What posturing is the FSF doing? I read the article & the FSF guy parsaid: 'Apple's released a proprietary & DRM-crippled phone - I wonder if it has GPLd software on it?'
The iPhone is both proprietary & crippled by DRM - I don't see where the posturing is.
Continue the sencence "I wonder if it has GPLd software on it".
Now it's me the one who wonders how many tequilas the FSF guy drank before doing that statement
It would be nice to know if the worm affects any Web Browser or only the usual suspect (it seems so, for the platforms affected are only Windows 95-2003)
If I wanted to immerse myself in a world where the evil and malicious win time after time, I'd just walk out the front door.
You, my anonymous friend, have bought into the American culture of fear, hook, line and sinker.
Or maybe he knows that there is life outside his country and that daily hundreds of thousand people die due to the interests of a select minority. (Read: no generic medicaments for AIDS in African countries, M-16 and AK-47 being sold to south-american guerrillas, thousands of people dying ten years ago in Servia in front of ONU troops... do I have to continue?
Let me guess: you still believe that the international presence on Iraq is due to war on terrorism? I encounter the anonymous sentence much more sane than yours
Well, that is fantastic for data loss due to happy rm -fr or filesystem errors, but the man is asking for a solution against HD failure.
If I were you I would read through this answers, your file server have been working for 3 years and HD tend to fail when the guarantee ends. (Murphy's Law)
The huge difference of QT/Embedded Vs X11/GTK _and_ glib is that QT has an API that an eight y/o could code with. Have you ever tried to make "Hello world" with Xlib?
Commercial developers have to pay to use QT? Big deal, it only means that their commercial margin will be a bit lower. And if they don't want to, they can distribute their software as GPL.
But meanwhile there are lots of free software products hitting the internet instead of the shelves from the non-commercial developers. And guess what, they (the developers) don't need to buy a set of OS+IDE+Embedded tools to do so.
Trolltech people had a propietary development and they set it free, under the GPL license. What else do you want, a box of free donuts with it?
Oh, and I think there is a pretty lot of applications for qt embedded already in the market, that could be another good reason for Motorola, don't you think so?
So, sad day for Linux and Open Source? If you want to be a zealot pray Ximian (now Novell) to work out a full implementation of a GTK Framework for embedded devices.
As dieties go, Google is probably a bit more deserving than some other common choices today, of course, but is still on the "Not such a great idea" side of the choices of "things, Things, dieties, and God's to worship.
Jesus, man. You mean deities. Is not enough with Google=God, and you come with Google=Final Diet.
But I'm with you, Google is not a bad dietary, but it sure is not a great idea as a diet
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Clippy: I think you tried to spell totally, forbidden, ridiculous. Do you want me to correct it?
On the other hand, it would be better to use "forbidding".
Telstra controls the local loop, is the largest mobile carrier with two digital networks, is the largest retail ISP, the largest wholesale data and Internet provider, and is a 50% shareholder in the biggest pay TV company
Well, actually this is the same situation we have in Spain:
Telefonica controls the local loop, is the largest mobile carrier (Movistar), is the largest ISP (forked Terra and now is buying it again), is the major shareholder of Grupo Admira, wich controls the biggest pay TV company (Via Digital) and part of several media groups.
Similarly, if Linus introduced into the kernel either his own code or code donated by someone else (IBM) that implements any algorithms for which SCO holds patents, even if the code in question comprises completely original implementations of those algorithms, then by redistributing the kernel without a license from SCO, Linus is infringing on SCO's patents.
Ok. It have been stated already that SCO has no patents nor IP related to their claims. They do have code, but that sale didn't involve the IP nor the patents involved in the development of that code.
The really funny thing is that IBM, HP, Compaq (formerly Digital), Novell et all do have patents related to UNIX (and I'll bet they have patents over H2O methodus and aparatus). If SCO wants to get into that game they're going to suffer. A lot.
A year and a half ago I was involved on the development of a Digital TV Set Top Box.
