What the GPL does succeed at is being incompatible with other reasonable and free licenses.
Har har, what a one sided view, liar, the GPL excels at *attracting developers who don't want to be ripped*. Yes contributing to a BSD project ensures that I'll have access to yesterday's code, not tomorrow's, the open source world has many examples of people being refused access to project to which they contributed code, MySQL and Qt come to mind.
The hypocrisy is that the GPL is only incompatible for as long as you refuse to open source your code, NOOOOO you want some one ELSE to change their license, not you. Always pushing to go closed, never the other way.
Well Ubuntu depends on Tomboy and F-Spot and Banshee and Gnome-Do have loud proposers. But you are right I'm mixing Ubuntu and Gnome. But with MdI there, I doubt those are the last.NET apps to get into Gnome proper.
>Remember, MS can void its "promises" over.NET at any moment, the EEE is is progressing well.
No, they can't. If you make a "promise" that causes someone else to take an action, it's the same as having a contract and you can be sued.
Yes they can, there's a loophole, the promises only apply while they hold the patent, they don't apply if they sell them to some one else like a split company a puppet think tank or a patent troll.
You got it backwards, BSD doesn't give more freedom to the users, it gives more freedom to the *developers* end users are always better with a GPL'd product. BSD pushes take the position that since nobody wants to contribute to GPL'd projects users are better with BSD'd projects because those get all the contributions which is just not true.
You wouldn't expect MS to promote Gnome even if one MS employee also contributed to Gnome. If you understand that MS can't present Gnome as a superior solution because of marketing you would understand why RMS doesn't want to promote proprietary software. Think about it this way, the existence of VMware and its promotion either hurt free sofware alternative to it or, inhibit the development of one.
If you want Gnome to promote VMware but don't expect MS to promote Gnome then that just shows your bias.
Pretty much so, there is a major push to switch Gnome to C# as it core development language and now that the whole of Gnome is spliting you can bet that.NET will become the core dependency. Remember, MS can void its "promises" over.NET at any moment, the EEE is is progressing well.
My uncle once told me that, while Tetris is not *violent* violent it is still kind of destructive since the goal is destroying blocks. Ironically he IS the heart of the parties but a technophobic so I think he was serious.
And I have to admit I understand this. Chrome was pretty much a stab in the back at Mozilla, on the other hand MS has IE. Would MS be a better home to Mozilla than Google? Meanwhile they continue threatening Linux distros with customized binaries, geniuses...
Before addressing those points, i think that you may not fit the mold but the mold is real IMHO.
Notice too that the people who believed in Nessie tend to also believe in Big Foot. The one who believe in alien abductions tend to be the same that believe aliens made the pyramids. It's because those beliefs have similar appeal, we have names for those groups, cryptozoologists (although modern crytozoologists are a much realist trope), ufologists and in the case of the Vaccine/Evolution/Warming triad I feel relatively safe to call them --republicans--
Ok that's a little oversimplification, let's just say Fox viewers. the trend is there, these people make a more or less cohesive group with shred beliefs and that to me means two things, that a) There is no real skepticism there, just the opinion of the group leaders, and b) That the correct way to correct these people is culturally, not educationally.
Now to a address your points:
Vaccines: We know vaccines do not cause autism because a) the statistics of vaccination rates and autism are not correlated at all. The only shallow correlation between these groups is that vaccination and autism detection happen around the same age brackets, all other statistics point in other directions.
And b) we KNOW this all begun because of greedy lawyers and a noisy, angry, stupid celebrity mom, if there is no intellectual skepticism backing this push.
Evolution: Good, but weird, you happen to be in a minority that accepts evolution but believes in...
Warming: A worldwide conspiracy by evil climate scientists? Come on! There is no such thing. What exists is a bunch of international corporations that depend on muddling the issue to continue getting rich from polluting.
We have measured the CO2 emission rate of volcanoes, it doesn't compare to what our cities do and we have plenty of those, add to that deforestation and oceanic contamination and you can why we are large part the problem, the largest indeed.
But come on! As high as mercury? how is that for a straw man? How does this fit into my experience? That not all rednecks are the same, that's all.
Doubt is good. Healthy skepticism is a sign of maturity and intellectual involvement.
No no no, this is not skepticism, people are not just applying systematic doubt, these are very special cased beliefs.
You will notice that the people who think global warming is fake are the same people who insist vaccines cause autism and the same people who think evolution is "just a theory",
Conversely, facebook probably goes to great extends to hide the personal info of the ratchets that advertise on it, just like the secret government ACTA law that simultaneously nobody can see AND grants them the right to monitor everything everybody does in the Internet.
This only makes the "privacy help" message they give you when you want to unsuscribe (I'm sorry that's "disable" which doesn't do shit) more hypocrite.
