Country-level TLDs are significant. For example, I KNOW that http://www.toyota.ca/ takes me to Toyota Canada's page, while http://www.toyota.com/ takes me to the US page. Using country-level TLDs for this purpose is correct and should be encouraged - it is a lot better than the alternatives like having a stupid URL like http://www.hyundaicanada.com/, or forcefully re-directing people based on their geographic location (what if I am using a proxy? Or what if I want information on the American prices for comparison?).
The "generic" top level TLDs however (.com,.net, and.org), are indeed irrelevant.
Personally, I think the answer is not to *abolish* TLDs, but to make them *optional*, and abolish only.com /.net /.org. Then a company doesn't have to register 3 domains, and they only have to register country-level domains in contries where they actually have a presence.
But how would you implement it - how do you reconcile those domains if different people own them, who gets the new TLD when they are amalgamated?
Ever since Windows 3.1, and even today, you do not have to run "Explorer" as your desktop.
A lot of people don't realize this, but the whole of the windows "desktop" - the task bar, the icons, the menus, the right click on the desktop, all runs under a single instance of the "explorer" process.
Via the registry you can change your shell to anything - including the old progman.exe from Windows 3.1 if you have it lying around (heck it even shipped with Windows until Windows 2000). I have switched my shell to Afterstep many times.
There is no logical reason you couldn't switch to KDE as your desktop environment after it had all been ported to windows. It would not have any kind of a built-in performance hit.
I can back up the parent on the fact that GWT is not at all suited for plugging into an existing application.
I am in charge of a fairly large web app (hundreds of thousands of lines of Java, JavaScript, and AJAX). I looked into GWT when it first came out - it only took me about 20 minutes of fiddling with the demos to realize that a) This is a great toolkit for basing a web app off of and b) this is a horrible toolkit to tie into.
The things that make GWT so great are what makes it near impossible to integrate with. Namely the fact that you have very little control of the outputted JSP and JS means that it is very hard to tie it into an existing web applications infrastructure that already uses its own frameworks for AJAX and display layers.
It's not free for commercial use, but the licenses are cheap. It is a very powerful and robust toolkit, not only does it do AJAX but also has a ton of useful GUI widgets and other core functions.
The whole point of these responses is because of one thing - we've heard it all before. "Oh I know how to stop spam... do X". I've been hearing this crap going on 15 years now.
Spam is a problem. Yes. Is it a problem that can be solved in any meaningful way? Likely not. At least not without removing nearly every single benefit email has.
There are lots of problems in this world that are not easily solvable. Spam is one of them. And until someone like you, actually DOES SOMETHING THAT WORKS, then all your spouting off about proposals and solutions is just blah blah blah to me. Show me some results, then I'll be impressed.
Well, all carriers sell Windows Mobile smartphones with WiFi, all of which can run Skype. So I think this is not a carrier issue as much as you would like to think.
This is one of the reasons why whenever I buy a PC I never remove windows. I just shrink the partition to it's minimal size plus a GB or two, install linux, set it to default. Sometimes I even remove Windows from the grub menu.lst so I can't choose it by accident:)
There are several reasons you should not uninstall windows. One is what this article is about, warranty support. If you ever have a hardware issue you can just delete the linux paritions (after a backup) and ship the thing; unless the tech has some weird reason to do forensic analysis on the HD they will never know it ever had linux on it.
There are other reasons too - wine works better with some applications when you can point it at some actual windows DLLs. Also, you have the ability to boot into Windows to play the occasional game or other multimedia nonsense that don't work in Linux.
Really I don't know why someone who bought a PC that came with Windows, which THEY PAID FOR, would just go erase it anyways. It's a total waste of money, and you aren't sending anyone a "message".
Disk space is dirt cheap. Until you can buy PCs barebones with the Windows tax removed, IMO it is ill-advised to un-install.
First of all, the uPhone is expandable via MicroSD cards. The iPhone is not from any specs I have seen. Seeing how you can get a 2 GB MicroSD card now for under $50 I would be highly surprised if Sprint was not packaging this phone with AT LEAST 2 GB of memory when it finally comes out. It may in fact have 4 GB. And even if it does not unlike the iPhone, you can expand it to your heart's content.
Secondly, because there are actually TWO screens and ACTUAL BUTTONS FOR THE PHONE you don't need a large screen.
