When Microsoft starts to act somehow reasonable (PHP, Firefox support, etc.), it is sure feels very suspicious, so let's take everything with big spoon of salt.
First of all, I can see clearly why Microsoft done this - because of.NET. Like it or not, Miguel with it's Mono team have proven that C# is winning game if it is done right, t.i. multi-platform/free software style. Also we should take phrase "keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer" into account.
Well, it will be interesting. About "evil empire", bla bla bla - get grown up, Microsoft sure has need to dominate, and it has not been very trustworthy partner, but maybe they got a point - for them to remain on the top of the game, they should start to act a little bit less arrogant. Of course, it is wishful thinking, but...
Just to keep PHP services to migrate from buggy Windows to BSD/Linux. Anyway, this press release doesn't say any concrete things (When PHP wasn't usable under Windows?), so it is smell like PR dunk to give breathing space for Windows 2003 Server and Vista server.
I have read this long time ago, and I could simply say....
It is not that simple. This facade of democracy usually is very big facade. But if US stages it, it is very ok. But if there is someone who goes against current, he is labeled without any shred of doubt as dictator, murderer, violator of rights, etc.
As far as I read Wikipedia article - and there is no shame to link to good Wikipedia article like this, full of references and information - yeah, his regime is definetly in dead end, and lot of things what he has done is wrong. However, even media can paint this picture as someone would like to, and disinformation about Venezuela is quite big, if not huge (in both ways). So it is really hard to say.
I have to second that. I was very surprised that Firefox 2 restores ALL session - I mean, not only cookies, urls, and that stuff, but WHOLE state. Where you have been logged in, there you are.
For lot of advanced users it is a must. It is whole reason to use FF 2, nevermind other new features.
And yes, FF 2 has bugs. But in contrary of IE, I have NO doubts that sooner or later they will be fixed.
We all know that it hasn't to be at all intelectual (look at rap music), nor it is property, it is mererly time limited monopolies granted by goverment. You can't own text, you own rights setting rules for copying and distribution of it.
I know that this term is specially crafted and created to push law makers into thinking that it must be property, but let's not give up yet.
Disclaimer: I am serious Linux and GNU and GPL fan.
BUT I am saying that you no have any clue what you are talking about.
Stallman CAN'T DECIDE what is "freedom" for me, because it is VERY SUBJECTIVE WORD. All what he was done good was claiming minimal sets of "freedoms" in his GPLv2 licence. NOW what he wants is to impose NON-FREEDOMS, thinking, that in that way he will keep us all free. It is messing with his own version, just because he feels @!$#@%^^ by DRM and Patents.
Patents and DRM are bad, but GPL with restrictions on them are fucked up, perverted version of "freedom", not original, balansed one which was old version.
People want to have a freedom to watch Flash files. To watch WMA files. To use their video cards. Don't like it? Screw you, it is their version of "freedom".
Don't take this personal, but Stallman really doesn't know what freedom really means for others.
Some slashdoters already answered, but I will throw in some mine bits about it.
First of all, for disclaimer, I want to say that I am myself deeply in music and recording and I can say surely that big costs IS bullshit. Problem, frankly, is quite different. Equipment prices is dropping all the time, and quality of cheep tech grows and grows. Already you can do almost everything connected with tweaking of sound in computer and even commercial level software doesn't cost insane prices. I can agree what IS rising is cost of expertise - there is lack of specialists, good recording stuff, engineers, who really DIG acoustic physics. And let's not talk about producers. Thas ir real problem, but it is still not much enough to say that everything costs big.
Problem is more psyhological. You know John Nash, that smart American fella, who invented lot of game theories, and got Nobel prize? He said quite clearly - when there is too much bands who finds for only one place - be the most sold band in the world - then OF COURSE everyone will be fucked. And in the end no one will win.
And another, very small thing - when I play my songs or sing or present them to the web, I don't actually think or care how much popularity I will get. I have created these songs out of pure curiousity and will to say something. Ironically, this is biggest sales point for music - when it stands for itself and don't try to be like a whore. Then people buys record.
If the big music industry has to go for sake of music, let it be so. I think musicians will survive. And so their music and songs.
