1. He cannot take back the license and is actually required to continue to distribute source to anyone who he has given binaries to, under the terms of the license he released his code under. In practical terms, if the work was all his, he could probably stop distribution. He could not stop anyone else from doing so,
2. The moron has been trying to revoke the GPL only for certain source files as he does not own copyright on the rest. He borrowed some from ffmpeg by the looks of things, which is under GPL, qualifying his entire work as a derived work and meaning that he cannot under any circumstances go closed source on this. It's not his decision. He can't even go closed source on future versions.
DVD Forum were looking at implementing region coding. They'd have had to have done it for some of the (asshat) studios to come over, had this "war" gone the other way.
Which is a damned shame.
I must say I don't get why some people are so rabid about this issue though. Who really cares, other than the tiny minority of early adopters?
Sony are doing really rather well. The fact that BluRay is part of the PS3 and now the leading format for Hi Def movies is a combination that's just going to keep getting sweeter for them.
Maybe not for people younger than my generation (I'm 29) who are growing up around digital music, but everyone I know who like music has large electronic collections as a convenience, but buys loads in cd form either beforehand and ripping, or after downloading. You listen, you like it, you want the cd.
I don't give a crap about boards of directors. What I care about is good policy agreed upon by the full international community, not some guys ina californian non profit.
1. It looks like the contract was basically void anyway , the lawsuit probably made it so
2. The new salary, adjusted for overtime, will be the same as the old
I'm not sure these are valid, but they muddy the water a bit, and IBM's army of lawyers only need the water a little muddy before they pounce... And I'd be extremely suprised if they hadn't taken very thorough and sound legal advice before acting.
Yeah, but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to squeeze it out of them! That's why they 10 billion a year, start ignoring a few little costs here and there and, in a company of 330K individuals, your profit starts to slim rapidly.
As long as everyone else plays ball. It looks like they're starting to ask why they're playing ball these days.
OTOH I'm not sure freing ICANN from any nationality is as good an idea as scrapping it and creating a true multinational organisation from the ground up.
I wouldn't bet on more people using vista than Mac and *NIX. Lots of folks use UNIX commercially, and not just as a server.
"Vista also automatically drops reports of problems directly to Microsoft,"
You say that like it's a good thing. Software should not phone home, certainly not automatically. And on XP (on Vista I haven't noticed a crash yet, because I have used it for a total of about 2 hours) it took AGES to send reports. You were far better off just hitting "don't send" and getting on with your life.
They are both made up of multiple items, hence the plural verb applicable to the subject, and also a single entity, hence the indefinite singular article.
I would also accept "Apple is a company", but I wouldn't force it.
I'm not asking anyone to care. What gave you that impression?
I didn't say "that'll be the day I stop playing games and the industry will crumble", I voiced my opposition to the pervasive advertising society we live in and said I'd stop playing games. That's that.
I'm not going on a crusade, I'm stopping doing something I no longer enjoy. There's a difference.
I learnt long ago that humanity doesn't conform to common sense, and nobody cares either about my opinion, rationality, truth, evidence or any other such geeky, esoteric bullcrap. It's God and Coca Cola all the way. Well, that's fine, but I'll choose what not to participate in when I get tired of it, mmKay?
I think he's missed a few groups of folks within the free software community, who don't give a fsck about his philosophy but like free software, want to contribute, and don't want their stuff taken and closed by companies.
"The BSD licence interpreted literally can permit distribution of binaries without Source Code. The BSD people work their backsides off to ensure that nobody does this."
So why allow it?
"The GNU people decided to write their own licence explicitly forbidding it. There is no other word for this except laziness."
Don't be so fucking ridiculous. The word for it is prudence. I'm not willing to do a lot of coding and then have some company come along, modify it slightly and sell it on for profit without making source available.
Under BSD companies are free to do this. And they do do it, frequently. Hell I do it, and no amount of whining from the BSD crowd is going to persuade our lawyers that we should open up our derivative code.
