"...don't throw out logic and reasoning when attacking the giant."
Agreed. In that vein,
"pro-actively getting people security updates"
is not the logical equivalent of involuntary or forced, and
"....This might screw you up, we're not responsible if it does. --this is exactly what Windows Update says in it's EULA"
are not equivalent. The former is a warning specific to certain packages Mandrake, Red Hat, etc. felt were of questionable stability, the latter Microsoft EULA is legal boilerplate on everything they release to avoid any responsibility for damages incurred.
No, picking only those names which support your foregone conclusion - ignoring Nero, Kazaa, Agent99, Outlook, Excel, Gnumeric and SimpleCRDX as examples - is to be obviously blinded by zeolotry. Or trolling.
The problem is the author leaves the impression his problems are linux's problems as a trap for the unexperienced and curious. They are in fact particular to that distro and his not knowing enough of the capabilites of RPM. And really, I expect he has no problem with software names like Kazzaa and Morpheus, pissing on authors of exceptional software like Grip told me all I need to know about the reviewer's 'qualifications'.
ISPs revisit their business plan? Re-plan and adapt? Telcos did the same when modems started chewing up far more bandwidth than was allotted. For decades telco networks were designed around digitized voice, which uses far less bandwidth than an alway-chattering modem. Advocating today that telcos block modem use sounds ludicrous, as will soon blocking file transfers because ISPs don't want to re-engineer.
Fine, but you're not an ISP. Are you charging employees monthly for use of the company network? No. So while entertaining your internal company practice is irrelevant.
The dot com bust left enormous amounts of dark fiber behind. Activate it and give the customer what they want. If these figures are correct that would be unhindered use of P2P software.
ISPs can meter away as much as they like, but the ones that will succeed are those who cater to their clientele instead of treating them like crooks.
But of course if MS buys the legislation and maintains the monopoly that empowers them to tell YOU what you can or cannot create, that's perfectly Constitutional.
Shouldn't you be writing to the FP editor instead? Slashdot just linked to something the Post considered news. Of course (looks both ways) they may be part of the conspiracy too!
Correct, the MS engineers had a bitch of a time installing Lycoris. One of the high school co-ops finally saved their bacon and did it for them.
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I haven't written code in almost twenty years, still it's hard to see how code can be 'copy and pasted' into anything written in such a low-level language. It's not as if Linux is written in VisualBasic.
I think you hit on a brilliant idea. Why not set up something similar to a PayPal account for Smith's opposition? If you look at what corporate donations typically amount to it would be easy funds to match, and grass-roots driven.
Black were once 'weird'. Immigrants were once (and in Bush's America are once again) 'weird'. Gays were 'weird'. Defending the people against those who consider them weird is the point of the ACLU's existence.
Not always. I can't find the original reference but once read a tract on 'nerdherding' by a manager that encouraged just this kind of gameplay. Instead of a GameCube he ran a Quake server at pre-arranged times and encouraged his developers to join in and frag each other as a way to blow off the day's tension and create a sense of play between co-workers. This was done during office hours and in conjunction with many other techniques of course (making the entire development team part of the hiring process for example.)
You'd be surprised. Not counting how much hard-core gamers learn about hardware and system configuration, watching the dynamics of FPS teamplay can be fascinating. A couple of the behaviours I've seen comfirmed over and over again: after a crushing or unexpected defeat a team loses drive and advances no further than the scene of their last loss, allowing the opposition to simply take the remaining objectives uncontested, and that the team which doesn't rest or stop trying almost always wins. 'Rallying the troops' becomes an experiment in balance between positive and negative reinforcement with direct relevance to anyone in management. Of course, in most companies team killing is strictly forbidden.:)
Ransom Love ran Caldera, the Linux distro company which later bought SCO. The iony of the name remains, with the added irony that it's the founder of one of the early successful Linux distros trying to destroy Linux.
I couldn't find any reference to Love being a SCO founder.
Don't you have this backwards? While it's trivially true that developers can't release code belonging to other companies under any license they please, SCO released code they owned under a GPL license. SCO, and only SCO, had legal authority to do so, and they did. The true legal questions are:
- Does claiming 'oopsie' afterwards count?
- Can SCO sue other compaines for re-distributing code SCO released under a license specifically granting them that right, in fact a license designed for no other purpose than to force the open redistribution of code.
I think SCO has absolutley no ground to stand on, but that said cases such as this are often decided by dollars spent and not justice.
Is it? A developer who includes proprietary code in a project will be bound by the limitations of originator's license. Any code that further makes use of the new code will also be so bound, as will every further re-use. GPL affects the re-use of code in exactly the same way.
It seems to me there are two real differences. Being open to anyone's examination, GPL code is far more likely to be re-used than code requiring NDAs and an army of lawyers. Additionally, GPL differs in the form of payout. The cost of re-using proprietary code is monetary, the cost of using GPL code is communal. GPL code isn't any more viral than proprietary code, it more accessible.
I'm just going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that one. Gentoo is essential for leveraging the power of older hardware. My mid-line desktop rarely gets used any longer for other than gaming, all my online activities and media playing, including full screen video, are on a P2 366 notebook. I doubt this would be possible, or perhaps as easy, with any other distro.
And compiling isn't as bad as all that. A couple of nights ago while using GAIM to yack away on IQC I realized it didn't support file transfers and emerged LIRC in the background, all the while listening to MP3s from a network server. LIRC was done before the chat ended and Gentoo never dropped a note. Not bad for a machine slightly less powerful than the latest PDAs.
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If you prefer a GUI configuration app, Webmin is in Portage. Works very well and (!) allows changes to be made just as easily from a remote machine.
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Well, maybe just Timesprout did....
