It used to be in their explanation about what they mean with the license extention. So as long as your product is not just MySQL centric, you can distribute it without getting the per user licence fee. So if you support multiple databases, then you are off the hook (or if your own product is GPL, you are off the hook too, pretty viral there (-: ).
And I was under the assumption that LDAP servers were dinosaurs quickly heading to extinction. Other SSO solutions work too with just a simple database behind it and not the added complexity of LDAP maintenance.
I think CA didn't want to make their product GPLed to keep control over it. Once it is GPLed, there is no way back, and in that way for them it is viral. In the case of licenses some licenses are viral in their demands (like the license for the use of MySQL in a commercial product when you do not want to buy a MySQL license), but always provide a choice to the user (in case of MySQL: Just take care that your product is also capable of using other databases, do not distribute MySQL with your product etc).
More companies nowadays opensource their products. To me it seems as a way to save money on development, like the community will just develop their product too. I think just opensourcing a product is not going to do a company any good at all. Supporting a community which supports and develops an opensource product might help them a lot more, since then they can use this product in their onw products. So if they would have replaced Ingres with postgresql, I would have been more impressed, then in this case where they "dumped" their product in the opensource community to get good publicity, or other benefits from it.
Since you already have the basics (the course and the book), why do you not check if you can work together with MIT by integrating the book in opencourseware (I do not know if the content matches what MIT opencourseware stands for sofar, but else I think their are other places, or it is a nice startingpoint. That way you get a bigger audience, and hopefully more funding to keep up this work.
I think schools, colleges & universities should be more selfsupporting in this anyway.
Forgot one thing: The more interesting copyright line is the one from Christopher Ricks (1968). The reason behind that line than must have been the rewrite of this book of Milton in modern english?
The extras can ofcourse be taken off easily if you copy it. A publishers who places the work in a certain timeframe, does some research and publishes that together with the work, does have the right to the additions ofcourse, I think that the law is pretty clear on that. The right to the main work however is questionable. If just small changes make it copyrightable (like format), you could do that with excisting still in copyright work too, thus making it your own. Copyright on translations and format would that way become a way to "steal" other peoples work.
Hum, that really sucks, they should do it more GPL style: The derived work clause And just charge for distribution costs. That would be pretty fair to everybody.
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I think that is good. Desktops are supposed to be boring (at least for business). To much eyecandy or things to be impressed about (3D flipping transparent rotating windows, everything animated, multimedia under every mouseclick) has nothing to do with productivity or doing business anymore. I think that Novell realises this much that they now that they can run their business on desktop linux (and they do), and that is does not really has to impress anybody. If somebody wants to save on licences and maintenance the next migration, just look over here is the message from Novell.
BTW they start the article by mentioning a book which I believe is no longer covered under copyright law (copyright expired a long long time ago): Dante's Inferno.
Would it not even be illegal to put a work from which the copyright has expired under a EULA, with that pretending that there even is a copyright?
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I tended to use books a bit longer than 5 months as reference for later work for example. I think that Princeton is a bit short sighted on this one. The idea I thought was to educate people in how to use material, not in how to cram everything in your head so you do not need the book anymore, apparently since you have the material in your posession for only a limitted amount of time, you will have to remember it all , and if you have to remember it all anyway, why not just copy it (They do make you remember it (out of study perspective), so it is in your mind, so what is the difference with a hard or soft copy, or are you not allowed to remember it either once you have to return your e-book? (tricky laws those copyright laws).
Read it, but still lighting is on his list, see reflecting car lights on the road effect, so if you do that, add the rest of the lighting too to make the demo complete.
Interesting effect. I tend to be distracted by flashing things. Being bored however makes me open the same sites 10 times too to see that nothing or little has changed in the last hour.
The "action" goes smooth under wine, just had problems to find a way out of the demo again (used a root shell to kill wine, read manual before running the demo might help). Just to add a bit of light effects from the lightposts will make it really great.
Nice project, now lets back to Gran Turismo and see what still needs to be done (-:
Well, since RSS stands for Really Short attentionSpan, I think it is pretty clear. The whole goal of RSS is to get people who have a short attention span to become totally unproductive since they now have the RSS feed to break up the last bits on concentration they have. Complementary you can install chat software with annoying blinking icons to divide the attention between RSS and chat/messaging
That is again one thing the music industry should take in account with their pricing: People do not like to buy garbage at $16-20 per CD, and discover that 90% on that thing is garbage. Digital storage is much better in discarding garbage. Also to have all the music of the world with you will give you such a serious playlist, that you will dump 90% again just to be able to find the songs you like.