I think you are right. But we can extend this theory even more - RedHat propably is grewing some kinda of RHEL+JBoss+Postgresql combo, which easily can beat Oracle in price and reliability. So this is kinda Oracle answer.
Anyway, this will be interesting to watch. More options in market, more alternatives to Microsoft combo - I love that. And free software proves what it is worth.
Disclaimer: I don't play games for some 3 years. Never had console. And possibly will never have.
It is your rights to call a boycott, giving fingers to Sony, claiming it was illegal, saying that they will pay for their lesson.
But listen.
They did EVERYTHING legal. They protected THEIR trademark. For your information, all consoles, mobile phones, etc. electronic stuff should qualified to be used in EU and UK. Yeah, you can cry that Sony will rise prices for EU units, but blame them about THAT, but not about trademark.
They should be responsible about stuff what is sold under their trademark and name in Europe. Otherwise they can get in very hot water and no thousand geeks will help them.
Anyway, go back to your computers, consoles, CD players, tvs which propably has lot of Sony stuff inside. Yeah, I know, it is ironic and kinda sad, but Sony is BIG. Very BIG.
And believe me, PS3 will succeed. Again, how ironic.
Next time Apple will protect their trademark, you will trash all your iPods too? And how about Windows, maybe after such ignorance from Bill Gates and Balmer you should dump it? No? Need to do everyday's work?
You should have some magic disk there, because for me Windows installing (I am support/sysadmin for 10 years and I know what I talking about) NEVER have been "Insert CD, Setup automatically begins".
You surerly never have installed more than few Windows boxes. And no, Linux packages don't requires manual configuration. I have installed about 5 Ubuntus last months and I have NEVER touched config files. And I am quite good in console.
Wait, but it can't be that way that Linus simply doesn't want only freedom from blobs, commercial software, etc., but also a ACTUAL working hardware and software?
Linus is REALIST, RMS - IDEALIST. It is strange that usually it happens so that idealists are those who will ruin everything what is achieved practically (in this case, that good feeling that you belong to this community, etc.) just for a sake of ideals. Yes, ideals are important, but at what cost? What Tivo done so wrong? It is market, for fucking sake, go after some other such box who has a) Linux underneath and it b) allows hacking. Dreambox, for example.
And if such DRM is required to have unique checking? Like electronic voting? So, that way voting machines could not have GPLv3 licenced software? For what fucking sake? Just because you want to protest you can't play DRMed Windows Media files?
This all waving, calling Linus idiot, and rising RMS to skies is for NOTHING. DRM is NOTHING, it is just copyright protection. Yeah, you don't own music, movie, art work. Not before DMCA, not after. Not before Mickey copyright extention, not after. Either you own copyrights, or some given rights by copyright holder. Nothing else.
Don't get me wrong, I personally think that DRM is utterly stupid from marketing point of view, but companies usually listen to numbers, not common sense. So far common sense has proven it was right. And there is already voices appear from common crowd that they are against DRM. THAT way we should fight it - informing it, showing differences, why that is just stupid, not pushing such things in licences. Don't ruin something that does work.
Sorry for all flaming (you can mod me down if you like, I don't mind this time), but I have fed up with all this. I just tired of ill informed bashing and without-any-doubt attitude. Yes, ideals must be protected, but in CLEVER, TACTICFUL way. This is just making us all seperated, because we all understand freedom quite differently. Stallman should take his work - which is DEFINETLY IMPORTANT - to POLITICS. Keep politics out from computers and leave such decisions as DRM and Patents to users, very big thank you.
p.s. by the way, I have some disagreement with Linus in other cases, like GNOME vs. KDE, and RSM very frequently have been right on other topics (he is perfectly right about patent stuff and have very big insight in all this), so it is sure not black and white issue.
It is interesting that GIMP has stired real love/hate theme every time it has been discussed. For me, it is contrary - I love GIMP shortcuts, I love it's seperated windows, I dig it all functions... I know lot of simple users who use it without any problem. Yes, I like GIMP and see NOTHING wrong with it.
It is quite interesting also that mentioning GIMP as "easy to use" it somehow asking for flame war in sorta Photoshop versus GIMP, as this thread shows. Photoshop guys or simply someone who thinks that app should tell user how to work in five mins (every teacher in secondary school would play down such attitude, but hell, computers must be different, right?), won't even try, because they are confused how this could work.
