If I release code under the GPL and you want to use it in a closed-source project, come to me and see if you can get access to it under an alternate license. Just be aware that if you intend to make money off using my code, there's a good chance that your alternative licensing will include sending some of your profits in my direction.
Yes, perfect. Exactly what I think MS is after in this article. Unfortunately, it is often the case that people won't (or possibly can't) do that, especially with respects to large community projects, which just happen to be the most likely suspects that MS wants to be able to work with.
Why should the GPL respect the wishes of someone who wants to...
Because the GPL does not cover distribution etc. If you don't want people to use your code in commercial software, say so in your own distribution aspect of the license of the code, instead of the lazy route of not listing restrictions on distribution and just relying on the GPL to force people to GPL their code as well. The GPL doesn't just hurt proprietary software companies, it hurts -everybody- who wants to use GPL code in non-GPL software. That's why you sometimes get warnings about installing certain software on some BSD's if there's a chance that it's not BSD licensed. -That- is why not respecting the wishes of non-GPL coders is a bad thing...it hurts everybody who doesn't want to or, more importantly, -can't- use the GPL in their code, whether because of employer / educational institution policies / contracts or other parts of the code under other licenses or whatever. The only safe way to work with GPL is if every single aspect of your software is either a) already GPL, or b) written by you, with the intent of releasing as GPL.
First off, OSS does not inhibit them inherently. TFA, and if you had read it you would know this, is about -GPL-. GPL -does- inhibit them, because in order to use it, their code must become it, unlike for instance the BSD license, as mentioned in the article. My more thorough reply to this mentality from earlier in the thread.
I wouldn't say that it's totally on MS to change. The GPL makes it very scary / tricky / hard for a business which is based on proprietary software to work with anything that has the 'taint' of the GPL on it. The GPL license could certainly be more big business friendly, without giving up it's...uhm... FOSSicity...yeah. The GPL is like the T-Virus...everything it touches gets infected.
The problem is basically a case of 'minority rule'. A minority of code, if it is GPL, forces the entirety to be GPL. To compare to current events in the real world, imagine if allowing illegal Mexican immigrants citezenship meant that everybody in America became hispanic, or that allowing gay marriage would cause all Americans to instantly become gay. Now I'm not against gay marriage, but I'm straight and I'm happy to be that way. I think this is what MS is dealing with: trying to find a middle ground where GPL software can be GPL and proprietary can stay proprietary and still both be able to play nice together.
The GPL does not do a very good job of respecting the wishes of the writers of non-GPL code who want to work with GPL code, and especially if you're in the shoes of such as MS, it can easily appear to have been written that way specifically out of spite towards big business. I think what MS is hoping for here is that folks who want to work with big business will begin to release under less severe licenses, or that a GPL will be written with more allowances than what currently exists.
Nope. The word "it" has to be taken in context. In the original story, "it" meant the state of the weather. Here, "it" refers to the whole of the items under comparison, i.e., "hurricanes last year and earthquakes this year."
a) I spell it how I (and everybody I know) pronounce it. b) Example is from a Brit site. I'm an American, so your slang (and it's spelling) mean jack to me. c) GoogleBattle says I win.:P
Obligatory grammar post. "Last year X, while this year X again." "And" for pete sakes. If you are comparing two things which are the same in nature but different in time, it should be "and". "While" would be used if, say, it was hurricanes last year and earthquakes this year (i.e., things which are different in their nature).
How do you figure? Why do you think a quarterback practices passes? It builds muscle memory...even though the relative position between himself and the target is constantly changing. I could clarify a tad...it's a combination of muscle memory and subconscious peripheral vision cues. Muscle memory gets me within a quarter to a half inch, say, and then even though my focus is on the article text, I get just enough information about article height and position on scre from peripheral vision to go those last few pixels and nail the click. Now I have to re-train both the general-area muscle memory and the peripheral checking to get it in the new spot without having to lose focus on the text.
Uhhhm...no, I don't think so. Archery is about patience and steadiness. There's no worry that if you don't get a bullseye in 0.01sec from seeing the target, it will shoot you back. Same for shooting. Table tennis...vaguely, sorta, kinda. But it requires far more than depressing a finger / thumb 1/4", and the ability to move your whole arm, as well as your body for wild shots, is more a matter of overall health than twitch. As for curling...I don't even see how that has anything at all to do with 'twitch response'. It's repetition of the same thing every time, and trying to do that thing perfectly. There's no surprise involved.
It'll never happen, and as an avid gamer myself, I say "Thank God!" If the Olympics accept gamers, then it'll be one more excuse for them to not get outside, ride a bike, etc. The Olympics are for physical athletes, not people with unusually high twitch-response ability.
It looks nice, I guess. But I really like slashdot as-is. Biggest complaint is the new location of the 'Read More...' link after stories. I'll be searching for it for a month or two before I get it down to muscle memory like the current one.
Yeah, maybe theyre (I know I missed an apostrophe in that word, but for some insane reason FF keeps popping up the search (as in ctrl-f) box when I hit apostrophe but wont print it. wtf?) working on it, but not many virus -writers- are. If more people were focusing on writing viruses for cell phones and PDAs, you can bet your ass viruses would be all over. Theres an entire industry for stopping viruses, not to mention public and government pressure on OS makers like MS, and look how much good thats done.
