OK, some perspective from the "buyer" side. When I encounter a company with technology I want, I almost always attempt to LICENSE the technology, not buy the company. Why? Because I can usually get what I want out of the company cheaper and with less hassle than if I bought the company. (Think retaining/motivating employees, etc. too.) Plus, if I become a significant stream of revenue to that company, I can often dictate what the company does with the majority of its development resources if I'm needy enough; in effect, I can get that companies' other customers subsidize my desires.
>> if an offer from Facebook ever comes, should he accept?
Yes, but...
>> One of those interested parties is reportedly Facebook, with whom the young CEO claims to have had casual discussions about a potential acquisition/hire agreement
If we aren't going to chase down voter fraud or even implement the same identification requirements for voting as we require at the local DMV, what are the chances we're going to chase down people taking photos of their own ballot?
Hey SlashDot, how about some "News for Nerds" sometime soon? This is two days in a row with an announcement about some large corporate entity throwing money into a marketing pot. If we wanted this kind of news, we'd be on the Businessweek site right now.
I own an iPad, an iPod, two Android devices and a Nexus 7 is on its way in the mail. I still haven't purchased anything from any app store.
Furthermore I'm not sure what would compel me to do so: free games are good enough, productivity apps are free, and music, movies and books are still basically free as long as you have a desktop, laptop, or friends.
I couldn't tell you where ANY pay phones around here are. Heck, where you do see a pay phone, it's usually in a neighborhood where you're likely to get mugged or shot if you tried to use it anyway.
>> I think Bruce has a vision for the future...but he didn't really make clear how we should go about getting there.
Isn't it clear by now?
1) Quit your job 2) Work on other people's unpopular open source projects on your own time with your own equipment 3) ??? 4) Pay mortgage, feed family...where #3 is "lecture on the benefits of open source" for a small subset of the population.
>> business has nothing to fear from the GPL if they will invest in proper due diligence
Um...that's a BIG part of the problem. Proper due diligence usually means "run it by the lawyers" which is usually the most expensive and time-consuming thing you can possibly do, plus it comes with a risk of attracting top level management attention and pissing off your entire managerial chain.
>> people migrating away from the GPL and using less restrictive licenses
This have been true for years. The only open source code I work with these days has an Apache, BSD, public domain, or similar license, because I usually want businesses to use my code too.
>> Bruce has been busy traveling Well, la tee f. da. Get a tablet and start responding to emails from the airport like the rest of us, eh?
>> While some private homes and businesses in electrified areas have set out power strips for strangers to charge their phones, it's hard to imagine a crowd of New Yorkers standing idly by while someone spends a significant amount of time charging a new tablet.
You do realize that the power is on at the Apple store, and all around it, right? From TFA: "The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, like most of upper Manhattan, did not suffer any flooding or power outages due to Hurricane Sandy."
>> sometimes discovered footprints on the toilet seats at work
Some context here - "normal" toilets in China don't have anything to sit on, so you squat over the hole or bowl, depending on your location. I believe this phrase was meant to indicate that this woman had to work in the same office as some unsophisticated Chinese citizens.
>> People who claim to be Creationists are almost always ignorant of evolution.
I'm not sure the good doctor has this one right. In my experience, creationists have been exposed to the general theory of evolution, but have found one or more reasons in the telling (often an intentionally injected reason) to reject it. Look up "straw dog" to see how this is often done on a number of topics.
>> 'Wikipedia is now a mature reference work with a stable organizational structure and a well-established reputation....which is why NO ONE accepts it as the reference of record, right?
>> Jensen says Wikipedia should now devote more resources toward getting editors access...so that they could bring the articles up to a more polished, professional standard.
The current problem isn't that editors don't have direct access to the information; after all, most editors would rather edit than become subject matter experts. Instead, it's that it's not even worth trying to post any change to Wikipedia anymore. As a previous poster stated, it seems that there's about a 90% chance that any revision to any entry will be quickly redacted, whether it's a punctuation correction, a fact backed up by a reference, or just the addition of a reference. From the perspective of contributors with subject matter expertise, Wikipedia has largely become a waste of their time.
Since this seems to be about how little space do you need to give a human over a long period of time before he/she goes insane, why not start with the actual experiences of our submariners under similar conditions?
1) People who love free browsers so much that they'll buy apps for them? 2) People who can't find what they want among the Android's 500K free apps? 3) People who switched to Firefox to avoid browser lock-in (e.g., IE) but now want to their apps to be locked to specific browser? 4) Developers who would purchase some kind of developers license in the hopes that someone won't instantly clone their app before they make their developer fee back? 5) ???
Seriously - can someone "on the inside" tell me who's clamoring for this?
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>> It would be helpful if in comments you start the subject of your post with your 2-letter state abbreviation
FU - This isn't MF Twitter
>> Don't sell...license.
OK, some perspective from the "buyer" side. When I encounter a company with technology I want, I almost always attempt to LICENSE the technology, not buy the company. Why? Because I can usually get what I want out of the company cheaper and with less hassle than if I bought the company. (Think retaining/motivating employees, etc. too.) Plus, if I become a significant stream of revenue to that company, I can often dictate what the company does with the majority of its development resources if I'm needy enough; in effect, I can get that companies' other customers subsidize my desires.
>> if an offer from Facebook ever comes, should he accept?
Yes, but...
>> One of those interested parties is reportedly Facebook, with whom the young CEO claims to have had casual discussions about a potential acquisition/hire agreement
...I wouldn't count on that now. Yeesh.
