Under GPL, you basically have your hands tied. You can't legally modify and use the code withouth submitting them back, and you can't really submit back the changes because they are usually hacks to get it to work how you want (not "improvements" on the code).
What the hell are you talking about? The original maintainers don't have to accept your patches in order for you to be able to distribute binaries. Just make whatever changes you want, no matter how trivial, and then make sure to distribute the source right alongside the binaries (have a link to the source on the same page that links to the binaries, or put the source and binaries on the same CD, etc). You don't have to care what the original author thinks about the changes you've made. You just have to distribute the source.
Better yet, if the changes you're making are for "internal use only", then you don't even have to distribute the source, simply because you're not distributing binaries (you don't see Google/Amazon/whatever falling over itself to give you it's source code, do you?).
I have a surprising number of those songs on my machine.
Me too. None.
Re:What about sweaty fingers?
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Hey, this site looks interesting, as I actually suffer from the 'sweaty hands' problem.
I grasp my mouse with my whole hand. It's not an ergonomic mouse, but it fits nicely into my hand (I rest my hand on the mouse, instead of holding my hand over it). Lately, my hands have just been sweaty, I haven't been able to figure out why (please save the masturbation jokes, please, I'm being serious). Typing is awkward because my fingers are sticky, and using the mouse is a pain because my hand sticks to it. It's really uncomfortable, and that's bad because if I'm not at work or sleeping, then I'm sitting in front of my computer.
My solution was to buy a really thin, lite pair of gloves. They absorb the sweat from my hands without restricting the movement of my fingers, so I'm able to type and use the mouse without much trouble.
Thats not really so bad. My dad thinks netscape has different content than IE. Like they're different internets.
My mom thinks the same thing! That drives me crazy! She's adamant about using IE, but I'm trying to switch her over to Mozilla (so that when I switch her to Linux, she'll have something that she's already familiar with).
"Hey son, that's my banking website... how'd you get it in Netscape?" GRRRRR...
While MS may require it on, I'm sure it'll stay a toggle in the bios, eh?
The trick is to not buy any mobos that have this "feature" permanently enabled. When mobo makers discover that their TCPA-permanently-enabled boards aren't selling, they'll figure it out and make it an option again.
* Eventually, this will lead to the Design Documents
That's all well and good, but how far into the actual development have they gotten? I mean, it's kind of cool that they're saying "Perl 6 will do this, that, and the other thing", but how much actual work have they done?
All this time, I've sort of thought that Perl 6 development was well under way and that they were nearing completion, but your post makes it sound like Perl 6 is nothing but talk right now.
Yeah, so am I. What's your point? Admins can uninstall those programs and prevent them from being installed by properly locking down the box (don't give users install permissions, and mount/home with noexec so that they can't install stuff into their own home directories. Don't give them permission to execute the compiler, etc. It's not difficult to do.
Install Linux, MSN Messenger will go away rather quickly:)
I think it would be easier to lock down a linux box to prevent installations of gaim, Gabber, etc than it would be to putz around with your firewalls trying to kill MSN Messenger.
At this point, it would not surprise me to see SCO claiming that Linus Torvalds was really a genetic cloning experiment conducted by SCO, and that Linus is really a clone, meaning he has no actual rights as a human (if we are to believe the "Sixth Day" movie), so all IP that supposedly belongs to Linus, really belonged to SCO all this time.
The problem is that XUL crap -- ditch the "eXtensible User Interface Language" or whatever and just code something that's quick.
I disagree, XUL is quite fast. Maybe not as fast as assembler, but it's always a trade-off between development time and execution speed. From what I understand of XUL, it provides a layer of abstraction that makes it easier to develop applications, while at the same time not making everything outrageously slow (like java or something).
The reason you think it's slow is because of the old netscape mentality of stuffing an IRC client, mail client, web browser, contact manager, and WYSIWYG HTML editor (etc) into one application. Once Mozilla standardizes on Firebird/Thunderbird, things will be lightening quick.
I'm holding out* for the day when we can go to the corner 7-11 and order up a beautiful woman, right through the nanobot replicator.
You might be looking for a Real Doll. Granted, you can't get them at the 7-11, and they do cost $6,000 USD, but it's the closest thing you're going to get to manufacturing your dream woman at the moment:)
When I first read the summary of the story, I thought they were talking about some 3d accellerated soccer game written in Visual Basic, and I started crying. Then after reading a few comments I found out that PBEM meant 'Play By EMail', and I started crying again because this is way too lame to be on the front page.
