So this is like ActiveX 2.0, the cross platform edition? Another with Ajax, Flash, and a host of other technologies, silverlight just seems like a blatant attempt at locking the net into the.Net framework.
I'm curious as to how often that sort of thing works though, for instance in this case Novel has personally promised me nothing but Jack and Sh*t. The article itself stands as hearsay only, and the ownership of patents and copyrights both suggest a long standing reservation of legal rights. I don't think they can lose those rights simply by saying "We promise we're not going to be stupid like SCO".
So, you don't think the Crown Prosecution Service or Scotland Yard would have "Top Secret" data? Seriously, the information stolen was evidence and phone numbers, how likely do you think it is that the phone numbers coincided with the evidence? Sorry, but I think the use of "Top Secret" is completely applicable in this case.
MSDN and read up a bit on some of the stuff MS is doing in the SW dev world
You mean you're happy to be a VB6 developer held at the whim of M$ board decisions. Seriously, everything on MSDN is as fragile as a candle in the wind, did you visit the Visual Fox Pro forum? I was amazed it was there at all, but where is the C programming for windows forum, is it all VC++ and C#? The only thing Microsoft is keen on doing with MSDN is turning everyone there into Microsoft Developers, every language there is another proprietary format tooled with the purpose of locking you in.
Maybe, ten years from now when all the "visual C sharp" jobs have dried up, and you can't program in "intuitive C star" you'll understand why I think MSDN is VB6 on steroids and crack. It's easier for M$ to alienate their older workers by changing the languages used for development every ten years or so.
You're of the opinion that we don't have something else that matches this same profile, we do, it's called pollution. Fact is we have industrial waste which we have seen cause acid rain and flaming lakes. Our toxic waste has affected the environment in the past and it is the #1 defendant against these allegations. For a lot of people that is why it makes sense.
And doesn't package drivers with show stopping bugs for an OS that is listed as supported. Yep I used Suse and I live in the US, don't know if the drivers were available in other countries though, but open source drivers that "worked" were free.
Oooh, just browsed and found another one. the Red Cross vs Johnson & and Johnson (the baby co.) fighting over a red cross used in trademark. This might be the "year of the linux desktop" scenario where things seem more intense than they are, but I can't deny what I've read lately.
I was just thinking the same thing, the past several days have been very dynamic in the way of licensing/FOSS in big business. We have sun, bittorrent, mysql, amd, proprietary AV systems, a DUI driver wins code, NewYorkCountryLawyer, Dell with on-board virtualization, openSuse, and well I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere because/. has had a good story every couple of hours for a few days now. It's almost scary. Ooh, Linux kernel developers coming under fire for not paying enough attention to the desktop, too. Anyone know how Vista is doing these days?
This is not necessarily true, in reality supply is determined by the owners of the media, and value is determined by the number of customers that do not yet have access to the supply. Effectively, I think a price cap is a really bad idea and I think everyone should have the right to copy. If my collection of mp3's value was determined by how many people allowed those mp3's to be copied, then I wouldn't think very highly of file sharing. Now if I hold on to a high quality, popular wav file, for 60 years, the value of that file increases over time as more people lose their copy. The only thing that's missing is a system that determines the current value of those music files at different qualities.
yes, but much as they may whine and bitch, this new business model does seem to be grounded in reality. Distributing music for free will now cause your music collection to have less "resale value".
Why aren't you running Oracle on Solaris? That's what Oracle uses for their bench tests, my boss has worked with Oracle for 20+ years and she wouldn't consider anything other than Sun hardware and software.
You mean large companies actually just buy commodities at a low price and sell them at a higher value? I would have never guessed. Ok I'm being a little facetious, but I think Sun is quickly becoming the premiere hardware maker for FOSS systems and I don't think it will hurt their bottom line any.
Yea, scrupulous was one of those words on that list that didn't make sense to me at all. Humble didn't make much sense either, the other two kind and whatever they are alright, but a good lawyer will follow the letter of the law and remain loyal to his/her client.
There's actually another thing, but you see it less often, where if a discussion is getting uncomfortably close to being something other than idle chit-chat, a lawyer might have to stop, or change subjects, or avoid specifics.
