Yeah, the only reason is that lots of gamers are too busy crapping in their diapers to give a rat's ass about software freedom. That will change as it has in every other sector of IT.
This EA guy is acting foolish to insult our intelligence.
He thinks we won't convince our gamer brethren to turn on his little gaming empire?
He should be really thrilled to be getting such revenue for a bunch of proprietary, DRM-hobbled games.
Picking a fight with free software activists who already have set our sights on the gaming industry is just dumb.
He thinks we free software enthusiasts haven't got the intelligence, the numbers, the persuasiveness to compete with his proprietary games.
He couldn't be more wrong. The future of gaming is free software.
Q. You suck! I'm going to take the last version of PHP 3 that was distributed under the GPL and fork! How would you like that?
A. With fries.
Well, there are a lot of great GPL-licensed projects written in PHP, so I won't worry about the choices made by the PHP developers for now, but I'll be paying more attention to the direction of PHP in the future because I already didn't like the way the Zend Optimizer is licensed.
Mozilla Firefox is still one of the flag-ship GPL-licensed projects. If that ever changed, I'd find another browser.
To me, one of the important parts of the GPL is the preamble, which gives voice to my thoughts and feelings on the subject of software freedom.
Another license may be GPL-compatible or acknowledged as meeting the criteria for the definition of Free Software, but I'm pretty enthusiastic about the socially-engaged vision of the GNU project. I tend to be drawn to projects which, by their choice of license, extend the reach of the FSF/GNU message.
It's not just semantics. GPL-advocates such as myself recognize the value of more permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the LGPL.
BSD-advocates often fail to understand why the GPL is so successful.
For a start, "Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize-winner in economics, says the Iraq war has cost $3 trillion so far." http://3trillion.org/
I've personally built a prototype of a solar concentrator made from aluminized mylar.
My plan was to store thermal energy in a volume of water as a thermal-mass reservoir. Low-cost insulation is one of the materials innovation we need, but it appears to be a very good idea to me.
Solar arrays can very inexpensive and generate a great deal of energy. Also, there are new high-energy photovoltaics available.
Also, there are incredible savings to be made by consuming less energy. Investing in freight and commuter rails can save a great deal of energy. Recovering the energy from vehicle braking and saving the energy used at stop-lights.
Anyway, your point of view patently crazy, ethnically-alienated, and anti-social for another reason.
The incredible suffering and injustice of the Iraq war has lots of terrible effects which are more difficult for an accountant to quantify.
You are seriously wrong.
And how many people are latched onto them.
Just look at all the Microsoft-friendly interlopers who are trying to subvert the free software movement.
These people are suckling at the M$ teats.
Am I paranoid to think that these hardware companies who are stingy with their drivers are mostly on Microsoft's tit, being subsidized to keep drivers out of the hands of free software developers?
Tivo has effectively circumvented the GPLv2 and robbed users of their freedom. Linus Torvalds stubbornly clings to GPLv2, just to accommodate those corporations who want to circumvent the spirit of the GPL. "Open Source" means corporations can take your freedom.
Free Software is different. Freedom is the priority. Free Software will quietly take over. "Open Source" amounts to a transitional marketing campaign, not a relevant or coherent vision.
GPLv2 was good enough for a long time, but certain corporations have demonstrated a ways of exploiting the license.
Now GPLv3 will protect the projects which matter, going forward.
This train is bound for glory.
For covering Bush's ass on every single act of treachery and instead, enabling the persecution of a man who used technology to campaign for freedom.
Down with Hillary Clintush!
If that's how you'd handle Microsoft, I'm afraid to ask what you'd would you do about Halliburton.
I agree that Microsoft should be broken up but I don't think I want their source code to see the light of day.
The League of Nations came and went. The United Nations has allowed it's self to be discredited by militant, hegemonic nations.
Now the ISO has been compromised by a flawed process and corrupt bureaucrats enabling a monopoly corporation.
This international bureaucracy is no more legitimate than the decisions they make.
The OSI was never about freedom from their very inception as an organization.
This guy Rosen either doesn't get it, or he knowingly serves large software patent claimants at the expense of the rest of us.
I'm willing to challenge software patent claims just to be among the first ones to pick the fight with the claimants.
Can anyone think of any good software patent claims to challenge?
Software should be handled by copyright, not patent.
I won't respect anyone's patent claims for software.
I will respond with a big "Fuck You" to anyone who tells me I can't write and distribute a sequence of characters because they patented it.
But you can't just settle for a costly arbitration process. You must make them pay damages one way or another.
If you get wrung out for a bunch of cash, or you lose a domain which is important and personal to you, you must seek revenge.
