I love that you use "patently" untrue since they are completely different areas of the law. I realize you are making the point that I am flat out wrong, just your choice of words is amusing. Anyway, as I posted below:
Conversely, nobody is allowed to sign away their rights under the law.
Ever go skiing/snowboarding/do anything remotely dangerous? You sign away your rights to sue the people if you get hurt every time. And yes, if it is for a non-necessity e.g., housing or employment, those waivers are enforceable.
And killing you is a crime. You cannot have an enforceable contract to commit a crime. There is no consideration since killing you is illegal, even if you say it is ok.
What are you talking about? Those have always been specific brands. By intentionally limiting their use, the companies keep their trademark rights. If the word becomes commonly used, they then have no right to use it as a trademark. Xerox vigorously reminds people that Xerox is a type of copy, not the act of copying itself.
I'm moving in a couple weeks and when I called to set up Comcast, they told me cable modem alone was $60, but if I got it with Basic cable, it was only $45. I can understand this: they want to upsell people to getting both. The kicker is, basic cable is $12 a month. So for $57 I get cable AND cable modem, $3 cheaper than cable modem alone. Why? Who knows?
*shrug* I don't do any development anymore, and when I did, I didn't bother attempting OpenBSD development for fear of getting my (comparatively) incompetent ass handed to me. I just know that I've been using OBSD for about 4 years now and the one area people are always bitching about, users and naysayers alike, is lack of SMP.
Why would you desicrate a wonderful pure blood OS with a d-d-d-d-desktop?
I wouldn't, hence my comment of "I only use it for for firewalls and servers.";-p
As for SMP, I'd rather have a single dual processor machine than two single processor machines for just about anything (except maybe web servers/farms). But that's just a personal fewer-machines-to-admin preference.
I wish I could refute this, but IIRC, a series of I/O benchmarks were run on the major OS players a while ago and OBSD did pretty terribly. Well, it suits my needs and I got tired of OS advocacy a long time ago so I'm just sticking with what I know. To each their own.
Because it wasn't important to Theo. Seriously. He had no need for it, plus it introduces security issues (I guess, I can't speak from experience) with what code is getting executed in what processor, so it wasn't developed for a long time (security being OpenBSD's focus). It just started getting some work in the past year or so.
Given Theo's past attitude of "it's not important to me so it's not important to OpenBSD." Though his goal always seemed self-serving e.g. "I write it for myself and if others use it, fine," it's good to see that he is opening his mind to the one area OpenBSD is severly lacking. It could use some desktop polish (though I only use it for firewalls and servers since I only use it at home), SMP is the gaping hole in OpenBSD's offering. Knowing Theo's penchant for not playing nice with anyone beneath him, I'm guessing the SMP developer is pretty top-notch if he has Theo's support. Cool.
Bah! Sessler and Webb 0wn G4. I watched it about a month ago for 10 minutes before I had to change the channel out of embarassment. Kinda like watching Teen Titans.
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If it becomes generic, the trademark is unenforceable.
If it becomes generic, the trademark is unenforceable.
Ever go skiing/snowboarding/do anything remotely dangerous? You sign away your rights to sue the people if you get hurt every time. And yes, if it is for a non-necessity e.g., housing or employment, those waivers are enforceable.
And killing you is a crime. You cannot have an enforceable contract to commit a crime. There is no consideration since killing you is illegal, even if you say it is ok.
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I wouldn't, hence my comment of "I only use it for for firewalls and servers." ;-p
As for SMP, I'd rather have a single dual processor machine than two single processor machines for just about anything (except maybe web servers/farms). But that's just a personal fewer-machines-to-admin preference.
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Nick Fury anyone?
No, user #661117, it is not. Go back to your cube. Thank you.
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