Or do you think all contracts are laziness and people ought to just trust each other all the time?
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the BSD license or those that use it. My snark was, if the OP was talking BSD v GPL, that saying "GPL is not free but BSD is" is, IMHO, an argument without merit.
Have there been enough examples of Apple bricking things, DRMing stuff and generally being total asshats for us to give up on the "Apple are enlightened, wonderful and friendly to techies" meme yet?
Apple make shiny things for fashion victims. Apple make good UIs. Apple seem to have a better security model than MS.
But it's time to admit that Apple are just as much coprporate MP/RI-AA whores as MS.
"I'd trust the guys writing this so-called "report" more if those so-called "peace and justice organizations" weren't fronts for communist groups"
Err, so fucking what, what the hell is wrong with having people involved in socialist organisations? They may well be idiots, but it's a perfectly valid political viewpoint.
"and yes, I'm not using the term "open source" here to highlight the freedoms the open source movement doesn't want to talk about"
If you're talking GPL vs BSD then I get what you're on about but it's still silly. GPL just means that if you distribute, you must open. You're free to do whatever the hell you like on your own systems.
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He links to libmpeg2, the GPL applies to everything he's done so far. He'd have to rework the thing not to link GPLd libs.
...but that's not even the situation.
1. He cannot take back the license and is actually required to continue to distribute source to anyone who he has given binaries to, under the terms of the license he released his code under. In practical terms, if the work was all his, he could probably stop distribution. He could not stop anyone else from doing so,
2. The moron has been trying to revoke the GPL only for certain source files as he does not own copyright on the rest. He borrowed some from ffmpeg by the looks of things, which is under GPL, qualifying his entire work as a derived work and meaning that he cannot under any circumstances go closed source on this. It's not his decision. He can't even go closed source on future versions.
What on earth do you mean?
What better license is there? Are you looking for a way to publish code and then disown all ownership/authorship?
Good luck with that.
DVD Forum were looking at implementing region coding. They'd have had to have done it for some of the (asshat) studios to come over, had this "war" gone the other way.
Which is a damned shame.
I must say I don't get why some people are so rabid about this issue though. Who really cares, other than the tiny minority of early adopters?
Yeah, I followed the same link. Maybe when the story came out some particularly rabid BD fans/slashdotters went and skewed the rankings for that hour.
Is it yours?
Pragmatic hardware review my arse. "the PS3 has been a failure for Sony from a gaming marketshare perspective"
Sorry, I know how much people wish this were true but it's nonsense. PS3 outsells XBox in Europe now.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=174190
Sony are doing really rather well. The fact that BluRay is part of the PS3 and now the leading format for Hi Def movies is a combination that's just going to keep getting sweeter for them.
I don't know when you were looking but when I last looked the HDDVD were at 1,5 and 7 or thereabouts, and BD were at 3,6 and 8.
Perhaps the amazon list fluctuates too quickly to be useful.
There are also three bluray players despite them being four times the price...
Bull poop.
It works exactly the same way.
Maybe not for people younger than my generation (I'm 29) who are growing up around digital music, but everyone I know who like music has large electronic collections as a convenience, but buys loads in cd form either beforehand and ripping, or after downloading. You listen, you like it, you want the cd.
Fuck you, idiot, where did I say "USA sux"?
Oh yeah right, fucking nowhere.
I don't give a crap about boards of directors. What I care about is good policy agreed upon by the full international community, not some guys ina californian non profit.
1. It looks like the contract was basically void anyway , the lawsuit probably made it so
2. The new salary, adjusted for overtime, will be the same as the old
I'm not sure these are valid, but they muddy the water a bit, and IBM's army of lawyers only need the water a little muddy before they pounce... And I'd be extremely suprised if they hadn't taken very thorough and sound legal advice before acting.
Lol, of course not. A pay reducation across thousands of employees means more profit! Wall street love that stuff.
