What are the exact terms of the exclusive license? Is it a license non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevokable, perpetual license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display the software?
For sure we are talking about new version of the said programs/libraries.
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If the foundation decides to take action, the ban would apply to new versions of Linux covered under a licensing agreement due to take effect in March.
Replace "Linux" with any program in the list, and this is what they can do.
If everyone else is using the GPL3 version, sooner or later what distributed by Novell will be obsolete.
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. [...]
FSF can allege Novell, on that they distribute the program not as expressly provided under the License. If this is proven in court, they automatically lose the right to distribute the program.
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. [...]
FSF can also ask for an order from the court to refrain them from distributing any more copies. This order will precede the rights granted by the license.
Around 3~5 seconds of delay. Messaging is not supported. I think if you want text messaging, any IM over there can do the job better than a web-based one.
You can't always have your cake and eat it too. How about a compromise? Only open-source where possible, but free as in beer is OK if there is no better open-source alternative. This would allow people to use a mostly free OS, but still use quality closed-source yet free as in beer software like Java.
The phrase "open source" may have trapped you from considering why people care so much about it. It is not about whether we really want to view/modify the source, but that we have the freedom to do so. Freedom is so precious that you won't use money to compare with it. We need our children to grow up with freedom, so that they know how precious it is.
If something is unsolvable, coming up a solution is definately impossible. If now we see a solution, that means the person should not have claimed unsolvable. It is at most "no solution to date", like P=?NP.
That depends on how you look at it. In Debian, packages are usually set to support all arches, unless they are known not to work. In Gentoo, many packages are not available for some arch. It is difficult to compare which is better: "all supported packages in Gentoo works" or "some packages in Debian works".
If something does not work, you can always fire a bug, whichever distro you are using, but if the platform is more "standardized", this happens less frequently.
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Where can I download MySQL 5.2? http://dev.mysql.com/
What are the exact terms of the exclusive license? Is it a license non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevokable, perpetual license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display the software?
How about if you can get an Ethernet line to your flat for 100Mbps upload and download at $35/month?
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Replace "Linux" with any program in the list, and this is what they can do.
If everyone else is using the GPL3 version, sooner or later what distributed by Novell will be obsolete.
GPLv2:
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. [...]
FSF can allege Novell, on that they distribute the program not as expressly provided under the License. If this is proven in court, they automatically lose the right to distribute the program.
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. [...]
FSF can also ask for an order from the court to refrain them from distributing any more copies. This order will precede the rights granted by the license.
They can distribute linux, but can they distribute glibc, coreutils, gcc, gdb, bash, tar, gzip, gpg, grep, gettext, readline, troff, ...?
1. No
2. No
You only avoided the need for burning a CD, but not the d-i. That's why the Ubuntu one is much easier to use.
The default is udev will read /etc/iftab for the mapping. This is, instead, the Debian way to do it.
No. They have fixed this more than a year ago. Don't you have an /etc/iftab file if you have Ubuntu Breezy/Dapper/Edgy?
Around 3~5 seconds of delay. Messaging is not supported. I think if you want text messaging, any IM over there can do the job better than a web-based one.
- Access (files available everywhere)
- Collaborate (edit the same file together)
- Share (allow others to view my files)
- Real-Time Update (see immediately changes made by others)
- Live Data (feed e.g. stock and currency into my spreadsheet)
- API (pull and push my data into other services)
- Interoperability (write my own applications using my data)
MS Office does most of them bad.Do we have alternative implementation of Perl, Python, Ruby, ...? If the language grows with the community, no one forks it.
[1] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001
Google Desktop 2.0 is still Windows only. So how can I use it?
If something is unsolvable, coming up a solution is definately impossible. If now we see a solution, that means the person should not have claimed unsolvable. It is at most "no solution to date", like P=?NP.
If Sun releases Java under any open source license, then this project may face the same fate. Otherwise why can't it take off like Classpath did?
Havn't we learnt from the history and hence name it "M64058e"?
Havn't we learnt from the history and hence name it "M64058y"?
Does Microsoft think that we should implement Fibonacci Heap ourselves, but not AVL-tree?
Yes
That depends on how you look at it. In Debian, packages are usually set to support all arches, unless they are known not to work. In Gentoo, many packages are not available for some arch. It is difficult to compare which is better: "all supported packages in Gentoo works" or "some packages in Debian works".
If something does not work, you can always fire a bug, whichever distro you are using, but if the platform is more "standardized", this happens less frequently.
it does give us more choice, but not too significant.
we can boot the whole OS from the net with ease.