Like Sweeny Todd, never forget, never forgive.
Wan Fu China registered my mother's first, middle and last name. Her name is unique in the whole world, without a doubt. I call it identity theft.
I'm happy to trash the reputation of any identity thief on any public message board.
I've got some leads, but I need verification of the relationship between Wan Fu China and bigger companies.
The way to handle this is to inflict damage on their business and make cost them an order of magnitude more than it cost you.
If I have to spend thousands on an arbitration process with ICAAN'T's bureaucracy, I'd hope to cost the responsible company millions if possible.
I despise identity thieves and I can't stand dealing with plodding, expensive bureaucratic processes. I'm mad as hell and I want revenge!
Anyone who knows anything, please let me know so I can build my case for seeking damages against these scoundrels.
The power you speak of is the power of the GNU GPL
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I'll take the liberty of correcting your comment with more accurate terms:
Not being tying your business to the whims of whatever company you're dealing with is truly powerful. If you ask me, that's the real power of the GNU GPL, and free software. The GNU GPL makes software into a true commodity like grain, where switching to another vendor is low cost.
Where did people get the idea to re-brand "free software" as "open source", and to put all the emphasis on the Linux Kernel, a component of a previously existing free OS?
You have it backwards. GNU/Linux is based on GNU.
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Linux is the kernel, licensed under the GNU GPL, but the Linux Kernel project is not part of the GNU project.
Obviously it's not all GNU software because it's GNU/Linux which means the Kernel is non-GNU software.
Also, in any GNU/Linux, you're going to be compiling with the GCC and using libc. GNU software is at the heart of most any GNU/Linux distro.
Get it right man, the GNU project and the GNU GPL came before the Linux Kernel. GNU/Linux is GNU-based, not "Linux-based".
The "cancer" of the GNU GPL has consumed the NYSE.
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I wonder what major IT infrastructure still belongs to proprietary Unix or "Windows". It's funny to me to even mention the name "Windows" because it see,s so silly for an operating system to be named for a feature of a graphical user interface. Suppose they named it Microsoft "Menus" or Microsoft "Buttons"...
Maybe someone can remember the title or author, but it was about a man having intercourse with a coin-operated, robotic hooker.
When he ran out of money, it clamped onto him and wouldn't let go.
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Yeah, the only reason is that lots of gamers are too busy crapping in their diapers to give a rat's ass about software freedom. That will change as it has in every other sector of IT.
This EA guy is acting foolish to insult our intelligence. He thinks we won't convince our gamer brethren to turn on his little gaming empire? He should be really thrilled to be getting such revenue for a bunch of proprietary, DRM-hobbled games. Picking a fight with free software activists who already have set our sights on the gaming industry is just dumb.
He thinks we free software enthusiasts haven't got the intelligence, the numbers, the persuasiveness to compete with his proprietary games. He couldn't be more wrong. The future of gaming is free software.
Maybe I should re-factor the sentence to say "_some BSD advocates often fail to understand why the GPL is so successful".
In this discussion, I can't help but think of the song by Theo de Raadt in the most recent Open-BSD release.
Apparently some degree of theatric self-expression has become the norm in the software communities.
Mozilla Firefox licensing: MPL/GPL/LGPL/Mozilla EULA (for binary redistribution)
PHP has stopped GPL licensing since PHPv4 and offers this response in their FAQ:
http://www.php.net/license/
Q. You suck! I'm going to take the last version of PHP 3 that was distributed under the GPL and fork! How would you like that?
A. With fries.
Well, there are a lot of great GPL-licensed projects written in PHP, so I won't worry about the choices made by the PHP developers for now, but I'll be paying more attention to the direction of PHP in the future because I already didn't like the way the Zend Optimizer is licensed.
Mozilla Firefox is still one of the flag-ship GPL-licensed projects. If that ever changed, I'd find another browser. To me, one of the important parts of the GPL is the preamble, which gives voice to my thoughts and feelings on the subject of software freedom.
Another license may be GPL-compatible or acknowledged as meeting the criteria for the definition of Free Software, but I'm pretty enthusiastic about the socially-engaged vision of the GNU project. I tend to be drawn to projects which, by their choice of license, extend the reach of the FSF/GNU message.
It's not just semantics. GPL-advocates such as myself recognize the value of more permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the LGPL. BSD-advocates often fail to understand why the GPL is so successful.
