted if you act on those thoughts, for example by prominently displaying a Swastika. Try walking around Manhattan with a placard saying "I supported the 9/11 hijackers", you will then see how easy it is to be prosecuted for "thought crimes" in your beloved US of A.
On the other hand self-censorship can be viewed as a lot more insidious than government censorship, simply because if government censorship is taking place people know about it and can fill in the gaps themselves. With media self-censorship it is not usually apparent that it's taking place and the consumer believes he is getting the full story, when in fact he is not.
I hope you're right about the second point (and interestingly it seems to be the states that are really getting frustrated by the feds now, not the people) but history seems to suggest that people are willing to let the government go a lot further than it is at present (eg HUAC etc)
All the US Bonds they hold will be liquidated. And unlike normal modes of forgiving debt, it won't spook any other lenders at all Are you insane?! If the US decides to show it can liquidate the US bonds held by another state who else is going to want to hold US bonds? Ever? Seizing Osama's bank account: fine, cancelling China's bonds: not so good. The effect would be worse than China dumping their bonds as the dollar would remain with no credibility whatsoever and would effectively be dead, having as much worth on the international market as the Zimbabwe dollar.
You really think the DoD is completely incompetent? Recent history certainly seems to lean that way...
So, Apple should buy Adobe in order to stop them developing products on windows, hence forcing design houses up and down the land to use Apple exclusively? Great! Even Ballmer hasn't yet conceived something that blatantly anti-competitive or stupid.
Hehe, I did the same as you. I just looked at K5 for the first time in years, it seems the same old posters are dominating everything (one has >17k posts!). Kuro5hin seemed to work with a smaller number (like < 10000) of posters, but it just didn't seem to scale very well. Perhaps it was bad luck but it seemed to get hijacked very quickly by political bitching (though I'm pretty sure that's what rusty really wanted).
It happened to the Garage Punk article too, deleted as a "Not Notable Genre". Whether you've heard of it or not google returns 700k results, so it even happens to things that have a significant presence on google.
I've being wondering why none of the media seems to have picked this up. China recently bought large stakes in a whole bunch of loan companies up to their neck in sub-prime doo-doo; they are basically propping up a portion of the US housing sector (forgetting the other sectors they're involved in) as no-one in the free markets of the west will touch these companies with a barge pole anymore. These companies and their customers will very quickly go to the wall if the Chinese were to drop, out leaving a hole in the economy that no amount of interest rate cutting will patch.
Effectively then China has in it's hands an important and very delicate piece of the US economy; I wonder how long it will be before they feel like giving it a squeeze...
The reason the mobile internet has not taken off in the UK is very simple: bandwidth cost.
We have the same flashy gadget laden phones that the japanese do, and, I believe, with not too much of a lag anymore. However after the mobile companies paid £4-5bn each for 3G frequencies they needed to get their money back and they decided to get it through bandwidth charges. Until very recently a typical charge per Mb was between £5-£10 (US$10-$20).
Very recently (like in the last 8 weeks) they have begun to fall, but I can't imagine why it didn't take off before, can you?
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From : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic
Does the GPL require that source code of modified versions be posted to the public?The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.
But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL.
If I know someone has a copy of a GPL-covered program, can I demand he give me a copy?No. The GPL gives him permission to make and redistribute copies of the program if he chooses to do so. He also has the right not to redistribute the program, if that is what he chooses.
Also, it's not a definitive list I agree, but this one suggests that they are also the fattest.
I admit that Michigan and NY may not be the wealthiest of the states but they're no Louisiana. Still, two out of three ain't bad.
If your car killed my wife when it jumped a red light I wouldn't care who was driving it. The license place would be registered to you and it would be you I would be coming after.
$29 Billon at the last count. It has the same budget as the entire WHO and dwarfs the amount the US government spends on aid.
Gee, building a maglev train in the richest part of the world's richest country to carry the world's richest, fattest taxpayers, wouldn't THAT be a gift to humanity?
Indeed. Perhaps someone should start some kind of giant car pool where everyone drives a car owned by someone else, then no one would be liable for breaking any traffic laws. Wouldn't that be a beautiful place to live?