SCO didn't have a hand in any of the code in question; they bought it.
That's an important point, IMHO.
If this lawsuit was about AT&T suing IBM for their misuse of UNIX technology, I wouldn't mind so much; AT&T gave us Unix, and they'd (hypothetically) just be looking for a little compensation. I still wouldn't like it, but at least I could understand "where they were coming from", so to speak. But because it is SCO doing the sueing, I am not at all impressed.
Basically, SCO is a company that has done nothing good; they having not done any hard work, they have not contributed anything noteworthy to society, they just haven't done anything positive, and now they're looking to get paid for it.
Perhaps if SCO had actually done some innovating, instead of just whining like a little baby, I might be a little more compassionate for them.
That is more or less why I hate SCO.
Re:Hard drives are inherently expensive
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This manufacturing cost is significanly lower,
If that's true, then why can I pick up an 80 GB HD for $100?
I think that's what I was suggesting. Microsoft and SCO are claiming that their code has made it's way into linux, I'm saying that it's more likely that linux code has worked it's way into Microsoft and SCO.
If that is the case, though, these lawsuits make even less sense -- talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
The thing is, if that code worked it's way into linux with the knowledge and permission of Microsoft, then it can't possibly be copyright infringement or patent violation or anything. Microsoft authorized that code to be there, so it's legal for it to be there.
I doubt that Microsoft would do something like that, though.
But it is illegal for two programs with no code in common to do the same thing, if the thing being done is protected by a patent.
As I understand it, it's a civil matter. IOW, the patent owner is allowed to sue the owner of the other program for patent infringement, but they can't actually go to jail for it.
Even so, software patents are hurting the software industry more than helping it. They never should have been allowed... hey, let's patent mathematical algorithms while we're at it! *sigh*
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Under GPL, you basically have your hands tied. You can't legally modify and use the code withouth submitting them back, and you can't really submit back the changes because they are usually hacks to get it to work how you want (not "improvements" on the code).
What the hell are you talking about? The original maintainers don't have to accept your patches in order for you to be able to distribute binaries. Just make whatever changes you want, no matter how trivial, and then make sure to distribute the source right alongside the binaries (have a link to the source on the same page that links to the binaries, or put the source and binaries on the same CD, etc). You don't have to care what the original author thinks about the changes you've made. You just have to distribute the source.
Better yet, if the changes you're making are for "internal use only", then you don't even have to distribute the source, simply because you're not distributing binaries (you don't see Google/Amazon/whatever falling over itself to give you it's source code, do you?).
Man, giving linux to your mom? Thats some scary.
All she needs is Mozilla, and gaim. Occaisionally, she'll need OpenOffice if a friend of hers emails her a PPT or something stupid.
I'm planning on just installing RedHat 9.
I have a surprising number of those songs on my machine.
Me too. None.
Hey, this site looks interesting, as I actually suffer from the 'sweaty hands' problem.
I grasp my mouse with my whole hand. It's not an ergonomic mouse, but it fits nicely into my hand (I rest my hand on the mouse, instead of holding my hand over it). Lately, my hands have just been sweaty, I haven't been able to figure out why (please save the masturbation jokes, please, I'm being serious). Typing is awkward because my fingers are sticky, and using the mouse is a pain because my hand sticks to it. It's really uncomfortable, and that's bad because if I'm not at work or sleeping, then I'm sitting in front of my computer.
My solution was to buy a really thin, lite pair of gloves. They absorb the sweat from my hands without restricting the movement of my fingers, so I'm able to type and use the mouse without much trouble.
~/videos/pr0n for me.
Thats not really so bad. My dad thinks netscape has different content than IE. Like they're different internets.
My mom thinks the same thing! That drives me crazy! She's adamant about using IE, but I'm trying to switch her over to Mozilla (so that when I switch her to Linux, she'll have something that she's already familiar with).
"Hey son, that's my banking website... how'd you get it in Netscape?" GRRRRR...
Sometimes, I wish I could LART my mom.
While MS may require it on, I'm sure it'll stay a toggle in the bios, eh?
The trick is to not buy any mobos that have this "feature" permanently enabled. When mobo makers discover that their TCPA-permanently-enabled boards aren't selling, they'll figure it out and make it an option again.
* Eventually, this will lead to the Design Documents
That's all well and good, but how far into the actual development have they gotten? I mean, it's kind of cool that they're saying "Perl 6 will do this, that, and the other thing", but how much actual work have they done?
