Do you know what happens in your office in the dead of night?
Yes. It is in the business plan. After a full day of politicking and obstructionist management, the work must somehow get done. A night crew on crack of college kids grease the machines of corporate behemoths the world over.
How many of your appliances do NOT have an LED on it somewhere? My toaster has an LED light. My crockpot has them too, come to think of it.
I even have a bottle opener with a blinking red LED on the snow man's nose.
Point is, LED ennui is easy to come by. Though, I still agree that modern digiratti should know better.
He should have presented these womans (sorry, couldn't resist) with a lengthy terms of service agreement. The spycam language buried on the third page or so would have completely exonerated him.
A case like this is what is needed to highlight the absurdities of EULAs.
Pun intended. I wonder if they can be charged for each INSTANCE of a fraudulent charge. Several thousand years behind bars, consecutive would suit my taste for vengeance. Yes, I know that prison is supposed to be about rehabilitation, not revenge, but still...
So if I kill someone next week, I can leave the signed confession with your name on it?
Since it doesn't matter, just confess now and I'll schedule something next week. Heck, I'm lazy, let's just postulate a corpse and generate public outcry for your execution.
Is the absurdity getting through?
I do believe in capital punishment and the deterring effect. However, there has to be a whole lot of checks lined up before we can 'safely' exercise that deterrent. A single innocent found after the fact undermines the system.
Rehab means breaking a person down into their individual pieces, examining all of those pieces, finding out what's wrong, and then learning to live life with the knowledge that you have a problem.
As in 100%? Of course not. But I think "innocent man sent to jail" is very, very rare.
Now
How about a 10% error rate? Gov. Ryan commuted the sentences of all Illinois death row inmates after DNA testing exonerated ten percent of them.
Personally, I don't consider a ten percent error rate on death sentences 'rare'.
I'm also willing to bet that you are not an American black male of average build and average height living within 5 blocks of a Martin Luther King Drive.
In my experience, the more heinous the act, the more desire exists for SOMEBODY to pay for it, the higher likelihood of someone being made the fall guy.
Who has time to snoop for prurient, or other illegitimate interests?
However, a good part of my job requires that I 'snoop'. I have the responsibility to enforce policies about what, where, how much, etc.
Depending on how the question was phrased, I would give an emphatic no, or Pfft, sure, all the time.
has demonstrated that curriculum's have been dumbed down to accommodate a greater breadth of material. The students I see are exposed to more Stuff, but never have any in depth mastery. I am in the U.S., not UK.
I did not read it that way. I believe you may have confused hyperbole with content. However, the point is completely subjective and I will have to leave it at neener, neener, neener.;)
The content of the message is quite clear to me.
You miss the mark on a lot of points. I'm just going to pick one:
The GPL also doesn't place any restrictions on how software is used.
GPLv3 most assuredly DOES place restrictions on how you can use the software.
The author is completely correct in his assertion that the GPLv3 is about the software, not the end user. RMS has shouted this very point from the rooftops for decades; only now is it more severely codified in GPLv3.
This article is aimed and business managers, not OSS faithful, or non-profit foundations. Business decision makers are the ones most likely, hell, most motivated, to realize the savings of an OSS project and extend it to their own purposes. In GPLv2, this was absolutely fine until you distributed the software. The loophole is closed in GPLv3. I believe it is closed in ways not intended by Mr. Moglen and company.
The Tivo clause and patent restrictions are proof enough of the severe nature of GPLv3.
Make no mistake, GPLv3 is all about the software, not users, developers, or pink gorillas.
Mod parent DOWN.
The author is highlighting the fact that GPLv3 is largely incompatible with proprietary software.
Furthermore, he offers a prudent warning on patent use with regards to the legal landscape.
Regardless of what you think you know the GPLv3 says, nobody knows for sure until a court rules on it. Judges are lawyers. Lawyers are asked all the time "what do you think a judge will say". Lawyers use the same criteria judges do to render an opinion. Sometimes they are right, sometimes they are wrong, most of the time the question is never tested.
The article is NOT FUD. It is a qualified attempt to quantify risks.
So for about 1000 combinations you come up with the grand total of around 30 bux. I think you are better off not shaving for a day and shaking a cup of change outside the train station.
If you have that kind of time on your hands, [insert altruistic cause here]:)
If you have to make up a name or SSN to open the account, then in fact, you are doing something wrong. Color me simple, but that's the way I see it.:\
This is clearly a case where a novel approach to crime is still, well, criminal.
Projects are supposed to grow to fill the amount of time and talent your staff has.
You don't often hear the principles in budget meetings saying "we are planning for either stagnation, or negative growth this year". When you do, this means IT workload goes up because you have to compensate for the loss of laid off people who did the work.
I have been in shops where the staffing was right, but only because management said X is what we can do, and that's it. I've also been in shops where management could never say no to a project. I guess the theory being it is better to blame stakeholders at the end instead of tell them 'no' up front.
BTW, whoever the heck coined 'negative growth' needs to be stoned with bound dictionaries.
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Do you know what happens in your office in the dead of night?
Yes. It is in the business plan. After a full day of politicking and obstructionist management, the work must somehow get done. A night crew on crack of college kids grease the machines of corporate behemoths the world over.
How many of your appliances do NOT have an LED on it somewhere? My toaster has an LED light. My crockpot has them too, come to think of it. I even have a bottle opener with a blinking red LED on the snow man's nose.
Point is, LED ennui is easy to come by. Though, I still agree that modern digiratti should know better.
He should have presented these womans (sorry, couldn't resist) with a lengthy terms of service agreement. The spycam language buried on the third page or so would have completely exonerated him.