Agreed. In that vein,
"pro-actively getting people security updates"
is not the logical equivalent of involuntary or forced, and
"....This might screw you up, we're not responsible if it does. --this is exactly what Windows Update says in it's EULA"
are not equivalent. The former is a warning specific to certain packages Mandrake, Red Hat, etc. felt were of questionable stability, the latter Microsoft EULA is legal boilerplate on everything they release to avoid any responsibility for damages incurred.
No wonder. It's forward slash, not back slash. :0
No, picking only those names which support your foregone conclusion - ignoring Nero, Kazaa, Agent99, Outlook, Excel, Gnumeric and SimpleCRDX as examples - is to be obviously blinded by zeolotry. Or trolling.
The problem is the author leaves the impression his problems are linux's problems as a trap for the unexperienced and curious. They are in fact particular to that distro and his not knowing enough of the capabilites of RPM. And really, I expect he has no problem with software names like Kazzaa and Morpheus, pissing on authors of exceptional software like Grip told me all I need to know about the reviewer's 'qualifications'.
ISPs revisit their business plan? Re-plan and adapt? Telcos did the same when modems started chewing up far more bandwidth than was allotted. For decades telco networks were designed around digitized voice, which uses far less bandwidth than an alway-chattering modem. Advocating today that telcos block modem use sounds ludicrous, as will soon blocking file transfers because ISPs don't want to re-engineer.
Fine, but you're not an ISP. Are you charging employees monthly for use of the company network? No. So while entertaining your internal company practice is irrelevant.
ISPs can meter away as much as they like, but the ones that will succeed are those who cater to their clientele instead of treating them like crooks.
- doesn't get hired by marketing firms to skew moderation when their client's product is a topic
- doesn't register multiple accounts or log in from work in order to self moderate
- won't generate packs of 'friends' and 'fans' to cross-moderate each other up
- isn't Ameri-centric.
Perhaps in theory human moderation is better than cold machine filtering, but only if the theory assumes honesty in moderation.
But of course if MS buys the legislation and maintains the monopoly that empowers them to tell YOU what you can or cannot create, that's perfectly Constitutional.
Shouldn't you be writing to the FP editor instead? Slashdot just linked to something the Post considered news. Of course (looks both ways) they may be part of the conspiracy too!
Correct, the MS engineers had a bitch of a time installing Lycoris. One of the high school co-ops finally saved their bacon and did it for them.
I haven't written code in almost twenty years, still it's hard to see how code can be 'copy and pasted' into anything written in such a low-level language. It's not as if Linux is written in VisualBasic.
Cause.
And, name another country besides the US who has more foreign threats than domestic threats?
Effect. I'd say Iraq and Afghanistan were under greater foreign threat than the US.
Of course they are, they just consider you slightly less than human.
I think you hit on a brilliant idea. Why not set up something similar to a PayPal account for Smith's opposition? If you look at what corporate donations typically amount to it would be easy funds to match, and grass-roots driven.
Black were once 'weird'. Immigrants were once (and in Bush's America are once again) 'weird'. Gays were 'weird'. Defending the people against those who consider them weird is the point of the ACLU's existence.
Not always. I can't find the original reference but once read a tract on 'nerdherding' by a manager that encouraged just this kind of gameplay. Instead of a GameCube he ran a Quake server at pre-arranged times and encouraged his developers to join in and frag each other as a way to blow off the day's tension and create a sense of play between co-workers. This was done during office hours and in conjunction with many other techniques of course (making the entire development team part of the hiring process for example.)
You'd be surprised. Not counting how much hard-core gamers learn about hardware and system configuration, watching the dynamics of FPS teamplay can be fascinating. A couple of the behaviours I've seen comfirmed over and over again: after a crushing or unexpected defeat a team loses drive and advances no further than the scene of their last loss, allowing the opposition to simply take the remaining objectives uncontested, and that the team which doesn't rest or stop trying almost always wins. 'Rallying the troops' becomes an experiment in balance between positive and negative reinforcement with direct relevance to anyone in management. Of course, in most companies team killing is strictly forbidden. :)
Ransom Love ran Caldera, the Linux distro company which later bought SCO. The iony of the name remains, with the added irony that it's the founder of one of the early successful Linux distros trying to destroy Linux. I couldn't find any reference to Love being a SCO founder.
- Does claiming 'oopsie' afterwards count?
- Can SCO sue other compaines for re-distributing code SCO released under a license specifically granting them that right, in fact a license designed for no other purpose than to force the open redistribution of code.
I think SCO has absolutley no ground to stand on, but that said cases such as this are often decided by dollars spent and not justice.
Is it? A developer who includes proprietary code in a project will be bound by the limitations of originator's license. Any code that further makes use of the new code will also be so bound, as will every further re-use. GPL affects the re-use of code in exactly the same way.
It seems to me there are two real differences. Being open to anyone's examination, GPL code is far more likely to be re-used than code requiring NDAs and an army of lawyers. Additionally, GPL differs in the form of payout. The cost of re-using proprietary code is monetary, the cost of using GPL code is communal. GPL code isn't any more viral than proprietary code, it more accessible.
And compiling isn't as bad as all that. A couple of nights ago while using GAIM to yack away on IQC I realized it didn't support file transfers and emerged LIRC in the background, all the while listening to MP3s from a network server. LIRC was done before the chat ended and Gentoo never dropped a note. Not bad for a machine slightly less powerful than the latest PDAs.
If you prefer a GUI configuration app, Webmin is in Portage. Works very well and (!) allows changes to be made just as easily from a remote machine.
Top songwriters make dirt because they're being screwed by artisits and the music industry, NOT because fans are paying homage to their art. Fix the real problem, don't Bandaid it by taxing the innocent.