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One substantive change is that because the case is now in Federal rather than state court, we can now request a finding in some general IP-law issues relevant to this case, including confirming the validity of the GPL.
Now wouldn't that be huge if a federal court confirmed it.
When you began a file system project as a free software project, you must have known that (assuming it worked) it had the potential to turn into a big project. How did you determine how long to work on it as your own project before making the first release? I imagine there must have been a strong temptation to just get it "out there" knowing its potential, yet certainly releasing too soon would make it look unprofessional and thrown together.
BSD would be an example of a less restrictive license . Such licenses are discussed in the memo prior to discussing the GPL. Since the GPL is rather unique, it's no wonder that it was mentioned specifically. You don't really expect them to enumerate the licenses on OSI do you?
Man wouldn't it be a mean trick to rig someone's system so the mouse would only point to even-numbered pixels. Half the time they'd have no clue what was going on.
How about making it illegal for a company to finance a spammer? They are starting to pass laws that make spam illegal, but why not go to the root of the problem? If you're going to make spam illegal, then making it illegal for a company to finance an illegal activity doesn't seem that much of a stretch. In fact, that's probably already covered under some more generic existing law.
If someone receives spam for a product and it could be shown that the company that makes the product financed the spamming, then fine the company some big bucks. It might be hard to prove, but in a lot of cases the fear that it might happen would be enough to stop companies from doing it.
There were some figures in the article indicating how much the spammer got paid per sale or per inquiry about the product. That has to be showing up (probably under some other name) in some company's advertising budget. With the crackdown on corporate accounting I think some of this could be uncovered.
Napster was not a true p2p network. The fact 4 p2p networks may now be legal wouldn't be that relevant to Napster even if it still existed in some useable form.
It was only recently that the 24/7 networking problem was solved, and now they've moved on to researching the 69/8 problem. Any progress on that could have huge ramifications.
By the same logic, rental cars are just advertising for the automobile company, so we shouldn't have to pay to rent cars. And apples (the fruit, not the computers) are just advertising for apple trees, so we shouldn't have to pay for apples.
Rental car companies don't sit their cars out on the street with the keys in them and invite anyone to drive them. If I'm driving a rental car you cannot be driving the same car. If I eat an apple, you cannot eat the same apple.
But in the case of music, they put songs on the radio so everyone can listen. As heard on a radio, the songs have inferior sound quality to CDs and are essentially advertisements to go buy the CD. The mp3 quality is somewhat higher, but still not equal to that of a CD. I could also record directly from the radio. Songs really are ads to convince people to go buy the high-quality CDs.
What about all the people who didn't take a PE exam but whose college degree says Computer Engineering? If I lived in Texas, I'd still call myself an engineer for precisely that reason...and if they didn't like it, tough, I'd switch states.
I can sort of see the fuss over someone with a 2-year Computer Technology degree advertising themself as an engineer, but really if they have equivalent experience I certainly wouldn't debate their right to the title of engineer either.
The optimum solution seems to be play by phone, or when distances are too great, play by mail.
Oh I can see this working. "Hey, Fred, did you get my letter I mailed last week? You know, the one where I rolled a 20? I haven't heard from you yet. Did we kill the sucker or not?"
I'm around many scientists and engineers. I know zero people who use EndNote. Plenty who use bibtex.
And as far s the original post goes, it wouldn't matter if MS did add bibiliography support to Word. Who is dumb enough to use Word to write a research paper anyway? This is why there are things like Framemaker and LaTeX.
The Internet, of course, is a powerful tool to communicate messages to potential clients....
I intend to use the Net to its full potential to advance my professional and personal agendas.
May seem a crazy question, but it seems like half the packages for Gnome are still versioned 1.4.x and half are 2.x (at least as far as what's in Debian).
I've been using KDE for a while now because I think I've got some weird half-and-half Gnome install despite all my packages being called up-to-date.
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has embraced Linux in his latest product offering, Moxi. Moxi is a PVR system from Digeo with some additional cool features
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One substantive change is that because the case is now in Federal rather than state court, we can now request a finding in some general IP-law issues relevant to this case, including confirming the validity of the GPL.
Now wouldn't that be huge if a federal court confirmed it.
Cities should not have TLDs. There's too many of them. At the very least they should be under a .us domain or, even better, under a .ca.us domain.
When you began a file system project as a free software project, you must have known that (assuming it worked) it had the potential to turn into a big project. How did you determine how long to work on it as your own project before making the first release? I imagine there must have been a strong temptation to just get it "out there" knowing its potential, yet certainly releasing too soon would make it look unprofessional and thrown together.
how much did you pay for the deer suit and the bullseye?
