Odds are their proprietary code dynamically links against LGPL libraries, in which case they have no obligation to release their proprietary code. As long as they don't statically link against LGPL code or dynaically link against GPL code, all that they have to do is make source available for the GPL and LGPL code that they are distributing ( in the manner stipulated by the two licenses ). And if you look, most everything under/lib is LGPL.
The interesting question to me regards the status of leased appliances. If you lease them does that still constitute a distribution of GPL software? The licenses are sadly unspecific in regards to what constitutes a distribution.
The problem in the pure sciences and humanities isn't a financial entrance barrier. Rather, the problem is folks wind up starving their way out of their chosen field; or wind up having to spend all of their free time doing someone else's teaching or research. Some of the brightest folks I've met in Ecology & Environmental Biology just weren't able to finish their degrees because (despite trying and suffering and hanging on in there). Ditto for pure physics and the humanities for that matter.
Take for instance Kristin Hersh. ThrowinMusic uses mp3s as a marketing tool. For a very low subscription rate, you get access to mp3s of demos and unreleased tracks. Past being a treat for their fans, it sustains interest in KH/Throwing Muses back catalog and primes the pump for new releases. It will be interesting to see how independents like Dischord and DGM adapt to mp3s, but I'd be shocked if they didn't find some way to use them to the advantage of their artists.
Seems to me that it is one more way that established and new artists can survive without having to tithe major labels. It also reminds me of the tape trade that catapulted Metallica. This is just a lot faster.
Wow. More hideous reasoning. (1) Correlations alone tell you nothing about causation. Indeed, most of the correlations that you can find in the world are spurious. (2) The sample that your correlation was drawn from, I'm sure, was all male. Pick some female Nobel Laureates in the various sciences and talk to me about their testosterone levels. (3) Even if you want to talk only about lusty males, only someone with a pretty blighted worldview would think that the only source of drive and energy in males that could be scultped to a "higher pursuit" is freaking glandular.
What I've learned from this thread? That way too many slashdot posters are scrambling for any feeble justification for their mysogyny.
Only if "supports this conjecture" means "makes vagues sense to someone who doesnt know what he or she is talking about."
You might want to review women's contribution to science. You might also want to review the various social constraints that historically barred women from study. Or you might want to review elementary logic and see why your attempt at causal explanation fall painfully short of the mark.
..its back to the old practice of trading/mailing floppies around. Hardly an improvement. Not that it doesn't still happen. Just last year I was mailed 5 floppies in the name of "security." Oy.
I'm pessimistic that any of this can work for *.gov. Having been on both the program and the systems administration/support side of things in the federal government, the following are pretty clear:
1) There is no funding for proactive measures of any sort. What matters is that there is virus scanning on the system, not that the scan engine or virus defs are up to date.
2) There is no funding or urgency to train employees. Heck, they can't train employees to use win95 word processors much less train them about macros, DCOM, IMAP or anything else. And when training is provided, it is often tragically bad. Take a tour of offices and count the number of win95 boxes where the only app being run is wp5.1...
3). PGP/GPG would be swell. However, many government agencies are squeamish about encryption (at the top) and most aren't aware of GNU/free software. Those that are typically think of it in terms of "shareware" and dont trust it. Besides, most users face a learning curve to handle zipped documents much less PGP/GPG.
Could the government mix up OSes on the desktop? Not likely. The amount of money it would cost to cross train everyone would be prohibitive, and barring that, the Feds wont do it. Heck, they are still scratching and clawing to drag everyone from DOS to win95.
One caveat: this will vary tremendously from department to department. I know that there are some government shops that on top of things and which use and contribute to GNU and Free Software. But if you look at a large department like DHHS......
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Odds are their proprietary code dynamically links against LGPL libraries, in which case they have no obligation to release their proprietary code. As long as they don't statically link against LGPL code or dynaically link against GPL code, all that they have to do is make source available for the GPL and LGPL code that they are distributing ( in the manner stipulated by the two licenses ). And if you look, most everything under /lib is LGPL.
The interesting question to me regards the status of leased appliances. If you lease them does that still constitute a distribution of GPL software? The licenses are sadly unspecific in regards to what constitutes a distribution.
The problem in the pure sciences and humanities isn't a financial entrance barrier. Rather, the problem is folks wind up starving their way out of their chosen field; or wind up having to spend all of their free time doing someone else's teaching or research. Some of the brightest folks I've met in Ecology & Environmental Biology just weren't able to finish their degrees because (despite trying and suffering and hanging on in there). Ditto for pure physics and the humanities for that matter.
Take for instance Kristin Hersh. ThrowinMusic uses mp3s as a marketing tool. For a very low subscription rate, you get access to mp3s of demos and unreleased tracks. Past being a treat for their fans, it sustains interest in KH/Throwing Muses back catalog and primes the pump for new releases. It will be interesting to see how independents like Dischord and DGM adapt to mp3s, but I'd be shocked if they didn't find some way to use them to the advantage of their artists.
Seems to me that it is one more way that established and new artists can survive without having to tithe major labels. It also reminds me of the tape trade that catapulted Metallica. This is just a lot faster.
Wow. More hideous reasoning. (1) Correlations alone tell you nothing about causation. Indeed, most of the correlations that you can find in the world are spurious. (2) The sample that your correlation was drawn from, I'm sure, was all male. Pick some female Nobel Laureates in the various sciences and talk to me about their testosterone levels. (3) Even if you want to talk only about lusty males, only someone with a pretty blighted worldview would think that the only source of drive and energy in males that could be scultped to a "higher pursuit" is freaking glandular.
What I've learned from this thread? That way too many slashdot posters are scrambling for any feeble justification for their mysogyny.
Only if "supports this conjecture" means "makes vagues sense to someone who doesnt know what he or she is talking about."
You might want to review women's contribution to science. You might also want to review the various social constraints that historically barred women from study. Or you might want to review elementary logic and see why your attempt at causal explanation fall painfully short of the mark.
..its back to the old practice of trading/mailing floppies around. Hardly an improvement. Not that it doesn't still happen. Just last year I was mailed 5 floppies in the name of "security." Oy.
I'm pessimistic that any of this can work for *.gov. Having been on both the program and the systems administration/support side of things in the federal government, the following are pretty clear:
1) There is no funding for proactive measures of any sort. What matters is that there is virus scanning on the system, not that the scan engine or virus defs are up to date.
2) There is no funding or urgency to train employees. Heck, they can't train employees to use win95 word processors much less train them about macros, DCOM, IMAP or anything else. And when training is provided, it is often tragically bad. Take a tour of offices and count the number of win95 boxes where the only app being run is wp5.1...
3). PGP/GPG would be swell. However, many government agencies are squeamish about encryption (at the top) and most aren't aware of GNU/free software. Those that are typically think of it in terms of "shareware" and dont trust it. Besides, most users face a learning curve to handle zipped documents much less PGP/GPG.
Could the government mix up OSes on the desktop? Not likely. The amount of money it would cost to cross train everyone would be prohibitive, and barring that, the Feds wont do it. Heck, they are still scratching and clawing to drag everyone from DOS to win95.
One caveat: this will vary tremendously from department to department. I know that there are some government shops that on top of things and which use and contribute to GNU and Free Software. But if you look at a large department like DHHS......