I actually had stuff like that happen to me more than once. Someone took my code (under a restrictive non-commercial license), used it in their own online system (which users paid for the privilege of using), and didn't even credit or give back any changes made to the code sections they copied and used. I know they were using my code because I added an Easter Egg to it and the "developers" they had did not bother removing it. FWIW I could have gone to court but I just didn't feel like it. I simply stopped contributing to such projects. Of course not everyone was like this and some people gave back changes or bugfixes to the code. It still was a shitty move and most developers I knew in that area eventually gave up development altogether. The GPL does not instantly make people behave but seems like a more reasonable compromise. It does not restrict the user from using the software for commercial purposes, they just need to give back any changes they make to the software if they distribute it. For non-online systems it works perfectly well. For online systems arguably it does fail since someone like Google, Apple or Microsoft can use the code without giving any changes back.
I guess some BSD people (and most proprietary software people) never quite got the concept of quid pro quo into their heads.
Historically they did both licenses. When NeXT was founded they used GCC as the base compiler and contributed back the Objective-C support. But if you notice all their latest moves they are step by step removing all GPLed content from their base distribution whenever possible. Somewhere along the road they decided they were no longer a hardware company so now their priorities changed. Software is a now source of income for them and the reason why their hardware behaves differently. Anyone can go to Foxconn and ask for them to build a similar device to Apple's as long as they do not break any design patents, etc. Apple does not manufacture anything anymore. They design stuff, develop or tailor software, and have services (iTunes, the App Store, etc).
Yes AC Apple fanboy. Just because some people do not care about being ripped off by companies owned by billionaires doesn't mean all of us are like that. The GPL works for the same reason constitutions work. They force everyone to follow the same rules in order to keep a functioning society. BSD development in comparison is sluggish simply because eventually most people get disheartened and stop working for such projects. Even Google used the Linux kernel (they could have used any number of *BSD kernels but they did not despite their anti-GPL bias on Android). BSD licenses have their place (e.g. reference standards base implementation) but not in pieces of software like this. Fact is Apple did not want outside developers working with their code and it took extreme nagging by the KHTML developers in order for them to try to have a shared development model. Apparently they thought the KHTML code was good enough for them to use, but the developers could not be trusted, just business as usual for Apple. The GPLv3 only came into being because, as usual, people tried to use GPLed programs against the spirit of the GPL and screw the original developers by adding DRM to the system or threatening an entire software stack with a couple of dubious patents. Even IBM and Microsoft's open source licenses have clauses regarding patents. The GPL needed an update because the environment changed. It used to be software patents were unenforceable. Pretty simple actually.
Their kernel performance sucks. How many people have you heard using MacOS for server tasks? Probably even Apple isn't using it by now if they can avoid it.
Yes it is worth it. Who cares about Apple anyway. It is only a matter of time until they decide not to contribute anything anymore. Regarding making parts of GCC LGPLed because of things like incremental compilation and such last I heard Stallman was considering it. He probably just doesn't have a clear picture of the use case yet.
FreeBSD's commercial clients... probably more routers, etc, using Linux today than BSDs.
GCC has been rewritten a lot of times. It used to only make tree based and peephole optimizations. However now they use a form of SSA called GIMPLE. The problem was porting all the code optimizations to GIMPLE but that should have been done by now. The backend only needs to convert GIMPLE into machine code which should not be particularly hard...
They have been interest in it since like forever. Last I heard they were working on their own (failed) compiler. It seems they decided it was too much effort and jumped in the clang bandwagon.
Try asking Microsoft for the source code of their OS (particularly Winsock which is a ripoff of BSD sockets) and see how far you get. Even if you get the source you will not be able to modify it and redistribute the changes.
