IT'S NOT THE GPL, YOU RETARDS. It's the artistic license. This is precisely the reason you don't use random, unproven licenses like this one. If you look at the artistic license, it was not written by a lawyer. In fact, it barely even constitutes a legal agreement, and is far less restrictive than the GPL. It pretty much allows taking open-source code and incorporating it into commercial software. Here is one relevant quote:
4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where to get the Standard Version.
My interpretation is that as long as you provide a link to the author's web page somewhere on your site, you are golden.
However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a product of your own.
Sounds like you can incorporate the open-source code into a commercial program, as long as you do not advertise that you are using it!
There are also no patent requirements -- at all! Which means someone can patent the ideas in the source code and then sue the original copyright holder -- while distributing the code! Since the existence of prior art does not render an issued patent invalid, this is a distinct possibility. Not to mention, how are you going to argue monetary damages if there are barely any restrictions?
Really, it sounds like the guy suing JMRI is mostly in the right, legally speaking. The artistic license may not be enforceable, and appears to give him the right to distribute the code commercially. The breach of contract suit won't yield any monetary damages -- the license is not restrictive enough. His patents are valid (at least until the USPTO revokes them, which may never happen). All I can say is... should have used the GPL.
That's why you don't represent yourself, and why you don't sue others without a good lawyer. You end up paying more in the end. Maybe if he got an actual lawyer, he would have been able to sue Katzer and get money out of him to pay the legal bills. If he didn't have money, maybe he should have just ignored Katzer. Yeah, the legal system is screwed up, but there isn't much you can do about that. The USA was founded by lawyers, and the legal system is this way on purpose.
A monitor can't generate a specific wavelength. It has red, green, and blue phosphors/filters that each produce some kind of band of wavelengths. It can trick your eye into seeing a particular color, but it cannot produce monochromatic light.
I don't live in the UK, but if you can get out of a life sentence after 10 years, you can probably get out of a 5-year sentence after a month. Of course, if you would prefer to hand out huge sentences for minor crimes, move to the USA.
What makes you think "basic economics" has anything to do with the real world? Economics is a pseudoscience based on rules of thumb and ideology, and most economists are full of shit.
Uh, everyone knows WEP is not secure. That's why there is WPA, which is not crackable as far as I know.
Besides, it's possible to open a typical house lock in about 30 seconds with a lockpick. This does not make it OK to break into someone's house. It's possible to snoop on someone's cordless phone. This is illegal. Using a wireless network without permission is the same thing.
Yeah, it's real expensive to print books. That's why I get 3 different phone books and tons of unsolicited catalogs in the mail. And a $100 computer with a cheap tiny LCD display is the best way to read books, especially while you are cranking it. And of course it is absolutely necessary that every computer has a built-in library, because people read hundreds of books at the same time.
Oh, and you must have missed that whole thing about the view source button and whatnot.
Anything else is an ACCIDENT rather than murder. If you accidentally hit a pedestrian with your car, why should you get a longer jail sentence than someone who commits an actual crime? What about hunting accidents?
How would a laptop with no internet connection that's given to a mostly-illiterate population do anything? In case nobody realizes, the only reason a few governments are buying into this program is because someone found a way to steal money from it. This is the only reason ANY third world country buys into ANY foreign aid/infrastructure improvement program. If they actually wanted to increase the educational level of their population, they would be printing books and funding libraries, not buying obsolete computer hardware that will almost certainly collect dust. Teaching third world kids how to program computers seems about as useful as teaching them how to maintain and repair BMWs.
You are a fucking retard if you think you can get anything less than life in prison for murder. This law looks about the right penalty for large-scale vandalism.
Plausible deniability doesn't matter in court. Everyone has plausible deniability. Is Fon going to pay for a lawyer when you are indicted for kiddie porn or get sued by the RIAA? Are they going to find you a new job? Are they going to pay your bail? Yeah, sure, IF the router keeps complete logs, you might be able to convince the judge to look at them -- if the FBI gives you back your router with everything still intact. You might even be acquitted -- after a few years in pound-me-in-the-ass prison and having your mugshot in the newspaper with the caption "accused child pornographer".
