Freenet working at all must be a recent development. I tried running a node a couple of times because I thought the concept was cool, but I could never get to the point where I could retreive more than the occasional site.
Plus it was way too resource hungry to run on my main PC. The concept was neat, but it seemed that the informaton was lost out there in nodes beyond my reach.
Seriously, considering how modern state-of-the-art cell phones don't work at all in such areas (at least here in the US), I don't think the chances of getting a good data link are very high.
How is Linux/BSD something entirely different from OSX? They are all *nix based (more or less) operating systems. The only difference is that OSX has a prettier interface and more boxed apps available. You could argue that it's a better whatever you want to call it, but to put them in entirely different categories is silly.
I don't think Linus has come down against reverse engineering in general. But he did in this case, because there was a promise made not to. I may make an agreement not to do something that I would normally feel entitled to do; that does not make me suddenly on the opposing side.
Now, one could make the argument that he had no business makeing such an agreement, but it is his project. And those who did not like BK did not have to use it (they could still work, but not as easily).
It seems a bit unfair to blame the OSI for anything done by its people, but they should have done more to separate themselves from Tridge's personal projects. It almost seems like they were happy to see the deal fall apart.
If you want this crap to stop being as bad as it is, we're going to have to accept some inconvience. (GASP!)
The only reason this info is such a problem, is because companies like this have set it up as the key to instant credit. Require people making a claim of debit against a person to show proof that they have the right guy, and the problem is reduced.
It will lead to some inconvient (GASP!) problems, so the question is wether the general public and government has the will to fix the problem. I'm not optomistic.
A 15 can sign a contract AFIAK, but he can get out of it pretty easy.
As an aside, I recall a bit from insurance law about how a minor can recieve a insurance payout, then claim he didn't get it after he turns 18. And the company has to pay out again.
But what fuels the service economy? A thriving service economy needs disposable income.
What I'm getting at, is that the service sector alone is not enough to float the whole economy once the countries we are outsourceing to realize that they don't need the middleman (us).
They have the manufacturing, and the smarts, all we're keeping are the executives and salesmen. And the keyboard sanitisers.
That nobody involved, including Linus, believes that Tridge was actually doing this "clean room".
The BK guy claims that he would be ok with a OSS clone, so long as it was not reverse enginerred from BK. Who knows? We may never really know now.
Linus, who is in a position to know (and I consider trustworthy), doesn't seem convinced that Tridge wasn't just trying to torpedo BK from the get-go. (based on his statements here and in the eariler article)
How will eduaction matter if all the jobs are gone? The manufacturing is gone, now they (globalists) want to send the design and enginering away too.
What does that leave? The middlemen, marketers and lawyers and mbas. How long will it take for everyone else to realize we're the B-ark and get rid of us?
Perhaps you don't get it. A lot of us like and use OSS for purely technical reasons, or as a hobby, or as a way of giving back. Don't assume that everyone shares your religon.
How about some perspective. How about considering the worldview of others who see an peaceful co-existence between open source and other methods as an ideal situation (as opposed to an OSS only utopia that some are fighting for).
Some feel commerical software is immoral, I don't agree, but I don't think I should beat down those who do. (debate the issue sure, but a lot of what goes on here is far from debate)
Is it FUD if it's coming from one of the guys who is revising it? Hopefully it is just a poor choice of words on his part, but the "loophole" he's trying to stop isn't much of a loophole at all.
Yeah, it is tricky. I don't know what the Mac does, but windows gets around this by having a "All Users" profile that gets added to whatever is in the current users profile. That should be a reasonable solution.
How to make all this cope with the many environments available is another problem altogether. Perhaps it might be possible to get the environment developers to agree on a standard menu format. Icon formats will probably be a problem, too.
Configuration afterward is, and software installation too. The package systems are halfway there, you can find programs to install eaisly enough. "But where's the icon?", asks grandma. There isn't one, gotta find where the thing inatalled and set that up yourself.
And it doesn't help when some of the icons that are set up on install don't work and don't give feedback as to why.
It's not like it's an impossible problem to solve, OSX and Windows software installs are pretty simple for grandma. You run the installer and it puts an icon in the menu/desktop/whatever. Seems like the package control system needs to be integrated with wichever desktop is installed. If the other guys can do it, the distributions should be able to as well.
Oh, and fixing up USB keyboard support would be nice too. (was going to try out the new vector 5 soho, but couldn't get past go because of my USB keyboard. Tried VLOS 1.1 instead and was not too impressed.)
When the outcome of a court case is determined by the pocketbooks of the opponets, the law is kinda moot.