Realistically I think the parent has a good point, and is pointing out why the iPhone is going to fail.
The iPhone is not a good phone, because it doesn't have buttons - anyone who has a touch screen PDA phone now (me!) can tell you what a pain this is when making calls. No matter hoe well Apple makes the touch screen, it is not going to be tactile, so it's goig to be impossible to dial with your thumb while carrying groceries in one hand, and fumbling with your keys and phone in the other.
Also the iPhone is not a good PDA, because it does not have push email capability from Outlook, and it has no WiFi.
So what is it then? It is an overpriced iPod / Cell Phone love child, that no teenager can afford, and no adult will find useful.
I think Apple made two big mistakes with the iPhone. First, they make it too expensive. Second, no WiFi. If it was a bit cheaper, or it had WiFi, at least your business customers might jump on the bandwagon.
It is my email account, I can give the passwords to whomever I wish.
I would like you to point somewhere in the GMail TOS (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.htm l), or for that matter any major webmail TOS , where it specifically says I can not share my account login with a third party if I so choose.
The only provision even close to this is "You agree that you are responsible for your own communications and for any consequences thereof", which is correct, as I am the one initiating the communication via facebook, I am responsible - of course I am.
Maybe next time you should pull your head out of your ass before you starts pouting such drivel.
Facebook asks you for your email password so that they can DOWNLOAD THE ADDRESSS BOOK so you can find people in it who ARE ALREADY FACEBOOK MEMBERS.
As well, you have to AUTHORIZE THEM to add the people via checking them off. Absolutely no messages are sent to anyone unless you specifically approve each and every person.
They are very upfront about what they are doing and why they are asking for your passwords. IMO it's a great service, it saved me hours of hunting down people in there when I first signed up; I knew instantly who was and was not a facebook member that I knew.
Also, when you sign up for facebook you KNOW you are going to get email requests for friends' approval, that is the whole point of the friggin site, to network. If you don't want any emails from people then don't sign up to these sites. And tell your friends you don't want them to end you the invites.
Simple. If you really have a problem you should talk to your friends, not the sites. All emails are coming from them.
This is total nonsense FUD and you know it. Of course there is a learning curve - but that's why I said KEEP OFFICE INSTALLED.
You and I and everyone else knows that 99% of what a business uses office for is not time critical tasks. It is opening.doc files attached to emails, commenting on a report, viewing a chart, adding 1-2 cells to a spreadsheet. The amount of time you design some giant new report or huge Excel 10 workbook large spreadsheet is minimal - you do those things maybe once, twice a month.
Unless you are a total invalid who does not deserve to be a manager in the first place, you should be able to judge form the first few minutes of trying if this "task" is going to be too hard to accomplish under OpenOffice given it's time constraints. If you have a report due tomorrow, have nothing done, and don't have time to screw around with OO.org writer - then do it in Word. Whose stopping you? You can try OO.org later, when you have more time.
If you're too afraid to risk ANYTHING with your business, you are not going to innovate, and your business will end up failing. Innovation is the root of success for all businesses. Why would you not want to be innovative with your Office package - something you use every day?
I mean - say I came to your office and said "Hey - I can tell you a way to cut 100% off your photocopier costs by using this new model. I will bring the new model into your office as a free no-obligation trial. You can use it as long as you want. When you feel it is OK andyour workers have learned the new functionality and are comfortable, you can get rid of your old one - keep the new one for free".
What manager would not take that offer? Why then do they not do the same with Office software?
If you're worried if OpenOffice can fit yoru needs then just DOWNLOAD the thing and try it for awhile.
It's not like it costs anything, or you have to uninstall MS Office to install OpenOffice or some other nonsense.
Download it, keep MS Office around for awhile as a backup, and start using OpenOffice. Try using it exclusively for a week, or month, or however long until you feel comfortable that it can do all you need it to do. Them, and only then, should you give MS the boot.
It would be absolutely retarded from a business perspective to proceed any other way - based on anyones advice, no matter how much of an "expert" they claim to be. Just try for yourself - if it fits your needs, great. If it doesn't, you still have MS Office installed, so there is no risk of it hurting your business.
No one knows your business better than you do. Maybe you have special needs OpenOffice can't meet. Maybe you don't. You won't know until you try it out.
For one this will let you run X86 DOS applications on a SPARC for example.
I'd like you to point me to the support page for VMWare on SPARC... oh wait that's cause there isn't one. QEMU can't even run most applications on a SPARC.
