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  1. Of Course This is True... on Mass Innovation and Disruptive Change · · Score: 1

    This is not some sort of special insight. It goes back at least to the book The Innovator's Dilemma - and probably much farther back than that.

  2. Re:Come on, man on RMS on Proposed GPLv3 changes · · Score: 1
    > he just marginalizes himself and his positions

    I understand what you're saying, and you should be correct... BUT look at what Republicans have accomplished by doing things like recasting the estate tax as the death tax and I gotta wonder if it's a bad thing for him to do.

  3. So what? on 'Infectious' Open Source Software? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The statement is true. It's also OLD NEWS.

    Why was this posted? It's just flame bait...

  4. He Sounds Like a Politician on An Interview with Wikipedia's Jimbo Wales · · Score: 1

    That was a really content free interview. Perhaps, for the next interview, a team of Wikipedians can be present to answer questions so that some real answers might result.

  5. Re:not new.. on Podcasting Goes Pay-to-Play · · Score: 1
    Yes, and I subscribed.

    Just like a drug dealer, they hooked me with free stuff and now I'm paying!

  6. Re:Two MySQL backends owned by Oracle on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1
    > That's a pretty strong restriction

    I agree, just correcting the original poster.

  7. Re:is that the way... on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sure Oracle understands. They also understand that enterprises want support . Any company can pick up the source code to Berkeley DB and run with it. But that company cannot sell a commercial license, they can only provide support.

  8. Re:Two MySQL backends owned by Oracle on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1
    > And if you don't get a commercial license from MySQL AB, you can't link the mysql client library > to a non-GPL application.

    Sure you can, you just can't distribute it.

  9. Re:PotgreSQL... on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1
    > except for the nifty LAMP acronym what is it that keeps MySQL afloat?

    Until recently it was support. Support's a big deal for many companies - they want a throat to choke as the saying goes...

  10. "My" First Computer on What Was Your First Computer? · · Score: 1
    Was a small board with keypad and LED display in which you keyed in the actual machine code via the keypad. My father brought it home from work one day for me to play with. This would have been around 1978.

    I didn't even know what computer programming WAS at the time!

    LOL!

  11. Re:Depends on what you classify as spyware on Scaremongering over Spyware? · · Score: 1

    WebRoot does classify certain cookies as spyware. So, the more interesting statistic would be how many non-cookie items are installed on average?

  12. Re:Great except on EFF Sues AT&T Over NSA Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    That is not the opinion of the majority of legal scholars who've weighed in on the issue.

  13. Re:Really stupid questions... on EFF Sues AT&T Over NSA Wiretapping · · Score: 1
    #1 and #2 can be handled via depositions (though, quite frankly it shouldn't be a problem as the admitted scope of the program REQUIRES that AT&T be involved).

    #3 goes straight to the fourth amendment. They don't have to prove harm, they have to prove it's unconstitutional. They'll probably ask to depose AG Gonzalez.

  14. This isn't a surprise on No Anti-Virus in Vista · · Score: 1

    Built in AV would probably draw a lawsuit from the DoJ with the backing of McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro.

  15. I Wrote an Email to Meehan on Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers [Update] · · Score: 4, Interesting
    One of the Congressman involved in this, expressing my displeasure. Here's the reply I got:
    Thank you for writing. I appreciate your taking the time to express your views.

    In July of 2005 an intern in my office responsible for updating my personal biography also updated it in my Wikipedia entry. I did not know that this change was being made at the time and only became aware of it when asked by the news media. Though the actual time spent making the update amounted to less than 11 minutes (according to our server logs), I do not consider it time well spent or approve of it. The internet is a place for the free and open exchange of ideas and opinions. Part of being an elected official is to be regularly commented on, praised, and criticized on the web. Whatever temptation there may be to get involved, this activity is best left to the general public.

    Thank you again for writing. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future.

    Sincerely,

    Marty Meehan

    I suspect they've heard a lot about this and have learned their lesson!

  16. Re:Democrats Received Payments From Abramoff... on Washington Post Shuts Down Blog · · Score: 1

    And that's what elicited the problem. Abramoff himself gave no money to Dems, all of his money went to Republicans. Clients of Abramoff did give money to Dems. Howell's problems started because she was even looser in accuracy than you've been. The goal of an ombudsman should be extreme accuracy. Ms. Howell failed and was excoriated for it.

  17. Re:Respectable Slashdot Reader? on Google Unveils The Google Pack · · Score: 1
    "I don't need a virus scanner (running GNU/Linux)"

    Wow! Such ignorance! Hopefully, no one reads your post and actually believes this is true.

  18. If You're Interested in the Z Notation on When Bugs Aren't Allowed · · Score: 1

    mentioned in the article, you can download the reference manual from here

  19. Re:Instead of more features... on Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++0x · · Score: 1

    Most compilers emit warnings for such issues, most compilers also provide a way to treat warnings as errors.

  20. Re:It's dead Jim, but it has been for a while. on NSA Data Mining Much Larger Than Reported · · Score: 1
    He didn't answer to the voter, because the voter didn't know about this.

    Remember the line from the movie Sneakers: "Too many secrets."

  21. Why is this worthy of posting? on Symantec Confirms AV Library Flaw, Promises Patch · · Score: 1

    Buffer overflows and other security issues are a dime a dozen. Just subscribe to Secunia's RSS feed to see that.

  22. Re:Read their lips on U.S. Ecommerce To Be Broadly Taxed? · · Score: 1

    > Terrorists can attack freedom, but only Congress can destroy it

    Excellent quote!

  23. Companies sell software for this on U.S. Ecommerce To Be Broadly Taxed? · · Score: 1

    There are companies that sell software to calculate sales tax for any jurisdiction in the U.S. A quick Google search turned a company called Vertex that has a product which they claim "blends the most accurate and timely state and local tax research in the industry with advanced open systems and Windows® technology to take you to a whole new level of tax compliance confidence." (This is NOT an endorsement!)

    Yeah, I know, it's only for Windows. Give them a reason to and they'll port it to Linux or whatever OS you want.

  24. Take a Look at CCCC on Searchable C/C++ DB surpasses 275 million lines · · Score: 1

    The C and C++ Code Counter, http://cccc.sourceforge.net/, has some interesting statistics that could be generated on a per project basis. Perhaps you could encorporate the stats from that project.

  25. Re:The Biggest Problem... on Free Software Foundation Begins Rewriting the GPL · · Score: 1

    The GPL is not about open source software, the GPL is about FREE software...