Yes, but if you publicly say that you do not think that the GPL is legal, then that license obviously does not apply to you. If it does not apply to you, than you are in violation of the GPL if you are distributing (not using, distributing) the software.
On the other hand, you can get around this by stating that you don't think it will hold in the courtroom, so you do not explicitely say that *you* don't think it is valid. Which might be the loophole that SCO is using.
"Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things."
And that's just the preamble. They do not just *USE* the code, they distribute it. That's the whole point.
SCO does not have any rights to use GPL if they think it is unconstitutional. Therefore, they are using software *without* a valid license. Maybe a mayor software developer (such as Samba group) should sue SCO for using their GPL'ed software. Of course, we should (even as small time programmers) should send ceise or desist letters to their mayor clients. Lets see how they handle *that*.
An OpenSCO shop? What's that? Why wouldn't you be able to run Linux or another (license unencumbered:) unix variant? Porting an application should not be that difficult. And otherwise you might want to stay with your current version. New versions of Apache, PHP etc. etc. would be worthless for such clients. Or maybe OpenServer has more proprietary parts that I am unaware of?
You could put up a time-signing server somewhere safe and let it sign the secure hashes of content along with the time. That would really restrict the possibility to mess with the archives without somebody noticing. There are even HSM (hardware security modules) which will let you do that while leaving the key in a safe space. I doubt the signature would normally hold up as a legal signature, but it would make it much harder to attack the content.
That's why you need multiple chips, two for your arms, two for your legs - whoops, forgot hands and feet. Upper and lower arm and leg. Finger digits. Toes. Finger and toe-nails. See? No problem.
I agree that modularization is a great means to avoid bloat. I am using Eclipse (Java IDE and more), and it is very feature packed, with hundreds of additional plugins. This includes an MP3 player plugin. It's not bloat, since it is not enabled by default (actually, you need to donwload most of it).
But I would consider it bloat if it would make my interface less usable. So bloat is not only when you have unnecesary code, but also (especially) if it clutters up the application. The trick is to make it feature packed *and* usable.
I actually favour the cable. I can have a look at the tiny display, and USB connections are not always where you want them (powered USB headers are on the backside of an Mac mini for instace). Most of the time, the adjecent USB ports are in use as well, and cables always fit, MP3 players generally won't. If possible they should use the default mini USB ports, so you can buy additional cables as well (as you cannot do with, say, sony).
"Full" speed USB sucks however, no players will get high speed 480 Mbps connections, but 6 Mbps is really really (really) slow. It would take about 1400 seconds to fill up, or almost 23 minutes. That's way too long for me (my 1 GB USB stick does it at 14 MB/sec (!) - and that's the write speed).
However, for most people, and most uses, pringles can antennas are unquestionably illegal to use. They also usually don't work that well - many of them are _directional_, sure, but they're directional because they're weak in most directions, rather than strong in a particular one.
I also understood that pringle cans are pretty close to the perfect diameter, but not perfect. A cookie can with a bigger diameter or something similar should work better than a Pringle can. And it's a change of diet for most of us I guess.
The new drive also uses 5 (100 MB) platters. So lets hope it isn't the same design. Seems to me like a stop to take if you aint sure your high density platters will be ready on time...
Eclipse, one of the more heavily used Java IDE's, does have a "sort of" Ant editor. It's still plain text, but with completion support and error checking etc to make it more pallable. And it does provide a GUI for the launch configurations. Other IDE's do also have Ant support, although I am not familliar with the extend of support for most IDE's.
Ant files are pretty easy to read, and they are normally not computer generated. I've never had much problems reading them, and they are infinitely more easy to read than most make files.
Actually, there are many hybrid hardware / software raid solutions, where the xorring is done in software. Think the cheaper raid cards. These are not that much different performance wise from pure software solutions, but they may be easier to maintain.
I myself would opt for a big tower, with software raid in a 4 or 6 bay swappable serial ata drive configuration. Raid 5 of course. 4 + 1 hot spare would be the optimum configuration probably.
Other good tips are downloading the latest version of Acrobat (for Windows, version 7.0) which starts much faster than the 6.x versions. And Foxit reader seems to work fine as well. I recommend starting PDF's straight into these programs, remove the plugin from your browser and you are there.
I *always* setup my system so that PDF's get started into their own window. If I cannot configure the system, I will download the files first, and then start them up. The way commercial plugins handle firefox and vice versa is indeed far from perfect.
For Windows I used the Foxit reader by the way. Sounds firefoxy too. Small footprint reader, does most of what you want from it, fast. Note that 7.0 of the official adobe reader is pretty good as well. Especially in comparison with 6, which basically just sucked.
Eh? I think you are trying to compare apples and pears here. GCJ uses ClassPath, the open source implementation of the API. GCJ is, as the name implies, the GNU Compiler for Java. GCJ will never support Swing, but ClassPath might.