All this time, I've sort of thought that Perl 6 development was well under way and that they were nearing completion, but your post makes it sound like Perl 6 is nothing but talk right now.
Yeah, so am I. What's your point? Admins can uninstall those programs and prevent them from being installed by properly locking down the box (don't give users install permissions, and mount /home with noexec so that they can't install stuff into their own home directories. Don't give them permission to execute the compiler, etc. It's not difficult to do.
Install Linux, MSN Messenger will go away rather quickly :)
I think it would be easier to lock down a linux box to prevent installations of gaim, Gabber, etc than it would be to putz around with your firewalls trying to kill MSN Messenger.
I strongly reccommend that you read The Case of the Quake Cheats. It's a very good read :)
Tomorrow: Linus' brain!
At this point, it would not surprise me to see SCO claiming that Linus Torvalds was really a genetic cloning experiment conducted by SCO, and that Linus is really a clone, meaning he has no actual rights as a human (if we are to believe the "Sixth Day" movie), so all IP that supposedly belongs to Linus, really belonged to SCO all this time.
The problem is that XUL crap -- ditch the "eXtensible User Interface Language" or whatever and just code something that's quick.
I disagree, XUL is quite fast. Maybe not as fast as assembler, but it's always a trade-off between development time and execution speed. From what I understand of XUL, it provides a layer of abstraction that makes it easier to develop applications, while at the same time not making everything outrageously slow (like java or something).
The reason you think it's slow is because of the old netscape mentality of stuffing an IRC client, mail client, web browser, contact manager, and WYSIWYG HTML editor (etc) into one application. Once Mozilla standardizes on Firebird/Thunderbird, things will be lightening quick.
No, you're thinking of AT&T. Microsoft's punishment was that they weren't allowed to break the law anymore.
Not that it stopped them, unfortunately.
I'm holding out* for the day when we can go to the corner 7-11 and order up a beautiful woman, right through the nanobot replicator.
:)
You might be looking for a Real Doll. Granted, you can't get them at the 7-11, and they do cost $6,000 USD, but it's the closest thing you're going to get to manufacturing your dream woman at the moment
What, you mean people don't pronounce it 'gupple' and 'pecumsee-ah'?
When I first read the summary of the story, I thought they were talking about some 3d accellerated soccer game written in Visual Basic, and I started crying. Then after reading a few comments I found out that PBEM meant 'Play By EMail', and I started crying again because this is way too lame to be on the front page.
I can't find one on kernel.org, would anybody mind telling me what they fixed between -test1 and -test2?
SCO didn't have a hand in any of the code in question; they bought it.
That's an important point, IMHO.
If this lawsuit was about AT&T suing IBM for their misuse of UNIX technology, I wouldn't mind so much; AT&T gave us Unix, and they'd (hypothetically) just be looking for a little compensation. I still wouldn't like it, but at least I could understand "where they were coming from", so to speak. But because it is SCO doing the sueing, I am not at all impressed.
Basically, SCO is a company that has done nothing good; they having not done any hard work, they have not contributed anything noteworthy to society, they just haven't done anything positive, and now they're looking to get paid for it.
Perhaps if SCO had actually done some innovating, instead of just whining like a little baby, I might be a little more compassionate for them.
That is more or less why I hate SCO.
This manufacturing cost is significanly lower,
If that's true, then why can I pick up an 80 GB HD for $100?
I think that's what I was suggesting. Microsoft and SCO are claiming that their code has made it's way into linux, I'm saying that it's more likely that linux code has worked it's way into Microsoft and SCO.
If that is the case, though, these lawsuits make even less sense -- talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
That's terrible advice! "I was procrastinating too much, so I changed my major to procrastination." :P
(no, I'm not serious)
Specific threats would be refutable--his statement is not.
It would only take two words to refute Bill's claims: "prove it".
The thing is, if that code worked it's way into linux with the knowledge and permission of Microsoft, then it can't possibly be copyright infringement or patent violation or anything. Microsoft authorized that code to be there, so it's legal for it to be there.
I doubt that Microsoft would do something like that, though.
But it is illegal for two programs with no code in common to do the same thing, if the thing being done is protected by a patent.
As I understand it, it's a civil matter. IOW, the patent owner is allowed to sue the owner of the other program for patent infringement, but they can't actually go to jail for it.
Even so, software patents are hurting the software industry more than helping it. They never should have been allowed... hey, let's patent mathematical algorithms while we're at it! *sigh*