Please don't forget that many wrong voices don't make right. The danger of mobs is mob rule at the expense of the minority rights. In most cases, these "minority rights" (sic) of which you speak are corporate special interests, so they don't even deserve the label "rights" in the same sense as human rights, voter rights, etc. Yet they still seem to be put first in the current system.
In any case, this project won't force the system to change - all it does is effectively add a greater degree of transparency. Its up to the people to force the changes they want.
After all this, the community decides to fork the project, hoping that the GPL will save them, but MegaSoft still has loads of cash and really expensive lawyers in retainer just waiting to hang some free software schmucks out to dry. C&D letters are sent out to forks of Chippewa and suddenly everyone involved is embroiled in legal crap and all development is halted while the validity of the GPL is sorted out in a fight between MegaSoft and the FSF that makes the SCO trial look like child's play. How is that a problem? It would get the GPL tested in court (finally), resulting in two things: (a) the GPL comes out intact and the beardy F/OSS guys go on their merry way. And it sets a legal precedent for all other GPL-ed software. (b) the GPL gets nailed. Unlikely, but lets say it does... again it would set a precedent and at least clear the air around the GPL. And I can't see any sane judge revoking access to free code that was legally available before the buy-out... even if the licence was to be removed you couldn't remove it from historical versions of the code already in the wild.
I can't see how the wider community could lose out by having the GPL tested in court, either way. Cost: one F/OSS project to take the time hit of development being halted, and a pile of cash for the FSF/EFF/whoever to fight the good fight. I don't think either would be hard to find - remember there are a lot of big corps already who depend heavily on GPL-ed software...
OK. So it's safe on the skin Actually the jury's still out on that. I've read studies (can't remember the reference off the top of my head, I can look it up if anyone cares) that suggest the presence of titanium dioxide in sunscreens increases the amount of free radicals in the skin and may contribute to an increased risk of cancer. It's still miles safer than PABA in sunscreens, but it may not be 100% safe.
Though you missed the 4th possibility: The webserver is a Commodore 64. We only linked to that one once:( Wasn't one of them also a George Foreman grill?
Its just going to get worse, with botnets, blackmail and scammers gaining more and more power until we remove the ability of malignent code to survive. Who gets to define the term "malignant code", and how? There's your barrier right there. One man's malignant code is another man's valid program (ref. Trusted Computing).
What if they decide to start monitoring MP's email and publish interesting tidbits? Actually, under the UK's Wilson Convention not even the coppers are allowed to do that, although it hasn't stopped them recently...
Here at work we put them on "hold" in the same way, except we leave the phone mic right next to headphones blaring out the most atrocious music we can find. Usually Barbara Streisand or Lionel Ritchie.
this limitation wasn't an accident. It was a deliberate "feature" they put in because they thought it would slow down worms. They're not going to fix it just because people ask. Ahh. So it's like giving a bell to a leper then?
Left and Right? Up and Down? Bloody luxury! We 'ad to live in Schrodinger's shoebox, get out of bed at 'alf-life to go work in 'is lab for eighteen 'ours a day, and at night Einstein used to beat us to sleep with gedankenexperiments. If we were lucky!
Anything done on paper easily transfers to the Internet because the Internet was designed that way -thats a testimate to the Internet's design, not to the bozo who thinks ordering pizza over the "tubes" is genius. Hmmm - how do you order your pizza? First-class mail, or carrier pigeon?
You could've picked a better application to back up your statement...
Here's a thought - anyone out there with a bit of spare cash and a penchant for philanthropy fancy starting their own recording company, purely for the purposes of getting a test case on the law books? 1. Create recording company 2. Publish a recording 3. Find someone who format-shifted your recording 4. Sue them and lose, just to get a precedent on the books 5. Humanity profits
Cost to start up a company, make one recording, distribute it, hire an incompetent lawyer and declare bankruptcy (in that order) can't be prohibitive to some people, surely...
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In any case, this project won't force the system to change - all it does is effectively add a greater degree of transparency. Its up to the people to force the changes they want.
Funny what springs into people's minds on these occasions. I was more thinking of the Rodney Dangerfield episode of the simpsons...
"Service Pack 1 is out? Whoa, put it back in, it's not done yet!"
Ahh, the "CowboyNeal Test". Alan Turing is turning in his grave.
Let me tell you what I think about the book review... Wait - I haven't finished coloring it in yet!
Heh... I just had a mental image of Stallman giving Ballmer the "don't you touch my daughter" speech...
(a) the GPL comes out intact and the beardy F/OSS guys go on their merry way. And it sets a legal precedent for all other GPL-ed software.
(b) the GPL gets nailed. Unlikely, but lets say it does... again it would set a precedent and at least clear the air around the GPL. And I can't see any sane judge revoking access to free code that was legally available before the buy-out... even if the licence was to be removed you couldn't remove it from historical versions of the code already in the wild.
I can't see how the wider community could lose out by having the GPL tested in court, either way. Cost: one F/OSS project to take the time hit of development being halted, and a pile of cash for the FSF/EFF/whoever to fight the good fight. I don't think either would be hard to find - remember there are a lot of big corps already who depend heavily on GPL-ed software...
No, he's just spending the year legally dead, for tax purposes...
But where are the cars? Won't somebody please think of the cars??
Hoist by his own retard?
A Frinkin' shark's head? With the swimming and the biting and the moyven glaven?
Ahh, but if you're looking for crotches, I can suggest a few good websites...
Here at work we put them on "hold" in the same way, except we leave the phone mic right next to headphones blaring out the most atrocious music we can find. Usually Barbara Streisand or Lionel Ritchie.
"Hello? Is it me you're looking for..."
I dunno... the analogy was conspicuously lacking in cars...
Left and Right? Up and Down? Bloody luxury! We 'ad to live in Schrodinger's shoebox, get out of bed at 'alf-life to go work in 'is lab for eighteen 'ours a day, and at night Einstein used to beat us to sleep with gedankenexperiments. If we were lucky!
You could've picked a better application to back up your statement...
"A fool and your money are soon partners."
--Linden Labs CEO
Here's a thought - anyone out there with a bit of spare cash and a penchant for philanthropy fancy starting their own recording company, purely for the purposes of getting a test case on the law books?
1. Create recording company
2. Publish a recording
3. Find someone who format-shifted your recording
4. Sue them and lose, just to get a precedent on the books
5. Humanity profits
Cost to start up a company, make one recording, distribute it, hire an incompetent lawyer and declare bankruptcy (in that order) can't be prohibitive to some people, surely...