This is HTTP over TCP/IP. Your IP is logged for each page you view. How do they have that? Oh, you though they just magically send pages into the ether and they come onto your screen by pixels?
Your concent is implied by the fact that you've accessed a public site via a protocol that both sends and recieves data via a unique identifier. (IP address)
Besides that, what wire was being tapped? That's like claiming calling someone and, as they answeer, having them write in a notebook 'answered the phone at 8 pm' is them violating wiretapping laws.
Applying for a standard is not a agreement to license a patent or keep something patent-free, but a agreement to set one standard ruleset for a language/widget/etc.. Hence, why it's a standard.;)
IIRC, the standards body.Net works with dictates a license fees for the standard's patents be small, but still a small price on the patents still puts the code into a unfree and unFree condition. If they charged for the patent, I don't even know if the source could remain open, but IANAL YMMV FYI TGIF ABS standard.
It's also of shaky legal standing. Mono has no right to use the patents it does for the APIs other then a gentlemens' agreement that MS, IBM, Intel, and the other patent owners will not start charging for them.
This is important as, if they do charge, the Mono project would no longer be able to release a GPLed CLR or compiler. Even a 1$ license on the patent still means it would be GPL-incompatable.
Personally, I don't see why anyone should move to Mono. I'm perfectly happy coding in Python and Ruby until Parrot hits 1.0, when (in theory at least;) ) I can start sharing that same code across the board.
Well, we kinda do. Check on PegasosPPC. Mophix is basically a updated AmigaOS. Most of the good stuff that would have gone to AOS4 is in Mophix. It can run Amiga apps, and it's out now.
Personally, I've never understood why the whole "amiga" community hasn't jumped on the PegasosPPC ship.
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Well, you know what they say about Amiga. Everyone has their 15 minutes of 'name.
You also don't have to load all of it. You could just load the parts you need for the tags you want.
And if a number of people used it, perhaps someone like Yahoo or Google would host it for coder good-will.;) Heck, maybe even the W3C could host it. After all, it would be a step towards making the standards the... Standard.
On the other hand, I don't know if IE could do this, but would it be possible to make it so IE just used them as a default CSS sheet, and just store them locally? That would seem to be the optimal solution. Just put a 'update your browser' button somewhere on the site, and have them install it.
As soon as they said 'we're making CDs you can't rip or listen to in your only CD player (my computer)' they lost me.
I don't 'do' MP3s, so that is not a issue to me. But I do rip all my CDs to Ogg Vorbis, as quite frankly I'm a clutz and don't want to have all those CDs to sift through.
Besides, there are plenty of artists not on RIAA-sponsoring labels that are more then happy to let their listeners exersize their legal fair use rights. And a quick trip to the RIAA radar before you head to the store is most helpful.;)
A) SCO is laughed out of court. Well, less 'laugh' and more 'forcibly removed by court officers before the judge strangles.' B) IBM keeps this in court so long that Darl's children's children's children.... 's children are still fighting it.
Either way, I don't think you'll see anyone all to scared about them going after any BSD.;)
Mandrake, had it not been for some poor contracts from the past, would currently making a profit. RedHat is making a profit. And IBM, a company that obviously like to make cash of their code, is making money as well while still working on open source.
Considering one of the major sources of broadband in the US are cable companies, thus media companies, why would they want you to create things that would compete with their lowest-common-etc-etc?
They want you to consume, and consume alone. Being a content provider puts you in competition with them.
I have a newish portable CD player, and it's lasted about a month of daily hour-long listen on the first 2 AAs I put in it.
Maybe your just unlucky? ^^;
I will admit it doesn't have a ton of features. Other then some minor skip protection, it's bare. But still, just got it ~6 weeks ago, and only put the one pair in..
Who said it'd be GPL? Most likely, they'd keep it under something similar to the Sun Industry Standards Source license ala Oo.o, which IIRC gives them a bit more control.
You can't pull what they don't have to begin with. SCO has said, publicly and repeatedly, they do not believe the GPL to be valid, thus they have no right to use the software as they have no license.
Sans-accepting the GPL, they have no right to even look at the source. So it's really a question of pointing out 'hey, you've never had a right to use this,' not a 'we don't like you, we're taking our toy and, what's more, we will now go home' thing.