As User Interface Developer one of my duties was the analysis and selection of an embedded web browser. My bet was a Gecko based one, but implement it for the Nucleus RTOS was out of the question, so we should point to a propietary browser license.
If this project was so evolved in that moment it would have been a serious alternative.
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Continue the sencence "I wonder if it has GPLd software on it".
Now it's me the one who wonders how many tequilas the FSF guy drank before doing that statement
This scenario was proposed a long time ago, I cannot understand how the NYT doesn't reference it and shows it as something new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_Syndrome
It would be nice to know if the worm affects any Web Browser or only the usual suspect (it seems so, for the platforms affected are only Windows 95-2003)
Actually, it's bullshit^2. Cabir was a proof of concept by 29a and was released in the wild without their consent.
But what could you expect of zdnet? Professional writing?
Tell that to Rincewind.
If I wanted to immerse myself in a world where the evil and malicious win time after time, I'd just walk out the front door.
Or maybe he knows that there is life outside his country and that daily hundreds of thousand people die due to the interests of a select minority. (Read: no generic medicaments for AIDS in African countries, M-16 and AK-47 being sold to south-american guerrillas, thousands of people dying ten years ago in Servia in front of ONU troops... do I have to continue?
Let me guess: you still believe that the international presence on Iraq is due to war on terrorism? I encounter the anonymous sentence much more sane than yours
Well, that is fantastic for data loss due to happy rm -fr or filesystem errors, but the man is asking for a solution against HD failure.
If I were you I would read through this answers, your file server have been working for 3 years and HD tend to fail when the guarantee ends. (Murphy's Law)
The huge difference of QT/Embedded Vs X11/GTK _and_ glib is that QT has an API that an eight y/o could code with. Have you ever tried to make "Hello world" with Xlib?
Commercial developers have to pay to use QT? Big deal, it only means that their commercial margin will be a bit lower. And if they don't want to, they can distribute their software as GPL.
But meanwhile there are lots of free software products hitting the internet instead of the shelves from the non-commercial developers. And guess what, they (the developers) don't need to buy a set of OS+IDE+Embedded tools to do so.
Trolltech people had a propietary development and they set it free, under the GPL license. What else do you want, a box of free donuts with it?
QT/Embedded GPL FAQ
Oh, and I think there is a pretty lot of applications for qt embedded already in the market, that could be another good reason for Motorola, don't you think so?
So, sad day for Linux and Open Source? If you want to be a zealot pray Ximian (now Novell) to work out a full implementation of a GTK Framework for embedded devices.
Jesus, man. You mean deities. Is not enough with Google=God, and you come with Google=Final Diet.
But I'm with you, Google is not a bad dietary, but it sure is not a great idea as a diet
Clippy: I think you tried to spell totally, forbidden, ridiculous. Do you want me to correct it?
On the other hand, it would be better to use "forbidding".
Troll me, flame me, kiss me.
Well, actually this is the same situation we have in Spain:
Telefonica controls the local loop, is the largest mobile carrier (Movistar), is the largest ISP (forked Terra and now is buying it again), is the major shareholder of Grupo Admira, wich controls the biggest pay TV company (Via Digital) and part of several media groups.
And now, for something completely different...
Ok. It have been stated already that SCO has no patents nor IP related to their claims. They do have code, but that sale didn't involve the IP nor the patents involved in the development of that code.
The really funny thing is that IBM, HP, Compaq (formerly Digital), Novell et all do have patents related to UNIX (and I'll bet they have patents over H2O methodus and aparatus). If SCO wants to get into that game they're going to suffer. A lot.
A year and a half ago I was involved on the development of a Digital TV Set Top Box.
As User Interface Developer one of my duties was the analysis and selection of an embedded web browser. My bet was a Gecko based one, but implement it for the Nucleus RTOS was out of the question, so we should point to a propietary browser license.
If this project was so evolved in that moment it would have been a serious alternative.