People who create GPL software cannot just one day stop giving source code back to the community.
Sure they can. They can stop providing updates and new code, just like with any other license. Existing code will be unaffected, but that applies to BSD and other open source licenses as well.
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
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The subfactor mentioned in the legislation above, "whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes," has recently been deemphasized in some Circuits "since many, if not most, secondary uses seek at least some measure of commercial gain from their use" (American Geophysical Union, 60 F.3d at 921). More important is whether the use fulfills any of the "preamble purposes" also mentioned in the legislation above, as these have been interpreted as paradigmatically "transformative". Although Judge Pierre Leval has distinguished the first factor as "the soul of fair use," it alone is not determinative. For example, not every educational usage is fair (see the 1914 case, Macmillan Co. v. King, although this case has only limited application since it was decided many years before the modern fair use provision became a part of the legislation).
From TFA:
However, the judge agreed that the display of thumbnails did infringe. And, because the search engines show ads against search results, he found the use of thumbnails to be commercial in nature. One of the tenets of fair use is that the usage not be commercial.
Second, most of the results for searches on his company name or the names of the models he has under contract lead not to Perfect 10 sites, but to sites that have pirated his images.
Finally, the suit claimed that Google should be held liable for helping searchers find sites that display stolen Perfect 10 images because, in many cases, those sites also show Google AdSense contextual ads. "Google not only copies and displays Perfect 10 images itself," the request for the injunction read, "but also links them to Infringing Sites with which Google has partnered and from which Google receives revenue through its AdSense advertising program."
They can ban google via robots, but google still displays their (pirated) images from other sites. Google has lots of money... but they also make money (adsense) from those copyrighted images, which means fair use doesn't apply (per the judge).
In a fair world, they should be thanking google for making it so easy to track down people who are improperly distributing on their copyrighted images.
The IRA had/has a goal of an independent Northern Ireland. "Palestinians", Al Quaidaists, Islamists, etc. have a goal of.... kill the Jews, kill the Americans, make the rest of the world islamic.
the GPL mysql source code is already mirrored plenty of places. MySQL's copy of the code is NOT under a GPL license. They release a version to the public as GPL, but their internal version is under a non-FREE license and contains functionality, improvements, optimizations, etc. which the GPL version does not have.
as much as we like to think open source is a "community of rag-tag developers across the internet", a lot of projects (especially ones that are closely associated with a company) have a few core developers that do most of the work. Sleepy Cat, InnoBase, MySQL, Mozilla, etc... most of the code is written by their employees.
They also might require you to sign over all legal rights before they'll accept code. Official GNU projects, for example, require contributors to assign to sign a contract for non-trivial code changes (assigning legal rights to the FSF and also stating that you wrote the code, an employer doesn't have any rights to it, etc). When SourceForge (Sister company to slashdot) went closed source, they had to retroactively get rights signed over and throw out some changes.
no... B & N just has high(er) prices. Bookpool often has better prices than Amazon (in this case, the book is out of stock, but otherwise it would be slightly cheaper than at amazon).
Personally, I stopped buying from Amazon.com when they stopped giving away gift certificates, raised prices, and realized that "making it up in volume" doesn't help when they lose money one every order.
The concept behind AJAX is very cool, however I am less than impressed by the implementation. A very important component of AJAX--the XMLHTTPRequest object--is NOT A STANDARD IMPLEMENTATION! It is an idea conceived by the Mozilla team and picked up by others as a de-facto standard..and of course, MS had to be all screwy and come up with their own kludgy way of doing things, naming their object differently and implementing a slightly different model just to be difficult.
You need to check your timeline again.
Spring 1999: IE 5.0 released. Supports the XMLHTTP Active X Object.
Spring 2002: Mozilla 1.0 released. Supports the XMLHTTPRequest Javascript Object, copied from XMLHTTP.
If you have a autostart bgsound which points to a silent wav file, IE will not make the click noise. I wish more people knew this, especially people writing pages which auto reload.
I was using gmail with IE last week, and it kept reloading/reclicking like twice a minute. I'm thinking, what is this, email or a metronome?
Berkeley DB was, is , and will always be open source. The Cat is out of the bag, and it's not going back in. I say hurray to Sleepy Cat: The open source world has a database and they got an undisclosed bonus for all their work.
but let's be honest. You've probably heard the quote, "BSD is for people that love Unix; Linux is for people that hate Windows." The sad truth is, it's true. Many Linux users have no particular loyalty to Linux and would just as soon use something else. While we may protest that KDE or GNOME are better than OS X, the collective orgasm when Apple announced an OSx86 show that free (beer) beats free (speech).