BSD would be an example of a less restrictive license . Such licenses are discussed in the memo prior to discussing the GPL. Since the GPL is rather unique, it's no wonder that it was mentioned specifically. You don't really expect them to enumerate the licenses on OSI do you?
Provided they're electronic copies.
Man wouldn't it be a mean trick to rig someone's system so the mouse would only point to even-numbered pixels. Half the time they'd have no clue what was going on.
"windows integrated security"
Neat trick. I thought those two were divergent.
That's a math joke.
Ummm...nevermind.
How about making it illegal for a company to finance a spammer? They are starting to pass laws that make spam illegal, but why not go to the root of the problem? If you're going to make spam illegal, then making it illegal for a company to finance an illegal activity doesn't seem that much of a stretch. In fact, that's probably already covered under some more generic existing law.
If someone receives spam for a product and it could be shown that the company that makes the product financed the spamming, then fine the company some big bucks. It might be hard to prove, but in a lot of cases the fear that it might happen would be enough to stop companies from doing it.
There were some figures in the article indicating how much the spammer got paid per sale or per inquiry about the product. That has to be showing up (probably under some other name) in some company's advertising budget. With the crackdown on corporate accounting I think some of this could be uncovered.
There was an old controller available for the Super Nintendo that used this exact type of device instead of the traditional 4-way pad.
Napster was not a true p2p network. The fact 4 p2p networks may now be legal wouldn't be that relevant to Napster even if it still existed in some useable form.
IBPhoenix are the blasted remnants of that independent open source company Borland tried to set up.
That makes it sound like she doesn't like it. I guess maybe it was intended more along the lines of "blast remnants" or "last remnants."
Maybe if they add a line that says that they must ask Clippy's opinion on all new software purchases then Microsoft will stop blocking the bill.
"It looks like you're trying to buy $2 million of software..."
Maybe if they add a line that says they must ask Clippy's opinion on all new software purchases then Microsoft will stop blocking the bill.
Maybe if they add a line that says they must ask Clippy's opinion on all new software purchases then Microsoft will stop blocking the bill.
It was only recently that the 24/7 networking problem was solved, and now they've moved on to researching the 69/8 problem. Any progress on that could have huge ramifications.
By the same logic, rental cars are just advertising for the automobile company, so we shouldn't have to pay to rent cars. And apples (the fruit, not the computers) are just advertising for apple trees, so we shouldn't have to pay for apples.
Rental car companies don't sit their cars out on the street with the keys in them and invite anyone to drive them. If I'm driving a rental car you cannot be driving the same car. If I eat an apple, you cannot eat the same apple.
But in the case of music, they put songs on the radio so everyone can listen. As heard on a radio, the songs have inferior sound quality to CDs and are essentially advertisements to go buy the CD. The mp3 quality is somewhat higher, but still not equal to that of a CD. I could also record directly from the radio. Songs really are ads to convince people to go buy the high-quality CDs.
What about all the people who didn't take a PE exam but whose college degree says Computer Engineering? If I lived in Texas, I'd still call myself an engineer for precisely that reason...and if they didn't like it, tough, I'd switch states.
I can sort of see the fuss over someone with a 2-year Computer Technology degree advertising themself as an engineer, but really if they have equivalent experience I certainly wouldn't debate their right to the title of engineer either.
I've tried it before. People just looked at me funny and I didn't get any money. Same thing with the rain dance. Must be doing something wrong...
The optimum solution seems to be play by phone, or when distances are too great, play by mail.
Oh I can see this working. "Hey, Fred, did you get my letter I mailed last week? You know, the one where I rolled a 20? I haven't heard from you yet. Did we kill the sucker or not?"
I'm around many scientists and engineers. I know zero people who use EndNote. Plenty who use bibtex.
And as far s the original post goes, it wouldn't matter if MS did add bibiliography support to Word. Who is dumb enough to use Word to write a research paper anyway? This is why there are things like Framemaker and LaTeX.
gcc has a steep learning curve to get past before you can add a new optimization pass or, actually, before you can make just about any modification.
It is very well documented, portable, etc...but that does not mean the design is easy to deal with as a compiler writer.
The Internet, of course, is a powerful tool to communicate messages to potential clients. ...
I intend to use the Net to its full potential to advance my professional and personal agendas.
Uh oh.
May seem a crazy question, but it seems like half the packages for Gnome are still versioned 1.4.x and half are 2.x (at least as far as what's in Debian).
I've been using KDE for a while now because I think I've got some weird half-and-half Gnome install despite all my packages being called up-to-date.
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has embraced Linux in his latest product offering, Moxi. Moxi is a PVR system from Digeo with some additional cool features
Uh oh....embrace and extend anyone?