For a start, "Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize-winner in economics, says the Iraq war has cost $3 trillion so far." http://3trillion.org/ I've personally built a prototype of a solar concentrator made from aluminized mylar. My plan was to store thermal energy in a volume of water as a thermal-mass reservoir. Low-cost insulation is one of the materials innovation we need, but it appears to be a very good idea to me. Solar arrays can very inexpensive and generate a great deal of energy. Also, there are new high-energy photovoltaics available. Also, there are incredible savings to be made by consuming less energy. Investing in freight and commuter rails can save a great deal of energy. Recovering the energy from vehicle braking and saving the energy used at stop-lights. Anyway, your point of view patently crazy, ethnically-alienated, and anti-social for another reason. The incredible suffering and injustice of the Iraq war has lots of terrible effects which are more difficult for an accountant to quantify. You are seriously wrong.
And how many people are latched onto them. Just look at all the Microsoft-friendly interlopers who are trying to subvert the free software movement. These people are suckling at the M$ teats.
Am I paranoid to think that these hardware companies who are stingy with their drivers are mostly on Microsoft's tit, being subsidized to keep drivers out of the hands of free software developers?
Tivo has effectively circumvented the GPLv2 and robbed users of their freedom. Linus Torvalds stubbornly clings to GPLv2, just to accommodate those corporations who want to circumvent the spirit of the GPL. "Open Source" means corporations can take your freedom. Free Software is different. Freedom is the priority. Free Software will quietly take over. "Open Source" amounts to a transitional marketing campaign, not a relevant or coherent vision.
GPLv2 was good enough for a long time, but certain corporations have demonstrated a ways of exploiting the license. Now GPLv3 will protect the projects which matter, going forward. This train is bound for glory.
For covering Bush's ass on every single act of treachery and instead, enabling the persecution of a man who used technology to campaign for freedom. Down with Hillary Clintush!
If that's how you'd handle Microsoft, I'm afraid to ask what you'd would you do about Halliburton. I agree that Microsoft should be broken up but I don't think I want their source code to see the light of day.
The League of Nations came and went. The United Nations has allowed it's self to be discredited by militant, hegemonic nations. Now the ISO has been compromised by a flawed process and corrupt bureaucrats enabling a monopoly corporation. This international bureaucracy is no more legitimate than the decisions they make.
I'd rather do a challenge to the "one-click-purchase" Google patent. That has to be one of the silliest patents of all.
The OSI was never about freedom from their very inception as an organization. This guy Rosen either doesn't get it, or he knowingly serves large software patent claimants at the expense of the rest of us.
I'm willing to challenge software patent claims just to be among the first ones to pick the fight with the claimants. Can anyone think of any good software patent claims to challenge?
Software should be handled by copyright, not patent. I won't respect anyone's patent claims for software. I will respond with a big "Fuck You" to anyone who tells me I can't write and distribute a sequence of characters because they patented it.
Does Emacs have too many options for you?
But you can't just settle for a costly arbitration process. You must make them pay damages one way or another. If you get wrung out for a bunch of cash, or you lose a domain which is important and personal to you, you must seek revenge. Like Sweeny Todd, never forget, never forgive. Wan Fu China registered my mother's first, middle and last name. Her name is unique in the whole world, without a doubt. I call it identity theft. I'm happy to trash the reputation of any identity thief on any public message board. I've got some leads, but I need verification of the relationship between Wan Fu China and bigger companies. The way to handle this is to inflict damage on their business and make cost them an order of magnitude more than it cost you. If I have to spend thousands on an arbitration process with ICAAN'T's bureaucracy, I'd hope to cost the responsible company millions if possible. I despise identity thieves and I can't stand dealing with plodding, expensive bureaucratic processes. I'm mad as hell and I want revenge! Anyone who knows anything, please let me know so I can build my case for seeking damages against these scoundrels.
Linux is the kernel, licensed under the GNU GPL, but the Linux Kernel project is not part of the GNU project. Obviously it's not all GNU software because it's GNU/Linux which means the Kernel is non-GNU software. Also, in any GNU/Linux, you're going to be compiling with the GCC and using libc. GNU software is at the heart of most any GNU/Linux distro. Get it right man, the GNU project and the GNU GPL came before the Linux Kernel. GNU/Linux is GNU-based, not "Linux-based".
I wonder what major IT infrastructure still belongs to proprietary Unix or "Windows". It's funny to me to even mention the name "Windows" because it see,s so silly for an operating system to be named for a feature of a graphical user interface. Suppose they named it Microsoft "Menus" or Microsoft "Buttons"...
Maybe someone can remember the title or author, but it was about a man having intercourse with a coin-operated, robotic hooker. When he ran out of money, it clamped onto him and wouldn't let go.
But there's growth in the market for new Free Software projects to grow. Score another win for the GNU GPL.