And forget about ARM.
I think this is great. Java is not as slow as people seem to think it is. One thing Java 5 (and 6) have that actually benefits virtualization is dynamic recompilation... the JVM knows the instruction sdequences better than the original author, and in theory can optimize the code paths in ways writing a virtualizer in assembly or C++ can not.
Reed-Soloman is designed to correct for error bursts - eg. scratches. That's why it is ideal for CDs and DVDs.
But it can not compensate well at all for even medium amounts of random bit errors. These are the exact kinds of errors that occur on CD and DVD media over time as it degrades. That is what is being referred to here.
If you have a piece of analogue data, and it degrades, you can still get enough meaning from the original to make it worth archiving. A piece of digital data with even a relatively small amount of random bits transposed could be totally corrupt, especially if it is in a compressed format.
Using the 300 cardboard boxes containing all the information, staff worked overtime for several months to rescan everything at an additional cost of $200,000."
Err.... if it only cost $200,000 to replace the data, where the hell does the $38 Billion figure come from?
p>i>They'd better make damn sure NO ONE can defeat the safeties to get into that room. You'll never know what hits you.Hogwash. People can always defeat safeties. You can't protect everyone from their own stupidity.p>The guy you mentioned is a prime candidate for the Darwin awards IMO. Evolution in action in my book.
Anyone who has ever had to make a cross platform GUI application that works identically on Linux, Mac, and Windows, can tell you what a nightmare it is. Even if you use a good cross platform toolkit like Qt or wxWidgets, the apps are still not *identical*. And you have to build them and test them for every platform. And you have to account for the myrid of possible library combinations the users my have installed. Etc etc.
This is why so many companies are embracing web applications - but web applications can't do it all. Some things you just *need* to do client side. This Apollo thing could be a really great way to do it.
And what may make it even more killer, would be the fact that you could perhapse share GUI code between your web applications and your client applications - so a user could run his UI over the web *OR* locally. Excellent.
AJAX based, real time traffic charts, more options, much more robust QOS configuration, ability to run your own scripts, auto mounting of external network volumes, and the options go on and on.
I have nothing bad to say about this firmware, at all.
If more investment was made into Ion Propulsion then the nuclear waste issue would be a non-starter.
Once you have orbital launch vehicles that can be powered themselves on nuclear power then all you have to do is store your global radioactive waste up and every six months or so use your nuclear launch vehicle to propel the waste into orbit and then jettison te waste capsule with a small booster propelling it into the sun.
Problem solved forever.
I really have yet to see why more research is not being one into this area... in theory once a working engine powered by nuclear energy is developed fission would be "totally green" energy.
I recently bought the Superman Returns HD-DVD even though I do not have an HD-DVD player. Why? Because it was a hybrid disc. Why pay $20 for a normal DVD when I can get the normal DVD AND the HD version for a few dollars more?
After that, I decided I am no longer wasting money on new single-format standard DVDs, since anything I buy now will be obsolete in 1-2 years, it would be a total waste of money. I will pick up a few previously played versions, perhaps, but that's it.
I really don't get why we aren't seeing more hybrid HD-DVD releases. It is a MAJOR benefit of HD-DVD. If the format backers pressured the studios to release more titles in hybrid format HD-DVD would gain so much ground against Blu-Ray that Blu-Ray would be dead in the water.
As far as Casino Royale goes - I rEALLY wanted this DVD. Too bad they are selling it Blu-Ray only - now I won't be buying it at all until I can get a used copy.
Try integrating NMAP with yoru commercial product. You won't be allowed to distirbute it if you use it's output to integrate into your own stuff.
Check out their wacky addition to the GPL:
* Note that the GPL places important restrictions on "derived works", yet
* it does not provide a detailed definition of that term. To avoid
* misunderstandings, we consider an application to constitute a
* "derivative work" for the purpose of this license if it does any of the
* following:
* Integrates source code from Nmap
* Reads or includes Nmap copyrighted data files, such as
* nmap-os-fingerprints or nmap-service-probes.
* Executes Nmap and parses the results (as opposed to typical shell or
* execution-menu apps, which simply display raw Nmap output and so are
* not derivative works.)
* Integrates/includes/aggregates Nmap into a proprietary executable
* installer, such as those produced by InstallShield.
