The SFLC confirmed BusyBox violations in nearly 20 separate products cited in the complaint and gave each defendant ample time to comply with the requirements of the license. "We try very hard to resolve these types of issues privately with companies, as we always prefer cooperation" said SFLC counsel Aaron Williamson. "We brought this suit as a last resort after each of these defendants ignored us or failed to meaningfully respond to our requests that they release the source code".
Seems like they were given enough chances to respond, it would've been the same with proprietary software.
Yes. Microsoft employees actually do this pretty frequently. Look, for example, at this post written by a Microsoft employee on an MSDN blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2007/10/29/there-s-a-new-cat-in-town.aspx
Oh, but, I guess that doesn't fit in with your "man Microsoft is SOOO EVIIIL" conspiracy theory. Sorry to ruin that for you.
I don't think that really fits what he was trying to say. It looks like the blog post is posted in a reply to how Office 2004 works on Leopard and a few minor comments on how Xcode seems better and so forth. Not really an "active promotion" is it?
He's not calling it stable, he's calling it released. It was posted and isos were available clearly for installation on the FreeBSD web pages, if it was not meant for installation by 'mortals', maybe it should've stayed in the cvs tree.
Yeah, that's your brilliant response to everything. Owe money? Shoot the people you owe money to. Need oil? Occupy and destroy the countries that have. And you wonder why we think you're all batshit insane over there.
In fact, the BSD license allows me to do just that; the BSD license allows sublicensing just like the MIT license does.
No, I think you're misunderstanding here, and this seems to be one of the fundamental problems with communication between *BSD and GPL advocates. The GPL proponents thinks that because the modifications and original code can be closed, then the original code disappears. This is simply not true. You can take my code, add your own and close it. But *my* distribution of *my* code will still be BSD licensed, open and available for free on *my* ftp servers. Get it? No matter how you spin it, only the additions is closed source.
I'll never understand this, whenever someone with a low UID posts and someone makes a joke about his low number, someone with an even lower one appears. Either you guys have some sort of system that alerts you, or you're all hiding out in the same corners of usenet or bbs.
I do not want any contact with the StarCraft retards, so I might quit playing. They're even worse than the other WoW-players. And yeah, I do expect the people that would gladly suck all the cocks at Blizzard HQ for a new StarCraft to mod me down.
Bullshit. Some find trolls funny, but the point of a troll is to annoy people and provoke them to reply, not simply going for a +1 Funny. Some may be trolls, but the ones I've read today didn't look like it.
They're not even remotely the same thing. Your post is making idiotic, unsubstantiated claims taken from thin air, while these posts are attempts at being funny. So I disagree with you there.
Lots of humourless Microsoft shills here today. The "Uninstall Windows"-posts aren't trolls, there attempts at being funny. Lighten up for once.
To be slightly on topic: I'd trust neither Norton nor Microsoft with the security on my systems, but if it actually does protect people and doesn't get in the way for the users, it's all the better.
That many of you miss the point. He wasn't supposed to use Linux as a main selling point, or even a selling point at all. But he was _asked_ about the technical specs, and didn't want to name the operating system. No one would have thought twice about if he had just answered. It's not a problem to list Windows Mobile as the operating system, why should it be a problem to list Linux? Consumsers are, as many other pointed out in this thread already, not interested in what it runs underneath, but what it can do. As long as the unit works and does what it's supposed to, I don't see the harm in telling people that.
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Seems like they were given enough chances to respond, it would've been the same with proprietary software.
I don't think that really fits what he was trying to say. It looks like the blog post is posted in a reply to how Office 2004 works on Leopard and a few minor comments on how Xcode seems better and so forth. Not really an "active promotion" is it?
He's not calling it stable, he's calling it released. It was posted and isos were available clearly for installation on the FreeBSD web pages, if it was not meant for installation by 'mortals', maybe it should've stayed in the cvs tree.
The GPL never has, and never will be, about usage. It's about distribution.
Couldn't you just set the movie window to be visible on all workspaces?
Maybe the other 74.4% never actually works?
Yeah, that's your brilliant response to everything. Owe money? Shoot the people you owe money to. Need oil? Occupy and destroy the countries that have. And you wonder why we think you're all batshit insane over there.
It's a 20", the generation before the latest one.
Huh? I have an iMac connected to a 24" Cinema over Mini-DP and it does sound, is it some black magic from Apple that makes it work?
Be in a what together? Does this require that I leave my basement? In that case, no thanks!
No, I think you're misunderstanding here, and this seems to be one of the fundamental problems with communication between *BSD and GPL advocates. The GPL proponents thinks that because the modifications and original code can be closed, then the original code disappears. This is simply not true. You can take my code, add your own and close it. But *my* distribution of *my* code will still be BSD licensed, open and available for free on *my* ftp servers. Get it? No matter how you spin it, only the additions is closed source.
He's not saying that they paid before the software arrived, just that the bill arrived 6 months before the software.
I'll never understand this, whenever someone with a low UID posts and someone makes a joke about his low number, someone with an even lower one appears. Either you guys have some sort of system that alerts you, or you're all hiding out in the same corners of usenet or bbs.
No, but it invalidates your argument. Both operating systems have issues. Your point is null and void.
IBM pushes a lot of stuff, really. They also push SUSE whenever it suits them, seems they're a bit cautious to push one vendor only.. Wonder why..
I do not want any contact with the StarCraft retards, so I might quit playing. They're even worse than the other WoW-players. And yeah, I do expect the people that would gladly suck all the cocks at Blizzard HQ for a new StarCraft to mod me down.
Yeah, recompile Windows for the... x86 platform?
Bullshit. Some find trolls funny, but the point of a troll is to annoy people and provoke them to reply, not simply going for a +1 Funny. Some may be trolls, but the ones I've read today didn't look like it.
They're not even remotely the same thing. Your post is making idiotic, unsubstantiated claims taken from thin air, while these posts are attempts at being funny. So I disagree with you there.
Lots of humourless Microsoft shills here today. The "Uninstall Windows"-posts aren't trolls, there attempts at being funny. Lighten up for once. To be slightly on topic: I'd trust neither Norton nor Microsoft with the security on my systems, but if it actually does protect people and doesn't get in the way for the users, it's all the better.
That many of you miss the point. He wasn't supposed to use Linux as a main selling point, or even a selling point at all. But he was _asked_ about the technical specs, and didn't want to name the operating system. No one would have thought twice about if he had just answered. It's not a problem to list Windows Mobile as the operating system, why should it be a problem to list Linux? Consumsers are, as many other pointed out in this thread already, not interested in what it runs underneath, but what it can do. As long as the unit works and does what it's supposed to, I don't see the harm in telling people that.
Wasn't aware of that, thanks. Still a pretty serious bug though.
I don't think they are giving this away for free.
Are you claiming it was hard to pirate games for the xbox, because that was clearly not the case.
Yeah, because it's clearly impossible to pirate games for the xbox.