... probably figured that this might overcome their bags fly free policy while still remaining competitive. Marketing won't like it if this story gets any bigger, kudos to the Arizona Daily Star for breaking it.
The free market ONLY stopped AOL because AOL did not own the wires. There is a monopoly on wires almost like the monopoly on the water pipes that run into your house and the sewage pipes that run out, this is not just a clear cut free market issue here.
As a rule of thumb I always assumed that any Executable using a Library under the GPL was bound to the GPL, and that is the reason for the existence of the LGPL.
Are they now saying that any Executable under the GPL, makes all Libraries written for it bound to the GPL?
That doesn't make any sense.
You need to release your patches that make the Executable run the library (include functions and other changes to Wordpress), but the library should be off limits, it's not derived, it's used.
Are they calling Wordpress the library now? Is it impossible to create "themes" that don't use Wordpress like a library?
(obviously, there is copy/paste code in the Thesis case, so no argument for them in this specific case)
If I wanted a flame war I'd say you know nothing about what a common carrier is.
That however would leave me open to not knowing the concepts of giving an inch and them taking a mile.
Regulation by telling a corporation they can't self-regulate communication based on content will be a sticky issue since it has to be constantly defended against the government saying, YOU corporations can't regulate content but WE can. But at least there are some mechanisms in place that allow the people to control the government. The only mechanisms that allow people to have control over corporations is the market, and if the corporation has a monopoly on the physical lines, there is no market.
Yeah, that'll work, though I'm sure Miguel is probably working on fixing that right now.;)
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So this looks like a really cool thing that MS did, so I'm going to wait in wide eyed anticipation at how the slashdot community is going to trash it because it's from Microsoft and not Google (or at least be more overly critical of it). I do hope I'm wrong though.
Well yeah, it's all strapped on to the laptop, obviously not a production form factor. If it took off (read: big if), then it would be integrated into the device, just how a blue-tooth wireless mouse could use the internal blue-tooth antenna of a device without attaching a dongle on the side.
And in case the wiki somehow gets edited (never know!):
* #6,317,592 - Omnidirectional and directional antenna assembly
* #6,272,190 - System for wireless transmission and receiving of information and method of operation thereof
* #6,198,783 - System for wireless serial transmission of encoded information
* #6,067,451 - System and method of radio transmission between a radio transmitter and radio receiver
* #5,819,172 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile radios
* #5,751,773 - System for wireless serial transmission of encoded information
* #5,745,532 - System for wireless transmission and receiving of information and method of operation thereof
* U.S. Patent 5,631,946 - System for transferring information from an RF receiver to a processor under control of a program stored by the processor and method of operation thereof
* #5,625,670 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processor
* #5,438,611 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processors originating from outside of the electronic mail system and method of operation thereof
And what the hell, so we have malware analyzer distribution in the story, a honey pot distribution in the parent, why don't we finish off this security distribution triumvirate with a penetration tester distribution as well: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/
Who won and who lost in the great Tet offensive against the cities? I’m not sure. The Vietcong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we. The referees of history may make it a draw.
It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.
Slashdot is full of Java weenies. They're like the Ada developers of their time. Don't expect them to understand the time to market, user interface ergonomics, scope creed, and pointy haired boss problems inherent in delivering an app on time.
Because marketing won't like it unless it's the same across all platforms. I seriously got complaints one other time when text was shifted because of boxing or what the fuck all ever, I forget. It looked fine, independently, but QA has to make their money somehow. If I still worked at that last place I bet I would still have the ticket for it.
When one of your biggest clients happens to be GM or Blue Cross, it doesn't happen very quickly or ever. I think there are still quite a few Win 2000 machines over there.
I wonder if this opens the door to WebOS, which is basically a Linux stack once you've konami'd it. I've been patiently waiting for a WebOS (Read: Palm Pre) Skype app for awhile.
Though honestly, I don't know what is wrong with the other swath of land Sierra is proposing, but it hasn't helped that there has been a multitudeof otherresistance efforts.
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... probably figured that this might overcome their bags fly free policy while still remaining competitive. Marketing won't like it if this story gets any bigger, kudos to the Arizona Daily Star for breaking it.
The free market ONLY stopped AOL because AOL did not own the wires. There is a monopoly on wires almost like the monopoly on the water pipes that run into your house and the sewage pipes that run out, this is not just a clear cut free market issue here.
Is it Data vs. Code or Library vs. Executable
As a rule of thumb I always assumed that any Executable using a Library under the GPL was bound to the GPL, and that is the reason for the existence of the LGPL.
