What I'm kinda freaked about is the Reversable FPGA. Why the fuxnuck would I need a reversible FPGA? Do they let me program it? DO THEY EVEN MAKE REVERSIBLE FPGAS!!!
The Widget
Yep, but apparently Microsoft is only wasting the money on those who use InternetExplorer. I use firefox, and I've NEVER seen a pro-Win/Anti-Lin ad on slashdot. Maybe microsoft has realized that it can't convert us zealots who refuse to use windows products.
Or maybe slashdot is weeding out the fakers from the real supporters of open source....
This has to be the dumbest computer theory I've heard in several years. Of course Bill Gates and SUN say that hardware will be free, all Microsoft sells is software and Sun sells software that only works with it's own machines.
Where is the proof though? Declining prices of hardware will eventually get to zero? This mistake was already made for the demand curve of computer products. Back in the days of the computer boom, managers believed that the demand for computers and computer products was so high that the demand was treated as INFINITE! Turned out the the limit of demand did exist, and computers wasted away in warehouses.
The same thing will happen to hardware prices, their lower limit will be reached and going underneath that limit will be prohibitedly expensive. Also, raw materials that make hardware will fluctuate in price as well, causing a less than free situation, especially since the price of software will reflect the raw price paid by the manufacturer for the hardware.
Use some common sense Gates and Sun. Just because your software appears to be the defining factor in hardware systems doesn't mean it's all important. Already the OpenSource movement has shown hardware to be the defining price factor, it is possible now to buy a computer system and get the software for free. Why would we buy your software and get shackled into using your hardware as well?
The Widget
Why would I pay for software that an infinite amount of monkeys could crank out in a billion years? StickyWidget
The only reason I can think of for converting to common stock is that they plan to sell to the stereotypical uninformed ETrade drone. On the horizon is a consumer bum-fekking, mark my words.
No, YOU cat "your a$$" to dev/null!
Touche. However you can register with the Corn Growers Association at their website after paying a fee.
The only non-GPL compatible ideas are that I don't think the scientists can distribute the genome themselves and monsanto and pioneer still have an option to license, which has to be the most unclear bit of legalese ever.
Did you even look at the side by side comparison? It looks like they took the artwork and layered text and a few other pictures over the top. If the artist wants to go after them, he should subpeona their original adobe files and see his artwork on the bottom layer. (Of course, IANAL.)
If Linspire had actually redrawn the artwork instead of putting an exact copy and paste(with maybe some resizing) this would be a little more difficult to judge. Lucky for us, their marketing department is run by plagarists(and bad ones at that), so we can see the fruits of another man's labor on a marketing ad that he had no say in.
Now I'm wondering if some of the other artwork(the laptops, fonts, and such) were used without permission as well.
The idea of traditional open source is that anybody has access to the source code.
Not quite, the idea is that people have the freedom to copy, improve, and distribute. All bets are off if you can't get to the information. Both the GNU project and the GPLdon't say anything about any God given right to access free data if you don't have the means.
In fact, the GPL states that any action beyond the Triad of Freedoms is "outside it's scope".
Pro survival in the wild, and pro survival in a carefully fertilized and maintained field are two different things.
Look at dogs and wolves. Dogs evolved loyalty, obedience, and a more domesticated attitude becuase they were carefully maintained in a non-natural enviroment(non-natural in the way that humans were distinctly involved in the procedure). Wolf evolution favored being able to hunt and kill their own food becuase nobody was feeding them.
It "could" be that the loyalty and obedience genes wanted by humans were mutually exclusive to the kill and eat in wolves, which is why it eventually died out in a lot of species of dogs(think poodle, I think you'll agree).
This would also explain that while humans might want a crop to be resistant to a particular herbicide, a crop in the wild would be more concerned with drawing in as much nourishment as possible, regardless of what's in the soil.
