So they paid SCO's mobsters. Disgusting, yes, but I see it as insurance... like having a plan for a second backup generator in case the fail-proof first backup generator fails. The chances of SCO prevailing are slim, but non-zero... just like the chances of the backup generator failing.
If you paid off every bully even if the chances where close to zero of anything happening, what does that make you? If this is how EV1 spends their money, I'd hate to be a stock holder.
By the way Robert, I don't know you and you don't know me, and there is a slim chance in hell that I'll be able to find out where you live. But I might, you know. So, based on your policy of paying off bullies, please send me $1000, and maybe I will not find you and take a dump on your front lawn. But then again, maybe I will... Pleas send the money soon...
Right on! GTA! Let's go out and kill all the God dman beaners, niggers, slant-eyes and whores. ROCK ON! God knows we have nothing better to do than play repugnent games like this!
I thought of it, I wrote it down, I recorded it, it's mine. If you want to listen to it, read it, than you must agree to my terms. If you don't with do agree to my terms, you're out of luck. Move on.
The problem with GNU/Freeware is that it's free as in try and reverse engineer or decompile my proprietary app, and you'll see I ripped most of it off from SourceForge, but hey I just bought a 4 bedroom house (not to mention my $1500 leather bustier) and my new car is nice, so I don't care...
Of course I'm trolling a bit here, but it's true, without question, GPL is going into many, many apps without so much as attribution let alone a GPL reference. And companies as well as developers are makin' bank on it.
Middle class is shrinking, and there aren't that many more rich people...Soylent Green is made of peeeeooopppplllleeee!!!!!
Seriously though, if we continue (to allow our "representatives") export middle and upper-middle class jobs, we WILL see a depression, and I don't mean like the '80s, I mean a real depression. We're more than halfway there already. It's too bad we keep electing politicians that just sit back and allow the corporate wonks to masturbate them.
Why release anything on the CC license when you can just put it out there with no license at all and have the same thing? The CC "license" in meaningless and has as much value as simply posting your hard work to the Net and saying "Come and take it, it's yours!" Really, if you don't believe in copyrights and patents and such, just toss it out there and forget about it, it's for the world to enjoy, right?
How does know that you are a "safe driver" relieve you of the need to pay for insurence? The cost of insurence is not base on if you are a safe driver, it's based on the statistical possibility you will be involved in a situation where you have some liability. Often times, reguardless if you have any accedents on your record, if you dive large amounts, you will be charged more because the statistical possibility that you will be involved in something goes up.
Everything is wrong with my insurance company knowing I'm speeding. If I don't get in an accident it's none of their damn business.
So you're saying that your insurence company has no right to know that you habitually break safe traffic laws, thus putting yourself and others at risk? OK! Maybe you should join one of those groups that refuses to get drivers licenses and insurence at all...
This sort of reminds me of Ursula K. Le Guin's story, "The Lathe of Heaven". For the uninitiated, "The Lathe of Heaven" takes place in Portland, Oregon in the year 2002. Its main character, an insignificant working class man named George Orr (Bruce Davison who appears in "The X-Men" movie), is plagued by 'effective dreaming', where his dreams literally come true.
If they really mean free as in freedom why don't they just call it that, "Freedom Software Foundation". Just to combat all the confusion about the multiple uses of the word 'free' in the EN-US language. Might also take a
bit of the edge off the "terrorist" or "communist" coments directed at it.
Although I think they actually would be more appropriately be called the "Software Freedom Foundation". That would require a change to their acronym but be closer to their intent of liberating software.
I am in however in some disagreement on the "freeing of the spectrum". I think that if you removed regulation from that it would rapidly degenerate into anarchy ruled by nobody usable by nobody, e.g. bigest transmitter wins. You can have free bandwith on packet radio now under the current regulations. It is generally limitted bandwidth but that is the nature (physics if you want to be precise) of long distance low power radio. Another poster mentioned seeing bandwidth as a service like water or electricity. This is reasonable as the infrastructure (hardware) of the internet is not free. Being a radio node would probably not be as free as he envisions. Would you relay other peoples data? If you would not, would you expect someone else to? Somebody would have to relay packets and could charge a fee for the service (satelite internet service springs to mind as an example).
It's the Illuminati's plan to decrease the population of the world to make it more controllable, just like adding to the drinking water to make people more controllable.
[tinfoil hat] This is why I only drink cheap American beer, which I boil first because I don't trust the pasteurization process... I'm thinking of switching to straight bourbon... [/tinfoil hat]
I smell a great sci-fi / thriller here: The CDC brews up "Super Flu", terrorists break in, guns blazing, steal it, ransom for it, and then release it anyway, next thing you know the world is Soylent Green...
Now this gets interesting: if SCO continues to distributed NMAP will the FSF start filing lawsuits? This might be the "Big Test" everyone has been waiting for.
Unfortunately, for the most part the FSF is blustery with very little follow-through. FSF could have already taken SCO to legal task, and has failed to do so. In fact there are probably many other cases of GPL violations that have not made it to the spotlight like SCO, that FSF could have sued over.
Certainly, IBM has self-serving motives in stepping on the SCO bug, but really, deep pocket commercial entities like IBM are our best hope for vindication of the GPL.
Of course this is only my insignificant opinion, but sometimes I think the FSF is simply an ego platform for certain persons spout this and that with little real incentive to follow through...
In all likelihood, considering recent political restructuring at ICANN, they will probably fold to Verisign, who essentially dictate to ICANN right now. Not a troll, not flamebait, simply true.
