If you've licensed code from microsft, and it turns out to be GPL, the license under which you got the code is invalid, so it wasn't illegal to determine if they improperly took code.
You forgot the most important thing, MS has billions of dollars to burn, to "prove" they are legally right. And you can bet your kids future on that they will spend such sums to protect their source code.
... under certain circumstances, it is cheaper to develop applications and enterprise solutions for Windows than for Linux. They cite costs from more education, time developing, etc...
What they totally ignore is that education and other "inital investment" doesn't apply for project 2,3 etc...
It would therefore be interesting to see how project #2 would compare cost-wise on the different platforms.
One could also quite convincingly argue that it is this girl's guardians' responsibility to find out what their charges are doing, and the illegality if any...
Quite the opposite, an activity so common that it is even practiced by 12 year olds, shouldn't be considered a cause for lawsuit.
It's clear that there is something rotten about this law..
... the victim is most likely in deep pain and may be under the impression the stopping the game company from making such games might also stop this pain from happening again.
Exactly as if you shoot yourself in the foot and decide to sue the manufacturer of the socks you were wearing.
It doesn't make any sense, and companies who take resonable precautions to inform the user on how to use their product should be excempt from such "dumb-and-bumber" lawsuits.
When are americans going to grow up and learn to take responsability for their actions.. (And that dimplomacy gets you futher than the military)
Who'd have thought it: a depressed economy leads to changes in price elasticity. I demand the Nobel Prize for Economics
You forgot to mention "by a monopoly".
Economincally speaking, the Music industry is not pricing the music as there was any competition, based on how much margin they must have to survive and possibly grow,
but rather as a monopoly, based on how much the consumer can/is willing to pay.
Not likely, not any more than you can download your ASM apps on any other phone on the market.
Do I get root access?
Root access to what ?? There is no shell, no TTYs, no/dev (or no / for that matter). The kernel is just used to control and manage the hardware (screen, keyboard, de/modulator, battery and memory)
Can I mess with the readio protocols and steal the ID number from another phone?
Not any more with this phone than any other... Even if you wll have the kernel's source, you won't have any more access to the hardware than on any other phone.
Do I get source?
Yes, but only to the kernel. (there is *much* more in there)
Can I recompile the phone OS and reinstall it?
Sure, with some fine soldering and steady hands, but the bootstrap code in the phone won't accept the new kernel unless it's signed with the correct key. So, it's useless.
But in general end to end security models like this have had trouble because it has not been possible to get central signing in a way that can be administrated cheaply enough to allow wide deployment.
If the state is serious enough about this problem (and they will, one day) they will manage and issue certificates for whoever wants one.
It shouldn't have to cost more to manage a certificate than it costs to manage a credid card account.. Even less, since once the issuer has issued the certificate, he doesn't have to protect any part of it himself.
I know the USPTO has allowed patents on ludicrous objects such as 1-click buying, but even they probably can't patent something that's unimaginable . . .
Can you imagine somebody patenting the wheel ?
(Yes, it happened)
Problem with that is, if I got an OEM laptop or computer the first thing I'd do is format the thing. How can they prove I read the licence if I needed to boot the thing to read it?
Huh ? From under which rock did you just crawl ?? They don't need to prove anything, they have more money that you do, they are right, you are wrong, end of story.
You would think that since intellectual property protection is so important to Microsoft, they would be more cautious about insuring that nothing they shipped infringed any patents instead of continuing to get caught in these embarassing lawsuits.
The problem is that issuing patents is largely a money making activity for the state. The result is that people can (and have) patented almost every imaginable (and quite a few unimaginable) things.
When the internet became popular, people rushed to patent everything that had already been patented but just with the words "on the internet" appended.
The results are that there are so many patents, covering so much activity that you have undoubtly "infringed" upon quite a few when you pressed the "submit" button. (and so will I)
Apart from a lot of patents being so vague that they could cover almost everything, It simply is not possible to match everything you do against issued patents.
You always have interest groups pushing for one solution or another. In the case of free software, it's tens of thousands of people who will have jobs they wouldn't have otherwise.
Switching systems like this requires more people (more jobs) for training and support. And even though the cost for the governament doesn't dramatically shrink, the money, not only stays in Brazil, but also creates thousands of new jobs.
