Patents are mostly the domain of the corporation, unfortunately. Although they cover different types and aspects of IP, copyright's belong to the small guys as well as the big corporations.
The problem is how expensive and restrictive the music has been and worse, how the RIAA has chosen to go about enforcing the copyright.
This is expensive by your measure but by an artist or promotion company it may not be expensive. There is no clause in copyright law says that you must sell your product at a "reasonable price" - whatever the heck that is...
Instead of addressing people's concerns, they've decided to sue people and create technology which limits freedom.
The point of copyright is the ability to control your works not necessarly addressing people's concerns.
But no one that I know is against artists getting compensated. Last I checked main stream artist are being compensated nicely....
What is that any operating system that is NMCI compliant?
The Navy as I understand it is heading for a completely monoculture network. Worse yet that monoculture is brought to you by the folks from Redmond. You can expect a few more ships towed into port.
I just did a search on webcrawler for "digital camera" and the results where 70% pay-per-click advertising with a small and hardly noticable "Sponsored by:" disclaimer. Worse yet the paid links are intermigled with the indexed hits.
Looks like Webcrawler is now more of a pay-per-click dispensor than a search engine... No thanks!
I think google has done a good job of clearly identified what is relevant and what is paid for.
If I read the article correctly this is not a per cpu protection license. SCO wants to lighten your pocket book by $699/per CPU. This coverage is a lump sum with protection up to the amount x you feel comfortable. Big difference.
That overly hostile arrogance suggests you're either a zealot or a fourteen year-old. That sort of blustering generally indicates someone who isn't that confident in himself or his argument, and so wishes to preempt questioning by being a posturing like a "tough guy"; it's particularly prevalent on the net... Adults can disagree and discuss things without resorting to insults and attitude -- and I think you'll be able to do that too, with a little more experience.
Nicely put! What is it about the net that prompts people to come off as complete jerks when they would never interact in such a way on a person-to-person basis.
I am sure the black box data was only part of the picture. When a car hit a person at 100 mph there will surely be corroborating evidence like skid marks (or lack thereof) the extent of bodily injury and car damage, etc.
Some people said they didn't want Marsh using their money to fund SCO. Me, I don't care if he uses it to feed a massive cocaine addiction
I think if he using it for his cocaine addition nobody would care but the money (and publicity) is being used to hijack the works of others of which you use freely (or so I assume).
This does bother and concern me! If SCO is somehow even partly successful they have great potential to damage the phenomena that is know as Open Source software.
I was shopping for a dedicated server when the EV1 event occurred and they fell off the list of providers that I will consider.
I wish someone could convince my PHB but they decided to outsource all of its IT to single vendor who is offering a single product line (MS Products only please) from the desktop to the server room. This contract specifically locks out not only open source products but competing commercial products that maybe better suited for a given situation. Never mind that this contract is short sighted by
Establishing a monoculture environment leaving the organization vulnerable
Excessive costs by requireing MS office on desktops that never user it where something like OO may be sufficient.
Restricting the use of a emerging class of IP enabled devices (from UPS to IP telephones)
Forcing the use of Win2000/IIS/SQL server where a Unix box is more appropiate and secure and cheaper to operate.
I am sure other could add to this list....
But I hear customer satificaton is
high
From: ------- [KEDIT] [mailto:------------] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:00 PM To: '------------' Subject: RE: Kedit Port
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the link. It's nice to see that KEDIT still has admirers. To correct a couple of points in the threads I looked at:
1) "I send mansfield an e-mail every so often requesting a Linux version or ask to open source the code but they just ignore me."
We never ignore Linux/Unix version inquiries but there really haven't been many over the years. We've been consistent in stating that we have no plans for a Unix/Linux KEDIT. We've also been consistent in stating that there are no open source plans.
1) "Mansfield software has quit supporting Kedit about a decade ago."
