But isn't all of the billions of dollars or R&D and hundreds of thousands of manhours invested in Mac OS X worth something?
What about all the manhours the FreeBSD and OpenBSD engineers put into their product, so their code could be co-opted by others (like, ooh! Apple) and sold on with restrictive terms? What about all the manhours Red Hat and SuSE and the Debian project and Ubuntu and many others into a whole host of free Linux distros? Aren't they worth something, or does it have to come attached to white LEDs and have labels set in Frutiger?
What if their pricing is predicated on what is essentially a good faith agreement that you'll not hack it and run it on non-Apple hardware?
Well that's their fault, innit? "Good faith agreement"! Whatever next.
Does Apple have ANY say in how they'd prefer it to be used?
I think about as much say as the BSD folks claim. Or that the GPL folks do, for that matter.
The Commission also mandated a dynamic frequency selection mechanism be built into every device, so that it does not interfere with other devices in the immediate vicinity.
Given that this will more than likely be implemented in driver software, I guess we can kiss any chance of Free (in the Richard sense) or Open (in the Theo sense) drivers goodbye.
Well in the UK, at least, there's thing thing called "lawful killing" which kind of helps when dealing with nutters running around with guns and shooting people. Unfortunately, it's also sometimes used in error to take out innocent Brazilians.
Something like that. They nailed forty grand to a board for art (which I how I'm thinking of paying my brother's tuition fees); later gave away a considerable portion of that to what they considered to be the worst art of that particular year. "Kick out the JAMs, motherfucker."
OK, so although the GPL means BSD can't lift code directly from the Linux base (and there's no reason why that should work anyway), surely it has to be easier developing a driver by studying this code rather than reverse-engineering Windows binaries?
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Ah! MTW! Dang, I completely forgot that one.
Seems a good (and relevant) place to start.
- The Feynman Lectures
- Weinberg, volumes 1-3
- Landau and Lifschitz
- Zinn-Justin
- Wald
- Kleinert
to name but a few.No, no, no! Not diameter! ...
Blah, blah, blah, evolution.
Blah, blah, blah, Richard Dawkins.
Blah, blah, blah, Burgess Shale.
Blah, blah, blah, Steven Jay Gould.
You're welcome.
Is it twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own one?
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Wearing that shirt, alone, should be an arrestable offense.
Well in the UK, at least, there's thing thing called "lawful killing" which kind of helps when dealing with nutters running around with guns and shooting people. Unfortunately, it's also sometimes used in error to take out innocent Brazilians.
...does that mean I also have to imagine copies of myself riding virtual exercise bikes to keep them ticking over, too?
And it's not like these rumblings haven't come to haunt BSD before now...
I don't think Singularity is meant for release, just research and development.
Something like that. They nailed forty grand to a board for art (which I how I'm thinking of paying my brother's tuition fees); later gave away a considerable portion of that to what they considered to be the worst art of that particular year. "Kick out the JAMs, motherfucker."
I call upon Drummond and Cauty to come forth. The KLF once burnt a million quid made with the indirect help of this mythos.
Let's send up some bog roll on a rocket.
We're going for the fucking record here!
But surely the GPL only covers the code itself, not what it does or how it does it?
OK, so although the GPL means BSD can't lift code directly from the Linux base (and there's no reason why that should work anyway), surely it has to be easier developing a driver by studying this code rather than reverse-engineering Windows binaries?
...war was beginning.
What's the point?
DRM &mdash "D" for "digital", init? No-one's invented ARM yet. Might not be far off, though.