When the government itself starts breaking the law, and even worse, the people are letting them get away with it (trading freedom for security), you have the beginnings of tyranny
Yes, indeed! Thank you for pointing that out.
I never ceased to be amazed at how apathetic most Americans seem to be, to the constant raping of their Constitutional rights. It's freaking unbelievable.
In my nearly four years of reading Slashdot, this is without a doubt the most insightful, wise, and significant statement ever made. And I'm not exaggerating.
Agreed.
Commercial companies are co-owners of the publically funded software, and these co-owners are deprived of what they paid for.
How? These companies can take all the GPL'ed code they want, make whatever modifications they want, and sell it for whatever price they want. So, how are they being deprived of it?
So what if they have to release the source code for their modified version? They can still sell it, and make a profit.
If anything, the GPL model ENSURES that EVERYBODY gets a fair shot at using "what they paid for."
Are you saying that Star Office is ONLY free as in free beer? Because their website
says that StarOffice is dual licensed:
GPL/LGPL and SISSL
In part, their site states:
Dual licensing of the OpenOffice.org source code provides open and free access to the technology both for the GPL community and for other developers or companies that cannot use the GPL. Dual license is common practice in open source projects like Perl and Mozilla. Through the combined use of GPL/LGPL and SISSL, developers will have a high degree of freedom yet compatibility and interoperability will be preserved.
You can freely modify, extend, and improve the OpenOffice.org source code. The only question is whether or not you must provide the source code and contribute modifications to the community. The GPL and SISSL licenses allow different ranges of flexibility in this regard, but in the end, regardless of the license used, any and all incompatible changes must be published openly.
Yes! I was also thinking of the Great Brain! That and Mad Scientists Club and the Three Detectives definitely helped shape who I have become! What terrific stories....
Man, to be a kid again.. Great books to read all during the week, and Scooby Doo on Saturday mornings, and Doctor Who on Saturday afternoons...
Running around at work like you are in your living room is not a proper enviroment for business.
Elaborate?
What is harmed by wearing Jeans / Shorts / T-shirts, etc? At least when we're talking about people who don't have to deal with customers on a personal, one to one basis?
Give me one goog reason why a software engineer should be forced to wear a suit / tie.
Why bother bringing up the exact same arguments as we say in the napster case? The judge has already declared them invalid.
Just because ONE judge has ruled them invalid, does NOT necessarily mean they ARE invalid. Court decisions get overturned on appeals all the time, and laws get changed.
Where's your spine man? You just roll over and play dead every time a little adversity comes along?
What a load of bullshit. If you believe that crap, you obviously understand NOTHING of the Hacker Ethic. There is a world of difference between a curious 13 year old hacker and an evil corporation.
Who's privacy do you think this kid violated, exactly? And how does this have anything to do with cookies or GUID's?
Not only did Russia get over $20 million dollars out of the deal (and do they ever need all the cash they can get), they set a precedent
for a method of helping to pay for missions in space
Not only that, but they set a precedent that a (basically) ordinary citizen ( albeit one with a LOT of money ) can pay for a trip into space. For millions of people who have dreamed of going into space, but weren't astronauts, this is a GIGANTIC leap for mankind. I know that, for me personally, it raises hopes that in my lifetime I may be able to buy a trip into space as well.
And I consider that to be a GOOD thing.
If you don't fucking like NC, then I suggest you move the fuck back to wherever you came from. And don't let the door hit you on the ass, on your way out.
Look, I love slashdot and all, but let's face reality here... Slashdot's sub-title should really read:
News for Linux Nerds. Stuff that matters; to Linux Nerds.
When was the last time you saw a slashdot story relating to anything other than *Nix or Windows? And the only reason for the Windows stories is they give the Linux Nerds an opportunity to bash Windows.
I've submitted several OS/2 and OS/400 related stories, and have never had one accepted.
Since Netware != Linux, you are just not going to see many Netware stories on here.
Same for OS/2, OS/400, etc... and God forbid slashdot would post anything about Java, unless it was:
It is hands-down the best productivity suite for ANY OS.
Maybe, maybe not. But if it is, it's only because everybody else who makes office suites was basically forced out of the market by M$'s illegal, anti-competitive bundling agreements.
If it weren't for that, Lotus Smartsuite or Corel PerfectOffice would have been profitable enough to justify further investment by their respective owners. But as it was, Lotus and Corel simply could not afford to try and stay neck and neck with, or speed past, Office.