I'd like to see people disabling their accounts en mass claiming privacy concerns, not going to happen I know. Some times I hate the world.
Fuck facebook, and more than anything, fuck facebook users and their habit to post pictures of non users.
To the people: If you are not doing wrong you have nothing to hide. For themselves: This entertainment industry legislation has to be kept secret for national security reasons.
Not really arguing you but it reminds me when a blogger questioned Canonical's decision to purge the GIMP from the default install because it was confusing to the average Ubuntu user; his reply "Hello? I'm the average Ubuntu user!"
He is right, I have pushed for Ubuntu a lot, even handed out shiny free CDs from ship it and offering free support, I have has users drop Ubuntu for the flimsier reasons. One dropped it because pidgin doesn't support "winks", one because Open Office didn't run an VB/Excel based game.
So until Ubuntu has 110% windows compatibility I wouldn't bother catering to the less technical users.
Once conditioned to it, they will be as disappointed by companies that don't offer it as they are today at the prospect of preparing their own meals or interpreting their own information.
Let me fix that:
Once conditioned to it, they will be as disappointed by companies that don't offer it as they are today at companies without facebook accounts
Why would anyone want to "friend" a corporation is beyond me but now if you have a product it needs a facebook account. I don't know you but this attitude shift seems prevalent in slashdot now most articles about the GPL is about how much it sucks and every comment about Microsoft is about how they are not evil etc.
The pro versus anti corporate ratio in slashdot changed in the last 2 years and while every anti-privacy comment has 2-3 pro-privacy replies the anti-privacy ones are usually the earliest and more highly up modded ones.
I don't know if it is paid shilling or the September effect, I suspect the later but the former wouldn't surprise me. What really gets me is that a ton of these articles start with "I know slashdoters are a bunch of RMS zealots but..." or "tinfoil hats" or "microsoft haters..."
What the hell are they talking about? Haven't they read/. recently? We love Microsoft! We hate privacy and while we like Open Source we hate Free Software (More like Un-Free Software *nudge*nudge*) with uses Stallman's egomaniacal redefinition of freedom which includes fascism and AIDS etc, etc, etc...
Don't worry, it's true, smart men appreciate smart women, it's just that smart women tend to adopt a more defensive, cynical distant attitude while dumb ones tend to be too friendly for their own good, but that makes them more approachable.
I like Python better than JS for a lot of reasons, that it doesn't deal with undefined vs null vs NaN vs Infinity is a big one. That property access is throughly customizable, as well as item access and function calling customizations. And class definitions inside a class block are more clean and elegant than multiple Class.prototype assigments, the standard way of prototype customization in JS.
BUT, I admit JS has many nice tricks, Object notation makes returning records really easy to create and to use, a feature Python can only awkwardly emulate with namedtuple in recent versions. And I agree that merging the concept of inheritance and instantiation is elegant.
I wanted to share with you an anecdote of the most "eureka" moment I had in JS.
As I was debugging an ajax application, I found a piece of coude that failed under some circumstances because it tried to call abort() on an uninitialized XMLHttpRequest, what coul I do?
I could have changed the logic of the caller, at every call site, to make it test whether the return is a valid XMLHttpRequest before calling abort(), I could have changed the callee and make it return a mock object, one that implemented abort(), the object was initialized inside an object definition so I didn't had the luxury of multiple statements, I had to write class somewhere else and instantiate it here, or maybe not somewhere else, I could have used a function to wrap multiple statements into an expression.
I didn't have to write and instantiate a class, I didn't even had to use a wrapper closure, just one short expression and I was mocking a core language feature. And the best part is that I did that instinctively, because it's so easy, it was only after the fact that I realized what I did was impossible in Python or any language I know! JS not only conflates inheritance and instantiation, it conflates definition with instantiation.
Wow time flies like an arrow. So yeah, it's just like you can't play ancient music for free because the recording was done in the last century or you can't post an ancient text because the scanning/transcription was done within the last century, we live in a cultural deadlock where creating is a risky business where lawyers are advised.
Ah but in the near future you will need to get a copyright license to make a picture with a model taken from a real object. Soon you won't be able to make a movie without getting a "RAND" license for every object that appears in your movies.
You nailed the main problem, all japanese games are for Windows, without a super advanced version of wine that knows how to install and run japanese encoded games this idea is going to blow.
But while you are at it, load the distro with renpy games.
The epilogue in TFA says ordinary people can find a lot about you legally and I want to know, how? It seems like Thompson, his boss, posted every detail about his bank transactions and regularly posted his IP and I guess gave full access to most of his social networks to the hunters.
Without these obvious markers how could some random guy get access to this data? Is the lesson that you really have no privacy or just that you shouldn't give your password to you boss??
