Any thoughts on how the following rule would help the patent system?: Make patents non transferable.
Now if you are working for a company, or with someone, patenet ownership can be split how ever initially agreed on (I'm a 5% owner of a patent from a pervious job), but this stops a single company, with no product, history, or karma backing it, from buying up bunched of patents and suing major companies trying to sell their product.
The fact that many pay for RHEL basically (or just use it anyway via CentOS) speaks to the concerns people have about FOSS release management in general. If they trusted upstream maintainers to do the job right then Red Hat would go out of business.
Even if every upstream maintainer was perfect, there is still a lot to do to maintain a linux distro. Didn't RH do a billion$ in business last year? I assume some of that is in selling SOMETHING related to RHEL.
I do not think you have an accurate understanding of Redhat platform's business model in conjunction with the challenges of maintaining and versioning software. In my experience, people pay for RHEL for any number of the following reasons: 1) A guarantee not to break ABI for a given x.y version of RHEL, this means that your business software will still run after an update 2) An attempt to backport security fixes to software that the maintainer wouldn't. Think about this in conjunction with the previous point. For example, if an upstream product changes their interface, then rhel can just pull it in, because it would break all dependent software. But if the upstream changes, and then they issue a security fix, RHEL has determine if the security fix is needed, and then backport that change to the older software to maintain both security and compatibility- something that most projects wouldn't attempt to do. Because they are focussed on just making the single best piece of software, not a backwards compatible ecosystem (ain't nobody got time for that- well, I guess RHEL does) 3) They sell support. (this has been covered many times in/. discussions) 4) They sell many other business "middleware" services that all run on rhel. So the cost of rhel get wrapped up in the entire package. [They might want a JBOSS application server to replace one of it's more expensive competitors, and they pay RH to do some of the hard porting, well, their RH engineer, and RH consultant developed the demo on RHEL so that is what ended up getting installed.
Partial Disclosure: I have friends that work for redhat; and I respect/appreciate the job they've done with linux in the business world.
This, for me, is the benefit of printed out slides. Enough that I can take just a few notes of important things only said, with out me having to spend too much of my time just taking dictation and not being able to think/understand/ask questions in class..
Law school works - people who really want to be lawyers can go there, work hard, and become a lawyer. AA works the same - addicts who really want to be sober can go there, work hard, and become sober.
That is a poor argument. By that logic, my room, "the school of EVERYTHING" works. Anything I ever did right, you can do it too, if you just go to my room.
To prove that something works, you have to prove that it is better than the sugar pill. For law school, you'd have to prove that people who goest to law school has a higher chance of passing the bar than those who take the bar after only self study. To truly prove it you'd need a random sampling. This will be almost impossible because noone will participate in a double-blind way because the kinds of people who go to lawschool aren't the kinds of people who participate in double blind studies.
To prove that AA works, you'd have to prove that going to AA had a higher chance of quitting drinking for a significant period of time than just trying by yourself.
So, I was researching to comment/argue with a previous post and typed into google "goal of the nsa"- and the first link was: http://www.nsa.gov/about/strategic_plan/
Coincidentally that returned "Internal Server Error...unable to complete your request."
The reason to go to a different planet in general is because, eventually, the earth will get destroyed. There will be an apocalyptic event, and almost nothing on earth will survive. So, we need to begin planning for that eventuality. For the same reason we do backups, we need to learn to live on mars.
Killing to feed your family is different psychologically then just killing.. People who kill hundreds of animals per day either develop psychological problems or already have them. and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonald_triad
Consider learning then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia%E2%80%93United_States_relations
They let the US build air bases there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_Saudi_Arabia)
They public support US, and the US has a good economic relationship with them. You want the US to invade over them threatening to ban an App? after they just sold a 60billion$ arms package to them! The US would lose soldiers to their own weapons, how do you think that would play domestically?!
Your logic could also be easily used to justify lower pay for women (they tend to get pregnant and leave you in a lurch), fewer promotions (same reason) and probably other things I haven't thought of.
Not really. There are a couple wonderful studies showing that women get OFFERED lower pay for the same job, not, rose too slowly due to babies. Also, getting pregnant give you a 9month'ish window for planning- last I checked most men who leave their jobs don't give more than about 2 weeks notice.
The only reason people need to chill there beer so much is because it tastes so bad. Cold things simply taste less. If you have a drink that tasted good, you wouldn't need to drink it at near freezing temperatures.
You shouldn't use speeding tickets to determine what you're going. You should look at your bloody speedo.
You missed one. You need to look at the speed limits too.