We still do support KEDIT for DOS, OS/2 and Windows. We essentially don't sell KEDIT for DOS and OS/2 anymore since we ran out of manuals some time ago and with sales of these versions so low, it wasn't cost effective to print more. We sell license-only copies occasionally to users who already know the product and need some more copies to be legal. We're still selling KEDIT for Windows 1.5. We have no new versions of KEDIT in the works though and perhaps this was what was meant by the above comment.
Thanks again for the link. I only wish I had some better news for you.
> >>>>>>> Original Message: >>>>>>> > > FYI Scroll down to the post titled "Kedit and Rexx" > > http://developers.slashdot.org/articl e.pl?sid=04/0 3/24/0034224&mode=thread&t id=126&tid=136&tid=156 &tid=187 > > If you ever port kedit to Linux our department is good for 12 > copies....
Very easy to understand the syntax. The philosophy is 180 degrees different from Perl.
You had me until this statement. I have taught myself both Perl and REXX and I love them both but I would not say Perl is harder to understand then REXX. Perl has grown over the years to be much larger language with many more features then REXX and perhaps harder to get your arms around because of the extent of Perl.
I still use Kedit, a win32 programmer's editor, that uses Rexx as the macro language and it rocks (both the editor and the macro environment). Even though Mansfield software has quit supporting Kedit about a decade ago it is still the best editor on the windows platform. I tried switching several times - first to Brief then to Codewright and then Slick edit but came back to Kedit because of if clean interface and performance.
I send mansfield an e-mail every so often requesting a Linux version or ask to open source the code but they just ignore me. Kedit would be a good replacement for vi on linux.
Any other Kedit fans out there? BTW not to be confused with the KDE based editor by the same name.
When micrsoft started to delve into advanced concepts such as networking they started to program in hidden api's and incompatabilities to stymie the competition (way before antitrust) in fact the the MS's behind the scenes mantra was "the job's not done until Novell won't run".
I have had similar experiences. Overture (aka yahoo) attempts to console you with their Click Protection buzz words. But in reality they do not filter out the even the most basic fraudulent clicks.
Here is summary of my recent experience with Overture's
Click Protection program. Overture e-mail responses are almost unbelievable.
Overture claims to provide "Click Protection" for their pay-per-click advertising service. In reality they fail to prevent the most basic and easiest to detect non-authentic clicks - that is competitors clicking on competitors. They do not even filter out a customer clicking on their own links from within the Overture manager. Nor do they provide a method for an advertiser to test their own ad rendered URL's - a necessary function as a means to test the validity of an entered URL.
Since filtering out such clicks would be simple and straight forward using established cookies or session id's - I can only speculate the reasons for not patching this obvious flaw and question the "sophistication of Overtures "Click Protection".
Slash code should have a regexp looking for "McDonalds" and "Coffee" and automatically provide a response with links and justification to a post that contains these words.
Well the Navy has sold its IT soul to the NMCI contract that stipulates that all desktops and servers and office productivity tools will be MS products. All others will be classified as "legacy" applications and will be schedules for rehosting. This includes all things that touch the network - databases, webservers, etc.
As the deployment is progress they are finding that people do more then send email and write word documents and they have to leave some of the existing infrastructure intact and many have two desktop machines - the nmci email kiosk and the other machine where work gets done. This neither lower costs or inceases security - both goals of the contract.
Also if they are successful the Navy will be a sitting duck with a monoculture IT infrastructure and a successful exploit will be able to cripple it in short order.
The NMCI contract is the largest IT contract ever and you hear scant little about it in the press. I sure hope some watchdog group or even the GAO start monitoring the progress of this contract.
Slashdot Mirror
Patents are mostly the domain of the corporation, unfortunately. Although they cover different types and aspects of IP, copyright's belong to the small guys as well as the big corporations.
The problem is how expensive and restrictive the music has been and worse, how the RIAA has chosen to go about enforcing the copyright.