While suing a charity is not a very nice thing to do and generally isn't good PR, this doesn't actually seem to be a patent troll. LANCOR do actually make real things and OLPC did buy some of those things and some features from those things appeared in OLPC's things. Seems to me to be exactly the kind of case that patent law was invented for.
Whether the claim has merit or not is up to the court but it clearly isn't spurious. And implying Microsoft have something to do with it is just plain slander.
While I completely agree with most of your sentiments the red-light camera route is a dead end. They are (unlike UAVs) targetted at a specific offence at a specific location, one that has serious safety implications. When they send you the ticket there is a bit which says "If you weren't driving let us know who was and we'll send the ticket to them". It has to be a fair assumption that as the owner if you weren't driving it you have a good idea who it was and even if you don't as you own the car you have to be somewhat responsible for it (unless it's stolen). You can choose not to tell them of course, but the penalty for that is to pay the fine yourself.
Why is this blatant troll modded Insightful?
Just in case the poster really believes what he wrote:
It is sometimes difficult for Americans to comprehend that very few countries understand the concept of the free speech and a free pressGot that from USA Today did we? Or is it just what you were told in school? According to the Press Freedom Index the only European nation to rank lower than the US is Bulgaria (as far as I can see).
For example, in our 21st Century, most European countries will prosecute individuals for thought crimesI assume you're talking about the French and German anti-Nazi laws? They're not really thought crimes as you can only get prosecuted if you act on those thoughts, for example by prominently displaying a Swastika. Try walking around Manhattan with a placard saying "I supported the 9/11 hijackers", you will then see how easy it is to be prosecuted for "thought crimes" in your beloved US of A.
On the other hand self-censorship can be viewed as a lot more insidious than government censorship, simply because if government censorship is taking place people know about it and can fill in the gaps themselves. With media self-censorship it is not usually apparent that it's taking place and the consumer believes he is getting the full story, when in fact he is not.
I hope you're right about the second point (and interestingly it seems to be the states that are really getting frustrated by the feds now, not the people) but history seems to suggest that people are willing to let the government go a lot further than it is at present (eg HUAC etc)
Cos unless they do something soon to fix their economy the average US consumer 10 years hence is going to be assembling the robots not buying them
You fanboys don't do yourself any favours.
They will already be doing work to bend and flex their existing suits, it's just being lost as there is no mechanism to catch it
I doubt it. They're probably still trying to get their sound card working.
The Romans were pagans not atheists
It was a poor film the first time, cut number eight is not going to make it better
Hehe, I did the same as you. I just looked at K5 for the first time in years, it seems the same old posters are dominating everything (one has >17k posts!). Kuro5hin seemed to work with a smaller number (like < 10000) of posters, but it just didn't seem to scale very well. Perhaps it was bad luck but it seemed to get hijacked very quickly by political bitching (though I'm pretty sure that's what rusty really wanted).
Yeah, the US will pay the fine the same day it stops paying subsidies to its Cotton farmers...
It happened to the Garage Punk article too, deleted as a "Not Notable Genre". Whether you've heard of it or not google returns 700k results, so it even happens to things that have a significant presence on google.
It's called peritonitis and I can assure you it hurts. A lot.
I've being wondering why none of the media seems to have picked this up. China recently bought large stakes in a whole bunch of loan companies up to their neck in sub-prime doo-doo; they are basically propping up a portion of the US housing sector (forgetting the other sectors they're involved in) as no-one in the free markets of the west will touch these companies with a barge pole anymore. These companies and their customers will very quickly go to the wall if the Chinese were to drop, out leaving a hole in the economy that no amount of interest rate cutting will patch.
Effectively then China has in it's hands an important and very delicate piece of the US economy; I wonder how long it will be before they feel like giving it a squeeze...
T mobile are the only uk mobile operator charging a flat fee even now and they certainly weren't doing it 12 months ago when I got my phone.
The reason the mobile internet has not taken off in the UK is very simple: bandwidth cost.
We have the same flashy gadget laden phones that the japanese do, and, I believe, with not too much of a lag anymore. However after the mobile companies paid £4-5bn each for 3G frequencies they needed to get their money back and they decided to get it through bandwidth charges. Until very recently a typical charge per Mb was between £5-£10 (US$10-$20).
Very recently (like in the last 8 weeks) they have begun to fall, but I can't imagine why it didn't take off before, can you?