One thing I don't believe any other government, or people, have done throughout history is to insist other governments should be more like their own and encouraging change with a very large military.
Oh? What about the Soviet Union? I definitely think I recall they insisted that other countries should become more like theirs.
I may be wrong, but my understanding is that as long as you link to the GPL'd code as an external library you are legally safe (providing that you include the source of that library). If you need to modify the API/functions of that library though, you must distribute the full source code of it, the original and modifications, of the entire linked library. As long as the library is externally linked (ie: a dll or equivalent) and not compiled into your application, the GPL doesn't extend to the rest of your application.
I think you are wrong. Why? Because this is a good explanation of the LGPL, not the GPL. Linking with a GPL:ed library does extend the GPL to the entire program, while (dynamically) linking with an LGPL:ed library does not (static linking does extend the LGPL to the partent program too).
They want information freely available for infringement, unless, of course, it is the information belonging to an individual; like personal finance data, medical data, creative ideas -- oh, wait.
I know that this is a traditional "Oh wait..." Slashdot joke, but anyway: Creative ideas are not personal data requiring privacy protection.
What this means, of course, is that when the average Swede...hears "the Pirate party", they are extremely unlikely to think of it in terms of the "plundering murderous raping bastards on the sea party".
Especially since there is a separate term for "pirate on the high seas" in Sweden, namely sjörövare, which literally means sea robber. The word pirat (i think you can guess the translation) is more generic, but in contemporary common speak means someone doing copyright infringement.
I don't know how Sweden's government is set up, and whether it can support single-issue parties as part of the government.
It already did. Miljöpartiet (The Environmental Party) was first voted into the parliament in 1988, and back then they were in practice a single-issue party. As time has passed, they have taken a mostly social democratic stance on most other issues, making them now an entrenched member of the socialist bloc. Several times they were the force that tip the scale, so they have had an improportional amount of power given their rather low voting base (since they threatened to side with the right bloc in certain issues if the Social Democrats didn't listen enough).
So single-issue parties can have a lot of power in Sweden, and the Environmental Party is the proof.
Don't forget that this is people's vote in a general election. Any are a big deal and most people won't make a choice lightly. They might see votes as a waste because they might not even get anyone in parliament which puts people off voting for them as they want their vote "to count".
Exactly. I have read hundreds of posts on various message boards saying that they sympathize with the Pirate Party, but they wouldn't want to waste their vote on a party that won't make it into the parliament (because of the 4% minimum voting base required to take a seat).
Obviously, it can. Apparently (according to the Wikipedia article on IKEA), the holding companies, e.g. Stichting INGKA Foundation, that own the IKEA stores are registered in the Netherlands. INGKA means Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, and he is also the chairman of the INGKA Foundation.
In my view it is still Swedish, just registered somewhere else, probably to evade Swedish taxes, which are the highest in the world.
I'd speculate that voters were told and recognized that putting the Pirate Party in power (even a tiny bit of power) would have been reacted to harshly by U.S. companies and government agencies who are still no doubt smarting from the failed Pirate Bay closure.
I don't think so. Most voters were simply more concerned with what they perceive as more important issues, such as the unemployment rate. The previous administration was hiding unemployment in various ways, e.g. by giving the unemployed useless work to do or putting them into useless "education" programmes, while removing them from the unemployment statistics. Thus, they could claim an unemployment rate of 4% instead of the actual 17%. Voters were sick of this, and of the previous prime minister, who claimed that jobs were now appearing, even if no unemployed ever saw them. Of the last 70 years, the Social Democrats have ruled for more than 60 years. I guess they were too confident that they would be re-elected.
Sweden's White House (whatever they call it).
We don't have an analogue to the american White House, which is a combined workplace and residence for the president. The prime minister of Sweden's office is in Rosenbad, and his official residence is Sagerska Palatset. The analogue to the US Congress is the Swedish Riksdag, which is situated at Riksdagshuset.
1. No fecking media support! I get XMMS inform me on first attempt at playing an MP3 that it won't because of licensing conflict. Wtf? Codecs for avi's and DVDs were a simular story; all had to be downloaded via yum (bloody excellent tool!). Seriously; not good, but fixed in the end.
You pay for Windows (hopefully), which includes patent licenses for the various media codecs. You pay nothing for Fedora Core, so which money should Red Hat or the Fedora Project use to pay your patent licenses?
3. Point 2 also breaks my nvidia drivers. I don't want to re-compile new drivers everytime there's a new 'patch'. For the love of god, why?!
As others have told you, the Livna repository contains various useful packages that Fedora cannot officially supply. This includes prebuilt drivers for nVidia and ATI graphics cards for every kernel available. Download the Livna release package to set up the Livna repository on your computer, and then install the nVidia drivers with
yum install *nvidia*
After this, the nVidia drivers will be updated automatically, without any recompiling on your part. I use both the nVidia and ATI drivers from Livna, and I never had to compile them myself.
Also, X-Windows 'feels' slower than Windows. I'm sure there's good reasons for this, but I don't care; Windows is snappier.