A case like this is what is needed to highlight the absurdities of EULAs.
Pun intended. I wonder if they can be charged for each INSTANCE of a fraudulent charge. Several thousand years behind bars, consecutive would suit my taste for vengeance. Yes, I know that prison is supposed to be about rehabilitation, not revenge, but still...
So if I kill someone next week, I can leave the signed confession with your name on it?
Since it doesn't matter, just confess now and I'll schedule something next week. Heck, I'm lazy, let's just postulate a corpse and generate public outcry for your execution.
Is the absurdity getting through?
I do believe in capital punishment and the deterring effect. However, there has to be a whole lot of checks lined up before we can 'safely' exercise that deterrent. A single innocent found after the fact undermines the system.
Rehab means breaking a person down into their individual pieces, examining all of those pieces, finding out what's wrong, and then learning to live life with the knowledge that you have a problem.
Sounds like Marine Corps boot camp.
Semper Fi!
I could do 21 months standing on my head amidst a bed of glass. 700k fine to the IRS? Pfft, try and collect it.
Why couldn't the whack job bass turd start with the barrel at his own head first.
As in 100%? Of course not. But I think "innocent man sent to jail" is very, very rare.
Now
How about a 10% error rate? Gov. Ryan commuted the sentences of all Illinois death row inmates after DNA testing exonerated ten percent of them.
Personally, I don't consider a ten percent error rate on death sentences 'rare'.
I'm also willing to bet that you are not an American black male of average build and average height living within 5 blocks of a Martin Luther King Drive.
In my experience, the more heinous the act, the more desire exists for SOMEBODY to pay for it, the higher likelihood of someone being made the fall guy.
I would posit that driving a car is brain dead easy.
I don't buy that making something less accessible is better for all when it comes to unconstrained resources.
"...and will that have a positive effect on desktop Linux adoption?"
Until Linux wireless is brain dead easy, the answer is NO.
Evil minions are interfering with the reporting of the saga. In English, the site is slashdotted already. Sigh.
Who has time to snoop for prurient, or other illegitimate interests? However, a good part of my job requires that I 'snoop'. I have the responsibility to enforce policies about what, where, how much, etc. Depending on how the question was phrased, I would give an emphatic no, or Pfft, sure, all the time.
Hmmm. Point taken. For the next one-hundred-thousand years, I'll stay nimble on my feet.
has demonstrated that curriculum's have been dumbed down to accommodate a greater breadth of material. The students I see are exposed to more Stuff, but never have any in depth mastery. I am in the U.S., not UK.
I did not read it that way. I believe you may have confused hyperbole with content. However, the point is completely subjective and I will have to leave it at neener, neener, neener. ;)
The content of the message is quite clear to me.
suggestions that you could be sued for merely using the software
That depends completely on your 'use' of the software.
Installing and running Foo from your desktop is fine.
Using Foo to power a dynamic website is a bit murky.
Using Foo and extending it's functionality for your own purposes is downright thick as mud as to the effects on your patent portfolio.
The author's caution is pretty much be careful HOW you use OSS.
You miss the mark on a lot of points. I'm just going to pick one:
The GPL also doesn't place any restrictions on how software is used.
GPLv3 most assuredly DOES place restrictions on how you can use the software.
The author is completely correct in his assertion that the GPLv3 is about the software, not the end user. RMS has shouted this very point from the rooftops for decades; only now is it more severely codified in GPLv3.
This article is aimed and business managers, not OSS faithful, or non-profit foundations. Business decision makers are the ones most likely, hell, most motivated, to realize the savings of an OSS project and extend it to their own purposes. In GPLv2, this was absolutely fine until you distributed the software. The loophole is closed in GPLv3. I believe it is closed in ways not intended by Mr. Moglen and company.
The Tivo clause and patent restrictions are proof enough of the severe nature of GPLv3.
Make no mistake, GPLv3 is all about the software, not users, developers, or pink gorillas.
Mod parent DOWN. The author is highlighting the fact that GPLv3 is largely incompatible with proprietary software. Furthermore, he offers a prudent warning on patent use with regards to the legal landscape. Regardless of what you think you know the GPLv3 says, nobody knows for sure until a court rules on it. Judges are lawyers. Lawyers are asked all the time "what do you think a judge will say". Lawyers use the same criteria judges do to render an opinion. Sometimes they are right, sometimes they are wrong, most of the time the question is never tested. The article is NOT FUD. It is a qualified attempt to quantify risks.
Thanks for the tip. I will NEVER try to buy property in the UK now.
OK, I'll freely stipulate that Paypal deserves their own special hell. But I still wouldn't support someone ripping them off.
So for about 1000 combinations you come up with the grand total of around 30 bux. I think you are better off not shaving for a day and shaking a cup of change outside the train station. If you have that kind of time on your hands, [insert altruistic cause here] :)
If you have to make up a name or SSN to open the account, then in fact, you are doing something wrong. Color me simple, but that's the way I see it. :\
This is clearly a case where a novel approach to crime is still, well, criminal.
Projects are supposed to grow to fill the amount of time and talent your staff has.
You don't often hear the principles in budget meetings saying "we are planning for either stagnation, or negative growth this year". When you do, this means IT workload goes up because you have to compensate for the loss of laid off people who did the work.
I have been in shops where the staffing was right, but only because management said X is what we can do, and that's it. I've also been in shops where management could never say no to a project. I guess the theory being it is better to blame stakeholders at the end instead of tell them 'no' up front.
BTW, whoever the heck coined 'negative growth' needs to be stoned with bound dictionaries.
Is any of it grounds for appeal?
Sort it out yourselves or you'll have to start learning chinese.
Dammit! I just finished learning commercial Indian.