The fun thing of the interview is though that it is mainly centered on music as example again. I would go as far to say that every invention done since the start of time has been done to be able to make better copies of music so everybody can enjoy it. Examples: Cavemen "invents" fire: Ability to send smoke signals of the latest hit list to next tribe.
Cavemen invents the wheel: Ability to drive instruments on carts making it possible to carry bigger instruments to concerts with less effort
Cavemen invents clothing: Ability to stand in front of audience in less embarassing way.
Except pay for some lawyers? Are they putting it in a fund for people who got hurt by this spam? (Bill to Melissa: The spampot is the small one next to our Melissa & Bill Gates support the world fund, dear)
The rope will be hundreds of tons in weight, it will act more like a building which topples over than a rope or a piece of paper. It will burn a bit, but the bottom 20 km will probably not do that (they will get hot, but not burn away).
Young kids are not interested in sites which you block with parental control. Those sites usually are even no harm at all (kids mind: Ugly site, dirty site, weird site, lets go to Disney/yahoo/flash game etc).
One kind of sites & sort of programs seems to pose more and more danger nowadays is where there is chatting involved. The so called online predators.
How do you stop those issues with parental control?
P.S. This is a real question, not an attack on your methods.
Also the fast progress which is made in a lot of areas is pretty risk free. You do not plummet down to a huge piece of rock from several hundreds kilometer high with as only break air resistance.
The only promissing technique which is being develloped (or actually mainly discussed) is a space elevator. Since that is a really controlled piece of equipment, it should make it a lot safer.
Then again, I do not want to live near it when it fails, if the "rope" comes down, it will certainly mow down the surrounding before settling down.
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It used to be in their explanation about what they mean with the license extention. So as long as your product is not just MySQL centric, you can distribute it without getting the per user licence fee. So if you support multiple databases, then you are off the hook (or if your own product is GPL, you are off the hook too, pretty viral there (-: ).
And I was under the assumption that LDAP servers were dinosaurs quickly heading to extinction. Other SSO solutions work too with just a simple database behind it and not the added complexity of LDAP maintenance.
I think CA didn't want to make their product GPLed to keep control over it. Once it is GPLed, there is no way back, and in that way for them it is viral. In the case of licenses some licenses are viral in their demands (like the license for the use of MySQL in a commercial product when you do not want to buy a MySQL license), but always provide a choice to the user (in case of MySQL: Just take care that your product is also capable of using other databases, do not distribute MySQL with your product etc).
More companies nowadays opensource their products. To me it seems as a way to save money on development, like the community will just develop their product too. I think just opensourcing a product is not going to do a company any good at all. Supporting a community which supports and develops an opensource product might help them a lot more, since then they can use this product in their onw products. So if they would have replaced Ingres with postgresql, I would have been more impressed, then in this case where they "dumped" their product in the opensource community to get good publicity, or other benefits from it.
The "I think" is the clue (-|, as in speculating.
You can still print a few pages to burn, or you can burn it ceremonially on a CD/DVD (-:
Since you already have the basics (the course and the book), why do you not check if you can work together with MIT by integrating the book in opencourseware (I do not know if the content matches what MIT opencourseware stands for sofar, but else I think their are other places, or it is a nice startingpoint. That way you get a bigger audience, and hopefully more funding to keep up this work.
I think schools, colleges & universities should be more selfsupporting in this anyway.
It should read:
If your stomach does not agree with this, you must return to the store immediately to return this item.
Cough.
Forgot one thing: The more interesting copyright line is the one from Christopher Ricks (1968). The reason behind that line than must have been the rewrite of this book of Milton in modern english?
The extras can ofcourse be taken off easily if you copy it. A publishers who places the work in a certain timeframe, does some research and publishes that together with the work, does have the right to the additions ofcourse, I think that the law is pretty clear on that. The right to the main work however is questionable. If just small changes make it copyrightable (like format), you could do that with excisting still in copyright work too, thus making it your own. Copyright on translations and format would that way become a way to "steal" other peoples work.
And that copyright would be the same number of years as the copyright of on original work I would guess?
Hum, that really sucks, they should do it more GPL style: The derived work clause
And just charge for distribution costs. That would be pretty fair to everybody.
