All three are public companies, and therefore obligated BY LAW to maximise shareholder profit. By taking a stand against china (and, therefore risking their financial stability) they would be BREAKING the law.
If you've been involved in politics for so long, this is something that you should already know.
I'd be surprised if he did beg to differ. Without copyright law, it would not have been necessary to re-create Unix and the Unix infrastruction (including the C compiler).
Re: minix I deliberately chose that example not because it's Free Software but it was still created in response to the restricted nature of the UNIX source code.
Andy needed something to base his class on, copyright law kept him from being able to use UNIX, so he wrote Minix. The license he distributed it under (which was a result of the needs of his publisher, if I remember right) is neither here nor there to the point I was making.
I'll take a stab at this... GCC BASH GNU/HURD Linux Minix
Those are a few of the things which would not have been invented had it not been for copyright law and the restrictions surrounding the use and distribution of UNIX.
The chances of the government voluntarily passing up a chance to regulate the government is only slightly less improbable than them passing up a chance to solicit more taxes.
I'd be very surprised if Adobe doesn't send out a storm of DMCA notices "protecting" the patents I'm sure they've taken out on the "look and feel" of photo-shop.
They don't even want you using the term "shopped" or "photoshop" with regards to photo manipulation-- so there's zero chance that they'll turn a blind eye to this.
Based on my experience with the free trial, in some respects 2003 server is either about the same, or slower than a stripped-down (ie no visual effects) XP.
I can't say for "more secure", but if you want faster - 2000 is faster than either XP or 2003.
From what I can tell 2003's niche is that it will be supported in 3 years (2000 won't, afaik).
I mean, isn't he rich enough that he could simply pay whatever he needed to as he went along? Hell, in this day and age I wouldn't be surprised if he could even write the lobbying off as 'expenses'.
However, Debian has never been strictly or even primarily about tinkering or experimentation (you cannot go a year or more between releases and be considered 'experimental').
No, Debian's niche has been the fact that while other Distros have been commercial (slackware, mandrake, etc) Debian has been the only one commited to the ideals of Open Source and to using the net to non-commercially distribute their software.
With Debian sliding further into irrelevency, we're now left with only the commercial, professional distributions to fall back on; and we are all sadder and poorer for that lack.
So, between the fact that not only is Debian getting publicly ridiculed by leaders of the Free Software Movement (such as Bruce Parens, IIRC) for the lenth of time it's taken them to release Sarge; but now they can't even stir up enough interest to get people to vote for posistions inside their own company?
I love Debian, and I used to use it before I switched to OpenBSD, but I honestly wonder if the project shouldn't hand over their resources to a vibrant and living project such as gentoo or ubuntu and step aside gracefully.
what is it that they're doing that's really new? Oh, and are they going to fuck it up (yet again) the way that they have with yahoo photos (no hi res) and yahoo groups (try reading a thread from the web. I dare you. yuh-huh.).
That said, and please forgive my flamishness but...fuck yahoo. Fuck 'em right in the ear!
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All three are public companies, and therefore obligated BY LAW to maximise shareholder profit. By taking a stand against china (and, therefore risking their financial stability) they would be BREAKING the law.
If you've been involved in politics for so long, this is something that you should already know.
and not one second sooner.
I was exagerating; but regardless, cygwin is still faster than SFU and neither are very satisfying to someone who prefers a native posix enviroment.
Not sure about mingw, I've never had the time or patience to set that up.
It also, in comparison to cygwin, doesn't perform that well. And that's saying something since bsd or linux under vmware perform better than cygwin.
...to the president of Opera before he makes his big swim.
I'm even lazier; if they can't be bothered to clean up (or not make) the mess, I don't either.
I'd be surprised if he did beg to differ. Without copyright law, it would not have been necessary to re-create Unix and the Unix infrastruction (including the C compiler).
Re: minix
I deliberately chose that example not because it's Free Software but it was still created in response to the restricted nature of the UNIX source code.
Andy needed something to base his class on, copyright law kept him from being able to use UNIX, so he wrote Minix. The license he distributed it under (which was a result of the needs of his publisher, if I remember right) is neither here nor there to the point I was making.
It's ready to be downloaded and used; it may not do much, but it does exist so it no longer qualifies as 'vaporware'.
;)
This is in contrast to Duke Nukem Forever which cannot be downloaded or run.
In related news, BSD isn't dying either.
I'll take a stab at this...
GCC
BASH
GNU/HURD
Linux
Minix
Those are a few of the things which would not have been invented had it not been for copyright law and the restrictions surrounding the use and distribution of UNIX.
I mis-read the post I was replying to. Mod both posts down.
:(
*trundles off to the pharmacy for reading glasses*
Actually, you have go to Whataburger to get a 'whataburger', not Burger King.
but, correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't this originally brought up on /. because of adobe not being able to access this?
The chances of the government voluntarily passing up a chance to regulate the government is only slightly less improbable than them passing up a chance to solicit more taxes.
In short, this is a pr move; nothing to see.
Not near as good of a deal as Windows or Debian users who get their updates for free
I'd be very surprised if Adobe doesn't send out a storm of DMCA notices "protecting" the patents I'm sure they've taken out on the "look and feel" of photo-shop.
They don't even want you using the term "shopped" or "photoshop" with regards to photo manipulation-- so there's zero chance that they'll turn a blind eye to this.
Based on my experience with the free trial, in some respects 2003 server is either about the same, or slower than a stripped-down (ie no visual effects) XP.
I can't say for "more secure", but if you want faster - 2000 is faster than either XP or 2003.
From what I can tell 2003's niche is that it will be supported in 3 years (2000 won't, afaik).
Ok, so which pro-business canidate do you suggest I vote for, then? The dem or the republican?
Or are you going to suggest I toss my vote after someone who has no chance of ever holding an office?
I mean, isn't he rich enough that he could simply pay whatever he needed to as he went along? Hell, in this day and age I wouldn't be surprised if he could even write the lobbying off as 'expenses'.
However, Debian has never been strictly or even primarily about tinkering or experimentation (you cannot go a year or more between releases and be considered 'experimental').
No, Debian's niche has been the fact that while other Distros have been commercial (slackware, mandrake, etc) Debian has been the only one commited to the ideals of Open Source and to using the net to non-commercially distribute their software.
With Debian sliding further into irrelevency, we're now left with only the commercial, professional distributions to fall back on; and we are all sadder and poorer for that lack.
So, between the fact that not only is Debian getting publicly ridiculed by leaders of the Free Software Movement (such as Bruce Parens, IIRC) for the lenth of time it's taken them to release Sarge; but now they can't even stir up enough interest to get people to vote for posistions inside their own company?
I love Debian, and I used to use it before I switched to OpenBSD, but I honestly wonder if the project shouldn't hand over their resources to a vibrant and living project such as gentoo or ubuntu and step aside gracefully.
what is it that they're doing that's really new? Oh, and are they going to fuck it up (yet again) the way that they have with yahoo photos (no hi res) and yahoo groups (try reading a thread from the web. I dare you. yuh-huh.).
That said, and please forgive my flamishness but...fuck yahoo. Fuck 'em right in the ear!
The bot-nets themselves? No. But according to TFA at least one of the programs used to create the nets is released under the GPL.
Natalie Portman sucks? Wow! Now that's 'News For Nerds'!
Your compeittion was invented by 'linus', not 'linux'; 'linux' is your competition, and it just so happened to be invented by one linus torvalds.
Clear on that now?