It's about time the politicians of the world understand that important part of using free software!
And yes, you *could* configure it with just a screenful of lines, but we have over 20 domains, and all sorts of bells and whistles going for it so the config is is more like 51 lines of variables.. (postconf -n | wc -l).
But the best part is that even though we have a lot of configured variables, postfix still uses only 1 file on the disk for each normally handled email (is uses 2 if the mail gets delayed) and it is ridiculously *fast*.
Oh and I can read your card easily without you knowing it with a simple homebrew setup with a pic and a reader panel set up to have a much larger zone
Yes, that is also one thing people are worried about with RFID tags. The crooks will simply have to walk around with a scanner, gun and a PDA, the PDA will display in realtime the approximate value of things each person has on her.
And if a person, in Egypt for example, has a lot of valuable American stuff on her, she can relatively safely be assumed to be American and shot on the spot. Gives you a nice warm feeling of security doesn't it ?
It's an amazing system. When you walk near the door of a FedEx building, you simply wave your proxy card near (..within the "proximity" of..) the reader.
Sorry, but this is not a RFID card as people are talking about. The problem with RFID cards is that they can be modified after they are put in place. For example, the store can update the chip the moment you walk out of the store, to contain the excat time, location and idendity of the buyer. That information can then be extracted later by recycling companies, and sold back to whoever wants to pay for it.
Your card has just a pair of capacitors that respond the the frequency sent out by the "red eye in the wall" you swipe your card in front of. Just like the anti-theft systems in use everywhere.
XviD is a great alternative, which looks just as good as DivX (About 5mb per minute gets you very good quality if encoded properly. 10mb per minute is near DVD quality.)
I use XviD exclusively as my video format. If you haven't checked out dvd::rip it's hight time you do so.
Just run "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and "install Video::DVDRip". Gives you a nice GUI for dvd ripping that also provides you with a lot of information about what it is doing".
For the bitrate, use 0.25 bits of video data per pixel of video.
Example: If your video is 640x380 x 25fps, you have 640*380*25 = 6080000 pixels per second. Multiply it with 0.25 i.e. 6080000*0.25 = 1520 Kbps and that is the best level of quality/bitrate you will get for the compressed video.
By now, everyone should have figured out what SCO is up to...
It's simply a group of people who bought a broken company they thought had some value, found out it didn't, and are now trying to get some of their money back by inflating their stock with press releases and selling it as they go..
Belive me, SCO will try to stall it's case against everyone for as long as possible..
Its the license, not the software that may not discriminate.
But I doubt that not supporting or removing support could be defined as "discrimination", when anyone can just add the missing code right back into the source.. That's just one of the beauties of "Free software".
The README suggests that removing support for SCO unix from GCC would hurt SCO's users, but not SCO. I disagree: If SCO's users can't develop software for their chosen platform anymore, then they will likely choose another platform, and SCO will be the one hurting in the end (which is the desired effect).
SCO as a OS is dead, there is no meaningful revenue made from selling the SCO OS or supporting software/services. SCO, the company, knows this and this "Linux licensing" fee nonsense is just a way to try squeeze some milk from a dead cow. But the cow turned out to be pretty rotten and everything SCO is getting is foul smelling hands.
So an undisclosed company has bought thier license because SCO claims an undisclosed segment of the linux kernel source is their IP. This sounds like crap to me, for reasons I won't disclose.
Or
"In a undisclosed country an undisclosed division of a undisclosed fortune 500 company paid an undisclosed amount of undisclosed currency (not necessary money), for nothing."
I can only feel sorry for the poor suckers because they had no clue.
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If you've licensed code from microsft, and it turns out to be GPL, the license under which you got the code is invalid, so it wasn't illegal to determine if they improperly took code.
You forgot the most important thing, MS has billions of dollars to burn, to "prove" they are legally right. And you can bet your kids future on that they will spend such sums to protect their source code.
How much do you have ?
What they totally ignore is that education and other "inital investment" doesn't apply for project 2,3 etc ...
It would therefore be interesting to see how project #2 would compare cost-wise on the different platforms.
