""" The FSF tends to stick with GNU projects. They insist that all GNU developers give them a form assigning the FSF their copyrights - so that they have strong standing in a court. """
Those who've studied a little history may recognise the above way of working. I'm in particular thinking of the wonderful cooperative organisations in Italy that eventaully became the Mafia, and of the wonderful cooperative organisations in Ireland that eventually became the IRA (though the evolution was a longer one in that case).
Why do you post this AC? I want to be able to increase my chances of reading more of your posts by using friend +1, but can't. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
""" A few people will start working on something that is open, free and capable of replacing Linux"?
Start? Excuse me - *BSD anyone? """
There's a more obvious answer - just rewrite the bits that are IP violating. Believe it or not there are loads of linux hackers who could probably rewrite the contentious bits in a matter of days. When that happens, Linux suddenly becomes legal again. You can't taint new linux with the (alleged) faults of old linux. Then again, I beleive the SCO suit has no teeth anyway.
I think Cringely is just going for the attention, and we've given it too him. Look at the prediction "it will either get bigger or smaller". What kind of prediction is that? Here's one: Akozakie - this coming year you will either drink more or less caffeinated drinks than this past year.
What are the chances that prediction is correct?
Here's another one: This coming year at least one bear will shit in the woods.
Cringely, attention seeking media whore, who'd a thunk it.
XML is not for semantic markup of text. It's for structured representationof data. And it's just a butt-ugly version of lisp s-exps were 4 decades ago.
Maybe Gates, Allen and Ballshite^H^H^H^H^Hmer feature on that page as creaters of hacker toolkits. For example, they wrote a great e-mail DDoS tool called Outlook, and managed to backdoor IIS left, right and centre.
Yup. Definitely Tuborg (which is very rarely encountered in Finland) Ol. But that's not the only drink going down. To the bottom left, out of focus, is a 1L bottle of Koskenkorva vodka (it has a distinctively angled shoulder/neck), and in front of him is a wine glass.
http://www.mysticunderground.net/mirror/www.wbgl in ks.net/pages/watchmen/pictures/pic01/linus3.jpg
Tuborg, wine, and kossu ( http://www.kossu.org/ ), heheh, did someone say something about Finnish drinking habits?
As if it's derived from GPL code there's a clause in the GPL that says that if you try to patent it then you're violating the license. If so, then you've no longer got any right to base your code on it, and then you're in violation of the license until you reimplement.
A giant underground worm heard it crash land, rushed towards it, and gobbled it up. See the worm path going roughly west to east on this photo, and see the horrible distruction at the end: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/medi ummaps/M11/M1104327.jpg
It should have been decided in a 20 second gavel-smack from Judge Judy (or the Chinese equivalent thereof), as it was too stupid to have gone to court. The game company, assuming that they accepted culpability, should have immediately restored the virtual property. That's surely just plain common sense, they have utterly failed to provide the service for which he paid - that is in part to maintain his (virtual) property. By their own admission (D'Oh!) his virtual property had absolutely no value to them, and was nothing more than fields in a database. For them to want to fight over/that/ was pathetic.
Absolutely the right decision.
Alas it won't send any message anywhere. China has a completely different legal system (mostly without precedent), and the US/UK will almost certainly pay no attention to results like this, which is no precendent in their respective systems.
Jesus Christ, never have I seen such stupid karma whoring.
Did you even read what your parent post contained? It contained Gore's exact wording. You did _not_ refute what was said, and provided no counter-argument against it. It was a waste of electrons.
Worst of all, today's moderaters are on crack, and fell for it.
I'd not use that wording. The GPL uses copyright to forbid redistribution of a modified verison of the code without the offer of provision of the source code.
No-one's _forcing_ anyone to do anything. If you _chose_ to redistribute, then you must bide by the licence.
Beware - "public domain" is a loaded term. Nowadays, those who think that they own the language insist that if you try to put copyright material into the public domain then you're contradicting yourself. Everyone unquestioningly seems to believe them by rote. However, if you take 'public' to mean 'public', and 'domain' to mean 'domain', and thus 'public domain' to mean the 'domain of the public', then there's no contradiction.
I've been running Linux Yli-Ii for years you insensitive clod!
I think the distibutions should translate their names into Finnish too. I'd like to see anyone familiar with the slang word 'punani' install a Punainenhattu Linux, for example.
NAFAIK. I know very little about Windows anything as I've been exclusively Linux, FreeBSD, HPUX, DU, and Solaris for the last 5 years. In all of those, apart from name changes, running programs as other users has been either unnecessary or trivial since time immemorial.
It says: """ Simply run FileMon (filemon.exe). You must have administrator privilege to run FileMon. """ In which case, I'm not going to see which ones my g/f's CD burning software barfs on because it won't barf on them? What's the point in that? (under NT4.0)
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"""
The FSF tends to stick with GNU projects. They insist that all GNU developers give them a form assigning the FSF their copyrights - so that they have strong standing in a court.
"""
Those who've studied a little history may recognise the above way of working. I'm in particular thinking of the wonderful cooperative organisations in Italy that eventaully became the Mafia, and of the wonderful cooperative organisations in Ireland that eventually became the IRA (though the evolution was a longer one in that case).
So, what will the FSF be like in 150 years?
YAW.
"something more attuned to the needs of the commons."
I genuinely hope not.
I want an OS that caters for elitist nerdy schmucks. The commons have their playing pool, I don't want them invading mine.
YAW.
Why do you post this AC?
I want to be able to increase my chances of reading more of your posts by using friend +1, but can't. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
YAW.