This has to be the WORST slashdot story ever. It's just some guys stupid conspiracy theory. No evidence, no corroboration, no nothing.
Hey, Slashdot, I think Aliens are controlling my mind through my cable box, so I won't reveal the secret of who really killed Kennedy, that I discovered while stumbling around their mothership, the last time I was abducted, and ran into Elvis, who told me tha @#%@@NO CARRIER
Its pretty safe to assume that any alien who comes here will be much more advanced than us (not just technologically, but intellectually, morally, and spiritually).
Why is that? I mean, what makes you so sure that "aliens" would be much more advanced than us? In particular, why should anyone assume that they will be more advanced "intellectually, morally, and spiritually?"
Ok, the Aliens took over my mind on that last post, and made me spell "believe" wrong. I now have my aluminum foil beanie cap on, so they can't control me anymore.
Tyan is expected to be the first MB manufacturer to release a Dual Athlon board. The model number is S2462. It is reported to have on board Ultra-160 SCSI, dual 100 MBps Ethernet, EIDE, and ATI Rage 128 graphics built on. The price estimates I've heard have it priced at approx $960.00. The last I heard on a ship date was "sometime in May."
There's also an article that says that samples are shipping now. Apparently both Tyan and AMD were demo'ing boards at Cebit. Tyan with a board running 2 900 Mhz Athlons, and AMD with a board running 2 1.2 Ghz Athlons.
Like North Carolina. Tell your boss that if the company sends spam into NC, they can be found guilty of NC State Law, and suffer a variety of possible penalties.
A lot of states have no-spam laws also, besides NC.
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I can't speak for anybody else, but usually the only time I upgrade X is:
1. when I upgrade to a newer version of the distribution I use, or switch distro's, and the new distro includes a newer version of X.
OR
2. I might upgrade just X itself, on a major version change ( eg, from 3.x to 4.x )
Other than that, I pretty much leave X alone, as long as it works.
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Here's some more info, from DoD, on bio-terrorism response.
www.dod.mil/articles/bio_training_pub.html
When the government itself starts breaking the law, and even worse, the people are letting them get away with it (trading freedom for security), you have the beginnings of tyranny
Yes, indeed! Thank you for pointing that out.
I never ceased to be amazed at how apathetic most Americans seem to be, to the constant raping of their Constitutional rights. It's freaking unbelievable.
In my nearly four years of reading Slashdot, this is without a doubt the most insightful, wise, and significant statement ever made. And I'm not exaggerating. Agreed.
is whether or not this thing is accurate enough to fix the timing problem in the TARDIS.
Commercial companies are co-owners of the publically funded software, and these co-owners are deprived of what they paid for.
How? These companies can take all the GPL'ed code they want, make whatever modifications they want, and sell it for whatever price they want. So, how are they being deprived of it?
So what if they have to release the source code for their modified version? They can still sell it, and make a profit.
If anything, the GPL model ENSURES that EVERYBODY gets a fair shot at using "what they paid for."
GPL/LGPL and SISSL
In part, their site states:
Dual licensing of the OpenOffice.org source code provides open and free access to the technology both for the GPL community and for other developers or companies that cannot use the GPL. Dual license is common practice in open source projects like Perl and Mozilla. Through the combined use of GPL/LGPL and SISSL, developers will have a high degree of freedom yet compatibility and interoperability will be preserved. You can freely modify, extend, and improve the OpenOffice.org source code. The only question is whether or not you must provide the source code and contribute modifications to the community. The GPL and SISSL licenses allow different ranges of flexibility in this regard, but in the end, regardless of the license used, any and all incompatible changes must be published openly.
-- a billion channels and nothing worth looking at
And how exactly is this not describing the situation *today*?
Yes! I was also thinking of the Great Brain! That and Mad Scientists Club and the Three Detectives definitely helped shape who I have become! What terrific stories....
Man, to be a kid again.. Great books to read all during the week, and Scooby Doo on Saturday mornings, and Doctor Who on Saturday afternoons...
Those were the days....
You forgot OS/2 users too. Shame on you.
Win2k is plenty stable - if not more than Linux. FUD point + 1 for you
Yeah, right. FUD point +2 for you!
That wasn't a troll at all, asshole.
Running around at work like you are in your living room is not a proper enviroment for business.
Elaborate?
What is harmed by wearing Jeans / Shorts / T-shirts, etc? At least when we're talking about people who don't have to deal with customers on a personal, one to one basis?
Give me one goog reason why a software engineer should be forced to wear a suit / tie.
Boy, this oughta be good...