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Har har, what a one sided view, liar, the GPL excels at *attracting developers who don't want to be ripped*. Yes contributing to a BSD project ensures that I'll have access to yesterday's code, not tomorrow's, the open source world has many examples of people being refused access to project to which they contributed code, MySQL and Qt come to mind.
The hypocrisy is that the GPL is only incompatible for as long as you refuse to open source your code, NOOOOO you want some one ELSE to change their license, not you. Always pushing to go closed, never the other way.
Well Ubuntu depends on Tomboy and F-Spot and Banshee and Gnome-Do have loud proposers. But you are right I'm mixing Ubuntu and Gnome. But with MdI there, I doubt those are the last .NET apps to get into Gnome proper.
>Remember, MS can void its "promises" over .NET at any moment, the EEE is is progressing well.
No, they can't. If you make a "promise" that causes someone else to take an action, it's the same as having a contract and you can be sued.
Yes they can, there's a loophole, the promises only apply while they hold the patent, they don't apply if they sell them to some one else like a split company a puppet think tank or a patent troll.
And there is precedent of MS attempting to do just this. http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4800
You got it backwards, BSD doesn't give more freedom to the users, it gives more freedom to the *developers* end users are always better with a GPL'd product. BSD pushes take the position that since nobody wants to contribute to GPL'd projects users are better with BSD'd projects because those get all the contributions which is just not true.
You wouldn't expect MS to promote Gnome even if one MS employee also contributed to Gnome. If you understand that MS can't present Gnome as a superior solution because of marketing you would understand why RMS doesn't want to promote proprietary software. Think about it this way, the existence of VMware and its promotion either hurt free sofware alternative to it or, inhibit the development of one.
If you want Gnome to promote VMware but don't expect MS to promote Gnome then that just shows your bias.
Kicking kittens and eating babies.
Pretty much so, there is a major push to switch Gnome to C# as it core development language and now that the whole of Gnome is spliting you can bet that .NET will become the core dependency. Remember, MS can void its "promises" over .NET at any moment, the EEE is is progressing well.
My uncle once told me that, while Tetris is not *violent* violent it is still kind of destructive since the goal is destroying blocks. Ironically he IS the heart of the parties but a technophobic so I think he was serious.
And I have to admit I understand this. Chrome was pretty much a stab in the back at Mozilla, on the other hand MS has IE. Would MS be a better home to Mozilla than Google? Meanwhile they continue threatening Linux distros with customized binaries, geniuses...
Before addressing those points, i think that you may not fit the mold but the mold is real IMHO.
Notice too that the people who believed in Nessie tend to also believe in Big Foot. The one who believe in alien abductions tend to be the same that believe aliens made the pyramids. It's because those beliefs have similar appeal, we have names for those groups, cryptozoologists (although modern crytozoologists are a much realist trope), ufologists and in the case of the Vaccine/Evolution/Warming triad I feel relatively safe to call them --republicans--
Ok that's a little oversimplification, let's just say Fox viewers. the trend is there, these people make a more or less cohesive group with shred beliefs and that to me means two things, that a) There is no real skepticism there, just the opinion of the group leaders, and b) That the correct way to correct these people is culturally, not educationally.
Now to a address your points:
Vaccines: We know vaccines do not cause autism because a) the statistics of vaccination rates and autism are not correlated at all. The only shallow correlation between these groups is that vaccination and autism detection happen around the same age brackets, all other statistics point in other directions.
And b) we KNOW this all begun because of greedy lawyers and a noisy, angry, stupid celebrity mom, if there is no intellectual skepticism backing this push.
Evolution: Good, but weird, you happen to be in a minority that accepts evolution but believes in...
Warming: A worldwide conspiracy by evil climate scientists? Come on! There is no such thing. What exists is a bunch of international corporations that depend on muddling the issue to continue getting rich from polluting.
We have measured the CO2 emission rate of volcanoes, it doesn't compare to what our cities do and we have plenty of those, add to that deforestation and oceanic contamination and you can why we are large part the problem, the largest indeed.
But come on! As high as mercury? how is that for a straw man? How does this fit into my experience? That not all rednecks are the same, that's all.
Doubt is good. Healthy skepticism is a sign of maturity and intellectual involvement.
No no no, this is not skepticism, people are not just applying systematic doubt, these are very special cased beliefs.
You will notice that the people who think global warming is fake are the same people who insist vaccines cause autism and the same people who think evolution is "just a theory",
This is not skepticism, this is a culture.
Conversely, facebook probably goes to great extends to hide the personal info of the ratchets that advertise on it, just like the secret government ACTA law that simultaneously nobody can see AND grants them the right to monitor everything everybody does in the Internet.
This only makes the "privacy help" message they give you when you want to unsuscribe (I'm sorry that's "disable" which doesn't do shit) more hypocrite.