* Links to a library or executes a program that does any of the above
You only need to open up if and when you modify Spring framework with your own code.
This is incorrect. Both Spring and Jakarta Commons use the Apache license, which does not require you to distribute code changes if you change the libraries. You just need to include the license with your binaries and notices that they were modified.
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Country-level TLDs are significant. For example, I KNOW that http://www.toyota.ca/ takes me to Toyota Canada's page, while http://www.toyota.com/ takes me to the US page. Using country-level TLDs for this purpose is correct and should be encouraged - it is a lot better than the alternatives like having a stupid URL like http://www.hyundaicanada.com/, or forcefully re-directing people based on their geographic location (what if I am using a proxy? Or what if I want information on the American prices for comparison?).
.net, and .org), are indeed irrelevant.
.com / .net / .org. Then a company doesn't have to register 3 domains, and they only have to register country-level domains in contries where they actually have a presence.
The "generic" top level TLDs however (.com,
Personally, I think the answer is not to *abolish* TLDs, but to make them *optional*, and abolish only
But how would you implement it - how do you reconcile those domains if different people own them, who gets the new TLD when they are amalgamated?
Ever since Windows 3.1, and even today, you do not have to run "Explorer" as your desktop.
A lot of people don't realize this, but the whole of the windows "desktop" - the task bar, the icons, the menus, the right click on the desktop, all runs under a single instance of the "explorer" process.
Via the registry you can change your shell to anything - including the old progman.exe from Windows 3.1 if you have it lying around (heck it even shipped with Windows until Windows 2000). I have switched my shell to Afterstep many times.
There is no logical reason you couldn't switch to KDE as your desktop environment after it had all been ported to windows. It would not have any kind of a built-in performance hit.
I can back up the parent on the fact that GWT is not at all suited for plugging into an existing application.
I am in charge of a fairly large web app (hundreds of thousands of lines of Java, JavaScript, and AJAX). I looked into GWT when it first came out - it only took me about 20 minutes of fiddling with the demos to realize that a) This is a great toolkit for basing a web app off of and b) this is a horrible toolkit to tie into.
The things that make GWT so great are what makes it near impossible to integrate with. Namely the fact that you have very little control of the outputted JSP and JS means that it is very hard to tie it into an existing web applications infrastructure that already uses its own frameworks for AJAX and display layers.
http://www.domapi.com/
It's not free for commercial use, but the licenses are cheap. It is a very powerful and robust toolkit, not only does it do AJAX but also has a ton of useful GUI widgets and other core functions.
The whole point of these responses is because of one thing - we've heard it all before. "Oh I know how to stop spam... do X". I've been hearing this crap going on 15 years now.
Spam is a problem. Yes. Is it a problem that can be solved in any meaningful way? Likely not. At least not without removing nearly every single benefit email has.
There are lots of problems in this world that are not easily solvable. Spam is one of them. And until someone like you, actually DOES SOMETHING THAT WORKS, then all your spouting off about proposals and solutions is just blah blah blah to me. Show me some results, then I'll be impressed.
I'll vouch for the parent, I saw the same show. But I think it was on TLC.
Well, not everyone can afford to not buy prefab.
You can get much more PC for your money buying prefab than building your own nowadays.
Well, all carriers sell Windows Mobile smartphones with WiFi, all of which can run Skype. So I think this is not a carrier issue as much as you would like to think.
This is one of the reasons why whenever I buy a PC I never remove windows. I just shrink the partition to it's minimal size plus a GB or two, install linux, set it to default. Sometimes I even remove Windows from the grub menu.lst so I can't choose it by accident :)
There are several reasons you should not uninstall windows. One is what this article is about, warranty support. If you ever have a hardware issue you can just delete the linux paritions (after a backup) and ship the thing; unless the tech has some weird reason to do forensic analysis on the HD they will never know it ever had linux on it.
There are other reasons too - wine works better with some applications when you can point it at some actual windows DLLs. Also, you have the ability to boot into Windows to play the occasional game or other multimedia nonsense that don't work in Linux.
Really I don't know why someone who bought a PC that came with Windows, which THEY PAID FOR, would just go erase it anyways. It's a total waste of money, and you aren't sending anyone a "message".
Disk space is dirt cheap. Until you can buy PCs barebones with the Windows tax removed, IMO it is ill-advised to un-install.