Bullshit. IE 5 may be superior in many ways, but it's damn sure not superior in *every* way. Leading the list of ways that it's NOT superior:
stability. IE 5.5 still crashes more often than Netscape 4.72 on Windows, and much, much, more often than Konq, Mozilla or Netscape on Linux.
Why bother bringing up the exact same arguments as we say in the napster case? The judge has already declared them invalid.
Just because ONE judge has ruled them invalid, does NOT necessarily mean they ARE invalid. Court decisions get overturned on appeals all the time, and laws get changed.
Where's your spine man? You just roll over and play dead every time a little adversity comes along?
What a load of bullshit. If you believe that crap, you obviously understand NOTHING of the Hacker Ethic. There is a world of difference between a curious 13 year old hacker and an evil corporation.
Who's privacy do you think this kid violated, exactly? And how does this have anything to do with cookies or GUID's?
Not only that, but they set a precedent that a (basically) ordinary citizen ( albeit one with a LOT of money ) can pay for a trip into space. For millions of people who have dreamed of going into space, but weren't astronauts, this is a GIGANTIC leap for mankind. I know that, for me personally, it raises hopes that in my lifetime I may be able to buy a trip into space as well. And I consider that to be a GOOD thing.
If you don't fucking like NC, then I suggest you move the fuck back to wherever you came from. And don't let the door hit you on the ass, on your way out.
Look, I love slashdot and all, but let's face reality here... Slashdot's sub-title should really read:
News for Linux Nerds. Stuff that matters; to Linux Nerds.
When was the last time you saw a slashdot story relating to anything other than *Nix or Windows? And the only reason for the Windows stories is they give the Linux Nerds an opportunity to bash Windows.
I've submitted several OS/2 and OS/400 related stories, and have never had one accepted.
Since Netware != Linux, you are just not going to see many Netware stories on here.
Same for OS/2, OS/400, etc... and God forbid slashdot would post anything about Java, unless it was:
A. a chance to bash Java and/or Sun
or
B. something about Java and Linux.
It is hands-down the best productivity suite for ANY OS.
Maybe, maybe not. But if it is, it's only because everybody else who makes office suites was basically forced out of the market by M$'s illegal, anti-competitive bundling agreements.
If it weren't for that, Lotus Smartsuite or Corel PerfectOffice would have been profitable enough to justify further investment by their respective owners. But as it was, Lotus and Corel simply could not afford to try and stay neck and neck with, or speed past, Office.
This has to be the WORST slashdot story ever. It's just some guys stupid conspiracy theory. No evidence, no corroboration, no nothing.
Hey, Slashdot, I think Aliens are controlling my mind through my cable box, so I won't reveal the secret of who really killed Kennedy, that I discovered while stumbling around their mothership, the last time I was abducted, and ran into Elvis, who told me tha @#%@@NO CARRIER
Why is that? I mean, what makes you so sure that "aliens" would be much more advanced than us? In particular, why should anyone assume that they will be more advanced "intellectually, morally, and spiritually?"
Ok, the Aliens took over my mind on that last post, and made me spell "believe" wrong. I now have my aluminum foil beanie cap on, so they can't control me anymore.
Take that, pesky aliens!
This is just ridiculous.... aliens? Aliens? ALIENS????
"I Want To Beleive" indeed....
Tyan is expected to be the first MB manufacturer to release a Dual Athlon board. The model number is S2462. It is reported to have on board Ultra-160 SCSI, dual 100 MBps Ethernet, EIDE, and ATI Rage 128 graphics built on. The price estimates I've heard have it priced at approx $960.00. The last I heard on a ship date was "sometime in May."
There's also an article that says that samples are shipping now. Apparently both Tyan and AMD were demo'ing boards at Cebit. Tyan with a board running 2 900 Mhz Athlons, and AMD with a board running 2 1.2 Ghz Athlons.
For more info, check out http://www.amdmb.com/index.html#News-1486.
Or do a google search on terms Tyan, S2462, etc.
Like North Carolina. Tell your boss that if the company sends spam into NC, they can be found guilty of NC State Law, and suffer a variety of possible penalties. A lot of states have no-spam laws also, besides NC.
I can't speak for anybody else, but usually the only time I upgrade X is:
1. when I upgrade to a newer version of the distribution I use, or switch distro's, and the new distro includes a newer version of X.
OR
2. I might upgrade just X itself, on a major version change ( eg, from 3.x to 4.x )
Other than that, I pretty much leave X alone, as long as it works.