This is expensive by your measure but by an artist or promotion company it may not be expensive. There is no clause in copyright law says that you must sell your product at a "reasonable price" - whatever the heck that is...
Instead of addressing people's concerns, they've decided to sue people and create technology which limits freedom.
The point of copyright is the ability to control your works not necessarly addressing people's concerns.
But no one that I know is against artists getting compensated. Last I checked main stream artist are being compensated nicely....
What is that any operating system that is NMCI compliant?
The Navy as I understand it is heading for a completely monoculture network. Worse yet that monoculture is brought to you by the folks from Redmond. You can expect a few more ships towed into port.
BTW the Mithras parallels to Jesus are way over done unless you are willing to classify a spontaneous generation from a rock as a virgin birth.
I just did a search on webcrawler for "digital camera" and the results where 70% pay-per-click advertising with a small and hardly noticable "Sponsored by:" disclaimer. Worse yet the paid links are intermigled with the indexed hits.
Looks like Webcrawler is now more of a pay-per-click dispensor than a search engine... No thanks!
I think google has done a good job of clearly identified what is relevant and what is paid for.
If I read the article correctly this is not a per cpu protection license. SCO wants to lighten your pocket book by $699/per CPU. This coverage is a lump sum with protection up to the amount x you feel comfortable. Big difference.
That overly hostile arrogance suggests you're either a zealot or a fourteen year-old. That sort of blustering generally indicates someone who isn't that confident in himself or his argument, and so wishes to preempt questioning by being a posturing like a "tough guy"; it's particularly prevalent on the net ... Adults can disagree and discuss things without resorting to insults and attitude -- and I think you'll be able to do that too, with a little more experience.
Nicely put! What is it about the net that prompts people to come off as complete jerks when they would never interact in such a way on a person-to-person basis.
Yup he will control the global console and will announce his return with the wall command...
I am sure the black box data was only part of the picture. When a car hit a person at 100 mph there will surely be corroborating evidence like skid marks (or lack thereof) the extent of bodily injury and car damage, etc.
no we should just blame the lawyers...
Impact Velocity: 80500.00 km/s = 49990.50 miles/s
Ooch is right. I think your velocity might be a little above the mean at a ~1/4 of the speed of light.
I noticed on their examples they used 20 km/s consistantly. Is this the solar system speed limit or something?
be sure to alias err... replace "cp" with "rm -rf" in the profile on the last day. :)
Some people said they didn't want Marsh using their money to fund SCO. Me, I don't care if he uses it to feed a massive cocaine addiction
I think if he using it for his cocaine addition nobody would care but the money (and publicity) is being used to hijack the works of others of which you use freely (or so I assume).
This does bother and concern me! If SCO is somehow even partly successful they have great potential to damage the phenomena that is know as Open Source software.
I was shopping for a dedicated server when the EV1 event occurred and they fell off the list of providers that I will consider.
Establishing a monoculture environment leaving the organization vulnerable
Excessive costs by requireing MS office on desktops that never user it where something like OO may be sufficient.
Restricting the use of a emerging class of IP enabled devices (from UPS to IP telephones)
Forcing the use of Win2000/IIS/SQL server where a Unix box is more appropiate and secure and cheaper to operate. I am sure other could add to this list.... But I hear customer satificaton is high
From: ------- [KEDIT]
l e.pl?sid=04/0 3/24/0034224&mode=thread&t6 &tid=187
[mailto:------------]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:00 PM
To: '------------'
Subject: RE: Kedit Port
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the link. It's nice to see that KEDIT still has admirers.
To correct a couple of points in the threads I looked at:
1) "I send mansfield an e-mail every so often requesting a Linux
version or ask to open source the code but they just ignore me."
We never ignore Linux/Unix version inquiries but there really haven't
been many over the years. We've been consistent in stating that we
have no plans for a Unix/Linux KEDIT. We've also been consistent in
stating that there are no open source plans.
1) "Mansfield software has quit supporting Kedit about a decade ago."
