I doubt any attorney or law firm would take on a class action lawsuit like this without a real paycheck at the end. Was Plaintiff Attorney payed with Bill Bucks, or hard cash? Was he payed by the people of Arizona, or by Microsoft?
All businesses in Knoxville, Tennessee are required by law to have a hitching post on the premesis for horses. Should my tax money go to pay for the enforcement of this law?
We might as well give the proprieters of those businesses a few years in prison, to prevent any repeat offenses. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
So, the license has to require public access to be "open source"? Or what's your point? Or are you not making a point and just blithering.
It has to give access to the public, yes. How else would the public initiall get the source? If they can't get it, then it isn't open. This is discussed in section 2 of the definition. If the public has nowhere to acquire the source of the public domain work, then it is closed source by a failure to meet section 2 of the definition.
OSI is not silent about redistribution, and it does require it in section 1. That's why it's entitled, "1. Free Redistribution".
Also contrary to what your post says, public domain is always open source when source is included by the OSI definition because it meets the definition which doesn't require a copyright. In fact, the word copyright never even appears within the definition. The OSI definition of open source is not a license like the GPL or the BSD License, it is a definition. If you do not restrict certain rights from the end user, then your product is open source regardless of copyright.
To quote your own post, Please don't talk authoritatively about a subject to which you clearly know very little about. I'd give you proper credit, but you would only speak while hiding as an anonymous coward.
the E450 is a PCI system, so you can throw a PCI RAID controller in it for some cheapass drives.
E3500 users like myself aren't so lucky, with only FC-AL internally and some SCSI controllers for external drives. It's SBus instead of PCI, so I can't get an IDE controller for it.
The GPL requires redistribution of the source code with any binary, or at least the offer of that code should the receiving party wish to obtain it. Public domain software, while free of any copyright, may be distributed in binary form with no public access to the source code. Public domain isn't necessarily open source.
On my Sun keyboard, a control key is in the same place a PC keyboard would have its caps-lock. Caps-lock is to the left of alt, where a PC would have it's control key.
It's all a matter of the public's view of things. The all-american garage-mechanic needs to be defended, while the terrorist hacker needs to be locked away.
Call yourself a garage engineer rather than a hacker, and go with the "I bought it, it's mine." defense if they come after you.
It's the same damn thing; changing the controls a bit does not make for a legitimate patent, as there is no technical barrier to prevent such a thing. Any programmer could re-implement this in a few minutes given a few words of explanation.
IIRC, a patent can be overturned if it is later shown that the invention was obvious or that prior art existed. This patent would surely never hold up in court, so it's only useful for intimidation tactics.
"Is it 0x000001?" "No." "Is it 0x000002?" "No." "Is it 0x000003?" "No." "Is it 0x000004?" "No."... "Is it 0x0002FD?" "If I tell you, will you shut up?" "Yes."
The GPL only grants additional rights, it doesn't take any away. You are free to refuse the license, yet still use the software as allowed by copyright law.
Your analogy is also flawed in that you would be profiting by selling the commercial software with GPL code in it, and it would be an act of plagurism. This is not saying "I wrote this.", it's just saying "I bought this and I'll listen to it however I please."
Just throw OpenBSD onto a box, with all incoming ports (even ssh) firewalled off, and just a web browser and email client, maybe IM as well. Make it so that those apps are the only ones that may be run by the user, don't give him a home directory, don't give him any drives except a read-only flash device, close off all outgoing ports except those needed for web and email, close off all UDP, don't allow user programs (not even Java applets), don't allow for reception of attachements beyond textual ones, weld the box shut.
While it's technically possible to break the box open and mess with it, it should be immune to viruses and trojans. Spam is another matter of course, but disallowing the posting of an email address on a form might help.
When they can't support a protocol, they invent a better alternative. Instead of just redundant routing, they made CARP with cryptographically secured redundant routing.
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BIOS must support booting from USB, which is unlikely in an early Pentium.
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(Do NOT bid. The seller made the same mistake I did; that's really just a low-end player.)
Will the new ones be given away with happy meals?
I doubt any attorney or law firm would take on a class action lawsuit like this without a real paycheck at the end. Was Plaintiff Attorney payed with Bill Bucks, or hard cash? Was he payed by the people of Arizona, or by Microsoft?
