Does court have the right to force use of Windows? Person violated the law, but they are not puting him in jail and violating his right to choose software that he wants to use.
Please. It would be a horrible, horrible legal precedent for a party to be bound by a license which was changed after the agreement, even if there's the 'or any later version' bit in the text of said license. I mean, could the FSF just add "The blood of their first born child should also be splattered over a paper copy of the source code." ?
GPL v.2 or later. If you don't like "later", you still have "v.2". If "later" does not exists, you usually accept versions that actually exists.
Some software does not use "later" clauses. It is just GPL v.2.
Software authors are not bound to own license terms. They own the software and can use it under other license.
If authors don't like GPL v.4 and have "GPL v.2 or later" or "GPL v.3 or later", they can relicense to GPL v.2 or GPL v.3.
If AV companies do let the FBI version go through unchecked,
what if the virus and worm writers of today get a hold of this and modify it for their own purposes?
Antiviruses don't work with programs. They work with signatures. If program is modified, signature might change. Generation of signatures differs betweem antiviruses. If modified binary passes antivirus, is it still recognized as whitelisted application or ignored as unknown application.
I used to work in the abuse department of an ISP which had been blacklisted by SORBS. SORBS require a "donation" to get your IP range off their list, and since we refused to hand over extortion money to these gangsters, there was no way for us to deal with them. Despite our best efforts, we also found that there was no way to get in contact with them, and as such no way to help our customers.
"A rep from OLPC said, understandably, that the laptops would now be fitted with filters."
I think they should also send out therapists. Those children will clearly be traumatised by viewing evil images of naked women.
Porn is not only images. Even if African children are accustomed in seeing naked people, they are not accustomed to the way naked people act in porn movies.
Fault Windows all you want but the worries you have with licenses on Windows is slightly less then Linux, notice I SLIGHTLY easier. I'm halfway tempted to switch my development to a Mac and dump my Linux support to not worry about it ever again. This is pretty sad since I ENJOY Linux, I've been running nothing but Linux the past 5 years. I have better things to do then worry "Opps, shit did I link with something that requires I release the source".
Then don't use GPL-licensed code in your proprietary software. If you use third party code, you don't own it and you must check copyrights. With GPL you must follow copyright laws or you must follow GPL. Without GPL you still must follow copyright laws.
Like I have said in all my previous posts I like Linux, I like it a lot, but I'm sorry to say I don't view the FSF as the best people representing Linux.
First F in FSF stands for Free. Your proprietary software is not free.
Even if you don't like GPL, you still can use Linux. You only can't distribute Linux with your proprietary modifications.
Original Bombe was used to break three rotor commercial enigma. M4 Project is trying to break four rotor Kriegsmarine Enigma messages. Read the ones that are broken. Short messages, non-english language, lots of short cuts, only some words are from dictionary. Even if you broke one, you still have to decypher what von Looks wants to say in his message.
Kriegsmarine has some security rules for Enigma transmissions. U-boat commanders usually followed them.
How is it impressive? The microsoft demo showed a mobile phone being put on the table, it being recognised, and files being sent to/from the device.
It does not work that way in real world. You can't just put phone next to computer and expect it to work instantly. Wireless connection must be setup. So they had phone already configured to talk with that setup. Video does not show how many minutes or hours they lost and how many security features they have turned off, when they tried to pair phone and computer.
Seems like a reasonable resolution for the defendant.
If racketeer asks for one million and goes away with one thousand, he still gets one thousand and reputation of successful racketeer. Learn from your government. No deals policy.
For example, take database input. Ten years ago, for many (beginning) developers, escaping quotes and backslashes manually was considered fine. Later developers had database libraries that provided these functions natively. All of a sudden, unicode came along. Suddenly you had to worry about extra characters. This was another step - for example, for developers using MySQL, it was pertinent to change all of your escape functions to a new, unicode-aware one.
Since when some 8bit character can mean same thing as standard ASCII quote or apostrophe? If database uses 8bit characters as alternative escapes, database must be fixed and not application which uses it. Stop learning from Microsoft Internet Explorer Team.
