It becomes NP-very-hard to prove that you were joking on Facebook, or that you don't really know JohnBlowingThingsUp83 but just befriended him to increase you e-friend-peen.
Has there been any government been able to produce a proper and believable reason why these talks should be held in secrecy? Obviously isn't not about national security.
It's also unethical for an employer to claim ownership of something that was a) not created on request of said employer and b) where the employee was not compensated for. What you're basically are saying is that the dinner you make at home after work is property of the company you work for. That's rather ludicrous.
Also... ethics... it's just like religion. Everybody has their own set of rules.
But I didn't buy it from the publisher, I bought it from the retailer. The receipt is proof of a sales agreement between me and the retailer, it has no legal binding between me and the publisher.
Funny thing, we experienced the exact opposite. We have issues with various Oracle JDK6 version on Linux that we don't have with OpenJDK 6 versions. Our application would simply segfault when it reaches the set memory limit (instead of garbage collecting).
The contributions of Dennis Ritchie are well documented.
So we know she became MCP at the age of 9 (and getting a bunch of awards). What has she been doing in the past 7 years? A prodigy would have had some sort of output in a 7 year timespan.
Microsoft is one of the companies that pressured the FTC (and EU) to start this investigation. In some cases they used shell companies instead of complaining directly.
Sure it is. Oracle will make itself irrelevant in the Java world if they keep this up. The Java world will simply fork from Oracle's Java. The only thing Oracle can do it sue the Java world into oblivion.
You cannot simply change the license of open source software to something else. Every contributor needs to agree to the new license. If a contributor rejects the new license or simply doesn't respond you can only change the license if you remove all contributions of the contributor that didn't agree. This is the reason why FSF included the following in the GPL terms: "or (at your option) any later version.". That would allow you to change to a newer version of the license, but it doesn't allow you to change GPL to AGPL, just GPLv2 to GPLv3.
Looking at the commit history of wurfl as documented on ohloh.net I see some contributors that committed to the CVS repository, but do no longer appear to be project members (and haven't committed a long time before), for example "Andrea Trasatti" and "Ed Alkema". I have serious doubts that the change from GPL to AGPL was signed off by these inactive contributors.
id Software doesn't use sourceforge.net's file service to provide propriety downloads.
Also, id Software hasn't released any game as open source or semi open source. They have only released the source code of their games as open source. Without the game data you need to get from a paid distribution you cannot play the game.
SOPA affects me too, but I'm not an USA citizen, live there, work there, etc. How can the rest of the world help in fixing this political problem in the US? Should we send our army to overthrow the corrupt government?
Most of these APIs provide access to data "owned" by the providers of those APIs. They rarely ever provide functionality that is not coupled to their data. These Web APIs are not going to replace open source tools/libraries that provide functionality.
Also, using the term Open API is bullshit. First of all, an API is pretty much always open otherwise it cannot be an "application programming interface". If the API was closed it would not even be an interface to program against but a blackbox.
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I don't like vegetables.
Weirdly, it's not true. On average the USA consumes way more cannabis than the Netherlands:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lif_can_use-lifestyle-cannabis-use
History class has been a while, but didn't the Europeans invent immigration and multi racial society before there even was a US of A?
>New Programming Languages Come From Designers
What does not nowadays?
Solutions to actual problems.
Now all those bits and bytes are now flowing into the sea
It becomes NP-very-hard to prove that you were joking on Facebook, or that you don't really know JohnBlowingThingsUp83 but just befriended him to increase you e-friend-peen.
This practice sounds like complete the opposite of the principles of scientific research.
And yet his handwriting isn't as awful as Comic Sans.
Has there been any government been able to produce a proper and believable reason why these talks should be held in secrecy? Obviously isn't not about national security.
It's also unethical for an employer to claim ownership of something that was a) not created on request of said employer and b) where the employee was not compensated for.
What you're basically are saying is that the dinner you make at home after work is property of the company you work for. That's rather ludicrous.
Also... ethics... it's just like religion. Everybody has their own set of rules.
And professional software development is usually more like the latter than the former.
But I didn't buy it from the publisher, I bought it from the retailer. The receipt is proof of a sales agreement between me and the retailer, it has no legal binding between me and the publisher.
USA didn't create Facebook, a bunch of people living in the USA created Facebook.
Funny thing, we experienced the exact opposite. We have issues with various Oracle JDK6 version on Linux that we don't have with OpenJDK 6 versions. Our application would simply segfault when it reaches the set memory limit (instead of garbage collecting).
The contributions of Dennis Ritchie are well documented.
So we know she became MCP at the age of 9 (and getting a bunch of awards). What has she been doing in the past 7 years? A prodigy would have had some sort of output in a 7 year timespan.
My home office is my 'Fortress of Solitude'
You misspelled "solitaire".
Microsoft is one of the companies that pressured the FTC (and EU) to start this investigation. In some cases they used shell companies instead of complaining directly.
Hello commercials that start with the announcer screaming "Computer. Volume up! Volume up! Volume up!"
I would hate to be a manufacturer of (get-away) cars.
Sure it is. Oracle will make itself irrelevant in the Java world if they keep this up. The Java world will simply fork from Oracle's Java. The only thing Oracle can do it sue the Java world into oblivion.
But Torchlight was made by the people that made Diablo 1 and 2. Diablo 3 is created by a completely different team.
You cannot simply change the license of open source software to something else. Every contributor needs to agree to the new license. If a contributor rejects the new license or simply doesn't respond you can only change the license if you remove all contributions of the contributor that didn't agree. This is the reason why FSF included the following in the GPL terms: "or (at your option) any later version.". That would allow you to change to a newer version of the license, but it doesn't allow you to change GPL to AGPL, just GPLv2 to GPLv3.
Looking at the commit history of wurfl as documented on ohloh.net I see some contributors that committed to the CVS repository, but do no longer appear to be project members (and haven't committed a long time before), for example "Andrea Trasatti" and "Ed Alkema". I have serious doubts that the change from GPL to AGPL was signed off by these inactive contributors.
id Software doesn't use sourceforge.net's file service to provide propriety downloads.
Also, id Software hasn't released any game as open source or semi open source. They have only released the source code of their games as open source. Without the game data you need to get from a paid distribution you cannot play the game.
SOPA affects me too, but I'm not an USA citizen, live there, work there, etc.
How can the rest of the world help in fixing this political problem in the US? Should we send our army to overthrow the corrupt government?
Most of these APIs provide access to data "owned" by the providers of those APIs. They rarely ever provide functionality that is not coupled to their data. These Web APIs are not going to replace open source tools/libraries that provide functionality.
Also, using the term Open API is bullshit. First of all, an API is pretty much always open otherwise it cannot be an "application programming interface". If the API was closed it would not even be an interface to program against but a blackbox.