The problem with our dear evangelist Mr Stallman is that his approaches are rooted solely in ideology. It has to be Free, it has to be Unrestricted for Users. He needs to be more pragmatic: there is no one license that fits all projects. He doesn't seem to understand that developers are not likely to go for a license that increases users' rights at the expense of those of developers. The GPL is great an' all, but it's just not close enough to the middle; it is far too grasping in terms of its restrictiveness to developers and distributors. Many don't understand it because it is confusing, also. It's not a simple three point license like the revised BSD license. It's not intuitive like copyright or the BSD licenses. (This is the same problem the Artistic License has.) It's just not practical.
...another story that has little or nothing to do with an actual iPod? Was it posted by michael? Hmmm, yes. Guess it's just another useless excuse for an iPod plug on Apple Slashdot!
Who can't wait a couple of days for DNS to propagate? There's something more important to worry about - I can't wait until Verisign lets go of its virtual monopoly on website certification. It's ridiculous to have something as important as that in the hands of one organisation.
Oh, well, at least it's less likely to get slashdotted this way.
Anyway, more ontopic; this doesn't seem like that new an approach. Modularisation of space items has always been around. It allows you to concentrate on getting each item working at 100% instead of having to rely on one monolithic structure. Modularising laser launch control systems has just not been done in the past because it was hitherto too inconvenient.
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Propz to rolloffle and goat-see and all other GNAA ops except bare!
lol fp
Dammit...what's Taco done now?
The problem with our dear evangelist Mr Stallman is that his approaches are rooted solely in ideology. It has to be Free, it has to be Unrestricted for Users. He needs to be more pragmatic: there is no one license that fits all projects. He doesn't seem to understand that developers are not likely to go for a license that increases users' rights at the expense of those of developers. The GPL is great an' all, but it's just not close enough to the middle; it is far too grasping in terms of its restrictiveness to developers and distributors. Many don't understand it because it is confusing, also. It's not a simple three point license like the revised BSD license. It's not intuitive like copyright or the BSD licenses. (This is the same problem the Artistic License has.) It's just not practical.
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...another story that has little or nothing to do with an actual iPod? Was it posted by michael? Hmmm, yes. Guess it's just another useless excuse for an iPod plug on Apple Slashdot!
Who can't wait a couple of days for DNS to propagate? There's something more important to worry about - I can't wait until Verisign lets go of its virtual monopoly on website certification. It's ridiculous to have something as important as that in the hands of one organisation.
Oh, well, at least it's less likely to get slashdotted this way.
Anyway, more ontopic; this doesn't seem like that new an approach. Modularisation of space items has always been around. It allows you to concentrate on getting each item working at 100% instead of having to rely on one monolithic structure. Modularising laser launch control systems has just not been done in the past because it was hitherto too inconvenient.