Lying. They are lying in bed together. Unless the chicken is laying the egg, while it is smoking, or they are both laying...something. Dunno what an egg can lay, though...
Why in the world would I want to do that when P.A.L.'s like you will do it for me?
Grammar Nazi side note: the comma at the end is ambiguous. Is it just an exasperated exclamation, or are you referring to parent poster as god? Bonus to any other Grammar Nazis who can point out the subtle reason you can tell that it is the former case.
Ok, so the guy was kinda trolling, but I've done the same thing he describes before myself (no AV, no firewall, broadband connection and always on), for nearly a year and another time for several monts without ever having a virus in my life, and I'm what you'd definitely call a heavy internet user. I don't do that sorta stuff now, because I value my data too much, but I certainly know it can be done.
What is it exactly that the 'clueless morons' do that you don't?
They click links in email. They click 'cancel' on the popup ads instead of clicking the close button on the actual popup window. They turn on / leave on every possible variety of automatically downloading / executing media, ActiveX, java(script), etc. Same goes for autoplay on CDs (ever had a program that automatically detects and opens for viewing a CD-R with pictures on it? Remember those exploits involving simply -looking at- certain types of image files?). They forward every email, download every attachment, and all their friends do, too. They IM, and always click links there, too. They leech songs / pr0n on IRC, IM, and P2P networks. In short...they do everything you can possibly imagine. All those things that you think, "Nahh...no -way- is somebody dumb enough to fall for that." Know why the scum of the net continue to do it? Because it continues to work. That's the difference in not having AV and being ok, and having all the AV, anti-spyware, popup-blocking, and everything else in the world and still somehow magically ruining a box every month.
It's a good thing I don't have any karma to speak of, because I'm sure I'm about to burn a bit, but... "The only thing worse than one walled garden are many walled gardens." Why do people do things like this? It's confusing. And it's not hard to get it right. Didn't the author read this out loud before publishing it to tens or hundreds of thousands of people? It's not tricky, guy. The subject is 'thing'. 'Thing' is singular. So your verb also needs to be singular (is). How do you fuck this up?
They may have simply been testing how you responded to being asked more than how you answered the question. You could have shuffled the cards face down, and randomly ordered them. You could have asked whether you should order them right-to-left, top-to-bottom, the opposites thereof, or in a circular pattern. If they were rectangular, see if they should be long side down or short side down, if not if they should be set to look like squares or diamonds (rotated 45 degrees). After getting your answers, you could have asked, "Relative to my point of view, or yours?" Then you could have laid them out very precisely. Even spaces, perfectly oriented, etc. In any event, lay them out according to their rough equivalent locations in ROYGBIV and explain exactly why you did so. Congratulations, you have emphasized your attention to detail, non-field-related intelligence, and in explaining your ordering was chosen by a fact of nature and not your own preference, you have nipped any unwanted perspectives on your personality in the bud.
32 hours at a friend's frat house. Morrowind, about 3 months after it came out on XBox. The rule was that you could play as long as you wanted, but you had to a) keep drinking (beer, coffee, pop, water, didn't matter), and b) hand over the controller to the next guy when you needed a piss break.
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First off, OSS does not inhibit them inherently. TFA, and if you had read it you would know this, is about -GPL-. GPL -does- inhibit them, because in order to use it, their code must become it, unlike for instance the BSD license, as mentioned in the article. My more thorough reply to this mentality from earlier in the thread.
*Dons his flame-retardant suit...
...yeah. The GPL is like the T-Virus...everything it touches gets infected.
I wouldn't say that it's totally on MS to change. The GPL makes it very scary / tricky / hard for a business which is based on proprietary software to work with anything that has the 'taint' of the GPL on it. The GPL license could certainly be more big business friendly, without giving up it's...uhm... FOSSicity
The problem is basically a case of 'minority rule'. A minority of code, if it is GPL, forces the entirety to be GPL. To compare to current events in the real world, imagine if allowing illegal Mexican immigrants citezenship meant that everybody in America became hispanic, or that allowing gay marriage would cause all Americans to instantly become gay. Now I'm not against gay marriage, but I'm straight and I'm happy to be that way. I think this is what MS is dealing with: trying to find a middle ground where GPL software can be GPL and proprietary can stay proprietary and still both be able to play nice together.
The GPL does not do a very good job of respecting the wishes of the writers of non-GPL code who want to work with GPL code, and especially if you're in the shoes of such as MS, it can easily appear to have been written that way specifically out of spite towards big business. I think what MS is hoping for here is that folks who want to work with big business will begin to release under less severe licenses, or that a GPL will be written with more allowances than what currently exists.
: SIG ( -- ) CR ." The fourth wave of attackers approaches. Go forth, and conquer them!" ;
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Looking up "Hello, world!" format for weird languages on wikipedia ftw.
