I guess it could still be OK if the GPL v3 allowed you to say "Parts of this bulletin board use code from PHPBB (get it here). You don't have to release the source for your code, while still providing a link to the original GPLed source.
Indians have been discussing these same issues since independance. Unfortunately, that's all we seem to do - discuss. We Indians are also very good at pulling down anyone who's even remotely successful. Hence we continue to languish far behind on most health indicators, inspite of having produced numerous very fine physicians.
And the govenment has only helped to make matters worse, by pretty much ignoring the rural sector. However, the best hope for the country is that the rising middle class will eventually force a change.
Actually, in Firefox, you cannot disable the bar at the bottom via javascript, and for secure sites, it shows the domain name (like addons.mozilla.org). This is enough to defeat phishing attacks as described in the parent post.
Of course, you still need to educate users about this feature. The idea that customized themes will help defeat these attacks still holds, though.
Just go ahead and document your vision and start an open source project on SourceForge. At best, you'll find other people who share your vision and help you bring it to fruition. At worst, it'll be just like the thousands of other projects languishing in the "Planning" phase.
In any case, you won't complete it if you never start it.
You know what, if the spammers really started a large scale war that cripples the internet, more people would wake up to the menace and maybe the law enforcement agencies would finally take notice. If DDOS attacks by the spammers starts to affect commercial operations, I think the problem might quickly get solved. Right now, spam is an annoyance but its not really costing businesses millions of dollars.
Firstly, "support" includes making custom changes to the code. Secondly, you make it seem like Red Hat are somehow leeching on Linus, which is absolutely not true. Red Hat (and many other companies) provide developers who work on improving Linux. I've never heard Linus complain about the Red Hat execs being much richer than him - I'm sure in his value system it doesn't matter. Money isn't everything - even you don't seem to know the names of the Red Hat execs, while Linus is a household name.
I understand that it's distasteful to people like you who prefer the BSD or a similar licence. And I agree, except that I see the GPL as more of a means to and end. Sometimes the means can be unpleasant.
However, my comment was more for the increasingly larger number of slashbots that support all kinds of proprietary licences and find the GPL not to their liking. I'm sad because it looks like we're winning the battle on one level but losing the war on another level. Too many people just don't give a damn about some basic freedoms.
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Uhh!! I'm not a vegetarian, and I'd still feel uncomfortable wearing a fir coat dripping with blodd - just imagine the stink!
very often, in the software world, the "cost" includes things like support - now would you rather get support from the authors of the software, or from some noname giving away the same software for free? Larger corporations would pay and freeloaders like me will go with the free version. To each his/her own.
Oh! and another point, nobody is forcing you to distribute your code under the GPL - you're free to use the licence of your choice. Use the BSD licence if it pleases you, or use a proprietary "All your base are belong to us" EULA if you wish. It's up to the users of your software to decide whether to accept your licence. I find it rather sad that there's so much vitriole against GPL, many times from people who don't even seem to have read the licence.
With the kind of power that the president has, how difficult would it be to just refuse to step down after your term was up?
Let's say there was a war with Iran going on and the President claimed that it was necessary that he remain in power to finish this war, or let's say that suddenly Osama Bin Laden was found (but not caught) and the President wanted to stay in office till Bin Laden was caught.
I can clearly see some scenarios that could be cooked up to bypass the term limits, and maybe even to bypass the elections itself. But how much support will Bush get if he decides to do this?
Aptly enough, the rendering engine for Firefox is being completely reworked - and the reworked engine is Acid2 compliant. Of course, you can only get this by downloading a cvs branch and building it yourself. But the point is, the Firefox people are working on it - which is more than I can say for MS.
One of the most successful terrorist organizations out there is the LTTE. They pioneered most of the techniques used by Islamic Jihadists today. They assassinated the head of state (or former head of state) of not one but two countries (and many more people).
Just spend 5 minutes searching for news about the LTTE and you will realize where you are wrong - terrorism has nothing to do with religion, and more to do with power.
The lack of good stories is also why many of the current generation of games suck, especially RPGs. Games like Fallout or Planescape:Torment could be made into pretty decent movies, because they have good stories.