This is so true. I love my Sun SparcStation, I've enjoyed working with Solaris, but Sun is just as closed as M$. This is one of the things that bothers me about the push to Java. I see little political difference between Java and.NET, it's all proprietary, so why do we still love Sun but hate M$, they are the same.
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Sorry, no, the main site is down too! SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!
If you paid off every bully even if the chances where close to zero of anything happening, what does that make you? If this is how EV1 spends their money, I'd hate to be a stock holder.
By the way Robert, I don't know you and you don't know me, and there is a slim chance in hell that I'll be able to find out where you live. But I might, you know. So, based on your policy of paying off bullies, please send me $1000, and maybe I will not find you and take a dump on your front lawn. But then again, maybe I will... Pleas send the money soon...
Must be why I can't seem to get to them... The "new datacenter" isn't up...
Well, if their customers are "only pornographers and script kiddies", than what do you care?
Right on! GTA! Let's go out and kill all the God dman beaners, niggers, slant-eyes and whores. ROCK ON! God knows we have nothing better to do than play repugnent games like this!
I thought of it, I wrote it down, I recorded it, it's mine. If you want to listen to it, read it, than you must agree to my terms. If you don't with do agree to my terms, you're out of luck. Move on.
Of course I'm trolling a bit here, but it's true, without question, GPL is going into many, many apps without so much as attribution let alone a GPL reference. And companies as well as developers are makin' bank on it.
Seriously though, if we continue (to allow our "representatives") export middle and upper-middle class jobs, we WILL see a depression, and I don't mean like the '80s, I mean a real depression. We're more than halfway there already. It's too bad we keep electing politicians that just sit back and allow the corporate wonks to masturbate them.
Why release anything on the CC license when you can just put it out there with no license at all and have the same thing? The CC "license" in meaningless and has as much value as simply posting your hard work to the Net and saying "Come and take it, it's yours!" Really, if you don't believe in copyrights and patents and such, just toss it out there and forget about it, it's for the world to enjoy, right?
Obviously, you've never spent much time in Korea. Things are different there.
How does know that you are a "safe driver" relieve you of the need to pay for insurence? The cost of insurence is not base on if you are a safe driver, it's based on the statistical possibility you will be involved in a situation where you have some liability. Often times, reguardless if you have any accedents on your record, if you dive large amounts, you will be charged more because the statistical possibility that you will be involved in something goes up.
So you're saying that your insurence company has no right to know that you habitually break safe traffic laws, thus putting yourself and others at risk? OK! Maybe you should join one of those groups that refuses to get drivers licenses and insurence at all...
This sort of reminds me of Ursula K. Le Guin's story, "The Lathe of Heaven". For the uninitiated, "The Lathe of Heaven" takes place in Portland, Oregon in the year 2002. Its main character, an insignificant working class man named George Orr (Bruce Davison who appears in "The X-Men" movie), is plagued by 'effective dreaming', where his dreams literally come true.
I think many people believe that RMS is so hard-core idealistic that his positions are not alway practical in the real world.
Seems to require a password now.
Relly? On CNN? In stories by the AP? Business pages of the Sunday paper? No...
If they really mean free as in freedom why don't they just call it that, "Freedom Software Foundation". Just to combat all the confusion about the multiple uses of the word 'free' in the EN-US language. Might also take a bit of the edge off the "terrorist" or "communist" coments directed at it. Although I think they actually would be more appropriately be called the "Software Freedom Foundation". That would require a change to their acronym but be closer to their intent of liberating software. I am in however in some disagreement on the "freeing of the spectrum". I think that if you removed regulation from that it would rapidly degenerate into anarchy ruled by nobody usable by nobody, e.g. bigest transmitter wins. You can have free bandwith on packet radio now under the current regulations. It is generally limitted bandwidth but that is the nature (physics if you want to be precise) of long distance low power radio. Another poster mentioned seeing bandwidth as a service like water or electricity. This is reasonable as the infrastructure (hardware) of the internet is not free. Being a radio node would probably not be as free as he envisions. Would you relay other peoples data? If you would not, would you expect someone else to? Somebody would have to relay packets and could charge a fee for the service (satelite internet service springs to mind as an example).
[tinfoil hat] This is why I only drink cheap American beer, which I boil first because I don't trust the pasteurization process... I'm thinking of switching to straight bourbon... [/tinfoil hat]
I smell a great sci-fi / thriller here: The CDC brews up "Super Flu", terrorists break in, guns blazing, steal it, ransom for it, and then release it anyway, next thing you know the world is Soylent Green...
Unfortunately, for the most part the FSF is blustery with very little follow-through. FSF could have already taken SCO to legal task, and has failed to do so. In fact there are probably many other cases of GPL violations that have not made it to the spotlight like SCO, that FSF could have sued over.
Certainly, IBM has self-serving motives in stepping on the SCO bug, but really, deep pocket commercial entities like IBM are our best hope for vindication of the GPL.
Of course this is only my insignificant opinion, but sometimes I think the FSF is simply an ego platform for certain persons spout this and that with little real incentive to follow through...
I'm not sure what this means. Can you paraphrase? Please...
In all likelihood, considering recent political restructuring at ICANN, they will probably fold to Verisign, who essentially dictate to ICANN right now. Not a troll, not flamebait, simply true.
This is so true. I love my Sun SparcStation, I've enjoyed working with Solaris, but Sun is just as closed as M$. This is one of the things that bothers me about the push to Java. I see little political difference between Java and .NET, it's all proprietary, so why do we still love Sun but hate M$, they are the same.
IBM... Sun... Love... Hate... Love... Hate... Ahhhhhhh! My head is exploading!
Because if you do imaging profesionally, some people require photoshop files for team projects. It's the way it is.