If you never walk on the roads that were built with tax dollars, I think you could argue that it was unfair. However, if everyone chose to only pay a percentage of taxes that applied to them, things wouldn't be so rosey.
Online subscribers pay $84/year, whereas print subscribers are still paying $356...
So, using the same kind of logic that the movie/record companies employ, each online subscriber is stealing $272 from the Wall Street Journal. They weren't going to pay for it, and yet they still get a copy.
I'm not paranoid enough to label FSFians as possible traitors who would follow whoever shakes the purse, hell no
Oh, I agree completely - I don't think they'd do something like that. However, they may be forced to hand over control to another party. It's unlikely, but stranger legal things have happened.
If I am ever to write something worthy of releasing to the world (and not just something I am playing around with), I will explicitly specify which version of the GPL I am releasing it under.
Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't want even the faintest chance that some nasty corporation managed to litigate itself in the position of being able to release a future GPL version, as in bold below:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
That's handing control of the licencing of your code over to whoever is allowed to write GPLv1851, if I'm reading it correctly.
No, they don't allow you to use it if you're another company to look for companies to try and sell your services to. http://www.yell.com/legal/home.html, Section 4, vii, bullet 4. For the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, you are expressly prohibited from:.... using the Data.... As source targeting material or contact data for any kind of telemarketing, direct marketing, viral or other electronic marketing activity on your own behalf or on behalf or for the benefit of another party.
Anyone want to bet that their "fact checkers" just head over to wikipedia to check the submissions?
Easy to catch them out then - just create a Wiki article about something that doesn't exist anywhere. Like Yellow Pages does - puts fake companies in, and catch people using the Yellow Pages (against it's terms) to find companies for business. Or map companies adding a very short fake road somewhere.
I have some sympathy for Microsoft here. If they don't force this patch, they're damned for perpetuating known security issues. If they do, they're damned for being bullies and for breaking compatibility with older applications.
Yep. Backwards compatibility be damned. As the saying goes - you've got to break a few eggs to make an omelette.
I would say that the GPL, and free software help the poorer nations. No monies leaving their shores, and in turn, they put money back into the local economy.
Contrast that with Microsoft, raking in dollars from all over the world, back to their little stash in the North West US.
I went to see him speak in Bristol once. I can see why people think he is a bit of a nut, ranting, and raving.
I think it's just that he really, really, really, really believes strongly in what he believes in. And that if you don't understand it, you are somehow stupid/lesser/not worth talking to.
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I imagine that Microsoft will add all those features to their next version of TS.
Now, if I could get Settlers to work under Linux (not that I've tried), I would be a happy man.
Can anyone out there tell me if they have?
Is it even a bug? Have you checked? If it isn't, have you filed one?
If you never walk on the roads that were built with tax dollars, I think you could argue that it was unfair. However, if everyone chose to only pay a percentage of taxes that applied to them, things wouldn't be so rosey.
So, using the same kind of logic that the movie/record companies employ, each online subscriber is stealing $272 from the Wall Street Journal. They weren't going to pay for it, and yet they still get a copy.
And hence you have your answer. PURPLE!
You party with RMS? That's either cool, or very, very sad. :)
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/e nu/ for the slightly less impatient.
Is there any problem with lumping it in the "Unix" category. I thought Linux != Unix.
It might help our geography-challenged friends over the Atlantic learn where a few places are too. :)
I think you meant "moran".
Is the Pope Catholic?
Oh, I agree completely - I don't think they'd do something like that. However, they may be forced to hand over control to another party. It's unlikely, but stranger legal things have happened.
Touche (with an accent (acute? grave?) on the e that I don't know how to do.).
Is it shiny? How much does it weigh?
Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't want even the faintest chance that some nasty corporation managed to litigate itself in the position of being able to release a future GPL version, as in bold below:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
That's handing control of the licencing of your code over to whoever is allowed to write GPLv1851, if I'm reading it correctly.No, they don't allow you to use it if you're another company to look for companies to try and sell your services to. http://www.yell.com/legal/home.html, Section 4, vii, bullet 4.
For the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, you are expressly prohibited from:.... using the Data.... As source targeting material or contact data for any kind of telemarketing, direct marketing, viral or other electronic marketing activity on your own behalf or on behalf or for the benefit of another party.
Easy to catch them out then - just create a Wiki article about something that doesn't exist anywhere. Like Yellow Pages does - puts fake companies in, and catch people using the Yellow Pages (against it's terms) to find companies for business. Or map companies adding a very short fake road somewhere.
Yep. Backwards compatibility be damned. As the saying goes - you've got to break a few eggs to make an omelette.
That's not surprising - they've only just bought that.
I've not really looked into it, but how do you go about poisoning DNS?
I would say that the GPL, and free software help the poorer nations. No monies leaving their shores, and in turn, they put money back into the local economy.
Contrast that with Microsoft, raking in dollars from all over the world, back to their little stash in the North West US.
I went to see him speak in Bristol once. I can see why people think he is a bit of a nut, ranting, and raving.
I think it's just that he really, really, really, really believes strongly in what he believes in. And that if you don't understand it, you are somehow stupid/lesser/not worth talking to.
As long as it's the phone company that pays for the updates. GPRS is about £1 per MB in the UK - it can be as high as £4 though.
The Gnome/KDE swap is (almost) funny. Anyone else strangely aroused by this dog?