I lived in a city where the speed limit could change about 15 times on my way home, from 25-35-40 and back again. If I simply don't see speed limit sign on my new route, yes, it is my fault, but do I deserve 2-3 tickets for it because they have to mail the tickets to me? The instantaneous response of being pulled over is much different. They have my phone number, they could call me the same day after it is "reviewed by a police officer", they are supposed to- but they don't; and I've seen automated tickets that were clearly false and yet rubber stamped and sent on anyways. The point is that it is legal harassment when they get it wrong out of laziness, it costs me a LOT of money to fight a ticket. I have to take time off work, it is only "worth" it for the principal- not for the money.
WTF are you talking about. With SecureBoot, you are allowed to add keys at will. MS is fighting a real problem: if an attacker can boot a kernel before yours, you have no security.
What the linux community was worried about, is the inability of an AUTOMATED install of linux over your new WINDOWS 8 READY PC, because now the user would first have to enter BIOS and add a new trusted key.
Redhat's solution was to get a boot-loader signed by MS so that it was already pre-trusted by these same WINDOWS 8 READY PCs.
that is not a minor problem in this usecase. You might be used to system that always have direct access to an up-to-date RL, but in this case THE BIOS would have to have access to an up-to-date RL. How? This is the least up-to-date part of a machine. That is, by common use, the BIOS will almost never be up to date enough to revoke the key of the newest [broken] key.
I think that this is the opposite of true. Unlike the democracy of the United states, leaving is not really an easy option for most people who are upset with it's rulers, while the capitalism of choice is alive and well in religion. I can go down the street and give my money to a completely different denomination or religion entirely. The pope might not care what people think of him, but the Catholic Church sure does. Finally, Unlike a country, the church HAS to care about it's PR. Its income (tithes) is basically voluntary.
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Any thoughts on how the following rule would help the patent system?:
Make patents non transferable.
Now if you are working for a company, or with someone, patenet ownership can be split how ever initially agreed on (I'm a 5% owner of a patent from a pervious job), but this stops a single company, with no product, history, or karma backing it, from buying up bunched of patents and suing major companies trying to sell their product.
Agree, just wanted to drop this info here:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/20/news/economy/occupy_wall_street_income/index.htm
The fact that many pay for RHEL basically (or just use it anyway via CentOS) speaks to the concerns people have about FOSS release management in general. If they trusted upstream maintainers to do the job right then Red Hat would go out of business.
Even if every upstream maintainer was perfect, there is still a lot to do to maintain a linux distro. Didn't RH do a billion$ in business last year? I assume some of that is in selling SOMETHING related to RHEL.
I do not think you have an accurate understanding of Redhat platform's business model in conjunction with the challenges of maintaining and versioning software. /. discussions)
In my experience, people pay for RHEL for any number of the following reasons:
1) A guarantee not to break ABI for a given x.y version of RHEL, this means that your business software will still run after an update
2) An attempt to backport security fixes to software that the maintainer wouldn't. Think about this in conjunction with the previous point. For example, if an upstream product changes their interface, then rhel can just pull it in, because it would break all dependent software. But if the upstream changes, and then they issue a security fix, RHEL has determine if the security fix is needed, and then backport that change to the older software to maintain both security and compatibility- something that most projects wouldn't attempt to do. Because they are focussed on just making the single best piece of software, not a backwards compatible ecosystem (ain't nobody got time for that- well, I guess RHEL does)
3) They sell support. (this has been covered many times in
4) They sell many other business "middleware" services that all run on rhel. So the cost of rhel get wrapped up in the entire package. [They might want a JBOSS application server to replace one of it's more expensive competitors, and they pay RH to do some of the hard porting, well, their RH engineer, and RH consultant developed the demo on RHEL so that is what ended up getting installed.
Partial Disclosure: I have friends that work for redhat; and I respect/appreciate the job they've done with linux in the business world.
Everything my parents ever told me was a lie :tears:
This, for me, is the benefit of printed out slides. Enough that I can take just a few notes of important things only said, with out me having to spend too much of my time just taking dictation and not being able to think/understand/ask questions in class..
I would fear lawsuit on equal-opprotunity grounds in a public university setting.
Law school works - people who really want to be lawyers can go there, work hard, and become a lawyer. AA works the same - addicts who really want to be sober can go there, work hard, and become sober.
That is a poor argument. By that logic, my room, "the school of EVERYTHING" works. Anything I ever did right, you can do it too, if you just go to my room.