But it works. I have worked with whole Adobe suite bunch, GIMP, Inkscape, lot of other commericial apps for working with pictures and graphics and I can say that GIMP interface is something unique and clever in this field. Sure, it has some rather important flaws, but they are not seen at first moment.
HOWEVER, I am not saying that those who dislike GIMP, are wrong. Simply generalising this is not right thing to do, because people has different tastes, way to learn and way to do things on computer.
Heh, no. Licence IS important, because it gives software THAT freedom you are looking for. Fact that you don't want to know or don't care doesn't change a fact that GPL and other licences GIVES that freedom for software. Otherwise you would not be able to download it LEGALY, use it LEGALY. Maybe you don't care about it, but developers do, because they will be the ones who will answer when someone will sue project.
And no, Free software and FSF don't care about wild addaptation. Why they should sacrifise principles they are founded on? IMHO some people simply don't get it - freedom comes with it's price and it's accepting legal issues and problems - like codecs, patents, DRM stuff. You think free software zealots are just very happy to make it difficult to use Windows Media, for example, on their boxes? Hell no, it is patents and fear of legistitation which blocks it.
For example, I simply tired of politics and all foreign politics bullshit, I want it simple. Let's live in peace, right?
If it were just that simple. But it is not. Get used to it.
Damn, this is freakingly nuts. Most of stuff reads like Reiser has lost his mind and definetly has been killed his ex-wife:( (In the begining I hoped that it was just checking) And it was heartbraking to read about her current boyfriend. Damn, that is simply hard.
Maybe you are right. Frankly, law doesn't think so. It is said that transmiter should not transmit in certain frequencies. Fine. You think it is easy to create such "blackouts" in certain places in freq. scale? It is almost impossible. So this is done in control level, which usually are...in driver.
Blame hardware designs. Blame thirty party chips, who has prioritary control mechanism. But that's a fuckin reality. Ohhh, and you can blame market too - more competitors, more rushed and cheap ass hardware, less freedom to modify and open their drivers and play with them.
So, by logic, human being who "commands" hardware should be responsible. Unfortunately, it was easy to blame vendors and put restrictions in silicon, nut in human's mind.
First, it is that beatiful and young woman is (propably) dead. Second, two childrens left behind, with no real parents looking after them now. This is serious fuckup, I know how it is to live without any attention and care and love. Third, it is stupid and sad situation for Reiser - if he is NOT guilty, then it is terrible to lost someone close (even if you are divorsing), or if he IS guilty, I don't believe any second that he planned to do this - everything is too obvious in this situation - and he did it out of passion and anger (as such happens when divorse comes - like reason of it, or outcome of it). And yeah, Fourth - Reiser maybe have been hyping his file system, but it wasn't so bad either, it has some interesting and good characteristics, so let's see real impact on ReiserFS yet, but any improvements definetly will be delayed for some time.
No, there is no real difference, because Americans - well, at least lot of them - know how big is North Korean army that casualties will be too high at American side to take any war with NK. Of course, if NK crosses border - drops bomb on some city, or gives serious signals to do that - then US will have to attack, as China and Japan too.
Huh, it _ALWAYS_ have been that and it is not like Microsoft is the only one who does it. Check out Adobe, Symantec, etc. licences.
That is why GPL is so good, keeping aside all political issues from RMS. It really gives benifits to users. It is not like commercial ventors have to use it, but anyway, it is interesting.
Errr, no, I think that force would be will to survive. It drives power. It drives greed. But if human understand this force, that these two things looses their importance.
Problem is, most of crowd who yearns for power don't get it AND don't want to get it. Because it is just so easy follow the flow.
I don't want to rant, but if you see FSF and RMS as visionary, then you should maybe form a religion:) Joke and flaming aside, I don't fully agree with RMS, and I don't fully agree with Linus either. So there is my point - maybe let's not take it to "black/white" level and "who is wrong/who is right" and let's find out what is really issues here?
From Linus point I could understand his disappointment - FSF simply ignored suggestions not to mess with DRM clauses, because it is whole reason RSM wants GPLv3. I see why RSM would want to do it, but I totally disagree with the way he tries to lead us there.