The people suing may not even have stading in the case (the record companies ususally don't have the rights to live shows anyway). But that doesn't matter if you don't have the megabucks needed to fight in court.
I wouldn't say always, considering how many more programmers we have out there looking for work than are jobs for them to do. I sure people in hardware believed the same at some point, but now those jobs are moved.
It's like we're trying to become the worlds B-ark.
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People are still busy bitching over the election and the one before it.
Sounds like the oldest trick in the marketing book.
Plus it was way too resource hungry to run on my main PC. The concept was neat, but it seemed that the informaton was lost out there in nodes beyond my reach.
If it were really like freenet, it would be: Good idea, awful implementation (that isn't portable despite being written in java).
Seriously, considering how modern state-of-the-art cell phones don't work at all in such areas (at least here in the US), I don't think the chances of getting a good data link are very high.
How is Linux/BSD something entirely different from OSX? They are all *nix based (more or less) operating systems. The only difference is that OSX has a prettier interface and more boxed apps available. You could argue that it's a better whatever you want to call it, but to put them in entirely different categories is silly.
Now, one could make the argument that he had no business makeing such an agreement, but it is his project. And those who did not like BK did not have to use it (they could still work, but not as easily).
It seems a bit unfair to blame the OSI for anything done by its people, but they should have done more to separate themselves from Tridge's personal projects. It almost seems like they were happy to see the deal fall apart.The only reason this info is such a problem, is because companies like this have set it up as the key to instant credit. Require people making a claim of debit against a person to show proof that they have the right guy, and the problem is reduced.
It will lead to some inconvient (GASP!) problems, so the question is wether the general public and government has the will to fix the problem. I'm not optomistic.Been running panther on my 2000+ (no, really) and was hoping for a speed boost. It runs a tad slow, being the wrong platform and all.
A 15 can sign a contract AFIAK, but he can get out of it pretty easy.
As an aside, I recall a bit from insurance law about how a minor can recieve a insurance payout, then claim he didn't get it after he turns 18. And the company has to pay out again.Which is why you never pay directly to a minor.
What I'm getting at, is that the service sector alone is not enough to float the whole economy once the countries we are outsourceing to realize that they don't need the middleman (us).
They have the manufacturing, and the smarts, all we're keeping are the executives and salesmen. And the keyboard sanitisers.The BK guy claims that he would be ok with a OSS clone, so long as it was not reverse enginerred from BK. Who knows? We may never really know now.
Linus, who is in a position to know (and I consider trustworthy), doesn't seem convinced that Tridge wasn't just trying to torpedo BK from the get-go. (based on his statements here and in the eariler article)What does that leave? The middlemen, marketers and lawyers and mbas. How long will it take for everyone else to realize we're the B-ark and get rid of us?
How about some perspective. How about considering the worldview of others who see an peaceful co-existence between open source and other methods as an ideal situation (as opposed to an OSS only utopia that some are fighting for).
Some feel commerical software is immoral, I don't agree, but I don't think I should beat down those who do. (debate the issue sure, but a lot of what goes on here is far from debate)Seems like further evidence that the FSF types are fighting a war against commercial interests, despite how much they deny it.
Is it FUD if it's coming from one of the guys who is revising it? Hopefully it is just a poor choice of words on his part, but the "loophole" he's trying to stop isn't much of a loophole at all.
Pretty soon you'll have people putting up HTML everywhere, oh noes!
Where others have failed with license terms, valve is trying with subscriptions.
People have discovered that the ability to run offline expires after a month or two. Once that happens, you must log back into steam to play again.
You keep repeating things which aren't fully true. Are you getting paid, or just not fully informed?
How to make all this cope with the many environments available is another problem altogether. Perhaps it might be possible to get the environment developers to agree on a standard menu format. Icon formats will probably be a problem, too.
And it doesn't help when some of the icons that are set up on install don't work and don't give feedback as to why.
It's not like it's an impossible problem to solve, OSX and Windows software installs are pretty simple for grandma. You run the installer and it puts an icon in the menu/desktop/whatever. Seems like the package control system needs to be integrated with wichever desktop is installed. If the other guys can do it, the distributions should be able to as well.Oh, and fixing up USB keyboard support would be nice too. (was going to try out the new vector 5 soho, but couldn't get past go because of my USB keyboard. Tried VLOS 1.1 instead and was not too impressed.)
The people suing may not even have stading in the case (the record companies ususally don't have the rights to live shows anyway). But that doesn't matter if you don't have the megabucks needed to fight in court.
Recording a live show can be legal, some bands evn encourage it. However, the distribution of them may be illegal.
It's like we're trying to become the worlds B-ark.