I think the lesson to be learned here is to demand legal statements from people that absolve you of responsibility for their stupidity. "You want these passwords? First give me something I can bring to court
I think above all, that is the really is the lesson to be learnt.
Well, you've set precedence now. Everyone else from practically now till forever will live with this. Felony computer compromise for NOT providing passwords
I'm sure many people posting are of the mindset that he's not guilty because he shouldn't reveal the passwords
Even the sentence on which he has been found guilty is ridiculous. Sounds like he was found guilty, and they the closest matching sentence was chosen.
I assume this is one of those charges that they don't intend to pursue fairly, as FBI warnings, and DVD encryption have done a lot more towards "Inducing copyright infringement" than isoHunt.
> so I don't think it's unreasonable to think they might have helped MS on security issues without doing anything nasty
Nice thing is that NDAs and trade secrets can be applied to everyone who touches the production build code for Windows. The same in not true for Linux (SELinux)
If it determines your career path, the it is your prime motivator, maybe even your sole motivator. I'm not convinced that being people predisposes you to being a slave to money.
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It didn't happen to many drivers. It happened to many drivers who reported this particular issue.
> Under US Copyright law, damage awards are not necessarily connected to actual damages
One of the many things that makes US copyright law ridiculous.
The appropriate response to such a statement is a delivery of mint Monopoly® bills to the sum of 1.5 trillion.
Aren't you mixing up free software with open source?
Before they were shut down had reasonable prices and an extensive library; they charged by bit-rate (hence bandwidth) at very reasonable prices.
I think the lesson to be learned here is to demand legal statements from people that absolve you of responsibility for their stupidity. "You want these passwords? First give me something I can bring to court
I think above all, that is the really is the lesson to be learnt.
He could have handed everything over (even though it violated a contract) and it would all be forgotten
Or he might have been sued into bankruptcy for breaking his contract.
This was not a verdict that we came to lightly
Well, you've set precedence now. Everyone else from practically now till forever will live with this. Felony computer compromise for NOT providing passwords
I'm sure many people posting are of the mindset that he's not guilty because he shouldn't reveal the passwords
Even the sentence on which he has been found guilty is ridiculous. Sounds like he was found guilty, and they the closest matching sentence was chosen.
You could always use Qemu sans KVM
GNOME, he touched GNOME. Please leave my KDE alone.
When it was called the Linux action show, only portions about it were about Linux or software that runs on Linux
> To be fair, Red Hat is capitalizing on the work of Linux developers
Yah, it's not like they pay a large number of Linux developers.
One or two queries to their database
I assume this is one of those charges that they don't intend to pursue fairly, as FBI warnings, and DVD encryption have done a lot more towards "Inducing copyright infringement" than isoHunt.
That we have a (rather legitimate) concern of being sued for the arrangement of bits we have access to.
> This is, of course, wrong. Such local installations are normally done with "sudo", which does not require root passwords.
Obviously wrong? How are they going to use sudo if it isn't configured by default. This is Fedora not Ubuntu
Production Windows code can be locked away. not the same for Linux.
> so I don't think it's unreasonable to think they might have helped MS on security issues without doing anything nasty
Nice thing is that NDAs and trade secrets can be applied to everyone who touches the production build code for Windows. The same in not true for Linux (SELinux)
Well, an enterprise can choose to enable allowing installation sans password of signed packages... not necessary to be a default.
And the command not found tie in is already available in F12
They did the legal thing. If you want to give them credit for that fine. But I don't see what specifically makes it the right or wrong thing.
> his is actually a good example of why Microsoft (and others) may dislike the GPL
Because you can violate it and then just say "oops, sorry about that"?
Say what you want about Google, but they at least seem to honor robots.txt. Is this technology not available to Mr. Murdoch's websites?
I would image that package management for FatELF packages would suck, as there would be no clean and simple way to specific architecture.
My most recent was quite painless -- I had extrapolated from that installing Ubuntu type distros would be even easier. I wonder what went wrong.
If it determines your career path, the it is your prime motivator, maybe even your sole motivator. I'm not convinced that being people predisposes you to being a slave to money.