One could also quite convincingly argue that it is this girl's guardians' responsibility to find out what their charges are doing, and the illegality if any...
Quite the opposite, an activity so common that it is even practiced by 12 year olds, shouldn't be considered a cause for lawsuit.
It's clear that there is something rotten about this law..
... the victim is most likely in deep pain and may be under the impression the stopping the game company from making such games might also stop this pain from happening again.
Exactly as if you shoot yourself in the foot and decide to sue the manufacturer of the socks you were wearing.It doesn't make any sense, and companies who take resonable precautions to inform the user on how to use their product should be excempt from such "dumb-and-bumber" lawsuits.
When are americans going to grow up and learn to take responsability for their actions.. (And that dimplomacy gets you futher than the military)
Who'd have thought it: a depressed economy leads to changes in price elasticity. I demand the Nobel Prize for Economics
You forgot to mention "by a monopoly".
Economincally speaking, the Music industry is not pricing the music as there was any competition, based on how much margin they must have to survive and possibly grow,
but rather as a monopoly, based on how much the consumer can/is willing to pay.
Can I download my own C apps to it?
Not likely, not any more than you can download your ASM apps on any other phone on the market.
Do I get root access?
Root access to what ?? There is no shell, no TTYs, no /dev (or no / for that matter). The kernel is just used to control and manage the hardware (screen, keyboard, de/modulator, battery and memory)
Can I mess with the readio protocols and steal the ID number from another phone?
Not any more with this phone than any other... Even if you wll have the kernel's source, you won't have any more access to the hardware than on any other phone.
Do I get source?
Yes, but only to the kernel. (there is *much* more in there)
Can I recompile the phone OS and reinstall it?
Sure, with some fine soldering and steady hands, but the bootstrap code in the phone won't accept the new kernel unless it's signed with the correct key. So, it's useless.
But in general end to end security models like this have had trouble because it has not been possible to get central signing in a way that can be administrated cheaply enough to allow wide deployment.
If the state is serious enough about this problem (and they will, one day) they will manage and issue certificates for whoever wants one.
It shouldn't have to cost more to manage a certificate than it costs to manage a credid card account .. Even less, since once the issuer has issued the certificate, he doesn't have to protect any part of it himself.
ssh remotehost cat
Have a look at BitCluster, it opens up a window for each of your remoter machine and allows you to do everything simultanously, over SSH of course.
Would you rather go up against the EFF's lawyers or IBM's lawyers?
IBM lawyers will hit you with the legal system.
EFF lawyers will hit you with the justice system.
Being hurt by loads of lawyers and financial punishment hurts, but being defeated by justice, is something very painful and difficult to recover form.
I know the USPTO has allowed patents on ludicrous objects such as 1-click buying, but even they probably can't patent something that's unimaginable . . .
Can you imagine somebody patenting the wheel ?
(Yes, it happened)
Problem with that is, if I got an OEM laptop or computer the first thing I'd do is format the thing. How can they prove I read the licence if I needed to boot the thing to read it?
Huh ? From under which rock did you just crawl ?? They don't need to prove anything, they have more money that you do, they are right, you are wrong, end of story.
You would think that since intellectual property protection is so important to Microsoft, they would be more cautious about insuring that nothing they shipped infringed any patents instead of continuing to get caught in these embarassing lawsuits.
The problem is that issuing patents is largely a money making activity for the state. The result is that people can (and have) patented almost every imaginable (and quite a few unimaginable) things.
When the internet became popular, people rushed to patent everything that had already been patented but just with the words "on the internet" appended.
The results are that there are so many patents, covering so much activity that you have undoubtly "infringed" upon quite a few when you pressed the "submit" button. (and so will I)
Apart from a lot of patents being so vague that they could cover almost everything, It simply is not possible to match everything you do against issued patents.
RC1 = Release Candidate #1
Usually followed by RC2 etc ...
I know Mandrake absolutely rocks, but isn't this a bit to much, making a /. story out of the first RC ??
You always have interest groups pushing for one solution or another. In the case of free software, it's tens of thousands of people who will have jobs they wouldn't have otherwise.
Switching systems like this requires more people (more jobs) for training and support. And even though the cost for the governament doesn't dramatically shrink, the money, not only stays in Brazil, but also creates thousands of new jobs.