If you want professional training, go to Devry or something. Of course, nobody will want to hire you, but it's training all right. Where I studied, computer engineering was about making computers, not writing code for them. This is what you would major in if you wanted to design digital chips. Computer science was for those who wanted to become programmers. Yeah, it's mostly theoretical, it's up to you to find an internship or an open-source project to work on. CS is supposed to teach you the relevant theory. Mastering the art of programming is up to the student.
You really need to keep your trap shut if you do not know what the hell you are talking about.
First, there are plenty of programming jobs available if you are any good at it. The Indian talent pool is quite limited -- you can find a team of mediocre programmers, but good ones are hard to find. The lesson: mediocre just ain't good enough. Second, the main thing you need is a good education from a good university. Third, there are plenty of excellent, well-paying internships and co-op programs where you get to work on real products as part of a real development team. These are not hard to come across as long as you have good grades and decent interviewing skills.
I would recommend against Sangoma. Asterisk exists mainly because people are willing to buy Digium's products. Sangoma is pretty much a parasite -- they don't contribute to Asterisk, they make money by competing with Digium. You also have to consider that Sangoma has little experience with the Asterisk codebase, and Digium might not be able to help you troubleshoot certain problems with Asterisk if they involve third-party hardware and drivers.
Get Digium's version of it that they provide support for. Buy their cards. I suppose you can use SIP phones, although that's far more expensive than just keeping the copper wiring, getting a channel bank, and using analog phones. SIP phones do offer a number of benefits, although people may be more comfortable with simple analog phones. I suggest asking the actual users of the system for their input.
Well, I was just pointing out that he is using the money and resources of a few third-world countries to experiment with their educational system. This makes the OLPC project an experiment in the field of education, rather than the field of technology. Negroponte and most of his supporters seem to completely ignore this distinction. They are also ignoring the considerable body of evidence that undermines the argument for installing computers in schools.
My personal opinion is that almost ANY technology in schools is detrimental, rather than beneficial. Even 4-function calculators can completely destroy one's ability to do math, just as Word's spelling checker can completely destroy one's ability to use correct English. This is exactly the reason why few young people today can write correctly or perform even trivial mental math. I've seen engineering students who can't add 2 3-digit numbers without whipping out a calculator, or tell you the decimal equivalent of 3/5th. Hell, most people couldn't recite the multiplication table if their life depended on it. This was not the case before someone thought it was a good idea to give calculators to 3rd-graders.
Not to mention, you can get a much, much better Dell laptop for not much more than that. I got one for like $500, and that was with a gig of RAM and a 1.8GHz Pentium M. While I might have gotten the laptop if it was $100, I don't really care for the cause. I think Negroponte should think about fixing the fucked-up US education system before he starts screwing with those of other countries. Almost every school in the US has tons of computers, but somehow the quality of education has gone down rather than up.
My point was that the lack of good cracks for Logic doesn't mean Apple is amazingly good at protecting software from crackers. Cracking software on a Mac is harder than on Windows mainly because fewer people use Macs, there are no good cracking tools for Macs (like IDA or an appropriate debugger), relatively few people are intimately familiar with the OS X architecture, and Macs generally don't attract the cracker demographic.
Lack of trying? More like "because crackers don't own a Mac and don't crack Mac software". Any protection scheme for any piece of software that can run on a standard personal computer can be cracked.
Well, each stone has a unique cut, so that's probably part of it. The real question is whether debeers will be able to sell overpriced mined stones to the public when much bigger and better-looking manufactured stones are available, and are exactly the same thing. This is a question of marketing. If they do this right, debeers will be out of business in 20 years. Who gives a shit about the lack of small imperfections or how "genuine" it is if you can get a stone 10 times the size, and it's impossible to tell where it came from outside a lab? Even cubic zirconia is popular somehow, even though it looks NOTHING like a real diamond (the refractive index is a lot smaller).
No, this process just checks the refractive index and other simple things. A really good artificial diamond can only be distinguished from a mined one using very large and expensive equipment to check the impurity profile.
Yeah, and the spellchecker does nothing to fix your/you're, their/there, then/than, lose/loose, affect/effect, "should of", and other stupid errors that make me cringe every time I see them. Seriously, nothing screams "I'm a retard" louder than one of those errors in your writing. Anyone who EVER misuses those words needs to go back to 3rd grade. There just isn't any excuse for these errors.