That's why lawyers do well at politics:)
Last night I wrote a pretty good post but had stayed up too late, and forgot to click submit. Of course I don't have the literary skills you have, but it was pretty good for me. Since I took so long to respond, I'll just give you the executive summary.
I have the right to free speech, though limited. The RIAA has a right to protect the copying of their work, shouldn't they have limits too? I mean I can say a lot so long as people don't feel it's a legitimate cause for concern. The RIAA acts without this common inhibition and is not forced in any way to treat people with respect and dignity, is that really the nature of law designed to preserve long term stability?
These lawsuits represent the RIAA's inability to adapt to a changing market, it is not do to the rampant criminality of everyone under the age of 25. I know because I was copying music before Napster came along. These people that get sued are not distributors in any sense of the word, the distributors are websites that operate on a global scale, like Napster used to and Pirate Bay does now. Individuals like this Banker have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the criminal distribution of anything at all. They are simply tasked with using technology that has been made available to them, they just don't know how to use it well enough to avoid what they know is a catastrophic lawsuit. It's like electrocuting down syndrome victims for trying to have sex with strippers, it's extremely close to entrapment simply because the defendants are so ignorant of the issue at hand.
I'm sure I've goofed some legality on this subject, but as a (legal) layperson I feel I've expressed my position as well as I can, and I feel the gist of what I am saying is legally sound.
Now why on earth, when getting sued by these bastards should I ever have to go out of my way to create a three year report concerning all of the people that have ever used my computer. Hell I couldn't legally (by definition) presume to tell you who has used my toilet in the past six months, let alone three years. Not to mention the fact that I'm a professional computer user, this judge is asking way too much, the question itself is absolutely ludicrous.
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So this is like ActiveX 2.0, the cross platform edition? Another with Ajax, Flash, and a host of other technologies, silverlight just seems like a blatant attempt at locking the net into the .Net framework.
I'm curious as to how often that sort of thing works though, for instance in this case Novel has personally promised me nothing but Jack and Sh*t. The article itself stands as hearsay only, and the ownership of patents and copyrights both suggest a long standing reservation of legal rights. I don't think they can lose those rights simply by saying "We promise we're not going to be stupid like SCO".
...legally binding? I had no idea.
Smart and Brave, hell the thought of sitting on two sets of steel balls both confuses me and puts fear in my heart.
Of course I'm sure when they're old their sacks hand down to their ankles.
I think it was "evidence", "phone numbers", "database lost", that caught my attention. :)
So, you don't think the Crown Prosecution Service or Scotland Yard would have "Top Secret" data? Seriously, the information stolen was evidence and phone numbers, how likely do you think it is that the phone numbers coincided with the evidence? Sorry, but I think the use of "Top Secret" is completely applicable in this case.
You mean you're happy to be a VB6 developer held at the whim of M$ board decisions. Seriously, everything on MSDN is as fragile as a candle in the wind, did you visit the Visual Fox Pro forum? I was amazed it was there at all, but where is the C programming for windows forum, is it all VC++ and C#? The only thing Microsoft is keen on doing with MSDN is turning everyone there into Microsoft Developers, every language there is another proprietary format tooled with the purpose of locking you in.
Maybe, ten years from now when all the "visual C sharp" jobs have dried up, and you can't program in "intuitive C star" you'll understand why I think MSDN is VB6 on steroids and crack. It's easier for M$ to alienate their older workers by changing the languages used for development every ten years or so.
You're of the opinion that we don't have something else that matches this same profile, we do, it's called pollution. Fact is we have industrial waste which we have seen cause acid rain and flaming lakes. Our toxic waste has affected the environment in the past and it is the #1 defendant against these allegations. For a lot of people that is why it makes sense.
Yep, that's what I'm talking about right there. The Open source world seems to be advancing quite nicely.
http://www.google.com/search?q=vista badvista.org is #3, when searching google for "vista".
It was a joke, yea, so nevermind.
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3 101891 it's old, doesn't list numbers, but it's indicative that Europe got Suse 9, six days before the US.
anyone around here wondering where twitter is?
