I hadn't thought of it that way, as to preserving the license. That is probably what they meant, good catch. I also am impressed with the document cited, a clear understanding of free source software.
Great that the client can verify data, but too many shoddy web programmers will use that as an excuse to not verify data on the web server too, as if only valid data can escape the client browser.
We WERE paying down the national debt. There WAS a surplus. I am not talking about the 10 year projectsions. These were cold hard payments and debt reduction.
Let's see, Republicans stand for states rights, so they try and fail to push a federal constitutional amendment to override states rights on marriage.
They are for fiscal responsibility, so they throw out the budget surplus they inherited from Democrat president Clinton and replace it with the biggest deficits in history.
They are for limited government, so they lie about how much a huge prescription drug plan will cost so they can ram that through, and they expand the police state powers tremendously, including snooping on library records.
Catastrophic attack on a givernment has a limited number of ways to recover... emergency infrastructure, keep some officials separate at all time, etc.
There is no reasonable outcome where SCO can win. Any possible outcome where they win is so bizarre that you can think of any number of equally bizarre improbable ways for SCO to win, zillions of them, because none of them make any sense. You may as well drive down the freeway and imagine all the possibilities...what if a door falls off, a wheel, the engine comes loose, the body breaks in half...
There is no point trying to work out contingency plans for all the possible bizarre SCO-wins scenarios.
I hound people on this all the time, so I may as well hound you too:-) The point is not that you yourself can do the work, but that ANYONE can, so you can pay someone to do the work, just like you can pay some third party to work on your car; you don't have to take it back to the dealer for all service. How many people actually work on their own cars, other than changing oil or plugs at the most? THAT is the point of free source software.
It really is as simple as welding the car hood shut. Just because I can work on my car doesn't mean I have to, but it also means I can pay someone else to do so. People do this all the time without going to the dealer. In a recent court case, some bigass jerk company used the DMCA to prevent a customer who had BOUGHT equipment from having a third party service it. That is EXACTLY the point of having access to the source. It is EXACTLY what RMS yaps about all the time. It is EXACTLY why I use free source software as much as possible.
doing their preferred geeky thing in the most efficient way possible
Now maybe your preferred geeky thing is minimizing bandwidth over the short term.
And maybe others' geeky things include minimizing over a longer term.
I could spend $10K in time to save $5K/year in expenses, or $10K on some other effort that will have a better long term payoff.
The "editors" here ARE in fact geeks, and they know what they are doing behind the scenes, which you do not. Maybe you should assume they have some idea of what they are doing, and that as you have said, since they have little actual editing to do, maybe, just maybe, they actually do some geeky things that you know nothing of.
IBM has made it clear, in my mind at least, that where they embrace free source software, they do so because they don't have to maintain it, that it levels the playing field and makes their fancy service the important part, that customers are not locked into them and they are not locked into proprietary software maintenance.
That pretty much sums up why I like free source software. I can hack it if I want, or pay someone else to hack it, I get updates free from everybody else working on it, and I don't get locked into proprietary schemes which may or may not go out of business or change their update policies. My data will always be accessible to me, because the programs that access it are free source, and I can look at them and change them any way I want, any time I want, now and forever.
The supreme court said that fair use is an implied part of the copyright clause. I sure don't remember details now, but it is just as much a part of the constitution as, say, the Miranda rights.
Exactly. Education is great, but it comes in all sorts of flavors, and those who specialize in one particular variety (PhD) at the expense of others (hard knocks) accumulate blinders. It works in the other direction too.
It is silly to look down your nose at mere self taught Perl hackers. It is entertainment for others when snobs can't see the forest for the trees. Anyone who tinks GEB was teaching higher mathematical concepts is a naive fool.
Keerap in a bucket. Just where do you think radars are located? You think the aliens are floating them aloft for us? UN black helicopters? Or maybe the AF and navy pilots spend all day aiming their radars at the ground, yeh that's the ticket.
Yah right. Only the military has powerful radars. Airliners are tracked across country by emissions from illegal cell phone usage. The minute they make cell phones legal on airplanes, the thrill will be gone and there will be no way to track airliners because only the military has powerful radars.
And weather radar, gosh, thank hevaens the military shares that powerful technology with us mere civilians.
Sure, without French support, mainly naval, the war of independence would at least have dragged on for a lot longer, but whether it would have been lost is an open question.
However, one big impetus for the 1775 war was the tremendous taxes Britain needed to raise to pay for the Seven Years war of Britain and the colonies against -- France! So it is a good question whether the colonies would have felt any need for rebellion without France.
People won't want it, once they find out what has been foisted on them, once they run into ever more problems taping shows and using their Tivos, and they will find alternate entertainment. People may be sheep, but if sheep find the gate to the stream locked, they will eventually find another gate or another stream. Then the MPAA and RIAA and Disney and even the various Senators from Disney will find themselves leading where no one is following. They can lock their lowest common denominator crap up all they want because no one will want it.
Why don't you name something truly innovative that Microsoft has developed all on their own? I mean truly distinctive, different, revolutionary. Not these incremental "improvments" of.NOT and ActiveX and Boband papers flying from a folder into a trash can while delete works its magic.
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I hadn't thought of it that way, as to preserving the license. That is probably what they meant, good catch. I also am impressed with the document cited, a clear understanding of free source software.
4 Integrity of the author's source code: Derived works must not interfere with the original author's intent or work;
:-)
Where'd they get this from? I'm not sure what they mean by interfere, but even so, I don't recall any such part of the GPL, for instance.
I will now go read a copy of the GPL
But too-fly fer shure.
Grandparent said I turned off the firewall
You said They turned the firewall off????
I hope you don't read code like you read slashdot posts!