The BSD guys are an interesting crowd. Well they can continue to watch Microsoft and Apple pilfer their software stack usually giving nothing in return while they can use GNOME or KDE or whichever other GPL or LGPLed project exists on their system (takes only a recompile) because otherwise they don't have a useable desktop and are stuck with 1980s user interfaces. I have used clang and it was neither faster to compile nor produced faster code than GCC. The only noticeable thing is the ANSI colored error messages... blech. I understand it is supposed to be easy to port because of LLVM but the fact is GCC has already been ported basically to every architecture that matters so it probably wasn't that hard to port GCC either. Apple just wants to clamp down everything to be BSD so they can batter down all hatches eventually for the day when they give nothing back. All it takes is a change of heart or leadership. I still remember in the early days they only released source code much time after they did the release which is counter to the GPL people had to beg to them to get access to the source code or, heaven forbid, actually participate in development (it seems for Apple all developers outside of Apple are a bunch of idiots who can't code or something).
Are they still counting as US manufacturing something made by US companies (even if their headquarters is in the Cayman Islands) abroad (e.g. China) or what?
It is actually a good idea to visit webpages that way. If he wants to refer to the source material later he can. Webpages and websites are so dynamic often content is lost, while e-mail can be stored basically indefinitely. If Ballmer was treated with a machine using Linux would he be a hypocrite since he calls the GPL a virus?
Are the jammers really Russian or Chinese? The North Koreans probably couldn't do them themselves but I suspect either partner has the technology. After the wars on Iraq and Serbia they had to develop something to deny precision attacks.
FWIW I think South Korea could invade the North (and probably will eventually) single handedly without any outside help. If that was the case I wonder if China would even bother. Especially if the US started removing its remaining troops from the peninsula afterwards.
China merely told the US that if they got closer than a certain distance to their border they would enter the war on North Korea's side. The US military command (IIRC Douglas MacArthur) basically ignored the warning because he thought he could simply threaten them with the use of nuclear weapons if they did and that it was a bluff. It was not a bluff of course. When the Chinese invaded North Korea in droves and started clawing back every gain the US had made on NK soil he asked Truman for nuclear strikes on Peking and Moscow but Truman (wisely IMO) rejected the use of nuclear bombings since it would escalate the war into WWIII.
Just ask for oregano with every such meal then. It transforms into a substance remarkably similar to aspirin in the stomach and lowers blood platelet count.
Just do not complain about the heartburn afterwards. Hah!
There are machines which can surface scan your eye and detect the lens correction required (if any). They are much more accurate than having a doctor making you look at charts.
Probably better to check out what is the cause of the migraines. It may be it is some food you eat. Some people get them after eating cheese or chocolate for example. Then either refrain from eating those foods or only eat them when you know you can afford to have a migraine... Other times it is due to sinusitis or something similar.
I still remember a couple of decades or so ago doctors saying "aspirin is bad" because it has unwarranted side effects like reducing platelet levels. I once told my doctor "great, so that means I won't have heart problems so easily" and they moaned. Now it is regularly prescribed to elder people to prevent heart problems even if they have no fever or pain. Insanity.
I would take an aspirin with over a century of field trials and well known side effects over whatever shit they are trying to peddle to me today.
No kidding. I know someone with diabetes who started taking statins and their lipid profile kept getting worse afterwards. When I actually looked at the blood tests I noticed the LDL/HDL ratio was perfectly fine, they got prescribed statins just because they initially had a high total cholesterol count. It is common for diabetics to have higher total cholesterol than a regular person. I told the person to drop the statins, eat more fish or white meats, and the lipid profile got ok on its own. Of course when the person actually told the doctor what they did they got bewildered... their precious statins failed where a simple diet change worked.
I have heard doctors say all sorts of stupid shit. Once my GP told me that potato chips have cholesterol... She didn't back down even after I asked her what was the animal fat content of a regular potato chip. Its just potatoes with vegetable oil and salt, it doesn't take a genius to infer that of course there will be no cholesterol on them. At most they may cause cancer from the high temperature process they go through bending molecules out of shapes, but if I cared about that I wouldn't be eating anything at all! Even water can kill you if you drink too much of it.
As for having high triglycerides... it just means you are eating too much. The caloric intake is in excess of your energy needs and it will be stored as body fat. Reduce the caloric intake and the values will go back to normal levels...
