You said: "If you are in an English class then that is the point of being there!"
Yes, if you're in Remedial English For Morons We Shouldn't Have Accepted In The First Place 101, that's the point of being there. If you're taking Postmodern Literary Theory or something, you're not there to learn grammar.
University level English courses do not exist to teach you grammar. That's what elementary school is for. Unless you're in a remedial writing course, you should already know English grammar.
Of course, by making such a statement, you're accepting the Bush administration's assertion that terrorists hate us because we're free. In reality, they don't care that we're free; they have other reasons for hating us.
If the US was a totalitarian dictatorship that strongly supported Israel and put troops in Saudi Arabia to protect our oil interests there and in Kuwait, Osama would hate us just as much as he does now. Freedom is orthagonal to the issue.
You figured wrong. Offering access to download the source code is not the same as including the source code with the binary. I suggest you read the GPL a few times before making pronouncements about what it says.
So if you give a copy of a GPL'ed program to your friend, you should be required to run a server from which anyone on the planet can download the source? That's ridiculous.
There's a big difference between making a backup of software you own and giving it to someone else. You have no "fair use" right to give software to your friends, and when you breach a NDA to do it, the argument becomes even more ridiculous.
I'll repeat myself: ADC members aren't buying copies of Tiger. They're members of an Apple program that gives them access to trade secrets. The ADC member agreement is nothing like an EULA.
I for one appreciated the attention to detail given by Apple when they sharpened all of the edges of the metal casing inside my Powermac 6100 to razor sharpness. Everyone knows that NuBus cards work better when they're covered in human blood.
You're not paying for a product. You're paying for membership, with includes certain privileges. One of these privileges is that you get confidential information from Apple so you can ready the software you develop to work with their new OS.
Have fun using that computer you built entirely from parts that weren't made by any corporation, by the way.
A library could do something like that. But only if they have a mechanism to ensure that the number of concurrent users for their electronic version of the book is less than or equal to the number of physical copies of the book in the library, not being used by patrons, at the time the ebook is being used.
Quite frankly, you're not going to find [m]any public libraries with the resources to digitize their entire collections and the desire to actually manage something like that. It would almost certainly be cheaper for them to license the books from the copyright holders for electronic use. And most of them aren't going to have the funds to do that, either.
Well, I consider malware to be any software written by someone with a z in their slashdot name. Therefore, if you've ever written a single line of code in your life, you're an unethical purveyor of malware and should be shunned by the community.
Hey, if you can blatantly redefine terms, so can I.
That's odd. Most normal people refer to it as "that proof that Texans are a bunch of idiots who can't find anything better to celebrate than getting their asses whupped by a bunch of Mexicans."
Umm, I can have every user with an account on my OS X box logged in remotely at the same time I'm using the console. OS X isn't "unlike UNIX" in any way. It is Unix.
Informative? This guy's either an idiot or a troll.
Look, if you want to listen to indy crap I won't judge your taste in music, but only as long as you don't judge the 99% of the population who likes some music owned by the major labels.
If your beloved indy artists were any good, most of them would sell out to the major labels in a second.
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Wow, this GPL thing is neat.
You couldn't possibly be even a little bit more wrong.
Yes, if you're in Remedial English For Morons We Shouldn't Have Accepted In The First Place 101, that's the point of being there. If you're taking Postmodern Literary Theory or something, you're not there to learn grammar.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct. And that, my friends, is how Hermes requisitioned his groove back.
University level English courses do not exist to teach you grammar. That's what elementary school is for. Unless you're in a remedial writing course, you should already know English grammar.
If the US was a totalitarian dictatorship that strongly supported Israel and put troops in Saudi Arabia to protect our oil interests there and in Kuwait, Osama would hate us just as much as he does now. Freedom is orthagonal to the issue.
You figured wrong. Offering access to download the source code is not the same as including the source code with the binary. I suggest you read the GPL a few times before making pronouncements about what it says.
Sure, if by "rarely" you mean "in every single case of GPLed software you can name".
You're not. For noncommercial distribution, you can provide a copy of the offer to get the source that you received with your copy of the binary.
So if you give a copy of a GPL'ed program to your friend, you should be required to run a server from which anyone on the planet can download the source? That's ridiculous.
I'll repeat myself: ADC members aren't buying copies of Tiger. They're members of an Apple program that gives them access to trade secrets. The ADC member agreement is nothing like an EULA.
Well, if you want to come down to the storage facility I run and scan a hundred thousand old books and stick RFID tags in them from free, be my guest.
I for one appreciated the attention to detail given by Apple when they sharpened all of the edges of the metal casing inside my Powermac 6100 to razor sharpness. Everyone knows that NuBus cards work better when they're covered in human blood.
Have fun using that computer you built entirely from parts that weren't made by any corporation, by the way.
Quite frankly, you're not going to find [m]any public libraries with the resources to digitize their entire collections and the desire to actually manage something like that. It would almost certainly be cheaper for them to license the books from the copyright holders for electronic use. And most of them aren't going to have the funds to do that, either.
Hey, if you can blatantly redefine terms, so can I.
You must be new here.
So my entire OS qualifies as malware?
If you're claiming you own the intangible music encoded on that CD or DVD, you're a hypocrite. You just claimed that it can't be owned.
Trying to tell people on Slashdot how to get Mono is kind of pointless. First you've got to talk to a girl.
That's odd. Most normal people refer to it as "that proof that Texans are a bunch of idiots who can't find anything better to celebrate than getting their asses whupped by a bunch of Mexicans."
Right. And in Slashdot articles about Fermat's Last Theorem, we should all expect Fermat's name to be replaced by "some French math dude".
Informative? This guy's either an idiot or a troll.
chsh(1) worked just fine to change my shell. HTH.
If your beloved indy artists were any good, most of them would sell out to the major labels in a second.