Ah! But can it run on Linux, BSD, beOS, whathaveyouOS? That's where the proprietary nature comes in - MS gets to decide where it can run, not the consumer!
Exactly, Ebert seems to think that just because the creator does not control how his/her creation is consumed, it is no longer art. And I think that's a pretty narrow view - one could argue that we view Shakespeare's work very differently today than he intended them to be - that does not make them any less 'art'.
Also consider that some artists definitely look for more 'interactive' media - some sculptures come to mind, and I seem to recall that there have been stage plays where the audience is asked to participate. Not many, but it's been a part of the art scene. Video games just take this to a whole new dimension - which is a good thing, IMHO.
Heh! It's pretty well known that #debian is quite n00b-unfriendly. On the other hand, I would hope that users new to Linux would start with a different distro - Ubuntu, if you want to be debian-based.
I think what the OP was trying to say is that only a small fraction of artistic work is still relevant after 100+ years, but the current copyright situation locks up all works for the same time. If any new artists want to draw their inspiration from earlier art, they now have to look back 4+ generations, which is mostly going to be pretty irrelevant.
I personally would prefer to have copyrights apply for say 30 years, but it could be extensible for another 30 years on paying a certain amount of fee. Allow a maximum of 3 extensions.
This way artists can have more say in how long their copyright should be valid. Of course, they can currently release their work to the public domain - but that requires active intervention, while this would be a passive way. Also organizations like the **AA would be more inclined to let the copyright expire for stuff they feel is not so popular - which may result in socme of these music/movies being copied or spoofed and becoming popular again.
The study of the effects of a particular belief on a part of society does not require the proof that the belief itself is true or false, or that the opposing belief (if it truly even is opposing necessarily) be prove or disprove either.
Well said - wish I had mod points. This is the point that most people are missing.
More people spouting the FUD about how the GPL is "viral". MS have already started winning the FUD war, and I'm very much afraid this "Linux Lab" will result in only more FUD.
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I guess it could still be OK if the GPL v3 allowed you to say "Parts of this bulletin board use code from PHPBB (get it here). You don't have to release the source for your code, while still providing a link to the original GPLed source.
Indians have been discussing these same issues since independance. Unfortunately, that's all we seem to do - discuss. We Indians are also very good at pulling down anyone who's even remotely successful. Hence we continue to languish far behind on most health indicators, inspite of having produced numerous very fine physicians. And the govenment has only helped to make matters worse, by pretty much ignoring the rural sector. However, the best hope for the country is that the rising middle class will eventually force a change.
Actually, in Firefox, you cannot disable the bar at the bottom via javascript, and for secure sites, it shows the domain name (like addons.mozilla.org). This is enough to defeat phishing attacks as described in the parent post.
Of course, you still need to educate users about this feature. The idea that customized themes will help defeat these attacks still holds, though.
You have to remember that Steve Jobs now has a big stake in Disney. I'm sure that explains a lot of the pro-DRM stance emanating from Apple.
I prefer to use SciTe - it's really lightweight - supports code folding, syntax highlighting and it's open source.
Just go ahead and document your vision and start an open source project on SourceForge. At best, you'll find other people who share your vision and help you bring it to fruition. At worst, it'll be just like the thousands of other projects languishing in the "Planning" phase.
In any case, you won't complete it if you never start it.
Curious how it's always a one-way street with MS - they want all other work to be in the public domain, except their own, of course.
You know what, if the spammers really started a large scale war that cripples the internet, more people would wake up to the menace and maybe the law enforcement agencies would finally take notice. If DDOS attacks by the spammers starts to affect commercial operations, I think the problem might quickly get solved. Right now, spam is an annoyance but its not really costing businesses millions of dollars.
Yup, really good thing that people like you give in so easily to the spammers. You make me sick!
Ummm.. just select "Errors" to be displayed instead of "All". That will filter out all the unnecessary warnings.
