No, there is something known as the doctrine of apparant authority. As long as you appear to have authority to make a contract on behalf of a corporation (or partnership, etc.), then the contract is binding, even if you didn't actually have that authority.
So in this case, I'd say the person submitting it probably had apparant authority, and thus the code is, in fact, licensed under the GPL forever.
What he probably meant is OSI-approved. ESR is the chairman of the OSI, but they don't always agree with him; he thinks the ASPL should be approved, but it isn't.
Then you can do what Amazon is doing. But be aware that this is not defensive behaviour; You are trying to stop other people from using your idea, not protect yourself from being sued.
Hello? Am I the only one here who hasn't forgotten about the whole DVD thing? That the MPAA is the organization trying to take away our rights?
I have steadfastly avoided mainstream cinema since this whole thing started, but I find it rather hypocritical that the same people who told us about this whole thing are also encouraging moviegoers to continue.
Some people here will say this is why we will never win; because people don't care enough about corporations' actions to take action against them. I disagree. I think that it's not too late to fix things. We must boycott the MPAA.
The word 'safeguard' here applies to safeguarding against lawsuits, not safeguarding the patents. Since company A is not being sued in case 1b, it is not safeguarding, it is taking the offensive.
Don't patronize me. I've been part of this Open Source revolution since it started 5 years ago. How about you?
Erhm, GNU has been around for about 15 years. And RMS was writing free software for about another 5 years before that. So it's been around for a bit more than 5 years.
And how many did RMS write himself? None? I thought so. I use them because I *paid* Red Hat for them. You see, in a market economy that's how things work. Clever, no?
Where did you get the idea that red hat wrote the GNU tools?? The GNU shell, fileutils, and textutils were written long before redhat, possibly by RMS himself, although I don't know who specifically at FSF wrote them.
You seem to have ignored the fact that the BSD utilities predate GNU by *years* AND they're more free. You can use them without bying into Stallman's "Slavery is Freedom" (ie, the GPV) philosophy.
No, the BSDs used GNU fileutils and textutils until very recently (98 or 99).
"RMS: Whatever I say is free is good for you" BSD is free, but he regularly attacks it, its users and its developers. Why? I don't know. Jealousy, most likely.
[the BSD license] is a simple, permissive non-copyleft free software license with no particular problem
Not exactly fightin words.
That's what I do. That's why I can make money. I can't do that with Deviant GNU/Linux because they make you sign away your code to RMS or put it under his license. And you can't make money doing that.
You realize, of course, that RMS gives you way more freedom than anything you buy from microsoft. All that's really going on here is that RMS is saying he dosen't want you to take his code and resell it without the code. The BSD ppl are saying they don't care what you do with it. And the proprietary developers are saying they don't want you doing anything with it unless you pay them, and they don't want you changing anything unless you pay them a lot of money.
I find your arguments to be rather hypocritical, since obviously you are interested in creating proprietary software. So isn't your argument much like Microsoft calling Red Hat proprietary?:o
The thing I don't get is that there are packet queue management algorithms out there that make it impossible to monopolize the bandwidth. So are the schools that bitch about this being a bandwidth thing too lazy to install a packet queue ordering algorithm? Most cisco routers come with them now.
Here at UC Santa Cruz, they filter ports 25 (smtp), 111 (sunrpc), 135, 136, 137-139 (netbios), 143 (imap2), 777, and 2049 (nfs). Don't ask me where they came up with that set.
Erhm, actually, su -, unlike su generates a login shell, not just a regular subshell. This includes resetting your enviornment (as root) and chdiring to the/root directory. It's especially useful on systems where/sbin is only in root's path; with su -, you get/sbin in your path when you su.
Well, with linux, it would be possible to put the realserver in some kind of process confinement, where it would be unable to read anything else on the hard drive, nor able to contact any server except the one it is streaming from. You can't do that on Windows. You can't do it yet on linux either, but at least it's possible.
Of course, they could have their process not run at all if it is confined. But then I would not run it at all.;)
One way I can think of is to use unix boxen with NFS-mounted/home, and chattr the netscape history file +a, so that the users can't change or delete the files. Then weekly (monthly, quarterly, etc.) run a script that resets the history file and sends the results off to wherever they should be sent.
This has the added benefit that it just shows pages, and not sourced HTML, graphics, etc., which makes the list much easier to read. If you wanted to you could have your script call lynx to grab the title of each page.
Hrm, you know, these crackers, they're just not that nice. They don't put their source IP address on the packets. So it really just looks like millions of ppl tried to connect to your site.
I think that linux and solaris are often targeted because that's what most of the DDOS attacks run on. Mostly the only thing you can do with windows is install BO2K. Though it wouldn't surprise me much to see DDOS tools for windows in the near future.
According to this entry in the Jargon file, daemon is derived from the "attendant power or spirit" meaning, but was later rationalized as Disk And Execution MONitor.
This is a good point. One example is that NT wasn't requiring administrator access to bind to high (>1024) ports until SP6, but when they implemented this in SP6, it broke Notes. Though no one knows if they waited until a competing product depended on this bug before fixing it...
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No, there is something known as the doctrine of apparant authority. As long as you appear to have authority to make a contract on behalf of a corporation (or partnership, etc.), then the contract is binding, even if you didn't actually have that authority.
So in this case, I'd say the person submitting it probably had apparant authority, and thus the code is, in fact, licensed under the GPL forever.
