Even if you are a small developer, consider incorporating. A major screw-up on your part can still cost you your business, but it makes your personal assets much harder to go after.
Spyware MUST be outlawed. Otherwise, don't be surprised when, say, Google starts telling you, "Sorry, we just tried to install our 'tracking' software on your system and failed. Please take your searches elsewhere."
If Slashdot is merely a "Linux advocacy site" I'll go away quietly. I think we take positions on technology oriented issues based on their merits. EchoStar/DirecTV/Viacom is one of them. The market implications here could be far-reaching.
At least they tried to black it out. Viacom started moving their crawl around the screen, and the EchoStar folks blew it several times.
Childishness all around.
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Who would have thought that the real Delos D. Harriman would turn out to be Paul Allen?
If it's your browser, you can probably wait for the package. If it's your MTA, you had better be able to get it fixed ASAP.
If only I were that worthy of being targetted...
So how can I trust anybody's crypto code?
I forgot. Doctors attribute my memory lapses to frequent transporter use.
New employee motto: Bugged with pride.
I wonder how long it will be before we have mandatory key escrow? "To protect us against the terrorists," of course.
Even if you are a small developer, consider incorporating. A major screw-up on your part can still cost you your business, but it makes your personal assets much harder to go after.
Good point, but it might be tough to fake them out if you're running Linux and their crap is a .dll
You should. I'd just like to see some limits on the conditions you can impose.
Yeah, I know. I was talking about tracking software that persists after leaving a site. I just picked Google as an example.
Spyware MUST be outlawed. Otherwise, don't be surprised when, say, Google starts telling you, "Sorry, we just tried to install our 'tracking' software on your system and failed. Please take your searches elsewhere."
Please, anything that's not encumbered by *anybody's* IP patents.
"The blurb is worse than any of the articles." Agreed.
If Slashdot is merely a "Linux advocacy site" I'll go away quietly. I think we take positions on technology oriented issues based on their merits. EchoStar/DirecTV/Viacom is one of them. The market implications here could be far-reaching.
Should /. be taking sides in the Linux v. SCO debate?
I think the fable is really about the danger of complacency, which MicroSoft displayed in abundance until recently.
At least they tried to black it out. Viacom started moving their crawl around the screen, and the EchoStar folks blew it several times. Childishness all around.
Admission is free. Beer, probably not.
It's not just GPL-zealots. Theo stated today that Apache code written under "that new license will never go into [the OpenBSD] tree."
But don't we then need a signing authority somewhere? Spammers can have keysigning parties, too.