If we aren't going to chase down voter fraud or even implement the same identification requirements for voting as we require at the local DMV, what are the chances we're going to chase down people taking photos of their own ballot?
Hey SlashDot, how about some "News for Nerds" sometime soon? This is two days in a row with an announcement about some large corporate entity throwing money into a marketing pot. If we wanted this kind of news, we'd be on the Businessweek site right now.
I own an iPad, an iPod, two Android devices and a Nexus 7 is on its way in the mail. I still haven't purchased anything from any app store.
Furthermore I'm not sure what would compel me to do so: free games are good enough, productivity apps are free, and music, movies and books are still basically free as long as you have a desktop, laptop, or friends.
I couldn't tell you where ANY pay phones around here are. Heck, where you do see a pay phone, it's usually in a neighborhood where you're likely to get mugged or shot if you tried to use it anyway.
>> I think Bruce has a vision for the future...but he didn't really make clear how we should go about getting there.
Isn't it clear by now?
1) Quit your job ...where #3 is "lecture on the benefits of open source" for a small subset of the population.
2) Work on other people's unpopular open source projects on your own time with your own equipment
3) ???
4) Pay mortgage, feed family
>> business has nothing to fear from the GPL if they will invest in proper due diligence
Um...that's a BIG part of the problem. Proper due diligence usually means "run it by the lawyers" which is usually the most expensive and time-consuming thing you can possibly do, plus it comes with a risk of attracting top level management attention and pissing off your entire managerial chain.
>> people migrating away from the GPL and using less restrictive licenses
This have been true for years. The only open source code I work with these days has an Apache, BSD, public domain, or similar license, because I usually want businesses to use my code too.
>> Bruce has been busy traveling
Well, la tee f. da. Get a tablet and start responding to emails from the airport like the rest of us, eh?
>> Bloomberg BusinessWeek says
This is the guy who just banned large sodas, right? Go on...
>> 'many people in line are not fluent in English and are either Asian immigrants or visitors.'
Right, because New Yorkers are naturally a compassionate people, without the usual morons (e.g., http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/11/02/madison1_610x407.jpg) found elsewhere in America.
>> While some private homes and businesses in electrified areas have set out power strips for strangers to charge their phones, it's hard to imagine a crowd of New Yorkers standing idly by while someone spends a significant amount of time charging a new tablet.
You do realize that the power is on at the Apple store, and all around it, right? From TFA: "The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, like most of upper Manhattan, did not suffer any flooding or power outages due to Hurricane Sandy."
>> sometimes discovered footprints on the toilet seats at work
Some context here - "normal" toilets in China don't have anything to sit on, so you squat over the hole or bowl, depending on your location. I believe this phrase was meant to indicate that this woman had to work in the same office as some unsophisticated Chinese citizens.
>> the FBI is now hunting hackers 24/7
Is that because we finally figured out what happened in Benghazi?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578008922056244096.html
How 'bout we figure out who let Sean Smith down first, eh?
>> Heck, a nuclear meltdown would be a much bigger problem.
Heck, a Godzilla attack would be a much bigger problem.
>> People who claim to be Creationists are almost always ignorant of evolution.
I'm not sure the good doctor has this one right. In my experience, creationists have been exposed to the general theory of evolution, but have found one or more reasons in the telling (often an intentionally injected reason) to reject it. Look up "straw dog" to see how this is often done on a number of topics.
>> 'Wikipedia is now a mature reference work with a stable organizational structure and a well-established reputation. ...which is why NO ONE accepts it as the reference of record, right?
>> Jensen says Wikipedia should now devote more resources toward getting editors access...so that they could bring the articles up to a more polished, professional standard.
The current problem isn't that editors don't have direct access to the information; after all, most editors would rather edit than become subject matter experts. Instead, it's that it's not even worth trying to post any change to Wikipedia anymore. As a previous poster stated, it seems that there's about a 90% chance that any revision to any entry will be quickly redacted, whether it's a punctuation correction, a fact backed up by a reference, or just the addition of a reference. From the perspective of contributors with subject matter expertise, Wikipedia has largely become a waste of their time.
>> proper social skills to deal with a small group of people just like themselves
"Do you play D&D?"
"Yes, why?"
"You're in!"
Since this seems to be about how little space do you need to give a human over a long period of time before he/she goes insane, why not start with the actual experiences of our submariners under similar conditions?
Next up the regulators - the same treatment for the iPad and the Safari browser...er...right?
don't have time to read all that - can anyone summarize?
Who's the audience for this?
1) People who love free browsers so much that they'll buy apps for them?
2) People who can't find what they want among the Android's 500K free apps?
3) People who switched to Firefox to avoid browser lock-in (e.g., IE) but now want to their apps to be locked to specific browser?
4) Developers who would purchase some kind of developers license in the hopes that someone won't instantly clone their app before they make their developer fee back?
5) ???
Seriously - can someone "on the inside" tell me who's clamoring for this?
>> Prof. Moglen is also one of the most polished speakers anywhere, on any topic, in our opinion. So please..
Yes. I'm sure. He is. Says the forum who. Thinks Shatner is. One of the greatest. Actors ever.
Post the MF'ing transcript if you want us to consume the wisdom, please. We're in a hurry out here.
>> Stop the presses!
They will be - December 31st.
http://www.jsonline.com/business/quadgraphics-loses-longtime-contract-with-newsweek-ending-print-editions-6l7963e-174765501.html
>> Alto...is...an...aggregator of the email accounts you already have."
Aha - a web-based email client.
The problem with Newsweek isn't the medium - it's the title. Who waits a week for their news, even their analysis anymore?