Well, the GPL is quite easy: 1. Don't restrict usage in any way. 2. Restrict redistribution and derived works in a way ensuring point 1 holds also for redistributed and derived works.
RMS is consumer oriented. He sounds eccentric when he talks because people have been brainwashed into thinking along the corporate lines.
How many consumers actually care whether the operating system is called "Linux" or "GNU/Linux"? I certainly cannot do more with it if the "GNU/" is attached to the name.
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Of course you can fork both GPL and BSD licensed projects.
Or we might have ended up with Linux failing, but the BSDs not winning either. Has anyone ever analyzed why Linux took off and BSD didn't, and what role the license played in this?
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This misses much of the problem though. You can create a full application of original code, then be forbidden to statically link with a tiny GPL library or borrow a couple of routines without making your whole product fall under GPL. This isn't a commercializing GPL code or rebundling it.
Guess what: If you intend to make your application proprietary, the GPL developers want you to stay clear from their code. So I'd say the GPL works as intended.
I guess it's more because it could also turn up with problematic terms. Like searching for "slaves" and then getting an ad for "slaves on ebay" (this specific example is made up because I don't remember the concrete terms and ads where I've seen that). While you can of course remove specific keywords, there are probably too many problematic keywords to reliably exclude them all. While for anyone with minimal insight about what is going on this should be just a chuckle, I guess there are enough people who would take the ad serious and then of course have an issue with it, damaging the reputation of the company.
First degree of freedom: Move forward/backward. Second degree of freedom: Turn left/right. Third degree of freedom: Adjust cleaning head (select "Carpets to hard floors"; direct link doesn't seem to work) So at least the current version of Roomba fulfills all criteria for a robot.
Wrong counting or reporting is in principle provable (just count again/compare the counted with the reported result). Voting against your actual opinion due to external pressure isn't. Note that equally important as the secrecy of the votes is that everyone is allowed to watch the counting.
The politicians are representing either big business and the rich or trial lawyers and unions.
The problem is actually the American spelling. Since the American spelling of "cheque" is "check", the politicians simply misunderstand the term "checks and balances" (where "balance" is interpreted as "balance of the bank account", of course).
A singularity is the result of dividing by zero. Probably Ray Kurzweil just misinterpreted the usual C/C++ explanation that division by zero is undefined behaviour and therefore anything could happen.
The more relevant results may be just because the algorithm is new, so the SEOs couldn't yet optimize for it. If it really gives more relevant results will be seen after it is the main search algorithm for some time.
Remember, in the beginning the old algorithm used to be very good in finding relevant results.
Evolution theory doesn't say anything about how the universe came into existence. Evolution theory says something about how species develop here on Earth. It is no contradiction to evolution theory if the universe was made by an intelligent being, and precisely set up to enable an evolution.
In order to avoid further confusion, I propose to replace both "affect" and "effect" by "aeffect" and depend on the context to determine the meaning in each case.
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Well, the GPL is quite easy:
1. Don't restrict usage in any way.
2. Restrict redistribution and derived works in a way ensuring point 1 holds also for redistributed and derived works.
How many consumers actually care whether the operating system is called "Linux" or "GNU/Linux"? I certainly cannot do more with it if the "GNU/" is attached to the name.
Of course you can fork both GPL and BSD licensed projects.
Or we might have ended up with Linux failing, but the BSDs not winning either.
Has anyone ever analyzed why Linux took off and BSD didn't, and what role the license played in this?
Guess what: If you intend to make your application proprietary, the GPL developers want you to stay clear from their code. So I'd say the GPL works as intended.
I guess it's more because it could also turn up with problematic terms. Like searching for "slaves" and then getting an ad for "slaves on ebay" (this specific example is made up because I don't remember the concrete terms and ads where I've seen that). While you can of course remove specific keywords, there are probably too many problematic keywords to reliably exclude them all. While for anyone with minimal insight about what is going on this should be just a chuckle, I guess there are enough people who would take the ad serious and then of course have an issue with it, damaging the reputation of the company.
First degree of freedom: Move forward/backward.
Second degree of freedom: Turn left/right.
Third degree of freedom: Adjust cleaning head (select "Carpets to hard floors"; direct link doesn't seem to work)
So at least the current version of Roomba fulfills all criteria for a robot.
Schneier uses Linux and cannot be trusted. This is all that needs to be said, the entire article is invalid.
Parent is Anonymous Coward and cannot be trusted. This is all that needs to be said, the entire comment is invalid.
Wrong counting or reporting is in principle provable (just count again/compare the counted with the reported result). Voting against your actual opinion due to external pressure isn't.
Note that equally important as the secrecy of the votes is that everyone is allowed to watch the counting.
If voting for the "wrong" party can get you severe disadvantages, you definitely care if someone can know your vote.
And why should I trust the TPM chip of the voting machine?
The problem is actually the American spelling. Since the American spelling of "cheque" is "check", the politicians simply misunderstand the term "checks and balances" (where "balance" is interpreted as "balance of the bank account", of course).
Unix definitely started before hardware was standardized (and hardware isn't really standardized today either; only PC hardware is).
Why not? Because it doesn't look humanoid? Or because it doesn't have advanced artificial intelligence?
Do you consider industrial robots as robots?
And a jailbroken iBot might indeed physically damage cell towers :-)
Maybe someone has a patent on it. "Method to collectively select an option from a list without revealing a single person's choice."
You mean like, making a cross on paper and putting that paper in a box, and then counting afterwards?
Butt the spelling chequer tails me that theirs know miss take.
You know what it means if the patient turns blue?
A singularity is the result of dividing by zero. Probably Ray Kurzweil just misinterpreted the usual C/C++ explanation that division by zero is undefined behaviour and therefore anything could happen.
He just measured the time until the packet didn't arrive. :-)
The more relevant results may be just because the algorithm is new, so the SEOs couldn't yet optimize for it. If it really gives more relevant results will be seen after it is the main search algorithm for some time.
Remember, in the beginning the old algorithm used to be very good in finding relevant results.
Evolution theory doesn't say anything about how the universe came into existence. Evolution theory says something about how species develop here on Earth. It is no contradiction to evolution theory if the universe was made by an intelligent being, and precisely set up to enable an evolution.
In order to avoid further confusion, I propose to replace both "affect" and "effect" by "aeffect" and depend on the context to determine the meaning in each case.
Today (but after my first reply to your comment).