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  1. Re:It gives visibility to the GPL on Should the GPL be Used as a Click-Wrap? · · Score: 1
    You can sell Free software quite easily, although market forces called "It's illegal to try to stop copying" take over. You're conflating definitions of free.
    If you don't see the wrongness of somebody wanting to make something proprietary then why do you see wrongness in making something incapable of being rendered proprietary?
    I wasn't actually making a moral point at that point but merely stating that a corporate entity will be most likely to make any modifications to a BSD product proprietary.
    DO WITHOUT. It may not be an appealing option, but it IS a option.
    Until you need it for your job.
  2. Re:Uuo 118 on Element 118 Created · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't really call the French Revolution 'stable' considering what happened during it. But seriously it's probably named after France because that's where it was discovered.

  3. Re:And now the fun begins on Element 118 Created · · Score: 1
    Linux is unix training wheels, while BSD *is* unix.
    Which is the reason it's called the "Unix Haters Handbook" and not the "Linux Haters Handbook". (I keed, I keed, I actually like BSD, and I know when the Handbook was written, I just don't like the elitism from BSDers)
  4. Re:Just in time on Element 118 Created · · Score: 1

    "Red Sky" was a great episode :)

  5. Re:patented process on Element 118 Created · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they, unlike other patentholders, let you dream of it. They also give you hard-core soft porn, although I don't understand how that works.

  6. Shattner? on A History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads · · Score: 3, Funny

    Khan! KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

  7. Re:The key to a successful android... on Androids at China's Robot Expo · · Score: 1

    I know The Answer is 42, but I don't know The Question.

  8. Re:The key to a successful android... on Androids at China's Robot Expo · · Score: 1
    How's your redundant heart doing?
    As a Time Lord, it's doing pretty well.
  9. Re:Reason why is probably $$$ on IBM's Counterclaim 10 Outlines 5 Ways SCO's Wrong · · Score: 1

    Inflation didn't really exist until after the Depression. Or at least, it wasn't a constant rise until then.

  10. Re:Reason why is probably $$$ on IBM's Counterclaim 10 Outlines 5 Ways SCO's Wrong · · Score: 1

    No, we just need to get it as far away from elections as possible. Getting it as far away from television and the other media as possible is a good idea as well, not just for the political ad reason but also for the cancellation-of-good-shows reason.

  11. Re:the US system on IBM's Counterclaim 10 Outlines 5 Ways SCO's Wrong · · Score: 1
    Nor should it. In a common law system, setting a precedant where citing a previous one would do is usually a bad thing.
    Primary exception: Brown v. Board of Education. That's the only one I can think of.
  12. Re:MySpace told Congress on MySpace Predator Caught By Code · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think the age of consent there is 16. Personally I don't give a fuck about the Foley incident except in the form of "what comes around, goes around" and that any bad news for the Republicans around this time is good news for getting these fuckers out.

  13. Re:easy on What's Wrong With the Games Industry · · Score: 1

    I can see that Zonk chose who got modpoints today...

  14. Re:Incredible Speaker on Jobs Unfazed by Zune · · Score: 1

    I completely agree with what you say. The original TI-89 still looks good.

  15. Re:Editor? Editor? Anyone? Hello?! on Why AMD Is Still In The Race · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I thought Apple was the one whose products had an expiremental power source based on their smug sense of superiority!

  16. Re:Sure... on Why AMD Is Still In The Race · · Score: 1

    Most Americans do. But Europeans generally prefer the term "euros".

  17. Re:Sure... on Why AMD Is Still In The Race · · Score: 1

    AMD never had anything even remotely similar to the F00F bug Intel had.

  18. Re:Sure... on Why AMD Is Still In The Race · · Score: 1

    AMD is still cheaper for an equivalent processor, and let's face it, the very high end of Intel processors, which are only faster for very CPU-bound operations(which are incredibly rare), doesn't have much of a market.

  19. Re:It always has...just getting worse lately. on Howard Stern Coming To the Net · · Score: 1

    Google actually does some good things for open source, like the whole Summer of Code thing, and hiring a bunch of open source developers. Nintendo is shit though in that department, and the most open console this generation is Sony.

  20. Re:This seems rather alarmist on Space Station Gyro Problem Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    MacGyver's not really that useful anymore. You'd really want Samantha Carter.

  21. Re:May I be the first to say... on MySpace Predator Caught By Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    These people are on Myspace. 'Nuff said.

  22. Re:Can We Please.... on Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body · · Score: 1

    Because they really like Brandon Flowers' band.

  23. Re:It gives visibility to the GPL on Should the GPL be Used as a Click-Wrap? · · Score: 1

    It's often not that they don't want to release the source but that they don't want it to become a major asset to their competitors--which is why we see a lot of GPL software from companies and also a lot of software under weird licenses like the CDDL but almost no corporate software under the BSD.

  24. Why does Microsoft keep trying to hire The Killers on Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm amazed that Brandon Flowers doesn't have Bill Gates on some sort of block-list by now.

  25. Re:Don't believe it on MySpace Predator Caught By Code · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or, he could just use Python ;)