If I am not mistaken, it is now 17 years now since since the beginning of the GNU project (1984).
Yet all this time later, you are still having difficulty expressing your most fundemental point, that being "It's free like free speech, not free like free beverages."
I know there is a long tirade defending the use of the term free, but isn't it time to acknowledge the failure of this term and choose terminology that has more intuitive meaning, terminology that can express the ideal without requiring a lengthy explanation which most regular folks could care less about?
what if you're a Prodigy member with a name, circle of friends, credit card info, etc in your account. now lets say that someone somehow steals your account, has access to your credit card info, says damaging things to your circle of contacts, makes threatening emails to people, and all in your name. Shouldn't the ISP, in this case Prodigy, be held liable due to gross negligence in protecting the security of their network?
The case was not about negligence. The case was whether or not Prodigy has a responsibility to control the content over which it has little or no control. Presumbaly if they were grossly negligent, as in your example, then this ruling would not apply.
example 2: all that damn spam mail... now I'm getting tons and tons of spam mail from legit servers such as excite.com and yahoo.com and hotmail.com... it's going to a mailbox that I don't often use, but same principle applies. Shouldn't these ISP's and large companies be responsible for the information being sent through their network?
Check the Terms of Service. If you don't like 'em, vote with your feet. Take responsibility for yourself.
The difference between GNU/Linux and Linux is the same one as between saying free as in "free speech" instead of free as in "free beer"
Here is is 16 years later, and still trying to explain what free means. Seems to me that if you go that long and still have to explain that free really means free but not free, then it is time to pack it in.
RMS is a talented coder. Wish he would do more of it and leave the political B.S. alone.
Yes it looks good, but at the risk of drawing the wrath of the true believers...
I think that the Wizard (Lizard?) way is the right way to go. Presuming that this is aimed at new users who are most familiar with Windows in its various flavors, a wizard approach would be comfortable, intuitive, and best of all, repeatable.
I am a bit scared off by the Perl/Tk requirement. It has been my experience that shipping interpreted applications that you have to have version X.Y.Z of package ABC, or else you get all kind of errors.
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It is not possible to use the word free without attaching a long explanation.
Yet all this time later, you are still having difficulty expressing your most fundemental point, that being "It's free like free speech, not free like free beverages."
I know there is a long tirade defending the use of the term free , but isn't it time to acknowledge the failure of this term and choose terminology that has more intuitive meaning, terminology that can express the ideal without requiring a lengthy explanation which most regular folks could care less about?
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TeamOn.com has had an encrypted secure mail function for years now.
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So can you please tell us how many times you have sent off $10 to bands directly?
Yeah, I thought so...
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The case was not about negligence. The case was whether or not Prodigy has a responsibility to control the content over which it has little or no control. Presumbaly if they were grossly negligent, as in your example, then this ruling would not apply.
example 2:
all that damn spam mail... now I'm getting tons and tons of spam mail from legit servers such as excite.com and yahoo.com and hotmail.com... it's going to a mailbox that I don't often use, but same principle applies. Shouldn't these ISP's and large companies be responsible for the information being sent through their network?
Check the Terms of Service. If you don't like 'em, vote with your feet. Take responsibility for yourself.
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Here is is 16 years later, and still trying to explain what free means. Seems to me that if you go that long and still have to explain that free really means free but not free, then it is time to pack it in.
RMS is a talented coder. Wish he would do more of it and leave the political B.S. alone.
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All the programmers functionality in a tight package, and compatible with vi.
If you only want to learn an editor once, vim is the way to go.
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Finding technology that will make the other dumb bastard die for his country sounds like a good idea to me.
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Haven't you heard? Windows 2000 has been delayed due to Y2K problems, and won't ship until the first quarter of 1901? :-)
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Even though this 486 is orders of magnitude slower than our new PII 400, she wanted the old box.
I think that kids would like to have a slow box of their own than to have to share a faster box with others.
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I think that the Wizard (Lizard?) way is the right way to go. Presuming that this is aimed at new users who are most familiar with Windows in its various flavors, a wizard approach would be comfortable, intuitive, and best of all, repeatable.
I am a bit scared off by the Perl/Tk requirement. It has been my experience that shipping interpreted applications that you have to have version X.Y.Z of package ABC, or else you get all kind of errors.
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