I don't know why this isn't established as fact know by everyone who looks at the GPL.
Because it's misleading FUD perpetuated by organisations who compete with free software and would like to suffocate it.
Dynamic linking is done by end users who have the right to produce derived work, even containing non-GPL'd code, providing they don't distribute the derived work.
But not at this point (wo)/man! It's over, the judgment happened, she can collect.
I had a similar experience with a car dealer.
They owed me several thousand dollars, didn't dispute that, but simply refused to pay. I went through the legal process, took them to court. They didn't attend court, and I won a default judgement, but they still wouldn't pay. I went back to the court, and got a bailiff's summons to confiscate property.
They met the bailiff with a cheque for the amount I owed.
I got my money, but it took me more than eight months and hundreds of hours of work to get it. It's a pretty big disincentive to try to recover what you're owed.
Hell is referred to as "the outer darkness" or "the outside" much more often.
You've got that ass-backwards.
The term "outer darkness" is believed by some to refer to hell, not the other way around.
In the parable of the marriage feast in Matthew 22:13, Jesus tells the story of one who came to a marriage feast but was not dressed properly, so the King had him thrown into the outer darkness where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth. The question is: where is the outer darkness? Most teach that the "outer darkness" is hell. But some teach that this is just the darkness outside the banquet hall in heaven, or as I have named it--heaven's suburb. http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=1044
You just get a different bias, and it's more difficult to figure out where that bias is coming into play.
Do you understand what TFA is about?
The whole point of a community resource like Wikipedia is to allow for multiple points of view, and by implication, multiple biases. As long as that's transparent and understood, it IS a bonus.
Dan Lyons was pretty damn close to a paid SCO shill at times.
I suspect he'll start talking about the 235 patents soon.
All that's changed is the venue - the same people are pushing the same FUD - "Linux is a legal minefield". Just look at the shill posts around any discussion of ODF or GPL3.
That's Microsoft's best direction of attack. they can't win on price or quality, so they need to scare people away.
Say what you want, but these are much requested features from Microsoft's customer base.
Ah, I wondered when the "Dank defence" would pop up.
It's clearly ridiculous to claim Microsoft has been forced to cripple its flagship product at the whim of content providers. If Microsoft had told the media companies "no DRM", they would still have fallen over themselves to provide material for the platform. It's too big a market to ignore.
No, this is about Microsoft taking control of the means of distribution of media. It's about closing off PCs as an open platform and about excluding competitors, just like almost every other recent action by Microsoft.
If they weren't so paranoid about competition, and paid more attention to products, Vista could have been a good OS.
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I'm always looking for new references of how to do things, either for myself or people I have been trying to convert to Linux.
Don't read TFA then. The advice it gives is barely relevant to any distro released in the past decade.
Yeah I just read here that Apple's iWork '08 supports OOXML very well, while MS is still struggling with their OOXML implementation in Office for the Mac.
For those who think that we are detrimental to the universe, I suggest that the only logical thing to do is to kill yourself.
I'd like to agree with you, but you're wrong. We're antithetical to the continuation of this universe. The good news is that I'm pretty sure any intelligent life would be.
The problem is the universe is too simple for the likes of us. Once you truly understand the nature of spacetime, it's simple to see how to switch between matter, time and energy states. In many ways it looks like the holy grail of power generation. It means virtually unlimited free energy - it's not really free of course, the universe gains entropy when it's altered that way, but it's free enough for us. The only problem with the method is that it scales up easily. I can't see that there's a limit to how far up it can scale.
The hardware required isn't particularly complicated to build - anyone with basic mechanical, plumbing and electrical skills could do it in a week. That means all the energy in the universe would be available to anyone who wanted it, for whatever purpose. The whole of human history has been about increasing the amount of power each individual can wield. Hand held rocks gave way to spears, then arrows, guns, cannons; even whole aircraft became projectiles. With this tool, if somebody wanted to convert an earth-sized chunk of matter to energy, it would be trivial to do so. It wouldn't be much harder to do the same for the whole of our universe.
