copyright infringement is stealing someone elses exclusive publishing rights. If you publish something without permission, you diminish what the authorized publisher gets by being an authorized publisher, most noticably, their chance at making sales.
heh who sits there and watches their linux install? I get it started then go do something else, with an occasional glance at the progress the install is making.
will walk up to the voting booth, think "ok, who was the white guy again? oh yeah" and vote for the latest idiot from the GOP. Seriously, some countries just don't fare well with democratic mechanisms, and the US is rapidly approaching that sad state of affairs.
I see signs on the pumps that tell the customer that the store won't change a 50 or above. So if the customer comes in with a 50, the clerk is in the right to refuse the sale and it'll be the customers tough luck, he'll get convicted of driving off without paying if he doesn't pay up.
Really its common sense that if you've got a $50 or above and its a convenience store, see if it can get changed or even better, I always prepay at the pump or use a credit card.
I'm ok with this as I can easily communicate via email with most folks I need to. For instance, if they're on aol, I use my aol account to email them. If they're on sprint I use a sprint account. If they're on verison, I recommend they get a yahoo or hotmail account, and chances are I can reach them via my aol or sprint account. We do lots of testing with our customers via phone and make sure that we find a combination of account useage that works or possibly just use the fax machine.
So I don't see any problem with these spam blacklists, it hasn't hurt me a bit!
I use all of the spam tools and I must say my email account is squeaky clean. Now granted, I can't get email from family, friends and business associates but thats what the telephone and fax machine is for.
Stupid women are certainly not ideal, from my point of view. However, I've noticed an interesting behavior where women will sometiems pretend to be dumb. I'm not sure why, but it seems to happen. Grade adjustment based on gender or attractiveness in academic courses is of course beyond the pale.
I highly recommend the dumb approach even for males. For instance when I call for tech support, I put immense effort into conveying teh stupid to the support analyst, this way I get my information in very unambiguous terms and rarely need to do any follow up for incomplete information.
Thats the whole argument against the new.us policy. Having even a slightly unpopular opinion and expressing it will get you much worse than spam if random, whacko readers know where you live.
Now for me, I have unpopular minority opinions but I get away with these otherwise dangerous mind patterns by not sharing them with anyone. Ultimately, the new.us regulations means that you only publish happy feel good stuff, and thats exactly what your government wants to happen.
If you're so smart, why do you have to resort to a straw man to refute my arguement? I asked which provides the greater amount of freedom, a question which you are apparently unable to answer.
It wasn't even a strawman, it was entirely irrelevent to software freedom, as was your origional slavery diversion.
If you want to insist that freedom only matters for the releaser of the code and those that recieve it directly from him, then you are a fool of limited vision. If you think you don't depend on others every day for everything you have, then you're even more foolish.
It allows producers the freedom to provide proprietory software from open source software, but even then, consumers do not have to use that software so even in your brand of logic, consumers are not obliged to "enslave themselves" as you put it.
Even if I stoop to the level of using emotional, childish, but ultimately incorrect labels like "slavery", the logic still does not stand. Sorry.
Even if I totally descend to your level of debate, it still stands that BSD produced software in no way contractually binds subsequent derivative authors in a way that forces them to deprive others of freedom. These freedom depriving actions simply do not origionate with the BSD license users.
If I continue in your logical pursuit however, BSD license users could be seen as "enabling freedom inhibitors." Now a similar emotional allegory could be made that automobile manufacturers are enablers for drunk drivers, but when evaluating whats good for society, obviously automobile manufacturers produce goods that few want eliminated from the market, likewise with BSD licensed software, they simply do not provide a "sole source of evil" and thus fail your intellectually dishonest morality play. BSD licensed software only contributes to evil in the same way that morning cornflakes might have contributed to Hitlers regime, had these cornflakes been available to his staff officers for their breakfast. Sorry again but you fail to convince me of any causal contribution of BSD to a net loss of freedom, except in that it limits your particular freedom to offer up dumb arguments successfully.
PS, you can use my invokation of Hitler as an excuse to scurry away from this losing thread you happened to stumble into if you like. I'm generous that way.
Which provides the greatest amount of freedom: allowing the freedom to own slaves, or banning slavery?
While shooting slave owners on sight may seem like an honorable thing to you, I still refuse to kill another human being.
Now on to the actual discussion, that of open source software. BSDL allows an individual to redistribute derivative work in an open source form, just like GPL, but in addition, the BSDL allows an individual to redistribute derivative work in a closed source form. Now by definition the BSDL has resulted in additional choices for derivative works. If a closed source release of this code base subsequently reduces your freedom, this could be seen as a net loss of freedoms by naive folks such as yourself, however smarter folks like myself understand that the closed source releaser has himself initiated the freedom reducing act, and that you are partially to blame for depending on his actions for providing you a measure of freedom that you deem necessary.
Stupid argument. By your methodology, for software to be free it must cause grevious harm to innocent bystanders, and most civilized folks would disagree.
I dispute that the BSDL is more free than the GPL. It is only more free at the point of origin. There is no incentive to keep derivatives open, and thus the code quickly becomes less free.
No it doesn't. You download BSDL code. You cannot subsequently order the site where you downloaded that BSDL code to close. Therefore the origional BSDL code does not become "less free," no matter how many secret modifications you make to it.
Modularity is the key here. If he has written functions that are useful in many situations besides being linked to the origional GPL'ed code, I would be really disappointed if the GPL still encumbered his origional work just because his work origionally was linked to that same GPL'ed code.
You are of course right, but the American people voted their preference for this shortsightedness.
While killing foreigners is immensely popular to watch on the evening news and deserving of many billions of dollars, science doesn't kill anybody, theres no explosions and so is very uninteresting to your average joe sixpack.