And for one, DRM is big, very big and will stay here, no matter how would you don't like it. Ignoring it - and patents too - would mean that we will be locked out from other world again. Maybe it is suitable for lot of free software users and developers, but not for majority and new, potencial users. From that point GPLv3 is big "na na na, we don't wanna hear the truth".
And for one, I am quite surprised so many personal attacks to Linus. And no, he is not weak project manager. Believe me, I have seen lot of them.
Google violate GPLv2 spirit HOW? Don't give good, juicy code from their server apps?! Maybe you would want some money from them in your stash too?:) What Google gives, is a SERVICE. Web pages are SERVICE, no product. Where is that part in GPL that covers services? Maybe then all docs written in Gedit or Abiword should also bee GPLed?
About hardware runs only signed binaries - yes, it is definetly issue, but I think it should not be solved in the way like this. Users should be smarter and should not buy hardware with hardwired DRM stuff like this. TiVO siply will continue to run GPLv2 kernel, and lot of other hardware manifacturers will avoid any GPL stuff, which is not neccessary good thing.
So for a moment, don't think it as black/white issue, because simply it is not, as much as RMS would like you to believe.
Maybe because you invent new algorithm to solve some software problem in first place, not to get patent on it?
It is like all that R&D cost - it is for YOUR product, for YOUR profit, so why in God's name you should give a change to patent it? Copycats? Copyright covers design, Apple already have used this deffence very frequently. Competitor's similar devices? Of course, if it is not why market is here in first place? Compete with price, features, etc.
But why patents? And don't give me a excuse that you won't have nothing to eat if you won't patent it. Yeah, right.
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When Microsoft starts to act somehow reasonable (PHP, Firefox support, etc.), it is sure feels very suspicious, so let's take everything with big spoon of salt.
.NET. Like it or not, Miguel with it's Mono team have proven that C# is winning game if it is done right, t.i. multi-platform/free software style. Also we should take phrase "keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer" into account.
First of all, I can see clearly why Microsoft done this - because of
Well, it will be interesting. About "evil empire", bla bla bla - get grown up, Microsoft sure has need to dominate, and it has not been very trustworthy partner, but maybe they got a point - for them to remain on the top of the game, they should start to act a little bit less arrogant. Of course, it is wishful thinking, but...
And yeah, it COULD be stunt to silence Oracle.
Just to keep PHP services to migrate from buggy Windows to BSD/Linux. Anyway, this press release doesn't say any concrete things (When PHP wasn't usable under Windows?), so it is smell like PR dunk to give breathing space for Windows 2003 Server and Vista server.
Of course, just my imho,
Peter.
I have read this long time ago, and I could simply say....
It is not that simple. This facade of democracy usually is very big facade. But if US stages it, it is very ok. But if there is someone who goes against current, he is labeled without any shred of doubt as dictator, murderer, violator of rights, etc.
As far as I read Wikipedia article - and there is no shame to link to good Wikipedia article like this, full of references and information - yeah, his regime is definetly in dead end, and lot of things what he has done is wrong. However, even media can paint this picture as someone would like to, and disinformation about Venezuela is quite big, if not huge (in both ways). So it is really hard to say.
He is not Hitler, for sure.
I have to second that. I was very surprised that Firefox 2 restores ALL session - I mean, not only cookies, urls, and that stuff, but WHOLE state. Where you have been logged in, there you are.
For lot of advanced users it is a must. It is whole reason to use FF 2, nevermind other new features.
And yes, FF 2 has bugs. But in contrary of IE, I have NO doubts that sooner or later they will be fixed.
We all know that it hasn't to be at all intelectual (look at rap music), nor it is property, it is mererly time limited monopolies granted by goverment. You can't own text, you own rights setting rules for copying and distribution of it.
I know that this term is specially crafted and created to push law makers into thinking that it must be property, but let's not give up yet.
Disclaimer: I am serious Linux and GNU and GPL fan.
BUT I am saying that you no have any clue what you are talking about.