BTW, don't check your business email or log in to the corporate VPN from China. You know the story: "all your trade secrets are blong to us".
Does that mean that Chinese can read SSL encoded traffic. If you are using own machine unmodified by Chinese authorities and check ssl certs, you might be safe from man in the middle attacks on Great Chinese Firewall.
Plus it is content filtering firewall. If you don't trigger specific logging filters, your traffic is not logged or logs are not kept. Amount of data going through firewall gives some protection to private information.
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Freedom means being able to do what you want with a particular piece of code. Stallman wants us to believe that restricting our rights somehow enhances our freedom.
GPL code is not yours. It is everyones. GPL3 removes your options to restrict freedom of others.
but this does not change the fact that version 3 is removing freedoms from you, and not adding new ones.
GPL3 does not remove freedom from end users. It removes options that allow use of hardware to restrict rights of end users. To GPL Tivo is not end user. GPL end users are people that use Tivo products.
Ph.D. brainiac won't start creating new OS from the scratch, when there are working free alternatives. On new OS he or she will have to deal all hardware and software issues instead of dealing only with network and web.
When will we see a REAL solution to these problems, and stop implementing obscure security work-arounds that eat more resources than the applications themselves? Anyone?
Take a look at the mirror. Best protection is not implemented in software. It is implemented in user level.
For quite a while now, it has been less expensive to build a DIY file server then to purchase NAS equipment.
Depends on needed storage space. If you need more than 1-3 TB, you can't use generic components, price goes up and hardware starts taking more space than dedicated NAS box. Or Tyan 2U-4U boxes are DIY in your country.
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Does court have the right to force use of Windows? Person violated the law, but they are not puting him in jail and violating his right to choose software that he wants to use.
Friends don't let friends install Vista.
GPL v.2 or later. If you don't like "later", you still have "v.2". If "later" does not exists, you usually accept versions that actually exists.
Some software does not use "later" clauses. It is just GPL v.2.
Software authors are not bound to own license terms. They own the software and can use it under other license.
If authors don't like GPL v.4 and have "GPL v.2 or later" or "GPL v.3 or later", they can relicense to GPL v.2 or GPL v.3.
Checked delisting rules
Fee is required only if you are listed as spammer.
If you steal, your favorite distro won't include them or will remove them some day and you will be the one that violates the law.
Contribute to DejaVu project and add CJK symbols
First F in FSF stands for Free. Your proprietary software is not free.
Even if you don't like GPL, you still can use Linux. You only can't distribute Linux with your proprietary modifications.
And some people noticed that something is wrong with hotmail.
Email servers should not drop messages. Messages must land in some mailbox or they must bounce back to sender.
Original Bombe was used to break three rotor commercial enigma. M4 Project is trying to break four rotor Kriegsmarine Enigma messages. Read the ones that are broken. Short messages, non-english language, lots of short cuts, only some words are from dictionary. Even if you broke one, you still have to decypher what von Looks wants to say in his message.
Kriegsmarine has some security rules for Enigma transmissions. U-boat commanders usually followed them.
It does not work that way in real world. You can't just put phone next to computer and expect it to work instantly. Wireless connection must be setup. So they had phone already configured to talk with that setup. Video does not show how many minutes or hours they lost and how many security features they have turned off, when they tried to pair phone and computer.
If you want real world example, see video with Gates and other person connecting scanner in windows 95 demo.
Since when some 8bit character can mean same thing as standard ASCII quote or apostrophe? If database uses 8bit characters as alternative escapes, database must be fixed and not application which uses it. Stop learning from Microsoft Internet Explorer Team.
Does that mean that Chinese can read SSL encoded traffic. If you are using own machine unmodified by Chinese authorities and check ssl certs, you might be safe from man in the middle attacks on Great Chinese Firewall.
Plus it is content filtering firewall. If you don't trigger specific logging filters, your traffic is not logged or logs are not kept. Amount of data going through firewall gives some protection to private information.
Patent is not a trademark or brand.
Ph.D. brainiac won't start creating new OS from the scratch, when there are working free alternatives. On new OS he or she will have to deal all hardware and software issues instead of dealing only with network and web.