And doesn't package drivers with show stopping bugs for an OS that is listed as supported. Yep I used Suse and I live in the US, don't know if the drivers were available in other countries though, but open source drivers that "worked" were free.
Oooh, just browsed and found another one. the Red Cross vs Johnson & and Johnson (the baby co.) fighting over a red cross used in trademark. This might be the "year of the linux desktop" scenario where things seem more intense than they are, but I can't deny what I've read lately.
I was just thinking the same thing, the past several days have been very dynamic in the way of licensing/FOSS in big business. We have sun, bittorrent, mysql, amd, proprietary AV systems, a DUI driver wins code, NewYorkCountryLawyer, Dell with on-board virtualization, openSuse, and well I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere because /. has had a good story every couple of hours for a few days now. It's almost scary. Ooh, Linux kernel developers coming under fire for not paying enough attention to the desktop, too. Anyone know how Vista is doing these days?
No you're right these don't have physical value, which means they have intrinsic value, suggesting that the value is based directly on the market.
This is not necessarily true, in reality supply is determined by the owners of the media, and value is determined by the number of customers that do not yet have access to the supply. Effectively, I think a price cap is a really bad idea and I think everyone should have the right to copy. If my collection of mp3's value was determined by how many people allowed those mp3's to be copied, then I wouldn't think very highly of file sharing. Now if I hold on to a high quality, popular wav file, for 60 years, the value of that file increases over time as more people lose their copy. The only thing that's missing is a system that determines the current value of those music files at different qualities.
I say let you sell your music, that would discourage you from devaluing your music collection by giving it away.
yes, but much as they may whine and bitch, this new business model does seem to be grounded in reality. Distributing music for free will now cause your music collection to have less "resale value".
Why aren't you running Oracle on Solaris? That's what Oracle uses for their bench tests, my boss has worked with Oracle for 20+ years and she wouldn't consider anything other than Sun hardware and software.
You mean large companies actually just buy commodities at a low price and sell them at a higher value? I would have never guessed. Ok I'm being a little facetious, but I think Sun is quickly becoming the premiere hardware maker for FOSS systems and I don't think it will hurt their bottom line any.
Is there anyway someone could build an open source graphics card with this card? Maybe we could crop the less flattering aspects.
Yea, scrupulous was one of those words on that list that didn't make sense to me at all. Humble didn't make much sense either, the other two kind and whatever they are alright, but a good lawyer will follow the letter of the law and remain loyal to his/her client.
That's why lawyers do well at politics :)
Last night I wrote a pretty good post but had stayed up too late, and forgot to click submit. Of course I don't have the literary skills you have, but it was pretty good for me. Since I took so long to respond, I'll just give you the executive summary.
I have the right to free speech, though limited. The RIAA has a right to protect the copying of their work, shouldn't they have limits too? I mean I can say a lot so long as people don't feel it's a legitimate cause for concern. The RIAA acts without this common inhibition and is not forced in any way to treat people with respect and dignity, is that really the nature of law designed to preserve long term stability?
These lawsuits represent the RIAA's inability to adapt to a changing market, it is not do to the rampant criminality of everyone under the age of 25. I know because I was copying music before Napster came along. These people that get sued are not distributors in any sense of the word, the distributors are websites that operate on a global scale, like Napster used to and Pirate Bay does now. Individuals like this Banker have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the criminal distribution of anything at all. They are simply tasked with using technology that has been made available to them, they just don't know how to use it well enough to avoid what they know is a catastrophic lawsuit. It's like electrocuting down syndrome victims for trying to have sex with strippers, it's extremely close to entrapment simply because the defendants are so ignorant of the issue at hand.
I'm sure I've goofed some legality on this subject, but as a (legal) layperson I feel I've expressed my position as well as I can, and I feel the gist of what I am saying is legally sound.
Now why on earth, when getting sued by these bastards should I ever have to go out of my way to create a three year report concerning all of the people that have ever used my computer. Hell I couldn't legally (by definition) presume to tell you who has used my toilet in the past six months, let alone three years. Not to mention the fact that I'm a professional computer user, this judge is asking way too much, the question itself is absolutely ludicrous.