I doubt that the FSF or the EFF are willing or able to get involved; but that doesn't mean that users and people who have a vested interest in keeping the integrity of the GNU license can't raise the funds needed to sue the CherryOS fools.
While it is true that there are various piracy issues to be worked out, I'm fairly confident that the Asian market will do as the west has done which is take the best of OSS and adapt it to their needs.
In fact, with Asia's help, maybe we can finally solve the problem of people following false editors and settle on the one true editor -- nano!
Those people aren't the problem. The people who are the problem are the ones who insist on clicking every flashing 'hit the screensaver'type ad. I've even heard some of these people say 'oh, I don't mind spyware, it helps pay for the internet'.
iDownload's business model is wholly dependant on idiots. Lucky for them, there's no shortage of those on the internet.
In dealing with servers and enterprise applications, I feel more productive with Unix and LAMP.
However, when it comes to office applications or presentations, at this point I still feel more comfortable with Windows - though Open Office is coming along quite nicely.
The corporations have won, everything is lost. The proprietary software field has consolidated the legal system against the Free software world and very soon the distribution of Free software will be illegal.
We're fucked on all fronts -wether it's with regards to the homeland security force which has the power to send citizens to guitanamo on a whim to the eurpopean patent mess- freedom and justice for the non-corporate citizen is a thing of the past.
It's time to give up entirely; there's no other, practical, choice.
Not really, contributing to it is not the same as strongly advocating for it; and Linus has always been wishy-washy about Free Software.
It makes no sense to give an award from the FSF to someone who both derides the GNU standards *and* says to use 'whatever works'. It's a political award and Linus' politics don't fit the Free Software model.
Why he is no yet on the list?. May be because his public use of some proprietary software
From the beginning, Linus has held the posistion of "eh, whatever" with regards to software freedom. He'll take advantage of it, but he's been very clear on where exactly software freedom is in his list of priorties (which is: below convience).
In contrast Theo has re-written whole parts of his operating system (pf and OpenSSH) for the sake of being able to give away an entirely free-for-any-use operating system.
While Linus has made an invaluble contribution to Open Source, Theo has proven time and time again to be a strong and active advocate for Free Software (with a capital 'F').
At this point it is the "copyright holders" who have the gold, and it is they who are making the rules.
This is a state of affairs which has no hope of changing (look at what is going on with the supreme court and with the EU and the patent fiasco); learn to live with it.
The _real_ heroes are the members of the Red Cross who -instead of taking lives- help people _rebuild their lives_ after devestating disasters of all types.
Both of the "sides" you mention are "the BAD GUYS". Not everyone in America buys the myth that Democrats and Republicans are our only choices. Some of us are Greens. Others are Libertarians.
We vote with our conscience because we cannot stomach the neo-fascist posturing and legislating done by Bush, Ashcroft, Cheny, Kerry, Liberman, Clinton, etc.
I don't know about firefox, but using Mozilla-stable 1.7.3 on NetBSD-i386 all I got was a dialog box askign me if I wanted to set my pop-up preferences (which I hadn't yet).
I reloaded the site after setting the preferences and didn't get anything.
While this is only my first post here, I still happen to think that it's smart of them to regulate themselves instead of having the government come in and do it. Censorship (self-imposted or otherwise) sucks any way you slice it, true, but at least if it's self-imposed they will be able to ease or lift it entirely once the political climate improves.
Much the same way that the comic book industry censored themselves, and then eased the the enforcement of their standards when adult comics such as the vertigo line became popular.
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I doubt that the FSF or the EFF are willing or able to get involved; but that doesn't mean that users and people who have a vested interest in keeping the integrity of the GNU license can't raise the funds needed to sue the CherryOS fools.
Check bank statements, obviously, but what else?
While it is true that there are various piracy issues to be worked out, I'm fairly confident that the Asian market will do as the west has done which is take the best of OSS and adapt it to their needs.
In fact, with Asia's help, maybe we can finally solve the problem of people following false editors and settle on the one true editor -- nano!
Those people aren't the problem. The people who are the problem are the ones who insist on clicking every flashing 'hit the screensaver'type ad. I've even heard some of these people say 'oh, I don't mind spyware, it helps pay for the internet'.
iDownload's business model is wholly dependant on idiots. Lucky for them, there's no shortage of those on the internet.
In dealing with servers and enterprise applications, I feel more productive with Unix and LAMP.
However, when it comes to office applications or presentations, at this point I still feel more comfortable with Windows - though Open Office is coming along quite nicely.
The corporations have won, everything is lost. The proprietary software field has consolidated the legal system against the Free software world and very soon the distribution of Free software will be illegal.
We're fucked on all fronts -wether it's with regards to the homeland security force which has the power to send citizens to guitanamo on a whim to the eurpopean patent mess- freedom and justice for the non-corporate citizen is a thing of the past.
It's time to give up entirely; there's no other, practical, choice.
I hope that doesn't mean that Sun is going to pull Open Solaris now that their financial situation has improved.
That the 9th grade girls MS is making a pitch to go directly from Jr high to working for them (at $4.50/hr, perhaps?).
Pots Grass. Speed kills. Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker.
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Anything else I can help you with?
Reading this FAQ entry should shed some light on why linus has never been, and probably will never be up for this award.
Not really, contributing to it is not the same as strongly advocating for it; and Linus has always been wishy-washy about Free Software.
It makes no sense to give an award from the FSF to someone who both derides the GNU standards *and* says to use 'whatever works'. It's a political award and Linus' politics don't fit the Free Software model.
He's much more of an open source kind of person.
From the beginning, Linus has held the posistion of "eh, whatever" with regards to software freedom. He'll take advantage of it, but he's been very clear on where exactly software freedom is in his list of priorties (which is: below convience).
In contrast Theo has re-written whole parts of his operating system (pf and OpenSSH) for the sake of being able to give away an entirely free-for-any-use operating system.
While Linus has made an invaluble contribution to Open Source, Theo has proven time and time again to be a strong and active advocate for Free Software (with a capital 'F').
..by refusing the award on the grounds that the GNU license "isn't free enough". ;-)
At this point it is the "copyright holders" who have the gold, and it is they who are making the rules.
This is a state of affairs which has no hope of changing (look at what is going on with the supreme court and with the EU and the patent fiasco); learn to live with it.
There's no alternative.
No point purchasing something that I can get for free.
Except for supporting the developers, of course.
The _real_ heroes are the members of the Red Cross who -instead of taking lives- help people _rebuild their lives_ after devestating disasters of all types.
Both of the "sides" you mention are "the BAD GUYS". Not everyone in America buys the myth that Democrats and Republicans are our only choices. Some of us are Greens. Others are Libertarians.
We vote with our conscience because we cannot stomach the neo-fascist posturing and legislating done by Bush, Ashcroft, Cheny, Kerry, Liberman, Clinton, etc.
I don't know about firefox, but using Mozilla-stable 1.7.3 on NetBSD-i386 all I got was a dialog box askign me if I wanted to set my pop-up preferences (which I hadn't yet).
I reloaded the site after setting the preferences and didn't get anything.
While this is only my first post here, I still happen to think that it's smart of them to regulate themselves instead of having the government come in and do it. Censorship (self-imposted or otherwise) sucks any way you slice it, true, but at least if it's self-imposed they will be able to ease or lift it entirely once the political climate improves. Much the same way that the comic book industry censored themselves, and then eased the the enforcement of their standards when adult comics such as the vertigo line became popular.