Nothing wrong with a bit of good old indoctrination... Let's not forget to throw in some education on the stifling effect that software patents have on innovation. After students have submitted their programming course work it will be an interesting exercise for them to find out how many patents they have infringed upon.
To make it more fun, split the class in two groups and let the two groups find infringing patents in the works of the other group. All students in the group with the most infringements fail the course.
It surprises me to see how Andy talks about OpenOffice.org and
OpenDocument as being the same thing. The article
talks about control over OpenOffice.org and without blinking Andy quotes IBM on their great cooperation on OpenDocument. That's weird. It's bad enough when the politicians in MA get it wrong, but Andy knows better than that. Much better.
Apart from that it surprised me to see Andy make a comparison with the Linux
kernel. Linus accepts contributions to the Linux kernel as long as such
contributions are licensed under the GPL. Unlike Sun, Linus does not require
the contributor to hand him over the copyrights. As an IP laywer, Andy knows better than
anyone else what the difference is between a non-exclusive license and a
grant of copyright. Much better.
It's almost as if someone from Sun mistakenly posted on Andy's blog;-)
Yes, I do indeed. Because despite all the second amendment puff talk, I don't see any organized armed resistance in the US against illegal police searches or government agencies who are overstepping the law at the direction of the US president. I do read about the occasional meth addict shooting at the police and/or his neighbours, I have never seen that having any positive effect though, such person tends to end up either getting shot himself or spending 20+ years in jail.
Can you explain me how the second amendment helps americans?
If it wasn't for the modified bootloader/kernel that, once you enter the password for your encrypted partition next time you use it, will mail the password to joe@hackersRus.com
You can just can just browse the Mozilla bugzilla to see the unsolved security issues. One of the security advisories issued last december had been in bugzilla since 2002.
Under german law it could be unenforcable due to 31 Abs. 4 UrhG. And I recall a lawsuit in the US about whether publishers could publish copyrighted material in digital form that had been licensed to them previously (for publication in paper form). I think that was http://www.edwardsamuels.com/copyright/beyond/case s/tasini.html
There are two reasons I only use GPL v2.0 and not any later version: 1) I don't want to license my software under terms I have never seen or read and over which I do not have any control. 2) I strongly suspect that the "or any later version" part is not legally enforcable towards the copyright holder because the copyright holder (in this case that's me) had no opportunity to review the terms of a later version when he put that line in and does not have any control over such later version. The clause would be void in most jurisdictions IMHO. (but IANAL)
Indeed, a very dangerous precedent. I'm going to write to my senator today to ask him to pass a ban outlawing the use of compilers. It's clear that compilers pose a great and imminent danger to the hard work of honest US businesses because compilers are used to make infringing works. You may say "my compiler doesn't break any laws, and I can't help it if the people use it to break the law" but that is the same argument the criminals in the "Napster" case used and shows where you are coming from.
Thank god that AIDS shows up in lab-results because otherwise AIDS patients would also have been diagnosed as obsessed and mentally unbalanced, most likely supported with references to their lifestyle as proof of their mental unfitness.
Is this an attempt by the Democrats to improve the tech-level of the Red States in the hope that once they actually have somewhat of an economy they will turn blue?
Sun reminds me of Caldera at the time Ransom Love was trashing the GPL. It wouldn't surprise me if they pulled a SCO when their stock goes far enough down the drain.
I don't think you have tried it then because otherwise you would have noticed that it asks you during installation whether you want GNOME or KDE as desktop.
> Congradulations foreign moron! You've just alienated the other 51% of americans who didn't
> vote for bush. Like what? You think because the government goes in one direction that the people > want to go in that direcion?
You clearly failed to stop your government. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
The U.S. Supreme Court cast a cloud on the medical marijuana movement's biggest legal victory Monday when the justices agreed to hear the Bush administration's appeal of a ruling that protects marijuana patients in California from federal prosecution.
The court will hear the case in the term that starts in October, with a ruling due by the end of June 2005.
In related news, the US department of misinformation warned that Iraq has developed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and is able to launch attacks on Britain within 45 minutes.
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Nothing wrong with a bit of good old indoctrination... Let's not forget to throw in some education on the stifling effect that software patents have on innovation. After students have submitted their programming course work it will be an interesting exercise for them to find out how many patents they have infringed upon.
To make it more fun, split the class in two groups and let the two groups find infringing patents in the works of the other group. All students in the group with the most infringements fail the course.
