There is no, zippo, absolutely none, requirement for them to distribute the source code widely to non-customers. They're required by the GPL to distribute the source to paying customers and/or anybody else who they give binaries to. Paying customers and/or anybody else who they give binaries to are permitted to redistribute it as they wish. They're not allowed to restrict their customers from this redistribution.
Are YOU a paying customer? Did they give you a copy of the binaries? If not, don't waste your time and money sending them a floppy.
So if the GPL is ruled invalid the sourcecode would fall under the copywrite and castle or microsoft would have the same rights the that code that you do to microsoft code.
And so would everybody else. So Red Hat's customers would suddenly all be running servers with a dubious license.
The re-negotigation process sounds cool. Anybody who has any later remorse for their contribution to the Linux kernal can be part of the process of ripping the tarball to shreds.
Saying that this is a plot to have Bob be forced to stand on one foot and spin around singing 'I'm A Little Teapot' makes as much sense as your theory.
I mean, someone told you the word 'Palladium' stood for something bad, huh? And that's your extent of understanding, right?
Well, they're working on it. This article shows evidence of that.
But all that means here on Slashdot is that the people who, without meaning it a bit, have been saying 'if you don't want us 'sharing' your IP, come up with a way to vend it to us' will now have to tone it down a bit.
Honestly, I don't think anybody expects the P2P enthusiasts to ever accept any eCommerce way of buying music. The 'free' habit has formed, and it's not going away.
They need to stop being hypocrites, though, and stop slagging everybody who violates the GPL.
Well, if you're listening to the song in 1500 different locations, all coincidentally places where there are registered copies of Usenet Binary Attachment strippers like Pluckit... well, do the math. How many locations do you personally have where you listen to music?
I do think all their subscribers should be given the opportunity to bail from any current contracts without penalty, though, since they signed up for "unlimited usage".
I bet if you asked the business manager at the ISP they would be *delighted* to lose the class of customer for whom this is a problem.
I can't understand why people don't order more CDs from places like CheapBytes. I mean, geez, they come on commercially pressed CDs for under $5 apiece.
This book, of course, will need to be bound in loose-leaf format. Businessmen who are given a copy of it will need to turn it in every few days to a maintainer who will pull out the pages that have changed and update them. Firms that keep several copies of the book in their library will have to hire a maintainer to pore over Usenet each day and read of new 'exploits' and bugs.
Bookstores that sell it will have to keep a working printing press on the premesis so that people who want to examine the printing plates, tweak the rollers and possibly print a copy with a different color of ink can be allowed to do so.
Macintosh has always been more about coming up with the best code-name for a product.
Face it: AltiVec sounds cooler than MMX. So Apple as always wins.
I mean, when has 'IBM' (the traditional name to refer to all x86 machines if you're a Mac zealot) been innovative. They still haven't built a computer into a makeup-mirror.
You just linked to an article that, judging from the URL, dates from the first quarter of 2000.
Technology doesn't stand still. Hell, maybe I should cite a comparision of the 6809 against the 8085 processor. The 6809 (the Motorola part, standin for the Macintosh whatever) probably beats the 8085 from then, too.
You should look into getting a power factor phase corrector, which might reduce your electric bill. People use them to power machinery that has a large inductive load.
Your AMD box, has a huge inductive load. That big array of fan motors that makes it sound like a jet engine.
making a dead architecture last just a little longer.
Don't look now, but the 'dead architecture' isn't x86. It's killed many of the architectures that advocates like you champion. Maybe not for the purest of reasons, but it has. Ever heard of Protected Mode, by the way?
The 'Microsoft attacks Opera' fabrication has already made it onto the list of Micro$oft infractions, and there's a long list of misinformed propaganda for people to link to when citing it, so it'll be a bullet point for the duration of the 'war.'
It sits there on the list, near the 'Windows NT stalls battleship out at sea' fiction.
That would be a cool precedent, what with the value of the dollar and all that. The next time I get sixty pieces of spam from some Asian company, I'll end up owning about 15% of the country.
Your 'blame Enron and the evil Big Busine$$' bullshit might look good on the bulletin board in your union hall, but it doesn't play out in the real world.
Slashdot Mirror
So unless their engineers are way way way way better at doing hex arithmetic and mental cryptography than most of us are
They probably are.
This is Slashdot. Castle Computer is not Slashdot.
'Nuff said?
There is no, zippo, absolutely none, requirement for them to distribute the source code widely to non-customers. They're required by the GPL to distribute the source to paying customers and/or anybody else who they give binaries to. Paying customers and/or anybody else who they give binaries to are permitted to redistribute it as they wish. They're not allowed to restrict their customers from this redistribution.
Are YOU a paying customer? Did they give you a copy of the binaries? If not, don't waste your time and money sending them a floppy.
So if the GPL is ruled invalid the sourcecode would fall under the copywrite and castle or microsoft would have the same rights the that code that you do to microsoft code.
