My thoughts exactly. It's also funny how he keep getting back to the Amiga curse not realizing the curse has a name and it is Bill. Honestly he seems like a real ptight idiot. I especially liked the comment on wether to release Amiga OS 1.0 - 3.1 as opensource.. total nutcase.
Petty morals? Go away? Well, you sure pwn3d me with your l33t skillz in argumentation. Atleast Alan Cox can admit to it being bad morals doing what has been done.
> - If you wish for everyone to remain friends, you should give code back.
That's about the first thing I would agree on - its somewhat rude and not something I personally woul usually choose todo. However to many there are problems as the BSD licence doesn't mean giving it back to the community it means giving a copy to everyone who wants rip it off for private proprietary use.
The problem is more of a morality issue than anything else. GPL followers being so overly concerned about having code contributions returned but at the same time taking a shit on the BSD sommunity, thats hipocracy. Sure, the BSD license allows this to happen but still it's not a very nice thing to do.
It's not only Sams code this is about. Reyk Floeters code which use the BSD license was blatantly stripped of it's license by Jiri Slaby.
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_regdom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_regdom.c index c345da8..067c837 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_regdom.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_regdom.c @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@/*
* Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Reyk Floeter
* - * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any - * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above - * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. + * This file is released under GPLv2
*//* diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_regdom.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_regdom.h index ebaeabe..d36bec6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_regdom.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_regdom.h @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@/*
* Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Reyk Floeter
* - * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any - * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above - * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. + * This file is released under GPLv2
*/
Registered with VMWare recently and now keep getting lots of e-cards? Thats what I did. I registered with a specially crafted address only used once when registering with them and it is now receiving spam. Trust me, it's not an easily guessed address.
I've tried to contact them about it but they keep silent..
The Happy Tree Friends has been doing this for quite some time aswell. Check them out as some of the episodes are hilarious.
Currently they have released three DVDs.
Funny.. check out this cheat code for the original Metroid:
Super password:
Enter NARPAS SWORD0 0000_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ as a password. Note: "_" indicates a space, and except for the letter "O" in "SWORD", the remaining characters are the number zero. You will start at the beginning of the game with unlimited life, unlimited missiles, and all upgrades. The word in this is "NAR PASSWORD". "NAR" is an abbreviation for the name of the person who designed the password system, Tohru Narihiro.
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My thoughts exactly. It's also funny how he keep getting back to the Amiga curse not realizing the curse has a name and it is Bill. Honestly he seems like a real ptight idiot. I especially liked the comment on wether to release Amiga OS 1.0 - 3.1 as opensource.. total nutcase.
Atleast Alan Cox can admit to it being bad morals doing what has been done.
http://uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/07
Please look up the word 'free' in a dictionary. There are lots of free dictionarys on the internet in case you dont own one.
Hint, you are likely to find it is described as:
* Not controlled by obligation or the will of another
* Not subject to external restraint
* In a free manner; without restraint
The problem is more of a morality issue than anything else. GPL followers being so overly concerned about having code contributions returned but at the same time taking a shit on the BSD sommunity, thats hipocracy. Sure, the BSD license allows this to happen but still it's not a very nice thing to do.
Registered with VMWare recently and now keep getting lots of e-cards? Thats what I did. I registered with a specially crafted address only used once when registering with them and it is now receiving spam. Trust me, it's not an easily guessed address.
I've tried to contact them about it but they keep silent..
The Happy Tree Friends has been doing this for quite some time aswell. Check them out as some of the episodes are hilarious. Currently they have released three DVDs.
Funny.. check out this cheat code for the original Metroid: Super password: Enter NARPAS SWORD0 0000_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ as a password. Note: "_" indicates a space, and except for the letter "O" in "SWORD", the remaining characters are the number zero. You will start at the beginning of the game with unlimited life, unlimited missiles, and all upgrades. The word in this is "NAR PASSWORD". "NAR" is an abbreviation for the name of the person who designed the password system, Tohru Narihiro.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Prior art or not.. ?"