If you don't distribute during development, there's no way trolltech could know if you did the actual development with the GPL version or a commercial version... Once you want to release it just buy a commercial license and wait say a month and release it proprietary.
This is obviously violating a term of the commercial license. However if you're a small fish with only one developer, there's no way trolltech will know or care for that matter. The term in the commercial license is there because they don't want big companies with many developers to just buy one commercial license. Which is fair enough...
But IMO, if you don't want to release free software don't base your applications on free software libraries! How hard can that be to understand.
if your market share sucks then you need to improve your product or marketing. It's a different story in Europe.
Yes, when the free market is not free anymore, we need to do something... The free marked needs to be controlled in order to stay free!
Otherwise we'll only have big multinational cooperations left...
didn't like their philosophy. They claimed that making a Windows build was "hard" somehow, but anyone who knows anything about programming knows that once you have the dev environment set up properly, making a new build is a matter of minutes. They'd obviously set up the dev environment properly, so why were they charging money for the Windows version?
I have a small free software project, completely free both in terms of price and freedom...
The project is available for Linux, windows and OS X 10.4.... And I can testify that windows users are the most annoying... here's why (warning, this might be a little generalizing):
- They have low technical insight.
- Their platform causes all sort of weird bugs, that you've got no chance of fixing, since you can't reproduce them.
- Their antivirus and firewall creates problems.
- They have no respect for free software, and don't know the difference between free software and freeware!
- They don't use Google to try and solve their problem.
When most windows users have no respect for free software philosophy, I do understand why some people wants to charge for redistribution of Windows binaries. Though I wouldn't personally do something like that with my project, since nobody would use it then...
I maybe wrong, though I live in Europe, but I seam to remember that the EU creates directives and these directives are then later on implemented in member countries as local laws...
Re:It's open once published
on
RTF Vs. OOXML
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
the one in which the vendor publishes what they've done,
This type of document is not a standard it called a documentation. OOXML is not a standard it's a documentation of MS office's default format...
You can also find a documentation of HTML on MSDN, this is not a standard either it's a documentation of the HTML implementation in Internet Explorer.
and the other in which the vendor publishes what they will do
This type of document is usually called a standard. While it's true that ODF started as a documentation of StarOffice XML, it's worth noting that ODF went through a long standardization process and have been changed by many parties. Including Microsoft!
In my opinion we should have copyright on everything for somewhere between 5 and 10 years...
Then if author or cooperation wants more they can apply for it the same way as you do for patents... That ofcourse involves a minor fee, and in addition author should prove that he have not made more money from the product than there was invested in the product at development...
However it's probably best to make the copyright shorter over time. Otherwise we'll ruin a lot of investments right now.
Maybe announce that copyright will only last 20 years affecting from say 2015... Then try that for a few years and see if that helps.
But there needs to be an exception system, so people can be granted longer copyright if they haven't earned their investments yet...
I've used SuSE 10, 10.1 and 10.2... The package manager was a lot slower, if it would work at all... I don't know if Fedora has that problem, but that's one of the reasons I went away from rpm based distros... I know I should blame it on the package format.:)
Also, Ubuntu is debian based and there's about 20.000 packages in the repositories. That's a lot, and it saves me from installing from source, which I have because it's so annoying to uninstall and update...
The amount of packages available for Ubuntu is probably why I choose that, and ofcourse the great community support... Though most of the help and workarounds you find are horrible hacks, that renders your box unmaintainable.
Enjoy your rootkit:)
No seriously I don't buy cds today because it's far too complex to rip them...
I had a sony cd that made my GNU/Linux system crash, perhaps a bad cd ripper or driver, but I don't buy cds anymore.
Instead I record most of my music from online radio, legal in my country of residence... But I'd certainly buy at Amazon too, if they were available in Europe..
In short, copy protection mechanisms share a fair lot of features with malware. It is often not easy to discriminate between them.
Why not make it clear: copy protection mechanisms is malware... It does not serve you! And Sonys rootkit were installed with your consent, in the sense that you clicked ok to something a lawyer wrote, but no one else have read...
The reason that Linux is largely unaffected is that it is not very widely used, especially by the sort of numpties that get tempted by exciting new screensavers baring trojans
One word: FUD!
The biggest problem to the windows desktop today is that most applications aren't updated... Most people doesn't update Java, Quicktime, Acrobat, Mediaplayer, flash or even their browser. And doing this is rather difficult, by now many more of them have automatic updaters, but most people ignore those, or switch them off because they are annoying.
Applications like these are the once making windows very insecure, ofcourse the windows update that doesn't work very well contributes a lot too... But lack of systemwide update manager or packagemanager if you like is why millions of PC's need virus protection.
On Linux apps are usually patched very fast and all apps are updated through the packagemanager. If the update manager didn't popup every second day or so, I'd never update my apps... Especially not if I had to download a separated installer/updater, like most windows apps still requires...
