What is the goal of open source software? Is it to drag users away from proprietary solutions, or is there a grander purpose to the open source movement?
Open Source is only a development methodology. Free Software is a social movement. That is the difference. OSS guys don't see the non-free software as a social problem, only as a technical problem if even that.
Meteor showers used by radio amateurs for meteor scatter. Basically they point their beams at the meteor shower when it hits earth and have long distance QSOs (radio amateur contacts) by bouncing their signal from the rocks.
I wonder that because the users and developers interact with the kernel, linux by using GNU's components. Switching to GNU/kBSD wouldn't change anything in that setting from the users' and developers' perspective.
from wipo.int:
Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.
"Intellectual property theft is a national security crime. It's appropriate that the fed dedicate resources to deter and prosecute IP theft."
Since when were you able to steal "creations of the mind"? I don't like this word game which intends to make copying stuff morally relative to stealing. If you are against corporations tightening the copyright law, don't use the term "intellectual property". The word "property" distorts and oversimplifies the whole idea.
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On vim, there are a few more distinct advantages I like it for:
As a programmer you can code elisp and embed those features to emacs:). Although emacs does the things you have mentioned, and it plays tetris too.
This is great news. I live in Finland and our bbc equivalent media company http://www.yle.fi/yleista/faq_stream.shtml#14 doesn't stream ogg vorbis because "ogg vorbis can contain software patents and the media companies don't allow a format which doesn't contain digital restrictions management". Maybe they will change their minds someday and start offering streaming in a Free format.
I play Urban Terror daily with the Free driver. The newest cards aren't supported, check dri.sf.net to see which is the newest supported. I am using a radeon 8500. I'm not sure about the documentation of the driver, I only know that it works. IIRC ati doesn't manufacture those older cards any more, but you can get one as used.
I was not claiming that, I only corrected him. Probably every piece of software has some patented feature in it, IANAPL. I don't claim that Linux's NTFS includes one, I only think that it is probable.
Conclusion? Linux NTFS development slowed down a lot. Red Hat has removed NTFS support completely and after 4 years, they still refer to non-existent NTFS patents, even if they would be void due to laws, e.g. the project is for the purpose of writing interoperable software under Sect. 1201 (f) Reverse Engineering exception of the DMCA.
The DMCA is only about copying controls, digital restrictions management. Patents are a completely different thing. There is no such law which says that using someone's software patent is ok for interoperability purposes.
All performance issues asside, but I don't think that such a card, even if fully open sourced could really work better than the a regular nVidia one with closed sourced drivers, which is really extremly easy to install compared to a lot of Open Source stuff out there.
This is about Free Software, people deserve to have their freedom. Even if the card was slower than all the cards in the market, but had complete documentation, I would still value it higher than the cards for which docs are non-existant.
My radeon 8500 didn't need any "extremely easy to install drivers" because they were included in the XFree86.
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I have always been extremely happy with Nvidia and at this point I see no reason to buy any other make of card.
Your choices affect to the future of Free Software. They may support GNU/Linux, but not Free Software with their drivers. If we want to have a completely free system, not one which is a mosaic of free and non-free parts, then we have to buy hardware whose makers value our freedom.
quoting rms:
Hardware manufactures increasingly tend to keep hardware specifications secret. This makes it difficult to write free drivers so that Linux and XFree86 can support new hardware. We have complete free systems today, but we will not have them tomorrow if we cannot support tomorrow's computers.
There are two ways to cope with this problem. Programmers can do reverse engineering to figure out how to support the hardware. The rest of us can choose the hardware that is supported by free software; as our numbers increase, secrecy of specifications will become a self-defeating policy.
Reverse engineering is a big job; will we have programmers with sufficient determination to undertake it? Yes--if we have built up a strong feeling that free software is a matter of principle, and non-free drivers are intolerable. And will large numbers of us spend extra money, or even a little extra time, so we can use free drivers? Yes, if the determination to have freedom is widespread.
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Publishers and lawyers like to describe copyright as "intellectual property"---a term that also includes patents, trademarks, and other more obscure areas of law. These laws have so little in common, and differ so much, that it is ill-advised to generalize about them. It is best to talk specifically about "copyright," or about "patents," or about "trademarks."
The term "intellectual property" carries a hidden assumption---that the way to think about all these disparate issues is based on an analogy with physical objects, and our ideas of physical property.....
I have used a 2 monitor system myself (15"+17" crts) and I didn't find any benefit from the additional monitor. Maybe if you don't have virtual desktops it is cool to have a place where you can throw windows to, but with pwm a simple Meta+number changes virtual desktops and I don't see the point. Turning my head needs more work than that simple keyboard combo. And two screens slow XFree86 a lot.
