Yes; FreeBSD's license is more free than the GPL. There's no doubt about that.
However, the GPL somewhat ensures the exchange and flux of code; I would argue that it is the GPL that makes the difference in momentum betwee linux and BSD. With BSD, people can use it however they see fit, with linux, they're sorta obliged to contribute back modifications if they use it.
Please enough with the signatures, "clippies", and links at the end of posts; They're distracting, enormously taxing on attention, irrelevant and useless to the topic discussed, and increasingly unfunny.
Please stop it, they're totally spoiling my Slashdot experience and i run a risk of losing interest in slashdot altogether thanks to them. I am also inclined to think negatively of people, and their opinions, whose signature/clippy/link at the end of post annoy me enormously.
I think the momentum linux has over Unix is a matter of its GPL license, which makes it widely and freely available, and ensures a constant flux, NOT that it's technically superior. I think it's generally established that Solaris or FreeBSD for example, are technically superior to linux, however, both Sun's proprietary or BSD licenses are the detriments of those two Unices in the face of the Linux onslaught. (do you like how I used Unices as a plural to Unix? I do.)
Linux, ironically, now fits into the legendary "worse is better" more so than Unix does.
They used to be my favourite source of news, along with zdnet, back in the nineties until I noticed they were too often pro-Microsoft; My observation was confirmed when I realized that Paul Allen, Mirosoft's co-founder, was a major, major investor in Zdnet/Cnet.
What often confused me about Kazaa was that the company behind it is called Sharman Something whereas the RIAA's guy is called Something Sherman.
Being a lazy reader, until I realized the two were different, skimming news articles was a source of confusion; A quote like "Sha/erman said..." often made me think, "Dude, make your mind up!"
This is a nonsense, lame excuse. This is the sort of unsubstantiated cliches that... i won't say.
You're totally overlooking the facts that cheap labor spends very little in the states and sends most of its money elsewhere. You're totally overlooking the fact that cheap labour is depriving a section of the American workers from income, which means spending power, which means money spent in the country, which means savings and investments within the country, which means taxes. you're totally overlooking the fact that cheap labour contributes to massive unemployment.
I saw this article over an hour ago, not through slashdot, and i thought i had a story to submit due to misreading the sentence, though i guess the sentence itself was easy to misread.
If you click on Linux in Backgrounds it takes you to a page in the Economist's Research Tools section, there i read "In May 2003 Microsoft attacked on another front, signing a licensing agreement with SCO, which produces a proprietary brand of Unix and has launched a far-reaching copyright-infringment lawsuit against IBM."
On my first and second, and perhaps third, reading of the sentence i somehow thought that "and" belonged to Microsoft, meaning that microsoft launched a lawsuit against IBM. And i sorta wondered why they said that until i realized the "and" actually belonged to SCO. Try it, it still feels easy to misread.
i think it's absurd that a one employee company with a single patent and no product or services can "rightfully" hold the web to ransome and cause as much havoc.
First of all, it would be reasonable to argue that there was "prior art", and i invite everyone to think up stuff like that to challenge the validity of that patent.
The other thing is that it really seems awfully "obvious", i really don't know what retard gave them that patent.
This is evidence that the patent law needs to be revised. It can not be said that a law that covered 19th century artifacts is well equipped to deal with the 21st century. There should truly be a law against patent squatting. I don't know how this can be implemented, since licensing sounds like a valid and reasonable business method. The law should really provide for chance to challenge a patent if it is reasonable to make an argument that it has been squatted. Though this might be difficult.
6000 responses treated as a single petition and then denying that there's been no fiddling with the numbers and no statistical manipulation! Not explaining how 8000 responses shrank to 2000!!
Where do you intent to go? I'm considering leaving this insane island where a small pile of red bricks sqeezed between two walls costs a fortune, all 'cos of currupt council politics blocking new housing development and massive lands reserved for midaeval aristocrats.
I wonder what George Orwell would've said about this.
What really pisses me off is that this second coming phenomenon has been used too often by labour to pass unpopular bills. When something proves massively unpopular, yield to public pressure and withdraw it, sleep on it for a while till people forget and then slip it when they hardly notice and public momentum has faded.
Blunkett has introduced the most ludicrous of suggestions and laws. I really don't see how he be a minister of anything. He has no respect for people. Not teachers or police officers. How is expanding investigatory powers to 500 other bodies, 500 other bodies!, will contribute to reducing crime and its prevention?
Oh wait, it's to help collect taxes, oh, wait, it's to save lives. Such sloppy excuses. Throw in your "noble" excuses, guys!
Crime in the UK is bad! bad! and the police aren't too bothered about it, most of the time they don't bother to investigate anything, they just take over the phone and advise you to contact your insurane company. Have you ever contacted the police about a theft or a burglary? They just don't give a damn! and yeah like any criminal would use email now that they know it's being snooped! Soooo retarded!