'there is no such thing as "fair use" for commercial purposes'
There is some fair use in commercial space, just not as much. For example, had they used the lyrics in a review and sold it, A-OK as that is covered by Fair-Use. Your right that Apple's use is a no no though.
I've had laptop batteries. They do the same exact thing. Replacements for them? 150/200$ for a 3rd party battery. For two or three hours of power.
Not the 10+ hours on a iPod for 50$ from a 3rd party.
Yes, I know why the time differences are there, but I'm just saying, we're already paying how much for new laptop batteries? How is this different? Because it requires more heavy-lifting, or is that it's the same price as a laptop battery if you send it to Apple and have them replace it, thus removing any liability for destroying your device that's causing unrest here?
It's not even that the iPod is a exclusive problem. How many Rio Karma battery replacements can you find at the local store?
Your comparison isn't really fair in itself, either though.
The BSDs have some things which make even that shared software safer. For example, consider that the BSDs have lstrcpy/lstrcat, whereas GNU won't add it to the GNU libc. When you run Sendmail on a GNU/Linux box, it's using a marco to simulate these calls instead of actually using the safer routines.
They're also not as open to remote exploits as one another because they use different kernels and tools, which have different types and amounts of exploits. This will hold true even between the BSDs. Even Free Vs. Darwin will have differences that would make them less open to shared exploits.
Of course, the fact of the matter is every system is vulnerable to some degree. We should see this as a reason to start moving ALL the free OSes to better tools that don't leave them so open to attack, not just to try and dismiss it as meaningless line noise.
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And that parts of it can be RAND licensed.
Or, non-Free and non-free. No good for Free coders. Good for Apple, though.
But this assumes:
;)
A) Everyone upgrades, or
B) Everyone is buying a new copy of Windows soon
Most people are quite happy with staying at the version they have. And I mean literally the version they have. They don't upgrade, they don't buy new.
Not that I disagree, mind you, I'm just playing devil's advocate.
While I'm not the biggest anti-MS person in the world, hoping MS will 'play fair' is like hoping the dread Cthulhu is 'not hungry.'
Possible? Maybe. Likely? No.
This is HTTP over TCP/IP. Your IP is logged for each page you view. How do they have that? Oh, you though they just magically send pages into the ether and they come onto your screen by pixels?
Your concent is implied by the fact that you've accessed a public site via a protocol that both sends and recieves data via a unique identifier. (IP address)
Besides that, what wire was being tapped? That's like claiming calling someone and, as they answeer, having them write in a notebook 'answered the phone at 8 pm' is them violating wiretapping laws.
Applying for a standard is not a agreement to license a patent or keep something patent-free, but a agreement to set one standard ruleset for a language/widget/etc.. Hence, why it's a standard. ;)
.Net works with dictates a license fees for the standard's patents be small, but still a small price on the patents still puts the code into a unfree and unFree condition. If they charged for the patent, I don't even know if the source could remain open, but IANAL YMMV FYI TGIF ABS standard.
IIRC, the standards body
It's also of shaky legal standing. Mono has no right to use the patents it does for the APIs other then a gentlemens' agreement that MS, IBM, Intel, and the other patent owners will not start charging for them.
;) ) I can start sharing that same code across the board.
This is important as, if they do charge, the Mono project would no longer be able to release a GPLed CLR or compiler. Even a 1$ license on the patent still means it would be GPL-incompatable.
Personally, I don't see why anyone should move to Mono. I'm perfectly happy coding in Python and Ruby until Parrot hits 1.0, when (in theory at least
Well, we kinda do. Check on PegasosPPC. Mophix is basically a updated AmigaOS. Most of the good stuff that would have gone to AOS4 is in Mophix. It can run Amiga apps, and it's out now.
Personally, I've never understood why the whole "amiga" community hasn't jumped on the PegasosPPC ship.
Well, you know what they say about Amiga. Everyone has their 15 minutes of 'name.
It'd have no effect. Firefox merely doesn't display the banner ads, it still downloads them.
You also don't have to load all of it. You could just load the parts you need for the tags you want.
;) Heck, maybe even the W3C could host it. After all, it would be a step towards making the standards the... Standard.
And if a number of people used it, perhaps someone like Yahoo or Google would host it for coder good-will.
On the other hand, I don't know if IE could do this, but would it be possible to make it so IE just used them as a default CSS sheet, and just store them locally? That would seem to be the optimal solution. Just put a 'update your browser' button somewhere on the site, and have them install it.
