I've seen references made to dual-licensing, with one license being the GPL and the other allowing for a subscription (which is terminated as soon as rights under the GPL are exercised). While that may be legal, it seems rather dubious.
But surely only the original author of the code can dual license (unless they get the permission of all additional contributors)?
Is this a loop hole though? Can you separately license patches? Is this company's code compiled in, or separate? Does it constitute a distribution, rather than a single program?
This is confusing:-(
I think the only person I trust 100% for a call on this is RMS himself.
my understanding is that they are still going to be including ilife with OS X...as I understand new boxes of Panther will be including ilife '04.
That's both interesting and annoying, in that I've bought Panther already.
Why can't Apple make the applications part of the automatic software update, and check that the user has Panther installed? I'm assuming that it's because iLife can run under Jaguar as well, and they wouldn't want to put a check in?
So basically, if you haven't already updated to Panther - don't - at least until after it's buddled.
I wouldn't be quite so annoyed if it wasn't for all the bugs I'm wading through with Panther at the moment. I'm sort of wishing I'd stuck with Jaguar for a while longer - Panther hasn't offered me many benefits. The only two additions that I actually use are threading in Mail, and Xcode.
I have one worry about the iLife applications being broken off...
What other applications that are currently part of the standard install of the operating system might be farmed out? Afterall, iChatAV is already available as a separate purchase, so what about iSync, or iCal?
I would be less concerned if they increased the price of Panther (or future operating system upgrades) and included the iLife applications in the bundle.
When employees tell him filming is not allowed, Mann points to the stores' own surveillance cameras behind darkened domes in the ceiling.
If CCTV systems are bad because they invade the privacy of individuals, how can walking around with a camera be better? If he were using it purely to prove a point, that would be fine, but he seems to be advacating that everyone should be wearing cameras. This would be an abandonment of privacy, where no-one would ever be free of CCTV imagining.
Sticking a camera in everyone's face is just plain rude.
While technical ebooks "are fine" and "stuff you need for work" what advantage does the ebook format have over other forms of electronic information (for the user rather than the producer)?
As you say, the one great advantage of the conventional book is it's user interface. Perhaps rather than looking how to integrate books into computers, we should look to integrate computers into books? Imagine being able to perform a search in a normal book, and having the appropriate page illuminated. Wouldn't that actually add value to a book, without detracting from it's user interface?
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Is this a loop hole though? Can you separately license patches? Is this company's code compiled in, or separate? Does it constitute a distribution, rather than a single program?
This is confusing :-(
I think the only person I trust 100% for a call on this is RMS himself.
Why can't Apple make the applications part of the automatic software update, and check that the user has Panther installed? I'm assuming that it's because iLife can run under Jaguar as well, and they wouldn't want to put a check in?
So basically, if you haven't already updated to Panther - don't - at least until after it's buddled.
I wouldn't be quite so annoyed if it wasn't for all the bugs I'm wading through with Panther at the moment. I'm sort of wishing I'd stuck with Jaguar for a while longer - Panther hasn't offered me many benefits. The only two additions that I actually use are threading in Mail, and Xcode.
I have one worry about the iLife applications being broken off...
What other applications that are currently part of the standard install of the operating system might be farmed out? Afterall, iChatAV is already available as a separate purchase, so what about iSync, or iCal?
I would be less concerned if they increased the price of Panther (or future operating system upgrades) and included the iLife applications in the bundle.
If CCTV systems are bad because they invade the privacy of individuals, how can walking around with a camera be better? If he were using it purely to prove a point, that would be fine, but he seems to be advacating that everyone should be wearing cameras. This would be an abandonment of privacy, where no-one would ever be free of CCTV imagining.
Sticking a camera in everyone's face is just plain rude.
While there is even a remote chance that it may be functional, it would be foolish to give up.
While technical ebooks "are fine" and "stuff you need for work" what advantage does the ebook format have over other forms of electronic information (for the user rather than the producer)?
As you say, the one great advantage of the conventional book is it's user interface. Perhaps rather than looking how to integrate books into computers, we should look to integrate computers into books? Imagine being able to perform a search in a normal book, and having the appropriate page illuminated. Wouldn't that actually add value to a book, without detracting from it's user interface?