On my parent windows machine, which I borrow from time to time for printing, I used Opera.. I think it's version 8.x and every time I start it it popups saying there's an updated version. But I just want to go online to download a document for printing, or who knows and close it instead of actually bordering to update opera:)
Indeed you right...
But sometimes things like product promotion or maybe this... should be illegal...
I'm fairly aware that in most cases such a agreement would be impossible to enforce, cause like you say very often it could be discussed what's right and wrong... Furthermore in most cases a vandalizer would go through a proxy or TOR...
And we would certainly not want to hit innocent people who honestly trying to contribute... Just hit those that really knows that what they are writing is wrong... Once you've made a few good examples say suing a few spammers, few respected companies and a government or two. Maybe those guys would think twice, before intentionally vandalizing wikipedia...
Note agreement to stop all vandalizers, not agreement to stop everything that's wrong... Just an agreement to clear out the worst guys, by that I mean those who do it fully aware of what they are doing...
Just an agreement to make possible to sue premeditated vandalizers... Not every vandalizer...
Also if not for millions just for a symbolic amount, any fine or lawsuit would make it to mainstream media...
Guantanamo spokesman Lt. Col. Bush blasted Wikileaks for identifying one 'mass communications officer' by name, who has since received death threats for 'simply doing his job -- posting positive comments on the Internet about Gitmo.'
Well, lets not imprison killers, they are just doing their job...
Okay, so maybe there's a legal difference between Guantanamo officers and killers (even though that difference may only be that the killer is infact convicted)
However maybe it's about time wikipedia add some kind of contributer agreement, stating that you will not intentionally modify wikipedia with false information. If so wikipedia foundation may sue you for enough money to keep their servers running for a next century...
Also a method to get rid of some of the annoying found raising announcements... This would obviously not free us of all the wikivandalizers... But if we could get rid of the big ones with money like say: US Government!
(All Americans ought to be seriously ashamed right now - actually Americans ought to always be ashame!)
I don't buy my music anymore I've given up... I don't like to download it illegally either. Can't buy cds because I'm too lazy to actually change disc, I want my music digital. So where do I get my music:
Usually I listen to internet radio, particularly last.fm. Then I record/rip it, which is luckily perfectly legal in my country (Denmark).
Once in a while when there's this track that I've just got to have I'll try to see if I can buy without DRM, that fails I spend 10 min. adding it to my last.fm playlist and then I'll rip that afterwards:)
I don't want to buy all my music, but once I a while there's this track that I've just got to have, and then the music industry would actually be able to sell me digital music... I'm pretty sure I'd buy DRM-free albums at a fair prize if I could. But the DRM-free selection in Denmark is rather small, Amazon haven't yet opened their music store to Europeans..
By the way, I did actally buy a CD a few months ago, listened to it for a few days. Then I tried to rip, which of course failed, now I haven't heard that cd since...
Socialism is a beautiful philosophy, there's nothing wrong with that... There's an implementation of socialism called communism, which we as mankind have had some bad experiences with previously... But that doesn't mean that socialism is bad or liberalsocialism.
America needs to grow up, you not at cold war anymore... And while you were all the Europeans were running half socialist countries, and still is... (I know, I live in Denmark and it's good).
Philosophically I believe we as a society have a responsibility to the poorest and weakest in our society. And by the way that matches my Christian religion pretty too:) (Not that I'd generally let my religion affect my political opinion)
I just don't understand why Americans fear socialism so much. In Denmark we have a communistic party and a few socialistic parties, we just had an election and a little less than half the population voted for a red party (one of the socialistic parties). And just for the record the blue parties in Denmark aren't that blue; if they'd even talk about cutting down the educational support they'd be out of office in no time.
And just for the record, even though the taxes in Denmark are roughly fifty/fifty the economy is great.
- So tell me what's wrong with something being socialistic or liberalsocialistic?
Offtopic: But maybe Americans have to realize that socialism is NOT a bad thing!
Seriously it's not. With regards to going to university, I'm thinking about attending one here in Denmark (Probably Computer Science at Aalborg University). I don't have to pay anything for the education, I have to pay my own books, apartment and food (that I'll probably have to cook too)... Anyway while I'm under education the Danish government provides me with educational support (SU), I just checked it yesterday and it's about 1000$ (USD) per month. So I do my shoppings a little economically I virtually won't need a job, while I'm at University.
So maybe it's about time the Americans realize that socialism it not bad... Sure you don't need complete socialism, which is not the same as communism, but maybe liberalsocialism would be great!
In theory you can execute any free as in freedom software in your head!
It is not theoretically possible to render DRM content in you head, that's the difference. And it's a BIG difference.
This difference means that you can construct you're hardware or virtual machine.