We still do support KEDIT for DOS, OS/2 and Windows. We essentially
don't sell KEDIT for DOS and OS/2 anymore since we ran out of manuals
some time ago and with sales of these versions so low, it wasn't cost
effective to print more. We sell license-only copies occasionally to
users who already know the product and need some more copies to be
legal. We're still selling KEDIT for Windows 1.5. We have no new
versions of KEDIT in the works though and perhaps this was what was
meant by the above comment.
Thanks again for the link. I only wish I had some better news for you.
------ -------
Mansfield Software Group, Inc
PO Box 532
Storrs CT 06268-0532 USA
Phone: 860-429-8402 x117 (M-F 8-5 EST)
Fax: 860-487-1185
Email: ----------------
Web: http://www.kedit.com
>
>>>>>>> Original Message: >>>>>>>
>
> FYI Scroll down to the post titled "Kedit and Rexx"
>
>
http://developers.slashdot.org/artic
id=126&tid=136&tid=15
>
> If you ever port kedit to Linux our department is good for 12
> copies....
Very easy to understand the syntax. The philosophy is 180 degrees different from Perl.
You had me until this statement. I have taught myself both Perl and REXX and I love them both but I would not say Perl is harder to understand then REXX. Perl has grown over the years to be much larger language with many more features then REXX and perhaps harder to get your arms around because of the extent of Perl.
Well I have been forcing myself to use vim but I miss things like folding the lines of a file with a simple command like
>all "if "
Then be able to add in lines with a
>more "elseif "
or take away with
>less "# "
Or doing a search and replace on all files within the ring (ie currently loaded files). If vim can do this I would sure like to find the cheat sheet.
Yes $159 is steep I paid $79 and they have stopped production.
I still use Kedit, a win32 programmer's editor, that uses Rexx as the macro language and it rocks (both the editor and the macro environment). Even though Mansfield software has quit supporting Kedit about a decade ago it is still the best editor on the windows platform. I tried switching several times - first to Brief then to Codewright and then Slick edit but came back to Kedit because of if clean interface and performance.
I send mansfield an e-mail every so often requesting a Linux version or ask to open source the code but they just ignore me. Kedit would be a good replacement for vi on linux.
Any other Kedit fans out there? BTW not to be confused with the KDE based editor by the same name.
ah yes those were the days...
When micrsoft started to delve into advanced concepts such as networking they started to program in hidden api's and incompatabilities to stymie the competition (way before antitrust) in fact the the MS's behind the scenes mantra was "the job's not done until Novell won't run".
Here is summary of my recent experience with Overture's Click Protection program. Overture e-mail responses are almost unbelievable.
err Python and Ruby are in the same solution space as Perl where as PHP, ASP and JSP are competitors.
Now I just finished writing a CGI/Perl app that talks to an Opto22 device using a firewire module. Does PHP have a firewire module?
I do not believe it is inevitable. Three things that will drastically decrease the probabilities
+ Free exchange of information (free press)
+ Expansion of democratically elected governments.
+ Womens right to vote
Nice work
Slash code should have a regexp looking for "McDonalds" and "Coffee" and automatically provide a response with links and justification to a post that contains these words.
Well the Navy has sold its IT soul to the NMCI contract that stipulates that all desktops and servers and office productivity tools will be MS products. All others will be classified as "legacy" applications and will be schedules for rehosting. This includes all things that touch the network - databases, webservers, etc.
As the deployment is progress they are finding that people do more then send email and write word documents and they have to leave some of the existing infrastructure intact and many have two desktop machines - the nmci email kiosk and the other machine where work gets done. This neither lower costs or inceases security - both goals of the contract.
Also if they are successful the Navy will be a sitting duck with a monoculture IT infrastructure and a successful exploit will be able to cripple it in short order.
The NMCI contract is the largest IT contract ever and you hear scant little about it in the press. I sure hope some watchdog group or even the GAO start monitoring the progress of this contract.