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I actually had stuff like that happen to me more than once. Someone took my code (under a restrictive non-commercial license), used it in their own online system (which users paid for the privilege of using), and didn't even credit or give back any changes made to the code sections they copied and used. I know they were using my code because I added an Easter Egg to it and the "developers" they had did not bother removing it. FWIW I could have gone to court but I just didn't feel like it. I simply stopped contributing to such projects. Of course not everyone was like this and some people gave back changes or bugfixes to the code. It still was a shitty move and most developers I knew in that area eventually gave up development altogether. The GPL does not instantly make people behave but seems like a more reasonable compromise. It does not restrict the user from using the software for commercial purposes, they just need to give back any changes they make to the software if they distribute it. For non-online systems it works perfectly well. For online systems arguably it does fail since someone like Google, Apple or Microsoft can use the code without giving any changes back.
I guess some BSD people (and most proprietary software people) never quite got the concept of quid pro quo into their heads.
Historically they did both licenses. When NeXT was founded they used GCC as the base compiler and contributed back the Objective-C support. But if you notice all their latest moves they are step by step removing all GPLed content from their base distribution whenever possible. Somewhere along the road they decided they were no longer a hardware company so now their priorities changed. Software is a now source of income for them and the reason why their hardware behaves differently. Anyone can go to Foxconn and ask for them to build a similar device to Apple's as long as they do not break any design patents, etc. Apple does not manufacture anything anymore. They design stuff, develop or tailor software, and have services (iTunes, the App Store, etc).
Yes AC Apple fanboy. Just because some people do not care about being ripped off by companies owned by billionaires doesn't mean all of us are like that. The GPL works for the same reason constitutions work. They force everyone to follow the same rules in order to keep a functioning society. BSD development in comparison is sluggish simply because eventually most people get disheartened and stop working for such projects. Even Google used the Linux kernel (they could have used any number of *BSD kernels but they did not despite their anti-GPL bias on Android). BSD licenses have their place (e.g. reference standards base implementation) but not in pieces of software like this. Fact is Apple did not want outside developers working with their code and it took extreme nagging by the KHTML developers in order for them to try to have a shared development model. Apparently they thought the KHTML code was good enough for them to use, but the developers could not be trusted, just business as usual for Apple. The GPLv3 only came into being because, as usual, people tried to use GPLed programs against the spirit of the GPL and screw the original developers by adding DRM to the system or threatening an entire software stack with a couple of dubious patents. Even IBM and Microsoft's open source licenses have clauses regarding patents. The GPL needed an update because the environment changed. It used to be software patents were unenforceable. Pretty simple actually.
Apple gives you a sausage in exchange for a pig.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/apple-ditches-mysql-favor-postgresql
It is all about politics, performance be damned.
Their kernel performance sucks. How many people have you heard using MacOS for server tasks? Probably even Apple isn't using it by now if they can avoid it.
Yes it is worth it. Who cares about Apple anyway. It is only a matter of time until they decide not to contribute anything anymore. Regarding making parts of GCC LGPLed because of things like incremental compilation and such last I heard Stallman was considering it. He probably just doesn't have a clear picture of the use case yet.
FreeBSD's commercial clients... probably more routers, etc, using Linux today than BSDs.
Like Apple cares about performance. If they did they wouldn't be using Mach.
GCC has been rewritten a lot of times. It used to only make tree based and peephole optimizations. However now they use a form of SSA called GIMPLE. The problem was porting all the code optimizations to GIMPLE but that should have been done by now. The backend only needs to convert GIMPLE into machine code which should not be particularly hard...
They have been interest in it since like forever. Last I heard they were working on their own (failed) compiler. It seems they decided it was too much effort and jumped in the clang bandwagon.
Try asking Microsoft for the source code of their OS (particularly Winsock which is a ripoff of BSD sockets) and see how far you get. Even if you get the source you will not be able to modify it and redistribute the changes.
The BSD guys are an interesting crowd. Well they can continue to watch Microsoft and Apple pilfer their software stack usually giving nothing in return while they can use GNOME or KDE or whichever other GPL or LGPLed project exists on their system (takes only a recompile) because otherwise they don't have a useable desktop and are stuck with 1980s user interfaces. I have used clang and it was neither faster to compile nor produced faster code than GCC. The only noticeable thing is the ANSI colored error messages... blech. I understand it is supposed to be easy to port because of LLVM but the fact is GCC has already been ported basically to every architecture that matters so it probably wasn't that hard to port GCC either. Apple just wants to clamp down everything to be BSD so they can batter down all hatches eventually for the day when they give nothing back. All it takes is a change of heart or leadership. I still remember in the early days they only released source code much time after they did the release which is counter to the GPL people had to beg to them to get access to the source code or, heaven forbid, actually participate in development (it seems for Apple all developers outside of Apple are a bunch of idiots who can't code or something).