Then do what I did and stop buying it.
;)
As soon as they said 'we're making CDs you can't rip or listen to in your only CD player (my computer)' they lost me.
I don't 'do' MP3s, so that is not a issue to me. But I do rip all my CDs to Ogg Vorbis, as quite frankly I'm a clutz and don't want to have all those CDs to sift through.
Besides, there are plenty of artists not on RIAA-sponsoring labels that are more then happy to let their listeners exersize their legal fair use rights. And a quick trip to the RIAA radar before you head to the store is most helpful.
There are only two options in the SCO trial.
;)
A) SCO is laughed out of court. Well, less 'laugh' and more 'forcibly removed by court officers before the judge strangles.'
B) IBM keeps this in court so long that Darl's children's children's children.... 's children are still fighting it.
Either way, I don't think you'll see anyone all to scared about them going after any BSD.
It's OK, they apparently have money to burn.
Government? Oh no no no, it reaches higher up then that.
It's really the aliens. You heard me.
*dons tin foil hat and wallet*
Go on. Keep living in your dream world of 'metal strips' and 'governments.'
Redhat, Mandrake, IBM?
Mandrake, had it not been for some poor contracts from the past, would currently making a profit. RedHat is making a profit. And IBM, a company that obviously like to make cash of their code, is making money as well while still working on open source.
Considering one of the major sources of broadband in the US are cable companies, thus media companies, why would they want you to create things that would compete with their lowest-common-etc-etc?
They want you to consume, and consume alone. Being a content provider puts you in competition with them.
Of course. It will slow down viruses by exactly one mouseclick.
Sure, it doesn't sound like a lot, but think of it in volume...
I have a newish portable CD player, and it's lasted about a month of daily hour-long listen on the first 2 AAs I put in it.
Maybe your just unlucky? ^^;
I will admit it doesn't have a ton of features. Other then some minor skip protection, it's bare. But still, just got it ~6 weeks ago, and only put the one pair in..
Who said it'd be GPL? Most likely, they'd keep it under something similar to the Sun Industry Standards Source license ala Oo.o, which IIRC gives them a bit more control.
You can't pull what they don't have to begin with. SCO has said, publicly and repeatedly, they do not believe the GPL to be valid, thus they have no right to use the software as they have no license.
Sans-accepting the GPL, they have no right to even look at the source. So it's really a question of pointing out 'hey, you've never had a right to use this,' not a 'we don't like you, we're taking our toy and, what's more, we will now go home' thing.
Add quotes around the name in the terminal. It will then work correctly.
<add a quote>"<copy My File Name.ogg to terminal>My File Name.ogg<add a quote>"
'there is no such thing as "fair use" for commercial purposes'
There is some fair use in commercial space, just not as much. For example, had they used the lyrics in a review and sold it, A-OK as that is covered by Fair-Use. Your right that Apple's use is a no no though.
I've had laptop batteries. They do the same exact thing. Replacements for them? 150/200$ for a 3rd party battery. For two or three hours of power.
Not the 10+ hours on a iPod for 50$ from a 3rd party.
Yes, I know why the time differences are there, but I'm just saying, we're already paying how much for new laptop batteries? How is this different? Because it requires more heavy-lifting, or is that it's the same price as a laptop battery if you send it to Apple and have them replace it, thus removing any liability for destroying your device that's causing unrest here?
It's not even that the iPod is a exclusive problem. How many Rio Karma battery replacements can you find at the local store?
Well, MS did already buy a license, maybe they're not just being anti-Linux, maybe they're just already drinking the SCO koolaid....
Your comparison isn't really fair in itself, either though.
The BSDs have some things which make even that shared software safer. For example, consider that the BSDs have lstrcpy/lstrcat, whereas GNU won't add it to the GNU libc. When you run Sendmail on a GNU/Linux box, it's using a marco to simulate these calls instead of actually using the safer routines.
They're also not as open to remote exploits as one another because they use different kernels and tools, which have different types and amounts of exploits. This will hold true even between the BSDs. Even Free Vs. Darwin will have differences that would make them less open to shared exploits.
Of course, the fact of the matter is every system is vulnerable to some degree. We should see this as a reason to start moving ALL the free OSes to better tools that don't leave them so open to attack, not just to try and dismiss it as meaningless line noise.