I think that is good. Desktops are supposed to be boring (at least for business). To much eyecandy or things to be impressed about (3D flipping transparent rotating windows, everything animated, multimedia under every mouseclick) has nothing to do with productivity or doing business anymore. I think that Novell realises this much that they now that they can run their business on desktop linux (and they do), and that is does not really has to impress anybody. If somebody wants to save on licences and maintenance the next migration, just look over here is the message from Novell.
BTW they start the article by mentioning a book which I believe is no longer covered under copyright law (copyright expired a long long time ago): Dante's Inferno.
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Would it not even be illegal to put a work from which the copyright has expired under a EULA, with that pretending that there even is a copyright?
Also look at amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0679433139/ref=si
It says: Copyrighted material. I think that is totally incorrect, can somebody confirm this please?
I tended to use books a bit longer than 5 months as reference for later work for example. I think that Princeton is a bit short sighted on this one. The idea I thought was to educate people in how to use material, not in how to cram everything in your head so you do not need the book anymore, apparently since you have the material in your posession for only a limitted amount of time, you will have to remember it all , and if you have to remember it all anyway, why not just copy it (They do make you remember it (out of study perspective), so it is in your mind, so what is the difference with a hard or soft copy, or are you not allowed to remember it either once you have to return your e-book? (tricky laws those copyright laws).
And who says that OpenSource can not make you money, or is not a good bases for a business model!
Read it, but still lighting is on his list, see reflecting car lights on the road effect, so if you do that, add the rest of the lighting too to make the demo complete.
Here (SuSE 8.2) wine does not want to react on ESC or F1.
Run as root: Because I can!
Anyway: I think the correct term for the root shell should be console. to access the running shells in KDE also did not work.
Interesting effect. I tend to be distracted by flashing things. Being bored however makes me open the same sites 10 times too to see that nothing or little has changed in the last hour.
The "action" goes smooth under wine, just had problems to find a way out of the demo again (used a root shell to kill wine, read manual before running the demo might help). Just to add a bit of light effects from the lightposts will make it really great.
Nice project, now lets back to Gran Turismo and see what still needs to be done (-:
Well, since RSS stands for Really Short attentionSpan, I think it is pretty clear.
The whole goal of RSS is to get people who have a short attention span to become totally unproductive since they now have the RSS feed to break up the last bits on concentration they have. Complementary you can install chat software with annoying blinking icons to divide the attention between RSS and chat/messaging
That is again one thing the music industry should take in account with their pricing: People do not like to buy garbage at $16-20 per CD, and discover that 90% on that thing is garbage. Digital storage is much better in discarding garbage. Also to have all the music of the world with you will give you such a serious playlist, that you will dump 90% again just to be able to find the songs you like.
The fun thing of the interview is though that it is mainly centered on music as example again. I would go as far to say that every invention done since the start of time has been done to be able to make better copies of music so everybody can enjoy it.
Examples: Cavemen "invents" fire: Ability to send smoke signals of the latest hit list to next tribe.
Cavemen invents the wheel: Ability to drive instruments on carts making it possible to carry bigger instruments to concerts with less effort
Cavemen invents clothing: Ability to stand in front of audience in less embarassing way.
Etc etc etc.
Except pay for some lawyers? Are they putting it in a fund for people who got hurt by this spam? (Bill to Melissa: The spampot is the small one next to our Melissa & Bill Gates support the world fund, dear)
The rope will be hundreds of tons in weight, it will act more like a building which topples over than a rope or a piece of paper. It will burn a bit, but the bottom 20 km will probably not do that (they will get hot, but not burn away).
Young kids are not interested in sites which you block with parental control. Those sites usually are even no harm at all (kids mind: Ugly site, dirty site, weird site, lets go to Disney/yahoo/flash game etc).
One kind of sites & sort of programs seems to pose more and more danger nowadays is where there is chatting involved. The so called online predators.
How do you stop those issues with parental control?
P.S. This is a real question, not an attack on your methods.
Also the fast progress which is made in a lot of areas is pretty risk free. You do not plummet down to a huge piece of rock from several hundreds kilometer high with as only break air resistance.
The only promissing technique which is being develloped (or actually mainly discussed) is a space elevator. Since that is a really controlled piece of equipment, it should make it a lot safer.
Then again, I do not want to live near it when it fails, if the "rope" comes down, it will certainly mow down the surrounding before settling down.