DAMNIT, I'M ANGRY!!!
And this retarded idea that "if you have nothing to hide you it shouldn't bother you" shows great ignorance of privacy rights, as if those concerned about privacy are actively criminal or have things to "hide". DAMNIT!!!!!!!
Does anyone know whether those small mini-itx or via epia boards are any good for clustering? Can i build a linux cluster out of them? It sounds like that could be fun, especially that they're pretty small, inexpensive, consume very little energy, and are quiet.
Even Oxford and Cambridge are lagging behind American universities like Harvard, Yale, Princeton.. etc.
Check out any lists such as Best MBAs or whatever, it'll mostly be American universities.
And Hey; even within the UK, new universities such as Manchester and others are becoming better than Oxford and Cambridge.
My girlfriend studied in American and English universities. Yes, English universities are more difficult but that difficulty comes out of ill-preparation on the part of the university and is ultimately unproductive and useless; it is difficulty in providing adequate teaching so the students have to suffer more. I have also heard from an American professor who works in an English university that it is easier to teach in the UK than the US because he'd need to put less work into his teaching. In the US, there is more attention given to making the student successful and preparing them for a successful future.
The UK educational system makes things unnecessarily difficult, in the English mentality more difficult is better, i guess this is a victorian remnant. The US system makes things easier by focusing on the things that matter, by allowing students to have more choice, and by producing students who are more confident, optimistic and creative.
I have experienced the American system of education and I have experienced the British too. I have attended two british universities. I would recommend an American school over a British one without hesitation.
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The term "trademark" includes any name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, (1) used by a person, or (2) which a person has a bona fide intention to use in commerce and applies to register . . . to identify and distinguish his or her goods, including a unique product, from those manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the source of goods, even if that source is unknown. 15 U.S.C.A. 1127. Trademark infringement has occurred where a use "is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association." 15 U.S.C. 115(a)(1)(A).
The burden of proof falls not upon the defendant, but the accuser.
It is Beatles' Apple that has to convince a judge or a jury that trade mark infringement has occured as defined above, in that it "is likely to cause confusion"... etc
As Apple computers is a highly identifiable, distinguishable and unique brand, this might be a difficult case for Apple music to prove.
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do you have to be rude to prove a point? rudeness is a sign of weak argument. It also makes me despise you.
There are many examples of trademark infringement cases that perhaps you could lookup; Beatles' Apple would have to prove consumer confusion and consequent damange to its business due to that confusion.
Some examples are; the microsoft and lindows, where the judge ruled consumers were unlikely to confuse the ubiquitous microsoft's windows with Lindows, the product of a small startup, and the foxnews vs al franken, where the judge ruled consumers are likely to be sophisticated enough to realize that Al Franken's book that uses the phrase "Fair and Balanced" in its title is unlikely to be have been endorsed by Foxnews. Those are just some that come to mind, there are many many others.
And Clean up your manners!
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It has relevance, "moron". Consumer confusion is the standard. Apple computers, being as famous as it is, is one of the most recognizable logos and coolest brands. Hardly anyone in that market segment, either musical, artistic or electronic, would confuse them with the Beatles' Apple.
While sitting in the passenger seat with my brother driving on a highway, he grabbed a nail-clipper from somewhere in his car and started clipping his nails; hands-off the steering wheel and eyes off the road!!!
" The U.S. District Court, Central District of California, has dismissed
a libel suit against Apple Computer brought by astronomer Carl Sagan.
The judge, J. Baird,
wrote:
"Plantiff's libel action is based on the allegation that
Defendant changed the 'code name' on its personal computer
from 'Carl Sagan' to 'Butt-Head Astronomer' after plaintiff
had requested that Defendant cease use of Plaintiff's name....
There can be no question that the use of the figurative term
'Butt-Head' negates the impression that Defendant was
seriously implying an assertion of fact. It strains reason to
conclude that Defendant was attempting to criticize
Plaintiff's reputation or competency as an astronomer. One
does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using
the undefined phrase 'butt-head.' Thus, the figurative
language militates against implying an assertion of fact....
Furthermore, the tenor of any communication of the
information, especially the phrase 'Butt-Head Astronomer,'
would negate the impression that Defendant was implying an
assertion of fact.""
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FreeBSD just recently got SMP, for chrissakes.
The emphasis in FreeBSD is on quality, not on including whatever is recent. I would argue that the SMP in FreeBSD is superior to that in linux.
Yes, linux has the latest, but FreeBSD has the better quality stuff.
Yes; FreeBSD's license is more free than the GPL. There's no doubt about that.
However, the GPL somewhat ensures the exchange and flux of code; I would argue that it is the GPL that makes the difference in momentum betwee linux and BSD. With BSD, people can use it however they see fit, with linux, they're sorta obliged to contribute back modifications if they use it.