You the client, cannot render data from a server, if the server doesn't tell you how to render it (That's pure logic). If the server tells you how to render it, it can't prevent you from copying it!
DRM relies on the fact that you don't know what you're doing!
Re:I'm having problems with GNOME.
on
Fedora 8 Released
·
· Score: 1
I've heard that some of the other MS licenses prohibited use on other platforms than Windows, but as far as I can see that's not the case with these licenses.
I agree, if you don't want to keep fixing it, updating it etc... Than you'll be better served by hosting it at your blog, maybe post it at freshmeat...
By the way, to answer the question how to make it appealing. Then your code doesn't have to be pro... Just fairly good... there's a lot of very bad OSS code out there, and people doesn't laugh... If you want to make your project appealing, then just write a little documentation. That would make the code very appealing.
I recall two big Scandinavian dairies merge... The Danish competition authorizes spend a long time before allowing the deal...
There's many examples, many are handled by the different national competition authorities...
Slashdot Mirror
Think ajax - clientside may mean javascript...
If you don't distribute during development, there's no way trolltech could know if you did the actual development with the GPL version or a commercial version... Once you want to release it just buy a commercial license and wait say a month and release it proprietary.
This is obviously violating a term of the commercial license. However if you're a small fish with only one developer, there's no way trolltech will know or care for that matter. The term in the commercial license is there because they don't want big companies with many developers to just buy one commercial license. Which is fair enough...
But IMO, if you don't want to release free software don't base your applications on free software libraries! How hard can that be to understand.
Otherwise we'll only have big multinational cooperations left...
The project is available for Linux, windows and OS X 10.4.... And I can testify that windows users are the most annoying... here's why (warning, this might be a little generalizing):
- They have low technical insight.
- Their platform causes all sort of weird bugs, that you've got no chance of fixing, since you can't reproduce them.
- Their antivirus and firewall creates problems.
- They have no respect for free software, and don't know the difference between free software and freeware!
- They don't use Google to try and solve their problem.
When most windows users have no respect for free software philosophy, I do understand why some people wants to charge for redistribution of Windows binaries. Though I wouldn't personally do something like that with my project, since nobody would use it then...
And software as a service doesn't scale very well, unless you sell a webservice and not support.
I maybe wrong, though I live in Europe, but I seam to remember that the EU creates directives and these directives are then later on implemented in member countries as local laws...
You can also find a documentation of HTML on MSDN, this is not a standard either it's a documentation of the HTML implementation in Internet Explorer. This type of document is usually called a standard. While it's true that ODF started as a documentation of StarOffice XML, it's worth noting that ODF went through a long standardization process and have been changed by many parties. Including Microsoft!
In my opinion we should have copyright on everything for somewhere between 5 and 10 years...
Then if author or cooperation wants more they can apply for it the same way as you do for patents... That ofcourse involves a minor fee, and in addition author should prove that he have not made more money from the product than there was invested in the product at development...
However it's probably best to make the copyright shorter over time. Otherwise we'll ruin a lot of investments right now.
Maybe announce that copyright will only last 20 years affecting from say 2015... Then try that for a few years and see if that helps.
But there needs to be an exception system, so people can be granted longer copyright if they haven't earned their investments yet...
I've used SuSE 10, 10.1 and 10.2... The package manager was a lot slower, if it would work at all... I don't know if Fedora has that problem, but that's one of the reasons I went away from rpm based distros... I know I should blame it on the package format.
Enjoy your rootkit :)
No seriously I don't buy cds today because it's far too complex to rip them...
I had a sony cd that made my GNU/Linux system crash, perhaps a bad cd ripper or driver, but I don't buy cds anymore.
Instead I record most of my music from online radio, legal in my country of residence... But I'd certainly buy at Amazon too, if they were available in Europe..
Why not make it clear: copy protection mechanisms is malware... It does not serve you! And Sonys rootkit were installed with your consent, in the sense that you clicked ok to something a lawyer wrote, but no one else have read...
One word: FUD!
The biggest problem to the windows desktop today is that most applications aren't updated... Most people doesn't update Java, Quicktime, Acrobat, Mediaplayer, flash or even their browser. And doing this is rather difficult, by now many more of them have automatic updaters, but most people ignore those, or switch them off because they are annoying.
Applications like these are the once making windows very insecure, ofcourse the windows update that doesn't work very well contributes a lot too... But lack of systemwide update manager or packagemanager if you like is why millions of PC's need virus protection.
On Linux apps are usually patched very fast and all apps are updated through the packagemanager. If the update manager didn't popup every second day or so, I'd never update my apps... Especially not if I had to download a separated installer/updater, like most windows apps still requires...