Firstly, "support" includes making custom changes to the code. Secondly, you make it seem like Red Hat are somehow leeching on Linus, which is absolutely not true. Red Hat (and many other companies) provide developers who work on improving Linux. I've never heard Linus complain about the Red Hat execs being much richer than him - I'm sure in his value system it doesn't matter. Money isn't everything - even you don't seem to know the names of the Red Hat execs, while Linus is a household name.
I understand that it's distasteful to people like you who prefer the BSD or a similar licence. And I agree, except that I see the GPL as more of a means to and end. Sometimes the means can be unpleasant.
However, my comment was more for the increasingly larger number of slashbots that support all kinds of proprietary licences and find the GPL not to their liking. I'm sad because it looks like we're winning the battle on one level but losing the war on another level. Too many people just don't give a damn about some basic freedoms.
Uhh!! I'm not a vegetarian, and I'd still feel uncomfortable wearing a fir coat dripping with blodd - just imagine the stink!
very often, in the software world, the "cost" includes things like support - now would you rather get support from the authors of the software, or from some noname giving away the same software for free? Larger corporations would pay and freeloaders like me will go with the free version. To each his/her own.
Oh! and another point, nobody is forcing you to distribute your code under the GPL - you're free to use the licence of your choice. Use the BSD licence if it pleases you, or use a proprietary "All your base are belong to us" EULA if you wish. It's up to the users of your software to decide whether to accept your licence. I find it rather sad that there's so much vitriole against GPL, many times from people who don't even seem to have read the licence.
I can clearly see some scenarios that could be cooked up to bypass the term limits, and maybe even to bypass the elections itself. But how much support will Bush get if he decides to do this?
Aptly enough, the rendering engine for Firefox is being completely reworked - and the reworked engine is Acid2 compliant. Of course, you can only get this by downloading a cvs branch and building it yourself. But the point is, the Firefox people are working on it - which is more than I can say for MS.
One of the most successful terrorist organizations out there is the LTTE. They pioneered most of the techniques used by Islamic Jihadists today. They assassinated the head of state (or former head of state) of not one but two countries (and many more people).
Just spend 5 minutes searching for news about the LTTE and you will realize where you are wrong - terrorism has nothing to do with religion, and more to do with power.
The lack of good stories is also why many of the current generation of games suck, especially RPGs. Games like Fallout or Planescape:Torment could be made into pretty decent movies, because they have good stories.
Ah! But can it run on Linux, BSD, beOS, whathaveyouOS? That's where the proprietary nature comes in - MS gets to decide where it can run, not the consumer!
Exactly, Ebert seems to think that just because the creator does not control how his/her creation is consumed, it is no longer art. And I think that's a pretty narrow view - one could argue that we view Shakespeare's work very differently today than he intended them to be - that does not make them any less 'art'.
Also consider that some artists definitely look for more 'interactive' media - some sculptures come to mind, and I seem to recall that there have been stage plays where the audience is asked to participate. Not many, but it's been a part of the art scene. Video games just take this to a whole new dimension - which is a good thing, IMHO.
Heh! It's pretty well known that #debian is quite n00b-unfriendly. On the other hand, I would hope that users new to Linux would start with a different distro - Ubuntu, if you want to be debian-based.
I think what the OP was trying to say is that only a small fraction of artistic work is still relevant after 100+ years, but the current copyright situation locks up all works for the same time. If any new artists want to draw their inspiration from earlier art, they now have to look back 4+ generations, which is mostly going to be pretty irrelevant.
I personally would prefer to have copyrights apply for say 30 years, but it could be extensible for another 30 years on paying a certain amount of fee. Allow a maximum of 3 extensions.
This way artists can have more say in how long their copyright should be valid. Of course, they can currently release their work to the public domain - but that requires active intervention, while this would be a passive way. Also organizations like the **AA would be more inclined to let the copyright expire for stuff they feel is not so popular - which may result in socme of these music/movies being copied or spoofed and becoming popular again.
Well said - wish I had mod points. This is the point that most people are missing.
More people spouting the FUD about how the GPL is "viral". MS have already started winning the FUD war, and I'm very much afraid this "Linux Lab" will result in only more FUD.