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My interpretation is that as long as you provide a link to the author's web page somewhere on your site, you are golden.
Sounds like you can incorporate the open-source code into a commercial program, as long as you do not advertise that you are using it!
There are also no patent requirements -- at all! Which means someone can patent the ideas in the source code and then sue the original copyright holder -- while distributing the code! Since the existence of prior art does not render an issued patent invalid, this is a distinct possibility. Not to mention, how are you going to argue monetary damages if there are barely any restrictions?
Really, it sounds like the guy suing JMRI is mostly in the right, legally speaking. The artistic license may not be enforceable, and appears to give him the right to distribute the code commercially. The breach of contract suit won't yield any monetary damages -- the license is not restrictive enough. His patents are valid (at least until the USPTO revokes them, which may never happen). All I can say is... should have used the GPL.
That's why you don't represent yourself, and why you don't sue others without a good lawyer. You end up paying more in the end. Maybe if he got an actual lawyer, he would have been able to sue Katzer and get money out of him to pay the legal bills. If he didn't have money, maybe he should have just ignored Katzer. Yeah, the legal system is screwed up, but there isn't much you can do about that. The USA was founded by lawyers, and the legal system is this way on purpose.
Just so you know, you come off as a total retard. Which you probably are, actually. Might want to think about that.
A monitor can't generate a specific wavelength. It has red, green, and blue phosphors/filters that each produce some kind of band of wavelengths. It can trick your eye into seeing a particular color, but it cannot produce monochromatic light.
I don't live in the UK, but if you can get out of a life sentence after 10 years, you can probably get out of a 5-year sentence after a month. Of course, if you would prefer to hand out huge sentences for minor crimes, move to the USA.
What makes you think "basic economics" has anything to do with the real world? Economics is a pseudoscience based on rules of thumb and ideology, and most economists are full of shit.
Uh, everyone knows WEP is not secure. That's why there is WPA, which is not crackable as far as I know.
Besides, it's possible to open a typical house lock in about 30 seconds with a lockpick. This does not make it OK to break into someone's house. It's possible to snoop on someone's cordless phone. This is illegal. Using a wireless network without permission is the same thing.
Yeah, it's real expensive to print books. That's why I get 3 different phone books and tons of unsolicited catalogs in the mail. And a $100 computer with a cheap tiny LCD display is the best way to read books, especially while you are cranking it. And of course it is absolutely necessary that every computer has a built-in library, because people read hundreds of books at the same time.
Oh, and you must have missed that whole thing about the view source button and whatnot.
Anything else is an ACCIDENT rather than murder. If you accidentally hit a pedestrian with your car, why should you get a longer jail sentence than someone who commits an actual crime? What about hunting accidents?
How would a laptop with no internet connection that's given to a mostly-illiterate population do anything? In case nobody realizes, the only reason a few governments are buying into this program is because someone found a way to steal money from it. This is the only reason ANY third world country buys into ANY foreign aid/infrastructure improvement program. If they actually wanted to increase the educational level of their population, they would be printing books and funding libraries, not buying obsolete computer hardware that will almost certainly collect dust. Teaching third world kids how to program computers seems about as useful as teaching them how to maintain and repair BMWs.
You are a fucking retard if you think you can get anything less than life in prison for murder. This law looks about the right penalty for large-scale vandalism.
Plausible deniability doesn't matter in court. Everyone has plausible deniability. Is Fon going to pay for a lawyer when you are indicted for kiddie porn or get sued by the RIAA? Are they going to find you a new job? Are they going to pay your bail? Yeah, sure, IF the router keeps complete logs, you might be able to convince the judge to look at them -- if the FBI gives you back your router with everything still intact. You might even be acquitted -- after a few years in pound-me-in-the-ass prison and having your mugshot in the newspaper with the caption "accused child pornographer".
If you want professional training, go to Devry or something. Of course, nobody will want to hire you, but it's training all right. Where I studied, computer engineering was about making computers, not writing code for them. This is what you would major in if you wanted to design digital chips. Computer science was for those who wanted to become programmers. Yeah, it's mostly theoretical, it's up to you to find an internship or an open-source project to work on. CS is supposed to teach you the relevant theory. Mastering the art of programming is up to the student.