It surprises me to see how Andy talks about OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument as being the same thing. The article talks about control over OpenOffice.org and without blinking Andy quotes IBM on their great cooperation on OpenDocument. That's weird. It's bad enough when the politicians in MA get it wrong, but Andy knows better than that. Much better.
;-)
Apart from that it surprised me to see Andy make a comparison with the Linux kernel. Linus accepts contributions to the Linux kernel as long as such contributions are licensed under the GPL. Unlike Sun, Linus does not require the contributor to hand him over the copyrights. As an IP laywer, Andy knows better than anyone else what the difference is between a non-exclusive license and a grant of copyright. Much better.
It's almost as if someone from Sun mistakenly posted on Andy's blog
Especially because the knife is most likely made in China from Chinese steel by communists! Bring back McCarthy! Put the infidels to the wall!
God bless america
Microsoft provides Office on Mac, Apple supports Word XML in ECMA. Seems like a reasonable deal to me.
Content from http://www.skoool.com (flash required) is being used on Linux computers in schools in India.
Yes, I do indeed. Because despite all the second amendment puff talk, I don't see any organized armed resistance in the US against illegal police searches or government agencies who are overstepping the law at the direction of the US president. I do read about the occasional meth addict shooting at the police and/or his neighbours, I have never seen that having any positive effect though, such person tends to end up either getting shot himself or spending 20+ years in jail. Can you explain me how the second amendment helps americans?
If it wasn't for the modified bootloader/kernel that, once you enter the password for your encrypted partition next time you use it, will mail the password to joe@hackersRus.com
Seems to me that this case tries to legalize obstruction of justice by demanding from the IA to destroy evidence of misconduct.
You can just can just browse the Mozilla bugzilla to see the unsolved security issues. One of the security advisories issued last december had been in bugzilla since 2002.
Can you put it up for download?
They need/want to pay another 25 million to SCO before they write the next line ;-)
Under german law it could be unenforcable due to 31 Abs. 4 UrhG. And I recall a lawsuit in the US about whether publishers could publish copyrighted material in digital form that had been licensed to them previously (for publication in paper form). I think that was http://www.edwardsamuels.com/copyright/beyond/case s/tasini.html
There are two reasons I only use GPL v2.0 and not any later version:
1) I don't want to license my software under terms I have never seen or read and over which I do not have any control.
2) I strongly suspect that the "or any later version" part is not legally enforcable towards the copyright holder because the copyright holder (in this case that's me) had no opportunity to review the terms of a later version when he put that line in and does not have any control over such later version. The clause would be void in most jurisdictions IMHO. (but IANAL)
Indeed, a very dangerous precedent. I'm going to write to my senator today to ask him to pass a ban outlawing the use of compilers. It's clear that compilers pose a great and imminent danger to the hard work of honest US businesses because compilers are used to make infringing works. You may say "my compiler doesn't break any laws, and I can't help it if the people use it to break the law" but that is the same argument the criminals in the "Napster" case used and shows where you are coming from.
Thank god that AIDS shows up in lab-results because otherwise AIDS patients would also have been diagnosed as obsessed and mentally unbalanced, most likely supported with references to their lifestyle as proof of their mental unfitness.
Is this an attempt by the Democrats to improve the tech-level of the Red States in the hope that once they actually have somewhat of an economy they will turn blue?
Sun reminds me of Caldera at the time Ransom Love was trashing the GPL. It wouldn't surprise me if they pulled a SCO when their stock goes far enough down the drain.
I don't think you have tried it then because otherwise you would have noticed that it asks you during installation whether you want GNOME or KDE as desktop.
Never tried it with GNOME but KDE's Kiosk Admin Tool makes supporting large groups of users and setting different policies a snap.
> Congradulations foreign moron! You've just alienated the other 51% of americans who didn't > vote for bush. Like what? You think because the government goes in one direction that the people > want to go in that direcion? You clearly failed to stop your government. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
The U.S. Supreme Court cast a cloud on the medical marijuana movement's biggest legal victory Monday when the justices agreed to hear the Bush administration's appeal of a ruling that protects marijuana patients in California from federal prosecution.
The court will hear the case in the term that starts in October, with a ruling due by the end of June 2005.
The distro is called "SUSE LINUX" as you can see on http://www.suse.de/en/company/press/press_releases /archive04/index.html
> Make the website launching any JavaScript event appear in the foreground
That's indeed how Konqueror has fixed this in KDE 3.3.1.
In related news, the US department of misinformation warned that Iraq has developed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and is able to launch attacks on Britain within 45 minutes.
Or better, the US could bomb the hell out of the country and invade it. Do they have oil over there?