Dear Sir,
I am deeply greatfull that you found a simple grammatical error. However, your attempted solution is incorrect. My 'are' is not to be replaced with 'are are' but with 'is'.
Sincerely,
Homology.
There's been a gentleman's agreement for years between IBM, MS and many others that sharing their patents via cross-licencing agreements is the only way to advance the industry as a whole.
And this shows why only the really big companies reaps the benefits from software patents, while smaller companies do not have enough patents to use on cross-licensing.
Now, enter companies whose sole business idea is to sue other companies for patent infringements. They have no products, thus no need to cross-license. Even big companies have problems using arguments like "See, you are infringing on these X patents. Wanna cross-license?" when said company has no products.
Google has become a verb, and that not the first time or the last this will happen. Language evolve over time : old words disappear and new one appears.
Social Darwinism today is a misapplication of Darwinian theory to human society.
Restricting it's scope to race alone, is too narrow today.
Darwinian evolution fits very well in biology, but the theory applied to other fields is suspect. And the theory has been used to justify all kinds of social injustice and abuse.
Reducing the scientific field to some kind of Darwinian evolution or process, is just as much hogwash as applying it to race. The same goes for trying to describe the Open Source community the same way.
Well, there's this game on Slashdot where people try to bait some well-known person into responding to a troll. And this game is pursued intensively against yours truly. So, I've become somewhat sensitive to it.
The marketing mechanism of global Open Source community is best described as a massively parallel drunkards walk, filtered by a Darwinistic process. This looks more like research than conventionally driven development.
Social darwinism, joined with a "market mechanism" mumbo-jumbo, to describe how Open Source, and research functions/works? I am, to put it mildly, astonished that Perens has written this!
I was sort of hoping that social darwinism to describe social structure was a relic of the last century, and best left that way.
Please ignore the drunkards walk part of the article, it's just a distraction from the real point.
Why is it that the general idea of most people that how much you get paid is directly related to how much effort you put into the job?
This is because for many in USA, just about the only way to show to your peers that you are successfull is how high your salary+bonus+pension+options is. The amount of money you have gained is the measure of your worth, even as a human being.
Such a mercantile and shallow "value" system is very contrary to many peoples, but there are many consumers subscribing to this system.
Legislation dealing with specifics, like 'consent for cookies', miss the bigger picture,
The law does not deal with specifics at that level. What will happen is that there is a Goverment agency interpreting the law and give regulations/rules when new technologies appear.
It annoys me when legal types with an insufficient grasp of technology create laws without realising the consequences. Laws should have to pass through some kind of expert panel first.
The new Swedish law does not mention cookies as such. The new law is, simply said, a response to the new technologies for collecting/storing/tracking information about private citizens, and the abuse these technologies may be used for. It attempts to give the private citizen some control of what type of information is collected, and what may be done with that information.
In general, it appears the privacy/integrity is more respected/protected in Europe than in USA.
While US funds the Total Information Awareness Agency, the German State funds
Anonymity is not a crime
It's hard to sustain a willingness to role-play when the mindless android in front of you swallows your shuttle ticket without so much as an apology
My wife is pretty willing to swallow, and it's not hard at all for me sustain my will for this. And no apology is offered either, but I guess I can live with that.
As far as copyrights go, that is another story, and depends greatly on whether the country you are crossing into is a member of the WIPO, and signatory to the Berne Treaty.
Those conventions does not automatically imply that an US court ruling has the force of law outside US. It's conventions, subject to intepretation of national laws.
... with just about little relevance to the rest of the world, apart from the amusement factor.
Really, US courts patent and copyrigth rulings means nothing to a court of another country. Really, that foreign court has to observe national and international laws (that it signed on to). Anything else would be criminal. The foreign court has no legal choice here, end of story.
SCO was told by a German court to "show the evidence or shut up! Ignore our ruling at your own peril." SCO promptly closed donw the German branch office.
AFAIK, Red Hat Linux has never included Tomcat. The apache package was renamed to httpd sometime in the last few releases, and it's still there
I sit corrected, though, why did they rename Apache Webserver to httpd, apart from "historical" reasons? It's not as if it's the only webserver.... Besides, only version 2.0.x is part of the package, and not the more stable amd widely used 1.3.x series.
