They are not the same! Influential people can be those who influence those with power but may have little or no power themselves. Think of advisors to POTUS.
WAP got screwed because of the way it was marketed - "the internet on your mobile" - it just didn't match the billing.
The best thing about WAP? I built a site in the early days and got a story on the front page of a regional daily paper and a picture in the national press, sent the competition mental. That was a laugh.
Presumably HP are doing this because they can now lay off the risk with an insuring for a low enough price to make it worthwhile. So this doesn't just mean HP are slam dunking SCO, but others - who have no direct IT interests - are doing it too. We are winning.
There is a real moral panic underway in the UK about this now - and the attack is on all unmoderated "chat" - so even the development channel you use is at threat.
In all of this the role of the national government's has been ignored. In essence European legislation works like this: The commission has the power of initiative, the parliament then has to agree to the commission's proposal, the council of ministers then has to agree (by qualified majority) to the measure passed by the parliament.
Hence if the parliament agrees something the council of ministers can still block it
I want to read the article, but the server is busted
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Governments have the power and resources to train thousands of admins to hack free software systems, and they could save millions by not buying you-know-who's licences. So, I hope this goes well.
Along time ago, in my final year of my degree, I did some basic research on radiation. A post-graduate student showed me an analysis of radioactive materials in a standard sample of soil from Edinburgh - he ascribed the majority of the radioactive material in the soil to the blow ins from the atmospheric tests. Scarey stuff.
This garbage invention (how many people are really going to want to use it?) got wall to wall coverage in the British media yesterday - even though they made all these ludicrous and bogus claims (eg Thames has no speed limit).
You have to wonder whether they were giving the hacks loadsa free drinks or something.
Predictably just about every report mentioned James Bond - the whole thing fed into the British sense of themselves as pluky amateurs (as James Bond surely is).
Yes, I realised after I'd posted that I'd just made a fool of myself. I did see Hailey's comet though - must have been winter 86? I remember showing to the gf, who was distinctly unimpressed.
The graph on the yahoo site shows why all this has made sense for SCO - their share price has rocketed in a very fragile market. Their claims may be rubbish, but you cannot fault the (short term) business sense here: somebody has made a mint out of this.
Well, the thing is that, thanks to China, 90% of the world's software ain't going to be controlled by Redmond - it will be FOSS.
All I am saying is that we are about to hit uncharted waters and as a result the paradoxical behaviour examined in The Cathedral and the Bazaar - ie that hackers are free to fork but don't, may break down when the market expands very, very rapidly - as it will if and when mobies go FOSS.
The thing to think of is the scale - in Europe maybe one in five to one in 10 of the total number of people have a computer, but more than one in two have a mobile.
OK, so world domination is now within reach, but think of the consequences.
I think a biggish fork (or probably forks) cannot be far away as Linux transitions from the current server/plaything position to the OS of choice.
Why should 1/4 of the population of the world have their software controlled, however benignly, by some hacker bloke in the US?
Of course, this might not be a bad thing: lots more resources will flow in, but it might be just too difficult to expect the current system where there is one central repository and everything else is a patch off that, to continue.
To an extent all of this is prefigured in today's world, but just as with the Unix wars of the 1980s, the future will probably see lots of people talking about "Linux" when their systems are incompatible at a fundamental level.
But that is the price we will have to pay to play in the majors.
Dumping MS is no longer a question of ideology. It is now a business necessity, given the way MS software is wide open to attack. if this adds to the cost base of MS then that is good because it will mean more people choose different and more secure options.
The GPL states no such thing. Making the code available on line does not meet the requirements of the GPL. It has to be supplied, on request, and after a reasonable fee is paid, on a usable medium.
Look, I write kernel code. not much, but a little. My contact with the users of my code is that if they make something better with my code then they can let me use it too. It's not "going for" anybody to ask that they honour the deal the I (and every other kernel hacker) have struck with them.
Total garbage. If a law has been passed through the EU that you don't like, it is almost certainly becuase your government and your MEPs voted for it - that's how it works. The bureaucrats (aka Civil Service/Commission) draw up the proposals, but the people who decide whether it becomes law or not are the government ministers and the MEPs. If you only woke up to the fact that it was a bad law today then that is your fault.
Well, there are issues about how this directive could be translated into domestic law - it could be in a hard hitting way or it could be in a softer way.
One the democracy point the issue is this: this matter should have been tackled when the question of principle came up in 2001, not now.
Every developer was a user first (well, almost - back in the day users and developers were an identity).
If you don't want new users then you don't want new developers.
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This is a good example of the 'hey, I know what I mean, so if I string together a few kind of related words I'm sure you'll know what I mean too' school of self-expression that has done internet discussion so much good over the years:)
All that is missing from the original posting was an 'r' from the end of 'game'. And, yes, it was making a good point (in contrast to the flame copied over above). Indeed such a game might be something we'd all want to play.
I think porting gentoo to the embedded world is a tough call. The Linux on Dreamcast lot have been talking about this for a long time, but cannot get enough code to cross compile.
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They are not the same! Influential people can be those who influence those with power but may have little or no power themselves. Think of advisors to POTUS.