Yeah, but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to squeeze it out of them! That's why they 10 billion a year, start ignoring a few little costs here and there and, in a company of 330K individuals, your profit starts to slim rapidly.
As long as everyone else plays ball. It looks like they're starting to ask why they're playing ball these days.
OTOH I'm not sure freing ICANN from any nationality is as good an idea as scrapping it and creating a true multinational organisation from the ground up.
I wouldn't bet on more people using vista than Mac and *NIX. Lots of folks use UNIX commercially, and not just as a server.
"Vista also automatically drops reports of problems directly to Microsoft,"
You say that like it's a good thing. Software should not phone home, certainly not automatically. And on XP (on Vista I haven't noticed a crash yet, because I have used it for a total of about 2 hours) it took AGES to send reports. You were far better off just hitting "don't send" and getting on with your life.
Nope. Not at all.
Insects are a nuisance. Apple are a company.
They are both made up of multiple items, hence the plural verb applicable to the subject, and also a single entity, hence the indefinite singular article.
I would also accept "Apple is a company", but I wouldn't force it.
Am I mixing things up? I didn't think I'd used an explicit singular in there.
Apple are a company and thus plural nouns apply, in British English (and I am a Brit), AFAIK.
No argument here!
But then I have a vaio laptop running ubuntu. I get shiny and geeky in one!
(I also get to dedicate hours and hours and hours to tweaking things and making stuff work, but I'm twisted and I enjoy that stuff)
I'm not asking anyone to care. What gave you that impression?
I didn't say "that'll be the day I stop playing games and the industry will crumble", I voiced my opposition to the pervasive advertising society we live in and said I'd stop playing games. That's that.
I'm not going on a crusade, I'm stopping doing something I no longer enjoy. There's a difference.
I learnt long ago that humanity doesn't conform to common sense, and nobody cares either about my opinion, rationality, truth, evidence or any other such geeky, esoteric bullcrap. It's God and Coca Cola all the way. Well, that's fine, but I'll choose what not to participate in when I get tired of it, mmKay?
Ah, Stallman. What a great rant.
I think he's missed a few groups of folks within the free software community, who don't give a fsck about his philosophy but like free software, want to contribute, and don't want their stuff taken and closed by companies.
"The BSD licence interpreted literally can permit distribution of binaries without Source Code. The BSD people work their backsides off to ensure that nobody does this."
So why allow it?
"The GNU people decided to write their own licence explicitly forbidding it. There is no other word for this except laziness."
Don't be so fucking ridiculous. The word for it is prudence. I'm not willing to do a lot of coding and then have some company come along, modify it slightly and sell it on for profit without making source available.
Under BSD companies are free to do this. And they do do it, frequently. Hell I do it, and no amount of whining from the BSD crowd is going to persuade our lawyers that we should open up our derivative code.
Or do you think all contracts are laziness and people ought to just trust each other all the time?
HA!!!
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the BSD license or those that use it. My snark was, if the OP was talking BSD v GPL, that saying "GPL is not free but BSD is" is, IMHO, an argument without merit.
Have there been enough examples of Apple bricking things, DRMing stuff and generally being total asshats for us to give up on the "Apple are enlightened, wonderful and friendly to techies" meme yet?
Apple make shiny things for fashion victims. Apple make good UIs. Apple seem to have a better security model than MS.
But it's time to admit that Apple are just as much coprporate MP/RI-AA whores as MS.
"I'd trust the guys writing this so-called "report" more if those so-called "peace and justice organizations" weren't fronts for communist groups"
Err, so fucking what, what the hell is wrong with having people involved in socialist organisations?
They may well be idiots, but it's a perfectly valid political viewpoint.
"and yes, I'm not using the term "open source" here to highlight the freedoms the open source movement doesn't want to talk about"
If you're talking GPL vs BSD then I get what you're on about but it's still silly. GPL just means that if you distribute, you must open. You're free to do whatever the hell you like on your own systems.