Stallman CAN'T DECIDE what is "freedom" for me, because it is VERY SUBJECTIVE WORD. All what he was done good was claiming minimal sets of "freedoms" in his GPLv2 licence. NOW what he wants is to impose NON-FREEDOMS, thinking, that in that way he will keep us all free. It is messing with his own version, just because he feels @!$#@%^^ by DRM and Patents.
Patents and DRM are bad, but GPL with restrictions on them are fucked up, perverted version of "freedom", not original, balansed one which was old version.
People want to have a freedom to watch Flash files. To watch WMA files. To use their video cards. Don't like it? Screw you, it is their version of "freedom".
Don't take this personal, but Stallman really doesn't know what freedom really means for others.
Some slashdoters already answered, but I will throw in some mine bits about it.
First of all, for disclaimer, I want to say that I am myself deeply in music and recording and I can say surely that big costs IS bullshit. Problem, frankly, is quite different. Equipment prices is dropping all the time, and quality of cheep tech grows and grows. Already you can do almost everything connected with tweaking of sound in computer and even commercial level software doesn't cost insane prices. I can agree what IS rising is cost of expertise - there is lack of specialists, good recording stuff, engineers, who really DIG acoustic physics. And let's not talk about producers. Thas ir real problem, but it is still not much enough to say that everything costs big.
Problem is more psyhological. You know John Nash, that smart American fella, who invented lot of game theories, and got Nobel prize? He said quite clearly - when there is too much bands who finds for only one place - be the most sold band in the world - then OF COURSE everyone will be fucked. And in the end no one will win.
And another, very small thing - when I play my songs or sing or present them to the web, I don't actually think or care how much popularity I will get. I have created these songs out of pure curiousity and will to say something. Ironically, this is biggest sales point for music - when it stands for itself and don't try to be like a whore. Then people buys record.
If the big music industry has to go for sake of music, let it be so. I think musicians will survive. And so their music and songs.
I think you are right. But we can extend this theory even more - RedHat propably is grewing some kinda of RHEL+JBoss+Postgresql combo, which easily can beat Oracle in price and reliability. So this is kinda Oracle answer.
Anyway, this will be interesting to watch. More options in market, more alternatives to Microsoft combo - I love that. And free software proves what it is worth.
Disclaimer: I don't play games for some 3 years. Never had console. And possibly will never have.
It is your rights to call a boycott, giving fingers to Sony, claiming it was illegal, saying that they will pay for their lesson.
But listen.
They did EVERYTHING legal. They protected THEIR trademark. For your information, all consoles, mobile phones, etc. electronic stuff should qualified to be used in EU and UK. Yeah, you can cry that Sony will rise prices for EU units, but blame them about THAT, but not about trademark.
They should be responsible about stuff what is sold under their trademark and name in Europe. Otherwise they can get in very hot water and no thousand geeks will help them.
Anyway, go back to your computers, consoles, CD players, tvs which propably has lot of Sony stuff inside. Yeah, I know, it is ironic and kinda sad, but Sony is BIG. Very BIG.
And believe me, PS3 will succeed. Again, how ironic.
Next time Apple will protect their trademark, you will trash all your iPods too? And how about Windows, maybe after such ignorance from Bill Gates and Balmer you should dump it? No? Need to do everyday's work?
And you can choose to allow Firefox crash again OR launch a new session. Simple dialog box, use old, create new.
You should have some magic disk there, because for me Windows installing (I am support/sysadmin for 10 years and I know what I talking about) NEVER have been "Insert CD, Setup automatically begins".
You surerly never have installed more than few Windows boxes. And no, Linux packages don't requires manual configuration. I have installed about 5 Ubuntus last months and I have NEVER touched config files. And I am quite good in console.
Nice troll.
[cynical]Yeah, sure, Linus is evil[/cynical]
Wait, but it can't be that way that Linus simply doesn't want only freedom from blobs, commercial software, etc., but also a ACTUAL working hardware and software?
Linus is REALIST, RMS - IDEALIST. It is strange that usually it happens so that idealists are those who will ruin everything what is achieved practically (in this case, that good feeling that you belong to this community, etc.) just for a sake of ideals. Yes, ideals are important, but at what cost? What Tivo done so wrong? It is market, for fucking sake, go after some other such box who has a) Linux underneath and it b) allows hacking. Dreambox, for example.