What he probably meant is OSI-approved. ESR is the chairman of the OSI, but they don't always agree with him; he thinks the ASPL should be approved, but it isn't.
Then you can do what Amazon is doing. But be aware that this is not defensive behaviour; You are trying to stop other people from using your idea, not protect yourself from being sued.
this site has a list of lots of acronyms.
Well, at least according to The New Hacker's Dictionary, this is a legitimate use of the word parse.
I have steadfastly avoided mainstream cinema since this whole thing started, but I find it rather hypocritical that the same people who told us about this whole thing are also encouraging moviegoers to continue.
Some people here will say this is why we will never win; because people don't care enough about corporations' actions to take action against them. I disagree. I think that it's not too late to fix things. We must boycott the MPAA.
The word 'safeguard' here applies to safeguarding against lawsuits, not safeguarding the patents. Since company A is not being sued in case 1b, it is not safeguarding, it is taking the offensive.
The rules can't be too byzantine, this made it in.
Terms of Service. Many cable providers make you agree not to use NAT on their system.
Erhm, GNU has been around for about 15 years. And RMS was writing free software for about another 5 years before that. So it's been around for a bit more than 5 years.
And how many did RMS write himself? None? I thought so. I use them because I *paid* Red Hat for them. You see, in a market economy that's how things work. Clever, no?
Where did you get the idea that red hat wrote the GNU tools?? The GNU shell, fileutils, and textutils were written long before redhat, possibly by RMS himself, although I don't know who specifically at FSF wrote them.
You seem to have ignored the fact that the BSD utilities predate GNU by *years* AND they're more free. You can use them without bying into Stallman's "Slavery is Freedom" (ie, the GPV) philosophy.
No, the BSDs used GNU fileutils and textutils until very recently (98 or 99).
"RMS: Whatever I say is free is good for you" BSD is free, but he regularly attacks it, its users and its developers. Why? I don't know. Jealousy, most likely.
RMS:
Not exactly fightin words.
That's what I do. That's why I can make money. I can't do that with Deviant GNU/Linux because they make you sign away your code to RMS or put it under his license. And you can't make money doing that.
You realize, of course, that RMS gives you way more freedom than anything you buy from microsoft. All that's really going on here is that RMS is saying he dosen't want you to take his code and resell it without the code. The BSD ppl are saying they don't care what you do with it. And the proprietary developers are saying they don't want you doing anything with it unless you pay them, and they don't want you changing anything unless you pay them a lot of money.
I find your arguments to be rather hypocritical, since obviously you are interested in creating proprietary software. So isn't your argument much like Microsoft calling Red Hat proprietary? :o
Unfortunately, it does appear to do what the RIAA says. :\
Xing, actually, didn't encrypt the key.
The thing I don't get is that there are packet queue management algorithms out there that make it impossible to monopolize the bandwidth. So are the schools that bitch about this being a bandwidth thing too lazy to install a packet queue ordering algorithm? Most cisco routers come with them now.
Here at UC Santa Cruz, they filter ports 25 (smtp), 111 (sunrpc), 135, 136, 137-139 (netbios), 143 (imap2), 777, and 2049 (nfs). Don't ask me where they came up with that set.
Mabye I'm missing something here, but I can't find anything about them on Linuxcare's website. In there a URL where you can buy these things? :o
Erhm, actually, su -, unlike su generates a login shell, not just a regular subshell. This includes resetting your enviornment (as root) and chdiring to the /root directory. It's especially useful on systems where /sbin is only in root's path; with su -, you get /sbin in your path when you su.
Well, with linux, it would be possible to put the realserver in some kind of process confinement, where it would be unable to read anything else on the hard drive, nor able to contact any server except the one it is streaming from. You can't do that on Windows. You can't do it yet on linux either, but at least it's possible.
;)
Of course, they could have their process not run at all if it is confined. But then I would not run it at all.
One way I can think of is to use unix boxen with NFS-mounted /home, and chattr the netscape history file +a, so that the users can't change or delete the files. Then weekly (monthly, quarterly, etc.) run a script that resets the history file and sends the results off to wherever they should be sent.
This has the added benefit that it just shows pages, and not sourced HTML, graphics, etc., which makes the list much easier to read. If you wanted to you could have your script call lynx to grab the title of each page.
Probably this will be directed more toward the portables market, because of the greater energy efficency.
and please read the article next time.
No, but it means that your laptop battery might last 10 hours, 30 if you have a crusoe processor.
Did you even read the article?
I wonder if this is because I am using a linux browser. Now that would be ironic...
Hrm, you know, these crackers, they're just not that nice. They don't put their source IP address on the packets. So it really just looks like millions of ppl tried to connect to your site.
Sorry to spoil your idea, though.
I think that linux and solaris are often targeted because that's what most of the DDOS attacks run on. Mostly the only thing you can do with windows is install BO2K. Though it wouldn't surprise me much to see DDOS tools for windows in the near future.
According to this entry in the Jargon file, daemon is derived from the "attendant power or spirit" meaning, but was later rationalized as Disk And Execution MONitor.
Do you have a URL for this? And is this the potato version, or the current release?
This is a good point. One example is that NT wasn't requiring administrator access to bind to high (>1024) ports until SP6, but when they implemented this in SP6, it broke Notes. Though no one knows if they waited until a competing product depended on this bug before fixing it...