On my parent windows machine, which I borrow from time to time for printing, I used Opera.. I think it's version 8.x and every time I start it it popups saying there's an updated version. But I just want to go online to download a document for printing, or who knows and close it instead of actually bordering to update opera
Indeed you right... But sometimes things like product promotion or maybe this... should be illegal... I'm fairly aware that in most cases such a agreement would be impossible to enforce, cause like you say very often it could be discussed what's right and wrong... Furthermore in most cases a vandalizer would go through a proxy or TOR... And we would certainly not want to hit innocent people who honestly trying to contribute... Just hit those that really knows that what they are writing is wrong... Once you've made a few good examples say suing a few spammers, few respected companies and a government or two. Maybe those guys would think twice, before intentionally vandalizing wikipedia... Note agreement to stop all vandalizers, not agreement to stop everything that's wrong... Just an agreement to clear out the worst guys, by that I mean those who do it fully aware of what they are doing... Just an agreement to make possible to sue premeditated vandalizers... Not every vandalizer... Also if not for millions just for a symbolic amount, any fine or lawsuit would make it to mainstream media...
I don't buy my music anymore I've given up... I don't like to download it illegally either. Can't buy cds because I'm too lazy to actually change disc, I want my music digital. So where do I get my music:
:)
Usually I listen to internet radio, particularly last.fm. Then I record/rip it, which is luckily perfectly legal in my country (Denmark).
Once in a while when there's this track that I've just got to have I'll try to see if I can buy without DRM, that fails I spend 10 min. adding it to my last.fm playlist and then I'll rip that afterwards
I don't want to buy all my music, but once I a while there's this track that I've just got to have, and then the music industry would actually be able to sell me digital music... I'm pretty sure I'd buy DRM-free albums at a fair prize if I could. But the DRM-free selection in Denmark is rather small, Amazon haven't yet opened their music store to Europeans..
By the way, I did actally buy a CD a few months ago, listened to it for a few days. Then I tried to rip, which of course failed, now I haven't heard that cd since...
Was wrong with socialism?
:) (Not that I'd generally let my religion affect my political opinion)
Socialism is a beautiful philosophy, there's nothing wrong with that... There's an implementation of socialism called communism, which we as mankind have had some bad experiences with previously... But that doesn't mean that socialism is bad or liberalsocialism.
America needs to grow up, you not at cold war anymore... And while you were all the Europeans were running half socialist countries, and still is... (I know, I live in Denmark and it's good).
Philosophically I believe we as a society have a responsibility to the poorest and weakest in our society. And by the way that matches my Christian religion pretty too
I just don't understand why Americans fear socialism so much. In Denmark we have a communistic party and a few socialistic parties, we just had an election and a little less than half the population voted for a red party (one of the socialistic parties). And just for the record the blue parties in Denmark aren't that blue; if they'd even talk about cutting down the educational support they'd be out of office in no time.
And just for the record, even though the taxes in Denmark are roughly fifty/fifty the economy is great.
- So tell me what's wrong with something being socialistic or liberalsocialistic?
Offtopic: But maybe Americans have to realize that socialism is NOT a bad thing!
Seriously it's not. With regards to going to university, I'm thinking about attending one here in Denmark (Probably Computer Science at Aalborg University). I don't have to pay anything for the education, I have to pay my own books, apartment and food (that I'll probably have to cook too)... Anyway while I'm under education the Danish government provides me with educational support (SU), I just checked it yesterday and it's about 1000$ (USD) per month. So I do my shoppings a little economically I virtually won't need a job, while I'm at University.
So maybe it's about time the Americans realize that socialism it not bad... Sure you don't need complete socialism, which is not the same as communism, but maybe liberalsocialism would be great!
You don't have to buy the hardware!
In theory you can execute any free as in freedom software in your head!
It is not theoretically possible to render DRM content in you head, that's the difference. And it's a BIG difference.
This difference means that you can construct you're hardware or virtual machine.
You the client, cannot render data from a server, if the server doesn't tell you how to render it (That's pure logic). If the server tells you how to render it, it can't prevent you from copying it!
DRM relies on the fact that you don't know what you're doing!
Or perhaps it's a RAM or other hardware issue...
Hopefully the EU will prevent that... Just like they're questioning Google taking over Doubleclick...
I far as I can see they doesn't govern use:
http://opensource.org/licenses/ms-rl.html
http://opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html
I've heard that some of the other MS licenses prohibited use on other platforms than Windows, but as far as I can see that's not the case with these licenses.
I agree, if you don't want to keep fixing it, updating it etc... Than you'll be better served by hosting it at your blog, maybe post it at freshmeat... By the way, to answer the question how to make it appealing. Then your code doesn't have to be pro... Just fairly good... there's a lot of very bad OSS code out there, and people doesn't laugh... If you want to make your project appealing, then just write a little documentation. That would make the code very appealing.
I recall two big Scandinavian dairies merge... The Danish competition authorizes spend a long time before allowing the deal... There's many examples, many are handled by the different national competition authorities...