The article has some good points, but the author is, well, quite biased. Redhat did fund ext3, making a very easy upgrade path from ext2 to a journalling file system. Ext3 is a significant and valuable contribution. For the Xfree86 project, Mike Harris is an active contributor. Many other examples may be found of RedHat's contribution to Linux at large.
On the other hand, the RedHat "mangling" of KDE is controversial, and quite frankly it put me off. Enough for me not to use it. I'm not a Mandrake user, but the lates Mandrake KDE is very pretty and harmonic.
For development platform, SuSE 8.2 Pro is far better than Redhat Linux. Now, the other Redhat offerings is quite another matter, but also far more expensive.
The goal of the Red Hat Linux project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software.
Browsing through
Package List for Severn
non-free software like Acrobat Reader and Sun Java is not included.
However, Apache Webserver and Tomcat is not included either, so does this imply that Redhat Linux is targeted towards consumer market in order to have less competition for their other commercial products?
Would you not have to pay for a SUSE linux and windows license to run windows in vmware? Maybe they are going to run their OLD versions of windows?
Munich do have very many Windows licenses today, and likely they may use some of those licenses along with the SuSE Linux. What I'm very sure about, is that this is taken into account.
WMware is just part of a migration path, and a way out if things go badly.
Besides, wmware may perfectly well be used for running Linux in Linux;-)
I suggest next time you back up your statement with some counterexamples or other evidence.
The article pointed in the main post could very well be part of a PhD thesis : It defines the scope of the problem under investigation, defines the terms used, describes the scientific methods/tools used and how it was carried out, discusses the results obtained, put the results in a context of a theory, and draw conclusions.
The article may be reproduced/disproved by other researchers.
Note that the article is peer reviewed and published, meaning that some anonymous experts have actually studied it.
If you are going to apply for some PhD grant you better have a clearly and presicely formulated subject, along with how you intend to investigate it. Contrast this with :
BUT HERE's the free idea. Maybe someone (aka doctoral candidate) could prove that because Free software is used by ALL possible users in whatever way they are going to use it within, say 4 months, that it doesn't matter if there's some obscure bug, in say, the Intellivision drivers for Linux, because no one uses those. I.e., software has an astronomical amount of states, any 1 of which could be broken, but after all (5 billion people) actually use the software, all HUMANLY possible states are VERIFIED.
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Blame it on the spell tool in kmail. It accepts both variations.
Dear Sir, I am deeply greatfull that you found a simple grammatical error. However, your attempted solution is incorrect. My 'are' is not to be replaced with 'are are' but with 'is'. Sincerely, Homology.
I'm sure that the code produced are of real high quality.
And this shows why only the really big companies reaps the benefits from software patents, while smaller companies do not have enough patents to use on cross-licensing.
Now, enter companies whose sole business idea is to sue other companies for patent infringements. They have no products, thus no need to cross-license. Even big companies have problems using arguments like "See, you are infringing on these X patents. Wanna cross-license?" when said company has no products.
OpenBSD has issues with including GPL'ed code. Theo de Raadt gave a very short initial answer.
OpenBSD are very keen on keeping their code untainted.
I certainly hope so, since I'm using SuSE myself, and ReiserFS is the default filesystem.
As a side issue, it'll be interesting to see how the plugin-part of ReiserFS V4 will be used. Do you know of any concrete plans to use this feature?
Google has become a verb, and that not the first time or the last this will happen. Language evolve over time : old words disappear and new one appears.
I would love to have a 21" LCD monitor with very fast response time, that is also affordable. None around, so I've got to use CRT.
OpenBSD is working on removing GNU software from their OS. By porting BSD userland to Linux, perhaps we can talk about BSD/Linux ;-)
Social Darwinism today is a misapplication of Darwinian theory to human society. Restricting it's scope to race alone, is too narrow today.
Darwinian evolution fits very well in biology, but the theory applied to other fields is suspect. And the theory has been used to justify all kinds of social injustice and abuse.
