this is not a new thing at all; many other manufacturers have had USB and Firewire interfaces for quite a while. Take a look:
http://www.audiomidi.com/hardware/audio/usb.html ht tp://www.audiomidi.com/hardware/audio/firewire.htm l
and what's with the "it looks like creative has done it again." ? I have nothing against creative, they make cheap cards that are ok quality, but they're certaintly not on the cutting edge of audio. did anyone check whether or not "timothy" is a creative employee ?
this card looks ok and all, but it's certaintly not a huge breakthrough.
"You aren't forced at all. If you want to benefit from his (and others') work, then these are the rules you have to play by. You can't take without giving. If you don't like it, don't use their work. It's that simple."
Microsoft et. al. would say the exact same thing about their software.
which was my original point; GNU getting into the license police is starting to make open source software just as hard to deal with as closed source software.
i'm not a lawyer and don't want to become one; i just want to hack and make things without having to dealing with all these licenses.
amen. i'm sick of hearing that the GNU borg has approved or not approved a certain group's contribution this week.
in STallman's original USENET posting, he writes "I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement." Note he writes that he couldn't sign a license agreement... hrm; like the license agreement he forces anyone who wants to put any GNU code into their projects to do ?
Having no licenses was the original idea of open source and should remain so.
That's what made open source software so nice; you could hack without worrying about strange, arbitrary laws governing which code you can use and which you can't. Just download the code you need and go; everyone is happy.
but with all of the slightly different licenses to keep track of and all of the political infighting, it's becoming just as bad as (or even worse than) closed source software.
Google supports those kinds of searches just fine; try it and see. It also supports domain restriction, language restriction, and other kinds of search altavista doesn't. You can read about them here:
http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
This brings up a good point; people often think something is broken and doesn't contain certain features when they simply don't know how to use it properly. Some of the most common gripes about {text editors, OSs, languages, DBMSs, etc.} can be attributed to the user simply not knowing the tool well enough.
Linux _is_ a target; the DMCA prevents it from being able to play DVDs like other OSs (MacOS, Windoze). I agree Cox is doing this for political reasons, but this political issue is a linux issue, as the health of the OS itself (and open source software) is being threatened.
And, in a larger sense, the slippery slope it begins sliding us down will lead to it being _illegal_ to work on open source software (hello SSSCA).
Congress might well not really care, but maybe IBM and other industry leaders will take notice and use their power and influence to make congress realize what they're doing.
It's a fault of bad Email clients, not the users. Simply *previewing* the email in Outlook will launch the worm. This is a terrible design. The user should have to click on an icon to lauch any executeable, and when they do, a dialogue box should appear warning them that they might be launching a virus. When will M$ think about security before they release products ?
sure... that's why Apple won't license their OS to any other hardware maker, forcing every Mac user to buy from them.
That level of documentation was much more common back in the day; the only people who bought computers were hackers who required it. Plus, just because you give people parts of the assembly code doesn't mean it's GPL'd (far from it).
Apple is no better than Microsoft; they just had worse marketing, so don't have the market control Microsoft does. At least Microsoft has helped bring down the cost of PC hardware (by making huge bloated apps that require PIII's to send an Email).
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this is not a new thing at all; many other manufacturers have had USB and Firewire interfaces for quite a while. Take a look:
http://www.audiomidi.com/hardware/audio/usb.htm
and what's with the "it looks like creative has done it again." ? I have nothing against creative, they make cheap cards that are ok quality, but they're certaintly not on the cutting edge of audio. did anyone check whether or not "timothy" is a creative employee ?
this card looks ok and all, but it's certaintly not a huge breakthrough.
"You aren't forced at all. If you want to benefit from his (and others') work, then these are the rules you have to play by. You can't take without giving. If you don't like it, don't use their work. It's that simple."
Microsoft et. al. would say the exact same thing about their software.
which was my original point; GNU getting into the license police is starting to make open source software just as hard to deal with as closed source software.
i'm not a lawyer and don't want to become one; i just want to hack and make things without having to dealing with all these licenses.
dd
amen. i'm sick of hearing that the GNU borg has approved or not approved a certain group's contribution this week.
in STallman's original USENET posting, he writes "I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement." Note he writes that he couldn't sign a license agreement... hrm; like the license agreement he forces anyone who wants to put any GNU code into their projects to do ?
Having no licenses was the original idea of open source and should remain so.
That's what made open source software so nice; you could hack without worrying about strange, arbitrary laws governing which code you can use and which you can't. Just download the code you need and go; everyone is happy.
but with all of the slightly different licenses to keep track of and all of the political infighting, it's becoming just as bad as (or even worse than) closed source software.
dd
Google supports those kinds of searches just fine; try it and see. It also supports domain restriction, language restriction, and other kinds of search altavista doesn't. You can read about them here:
http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
This brings up a good point; people often think something is broken and doesn't contain certain features when they simply don't know how to use it properly. Some of the most common gripes about {text editors, OSs, languages, DBMSs, etc.} can be attributed to the user simply not knowing the tool well enough.
Drew
Linux _is_ a target; the DMCA prevents it from being able to play DVDs like other OSs (MacOS, Windoze). I agree Cox is doing this for political reasons, but this political issue is a linux issue, as the health of the OS itself (and open source software) is being threatened.
And, in a larger sense, the slippery slope it begins sliding us down will lead to it being _illegal_ to work on open source software (hello SSSCA).
Congress might well not really care, but maybe IBM and other industry leaders will take notice and use their power and influence to make congress realize what they're doing.
dd
It's a fault of bad Email clients, not the users. Simply *previewing* the email in Outlook will launch the worm. This is a terrible design. The user should have to click on an icon to lauch any executeable, and when they do, a dialogue box should appear warning them that they might be launching a virus.
When will M$ think about security before they release products ?
sure... that's why Apple won't license their OS to any other hardware maker, forcing every Mac user to buy from them.
That level of documentation was much more common back in the day; the only people who bought computers were hackers who required it. Plus, just because you give people parts of the assembly code doesn't mean it's GPL'd (far from it).
Apple is no better than Microsoft; they just had worse marketing, so don't have the market control Microsoft does. At least Microsoft has helped bring down the cost of PC hardware (by making huge bloated apps that require PIII's to send an Email).
Drew