To prove that something works, you have to prove that it is better than the sugar pill. For law school, you'd have to prove that people who goest to law school has a higher chance of passing the bar than those who take the bar after only self study. To truly prove it you'd need a random sampling. This will be almost impossible because noone will participate in a double-blind way because the kinds of people who go to lawschool aren't the kinds of people who participate in double blind studies.
To prove that AA works, you'd have to prove that going to AA had a higher chance of quitting drinking for a significant period of time than just trying by yourself.
damit, it is back up now- Oh well. It was funny for me.
So, I was researching to comment/argue with a previous post and typed into google "goal of the nsa"- and the first link was: http://www.nsa.gov/about/strategic_plan/
Coincidentally that returned "Internal Server Error...unable to complete your request."
HAH!
The reason to go to a different planet in general is because, eventually, the earth will get destroyed. There will be an apocalyptic event, and almost nothing on earth will survive. So, we need to begin planning for that eventuality. For the same reason we do backups, we need to learn to live on mars.
You're joking, but in someway this is the classic "teach a man to fish" vs "give a man a fish"
Killing to feed your family is different psychologically then just killing.. People who kill hundreds of animals per day either develop psychological problems or already have them.
and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonald_triad
forced to pay to rebuild a house that some millionaire put up on a barrier island on the coast.
When has this ever happened?
Consider learning then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia%E2%80%93United_States_relations
They let the US build air bases there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_Saudi_Arabia)
They public support US, and the US has a good economic relationship with them. You want the US to invade over them threatening to ban an App? after they just sold a 60billion$ arms package to them! The US would lose soldiers to their own weapons, how do you think that would play domestically?!
AC FOR DIMPLIMAT OF THE YEAR- I don't think so.
The human torso was not exactly private property.
I can't think of anything more private.
So do you always make things up to make people feel bad? Or just when the TSA is involved?
Millimeter length waves are not known to decrease life expectancy [in non-boiling power ranges].
It has to do with the compiler optimizations that profile code more than it has to do with code bloat.
Hah, then you'd never receive a call
I loved how in cardassian mysteries everyone is guilty, and the fun part is figuring out how they did it.
Your logic could also be easily used to justify lower pay for women (they tend to get pregnant and leave you in a lurch), fewer promotions (same reason) and probably other things I haven't thought of.
Not really. There are a couple wonderful studies showing that women get OFFERED lower pay for the same job, not, rose too slowly due to babies.
Also, getting pregnant give you a 9month'ish window for planning- last I checked most men who leave their jobs don't give more than about 2 weeks notice.
The only reason people need to chill there beer so much is because it tastes so bad. Cold things simply taste less. If you have a drink that tasted good, you wouldn't need to drink it at near freezing temperatures.
You shouldn't use speeding tickets to determine what you're going. You should look at your bloody speedo.
You missed one. You need to look at the speed limits too.
I lived in a city where the speed limit could change about 15 times on my way home, from 25-35-40 and back again. If I simply don't see speed limit sign on my new route, yes, it is my fault, but do I deserve 2-3 tickets for it because they have to mail the tickets to me? The instantaneous response of being pulled over is much different. They have my phone number, they could call me the same day after it is "reviewed by a police officer", they are supposed to- but they don't; and I've seen automated tickets that were clearly false and yet rubber stamped and sent on anyways. The point is that it is legal harassment when they get it wrong out of laziness, it costs me a LOT of money to fight a ticket. I have to take time off work, it is only "worth" it for the principal- not for the money.
WTF are you talking about. With SecureBoot, you are allowed to add keys at will. MS is fighting a real problem: if an attacker can boot a kernel before yours, you have no security.
What the linux community was worried about, is the inability of an AUTOMATED install of linux over your new WINDOWS 8 READY PC, because now the user would first have to enter BIOS and add a new trusted key.
Redhat's solution was to get a boot-loader signed by MS so that it was already pre-trusted by these same WINDOWS 8 READY PCs.
that is not a minor problem in this usecase. You might be used to system that always have direct access to an up-to-date RL, but in this case THE BIOS would have to have access to an up-to-date RL. How? This is the least up-to-date part of a machine. That is, by common use, the BIOS will almost never be up to date enough to revoke the key of the newest [broken] key.
I think that this is the opposite of true. Unlike the democracy of the United states, leaving is not really an easy option for most people who are upset with it's rulers, while the capitalism of choice is alive and well in religion. I can go down the street and give my money to a completely different denomination or religion entirely. The pope might not care what people think of him, but the Catholic Church sure does. Finally, Unlike a country, the church HAS to care about it's PR. Its income (tithes) is basically voluntary.