When I see a function with a nice doc header including revisions and have to add my own, the existing revision history tends to nudge me toward adding a line and otherwise leaving some notes on what and why.
7/11! Nowadays the savvy CS grad latches on to the day shift behind a register at his local 7/11, as the evening shift is too busy, and the midnight shift you get shot at.
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copyright infringement is stealing someone elses exclusive publishing rights. If you publish something without permission, you diminish what the authorized publisher gets by being an authorized publisher, most noticably, their chance at making sales.
heh who sits there and watches their linux install? I get it started then go do something else, with an occasional glance at the progress the install is making.
will walk up to the voting booth, think "ok, who was the white guy again? oh yeah" and vote for the latest idiot from the GOP. Seriously, some countries just don't fare well with democratic mechanisms, and the US is rapidly approaching that sad state of affairs.
A good idea would be to tax profits earned from intellectual property.
"for the truth" vs "opinions not facts". Good thing you posted AC.
I remove root's password and make all my partitions world writeable, that way unauthorized access is impossible.
A manager that is not a good manager but still holds a job is a great manager!
that I doubt I'd download.
Really its common sense that if you've got a $50 or above and its a convenience store, see if it can get changed or even better, I always prepay at the pump or use a credit card.
So I don't see any problem with these spam blacklists, it hasn't hurt me a bit!
I use all of the spam tools and I must say my email account is squeaky clean. Now granted, I can't get email from family, friends and business associates but thats what the telephone and fax machine is for.
is just record the data to some iomega zipdri-zipdri-zipdri uh never mind.
I have a voice and dsl line. I just use the dsl part. Nobody forces me to connect the telephone to the line.
I highly recommend the dumb approach even for males. For instance when I call for tech support, I put immense effort into conveying teh stupid to the support analyst, this way I get my information in very unambiguous terms and rarely need to do any follow up for incomplete information.
Now for me, I have unpopular minority opinions but I get away with these otherwise dangerous mind patterns by not sharing them with anyone. Ultimately, the new .us regulations means that you only publish happy feel good stuff, and thats exactly what your government wants to happen.
It wasn't even a strawman, it was entirely irrelevent to software freedom, as was your origional slavery diversion.
If you want to insist that freedom only matters for the releaser of the code and those that recieve it directly from him, then you are a fool of limited vision. If you think you don't depend on others every day for everything you have, then you're even more foolish.
It allows producers the freedom to provide proprietory software from open source software, but even then, consumers do not have to use that software so even in your brand of logic, consumers are not obliged to "enslave themselves" as you put it.
Even if I stoop to the level of using emotional, childish, but ultimately incorrect labels like "slavery", the logic still does not stand. Sorry.
Even if I totally descend to your level of debate, it still stands that BSD produced software in no way contractually binds subsequent derivative authors in a way that forces them to deprive others of freedom. These freedom depriving actions simply do not origionate with the BSD license users.
If I continue in your logical pursuit however, BSD license users could be seen as "enabling freedom inhibitors." Now a similar emotional allegory could be made that automobile manufacturers are enablers for drunk drivers, but when evaluating whats good for society, obviously automobile manufacturers produce goods that few want eliminated from the market, likewise with BSD licensed software, they simply do not provide a "sole source of evil" and thus fail your intellectually dishonest morality play. BSD licensed software only contributes to evil in the same way that morning cornflakes might have contributed to Hitlers regime, had these cornflakes been available to his staff officers for their breakfast. Sorry again but you fail to convince me of any causal contribution of BSD to a net loss of freedom, except in that it limits your particular freedom to offer up dumb arguments successfully.
PS, you can use my invokation of Hitler as an excuse to scurry away from this losing thread you happened to stumble into if you like. I'm generous that way.
Which provides the greatest amount of freedom: allowing the freedom to own slaves, or banning slavery?
While shooting slave owners on sight may seem like an honorable thing to you, I still refuse to kill another human being.
Now on to the actual discussion, that of open source software. BSDL allows an individual to redistribute derivative work in an open source form, just like GPL, but in addition, the BSDL allows an individual to redistribute derivative work in a closed source form. Now by definition the BSDL has resulted in additional choices for derivative works. If a closed source release of this code base subsequently reduces your freedom, this could be seen as a net loss of freedoms by naive folks such as yourself, however smarter folks like myself understand that the closed source releaser has himself initiated the freedom reducing act, and that you are partially to blame for depending on his actions for providing you a measure of freedom that you deem necessary.
Stupid argument. By your methodology, for software to be free it must cause grevious harm to innocent bystanders, and most civilized folks would disagree.
No it doesn't. You download BSDL code. You cannot subsequently order the site where you downloaded that BSDL code to close. Therefore the origional BSDL code does not become "less free," no matter how many secret modifications you make to it.
Modularity is the key here. If he has written functions that are useful in many situations besides being linked to the origional GPL'ed code, I would be really disappointed if the GPL still encumbered his origional work just because his work origionally was linked to that same GPL'ed code.
Theres no denying that statistically, the shuttle is a deathtrap. I'm literally ashamed that this is the best the US can do in space exploration.
While killing foreigners is immensely popular to watch on the evening news and deserving of many billions of dollars, science doesn't kill anybody, theres no explosions and so is very uninteresting to your average joe sixpack.
When I see a function with a nice doc header including revisions and have to add my own, the existing revision history tends to nudge me toward adding a line and otherwise leaving some notes on what and why.
7/11! Nowadays the savvy CS grad latches on to the day shift behind a register at his local 7/11, as the evening shift is too busy, and the midnight shift you get shot at.
expert == has-been drip under pressure