Please enough with the signatures, "clippies", and links at the end of posts; They're distracting, enormously taxing on attention, irrelevant and useless to the topic discussed, and increasingly unfunny.
Please stop it, they're totally spoiling my Slashdot experience and i run a risk of losing interest in slashdot altogether thanks to them. I am also inclined to think negatively of people, and their opinions, whose signature/clippy/link at the end of post annoy me enormously.
I think the momentum linux has over Unix is a matter of its GPL license, which makes it widely and freely available, and ensures a constant flux, NOT that it's technically superior. I think it's generally established that Solaris or FreeBSD for example, are technically superior to linux, however, both Sun's proprietary or BSD licenses are the detriments of those two Unices in the face of the Linux onslaught. (do you like how I used Unices as a plural to Unix? I do.)
Linux, ironically, now fits into the legendary "worse is better" more so than Unix does.
They used to be my favourite source of news, along with zdnet, back in the nineties until I noticed they were too often pro-Microsoft; My observation was confirmed when I realized that Paul Allen, Mirosoft's co-founder, was a major, major investor in Zdnet/Cnet.
What often confused me about Kazaa was that the company behind it is called Sharman Something whereas the RIAA's guy is called Something Sherman.
Being a lazy reader, until I realized the two were different, skimming news articles was a source of confusion; A quote like "Sha/erman said..." often made me think, "Dude, make your mind up!"
This is a nonsense, lame excuse. This is the sort of unsubstantiated cliches that... i won't say.
You're totally overlooking the facts that cheap labor spends very little in the states and sends most of its money elsewhere. You're totally overlooking the fact that cheap labour is depriving a section of the American workers from income, which means spending power, which means money spent in the country, which means savings and investments within the country, which means taxes.
you're totally overlooking the fact that cheap labour contributes to massive unemployment.
I saw this article over an hour ago, not through slashdot, and i thought i had a story to submit due to misreading the sentence, though i guess the sentence itself was easy to misread.
If you click on Linux in Backgrounds it takes you to a page in the Economist's Research Tools section, there i read "In May 2003 Microsoft attacked on another front, signing a licensing agreement with SCO, which produces a proprietary brand of Unix and has launched a far-reaching copyright-infringment lawsuit against IBM."
On my first and second, and perhaps third, reading of the sentence i somehow thought that "and" belonged to Microsoft, meaning that microsoft launched a lawsuit against IBM. And i sorta wondered why they said that until i realized the "and" actually belonged to SCO. Try it, it still feels easy to misread.
I just read my post; how disturbing, my style is starting to sound like people who post on slashdot!
i think it's absurd that a one employee company with a single patent and no product or services can "rightfully" hold the web to ransome and cause as much havoc.
First of all, it would be reasonable to argue that there was "prior art", and i invite everyone to think up stuff like that to challenge the validity of that patent.
The other thing is that it really seems awfully "obvious", i really don't know what retard gave them that patent.
This is evidence that the patent law needs to be revised. It can not be said that a law that covered 19th century artifacts is well equipped to deal with the 21st century. There should truly be a law against patent squatting. I don't know how this can be implemented, since licensing sounds like a valid and reasonable business method. The law should really provide for chance to challenge a patent if it is reasonable to make an argument that it has been squatted. Though this might be difficult.
it would be an insane world if justice isn't served with the excuse of "time is up".
Truly outrageous!!!
Truly outrageous!!!
6000 responses treated as a single petition and then denying that there's been no fiddling with the numbers and no statistical manipulation! Not explaining how 8000 responses shrank to 2000!!
i'm outraged!!
I really fail to see the usefulness of 3D file managers or 3D desktops or whatever.
None of those I tried were ever useful, but again, maybe this one will be different, though that snapshot put me off immediately.
I guess they look cool, untill you actually use them, and having used similar things, that snapshot was a no no for me.
please lemme know if you make any such mini-itx cluster and how it works out for you; i'd be very interested in a mini-HowTo.
Where do you intent to go? I'm considering leaving this insane island where a small pile of red bricks sqeezed between two walls costs a fortune, all 'cos of currupt council politics blocking new housing development and massive lands reserved for midaeval aristocrats.
What immigration friendly lands do you know of?
I wonder what George Orwell would've said about this.
What really pisses me off is that this second coming phenomenon has been used too often by labour to pass unpopular bills. When something proves massively unpopular, yield to public pressure and withdraw it, sleep on it for a while till people forget and then slip it when they hardly notice and public momentum has faded.
Blunkett has introduced the most ludicrous of suggestions and laws. I really don't see how he be a minister of anything. He has no respect for people. Not teachers or police officers. How is expanding investigatory powers to 500 other bodies, 500 other bodies!, will contribute to reducing crime and its prevention?