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What is the goal of open source software? Is it to drag users away from proprietary solutions, or is there a grander purpose to the open source movement?
Open Source is only a development methodology. Free Software is a social movement. That is the difference. OSS guys don't see the non-free software as a social problem, only as a technical problem if even that.
What about if you throw in KDE or GNOME, Mozilla, etc, everything that you'd have to add to really equal the features of Windows XP....
Then it wouldn't be Linux anymore. Linux is actually the only well defined piece of the operating environment.
Meteor showers used by radio amateurs for meteor scatter. Basically they point their beams at the meteor shower when it hits earth and have long distance QSOs (radio amateur contacts) by bouncing their signal from the rocks.
Why do you mod facts to trolls?
I wonder that because the users and developers interact with the kernel, linux by using GNU's components. Switching to GNU/kBSD wouldn't change anything in that setting from the users' and developers' perspective.
I meant illegal copying.
from wipo.int: Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.
"Intellectual property theft is a national security crime. It's appropriate that the fed dedicate resources to deter and prosecute IP theft."
Since when were you able to steal "creations of the mind"? I don't like this word game which intends to make copying stuff morally relative to stealing. If you are against corporations tightening the copyright law, don't use the term "intellectual property". The word "property" distorts and oversimplifies the whole idea.
On vim, there are a few more distinct advantages I like it for:
:). Although emacs does the things you have mentioned, and it plays tetris too.
As a programmer you can code elisp and embed those features to emacs
Do you have Finnish or Swedish relatives? My surname is Nygård, so I'm quite interested.
Corinthians 1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031004095045/http://w ww.yle.fi/yleista/faq_stream.shtml
It seems that they changed it.
This is great news. I live in Finland and our bbc equivalent media company http://www.yle.fi/yleista/faq_stream.shtml#14 doesn't stream ogg vorbis because "ogg vorbis can contain software patents and the media companies don't allow a format which doesn't contain digital restrictions management". Maybe they will change their minds someday and start offering streaming in a Free format.
I play Urban Terror daily with the Free driver. The newest cards aren't supported, check dri.sf.net to see which is the newest supported. I am using a radeon 8500. I'm not sure about the documentation of the driver, I only know that it works. IIRC ati doesn't manufacture those older cards any more, but you can get one as used.
The "open" ATI drivers dont really count since they (AFAIK) dont support the latest cards and dont do 3D in any way that is good enough for Quake III.
Quake 3 works very well with the Free driver.
I was not claiming that, I only corrected him. Probably every piece of software has some patented feature in it, IANAPL. I don't claim that Linux's NTFS includes one, I only think that it is probable.
Conclusion? Linux NTFS development slowed down a lot. Red Hat has removed NTFS support completely and after 4 years, they still refer to non-existent NTFS patents, even if they would be void due to laws, e.g. the project is for the purpose of writing interoperable software under Sect. 1201 (f) Reverse Engineering exception of the DMCA.
The DMCA is only about copying controls, digital restrictions management. Patents are a completely different thing. There is no such law which says that using someone's software patent is ok for interoperability purposes.
And who wrote all the GNU tools, libraries and compilers? BEFORE Linus even started to code.
All performance issues asside, but I don't think that such a card, even if fully open sourced could really work better than the a regular nVidia one with closed sourced drivers, which is really extremly easy to install compared to a lot of Open Source stuff out there.
This is about Free Software, people deserve to have their freedom. Even if the card was slower than all the cards in the market, but had complete documentation, I would still value it higher than the cards for which docs are non-existant.
My radeon 8500 didn't need any "extremely easy to install drivers" because they were included in the XFree86.
Receive \Re*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Received}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Receiving}.] [OF. receiver, recevoir, F. recevoir, fr. L. recipere; pref. re- re- + capere to take, seize. See See {Capable}, {Heave}, and cf. {Receipt}, {Reception}, {Recipe}.] 1. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
Your choices affect to the future of Free Software. They may support GNU/Linux, but not Free Software with their drivers. If we want to have a completely free system, not one which is a mosaic of free and non-free parts, then we have to buy hardware whose makers value our freedom.
quoting rms:
I was talking about XFree86, not some proprietary driver. Ati radeon with free drivers here.
I have used a 2 monitor system myself (15"+17" crts) and I didn't find any benefit from the additional monitor. Maybe if you don't have virtual desktops it is cool to have a place where you can throw windows to, but with pwm a simple Meta+number changes virtual desktops and I don't see the point. Turning my head needs more work than that simple keyboard combo. And two screens slow XFree86 a lot.
Those are cracking tools.
Neal, what is your favourite non-science fiction book?
Do the books you read affect to your writing and if they do then how?