I suggest that the main weakness of the GPL is the wording "(at your option) any later version". Whether this wording is part of the license or not, is a troubling grey area.
There's no grey area. It's recommended but optional, and linux doesn't use it.
And, even though he wasn't using it, and hadn't agreed to them, he knew what his actions would cause.
How was he to know that? He was just trying to reverse engineer the protocol, why should that lead to McVoy not allowing the kernel people to use it? What does he have to do with the people who have accepted the license?
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You've answered yourself - VIA is making those kind of things. They're making them very well, and there's no real point Intel trying to compete with them in that space - Intel can't afford to compete directly with them on price, and has no research lead because everyone knows how to make processors at that kind of speed.
Say what you want about whether DRM is good or bad. But making it illegal for people to reverse engineer it is just stupid. And that's all the GPL seems to be trying to stop.
Do photons (as force carriers) actually decay like gluons? AIUI the reason we don't feel noticeable electromagnetic effects from far away stuff is that everything macroscopic is pretty much neutral; have we measured the field actually decaying?
I don't think even that. Those I know of who share movies often have huge collections of things they've never even watched. People just get things because they can.
This is all part of Taco's new system, whereby dupes are avoided by delaying the breaking of stories by several months. That way, ScuttleMonkey's short term memory loss won't be an issue!
Sure, there's no way to see it, but that doesn't mean it isn't important. If you kill someone, you've killed them and there's no way to see your intent, but to my eyes at least there's a world of difference between deliberately and accidentally doing it.
We're also speaking English, not French. So we don't need some committee to tell us which words we can and can't use. Virii makes reasonable sense, sounds cool, and is immediately understood.
the only way to break the circuit is to remove the powerplug from the socket (which incidentally is just great for repair and maintenance, since now you've also removed the ground circuit)
Flick the switch on the wall socket, but leave the plug in it.
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I use the qc-usb module for my particular webcam, which allows it to appear as a V4L device, then you can use any V4L program to post snapshots on your webserver, chat with netmeeting, or whatever you want to do with it.
If there's a risk of you dying, you expect, even require, the doctors to do whatever they think will give you the best chance. So I would have no problem with this being the default for people whose chance of surviving without it is sufficiently low.
I don't think CoM is anything like the best of what he's done. I think good omens would be a better first one as it's standalone - picking the best out of a series usually doesn't work (cf raise the titanic, narnia).
that even with a relatively clean codebase, bugs happen. Konqueror is good code compared to a lot of things, but I guess complexity is unavoidable, and that leads to things like this.
KDE began in a time when STL support in many C++ compilers wasn't up to much, so for cross-platform capability (always a design goal) they couldn't really rely on it. Not sure whether that has anything to do with this.
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I think it's more that they claim to believe that God exists, but don't really.
There's no grey area. It's recommended but optional, and linux doesn't use it.
How was he to know that? He was just trying to reverse engineer the protocol, why should that lead to McVoy not allowing the kernel people to use it? What does he have to do with the people who have accepted the license?
You've answered yourself - VIA is making those kind of things. They're making them very well, and there's no real point Intel trying to compete with them in that space - Intel can't afford to compete directly with them on price, and has no research lead because everyone knows how to make processors at that kind of speed.
Say what you want about whether DRM is good or bad. But making it illegal for people to reverse engineer it is just stupid. And that's all the GPL seems to be trying to stop.
Linux won't switch. That would require getting permission from every contributor.
Do photons (as force carriers) actually decay like gluons? AIUI the reason we don't feel noticeable electromagnetic effects from far away stuff is that everything macroscopic is pretty much neutral; have we measured the field actually decaying?
Yes. I was attempting a humorous mockery of the prevalence of dupes on slashdot, by duping a comment about dupes. Never mind.
I don't think even that. Those I know of who share movies often have huge collections of things they've never even watched. People just get things because they can.
This is all part of Taco's new system, whereby dupes are avoided by delaying the breaking of stories by several months. That way, ScuttleMonkey's short term memory loss won't be an issue!
Am I alone in being rather unwilling to click that link?
I would disagree on "could care yes", because I've also seen it used to mean "I care a little, but not enough to overwhelm....". Thus it confuses me.
Sure, there's no way to see it, but that doesn't mean it isn't important. If you kill someone, you've killed them and there's no way to see your intent, but to my eyes at least there's a world of difference between deliberately and accidentally doing it.
We're also speaking English, not French. So we don't need some committee to tell us which words we can and can't use. Virii makes reasonable sense, sounds cool, and is immediately understood.
It's a question of intent. Forgetting to attribute something is nowhere near as bad as deliberately passing it off as your own work.
Flick the switch on the wall socket, but leave the plug in it.
I use the qc-usb module for my particular webcam, which allows it to appear as a V4L device, then you can use any V4L program to post snapshots on your webserver, chat with netmeeting, or whatever you want to do with it.
It's hugely resource-hungry, and what good does being open source do when it depends on Java?
Webcam on linux works fine for me, though I'm not sure how you'd get it off the router. Is there enough space to install the X client libraries?
If there's a risk of you dying, you expect, even require, the doctors to do whatever they think will give you the best chance. So I would have no problem with this being the default for people whose chance of surviving without it is sufficiently low.
That's why I said relatively clean. Compare to most projects and you'll see what I mean.
I don't think CoM is anything like the best of what he's done. I think good omens would be a better first one as it's standalone - picking the best out of a series usually doesn't work (cf raise the titanic, narnia).
that even with a relatively clean codebase, bugs happen. Konqueror is good code compared to a lot of things, but I guess complexity is unavoidable, and that leads to things like this.
KDE began in a time when STL support in many C++ compilers wasn't up to much, so for cross-platform capability (always a design goal) they couldn't really rely on it. Not sure whether that has anything to do with this.
Wouldn't work, since a story can be about e.g. apple and google working together on open source.