I thouroughly hate Swing. It's very usefull, has great concepts of a good GUI implementation, but it forgets that about 90% of the users want their native widgets put to good use. SWT is quite enough for me. Both Eclipse and Azureus are on top of the heap for Java GUI implementations. Swing really does not even come close.
Oh no, there we go again. He should not have taken the job eh? Instead he should have taken another high tech job without a non-compete clause. So if you would be so kind as to point one out for me?
Employee's should be protected from these kind of clauses. As said in other posts, an employer and an employee do not share an equal relationship. Just saying the employee can switch jobs at any time is such bullshit. Let alone switching fields.
As long as he's not implementing the exact products he was developing at Microsoft, in the same role or function, he should be off the hook.
You could create a firefox distribution. I for one would welcome a distribution with a default ad blocker, better download management, a nice theme and some mouse gesture support. Don't forget the flash plugin either (we'll have add block anyway). And if it could disable all those "are you sure you would want to send information to the internet" warnings, well, all the better.
But this could be easily distributed *next* to the stripped down version of firefox. Actually, it could be created and distributed *by you*. So get hacking! There's enough open source stuff to pick from.
"The vagus nerve is arguably the single most important nerve in the body."
Typical. I could also call the outer regions of the brain the most important nerve. Without them I would not have been me. Giving a value to some things just is not worth it. Why would I go and order the nerves in my body for heavens sake?
The word "arguably" only makes it worse. Arguably, sentences containing the word "arguably" should all be removed. The sentence before this one is therefore heading for its own destruction.
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Or we could create a simple firefox extension that enables us to look at mirrored versions instead of all that mucking about with copying and pasting stuff.
What? Displaying a different icon on a key if you press another can be patented? I was drawing my own special keyboard (a hybrid oclave/ergonomic keyboard) which included this idea already. I noted that there were too many icons to be placed on one key, and making it display another solved this problem nicely, making it easier for first time users to get involved with the keyboard.
And now some nitwit is patenting the rather obvious idea?
Seems that they do not understand that toggle keys are the way to go though. Why need a seperate numeric keypad if you can already reprogram the other keys...
Oh shit, now they'll be patenting that too. Well I WAS FIRST this time:)
Seriously though, this kind of patenting has got to stop. It should be difficult enough to create the keyboard, let them AND the other interested parties have a go at that instead of patenting every obvious idea.
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Yes, but if you publicly say that you do not think that the GPL is legal, then that license obviously does not apply to you. If it does not apply to you, than you are in violation of the GPL if you are distributing (not using, distributing) the software.
On the other hand, you can get around this by stating that you don't think it will hold in the courtroom, so you do not explicitely say that *you* don't think it is valid. Which might be the loophole that SCO is using.
"Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things."
And that's just the preamble. They do not just *USE* the code, they distribute it. That's the whole point.
SCO does not have any rights to use GPL if they think it is unconstitutional. Therefore, they are using software *without* a valid license. Maybe a mayor software developer (such as Samba group) should sue SCO for using their GPL'ed software. Of course, we should (even as small time programmers) should send ceise or desist letters to their mayor clients. Lets see how they handle *that*.
An OpenSCO shop? What's that? Why wouldn't you be able to run Linux or another (license unencumbered :) unix variant? Porting an application should not be that difficult. And otherwise you might want to stay with your current version. New versions of Apache, PHP etc. etc. would be worthless for such clients. Or maybe OpenServer has more proprietary parts that I am unaware of?
You could put up a time-signing server somewhere safe and let it sign the secure hashes of content along with the time. That would really restrict the possibility to mess with the archives without somebody noticing. There are even HSM (hardware security modules) which will let you do that while leaving the key in a safe space. I doubt the signature would normally hold up as a legal signature, but it would make it much harder to attack the content.
That's why you need multiple chips, two for your arms, two for your legs - whoops, forgot hands and feet. Upper and lower arm and leg. Finger digits. Toes. Finger and toe-nails. See? No problem.
I agree that modularization is a great means to avoid bloat. I am using Eclipse (Java IDE and more), and it is very feature packed, with hundreds of additional plugins. This includes an MP3 player plugin. It's not bloat, since it is not enabled by default (actually, you need to donwload most of it).
But I would consider it bloat if it would make my interface less usable. So bloat is not only when you have unnecesary code, but also (especially) if it clutters up the application. The trick is to make it feature packed *and* usable.
I actually favour the cable. I can have a look at the tiny display, and USB connections are not always where you want them (powered USB headers are on the backside of an Mac mini for instace). Most of the time, the adjecent USB ports are in use as well, and cables always fit, MP3 players generally won't. If possible they should use the default mini USB ports, so you can buy additional cables as well (as you cannot do with, say, sony).
"Full" speed USB sucks however, no players will get high speed 480 Mbps connections, but 6 Mbps is really really (really) slow. It would take about 1400 seconds to fill up, or almost 23 minutes. That's way too long for me (my 1 GB USB stick does it at 14 MB/sec (!) - and that's the write speed).