First of all, the uPhone is expandable via MicroSD cards. The iPhone is not from any specs I have seen. Seeing how you can get a 2 GB MicroSD card now for under $50 I would be highly surprised if Sprint was not packaging this phone with AT LEAST 2 GB of memory when it finally comes out. It may in fact have 4 GB. And even if it does not unlike the iPhone, you can expand it to your heart's content.
Secondly, because there are actually TWO screens and ACTUAL BUTTONS FOR THE PHONE you don't need a large screen.
Realistically I think the parent has a good point, and is pointing out why the iPhone is going to fail.
The iPhone is not a good phone, because it doesn't have buttons - anyone who has a touch screen PDA phone now (me!) can tell you what a pain this is when making calls. No matter hoe well Apple makes the touch screen, it is not going to be tactile, so it's goig to be impossible to dial with your thumb while carrying groceries in one hand, and fumbling with your keys and phone in the other.
Also the iPhone is not a good PDA, because it does not have push email capability from Outlook, and it has no WiFi.
So what is it then? It is an overpriced iPod / Cell Phone love child, that no teenager can afford, and no adult will find useful.
I think Apple made two big mistakes with the iPhone. First, they make it too expensive. Second, no WiFi. If it was a bit cheaper, or it had WiFi, at least your business customers might jump on the bandwagon.
Er, what?
m l), or for that matter any major webmail TOS , where it specifically says I can not share my account login with a third party if I so choose.
It is my email account, I can give the passwords to whomever I wish.
I would like you to point somewhere in the GMail TOS (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.ht
The only provision even close to this is "You agree that you are responsible for your own communications and for any consequences thereof", which is correct, as I am the one initiating the communication via facebook, I am responsible - of course I am.
Maybe next time you should pull your head out of your ass before you starts pouting such drivel.
I never understood why people can't grasp the concept of "walking to school uphill both ways".
I had to do it.
If there is a large hill BETWEEN your house and the school, you have to walk up it (and afterwards down it) BOTH ways.
It is perfectly possible, and it's a huge PITA, especially to bike.
Total FUD.
Facebook asks you for your email password so that they can DOWNLOAD THE ADDRESSS BOOK so you can find people in it who ARE ALREADY FACEBOOK MEMBERS.
As well, you have to AUTHORIZE THEM to add the people via checking them off. Absolutely no messages are sent to anyone unless you specifically approve each and every person.
They are very upfront about what they are doing and why they are asking for your passwords. IMO it's a great service, it saved me hours of hunting down people in there when I first signed up; I knew instantly who was and was not a facebook member that I knew.
Also, when you sign up for facebook you KNOW you are going to get email requests for friends' approval, that is the whole point of the friggin site, to network. If you don't want any emails from people then don't sign up to these sites. And tell your friends you don't want them to end you the invites.
Simple. If you really have a problem you should talk to your friends, not the sites. All emails are coming from them.
You and I and everyone else knows that 99% of what a business uses office for is not time critical tasks. It is opening .doc files attached to emails, commenting on a report, viewing a chart, adding 1-2 cells to a spreadsheet. The amount of time you design some giant new report or huge Excel 10 workbook large spreadsheet is minimal - you do those things maybe once, twice a month.
Unless you are a total invalid who does not deserve to be a manager in the first place, you should be able to judge form the first few minutes of trying if this "task" is going to be too hard to accomplish under OpenOffice given it's time constraints. If you have a report due tomorrow, have nothing done, and don't have time to screw around with OO.org writer - then do it in Word. Whose stopping you? You can try OO.org later, when you have more time.
If you're too afraid to risk ANYTHING with your business, you are not going to innovate, and your business will end up failing. Innovation is the root of success for all businesses. Why would you not want to be innovative with your Office package - something you use every day?
I mean - say I came to your office and said "Hey - I can tell you a way to cut 100% off your photocopier costs by using this new model. I will bring the new model into your office as a free no-obligation trial. You can use it as long as you want. When you feel it is OK andyour workers have learned the new functionality and are comfortable, you can get rid of your old one - keep the new one for free".
What manager would not take that offer? Why then do they not do the same with Office software?
It's not like it costs anything, or you have to uninstall MS Office to install OpenOffice or some other nonsense.
Download it, keep MS Office around for awhile as a backup, and start using OpenOffice. Try using it exclusively for a week, or month, or however long until you feel comfortable that it can do all you need it to do. Them, and only then, should you give MS the boot.