I'd like to see people disabling their accounts en mass claiming privacy concerns, not going to happen I know. Some times I hate the world.
Fuck facebook, and more than anything, fuck facebook users and their habit to post pictures of non users.
To the people: If you are not doing wrong you have nothing to hide.
For themselves: This entertainment industry legislation has to be kept secret for national security reasons.
The hypocrisy.
Not really arguing you but it reminds me when a blogger questioned Canonical's decision to purge the GIMP from the default install because it was confusing to the average Ubuntu user; his reply "Hello? I'm the average Ubuntu user!"
He is right, I have pushed for Ubuntu a lot, even handed out shiny free CDs from ship it and offering free support, I have has users drop Ubuntu for the flimsier reasons. One dropped it because pidgin doesn't support "winks", one because Open Office didn't run an VB/Excel based game.
So until Ubuntu has 110% windows compatibility I wouldn't bother catering to the less technical users.
Let me fix that:
Why would anyone want to "friend" a corporation is beyond me but now if you have a product it needs a facebook account. I don't know you but this attitude shift seems prevalent in slashdot now most articles about the GPL is about how much it sucks and every comment about Microsoft is about how they are not evil etc.
The pro versus anti corporate ratio in slashdot changed in the last 2 years and while every anti-privacy comment has 2-3 pro-privacy replies the anti-privacy ones are usually the earliest and more highly up modded ones.
I don't know if it is paid shilling or the September effect, I suspect the later but the former wouldn't surprise me. What really gets me is that a ton of these articles start with "I know slashdoters are a bunch of RMS zealots but..." or "tinfoil hats" or "microsoft haters..."
What the hell are they talking about? Haven't they read /. recently? We love Microsoft! We hate privacy and while we like Open Source we hate Free Software (More like Un-Free Software *nudge*nudge*) with uses Stallman's egomaniacal redefinition of freedom which includes fascism and AIDS etc, etc, etc...
Don't worry, it's true, smart men appreciate smart women, it's just that smart women tend to adopt a more defensive, cynical distant attitude while dumb ones tend to be too friendly for their own good, but that makes them more approachable.
I like Python better than JS for a lot of reasons, that it doesn't deal with undefined vs null vs NaN vs Infinity is a big one. That property access is throughly customizable, as well as item access and function calling customizations. And class definitions inside a class block are more clean and elegant than multiple Class.prototype assigments, the standard way of prototype customization in JS.
BUT, I admit JS has many nice tricks, Object notation makes returning records really easy to create and to use, a feature Python can only awkwardly emulate with namedtuple in recent versions. And I agree that merging the concept of inheritance and instantiation is elegant.
I wanted to share with you an anecdote of the most "eureka" moment I had in JS.
As I was debugging an ajax application, I found a piece of coude that failed under some circumstances because it tried to call abort() on an uninitialized XMLHttpRequest, what coul I do?
I could have changed the logic of the caller, at every call site, to make it test whether the return is a valid XMLHttpRequest before calling abort(),
I could have changed the callee and make it return a mock object, one that implemented abort(), the object was initialized inside an object definition so I didn't had the luxury of multiple statements, I had to write class somewhere else and instantiate it here, or maybe not somewhere else, I could have used a function to wrap multiple statements into an expression.
However, all I did was this:
return { ..., ...
foo:
request: {abort:function(){}},
bar:
}
I didn't have to write and instantiate a class, I didn't even had to use a wrapper closure, just one short expression and I was mocking a core language feature. And the best part is that I did that instinctively, because it's so easy, it was only after the fact that I realized what I did was impossible in Python or any language I know! JS not only conflates inheritance and instantiation, it conflates definition with instantiation.
Simple! Just import it into Google Docs!
Wow time flies like an arrow. So yeah, it's just like you can't play ancient music for free because the recording was done in the last century or you can't post an ancient text because the scanning/transcription was done within the last century, we live in a cultural deadlock where creating is a risky business where lawyers are advised.
Ah but in the near future you will need to get a copyright license to make a picture with a model taken from a real object. Soon you won't be able to make a movie without getting a "RAND" license for every object that appears in your movies.
But how? And if so, how can we prevent it?
You nailed the main problem, all japanese games are for Windows, without a super advanced version of wine that knows how to install and run japanese encoded games this idea is going to blow.
But while you are at it, load the distro with renpy games.
The epilogue in TFA says ordinary people can find a lot about you legally and I want to know, how? It seems like Thompson, his boss, posted every detail about his bank transactions and regularly posted his IP and I guess gave full access to most of his social networks to the hunters.
Without these obvious markers how could some random guy get access to this data? Is the lesson that you really have no privacy or just that you shouldn't give your password to you boss??
I was thinking about the game...