However, for most people, and most uses, pringles can antennas are unquestionably illegal to use. They also usually don't work that well - many of them are _directional_, sure, but they're directional because they're weak in most directions, rather than strong in a particular one.
I also understood that pringle cans are pretty close to the perfect diameter, but not perfect. A cookie can with a bigger diameter or something similar should work better than a Pringle can. And it's a change of diet for most of us I guess.
The new drive also uses 5 (100 MB) platters. So lets hope it isn't the same design. Seems to me like a stop to take if you aint sure your high density platters will be ready on time...
Eclipse, one of the more heavily used Java IDE's, does have a "sort of" Ant editor. It's still plain text, but with completion support and error checking etc to make it more pallable. And it does provide a GUI for the launch configurations. Other IDE's do also have Ant support, although I am not familliar with the extend of support for most IDE's.
Ant files are pretty easy to read, and they are normally not computer generated. I've never had much problems reading them, and they are infinitely more easy to read than most make files.
Actually, there are many hybrid hardware / software raid solutions, where the xorring is done in software. Think the cheaper raid cards. These are not that much different performance wise from pure software solutions, but they may be easier to maintain.
I myself would opt for a big tower, with software raid in a 4 or 6 bay swappable serial ata drive configuration. Raid 5 of course. 4 + 1 hot spare would be the optimum configuration probably.
Other good tips are downloading the latest version of Acrobat (for Windows, version 7.0) which starts much faster than the 6.x versions. And Foxit reader seems to work fine as well. I recommend starting PDF's straight into these programs, remove the plugin from your browser and you are there.
I *always* setup my system so that PDF's get started into their own window. If I cannot configure the system, I will download the files first, and then start them up. The way commercial plugins handle firefox and vice versa is indeed far from perfect.
For Windows I used the Foxit reader by the way. Sounds firefoxy too. Small footprint reader, does most of what you want from it, fast. Note that 7.0 of the official adobe reader is pretty good as well. Especially in comparison with 6, which basically just sucked.
Eh? I think you are trying to compare apples and pears here. GCJ uses ClassPath, the open source implementation of the API. GCJ is, as the name implies, the GNU Compiler for Java. GCJ will never support Swing, but ClassPath might.
I thouroughly hate Swing. It's very usefull, has great concepts of a good GUI implementation, but it forgets that about 90% of the users want their native widgets put to good use. SWT is quite enough for me. Both Eclipse and Azureus are on top of the heap for Java GUI implementations. Swing really does not even come close.
Oh no, there we go again. He should not have taken the job eh? Instead he should have taken another high tech job without a non-compete clause. So if you would be so kind as to point one out for me?
Employee's should be protected from these kind of clauses. As said in other posts, an employer and an employee do not share an equal relationship. Just saying the employee can switch jobs at any time is such bullshit. Let alone switching fields.
As long as he's not implementing the exact products he was developing at Microsoft, in the same role or function, he should be off the hook.
You could create a firefox distribution. I for one would welcome a distribution with a default ad blocker, better download management, a nice theme and some mouse gesture support. Don't forget the flash plugin either (we'll have add block anyway). And if it could disable all those "are you sure you would want to send information to the internet" warnings, well, all the better.
But this could be easily distributed *next* to the stripped down version of firefox. Actually, it could be created and distributed *by you*. So get hacking! There's enough open source stuff to pick from.
So from the wikipedia article.
"The vagus nerve is arguably the single most important nerve in the body."
Typical. I could also call the outer regions of the brain the most important nerve. Without them I would not have been me. Giving a value to some things just is not worth it. Why would I go and order the nerves in my body for heavens sake?
The word "arguably" only makes it worse. Arguably, sentences containing the word "arguably" should all be removed. The sentence before this one is therefore heading for its own destruction.
Er, don't you need a question for a Q & A ?
Pretty cool, if this is not prior art, then I don't know what is :)
Or we could create a simple firefox extension that enables us to look at mirrored versions instead of all that mucking about with copying and pasting stuff.
Lets hope your documentation makes more sence :)
Tons and tons of natural resources to make a single computer case? And I don't even have to begin about what's inside.
They could start off with just green. Back to the old days of just black and green it is then :)
What? Displaying a different icon on a key if you press another can be patented? I was drawing my own special keyboard (a hybrid oclave/ergonomic keyboard) which included this idea already. I noted that there were too many icons to be placed on one key, and making it display another solved this problem nicely, making it easier for first time users to get involved with the keyboard.
:)
And now some nitwit is patenting the rather obvious idea?
Seems that they do not understand that toggle keys are the way to go though. Why need a seperate numeric keypad if you can already reprogram the other keys...
Oh shit, now they'll be patenting that too. Well I WAS FIRST this time
Seriously though, this kind of patenting has got to stop. It should be difficult enough to create the keyboard, let them AND the other interested parties have a go at that instead of patenting every obvious idea.