"""
A few people will start working on something that is open, free and capable of replacing Linux"?
Start? Excuse me - *BSD anyone?
"""
There's a more obvious answer - just rewrite the bits that are IP violating. Believe it or not there are loads of linux hackers who could probably rewrite the contentious bits in a matter of days.
When that happens, Linux suddenly becomes legal again. You can't taint new linux with the (alleged) faults of old linux. Then again, I beleive the SCO suit has no teeth anyway.
I think Cringely is just going for the attention, and we've given it too him. Look at the prediction "it will either get bigger or smaller". What kind of prediction is that?
Here's one:
Akozakie - this coming year you will either drink more or less caffeinated drinks than this past year.
What are the chances that prediction is correct?
Here's another one:
This coming year at least one bear will shit in the woods.
Cringely, attention seeking media whore, who'd a thunk it.
YAW
XML is not for semantic markup of text. It's for structured representationof data. And it's just a butt-ugly version of lisp s-exps were 4 decades ago.
YAW.
Maybe Gates, Allen and Ballshite^H^H^H^H^Hmer feature on that page as creaters of hacker toolkits. For example, they wrote a great e-mail DDoS tool called Outlook, and managed to backdoor IIS left, right and centre.
YAW.
Yup. Definitely Tuborg (which is very rarely encountered in Finland) Ol. But that's not the only drink going down.
l in ks.net/pages/watchmen/pictures/pic01/linus3.jpg
To the bottom left, out of focus, is a 1L bottle of Koskenkorva vodka (it has a distinctively angled shoulder/neck), and in front of him is a wine glass.
http://www.mysticunderground.net/mirror/www.wbg
Tuborg, wine, and kossu ( http://www.kossu.org/ ), heheh, did someone say something about Finnish drinking habits?
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He's a Finn. If I know Finns (and I know Finns), the beer would have been purchased in a 24-pack, as there's no point wasting time with just a 6-pack.
YAW.
As if it's derived from GPL code there's a clause in the GPL that says that if you try to patent it then you're violating the license. If so, then you've no longer got any right to base your code on it, and then you're in violation of the license until you reimplement.
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Have you ever seen wet donkeys join?
It's gross.
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Did you ever see "Tremors"?
i ummaps /M11/M1104327.jpg
A giant underground worm heard it crash land, rushed towards it, and gobbled it up. See the worm path going roughly west to east on this photo, and see the horrible distruction at the end:
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/med
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Mobile chemical weapons production labs and kebab vans.
Sometimes they get the two confused though.
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Like McDonalds did, you mean, in the "McLibel" case against 2 members of London Greenpeace?
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Branded Toshiba Li-Ions can be had for <$70.
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Agreed.
/that/ was pathetic.
It should have been decided in a 20 second gavel-smack from Judge Judy (or the Chinese equivalent thereof), as it was too stupid to have gone to court. The game company, assuming that they accepted culpability, should have immediately restored the virtual property. That's surely just plain common sense, they have utterly failed to provide the service for which he paid - that is in part to maintain his (virtual) property. By their own admission (D'Oh!) his virtual property had absolutely no value to them, and was nothing more than fields in a database. For them to want to fight over
Absolutely the right decision.
Alas it won't send any message anywhere. China has a completely different legal system (mostly without precedent), and the US/UK will almost certainly pay no attention to results like this, which is no precendent in their respective systems.
YAW.
Jesus Christ, never have I seen such stupid karma whoring.
Did you even read what your parent post contained?
It contained Gore's exact wording.
You did _not_ refute what was said, and provided no counter-argument against it. It was a waste of electrons.
Worst of all, today's moderaters are on crack, and fell for it.
YAW.
I'd not use that wording. The GPL uses copyright to forbid redistribution of a modified verison of the code without the offer of provision of the source code.
..." ..."
No-one's _forcing_ anyone to do anything. If you _chose_ to redistribute, then you must bide by the licence.
"Doctor, it hurts when I
"Then don't
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Beware - "public domain" is a loaded term.
Nowadays, those who think that they own the language insist that if you try to put copyright material into the public domain then you're contradicting yourself. Everyone unquestioningly seems to believe them by rote. However, if you take 'public' to mean 'public', and 'domain' to mean 'domain', and thus 'public domain' to mean the 'domain of the public', then there's no contradiction.
YAW.
I've been running Linux Yli-Ii for years you insensitive clod!
I think the distibutions should translate their names into Finnish too. I'd like to see anyone familiar with the slang word 'punani' install a Punainenhattu Linux, for example.
YAW.
In what way does a bit of fap-fap-fapping by a few nerds affect MS?
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It's the "Download now" link in the "Patch Source Code" section near the top of the page.
:-P
I apologise now on behalf of the Open Source community for them making it too confusing for you
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Alas it doesn't work that way.
Then again, would we really want their lousy (lice are bugs, aren't they) source?
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"Is this feature not available on NT4?"
NAFAIK. I know very little about Windows anything as I've been exclusively Linux, FreeBSD, HPUX, DU, and Solaris for the last 5 years. In all of those, apart from name changes, running programs as other users has been either unnecessary or trivial since time immemorial.
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Which claims to be a document, but its extension is .exe
Isn't that the kind of thing you warn your kids against?
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It says:
"""
Simply run FileMon (filemon.exe). You must have administrator privilege to run FileMon.
"""
In which case, I'm not going to see which ones my g/f's CD burning software barfs on because it won't barf on them? What's the point in that? (under NT4.0)
YAW.