Sorry gents, this isn't really a new development, but a new take on an old story. Monsanto and Pioneer , the two largest competitors in seeds and traits, have been selectively breeding plants like this for years. Just becuase they kept their traps shut about it doesn't mean it's a new development.
Many plant genomes are also the equivalent of OpenSource, free for all in educational institutions to peruse. Google Cached Example
OT: Patents may stifle innovation in a current field of study, like genetic manipulation of plants and animals, but leave the door wide open for smarter people to come in with smarter methods( and possibly patent them as well). Just becuase a patent lets a company to slack on R&D doesn't mean other companies have to. The entire computer industry is based on the idea that there is always a better way of doing something.
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What I'm kinda freaked about is the Reversable FPGA. Why the fuxnuck would I need a reversible FPGA? Do they let me program it? DO THEY EVEN MAKE REVERSIBLE FPGAS!!! The Widget
Or maybe slashdot is weeding out the fakers from the real supporters of open source....
Where is the proof though? Declining prices of hardware will eventually get to zero? This mistake was already made for the demand curve of computer products. Back in the days of the computer boom, managers believed that the demand for computers and computer products was so high that the demand was treated as INFINITE! Turned out the the limit of demand did exist, and computers wasted away in warehouses.
The same thing will happen to hardware prices, their lower limit will be reached and going underneath that limit will be prohibitedly expensive. Also, raw materials that make hardware will fluctuate in price as well, causing a less than free situation, especially since the price of software will reflect the raw price paid by the manufacturer for the hardware.
Use some common sense Gates and Sun. Just because your software appears to be the defining factor in hardware systems doesn't mean it's all important. Already the OpenSource movement has shown hardware to be the defining price factor, it is possible now to buy a computer system and get the software for free. Why would we buy your software and get shackled into using your hardware as well?
The Widget
Why would I pay for software that an infinite amount of monkeys could crank out in a billion years? StickyWidget
The only reason I can think of for converting to common stock is that they plan to sell to the stereotypical uninformed ETrade drone. On the horizon is a consumer bum-fekking, mark my words. No, YOU cat "your a$$" to dev/null!
The only non-GPL compatible ideas are that I don't think the scientists can distribute the genome themselves and monsanto and pioneer still have an option to license, which has to be the most unclear bit of legalese ever.
If Linspire had actually redrawn the artwork instead of putting an exact copy and paste(with maybe some resizing) this would be a little more difficult to judge. Lucky for us, their marketing department is run by plagarists(and bad ones at that), so we can see the fruits of another man's labor on a marketing ad that he had no say in.
Now I'm wondering if some of the other artwork(the laptops, fonts, and such) were used without permission as well.
Not quite, the idea is that people have the freedom to copy, improve, and distribute. All bets are off if you can't get to the information. Both the GNU project and the GPLdon't say anything about any God given right to access free data if you don't have the means.
In fact, the GPL states that any action beyond the Triad of Freedoms is "outside it's scope".
Look at dogs and wolves. Dogs evolved loyalty, obedience, and a more domesticated attitude becuase they were carefully maintained in a non-natural enviroment(non-natural in the way that humans were distinctly involved in the procedure). Wolf evolution favored being able to hunt and kill their own food becuase nobody was feeding them.
It "could" be that the loyalty and obedience genes wanted by humans were mutually exclusive to the kill and eat in wolves, which is why it eventually died out in a lot of species of dogs(think poodle, I think you'll agree).
This would also explain that while humans might want a crop to be resistant to a particular herbicide, a crop in the wild would be more concerned with drawing in as much nourishment as possible, regardless of what's in the soil.
Many plant genomes are also the equivalent of OpenSource, free for all in educational institutions to peruse. Google Cached Example
OT: Patents may stifle innovation in a current field of study, like genetic manipulation of plants and animals, but leave the door wide open for smarter people to come in with smarter methods( and possibly patent them as well). Just becuase a patent lets a company to slack on R&D doesn't mean other companies have to. The entire computer industry is based on the idea that there is always a better way of doing something.