What was the US spending on defense (as a percentage of GDP) back in 1913?
Are they still counting as US manufacturing something made by US companies (even if their headquarters is in the Cayman Islands) abroad (e.g. China) or what?
It is actually a good idea to visit webpages that way. If he wants to refer to the source material later he can. Webpages and websites are so dynamic often content is lost, while e-mail can be stored basically indefinitely. If Ballmer was treated with a machine using Linux would he be a hypocrite since he calls the GPL a virus?
Are the jammers really Russian or Chinese? The North Koreans probably couldn't do them themselves but I suspect either partner has the technology. After the wars on Iraq and Serbia they had to develop something to deny precision attacks.
FWIW I think South Korea could invade the North (and probably will eventually) single handedly without any outside help. If that was the case I wonder if China would even bother. Especially if the US started removing its remaining troops from the peninsula afterwards.
China merely told the US that if they got closer than a certain distance to their border they would enter the war on North Korea's side. The US military command (IIRC Douglas MacArthur) basically ignored the warning because he thought he could simply threaten them with the use of nuclear weapons if they did and that it was a bluff. It was not a bluff of course. When the Chinese invaded North Korea in droves and started clawing back every gain the US had made on NK soil he asked Truman for nuclear strikes on Peking and Moscow but Truman (wisely IMO) rejected the use of nuclear bombings since it would escalate the war into WWIII.
Hint: Not all GPUs have IEEE FP compliant math. Often they break the standard, or do something else altogether just to improve performance.
Just ask for oregano with every such meal then. It transforms into a substance remarkably similar to aspirin in the stomach and lowers blood platelet count.
Just do not complain about the heartburn afterwards. Hah!
There are machines which can surface scan your eye and detect the lens correction required (if any). They are much more accurate than having a doctor making you look at charts.
It is because the loss of eyesight is so gradual you do not notice it. You also try to compensate by squinting without noticing it.
Probably better to check out what is the cause of the migraines. It may be it is some food you eat. Some people get them after eating cheese or chocolate for example. Then either refrain from eating those foods or only eat them when you know you can afford to have a migraine... Other times it is due to sinusitis or something similar.
Ritalin? I would just drink coffee or have some Coca-cola instead...
I still remember a couple of decades or so ago doctors saying "aspirin is bad" because it has unwarranted side effects like reducing platelet levels. I once told my doctor "great, so that means I won't have heart problems so easily" and they moaned. Now it is regularly prescribed to elder people to prevent heart problems even if they have no fever or pain. Insanity.
I would take an aspirin with over a century of field trials and well known side effects over whatever shit they are trying to peddle to me today.
No kidding. I know someone with diabetes who started taking statins and their lipid profile kept getting worse afterwards. When I actually looked at the blood tests I noticed the LDL/HDL ratio was perfectly fine, they got prescribed statins just because they initially had a high total cholesterol count. It is common for diabetics to have higher total cholesterol than a regular person. I told the person to drop the statins, eat more fish or white meats, and the lipid profile got ok on its own. Of course when the person actually told the doctor what they did they got bewildered... their precious statins failed where a simple diet change worked.
I have heard doctors say all sorts of stupid shit. Once my GP told me that potato chips have cholesterol... She didn't back down even after I asked her what was the animal fat content of a regular potato chip. Its just potatoes with vegetable oil and salt, it doesn't take a genius to infer that of course there will be no cholesterol on them. At most they may cause cancer from the high temperature process they go through bending molecules out of shapes, but if I cared about that I wouldn't be eating anything at all! Even water can kill you if you drink too much of it.
As for having high triglycerides... it just means you are eating too much. The caloric intake is in excess of your energy needs and it will be stored as body fat. Reduce the caloric intake and the values will go back to normal levels...