WAP got screwed because of the way it was marketed - "the internet on your mobile" - it just didn't match the billing.
The best thing about WAP? I built a site in the early days and got a story on the front page of a regional daily paper and a picture in the national press, sent the competition mental. That was a laugh.
They'd then be in breach of the GPL. So this doesn't wash.
Presumably HP are doing this because they can now lay off the risk with an insuring for a low enough price to make it worthwhile. So this doesn't just mean HP are slam dunking SCO, but others - who have no direct IT interests - are doing it too. We are winning.
There is a real moral panic underway in the UK about this now - and the attack is on all unmoderated "chat" - so even the development channel you use is at threat.
In all of this the role of the national government's has been ignored. In essence European legislation works like this: The commission has the power of initiative, the parliament then has to agree to the commission's proposal, the council of ministers then has to agree (by qualified majority) to the measure passed by the parliament.
Hence if the parliament agrees something the council of ministers can still block it
I want to read the article, but the server is busted
Governments have the power and resources to train thousands of admins to hack free software systems, and they could save millions by not buying you-know-who's licences. So, I hope this goes well.
Along time ago, in my final year of my degree, I did some basic research on radiation. A post-graduate student showed me an analysis of radioactive materials in a standard sample of soil from Edinburgh - he ascribed the majority of the radioactive material in the soil to the blow ins from the atmospheric tests. Scarey stuff.
Can anybody quantify this?
This garbage invention (how many people are really going to want to use it?) got wall to wall coverage in the British media yesterday - even though they made all these ludicrous and bogus claims (eg Thames has no speed limit).
You have to wonder whether they were giving the hacks loadsa free drinks or something.
Predictably just about every report mentioned James Bond - the whole thing fed into the British sense of themselves as pluky amateurs (as James Bond surely is).
Absolutely crap.
Yes, I realised after I'd posted that I'd just made a fool of myself. I did see Hailey's comet though - must have been winter 86? I remember showing to the gf, who was distinctly unimpressed.
As I distinctly remember observing Halley with the naked eye in March 1996 then the /. take on all this is simply wrong.
The graph on the yahoo site shows why all this has made sense for SCO - their share price has rocketed in a very fragile market. Their claims may be rubbish, but you cannot fault the (short term) business sense here: somebody has made a mint out of this.
Well, the thing is that, thanks to China, 90% of the world's software ain't going to be controlled by Redmond - it will be FOSS.
All I am saying is that we are about to hit uncharted waters and as a result the paradoxical behaviour examined in The Cathedral and the Bazaar - ie that hackers are free to fork but don't, may break down when the market expands very, very rapidly - as it will if and when mobies go FOSS.
The thing to think of is the scale - in Europe maybe one in five to one in 10 of the total number of people have a computer, but more than one in two have a mobile.
OK, so world domination is now within reach, but think of the consequences.
I think a biggish fork (or probably forks) cannot be far away as Linux transitions from the current server/plaything position to the OS of choice.
Why should 1/4 of the population of the world have their software controlled, however benignly, by some hacker bloke in the US?
Of course, this might not be a bad thing: lots more resources will flow in, but it might be just too difficult to expect the current system where there is one central repository and everything else is a patch off that, to continue.
To an extent all of this is prefigured in today's world, but just as with the Unix wars of the 1980s, the future will probably see lots of people talking about "Linux" when their systems are incompatible at a fundamental level.
But that is the price we will have to pay to play in the majors.
Dumping MS is no longer a question of ideology. It is now a business necessity, given the way MS software is wide open to attack. if this adds to the cost base of MS then that is good because it will mean more people choose different and more secure options.
There is a protest in Europe today about the use/granting of software patents. Hence the closure of the site is temporary.
The GPL states no such thing. Making the code available on line does not meet the requirements of the GPL. It has to be supplied, on request, and after a reasonable fee is paid, on a usable medium.
Look, I write kernel code. not much, but a little. My contact with the users of my code is that if they make something better with my code then they can let me use it too. It's not "going for" anybody to ask that they honour the deal the I (and every other kernel hacker) have struck with them.
Total garbage. If a law has been passed through the EU that you don't like, it is almost certainly becuase your government and your MEPs voted for it - that's how it works. The bureaucrats (aka Civil Service/Commission) draw up the proposals, but the people who decide whether it becomes law or not are the government ministers and the MEPs. If you only woke up to the fact that it was a bad law today then that is your fault.
Well, there are issues about how this directive could be translated into domestic law - it could be in a hard hitting way or it could be in a softer way.
One the democracy point the issue is this: this matter should have been tackled when the question of principle came up in 2001, not now.
Every developer was a user first (well, almost - back in the day users and developers were an identity).
If you don't want new users then you don't want new developers.
This is a good example of the 'hey, I know what I mean, so if I string together a few kind of related words I'm sure you'll know what I mean too' school of self-expression that has done internet discussion so much good over the years :)
All that is missing from the original posting was an 'r' from the end of 'game'. And, yes, it was making a good point (in contrast to the flame copied over above). Indeed such a game might be something we'd all want to play.
I think porting gentoo to the embedded world is a tough call. The Linux on Dreamcast lot have been talking about this for a long time, but cannot get enough code to cross compile.
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