Sometimes I think BusyBox was created just so people could bitch about embedded manufacturers.
I laughed at this. But the truth is, the manufacturers could have written their own BusyBox-like toolkit. They wisely chose to use someone else's work instead, and have to pay only the small price of providing the same source that they were given. It's not too much to ask.
The source code for Busybox, and all of the utilities that can be integrated into it, is already readily available. So, what is Verizon supposedly "withholding?"
The fact that (as you point out) it would be ridiculously easy for Verizon to comply with the GPL does not negate the fact that they are not in compliance.
(Never mind the fact that the GPL, because it constitutes a "contract to make a contract," is invalid.)
Interesting opinion. The GPL has been held up in Germany, and has not made it to court in the U.S. simply because everyone has been smart enough to settle.
It doesn't matter if they modified the firmware, as long as they didn't modify BusyBox. I guess they must have detected some changes in the binary and went after Verizon.
The GPL covers distribution of copyrighted work, even if it hasn't been modified. (You don't have *any* rights to distribute copyrighted work without some sort of license, such as the GPL.) Simply the act of distributing BusyBox in binary form requires that you also distribute the source used to compile it (or a written offer for said source).
No, it doesn't work that way. If the copyright notice says "version 2 or later" it's up to the person who distributes the work to decide which version to distribute it under. That would be Microsoft. In that case they could just distribute it under GPLv2. However, if the notice said "version 3", then Microsoft *would* be bound by it, if they chose to distribute it.
Eh? The company was destroyed. If you think the company should be punished, is there any better punishment? Isn't this a good thing? It means that the company is not going to do that again.
Yes, but nothing's stopping these people from forming a new company and doing the same thing again.
Call your House and Congressional representatives immediately to stop allowing big business interests to stomp on the rights of the actual artist.
Actually, the House is part of Congress. I assume you were referring to the two chambers, the House and Senate. However, since this is a House bill, calling your Senators probably won't do very much good at this stage.
Don't forget that Apple have made no attempt to disable the 'Burn to CD then reimport' workaround.
Yes, but it would be impossible to disable it unless you disabled burning and importing CDs. Sure, iTunes could refuse to burn DRMed tunes, but if your sound card can play it, any other application can pick it up and record it. As to importing, once the tunes are on the CD, it's just an audio CD with no traces of DRM, so there'd be no way to prevent reimporting it anyway. So I wouldn't say Apple is doing some great service by not doing something that'd be impossible to do in the first place. Do they gain some points for not bothering to try? Sure.
I happened to be at my class reunion when an old teacher of mine happened to wander in, asked me how school had gone, and what I was doing now, and then told me that he was now the CEO of a little software company and that he could use my help.
And thus you learned what they didn't teach you in college - it's not what you know, it's who you know. I got my first entry-level position the same way; I knew the CEO because I had interned for his previous company while I was in school. Making contacts is everything.
He's in jail, arrested for murder in a state which has the death penalty.
That sounds terminally stupid to me.He's in jail, arrested for murder in a state which has the death penalty.
That sounds terminally stupid to me.
That's assuming he actually committed the murder. Or are you saying he's stupid to live in a state that has the death penalty in the first place?
Plus buying books a couple days after to read about how police investigate crimes.
This is easily explained away. The husband (or ex-husband in this case) is always one of the first suspects. If he knew his wife was missing, and that the police suspected homicide, it's not unreasonable for him to be interested in how they would investigate, knowing that he would be a prime suspect.
Until they have a body though, it's going to be hard to prove a murder.
That's true, and the released evidence is, at this point, all circumstantial. Whether he did it or not, people will assume he did, even if he isn't convicted. That's the way public opinion goes, and it's really a shame. If he is put on trial, hopefully the jury will keep an open mind.
I'm not sure if "internet" is ever used as a generic term for a non-Internet IP network between multiple organizations.
I've never actually heard "internet" used in practice, but according to all the networking texts I've read, an internet is a network of networks, and the Internet is a specific case of an internet.
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Sometimes I think BusyBox was created just so people could bitch about embedded manufacturers.
I laughed at this. But the truth is, the manufacturers could have written their own BusyBox-like toolkit. They wisely chose to use someone else's work instead, and have to pay only the small price of providing the same source that they were given. It's not too much to ask.
The source code for Busybox, and all of the utilities that can be integrated into it, is already readily available. So, what is Verizon supposedly "withholding?"
The fact that (as you point out) it would be ridiculously easy for Verizon to comply with the GPL does not negate the fact that they are not in compliance.
(Never mind the fact that the GPL, because it constitutes a "contract to make a contract," is invalid.)
Interesting opinion. The GPL has been held up in Germany, and has not made it to court in the U.S. simply because everyone has been smart enough to settle.
It doesn't matter if they modified the firmware, as long as they didn't modify BusyBox. I guess they must have detected some changes in the binary and went after Verizon.
