As a correlary: How many of you went to see South Park, The movie in the theater? Now how many of you remember sitting within 20 feet of a bunch of little kids?
Or rather 'RED Dance/Sony Japan', 'Japan' just happened to split into a new line -- I though it was out of place and noticed it wasn't fitting in alphabetical order after I posted.
If your credit card number is known by one person who should not know would it make a big difference for you if it was published? You'd have to change it anyway.
If beeing wealthy put's your in more danger you have the option of giving your money away or hire guards, you don't deserve special protection (more then the rest of us) from society.
Do you think companies are contributing to the GPL because they are forced to? Naw. They are contributing to open source software because it's in their best interest to do so.
If you change all licenses to BSD than the first company that will not be a good corporate citizen and stop contributing
their changes will become a monopoly.
How do they become a monopoly?
Copyright, the base code is out there for everyone, but they have exclusive control over their changes. They will probably not tell their customers where to get the base code either.
Isn't (or rather wasn't) GCC just an implementation of a C compiler, as oposed to a feature-for-feature clone? Emacs certainly isn't a clone of anything.
Either way it sometimes makes sense to put new things under a BSD like license to further software freedom (e.g. Vorbis, PNG). The authors of Vorbis certainly aren't firmly in the BSD camp.
I only know of Firefox extensions trough using them, I have switched to Epiphany some time ago at home. Either way I don't have the skills to do it even it was possible.
Maybe; I don't know what is possible with an extension in Firefox. But I actually doubt it, and even if you could it probably would defeat the purpose.
There is an extension that "emacsifies" Firefox, it's not a complete re-buid, but quite different. Doing it as a Firefox extension may not be the end goal, rather an experiment (lazy is good there), as a plus it would be easy to try without a huge download.
The purpose would be to re-think the interface to the web, from the ground up.
Not for me.
A click selects a link: What does that mean?
It selects the link, like current GUI browsers select with 'Tab' and file managers select files.
Hey, maybe the 'address' bar should hold the current 'selected' link, not the current page (unless you are typing in something else). Benefit: you can edit the link easily, and see where you are going.
The status bar would show the selected link like file managers display file information. You could drag or copy and paste the link into the address bar to edit it or double clik to go to it directly.
So, what happens if you click a bookmark? The obvious thing is to select it: load it into the address bar, but not load it.
If the bookmarks are in a menu like now the obvious thing is to activate.
Oh, and what does 'save' mean?...
Copying the page or item the disk of course. You drag or copy and paste a link or multiple links from the address bar or the page into the file manager and it's saved there. Or you choose save from a menu or context menu (save current, save selected).
The point would be to re-build the UI, from scratch.
I was thinking more in terms of fixing inconsistencies with the rest of the GUI, most notably file browsers.
My thinking was that this wasn't required and today people are just applying for ideas without even planning to implement it (just wait for someone else and sue).
Correct.
My thought was you can submit it without an implementation (like I think you can today) to "reserve" the patent, but it won't actaully be granted unless you show an implementation in a certain period of time.
And that would make it worse as it would legalize the practice of protecting ideas. What would be the actual difference between having reserved a patent and having a patent on an idea? It seems just the lenght you get to control the idea, that is not good enough IMO.
It also does not help with patenting file formats, the lenght of the patents in fast moving fields (think ten years old software vs. ten years old car) or the patenting of life saving medicine.
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I believe the only warning you can expect is from a nice subscriber who saw the stroy early.
World record for the hotest known object.
He didn't say that forcing is the only way, did he? The GPL can do both IMHO.
Or rather 'RED Dance/Sony Japan', 'Japan' just happened to split into a new line -- I though it was out of place and noticed it wasn't fitting in alphabetical order after I posted.
'Japan' is a RIAA member. :-D
If your credit card number is known by one person who should not know would it make a big difference for you if it was published? You'd have to change it anyway.
A (deeply buried) copyright notice does not tell the end user that they can get some of the source if they know where to look.
If beeing wealthy put's your in more danger you have the option of giving your money away or hire guards, you don't deserve special protection (more then the rest of us) from society.
Isn't (or rather wasn't) GCC just an implementation of a C compiler, as oposed to a feature-for-feature clone? Emacs certainly isn't a clone of anything. Either way it sometimes makes sense to put new things under a BSD like license to further software freedom (e.g. Vorbis, PNG). The authors of Vorbis certainly aren't firmly in the BSD camp.
Why would the difference between free licenses mater to you? Are you hoping a proprietary fork occurs so you can switch to that?
Because Walmart is the only place... I quite like my photos on Konica Digital photo paper. Then again I'm no pro.
No they aren't very good at that, it's just that most propoganda for kids is done badly. Kids fall fo good propoganda just as well as their parents.
Or maybe they will consider that it wasn't random, but rather a delibrate act by an intelligent designer who acted in ways we can't detect...
As long as you pay for the travel you can give yourself cancer anywhere you like.
Only 'of course' in the context of current GUIs.
I only know of Firefox extensions trough using them, I have switched to Epiphany some time ago at home. Either way I don't have the skills to do it even it was possible.
As I clearly said I prefer it for some copying, it's nice that they coexist.
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