I used to work with a company that dealt with POS etc, mainly running on SCO. SCO are like any big company, pretty slow with getting fixes out. The companies that made the software that ran on top (POS, Inventory, stuff like that) were usually small companies dealing in specialised markets. While the software was proprietary, the main selling point was the support contract and they were usually pretty quick with fixes.
However they could only fix their own software. Probs with the OS had to go back to SCO.
How would they deal with Open Source? They would be much better off. Rather than having to run to SCO for fixes, they would be able to fully support the operating system as well as the software that runs on top.
Actually most of GNOME should use Glib rather than the standard libraries. Since Glib is already ported to Windows it should make porting GNOME a lot easier.
If I want to run non-free software on my cluster, why am I running a free operating system on it? I very much doubt the majority of big bucks customers are running Linux on very high end systems.
I've never paid for Linux software. I don't think I've paid for any software since I started using Linux regularly.
The main advantages of Linux are that it can be obtained gratis and is open source. While people don't find both of these important, one or the other usually comes into play.
If having an Open Source OS is important, why would there be a demand for closed source software that you can already obtain for closed source operating systems?
If not having to pay for an operating system is important, why would you pay for software that is already available for operating systems you can pay for?
There are already free databases, application servers and image manipulation tools under Linux. Since Linux users know of the advantages of free software, there will be no strong demand for any propriety applications unless it is something that doesn't have a free equivilent.
According to the statement, the raw data is available and can be viewed in full by researchers. However there are restrictions on what you can do with the data. So you can view the data to verify their research, but you can't use it as a basis of your own research.
While I'm a big fan of free software and Open Source, in the grand scheme of things it probably isn't going to change the world.
It's in science that we really need the sort of freedom that RMS advocates. Imagine how much closer we would be to a cure for cancer or AIDS if researchers were forced to co-operate rather than hide discoveries from each other in order to protect the massive profits the drug company that comes up with such acure would no doubt make.
Each unique file has a unique key. In the case of say linux-2.4.0 it should be easily guessable. In the case of song-artist.mp3 i guess there will need to be a way of distinguishing different versions that make have the same name.
From my K5 article from some time ago, Australian company Nascomms has patents pending on technology to convert phone numbers into URLs. They've redesigned their page, but at one stage they were claiming to have invented numeric Internet addresses.
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
Actually that's just the preamble, it doesn't seem to be enforced in the body. Still, it would be interesting to know whether there is no GPL code from other authors in CDDB, since the GPL version is still actively maintained.
The FSF does expect copyright assignments for certain programs (gcc and emacs for example). However they will guarentee in writing that the program will remain free as well as giving you a licence to use your (well, now their) code in proprietary software.
If my understanding of freenet is correct, as well as being anonymous it is also smart enough to choose the best source of a file if multiple copies exist. As well as allowing anonymity, it would also allow people to use things like apt-get without needing to maintain lists of ftp servers or let you download the linux kernel from your closest mirror without needing to know what that mirror is.
But for this to work, we need to get the major FTP servers out there to start running freenet servers too.
What will be on Freenet in 5 years? Hopefully anything you would want to download.
CDDB was originally GPL right? And FreeDB still uses the original GPL code before CDDB changed their licence. The GPL states that if patents are granted they must be freely licenced. It would be interesting to see a court test this one out.
Yeah, Windows is a moving target. What I don't get is why they didn't choose to make v1 support 3.1 only, fork for v2 with 95 support and so on, rather than try to follow the moving target and become forever alpha.
A few years ago there were no e-commerce sites. Now there are lots. And some of them run on operating systems (both windows and Unix) that have known security holes. It's obvious that hacker (cracker, whatever) actitivity is going to increase, since a few years ago there was a lot less to try and crack. Duh!
I was always under the impression that it was a generally accepted fact that Mars once had oceans and that it presently has water (well ice) at both polls. Or am I completely wrong?
Most people have machines that come pre-installed with Internet Explorer. Most Linux machines come pre-installed with Netscape, but for how long?
Mozilla will have a release version soon and I expect that will more likely be the default browser of the next generation on Linux distributions. Many are using Konqueror for all their browsing needs.
I've used napster, imesh, gnutella etc. on my masq network without any extra modules and it's always worked fine (well as fine as it can work on dialup).
This seems to be a site for council public toilets. Unfortunatly in Sydney at least must council public toilets are dirty, badly maintained and generally more suited to drug use an anonymous gay sex than taking a shit.
However, as with most places in the world, you can always find a good clean public toilet by walking towards the big golden M sign.
As far as I can tell, in order to install it you need a running Linux system, and if you aren't running Debian it's harder still. Back when I was running debian I gave it a go but had problems which I blamed in limitations of GRUB at the time.
GRUB seems pretty good now. It would be nice if someone make a Hurd release that didn't require an existing OS. The best way to do this would be to install for a Linux boot disk (if you can't do it with a Hurd boot disk).
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I used to work with a company that dealt with POS etc, mainly running on SCO. SCO are like any big company, pretty slow with getting fixes out. The companies that made the software that ran on top (POS, Inventory, stuff like that) were usually small companies dealing in specialised markets. While the software was proprietary, the main selling point was the support contract and they were usually pretty quick with fixes.