It would be absolutely retarded from a business perspective to proceed any other way - based on anyones advice, no matter how much of an "expert" they claim to be. Just try for yourself - if it fits your needs, great. If it doesn't, you still have MS Office installed, so there is no risk of it hurting your business.
No one knows your business better than you do. Maybe you have special needs OpenOffice can't meet. Maybe you don't. You won't know until you try it out.
For one this will let you run X86 DOS applications on a SPARC for example.
I'd like you to point me to the support page for VMWare on SPARC... oh wait that's cause there isn't one. QEMU can't even run most applications on a SPARC.
And forget about ARM.
I think this is great. Java is not as slow as people seem to think it is. One thing Java 5 (and 6) have that actually benefits virtualization is dynamic recompilation... the JVM knows the instruction sdequences better than the original author, and in theory can optimize the code paths in ways writing a virtualizer in assembly or C++ can not.
Reed-Soloman is designed to correct for error bursts - eg. scratches. That's why it is ideal for CDs and DVDs.
But it can not compensate well at all for even medium amounts of random bit errors. These are the exact kinds of errors that occur on CD and DVD media over time as it degrades. That is what is being referred to here.
If you have a piece of analogue data, and it degrades, you can still get enough meaning from the original to make it worth archiving. A piece of digital data with even a relatively small amount of random bits transposed could be totally corrupt, especially if it is in a compressed format.
Using the 300 cardboard boxes containing all the information, staff worked overtime for several months to rescan everything at an additional cost of $200,000."
Err.... if it only cost $200,000 to replace the data, where the hell does the $38 Billion figure come from?
Anyone who has ever had to make a cross platform GUI application that works identically on Linux, Mac, and Windows, can tell you what a nightmare it is. Even if you use a good cross platform toolkit like Qt or wxWidgets, the apps are still not *identical*. And you have to build them and test them for every platform. And you have to account for the myrid of possible library combinations the users my have installed. Etc etc.
This is why so many companies are embracing web applications - but web applications can't do it all. Some things you just *need* to do client side. This Apollo thing could be a really great way to do it.
And what may make it even more killer, would be the fact that you could perhapse share GUI code between your web applications and your client applications - so a user could run his UI over the web *OR* locally. Excellent.
I will definitely be taking a close look at this.
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
AJAX based, real time traffic charts, more options, much more robust QOS configuration, ability to run your own scripts, auto mounting of external network volumes, and the options go on and on.
I have nothing bad to say about this firmware, at all.
If more investment was made into Ion Propulsion then the nuclear waste issue would be a non-starter.
Once you have orbital launch vehicles that can be powered themselves on nuclear power then all you have to do is store your global radioactive waste up and every six months or so use your nuclear launch vehicle to propel the waste into orbit and then jettison te waste capsule with a small booster propelling it into the sun.
Problem solved forever.
I really have yet to see why more research is not being one into this area... in theory once a working engine powered by nuclear energy is developed fission would be "totally green" energy.
I recently bought the Superman Returns HD-DVD even though I do not have an HD-DVD player. Why? Because it was a hybrid disc. Why pay $20 for a normal DVD when I can get the normal DVD AND the HD version for a few dollars more?
After that, I decided I am no longer wasting money on new single-format standard DVDs, since anything I buy now will be obsolete in 1-2 years, it would be a total waste of money. I will pick up a few previously played versions, perhaps, but that's it.
I really don't get why we aren't seeing more hybrid HD-DVD releases. It is a MAJOR benefit of HD-DVD. If the format backers pressured the studios to release more titles in hybrid format HD-DVD would gain so much ground against Blu-Ray that Blu-Ray would be dead in the water.
As far as Casino Royale goes - I rEALLY wanted this DVD. Too bad they are selling it Blu-Ray only - now I won't be buying it at all until I can get a used copy.
I am sure I am not alone either. Dumb move MGM.
No FOSS tool that I know of limits what you can do with its output.
NMAP does.
Try integrating NMAP with yoru commercial product. You won't be allowed to distirbute it if you use it's output to integrate into your own stuff.
Check out their wacky addition to the GPL:
You only need to open up if and when you modify Spring framework with your own code.
This is incorrect. Both Spring and Jakarta Commons use the Apache license, which does not require you to distribute code changes if you change the libraries. You just need to include the license with your binaries and notices that they were modified.