It's about time the politicians of the world understand that important part of using free software!
Collection of small daemons
And yes, you *could* configure it with just a screenful of lines, but we have over 20 domains, and all sorts of bells and whistles going for it so the config is is more like 51 lines of variables.. (postconf -n | wc -l).
But the best part is that even though we have a lot of configured variables, postfix still uses only 1 file on the disk for each normally handled email (is uses 2 if the mail gets delayed) and it is ridiculously *fast*.
Oh and I can read your card easily without you knowing it with a simple homebrew setup with a pic and a reader panel set up to have a much larger zone
Yes, that is also one thing people are worried about with RFID tags. The crooks will simply have to walk around with a scanner, gun and a PDA, the PDA will display in realtime the approximate value of things each person has on her.
And if a person, in Egypt for example, has a lot of valuable American stuff on her, she can relatively safely be assumed to be American and shot on the spot. Gives you a nice warm feeling of security doesn't it ?
It's an amazing system. When you walk near the door of a FedEx building, you simply wave your proxy card near (..within the "proximity" of..) the reader.
Sorry, but this is not a RFID card as people are talking about. The problem with RFID cards is that they can be modified after they are put in place. For example, the store can update the chip the moment you walk out of the store, to contain the excat time, location and idendity of the buyer. That information can then be extracted later by recycling companies, and sold back to whoever wants to pay for it.
Your card has just a pair of capacitors that respond the the frequency sent out by the "red eye in the wall" you swipe your card in front of. Just like the anti-theft systems in use everywhere.
Hey, I knew we went overboard with the Patriot act, but when did the BSA (Boyscouts of America) start doing raids?!?
Around the same time as the Smoking Crack Operation claimed ownership of the Linux kernel.
>Show me proof of ownership for your toilet. Bet you can't!
Will a hard dump of its contents do?
No, but, as with BSA, a hard dump of your bank account will do nicely thank you.
XviD is a great alternative, which looks just as good as DivX (About 5mb per minute gets you very good quality if encoded properly. 10mb per minute is near DVD quality.)
I use XviD exclusively as my video format. If you haven't checked out dvd::rip it's hight time you do so.
Just run "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and "install Video::DVDRip". Gives you a nice GUI for dvd ripping that also provides you with a lot of information about what it is doing".
For the bitrate, use 0.25 bits of video data per pixel of video.
Example: If your video is 640x380 x 25fps, you have 640*380*25 = 6080000 pixels per second. Multiply it with 0.25 i.e. 6080000*0.25 = 1520 Kbps and that is the best level of quality/bitrate you will get for the compressed video.
Is that related to Bill Gates having been last seen in N.Y. with a pair of pliers is his hand and a silly grin on his face ?
By now, everyone should have figured out what SCO is up to
It's simply a group of people who bought a broken company they thought had some value, found out it didn't, and are now trying to get some of their money back by inflating their stock with press releases and selling it as they go..
Belive me, SCO will try to stall it's case against everyone for as long as possible..
Its the license, not the software that may not discriminate.
But I doubt that not supporting or removing support could be defined as "discrimination", when anyone can just add the missing code right back into the source.. That's just one of the beauties of "Free software".
The README suggests that removing support for SCO unix from GCC would hurt SCO's users, but not SCO. I disagree: If SCO's users can't develop software for their chosen platform anymore, then they will likely choose another platform, and SCO will be the one hurting in the end (which is the desired effect).
SCO as a OS is dead, there is no meaningful revenue made from selling the SCO OS or supporting software/services.
SCO, the company, knows this and this "Linux licensing" fee nonsense is just a way to try squeeze some milk from a dead cow. But the cow turned out to be pretty rotten and everything SCO is getting is foul smelling hands.
So an undisclosed company has bought thier license because SCO claims an undisclosed segment of the linux kernel source is their IP. This sounds like crap to me, for reasons I won't disclose.
Or
"In a undisclosed country an undisclosed division of a undisclosed fortune 500 company paid an undisclosed amount of undisclosed currency (not necessary money), for nothing."
I can only feel sorry for the poor suckers because they had no clue.