Nope. The word "it" has to be taken in context. In the original story, "it" meant the state of the weather. Here, "it" refers to the whole of the items under comparison, i.e., "hurricanes last year and earthquakes this year."
a) I spell it how I (and everybody I know) pronounce it. :P
b) Example is from a Brit site. I'm an American, so your slang (and it's spelling) mean jack to me.
c) GoogleBattle says I win.
Obligatory grammar post.
"Last year X, while this year X again." "And" for pete sakes. If you are comparing two things which are the same in nature but different in time, it should be "and". "While" would be used if, say, it was hurricanes last year and earthquakes this year (i.e., things which are different in their nature).
How do you figure? Why do you think a quarterback practices passes? It builds muscle memory...even though the relative position between himself and the target is constantly changing. I could clarify a tad...it's a combination of muscle memory and subconscious peripheral vision cues. Muscle memory gets me within a quarter to a half inch, say, and then even though my focus is on the article text, I get just enough information about article height and position on scre from peripheral vision to go those last few pixels and nail the click.
Now I have to re-train both the general-area muscle memory and the peripheral checking to get it in the new spot without having to lose focus on the text.
Uhhhm...no, I don't think so. Archery is about patience and steadiness. There's no worry that if you don't get a bullseye in 0.01sec from seeing the target, it will shoot you back. Same for shooting. Table tennis...vaguely, sorta, kinda. But it requires far more than depressing a finger / thumb 1/4", and the ability to move your whole arm, as well as your body for wild shots, is more a matter of overall health than twitch. As for curling...I don't even see how that has anything at all to do with 'twitch response'. It's repetition of the same thing every time, and trying to do that thing perfectly. There's no surprise involved.
It'll never happen, and as an avid gamer myself, I say "Thank God!"
If the Olympics accept gamers, then it'll be one more excuse for them to not get outside, ride a bike, etc. The Olympics are for physical athletes, not people with unusually high twitch-response ability.
It looks nice, I guess. But I really like slashdot as-is. Biggest complaint is the new location of the 'Read More...' link after stories. I'll be searching for it for a month or two before I get it down to muscle memory like the current one.
I'm guessing that the remainder is margin of error / did not respond.
Yeah, maybe theyre (I know I missed an apostrophe in that word, but for some insane reason FF keeps popping up the search (as in ctrl-f) box when I hit apostrophe but wont print it. wtf?) working on it, but not many virus -writers- are. If more people were focusing on writing viruses for cell phones and PDAs, you can bet your ass viruses would be all over. Theres an entire industry for stopping viruses, not to mention public and government pressure on OS makers like MS, and look how much good thats done.
Lying. They are lying in bed together. Unless the chicken is laying the egg, while it is smoking, or they are both laying...something. Dunno what an egg can lay, though...
Wow, man...this must be a -really- slow news day.
Grammar Nazi side note: the comma at the end is ambiguous. Is it just an exasperated exclamation, or are you referring to parent poster as god?
Bonus to any other Grammar Nazis who can point out the subtle reason you can tell that it is the former case.
In short...they do everything you can possibly imagine. All those things that you think, "Nahh...no -way- is somebody dumb enough to fall for that." Know why the scum of the net continue to do it? Because it continues to work. That's the difference in not having AV and being ok, and having all the AV, anti-spyware, popup-blocking, and everything else in the world and still somehow magically ruining a box every month.
Not irony. Irony is a contradiction of meanings or expectations. This is merely a humorous coincidence.
This opened IE. My default browser is FF, so the stupid fsking thing must be hard-coded to open IE. Why?
It's a good thing I don't have any karma to speak of, because I'm sure I'm about to burn a bit, but...
"The only thing worse than one walled garden are many walled gardens."
Why do people do things like this? It's confusing. And it's not hard to get it right. Didn't the author read this out loud before publishing it to tens or hundreds of thousands of people? It's not tricky, guy. The subject is 'thing'. 'Thing' is singular. So your verb also needs to be singular (is). How do you fuck this up?
Is EA behind this? Will there be a game? Action, FPS, or RPG? Or maybe a nerds pack for The Sims...hmmm...
They may have simply been testing how you responded to being asked more than how you answered the question. You could have shuffled the cards face down, and randomly ordered them. You could have asked whether you should order them right-to-left, top-to-bottom, the opposites thereof, or in a circular pattern. If they were rectangular, see if they should be long side down or short side down, if not if they should be set to look like squares or diamonds (rotated 45 degrees). After getting your answers, you could have asked, "Relative to my point of view, or yours?" Then you could have laid them out very precisely. Even spaces, perfectly oriented, etc. In any event, lay them out according to their rough equivalent locations in ROYGBIV and explain exactly why you did so.
Congratulations, you have emphasized your attention to detail, non-field-related intelligence, and in explaining your ordering was chosen by a fact of nature and not your own preference, you have nipped any unwanted perspectives on your personality in the bud.
Gimme a minute to sift through this and translate to English, and maybe I can come up with a decent reply.
32 hours at a friend's frat house. Morrowind, about 3 months after it came out on XBox. The rule was that you could play as long as you wanted, but you had to a) keep drinking (beer, coffee, pop, water, didn't matter), and b) hand over the controller to the next guy when you needed a piss break.
pwned.