You really need to keep your trap shut if you do not know what the hell you are talking about.
First, there are plenty of programming jobs available if you are any good at it. The Indian talent pool is quite limited -- you can find a team of mediocre programmers, but good ones are hard to find. The lesson: mediocre just ain't good enough. Second, the main thing you need is a good education from a good university. Third, there are plenty of excellent, well-paying internships and co-op programs where you get to work on real products as part of a real development team. These are not hard to come across as long as you have good grades and decent interviewing skills.
I would recommend against Sangoma. Asterisk exists mainly because people are willing to buy Digium's products. Sangoma is pretty much a parasite -- they don't contribute to Asterisk, they make money by competing with Digium. You also have to consider that Sangoma has little experience with the Asterisk codebase, and Digium might not be able to help you troubleshoot certain problems with Asterisk if they involve third-party hardware and drivers.
Get Digium's version of it that they provide support for. Buy their cards. I suppose you can use SIP phones, although that's far more expensive than just keeping the copper wiring, getting a channel bank, and using analog phones. SIP phones do offer a number of benefits, although people may be more comfortable with simple analog phones. I suggest asking the actual users of the system for their input.
Well, I was just pointing out that he is using the money and resources of a few third-world countries to experiment with their educational system. This makes the OLPC project an experiment in the field of education, rather than the field of technology. Negroponte and most of his supporters seem to completely ignore this distinction. They are also ignoring the considerable body of evidence that undermines the argument for installing computers in schools.
My personal opinion is that almost ANY technology in schools is detrimental, rather than beneficial. Even 4-function calculators can completely destroy one's ability to do math, just as Word's spelling checker can completely destroy one's ability to use correct English. This is exactly the reason why few young people today can write correctly or perform even trivial mental math. I've seen engineering students who can't add 2 3-digit numbers without whipping out a calculator, or tell you the decimal equivalent of 3/5th. Hell, most people couldn't recite the multiplication table if their life depended on it. This was not the case before someone thought it was a good idea to give calculators to 3rd-graders.
Not to mention, you can get a much, much better Dell laptop for not much more than that. I got one for like $500, and that was with a gig of RAM and a 1.8GHz Pentium M. While I might have gotten the laptop if it was $100, I don't really care for the cause. I think Negroponte should think about fixing the fucked-up US education system before he starts screwing with those of other countries. Almost every school in the US has tons of computers, but somehow the quality of education has gone down rather than up.
My point was that the lack of good cracks for Logic doesn't mean Apple is amazingly good at protecting software from crackers. Cracking software on a Mac is harder than on Windows mainly because fewer people use Macs, there are no good cracking tools for Macs (like IDA or an appropriate debugger), relatively few people are intimately familiar with the OS X architecture, and Macs generally don't attract the cracker demographic.
Lack of trying? More like "because crackers don't own a Mac and don't crack Mac software". Any protection scheme for any piece of software that can run on a standard personal computer can be cracked.
WITH WOMEN!! Get your Office Space references straight.
Well, each stone has a unique cut, so that's probably part of it. The real question is whether debeers will be able to sell overpriced mined stones to the public when much bigger and better-looking manufactured stones are available, and are exactly the same thing. This is a question of marketing. If they do this right, debeers will be out of business in 20 years. Who gives a shit about the lack of small imperfections or how "genuine" it is if you can get a stone 10 times the size, and it's impossible to tell where it came from outside a lab? Even cubic zirconia is popular somehow, even though it looks NOTHING like a real diamond (the refractive index is a lot smaller).
No, this process just checks the refractive index and other simple things. A really good artificial diamond can only be distinguished from a mined one using very large and expensive equipment to check the impurity profile.
Yeah, and the spellchecker does nothing to fix your/you're, their/there, then/than, lose/loose, affect/effect, "should of", and other stupid errors that make me cringe every time I see them. Seriously, nothing screams "I'm a retard" louder than one of those errors in your writing. Anyone who EVER misuses those words needs to go back to 3rd grade. There just isn't any excuse for these errors.
to persecute: to oppress or harass with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs.
Yeah, let's oppress those who buy spammed products for their race and religious beliefs.