Are they now saying that any Executable under the GPL, makes all Libraries written for it bound to the GPL?
That doesn't make any sense.
You need to release your patches that make the Executable run the library (include functions and other changes to Wordpress), but the library should be off limits, it's not derived, it's used.
Are they calling Wordpress the library now? Is it impossible to create "themes" that don't use Wordpress like a library?
(obviously, there is copy/paste code in the Thesis case, so no argument for them in this specific case)
If I wanted a flame war I'd say you know nothing about what a common carrier is.
That however would leave me open to not knowing the concepts of giving an inch and them taking a mile.
Regulation by telling a corporation they can't self-regulate communication based on content will be a sticky issue since it has to be constantly defended against the government saying, YOU corporations can't regulate content but WE can. But at least there are some mechanisms in place that allow the people to control the government. The only mechanisms that allow people to have control over corporations is the market, and if the corporation has a monopoly on the physical lines, there is no market.
... in the UK
Yes. Yes they would. It doesn't take an Oracle to predict slashdot, hell you can predict it with DB2! Zing!
http://xkcd.com/184/
Yeah, that'll work, though I'm sure Miguel is probably working on fixing that right now. ;)
So this looks like a really cool thing that MS did, so I'm going to wait in wide eyed anticipation at how the slashdot community is going to trash it because it's from Microsoft and not Google (or at least be more overly critical of it). I do hope I'm wrong though.
Well yeah, it's all strapped on to the laptop, obviously not a production form factor. If it took off (read: big if), then it would be integrated into the device, just how a blue-tooth wireless mouse could use the internal blue-tooth antenna of a device without attaching a dongle on the side.
And in case the wiki somehow gets edited (never know!):
* #6,317,592 - Omnidirectional and directional antenna assembly
* #6,272,190 - System for wireless transmission and receiving of information and method of operation thereof
* #6,198,783 - System for wireless serial transmission of encoded information
* #6,067,451 - System and method of radio transmission between a radio transmitter and radio receiver
* #5,819,172 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile radios
* #5,751,773 - System for wireless serial transmission of encoded information
* #5,745,532 - System for wireless transmission and receiving of information and method of operation thereof
* U.S. Patent 5,631,946 - System for transferring information from an RF receiver to a processor under control of a program stored by the processor and method of operation thereof
* #5,625,670 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processor
* #5,438,611 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processors originating from outside of the electronic mail system and method of operation thereof
What are these patents? We can only guess, as the one-page release issued by NTP's public-relations firm does not name them.
Probably the ones held by this guy linked in his wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Campana_Jr.
And what the hell, so we have malware analyzer distribution in the story, a honey pot distribution in the parent, why don't we finish off this security distribution triumvirate with a penetration tester distribution as well: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/
I thought of it too, but mostly because of this story a little over a week ago:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/2239236/Unusual-Obscure-and-Useful-Linux-Distros
Thank you for finally providing him with the links. All this scrolling and all it has been was:
"No it isn't", "Yes it is", "No it isn't", "Yes it is", "No it isn't", "Yes it is" ...
Who won and who lost in the great Tet offensive against the cities? I’m not sure. The Vietcong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we. The referees of history may make it a draw.
It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.
Sounds like he called it a draw to me.
When did the "press" ever do that?
When Walter Cronkite did the news.
Slashdot is full of Java weenies. They're like the Ada developers of their time. Don't expect them to understand the time to market, user interface ergonomics, scope creed, and pointy haired boss problems inherent in delivering an app on time.
Because marketing won't like it unless it's the same across all platforms. I seriously got complaints one other time when text was shifted because of boxing or what the fuck all ever, I forget. It looked fine, independently, but QA has to make their money somehow. If I still worked at that last place I bet I would still have the ticket for it.
When one of your biggest clients happens to be GM or Blue Cross, it doesn't happen very quickly or ever. I think there are still quite a few Win 2000 machines over there.
Nope, they don't want to be tied down to such non-marketable terms such as "standard" or such constricting terms like "compliant".
"Cross Browser" sounds WAY sexier and "compatible" sounds much less like they HAVE to do something.
I'll be writing shit web code for IE6 forever anyway.
Seems odd, too many .com's perhaps?
I wonder if this opens the door to WebOS, which is basically a Linux stack once you've konami'd it. I've been patiently waiting for a WebOS (Read: Palm Pre) Skype app for awhile.
Fine, have more links:
Bright Source Reduces the plant foot print, and they're still not happy
Though honestly, I don't know what is wrong with the other swath of land Sierra is proposing, but it hasn't helped that there has been a multitude of other resistance efforts.