I had my moment of epiphany about this a few years ago, and I'm seeing signs others know about it too. There are too many intelligent people chasing down what are clearly dead ends to be accidental - particle physicists still bashing (very tiny) rocks together, for example. I suppose eventually someone will have the same epiphany, but decide to exploit it. I don't think we'll last long then.
That's why I think we should fix ourselves first. Getting off the planet's not enough to save us.
As far as your advice goes though, I've decided to stay alive. These are interesting times.
I think Microsoft looked at that (along with what Google and the like have been doing) and simply saw a really good opportunity to extend their near monopoly on productivity into an entirely new business. I really do believe it is nothing more evil than that.
Then why the unseemly haste, committee stacking, and other nefarious practices to get adopted as an ISO standard?
Why the attacks on ODF adoption? If Microsoft had any intention of being interoperable, they'd have supported ODF from the start..
Not interesting... Yeah right.
I actually think adoption is going at a fairly high rate, but what people sometimes miss is that there's just a huge inertia in switching operating systems, so MS Windows has a big advantage in just the historical installed base...
MS has a really hard time competing on technical merit, and they traditionally have instead tried to compete on price, but that obviously doesn't work either, not against open source. So they'll continue to bundle packages and live off the inertia of the marketplace, but they want to feed that inertia with FUD.
- Linus Torvalds, from TFA
Linus has no illusions about Microsoft's motives or ethics. He simply believes that Linux is the better operating system, and therefore adoption of Linux is a fait accompli, and is inevitable given sufficient time.
That's a fairly typical engineer's attitude, and ignores the enormous damage Microsoft is doing to the computing community while "inertia" is taking its course.
Wow! I didn't realize you could browse/. with Lynx!;)
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I'd say that model is viable, but only if you can manage to build up a fan base. That process, though, is anything but easy.
We're doing something similar http://www.funkclub.com.au/fc/. We have a house band who has a good fanbase and plays most of the gig, while new bands can play a few sets and get some exposure. There's money from ticket sales, club membership, CDs sold at the door and sponsorship.
It's not huge, but there's some damn good music being made, and a lot of people having a good time.
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Because it's misleading FUD perpetuated by organisations who compete with free software and would like to suffocate it.
Dynamic linking is done by end users who have the right to produce derived work, even containing non-GPL'd code, providing they don't distribute the derived work.
I would have had to apply to the court again to get them. At some point, you have to cut your losses.
I had a similar experience with a car dealer.
They owed me several thousand dollars, didn't dispute that, but simply refused to pay. I went through the legal process, took them to court. They didn't attend court, and I won a default judgement, but they still wouldn't pay. I went back to the court, and got a bailiff's summons to confiscate property.
They met the bailiff with a cheque for the amount I owed.
I got my money, but it took me more than eight months and hundreds of hours of work to get it. It's a pretty big disincentive to try to recover what you're owed.
You're being a bit egotistical thinking it was God.
Looks more like a farming operation to me. First you plant the seed, then you let the crop grow 'till it's ripe. Then you harvest the crop.
Nasa should be mounting a lookout for a galactic John Deere combine.
You've got that ass-backwards.
The term "outer darkness" is believed by some to refer to hell, not the other way around.
In the parable of the marriage feast in Matthew 22:13, Jesus tells the story of one who came to a marriage feast but was not dressed properly, so the King had him thrown into the outer darkness where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth. The question is: where is the outer darkness? Most teach that the "outer darkness" is hell. But some teach that this is just the darkness outside the banquet hall in heaven, or as I have named it--heaven's suburb. http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=1044Thanks for the clarification...
Do you understand what TFA is about?
The whole point of a community resource like Wikipedia is to allow for multiple points of view, and by implication, multiple biases. As long as that's transparent and understood, it IS a bonus.
I suspect he'll start talking about the 235 patents soon.
All that's changed is the venue - the same people are pushing the same FUD - "Linux is a legal minefield". Just look at the shill posts around any discussion of ODF or GPL3.
That's Microsoft's best direction of attack. they can't win on price or quality, so they need to scare people away.
I call it an "in tray".
The longer you procrastinate, the more it shocks you...
