Of course, being sexually attracted to adolescents isn't particularly perverse. Western culture may find it so, but human nature begs to differ.
There's no innate reason for people to be attracted only to others in their age group. In general, a person's preferences when it comes to age are fixed pretty early. If you think 16-year-olds are attractive when you're 16, you'll probably think the same when you're 61.
Because of a belief in the moral or pragmatic superiority of free software, I'd think.
Personally, I don't really care about Unix or its derivatives. GNU/Linux is the most functional free operating system for my needs, so that's what I use. Being based on Unix doesn't automatically make something any good.
And if American meant capitalist, you'd have a point there. A significant amount of the 20th century in the US was defined by government policy where the rich supported the poor. Was the New Deal era from the 30s to the late 60s a period where America became un-American?
The history of the American economy is one of constant state involvement.
If I lend you climbing gear at the bottom of a rock face, and take it back half of the way up because you offended me, what I have done is absolutely immoral.
As far as I know, "Recipient" would mean Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers. Not OSDL, per se.
And Tridge wasn't being paid to work on reverse-engineering BitKeeper. He was doing it on his own time.
#5 breaks down, because "Mutual Friend" and "Recipient" are the same.
In any case, if Linus felt that using BitKeeper was so important, he could pay for licenses. OSDL could pay for licenses. They're not doing that. Apparently, Linus even encouraged McVoy to end the gratis client, and he's even acknowledged that this was mostly due to the $500k/year cost claimed. Why, then, is he chewing Tridge out for causing something he believed should have been done anyway? That he actually recommended?
In essence, Linus is implicitly recognizing that Tridge's activity was only an excuse for BitMover to end a program that was no longer financially useful.
1. Tridge reverse-engineers proprietary protocols. That's what he does. Ever heard of Samba? 2. As far as I can tell, Tridge wasn't intent on breaking any deal between Linus and McVoy. 3. Tridge never used BitKeeper's free client, so he did not agree to the license. He can't fail to "uphold his side of the deal", because he never made a deal.
Linus is hypocritically attacking someone for reverse-engineering his friend's protocol, when he does not criticize others for doing the same to other protocols. Tridgell has done some great work, and he deserves better.
Frankly, I think it's better to have a very gaudy theme that can be changed than a somewhat gaudy theme that cannot.
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Because an icon signifying type and a descriptive name is a damn sight more useful than a few scraps of text or a tiny pixelated snapshot of a document.
Image thumbnailing is great, but few other types of data are so visual that a thumbnail is useful.
Amusingly enough, that is almost exactly the reason Futurama got shitty ratings as well.
The time slot was terrible, being squarely between baseball and The Simpsons. When a baseball game would run over, they'd push Futurama to 2AM instead of pushing The Simpsons forward.
It started out after The Simpsons, if I recall correctly; they moved it out of the way later in order to hype Malcolm In The Middle, etc.
LexisNexis is in the business of collecting every piece of data possible and selling it piecemeal. This includes a great deal of personal information about you and more or less everyone else in any nation they have a presence in.
Nobody clicks "I Agree" for a free software license. They only apply to redistributors, not to end users. If you don't understand the license, you shouldn't be redistributing the software.
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It's not a Dreamweaver clone, actually. It is to Composer as Firefox is to Navigator. It's not a clone, but a continuation of an existing application.
Doesn't Firefox ask you if you want to use autocomplete for a given form?
Of course, being sexually attracted to adolescents isn't particularly perverse. Western culture may find it so, but human nature begs to differ.
There's no innate reason for people to be attracted only to others in their age group. In general, a person's preferences when it comes to age are fixed pretty early. If you think 16-year-olds are attractive when you're 16, you'll probably think the same when you're 61.
Because of a belief in the moral or pragmatic superiority of free software, I'd think.
Personally, I don't really care about Unix or its derivatives. GNU/Linux is the most functional free operating system for my needs, so that's what I use. Being based on Unix doesn't automatically make something any good.
If you merge GPL code into your program, your entire program must now be licensed under the GPL.
You do. That's the definition of the word, actually.
All incarnations of H2G2 have been unique. The radio show was different than the video game was different than the TV show, etc.
"True to the book" isn't a prerequisite.
And if American meant capitalist, you'd have a point there. A significant amount of the 20th century in the US was defined by government policy where the rich supported the poor. Was the New Deal era from the 30s to the late 60s a period where America became un-American?
The history of the American economy is one of constant state involvement.
If I lend you climbing gear at the bottom of a rock face, and take it back half of the way up because you offended me, what I have done is absolutely immoral.
"you may use it for free as long as nobody attempts to reverse engineer the protocol."
The correct version of this reads "you do not attempt" rather than "nobody attempts". Big, big difference.
Linus once said "I am your god!" to some Linux conference. It was a small scandal. He mentions it in his book.
As far as I know, "Recipient" would mean Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers. Not OSDL, per se.
And Tridge wasn't being paid to work on reverse-engineering BitKeeper. He was doing it on his own time.
#5 breaks down, because "Mutual Friend" and "Recipient" are the same.
In any case, if Linus felt that using BitKeeper was so important, he could pay for licenses. OSDL could pay for licenses. They're not doing that. Apparently, Linus even encouraged McVoy to end the gratis client, and he's even acknowledged that this was mostly due to the $500k/year cost claimed. Why, then, is he chewing Tridge out for causing something he believed should have been done anyway? That he actually recommended?
In essence, Linus is implicitly recognizing that Tridge's activity was only an excuse for BitMover to end a program that was no longer financially useful.
Linus is attacking someone because he's a nice guy? Did you even consider the logic of that statement?
He's being a prick, and there's no way around it.
1. Tridge reverse-engineers proprietary protocols. That's what he does. Ever heard of Samba?
2. As far as I can tell, Tridge wasn't intent on breaking any deal between Linus and McVoy.
3. Tridge never used BitKeeper's free client, so he did not agree to the license. He can't fail to "uphold his side of the deal", because he never made a deal.
Linus is hypocritically attacking someone for reverse-engineering his friend's protocol, when he does not criticize others for doing the same to other protocols. Tridgell has done some great work, and he deserves better.
Frankly, I think it's better to have a very gaudy theme that can be changed than a somewhat gaudy theme that cannot.
Because an icon signifying type and a descriptive name is a damn sight more useful than a few scraps of text or a tiny pixelated snapshot of a document.
Image thumbnailing is great, but few other types of data are so visual that a thumbnail is useful.
Not if you want Apple to continue existing.
You might want to add the cost of the monitor and peripherals to that Mac Mini number.
"Or the first seven seasons of Voyager when it WAS painful to watch."
Fixed your typo.
Amusingly enough, that is almost exactly the reason Futurama got shitty ratings as well.
The time slot was terrible, being squarely between baseball and The Simpsons. When a baseball game would run over, they'd push Futurama to 2AM instead of pushing The Simpsons forward.
It started out after The Simpsons, if I recall correctly; they moved it out of the way later in order to hype Malcolm In The Middle, etc.
LexisNexis is in the business of collecting every piece of data possible and selling it piecemeal. This includes a great deal of personal information about you and more or less everyone else in any nation they have a presence in.
Which user's point of view?
And, of course, there's the people who ignore the product names altogether and call everything Microsoft. "I've got Microsoft XP."
Are you really suggesting that your brand of 'conservatism' precludes any form of collective labor whatsoever?
Even in the absence of government coercion?
I think there's a dank cave out there somewhere with your name on it.
Nobody clicks "I Agree" for a free software license. They only apply to redistributors, not to end users. If you don't understand the license, you shouldn't be redistributing the software.