However they could only fix their own software. Probs with the OS had to go back to SCO.
How would they deal with Open Source? They would be much better off. Rather than having to run to SCO for fixes, they would be able to fully support the operating system as well as the software that runs on top.
Actually most of GNOME should use Glib rather than the standard libraries. Since Glib is already ported to Windows it should make porting GNOME a lot easier.
I believe that QT for Windows is actually built on top of MFC, so to use it you need to have VC++ as well.
If I want to run non-free software on my cluster, why am I running a free operating system on it? I very much doubt the majority of big bucks customers are running Linux on very high end systems.
I've never paid for Linux software. I don't think I've paid for any software since I started using Linux regularly.
The main advantages of Linux are that it can be obtained gratis and is open source. While people don't find both of these important, one or the other usually comes into play.
If having an Open Source OS is important, why would there be a demand for closed source software that you can already obtain for closed source operating systems?
If not having to pay for an operating system is important, why would you pay for software that is already available for operating systems you can pay for?
There are already free databases, application servers and image manipulation tools under Linux. Since Linux users know of the advantages of free software, there will be no strong demand for any propriety applications unless it is something that doesn't have a free equivilent.
According to the statement, the raw data is available and can be viewed in full by researchers. However there are restrictions on what you can do with the data. So you can view the data to verify their research, but you can't use it as a basis of your own research.
While I'm a big fan of free software and Open Source, in the grand scheme of things it probably isn't going to change the world.
It's in science that we really need the sort of freedom that RMS advocates. Imagine how much closer we would be to a cure for cancer or AIDS if researchers were forced to co-operate rather than hide discoveries from each other in order to protect the massive profits the drug company that comes up with such acure would no doubt make.
Each unique file has a unique key. In the case of say linux-2.4.0 it should be easily guessable. In the case of song-artist.mp3 i guess there will need to be a way of distinguishing different versions that make have the same name.
Every board I called reset games at midnight. I would always try to call first so I could kill players in LORD.
From my K5 article from some time ago, Australian company Nascomms has patents pending on technology to convert phone numbers into URLs. They've redesigned their page, but at one stage they were claiming to have invented numeric Internet addresses.
Actually that's just the preamble, it doesn't seem to be enforced in the body. Still, it would be interesting to know whether there is no GPL code from other authors in CDDB, since the GPL version is still actively maintained.
The FSF does expect copyright assignments for certain programs (gcc and emacs for example). However they will guarentee in writing that the program will remain free as well as giving you a licence to use your (well, now their) code in proprietary software.
If my understanding of freenet is correct, as well as being anonymous it is also smart enough to choose the best source of a file if multiple copies exist. As well as allowing anonymity, it would also allow people to use things like apt-get without needing to maintain lists of ftp servers or let you download the linux kernel from your closest mirror without needing to know what that mirror is.
But for this to work, we need to get the major FTP servers out there to start running freenet servers too.
What will be on Freenet in 5 years? Hopefully anything you would want to download.
CDDB was originally GPL right? And FreeDB still uses the original GPL code before CDDB changed their licence. The GPL states that if patents are granted they must be freely licenced. It would be interesting to see a court test this one out.
was that it can compile under X because it isn't a fork (ie you compile under X, you get a real konq, kde and all).
QT embedded does not run under X at all. In fact the only way I've been able to switch between framebuffer and X is with a reboot.
A cut down Konq without the KDE stuff would be very nice tho.
Yeah, Windows is a moving target. What I don't get is why they didn't choose to make v1 support 3.1 only, fork for v2 with 95 support and so on, rather than try to follow the moving target and become forever alpha.
A few years ago there were no e-commerce sites. Now there are lots. And some of them run on operating systems (both windows and Unix) that have known security holes. It's obvious that hacker (cracker, whatever) actitivity is going to increase, since a few years ago there was a lot less to try and crack. Duh!
I was always under the impression that it was a generally accepted fact that Mars once had oceans and that it presently has water (well ice) at both polls. Or am I completely wrong?
Most people have machines that come pre-installed with Internet Explorer. Most Linux machines come pre-installed with Netscape, but for how long?
Mozilla will have a release version soon and I expect that will more likely be the default browser of the next generation on Linux distributions. Many are using Konqueror for all their browsing needs.
There will soon be no reason to use Netscape.
If more of the Slashdot crew were proactive about stopping abuses of the system perhaps Slashdot would not be the shithole it is today.
I've used napster, imesh, gnutella etc. on my masq network without any extra modules and it's always worked fine (well as fine as it can work on dialup).
This seems to be a site for council public toilets. Unfortunatly in Sydney at least must council public toilets are dirty, badly maintained and generally more suited to drug use an anonymous gay sex than taking a shit.
However, as with most places in the world, you can always find a good clean public toilet by walking towards the big golden M sign.
As far as I can tell, in order to install it you need a running Linux system, and if you aren't running Debian it's harder still. Back when I was running debian I gave it a go but had problems which I blamed in limitations of GRUB at the time.
GRUB seems pretty good now. It would be nice if someone make a Hurd release that didn't require an existing OS. The best way to do this would be to install for a Linux boot disk (if you can't do it with a Hurd boot disk).