The GPL covers distribution of copyrighted work, even if it hasn't been modified. (You don't have *any* rights to distribute copyrighted work without some sort of license, such as the GPL.) Simply the act of distributing BusyBox in binary form requires that you also distribute the source used to compile it (or a written offer for said source).
No, it doesn't work that way. If the copyright notice says "version 2 or later" it's up to the person who distributes the work to decide which version to distribute it under. That would be Microsoft. In that case they could just distribute it under GPLv2. However, if the notice said "version 3", then Microsoft *would* be bound by it, if they chose to distribute it.
Eh? The company was destroyed. If you think the company should be punished, is there any better punishment? Isn't this a good thing? It means that the company is not going to do that again.
Yes, but nothing's stopping these people from forming a new company and doing the same thing again.
That's great if you're in a military family. We civilians have to pay ridiculous amounts for insurance.
Yeah, that's right, send me an email containing a patients phone number and birthday and you are fired, no questions asked.
Good! Email is not secure.
Seeing as how we just found out male circumcision cuts HIV infection rates in half how could you possibly be against that?
Condoms cut HIV infection rates down to almost zero, and don't require genital mutilation. Some people might prefer that solution.
Can't you just select all the songs to change, do Get Info (control-i), then change the field you want on the Sort tab, and click OK?
Even better, you can right click and tell it to automatically find and change the sort field on all songs by the same artist.
I might as well correct myself. The last line should have read:
However, since this is a Senate bill, calling your representative probably won't do very much good at this stage.
Call your House and Congressional representatives immediately to stop allowing big business interests to stomp on the rights of the actual artist.
Actually, the House is part of Congress. I assume you were referring to the two chambers, the House and Senate. However, since this is a House bill, calling your Senators probably won't do very much good at this stage.
Don't forget that Apple have made no attempt to disable the 'Burn to CD then reimport' workaround.
Yes, but it would be impossible to disable it unless you disabled burning and importing CDs. Sure, iTunes could refuse to burn DRMed tunes, but if your sound card can play it, any other application can pick it up and record it. As to importing, once the tunes are on the CD, it's just an audio CD with no traces of DRM, so there'd be no way to prevent reimporting it anyway. So I wouldn't say Apple is doing some great service by not doing something that'd be impossible to do in the first place. Do they gain some points for not bothering to try? Sure.
I happened to be at my class reunion when an old teacher of mine happened to wander in, asked me how school had gone, and what I was doing now, and then told me that he was now the CEO of a little software company and that he could use my help.
And thus you learned what they didn't teach you in college - it's not what you know, it's who you know. I got my first entry-level position the same way; I knew the CEO because I had interned for his previous company while I was in school. Making contacts is everything.
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No, it's not. Note the "arrested", as opposed to "convicted", in the post you replied to.
Thanks, but I can read. How is being arrested indicative of stupidity?
I'll put money on there being a significant correlation between people being arrested and people being convicted.
Of course there is... people generally don't get convicted of crimes they haven't been arrested for.
He's in jail, arrested for murder in a state which has the death penalty. That sounds terminally stupid to me.He's in jail, arrested for murder in a state which has the death penalty. That sounds terminally stupid to me.
That's assuming he actually committed the murder. Or are you saying he's stupid to live in a state that has the death penalty in the first place?
The missing car seat is a bit odd.
True.
Plus buying books a couple days after to read about how police investigate crimes.
This is easily explained away. The husband (or ex-husband in this case) is always one of the first suspects. If he knew his wife was missing, and that the police suspected homicide, it's not unreasonable for him to be interested in how they would investigate, knowing that he would be a prime suspect.
Until they have a body though, it's going to be hard to prove a murder.
That's true, and the released evidence is, at this point, all circumstantial. Whether he did it or not, people will assume he did, even if he isn't convicted. That's the way public opinion goes, and it's really a shame. If he is put on trial, hopefully the jury will keep an open mind.
I plug a USB mass storage device into a friend's WinBox. It doesn' "just work"
Let me guess: Media Center?
a) How many students actually copyright their papers? You have to actually apply for that and it requires a fee.
No you don't, and no it doesn't. You create it, you own the copyright. Period.
There are two kinds of Nielsen families: diary and metered. The numbers you're referring to come from boxes attached to people's TVs.
This story said that IT managers have the U.K's third-worst job -- ranking just below phone sex operator (No. 1) and ferry cabin cleaner (No. 2).
IT manager and software engineer are completely different jobs. That's like saying that an orderly and a trauma doctor have the same job.
Catholic's don't have Sunday school. Repeat after me: Catholics are not Protestants. Sheesh!
Plural nouns don't have apostrophes. Repeat after me: Apostrophe-S is used to show possession! Sheesh!
I'm not sure if "internet" is ever used as a generic term for a non-Internet IP network between multiple organizations.
I've never actually heard "internet" used in practice, but according to all the networking texts I've read, an internet is a network of networks, and the Internet is a specific case of an internet.
I reported some DOS bugs against firefox . . .
None of those pages crashed my browser (Windows XP, Firefox 1.0.6). Were those for older versions of Firefox?