All businesses in Knoxville, Tennessee are required by law to have a hitching post on the premesis for horses. Should my tax money go to pay for the enforcement of this law?
We might as well give the proprieters of those businesses a few years in prison, to prevent any repeat offenses. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
So, the license has to require public access to be "open source"? Or what's your point? Or are you not making a point and just blithering.
It has to give access to the public, yes. How else would the public initiall get the source? If they can't get it, then it isn't open. This is discussed in section 2 of the definition. If the public has nowhere to acquire the source of the public domain work, then it is closed source by a failure to meet section 2 of the definition. OSI is not silent about redistribution, and it does require it in section 1. That's why it's entitled, "1. Free Redistribution".
Also contrary to what your post says, public domain is always open source when source is included by the OSI definition because it meets the definition which doesn't require a copyright. In fact, the word copyright never even appears within the definition. The OSI definition of open source is not a license like the GPL or the BSD License, it is a definition. If you do not restrict certain rights from the end user, then your product is open source regardless of copyright.
To quote your own post, Please don't talk authoritatively about a subject to which you clearly know very little about. I'd give you proper credit, but you would only speak while hiding as an anonymous coward.
the E450 is a PCI system, so you can throw a PCI RAID controller in it for some cheapass drives. E3500 users like myself aren't so lucky, with only FC-AL internally and some SCSI controllers for external drives. It's SBus instead of PCI, so I can't get an IDE controller for it.
The GPL requires redistribution of the source code with any binary, or at least the offer of that code should the receiving party wish to obtain it. Public domain software, while free of any copyright, may be distributed in binary form with no public access to the source code. Public domain isn't necessarily open source.
On my Sun keyboard, a control key is in the same place a PC keyboard would have its caps-lock. Caps-lock is to the left of alt, where a PC would have it's control key.
If you carry that contraption with you, rather than just getting a cable for your damn cell phone, your brain is already fried.
It's all a matter of the public's view of things. The all-american garage-mechanic needs to be defended, while the terrorist hacker needs to be locked away.
Call yourself a garage engineer rather than a hacker, and go with the "I bought it, it's mine." defense if they come after you.
Here it is.
just a belgium imposter
In red china, taxes will pay for the bullet so the widow doesn't have to.
It's the same damn thing; changing the controls a bit does not make for a legitimate patent, as there is no technical barrier to prevent such a thing. Any programmer could re-implement this in a few minutes given a few words of explanation.
IIRC, a patent can be overturned if it is later shown that the invention was obvious or that prior art existed. This patent would surely never hold up in court, so it's only useful for intimidation tactics.
Imagine the indignity of having your own company turned against you by AOL.
Has the author spoken as to whether the license is legitimate or not? If he had the power to post and license products, then I assume the GPL stands.
"Is it 0x000001?" ...
"No."
"Is it 0x000002?"
"No."
"Is it 0x000003?"
"No."
"Is it 0x000004?"
"No."
"Is it 0x0002FD?"
"If I tell you, will you shut up?"
"Yes."
the FBI would already be at the door
They don't even make a dollar per year per victim!
DNS can also run through TCP. If it's necessary for the customer's ISP, I suppose it could be allowed through.
The GPL only grants additional rights, it doesn't take any away. You are free to refuse the license, yet still use the software as allowed by copyright law.
Your analogy is also flawed in that you would be profiting by selling the commercial software with GPL code in it, and it would be an act of plagurism. This is not saying "I wrote this.", it's just saying "I bought this and I'll listen to it however I please."
Just throw OpenBSD onto a box, with all incoming ports (even ssh) firewalled off, and just a web browser and email client, maybe IM as well. Make it so that those apps are the only ones that may be run by the user, don't give him a home directory, don't give him any drives except a read-only flash device, close off all outgoing ports except those needed for web and email, close off all UDP, don't allow user programs (not even Java applets), don't allow for reception of attachements beyond textual ones, weld the box shut.
While it's technically possible to break the box open and mess with it, it should be immune to viruses and trojans. Spam is another matter of course, but disallowing the posting of an email address on a form might help.
If you still want to buy it, I can get you some.
When they can't support a protocol, they invent a better alternative. Instead of just redundant routing, they made CARP with cryptographically secured redundant routing.
Look for it in 3.5.
I thought only Cisco left backdoors open...
look for openbsd's corporate usage page.