Reducing the scientific field to some kind of Darwinian evolution or process, is just as much hogwash as applying it to race. The same goes for trying to describe the Open Source community the same way.
I don't do this.
Social darwinism, joined with a "market mechanism" mumbo-jumbo, to describe how Open Source, and research functions/works? I am, to put it mildly, astonished that Perens has written this!
I was sort of hoping that social darwinism to describe social structure was a relic of the last century, and best left that way.
Please ignore the drunkards walk part of the article, it's just a distraction from the real point.
This is because for many in USA, just about the only way to show to your peers that you are successfull is how high your salary+bonus+pension+options is. The amount of money you have gained is the measure of your worth, even as a human being.
Such a mercantile and shallow "value" system is very contrary to many peoples, but there are many consumers subscribing to this system.
The law does not deal with specifics at that level. What will happen is that there is a Goverment agency interpreting the law and give regulations/rules when new technologies appear.
The new Swedish law does not mention cookies as such. The new law is, simply said, a response to the new technologies for collecting/storing/tracking information about private citizens, and the abuse these technologies may be used for. It attempts to give the private citizen some control of what type of information is collected, and what may be done with that information.
In general, it appears the privacy/integrity is more respected/protected in Europe than in USA. While US funds the Total Information Awareness Agency, the German State funds Anonymity is not a crime
I kindly refer you to my reply to the first reply of my post made 2.5 hours before yours.
My wife is pretty willing to swallow, and it's not hard at all for me sustain my will for this. And no apology is offered either, but I guess I can live with that.
Those conventions does not automatically imply that an US court ruling has the force of law outside US. It's conventions, subject to intepretation of national laws.
Really, US courts patent and copyrigth rulings means nothing to a court of another country. Really, that foreign court has to observe national and international laws (that it signed on to). Anything else would be criminal. The foreign court has no legal choice here, end of story.
SCO was told by a German court to "show the evidence or shut up! Ignore our ruling at your own peril." SCO promptly closed donw the German branch office.
I sit corrected, though, why did they rename Apache Webserver to httpd, apart from "historical" reasons? It's not as if it's the only webserver.... Besides, only version 2.0.x is part of the package, and not the more stable amd widely used 1.3.x series.
On the other hand, the RedHat "mangling" of KDE is controversial, and quite frankly it put me off. Enough for me not to use it. I'm not a Mandrake user, but the lates Mandrake KDE is very pretty and harmonic.
For development platform, SuSE 8.2 Pro is far better than Redhat Linux. Now, the other Redhat offerings is quite another matter, but also far more expensive.
The goal of the Red Hat Linux project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software.
Browsing through Package List for Severn non-free software like Acrobat Reader and Sun Java is not included.
However, Apache Webserver and Tomcat is not included either, so does this imply that Redhat Linux is targeted towards consumer market in order to have less competition for their other commercial products?
Munich do have very many Windows licenses today, and likely they may use some of those licenses along with the SuSE Linux. What I'm very sure about, is that this is taken into account.
WMware is just part of a migration path, and a way out if things go badly.
Besides, wmware may perfectly well be used for running Linux in Linux ;-)
He, he, goodnight.
The article pointed in the main post could very well be part of a PhD thesis : It defines the scope of the problem under investigation, defines the terms used, describes the scientific methods/tools used and how it was carried out, discusses the results obtained, put the results in a context of a theory, and draw conclusions. The article may be reproduced/disproved by other researchers. Note that the article is peer reviewed and published, meaning that some anonymous experts have actually studied it.
If you are going to apply for some PhD grant you better have a clearly and presicely formulated subject, along with how you intend to investigate it. Contrast this with :
BUT HERE's the free idea. Maybe someone (aka doctoral candidate) could prove that because Free software is used by ALL possible users in whatever way they are going to use it within, say 4 months, that it doesn't matter if there's some obscure bug, in say, the Intellivision drivers for Linux, because no one uses those. I.e., software has an astronomical amount of states, any 1 of which could be broken, but after all (5 billion people) actually use the software, all HUMANLY possible states are VERIFIED.
Still baseless and dobious?