More than a few people from my local LUG have installed a bootlegged copy of the OSx86 beta. One of our members showed off his toshiba laptop running OS X, which was quite popular, even among the old school unix types.
It doesn't really matter what features or eye candy KDE or GNOME add, because OS X does it better. Flame me if you will, but I've been using Linux and BSD for over a decade now. An OS is a tool, I want one that works, and I think most people feel the same way.
The 9th circuit (ie, California/West Coast) Appeals Court recently approved a federal law which makes it illegal for a US Citizen to have sex with a minor in a foreign country -- on the basis of interstate commerce.
While we can all agree that child sexual exploitation and child prostitution is a bad thing and should be eliminated, I find it disturbing to think that a government can extend its laws into another sovereign nation. I hope that this decision will be overturned -- the 9th's decisions have a high rate of reversal -- but it is disturbing how those 2 words, "interstate commerce", have been twisted and maligned.
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I think you've spent too much time on slashdot.
People who create GPL software cannot just one day stop giving source code back to the community.
Sure they can. They can stop providing updates and new code, just like with any other license. Existing code will be unaffected, but that applies to BSD and other open source licenses as well.
according to the "java is not slow!" folks, that's also possible with bytecode.
Also, you can burn down some buildings. This seems to work for the muslims.
Actually, I just checked... Nope. (Unless it's a different perfect10).
Second, most of the results for searches on his company name or the names of the models he has under contract lead not to Perfect 10 sites, but to sites that have pirated his images.
Finally, the suit claimed that Google should be held liable for helping searchers find sites that display stolen Perfect 10 images because, in many cases, those sites also show Google AdSense contextual ads. "Google not only copies and displays Perfect 10 images itself," the request for the injunction read, "but also links them to Infringing Sites with which Google has partnered and from which Google receives revenue through its AdSense advertising program."
They can ban google via robots, but google still displays their (pirated) images from other sites. Google has lots of money ... but they also make money (adsense) from those copyrighted images, which means fair use doesn't apply (per the judge).
In a fair world, they should be thanking google for making it so easy to track down people who are improperly distributing on their copyrighted images.
IE 7 supports PNG alpha transparency.
That's not the sort of thing that's negotiable.
the GPL mysql source code is already mirrored plenty of places. MySQL's copy of the code is NOT under a GPL license. They release a version to the public as GPL, but their internal version is under a non-FREE license and contains functionality, improvements, optimizations, etc. which the GPL version does not have.
PHP actually started as a front-end to perl... so yes, it did reinvent it.
yes, but presumably the host system would be locked up tighter than joan river's face and wouldn't have any remote services running.
They also might require you to sign over all legal rights before they'll accept code. Official GNU projects, for example, require contributors to assign to sign a contract for non-trivial code changes (assigning legal rights to the FSF and also stating that you wrote the code, an employer doesn't have any rights to it, etc). When SourceForge (Sister company to slashdot) went closed source, they had to retroactively get rights signed over and throw out some changes.
Personally, I stopped buying from Amazon.com when they stopped giving away gift certificates, raised prices, and realized that "making it up in volume" doesn't help when they lose money one every order.
Apple did fool around with mkLinux before deciding *BSD is better.
The saudi oil fields have sea water pumped into them.
You need to check your timeline again.
If you have a autostart bgsound which points to a silent wav file, IE will not make the click noise. I wish more people knew this, especially people writing pages which auto reload.
I was using gmail with IE last week, and it kept reloading/reclicking like twice a minute. I'm thinking, what is this, email or a metronome?
shouldn't this be under the Special Advertising Section?
Promissory estoppel
(Sorry, I had to).
Berkeley DB was, is , and will always be open source. The Cat is out of the bag, and it's not going back in. I say hurray to Sleepy Cat: The open source world has a database and they got an undisclosed bonus for all their work.
More than a few people from my local LUG have installed a bootlegged copy of the OSx86 beta. One of our members showed off his toshiba laptop running OS X, which was quite popular, even among the old school unix types.
It doesn't really matter what features or eye candy KDE or GNOME add, because OS X does it better. Flame me if you will, but I've been using Linux and BSD for over a decade now. An OS is a tool, I want one that works, and I think most people feel the same way.
While we can all agree that child sexual exploitation and child prostitution is a bad thing and should be eliminated, I find it disturbing to think that a government can extend its laws into another sovereign nation. I hope that this decision will be overturned -- the 9th's decisions have a high rate of reversal -- but it is disturbing how those 2 words, "interstate commerce", have been twisted and maligned.