the GPL does not cover all code in SUSE Linux. In addition, various Novell trademarks, including "SUSE," are found throughout SUSE Linux. Unauthorized copying and redistribution of SUSE Linux violates Novell's trademark rights."
This applies to SUSE 9.3. Someone more legally minded than me may know whether this is in breach of the GPL - it definitely seems add odds with the spirit of the GPL to me.
The costly security report is just a money-making troll but there is one issue raised by greasemonkey that may worry a lot of content providers.
Blocking adverts is old hat but greasemonkey lets you do so much more. It offers you the potential to inject links to products from a rival vendor when browsing an online store or rewrite affiliate link ids on a page, to give two examples.
This is going to break a few business models.
Personally I'm not going to shed any tears. Many businesses have completely misunderstood the nature of the web and just seen hyperspace as somewhere else to stick up billboards. Those that can't evolve will die. But when you consider how upset certain people get if you want to just view their site in a manner they hadn't planned on, then we can definitely expect fireworks in the near future.
There's a very heated discussion between Cory Doctorow and Robert Scoble that touches on these issues at http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail438.htm l about these issues, albeit in the context of Google's Autolink rather than greasemonkey.
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the GPL does not cover all code in SUSE Linux. In addition, various Novell trademarks, including "SUSE," are found throughout SUSE Linux. Unauthorized copying and redistribution of SUSE Linux violates Novell's trademark rights."
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This applies to SUSE 9.3. Someone more legally minded than me may know whether this is in breach of the GPL - it definitely seems add odds with the spirit of the GPL to me.
The costly security report is just a money-making troll but there is one issue raised by greasemonkey that may worry a lot of content providers.
Blocking adverts is old hat but greasemonkey lets you do so much more. It offers you the potential to inject links to products from a rival vendor when browsing an online store or rewrite affiliate link ids on a page, to give two examples.
This is going to break a few business models.
Personally I'm not going to shed any tears. Many businesses have completely misunderstood the nature of the web and just seen hyperspace as somewhere else to stick up billboards. Those that can't evolve will die. But when you consider how upset certain people get if you want to just view their site in a manner they hadn't planned on, then we can definitely expect fireworks in the near future.
There's a very heated discussion between Cory Doctorow and Robert Scoble that touches on these issues at http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail438.htm l about these issues, albeit in the context of Google's Autolink rather than greasemonkey.