And so would everybody else. So Red Hat's customers would suddenly all be running servers with a dubious license.
The re-negotigation process sounds cool. Anybody who has any later remorse for their contribution to the Linux kernal can be part of the process of ripping the tarball to shreds.
Saying that this is a plot to have Bob be forced to stand on one foot and spin around singing 'I'm A Little Teapot' makes as much sense as your theory.
I mean, someone told you the word 'Palladium' stood for something bad, huh? And that's your extent of understanding, right?
Well, they're working on it. This article shows evidence of that.
But all that means here on Slashdot is that the people who, without meaning it a bit, have been saying 'if you don't want us 'sharing' your IP, come up with a way to vend it to us' will now have to tone it down a bit.
Honestly, I don't think anybody expects the P2P enthusiasts to ever accept any eCommerce way of buying music. The 'free' habit has formed, and it's not going away.
They need to stop being hypocrites, though, and stop slagging everybody who violates the GPL.
Well, if you're listening to the song in 1500 different locations, all coincidentally places where there are registered copies of Usenet Binary Attachment strippers like Pluckit... well, do the math. How many locations do you personally have where you listen to music?
I do think all their subscribers should be given the opportunity to bail from any current contracts without penalty, though, since they signed up for "unlimited usage".
I bet if you asked the business manager at the ISP they would be *delighted* to lose the class of customer for whom this is a problem.
Well, cool then. Drive 'em out of business. Drive up the costs for everybody else.
It's very neighborly of you to do so.
The bandwidth is all being sucked dry by people reading the binary newsgroups.
That should bother you, being as you're actually reading news articles on Usenet.
There should be news servers for the rest of us with binary attachments blocked.
I can't understand why people don't order more CDs from places like CheapBytes. I mean, geez, they come on commercially pressed CDs for under $5 apiece.
'Always on high speed internet' is not necessarily 'always on high volume internet.'
Get a clue. Quit whining.
It's nice to get fast page loads even if you're not cramming the pipe full of content 24/7.
Do you saturate your local network? Isn't it nice to have 100baseT and not a bunch of ARcnet cards?
This book, of course, will need to be bound in loose-leaf format. Businessmen who are given a copy of it will need to turn it in every few days to a maintainer who will pull out the pages that have changed and update them. Firms that keep several copies of the book in their library will have to hire a maintainer to pore over Usenet each day and read of new 'exploits' and bugs.
Bookstores that sell it will have to keep a working printing press on the premesis so that people who want to examine the printing plates, tweak the rollers and possibly print a copy with a different color of ink can be allowed to do so.
One of the great things about *nix and Java is that it's becomming less important what hardware your using.
In the case of UNIX, just so long as it has the legacy vestiges of a TTY and a Time Sharing System model, you're correct.
Macintosh has always been more about coming up with the best code-name for a product.
Face it: AltiVec sounds cooler than MMX. So Apple as always wins.
I mean, when has 'IBM' (the traditional name to refer to all x86 machines if you're a Mac zealot) been innovative. They still haven't built a computer into a makeup-mirror.
You just linked to an article that, judging from the URL, dates from the first quarter of 2000.
Technology doesn't stand still. Hell, maybe I should cite a comparision of the 6809 against the 8085 processor. The 6809 (the Motorola part, standin for the Macintosh whatever) probably beats the 8085 from then, too.
Sun doesn't have the resources for actual hardware development, now that they've adopted a strategy of revenue growth through suing their competitors.
You should look into getting a power factor phase corrector, which might reduce your electric bill. People use them to power machinery that has a large inductive load.
Your AMD box, has a huge inductive load. That big array of fan motors that makes it sound like a jet engine.
making a dead architecture last just a little longer.
Don't look now, but the 'dead architecture' isn't x86. It's killed many of the architectures that advocates like you champion. Maybe not for the purest of reasons, but it has. Ever heard of Protected Mode, by the way?
I didn't think so.
A top dollar license for an OS you are never going to use??
"Top dollar" would be the retail box price for the OS seperate from the hardware.
The OEM price is much, much lower.
Too late.
The 'Microsoft attacks Opera' fabrication has already made it onto the list of Micro$oft infractions, and there's a long list of misinformed propaganda for people to link to when citing it, so it'll be a bullet point for the duration of the 'war.'
It sits there on the list, near the 'Windows NT stalls battleship out at sea' fiction.
That would be a cool precedent, what with the value of the dollar and all that. The next time I get sixty pieces of spam from some Asian company, I'll end up owning about 15% of the country.
Sorry.
Your 'blame Enron and the evil Big Busine$$' bullshit might look good on the bulletin board in your union hall, but it doesn't play out in the real world.
You believe that shit?
Or are you one of the people pumping out all those lies?
how much of that cost is going to be passed on to the buyers.
One of the fundamental rules of marketing is that all costs are passed on to the buyer.
I know this is the Internet and all, but weren't you around to witness the whole dot.com meltdown??