No, copyright law only applies to the act of making copies and then distributing them. Merely passing along the thing you got without making an additional copy of it falls only under the doctrine of first sale. Tell that to the Free Software Foundation. Based on what you're saying, the whole "conveyancing" thing in GPL3 is a myth (an opinion I've always held to).
Ultimately, which is it? GPL3 is wrong and trying to control something it has no right to, or Apple is right and they can in fact exert control over intermediaries between themselves and their end user?
I don't think you understand. The DoJ likely demanded they remove it because Google came pissing to them about how it's anti-competitive that users can use a non-Google address bar in the task bar.
If we send the machine in for support, they'll see that we've opened the case, as well as seeing that "non-HP" RAM has been inserted (for example). It pisses us off, actually, since HP RAM is essentially bog-standard Kingston RAM with an HP sticker. Which they charge us 3 times the price for.
$45? Woah. Our country doesn't even HAVE a registration system here, so I don't feel your pain in the slightest.
Flip side though, our trademarks and patents have exponentially increasing rates. A trademark costs $112 to register, but $281 every 10 years to renew. Patents are even more vicious: 4th year renewal is $191. 7th year renewal is $382. 10th year renewal is $607. 13th (and final) year renewal is $1125.
Though for some reason, we can register the physical appearance of an object (e.g. we can't copyright forks, but we can register the design of a particular fork and sue anyone who makes one looking like ours. Weird).
The ActiveX vulnerabilities exploited are on the CLIENT. An IIS machine is not guaranteed to only be visited by Windows users. The server software has nothing to do with it (other than the prevalence of moronic ASP developers who don't validate anything).
Do all articles about adverts contain a disclaimer saying that people using adblock are unaffected? Not when Slashdot's primary revenue source is advertising they don't.
Actually, MySQL supports multi-statement just fine. The CLIENT LIBRARY for it does not. Just like ODBC can be configured to forbid multi-statements for MSSQL.
Uh, all of them will. It's the connection driver that decides whether to allow it (ODBC can be configured to not allow multiple statements to MSSQL too! And Mysql only doesn't support it because the client lib doesn't!)
Where'd you get that bit about priviledge escalation? Because the vulnerability in IIS/ASP parsing linked has no such payload. The only thing it can do is "arbitrary code in the context of the Worker Process account" (which should never be Network Service anyway - bloody hell!)
I'm sorry, does it offend you that someone could possibly make a webserver you don't need to hand hold? One could say the same about Apache as well, since you rarely ever need to actually do anything with it.
In most companies that upgrade is enforced too - and not by Microsoft. Recently we began upgrading something like 7000 PCs to the latest and greatest because HP EOLed our standard build. Again. For the second time in a 12 month period.
If we can't get new parts for a PC then we can't continue to use it. And before you say "just buy parts anywhere", we can't. We do that, we lose our support (not allowed to use "non-authorised parts" from a "non-authorised supplier").
Consumers get the shaft a lot from companies, but believe me when I say this - large companies actually get the shaft even more.
The aforementioned companies who care about having someone to blame have a support contract with SLAs to the hilt. Let me tell you, if I log a Sev.A call with Microsoft, they damn well better have a senior tech onsite in two hours (at any time) or we bash them with SLA breach penalties.
No they can't. The license under which Windows source is provided to the mega-companies and governments that get it is for internal use only. If Dell were to actually distribute any source or object code from that to their customers, Microsoft would crush them like a bug.
he re-defined Free Software, confusing it wizh Freeware Far from it. YOU are trying to redefine free software, confusing it with open source. Free cannot simply be redefined however you (or Richard Stallman) wants.
Remember, they're one of the worst kind of company - using and improving OSS but not actually contributing improvements back thanks to the ASP loophole.
Not true at all. You see, Microsoft tends to nick ideas from their own partners. Example: you might say Aero is stolen from Compiz or some such - it's not, it's pretty much borrowed from WindowBlinds (Stardock, who makes it, is a Gold Partner even)... It should also be noted that WindowBlinds is older than Compiz and the like, dating back to OS/2 days.
Not usually. Generics are usually created overseas (India isn't it?) where the original patent is not honoured. At least, that's how I've always heard it.
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Except in Computing. Lookee here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=one+gigabyte+in+bytes&btnG=Google+Search
Ask Verizon.