Great that the client can verify data, but too many shoddy web programmers will use that as an excuse to not verify data on the web server too, as if only valid data can escape the client browser.
Please, keep the prez out of this.
Then Disney wouldn't have been able to steal also many movie plots from Rudyard Kipling and the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson.
Microsoft doesn't make them. They're rebranded.
Sort of like MS-DOS bought from someone else, and Windows NT, designed after VMS. What next?
We WERE paying down the national debt. There WAS a surplus. I am not talking about the 10 year projectsions. These were cold hard payments and debt reduction.
Let's see, Republicans stand for states rights, so they try and fail to push a federal constitutional amendment to override states rights on marriage.
They are for fiscal responsibility, so they throw out the budget surplus they inherited from Democrat president Clinton and replace it with the biggest deficits in history.
They are for limited government, so they lie about how much a huge prescription drug plan will cost so they can ram that through, and they expand the police state powers tremendously, including snooping on library records.
Yep, that's effective alright.
Catastrophic attack on a givernment has a limited number of ways to recover ... emergency infrastructure, keep some officials separate at all time, etc.
...what if a door falls off, a wheel, the engine comes loose, the body breaks in half ...
There is no reasonable outcome where SCO can win. Any possible outcome where they win is so bizarre that you can think of any number of equally bizarre improbable ways for SCO to win, zillions of them, because none of them make any sense. You may as well drive down the freeway and imagine all the possibilities
There is no point trying to work out contingency plans for all the possible bizarre SCO-wins scenarios.
I hound people on this all the time, so I may as well hound you too :-) The point is not that you yourself can do the work, but that ANYONE can, so you can pay someone to do the work, just like you can pay some third party to work on your car; you don't have to take it back to the dealer for all service. How many people actually work on their own cars, other than changing oil or plugs at the most? THAT is the point of free source software.
It really is as simple as welding the car hood shut. Just because I can work on my car doesn't mean I have to, but it also means I can pay someone else to do so. People do this all the time without going to the dealer. In a recent court case, some bigass jerk company used the DMCA to prevent a customer who had BOUGHT equipment from having a third party service it. That is EXACTLY the point of having access to the source. It is EXACTLY what RMS yaps about all the time. It is EXACTLY why I use free source software as much as possible.
doing their preferred geeky thing in the most efficient way possible
Now maybe your preferred geeky thing is minimizing bandwidth over the short term.
And maybe others' geeky things include minimizing over a longer term.
I could spend $10K in time to save $5K/year in expenses, or $10K on some other effort that will have a better long term payoff.
The "editors" here ARE in fact geeks, and they know what they are doing behind the scenes, which you do not. Maybe you should assume they have some idea of what they are doing, and that as you have said, since they have little actual editing to do, maybe, just maybe, they actually do some geeky things that you know nothing of.
IBM has made it clear, in my mind at least, that where they embrace free source software, they do so because they don't have to maintain it, that it levels the playing field and makes their fancy service the important part, that customers are not locked into them and they are not locked into proprietary software maintenance.
That pretty much sums up why I like free source software. I can hack it if I want, or pay someone else to hack it, I get updates free from everybody else working on it, and I don't get locked into proprietary schemes which may or may not go out of business or change their update policies. My data will always be accessible to me, because the programs that access it are free source, and I can look at them and change them any way I want, any time I want, now and forever.
Yup, dropped a factor of ten. Whoops!
Still, the point stands, 1/3000 of their cash hoard is peanuts or less.
One, 20 million dollars is 1/3000th of their cash hoard. A movie ticket to someone making $250,000 a year salary.
Two, there was a real danger of losing their trademark on Windows as being generic.
I don't understand. What does it mean?
The supreme court said that fair use is an implied part of the copyright clause. I sure don't remember details now, but it is just as much a part of the constitution as, say, the Miranda rights.
Udiots. I am applying for trademark and copyright and patent as you read.
Exactly. Education is great, but it comes in all sorts of flavors, and those who specialize in one particular variety (PhD) at the expense of others (hard knocks) accumulate blinders. It works in the other direction too.
It is silly to look down your nose at mere self taught Perl hackers. It is entertainment for others when snobs can't see the forest for the trees. Anyone who tinks GEB was teaching higher mathematical concepts is a naive fool.
Keerap in a bucket. Just where do you think radars are located? You think the aliens are floating them aloft for us? UN black helicopters? Or maybe the AF and navy pilots spend all day aiming their radars at the ground, yeh that's the ticket.
Yah right. Only the military has powerful radars. Airliners are tracked across country by emissions from illegal cell phone usage. The minute they make cell phones legal on airplanes, the thrill will be gone and there will be no way to track airliners because only the military has powerful radars.
And weather radar, gosh, thank hevaens the military shares that powerful technology with us mere civilians.
Flamebait -55.
Sure, without French support, mainly naval, the war of independence would at least have dragged on for a lot longer, but whether it would have been lost is an open question.
However, one big impetus for the 1775 war was the tremendous taxes Britain needed to raise to pay for the Seven Years war of Britain and the colonies against -- France! So it is a good question whether the colonies would have felt any need for rebellion without France.
Historical what-ifs have many tangles.
People won't want it, once they find out what has been foisted on them, once they run into ever more problems taping shows and using their Tivos, and they will find alternate entertainment. People may be sheep, but if sheep find the gate to the stream locked, they will eventually find another gate or another stream. Then the MPAA and RIAA and Disney and even the various Senators from Disney will find themselves leading where no one is following. They can lock their lowest common denominator crap up all they want because no one will want it.
Why don't you name something truly innovative that Microsoft has developed all on their own? I mean truly distinctive, different, revolutionary. Not these incremental "improvments" of .NOT and ActiveX and Boband papers flying from a folder into a trash can while delete works its magic.
Betcha can't do it. Not even one.