I'd rather you answered the question.
Perhaps you should send a link to the kernel devs and suggest they emulate it...
What does it stop you doing?
You're suposed to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.
Are these drives belt-driven?
Don't you mean DirectX 10.1? http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41577
Ah, I wondered when the "Dank defence" would pop up.
It's clearly ridiculous to claim Microsoft has been forced to cripple its flagship product at the whim of content providers. If Microsoft had told the media companies "no DRM", they would still have fallen over themselves to provide material for the platform. It's too big a market to ignore.
No, this is about Microsoft taking control of the means of distribution of media. It's about closing off PCs as an open platform and about excluding competitors, just like almost every other recent action by Microsoft.
If they weren't so paranoid about competition, and paid more attention to products, Vista could have been a good OS.
Don't read TFA then. The advice it gives is barely relevant to any distro released in the past decade.
That's not what the PCWorld article says at all.
iWork '08 is claimed to be able to open but not write OOXML. In practice, it doesn't appear to do even that well. http://www.bioneural.net/2007/08/11/iwork-08-and-s upport-for-open-xml/
I'd like to agree with you, but you're wrong. We're antithetical to the continuation of this universe. The good news is that I'm pretty sure any intelligent life would be.
The problem is the universe is too simple for the likes of us. Once you truly understand the nature of spacetime, it's simple to see how to switch between matter, time and energy states. In many ways it looks like the holy grail of power generation. It means virtually unlimited free energy - it's not really free of course, the universe gains entropy when it's altered that way, but it's free enough for us. The only problem with the method is that it scales up easily. I can't see that there's a limit to how far up it can scale.
The hardware required isn't particularly complicated to build - anyone with basic mechanical, plumbing and electrical skills could do it in a week. That means all the energy in the universe would be available to anyone who wanted it, for whatever purpose. The whole of human history has been about increasing the amount of power each individual can wield. Hand held rocks gave way to spears, then arrows, guns, cannons; even whole aircraft became projectiles. With this tool, if somebody wanted to convert an earth-sized chunk of matter to energy, it would be trivial to do so. It wouldn't be much harder to do the same for the whole of our universe.
I had my moment of epiphany about this a few years ago, and I'm seeing signs others know about it too. There are too many intelligent people chasing down what are clearly dead ends to be accidental - particle physicists still bashing (very tiny) rocks together, for example. I suppose eventually someone will have the same epiphany, but decide to exploit it. I don't think we'll last long then.
That's why I think we should fix ourselves first. Getting off the planet's not enough to save us.
As far as your advice goes though, I've decided to stay alive. These are interesting times.
Then why the unseemly haste, committee stacking, and other nefarious practices to get adopted as an ISO standard?
Why the attacks on ODF adoption? If Microsoft had any intention of being interoperable, they'd have supported ODF from the start..
MS has a really hard time competing on technical merit, and they traditionally have instead tried to compete on price, but that obviously doesn't work either, not against open source. So they'll continue to bundle packages and live off the inertia of the marketplace, but they want to feed that inertia with FUD.
- Linus Torvalds, from TFA
Linus has no illusions about Microsoft's motives or ethics. He simply believes that Linux is the better operating system, and therefore adoption of Linux is a fait accompli, and is inevitable given sufficient time.
That's a fairly typical engineer's attitude, and ignores the enormous damage Microsoft is doing to the computing community while "inertia" is taking its course.
On my Centos 4.1 box, the Lynx version is 2.8.5.
That was released in 2004...
Any bets on Microsoft buying $16 million worth of OpenServer licenses?
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Um yes.
They've made the offer, including agreeing to NDAs. http://www.kroah.com/log/2007/01/29/#free_drivers
My God... has logical reasoning gone completely out of the window???
That has to be the gayest line I've ever seen on Slashdot.
We're doing something similar http://www.funkclub.com.au/fc/. We have a house band who has a good fanbase and plays most of the gig, while new bands can play a few sets and get some exposure. There's money from ticket sales, club membership, CDs sold at the door and sponsorship.
It's not huge, but there's some damn good music being made, and a lot of people having a good time.