For me, and I think a lot of others, it's because it was effectively debian for the desktop. Stable and up-to-date.
On the desktop most people want the latest shiny packages and the six-month release cycle of ubuntu gave them a stable debian distro with that.
If you wish to take the work of others, and then not contribute back your enhancements, or contribute only on your own whim, then yes, BSD or public domain is better for you.
If you have no problem with contributing back then GPL should be fine.
Part of the job of any employee is to bring their experience to the benefit of their boss. In this case, this employee has knowledge of the negative consequences of spam, and he definitely should use this to advise his boss.
If, after presenting all the arguments the boss decides to continue, then probably go ahead. But the poster asked for good arguments, he wasn't refusing point-blank to do it.
That's because you've only met people similar to you. It's pretty normal to mostly encounter others of a like nature.
However, there are plenty of groups out there who would quite happily take GPL code and add it to a closed source app, if the licence allowed them (and some that will do so even against the licence). Just because you haven't personally met them, doesn't mean they don't exist.
In which case, I did this just last weekend. It's not easy though. Requirements were:
1 Amstrad PC (with floppy drive)
1 PC running Window 98 with parallel port
1 copy of Locolink, which includes a parallel cable and transfer software
In my case we had an Amstrad PCW8256 in full working order, so that covered reading the disks. The Locolink software is hard to come by but I picked up a copy on E-Bay. It's designed for transferring and converting Locoscript files but will transfer other files as well just fine. It only works with Window 98 on the PC side though.
If you don't have an actual working Amstrad then your best bet is probably finding a hacked-up 3" drive that you can connect to a PC. You might be more likely to be able to purchase the whole computer.
If you're in the UK there are services that will transfer the files for you for 10GBP a disk. Here's a list of them. In the US, try here.
Grandparent specifically referred to apt-get, which is the debian (and derivatives) repo manager, and generally _very_ reliable. The exception is the debian unstable repos which are, of course, unstable.
RHEL, which is what CentOS is based on, uses RPM which is not as reliable (although my direct experience is a little old now).
The reason some open source enthusiasts are opposed to OOXML is because they would like to create a market for ODF through legislation rather than through competition.
Woah! Care to back that up? I haven't seen any opposition to OOXML that hasn't been based on it's gross inadequacy as a standard.
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For me, and I think a lot of others, it's because it was effectively debian for the desktop. Stable and up-to-date. On the desktop most people want the latest shiny packages and the six-month release cycle of ubuntu gave them a stable debian distro with that.
Damn. I just took JOVIAL off my CV, after 15 years of "what on earth is that?"
Sure looks like a DoJ-entered piece of evidence.
I was blindsided at about 11pm on a Wednesday evening by a shocking and awful discovery.
Not too hard to guess what that might have been.
In what way doesn't the linux community care for gamers? What features of the kernel or graphics systems do you believe are missing?
The problem is with the game developers, not the linux community.
And that's a simple problem of market share. As long as Windows is by far the dominant OS game developers will focus their efforts on that.
I don't get this. I never had a moments mis-step moving from FF2 to 3. What is it about the new address bar that makes things difficult?
(genuinely curious)
Oh yeah, I missed that. I'm with you there.
The OP asked for a reliable solution, not a simple solution.
(simple is obviously good, but it seemed to me to be the lesser requirement)
So just don't use it.
No one's holding a gun to your head. If it's causing you such pain just use another browser.
If you wish to take the work of others, and then not contribute back your enhancements, or contribute only on your own whim, then yes, BSD or public domain is better for you.
If you have no problem with contributing back then GPL should be fine.
Part of the job of any employee is to bring their experience to the benefit of their boss. In this case, this employee has knowledge of the negative consequences of spam, and he definitely should use this to advise his boss.
If, after presenting all the arguments the boss decides to continue, then probably go ahead. But the poster asked for good arguments, he wasn't refusing point-blank to do it.
I trust you're being intentionally funny, but for those that may not realise it...
The GPL is not anti-capitalist. It's just about extending freedoms.
Freedom and capitalism aren't mutually exclusive.
Whooosh!
(GP was joking, I think he knows the history)
You know, no one is actually forcing you to read the articles. You can just skip them and go on to the next one.
Actually, sharp-bang is the one you should be thanking. He wrote the question.
And this was in? 1992.
Meanwhile Apple had a co-operative multitasking GUI in 1984 and Amiga had a pre-emptive multitasking colour GUI in 1985.
The MS OS's were a long way behind, but had the might of the conservative business market behind them.
That's because you've only met people similar to you. It's pretty normal to mostly encounter others of a like nature.
However, there are plenty of groups out there who would quite happily take GPL code and add it to a closed source app, if the licence allowed them (and some that will do so even against the licence). Just because you haven't personally met them, doesn't mean they don't exist.
In my case we had an Amstrad PCW8256 in full working order, so that covered reading the disks. The Locolink software is hard to come by but I picked up a copy on E-Bay. It's designed for transferring and converting Locoscript files but will transfer other files as well just fine. It only works with Window 98 on the PC side though.
If you don't have an actual working Amstrad then your best bet is probably finding a hacked-up 3" drive that you can connect to a PC. You might be more likely to be able to purchase the whole computer.
If you're in the UK there are services that will transfer the files for you for 10GBP a disk. Here's a list of them. In the US, try here.
Good luck!
On my screen the first line came out as:
"have a character that looked exactly like Jack Thompson that a little old lady blows"
Now that'd be sticking it to him.
But you can't mod and post in the same thread, so your mod will have been nullified (not sure if you get the point back)
Donald Knuth does not rip on unit testing. He says unit testing is of no value to him. That's a completely different statement.
The final impediment removed to allow "the year of linux on the desktop".
Grandparent specifically referred to apt-get, which is the debian (and derivatives) repo manager, and generally _very_ reliable. The exception is the debian unstable repos which are, of course, unstable.
RHEL, which is what CentOS is based on, uses RPM which is not as reliable (although my direct experience is a little old now).
Woah! Care to back that up? I haven't seen any opposition to OOXML that hasn't been based on it's gross inadequacy as a standard.
The rest of your post seemed pretty sensible.
Charming guy.