And if such DRM is required to have unique checking? Like electronic voting? So, that way voting machines could not have GPLv3 licenced software? For what fucking sake? Just because you want to protest you can't play DRMed Windows Media files?
This all waving, calling Linus idiot, and rising RMS to skies is for NOTHING. DRM is NOTHING, it is just copyright protection. Yeah, you don't own music, movie, art work.
Not before DMCA, not after. Not before Mickey copyright extention, not after. Either you own copyrights, or some given rights by copyright holder. Nothing else.
Don't get me wrong, I personally think that DRM is utterly stupid from marketing point of view, but companies usually listen to numbers, not common sense. So far common sense has proven it was right. And there is already voices appear from common crowd that they are against DRM. THAT way we should fight it - informing it, showing differences, why that is just stupid, not pushing such things in licences. Don't ruin something that does work.
Sorry for all flaming (you can mod me down if you like, I don't mind this time), but I have fed up with all this. I just tired of ill informed bashing and without-any-doubt attitude. Yes, ideals must be protected, but in CLEVER, TACTICFUL way. This is just making us all seperated, because we all understand freedom quite differently. Stallman should take his work - which is DEFINETLY IMPORTANT - to POLITICS. Keep politics out from computers and leave such decisions as DRM and Patents to users, very big thank you.
p.s. by the way, I have some disagreement with Linus in other cases, like GNOME vs. KDE, and RSM very frequently have been right on other topics (he is perfectly right about patent stuff and have very big insight in all this), so it is sure not black and white issue.
Maybe because copyright infringement maybe is not such *moral* crime as robbery or killing people? :)
Naaahhh, it couldn't be. Otherwise those MPAA/RIAA guys should be filthy liars, right?
It is interesting that GIMP has stired real love/hate theme every time it has been discussed. For me, it is contrary - I love GIMP shortcuts, I love it's seperated windows, I dig it all functions... I know lot of simple users who use it without any problem. Yes, I like GIMP and see NOTHING wrong with it.
It is quite interesting also that mentioning GIMP as "easy to use" it somehow asking for flame war in sorta Photoshop versus GIMP, as this thread shows. Photoshop guys or simply someone who thinks that app should tell user how to work in five mins (every teacher in secondary school would play down such attitude, but hell, computers must be different, right?), won't even try, because they are confused how this could work.
But it works. I have worked with whole Adobe suite bunch, GIMP, Inkscape, lot of other commericial apps for working with pictures and graphics and I can say that GIMP interface is something unique and clever in this field. Sure, it has some rather important flaws, but they are not seen at first moment.
HOWEVER, I am not saying that those who dislike GIMP, are wrong. Simply generalising this is not right thing to do, because people has different tastes, way to learn and way to do things on computer.
Heh, no. Licence IS important, because it gives software THAT freedom you are looking for. Fact that you don't want to know or don't care doesn't change a fact that GPL and other licences GIVES that freedom for software. Otherwise you would not be able to download it LEGALY, use it LEGALY. Maybe you don't care about it, but developers do, because they will be the ones who will answer when someone will sue project.
And no, Free software and FSF don't care about wild addaptation. Why they should sacrifise principles they are founded on? IMHO some people simply don't get it - freedom comes with it's price and it's accepting legal issues and problems - like codecs, patents, DRM stuff. You think free software zealots are just very happy to make it difficult to use Windows Media, for example, on their boxes? Hell no, it is patents and fear of legistitation which blocks it.
For example, I simply tired of politics and all foreign politics bullshit, I want it simple. Let's live in peace, right?
If it were just that simple. But it is not.
Get used to it.
Damn, this is freakingly nuts. Most of stuff reads like Reiser has lost his mind and definetly has been killed his ex-wife :( (In the begining I hoped that it was just checking) And it was heartbraking to read about her current boyfriend. Damn, that is simply hard.
Sad.
Maybe you are right. Frankly, law doesn't think so. It is said that transmiter should not transmit in certain frequencies. Fine. You think it is easy to create such "blackouts" in certain places in freq. scale? It is almost impossible. So this is done in control level, which usually are...in driver.