Ultimately, which is it? GPL3 is wrong and trying to control something it has no right to, or Apple is right and they can in fact exert control over intermediaries between themselves and their end user?
Not if they're sticking Official Apple Stickers on it. Such as those obtained with iPods.
I don't think you understand. The DoJ likely demanded they remove it because Google came pissing to them about how it's anti-competitive that users can use a non-Google address bar in the task bar.
If we send the machine in for support, they'll see that we've opened the case, as well as seeing that "non-HP" RAM has been inserted (for example). It pisses us off, actually, since HP RAM is essentially bog-standard Kingston RAM with an HP sticker. Which they charge us 3 times the price for.
$45? Woah. Our country doesn't even HAVE a registration system here, so I don't feel your pain in the slightest.
Flip side though, our trademarks and patents have exponentially increasing rates. A trademark costs $112 to register, but $281 every 10 years to renew. Patents are even more vicious: 4th year renewal is $191. 7th year renewal is $382. 10th year renewal is $607. 13th (and final) year renewal is $1125.
Though for some reason, we can register the physical appearance of an object (e.g. we can't copyright forks, but we can register the design of a particular fork and sue anyone who makes one looking like ours. Weird).
I don't feel like writing up a big migration plan for free.
But there are multitudes of clients, and quite a number of servers that do the job.
You don't always have a MySQL connection at the time you escape the string, and mysql_real_escape_string requires one.
Wow. Just wow.
The ActiveX vulnerabilities exploited are on the CLIENT. An IIS machine is not guaranteed to only be visited by Windows users. The server software has nothing to do with it (other than the prevalence of moronic ASP developers who don't validate anything).
Actually, MySQL supports multi-statement just fine. The CLIENT LIBRARY for it does not. Just like ODBC can be configured to forbid multi-statements for MSSQL.
Uh, all of them will. It's the connection driver that decides whether to allow it (ODBC can be configured to not allow multiple statements to MSSQL too! And Mysql only doesn't support it because the client lib doesn't!)
Where'd you get that bit about priviledge escalation? Because the vulnerability in IIS/ASP parsing linked has no such payload. The only thing it can do is "arbitrary code in the context of the Worker Process account" (which should never be Network Service anyway - bloody hell!)
I'm sorry, does it offend you that someone could possibly make a webserver you don't need to hand hold? One could say the same about Apache as well, since you rarely ever need to actually do anything with it.
You're an idiot.
In most companies that upgrade is enforced too - and not by Microsoft. Recently we began upgrading something like 7000 PCs to the latest and greatest because HP EOLed our standard build. Again. For the second time in a 12 month period.
If we can't get new parts for a PC then we can't continue to use it. And before you say "just buy parts anywhere", we can't. We do that, we lose our support (not allowed to use "non-authorised parts" from a "non-authorised supplier").
Consumers get the shaft a lot from companies, but believe me when I say this - large companies actually get the shaft even more.
Uh, both Shared Calendars and Public Folders are supported by IMAP.
(Has anyone else noticed that MAPI and IMAP are anagrams of each other?)
The aforementioned companies who care about having someone to blame have a support contract with SLAs to the hilt. Let me tell you, if I log a Sev.A call with Microsoft, they damn well better have a senior tech onsite in two hours (at any time) or we bash them with SLA breach penalties.
No they can't. The license under which Windows source is provided to the mega-companies and governments that get it is for internal use only. If Dell were to actually distribute any source or object code from that to their customers, Microsoft would crush them like a bug.
No, it's free as in free. Stop trying to re-define dictionary definitions for fuck sake.
Many smart phones run Linux? Which ones? All the ones I know - and I mean all - run Symbian, Windows Mobile, or whatever Apple puts on their phones.
Just be careful invoking the Google there.
Remember, they're one of the worst kind of company - using and improving OSS but not actually contributing improvements back thanks to the ASP loophole.
Not true at all. You see, Microsoft tends to nick ideas from their own partners. Example: you might say Aero is stolen from Compiz or some such - it's not, it's pretty much borrowed from WindowBlinds (Stardock, who makes it, is a Gold Partner even)... It should also be noted that WindowBlinds is older than Compiz and the like, dating back to OS/2 days.
Not usually. Generics are usually created overseas (India isn't it?) where the original patent is not honoured. At least, that's how I've always heard it.