Oh wait, it's to help collect taxes, oh, wait, it's to save lives. Such sloppy excuses. Throw in your "noble" excuses, guys!
Crime in the UK is bad! bad! and the police aren't too bothered about it, most of the time they don't bother to investigate anything, they just take over the phone and advise you to contact your insurane company. Have you ever contacted the police about a theft or a burglary? They just don't give a damn! and yeah like any criminal would use email now that they know it's being snooped! Soooo retarded!
DAMNIT, I'M ANGRY!!!
And this retarded idea that "if you have nothing to hide you it shouldn't bother you" shows great ignorance of privacy rights, as if those concerned about privacy are actively criminal or have things to "hide". DAMNIT!!!!!!!
aaaaaaargghhhh i hate them!! i viscerally do!
see more of these mods
That v8 engine is sure ugly.
Does anyone know whether those small mini-itx or via epia boards are any good for clustering? Can i build a linux cluster out of them? It sounds like that could be fun, especially that they're pretty small, inexpensive, consume very little energy, and are quiet.
does anyone have any links about that?
That's only 'cos Australia is sort of Englishy.
Even Oxford and Cambridge are lagging behind American universities like Harvard, Yale, Princeton.. etc.
Check out any lists such as Best MBAs or whatever, it'll mostly be American universities.
And Hey; even within the UK, new universities such as Manchester and others are becoming better than Oxford and Cambridge.
My girlfriend studied in American and English universities. Yes, English universities are more difficult but that difficulty comes out of ill-preparation on the part of the university and is ultimately unproductive and useless; it is difficulty in providing adequate teaching so the students have to suffer more. I have also heard from an American professor who works in an English university that it is easier to teach in the UK than the US because he'd need to put less work into his teaching. In the US, there is more attention given to making the student successful and preparing them for a successful future.
The UK educational system makes things unnecessarily difficult, in the English mentality more difficult is better, i guess this is a victorian remnant. The US system makes things easier by focusing on the things that matter, by allowing students to have more choice, and by producing students who are more confident, optimistic and creative.
I have experienced the American system of education and I have experienced the British too. I have attended two british universities. I would recommend an American school over a British one without hesitation.
The term "trademark" includes any name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, (1) used by a person, or (2) which a person has a bona fide intention to use in commerce and applies to register . . . to identify and distinguish his or her goods, including a unique product, from those manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the source of goods, even if that source is unknown. 15 U.S.C.A. 1127. Trademark infringement has occurred where a use "is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association." 15 U.S.C. 115(a)(1)(A).
The burden of proof falls not upon the defendant, but the accuser.
It is Beatles' Apple that has to convince a judge or a jury that trade mark infringement has occured as defined above, in that it "is likely to cause confusion"... etc
As Apple computers is a highly identifiable, distinguishable and unique brand, this might be a difficult case for Apple music to prove.
do you have to be rude to prove a point? rudeness is a sign of weak argument. It also makes me despise you.
There are many examples of trademark infringement cases that perhaps you could lookup; Beatles' Apple would have to prove consumer confusion and consequent damange to its business due to that confusion.
Some examples are; the microsoft and lindows, where the judge ruled consumers were unlikely to confuse the ubiquitous microsoft's windows with Lindows, the product of a small startup, and the foxnews vs al franken, where the judge ruled consumers are likely to be sophisticated enough to realize that Al Franken's book that uses the phrase "Fair and Balanced" in its title is unlikely to be have been endorsed by Foxnews. Those are just some that come to mind, there are many many others.
And Clean up your manners!
It has relevance, "moron". Consumer confusion is the standard. Apple computers, being as famous as it is, is one of the most recognizable logos and coolest brands. Hardly anyone in that market segment, either musical, artistic or electronic, would confuse them with the Beatles' Apple.
While sitting in the passenger seat with my brother driving on a highway, he grabbed a nail-clipper from somewhere in his car and started clipping his nails; hands-off the steering wheel and eyes off the road!!!
" The U.S. District Court, Central District of California, has dismissed a libel suit against Apple Computer brought by astronomer Carl Sagan. The judge, J. Baird, wrote:
"Plantiff's libel action is based on the allegation that Defendant changed the 'code name' on its personal computer from 'Carl Sagan' to 'Butt-Head Astronomer' after plaintiff had requested that Defendant cease use of Plaintiff's name.... There can be no question that the use of the figurative term 'Butt-Head' negates the impression that Defendant was seriously implying an assertion of fact. It strains reason to conclude that Defendant was attempting to criticize Plaintiff's reputation or competency as an astronomer. One does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrase 'butt-head.' Thus, the figurative language militates against implying an assertion of fact.... Furthermore, the tenor of any communication of the information, especially the phrase 'Butt-Head Astronomer,' would negate the impression that Defendant was implying an assertion of fact.""
Though i think it's total nonsense. Apple computers is more famous now than the Beatles' Apple.