If there's one thing worse than someone stealing source code and spreading it over the internet, its someone who didn't do the hard work of obtaining it that tries to profit from the actions of others. While I don't condone the original source theft, I hold far greater contempt for those that try and cash in on it.
To me, this just smacks of yet another "infringement spider" that trawls the web looking for mentions of a companiy's trademarks with little or no human intervention. There was a/. story akin to this relating to Linux Australia not long ago where an MPAA bot mis-identified a tarball that happened to have the same name as an obscure movie.
Automated Attorneys(tm) - Infringement Idiocy in a Digital Age
Erm, was expecting that to be modded funny, not informative. Was joking, but hey, would be cool in a prophetic kinda way if the Doctor Who script writers *do* end up using the name:-)
Ok, my bad. Not being a frequent arcade game player (but a frequent Linux user!), I wasn't aware of the inspiration. I commend myself to the nearest games arcade for re-education:-)
But seriously, legislation in the US isn't going to stop the worldwide problem of popups and spam. What's needed is better *technical* solutions (like not having loopholes in IM clients for people like D Squared to exploit in the first place.
"Windows group chief James Allchin accuses Linux of being a cheap knockoff: "There's no innovation. Linux is still in the business of cloning existing technology."... Searches will extend across all data like e-mail, photos, Word. "We're creating things," he says."
Sounds eerily like a "cheap knockoff" of Dashboard to me.....
Could Sun's decision here be also partly based on the growing success of Novell's Mono project? Mono is an implementation of.Net, which is a threat to Java (from a developer mindshare point-of-view at least), and perhaps this would be a way for Sun to start containing that threat.
Oh, and spare me the Java vs.Net flamewar, that's not the intention of this post.
So will the EFF step in, like they did for DVD Jon?
Speaking of whom, he dealt with Apple DRM a long while back, so Real haven't done anything new in reverse engineering it.
For all the Microsoft bashing that goes on (and I figure/. readers won't need to look far for examples), the note at the end of the MS intern's blog about Gates' daughter was a nice touch.
As much as people love to hate Bill and his company, he is just one guy after all. We seldom here about this side of him (albeit for security reasons in relation to his kids?). Perhaps a Bill Gates book in the vein of Linus' "Just For Fun" is due?
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I say bring back McCarthyism - anyone calling themselves a Czar is obviously a Commie spy and needs to be removed from the US
If there's one thing worse than someone stealing source code and spreading it over the internet, its someone who didn't do the hard work of obtaining it that tries to profit from the actions of others. While I don't condone the original source theft, I hold far greater contempt for those that try and cash in on it.
To me, this just smacks of yet another "infringement spider" that trawls the web looking for mentions of a companiy's trademarks with little or no human intervention. There was a /. story akin to this relating to Linux Australia not long ago where an MPAA bot mis-identified a tarball that happened to have the same name as an obscure movie.
Automated Attorneys(tm) - Infringement Idiocy in a Digital Age
...personally I use Windows PCs to download Linux ISOs and burn them.
Erm, was expecting that to be modded funny, not informative. Was joking, but hey, would be cool in a prophetic kinda way if the Doctor Who script writers *do* end up using the name :-)
Ok, my bad. Not being a frequent arcade game player (but a frequent Linux user!), I wasn't aware of the inspiration. I commend myself to the nearest games arcade for re-education :-)
I think the BBC is using the name Dirac in the wrong document - shouldn't it be the name of a villain in their new series of Doctor Who?
Frozen Bubble - now there's a Linux game just crying out to be a coin-op. Time to bid farewall to that pocketful of loose change methinks....
" Forgent CEO Dick Snyder wasn't available for comment Wednesday."
See? Their CEO is a dick. Self explanatory really....
You insensitive clods! We don't have an FTC....
But seriously, legislation in the US isn't going to stop the worldwide problem of popups and spam. What's needed is better *technical* solutions (like not having loopholes in IM clients for people like D Squared to exploit in the first place.
"Windows group chief James Allchin accuses Linux of being a cheap knockoff: "There's no innovation. Linux is still in the business of cloning existing technology." ... Searches will extend across all data like e-mail, photos, Word. "We're creating things," he says."
Sounds eerily like a "cheap knockoff" of Dashboard to me.....
You insensitive clod! I have no fingers!
Until someone jumps up and down in court with their army of lawyers, we'll keep it at "potentially"....
Could Sun's decision here be also partly based on the growing success of Novell's Mono project? Mono is an implementation of .Net, which is a threat to Java (from a developer mindshare point-of-view at least), and perhaps this would be a way for Sun to start containing that threat.
.Net flamewar, that's not the intention of this post.
Oh, and spare me the Java vs
The infringing uses like using libdvdcss in your DVD ripping program that you used to make an XviD of that movie for sharing on p2p networks....
So will the EFF step in, like they did for DVD Jon? Speaking of whom, he dealt with Apple DRM a long while back, so Real haven't done anything new in reverse engineering it.
Might be an idea to re-read the article, viz-a-viz his guestlist. Lot of top government types at that party...
You wouldn't want anything to *happen* to your elected officials now would you?
For all the Microsoft bashing that goes on (and I figure /. readers won't need to look far for examples), the note at the end of the MS intern's blog about Gates' daughter was a nice touch.
As much as people love to hate Bill and his company, he is just one guy after all. We seldom here about this side of him (albeit for security reasons in relation to his kids?). Perhaps a Bill Gates book in the vein of Linus' "Just For Fun" is due?
"...also referred to by the codename Monad"
That so it can be rhymed with Gonad?