Blame hardware designs. Blame thirty party chips, who has prioritary control mechanism. But that's a fuckin reality. Ohhh, and you can blame market too - more competitors, more rushed and cheap ass hardware, less freedom to modify and open their drivers and play with them.
So, by logic, human being who "commands" hardware should be responsible. Unfortunately, it was easy to blame vendors and put restrictions in silicon, nut in human's mind.
First, it is that beatiful and young woman is (propably) dead.
Second, two childrens left behind, with no real parents looking after them now. This is serious fuckup, I know how it is to live without any attention and care and love.
Third, it is stupid and sad situation for Reiser - if he is NOT guilty, then it is terrible to lost someone close (even if you are divorsing), or if he IS guilty, I don't believe any second that he planned to do this - everything is too obvious in this situation - and he did it out of passion and anger (as such happens when divorse comes - like reason of it, or outcome of it).
And yeah, Fourth - Reiser maybe have been hyping his file system, but it wasn't so bad either, it has some interesting and good characteristics, so let's see real impact on ReiserFS yet, but any improvements definetly will be delayed for some time.
So, this is definetly sad.
Maybe, but lot of things indicate if ANYTHING happened involving him, then this must be certainly crime of passion, not of clever planning.
No, there is no real difference, because Americans - well, at least lot of them - know how big is North Korean army that casualties will be too high at American side to take any war with NK. Of course, if NK crosses border - drops bomb on some city, or gives serious signals to do that - then US will have to attack, as China and Japan too.
Huh, it _ALWAYS_ have been that and it is not like Microsoft is the only one who does it. Check out Adobe, Symantec, etc. licences.
That is why GPL is so good, keeping aside all political issues from RMS. It really gives benifits to users. It is not like commercial ventors have to use it, but anyway, it is interesting.
Errr, no, I think that force would be will to survive. It drives power. It drives greed. But if human understand this force, that these two things looses their importance.
Problem is, most of crowd who yearns for power don't get it AND don't want to get it. Because it is just so easy follow the flow.
And I think you are very wrong here.
:) Joke and flaming aside, I don't fully agree with RMS, and I don't fully agree with Linus either. So there is my point - maybe let's not take it to "black/white" level and "who is wrong/who is right" and let's find out what is really issues here?
I don't want to rant, but if you see FSF and RMS as visionary, then you should maybe form a religion
From Linus point I could understand his disappointment - FSF simply ignored suggestions not to mess with DRM clauses, because it is whole reason RSM wants GPLv3. I see why RSM would want to do it, but I totally disagree with the way he tries to lead us there.
And for one, DRM is big, very big and will stay here, no matter how would you don't like it. Ignoring it - and patents too - would mean that we will be locked out from other world again. Maybe it is suitable for lot of free software users and developers, but not for majority and new, potencial users. From that point GPLv3 is big "na na na, we don't wanna hear the truth".
And for one, I am quite surprised so many personal attacks to Linus. And no, he is not weak project manager. Believe me, I have seen lot of them.
Ohhh budy, wait a minute...
:)
Google violate GPLv2 spirit HOW? Don't give good, juicy code from their server apps?! Maybe you would want some money from them in your stash too?
What Google gives, is a SERVICE. Web pages are SERVICE, no product. Where is that part in GPL that covers services? Maybe then all docs written in Gedit or Abiword should also bee GPLed?
About hardware runs only signed binaries - yes, it is definetly issue, but I think it should not be solved in the way like this. Users should be smarter and should not buy hardware with hardwired DRM stuff like this. TiVO siply will continue to run GPLv2 kernel, and lot of other hardware manifacturers will avoid any GPL stuff, which is not neccessary good thing.
So for a moment, don't think it as black/white issue, because simply it is not, as much as RMS would like you to believe.
Maybe because you invent new algorithm to solve some software problem in first place, not to get patent on it?
It is like all that R&D cost - it is for YOUR product, for YOUR profit, so why in God's name you should give a change to patent it? Copycats? Copyright covers design, Apple already have used this deffence very frequently. Competitor's similar devices? Of course, if it is not why market is here in first place? Compete with price, features, etc.
But why patents? And don't give me a excuse that you won't have nothing to eat if you won't patent it. Yeah, right.