Do you have SELinux enabled? SELinux is rumored to slow the system down quite a bit, and that is one of the reasons why I have it turned off. Thus, my Fedora Core 5 running Gnome is at least as responsive as Windows XP running on the same computer (I run a dual-boot system). You can change the SELinux settings in the System->Administration->Security level and firewall dialog.
You often see this in the least significant decimal in Microsoft version numbers also.
I think that the build number of the original unpatched Windows XP was 850 or 950. I don't know what the current build number is, but it is surely in the thousands.
How do you know you've never installed a new kernel in Windows?
I noticed that some updates in Windows requires reboots and others don't. Isn't it possible that those requiring reboots were kernel updates while the rest were non-kernel component updates?
Roxio has a disclaimer, "This software is not to be used to violate copyrights"; MS will just add a disclaimer, "This device is not to be used to violate CC license, therefore it is not to be used to share CC songs". If the user then ignores that disclaimer, then it's on them, not Roxio or Microsoft. Problem solved.
Guess what? Several P2P software makers also had those disclaimers ("This software may not be used to violate copyrights"), but they got shut down anyway, because of contributory copyright infringement. Why is this different?
It's about progress, man. This is progress. It may not be perfect, it may not reverse every evil / vile / satanic thing they've ever done, but it marks a step forward in their relationship with open source and web standards.
The problem I have with Microsoft doing good things is that given their history, I immediately start wondering where the catch is.
I've only installed Fedora Core (and the older Red Hat 7.1) and SuSe. But none of those came close to the ease of installing Windows XP or Windows Vista.
What did you think was hard in the Fedora Core installation? And which version are we talking about?
Ease of installing Windows XP? Did you ever install it from the Windows XP media (and not from a computer-supplied recovery disk)? I'd say that Fedora Core is about as easy to install as Windows XP (haven't tried installing Vista yet), but the Windows installer is much more irritating. Especially the pattern "click a few buttons, wait five minutes, click buttons, wait five minutes, click buttons, wait..." is very irritating, I'd much prefer the Fedora way of "make all settings in one go, and then wait for half an hour while installing".
And "communist" is a label covering a wide range of opinions, espiecially when used by americans. It can mean totalitarian, dictatorial, left-wing, socialist or open-source...
I think the LGPL will eventually turn out to be a huge tactical mistake.
Why would it be better if the LGPL libraries would have been GPL instead? The reason to be for the LGPL is that it should be unnecessary to have two libraries doing the same thing on the same system. If we would take as an example the GNU Libc, using the GPL instead of the LGPL would force users that want to run GPL-incompatible software to install a sepatare Libc that allows linking for such software. Thus, the LGPL was created for free software that has equivalent non-free software, such as GNU Libc. Free software that does not have non-free equivalents, such as Readline, are licensed under the GPL.
Yeah, imagine that, it's called Civ4. You can direct one worker to build it, you can direct a dozen.
I really liked how the problem was solved in Civilization: Call To Power. In this game, tile improvements were built with a tax on shield production. The tax collected "Public Works" credits that could subsequently be used to build tile improvements or perform terraforming. Each improvement had its own cost, and took a specific amount of time to build. I could e.g. select "Advanced mines" and click on each tile where I wanted such a mine, given I had the required PW credits. No units had to be created to do this. There was also a Capitalization-style build project called "Infrastructure", that would convert the entire shield output of a city into PW credits.
the one my wife has is maddeningly frustrating on a number of levels
You might want to try iPodLinux on it instead. Then you can do a lot of things not supported by Apple, like playing OGG files. If you need the original Apple functionality, it is available by holding down some button during boot/reset, in essence making it a dual-boot system.
I want a propritetary kernel without source code that satisfies the media industry and permits them to license DRMs so that I can enjoy all of th enew commercial services out there.
The I suggest Windows, it already supports most DRM schemes, surveillance systems and other toóls to verify that you are not committing any crimes.
Or, if you must use a Unix system, use SCO. They would be very happy to have a new customer for once in the last three years. They have a tendency to sue their customers though, so just don't blame me when you're hit with a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
People need to seriously evaluate open source DRM projects like Authena and Sun's project, and make a concerted effort to work with the media conglomerates to implement it.
The problem for this to occur is that DRM is fundamentally incompatible with open source. Since DRM is used against the computer owner, and open source by definition can be used to prevent the computer being used against the owner by third parties, DRM in an open source system is a contradiction.
I also had that problem with my Dell laptop on Fedora Core 4. That issue turned out to be caused by misconfigurated defaults in the mixer settings. Try turning on the external amplifier in the mixer control panel.
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Because as everyone knows, Microsoft is evil, and thus they must be behind this. :)
Oh? What about the Soviet Union? I definitely think I recall they insisted that other countries should become more like theirs.
I think you are wrong. Why? Because this is a good explanation of the LGPL, not the GPL. Linking with a GPL:ed library does extend the GPL to the entire program, while (dynamically) linking with an LGPL:ed library does not (static linking does extend the LGPL to the partent program too).
I know that this is a traditional "Oh wait..." Slashdot joke, but anyway: Creative ideas are not personal data requiring privacy protection.
Especially since there is a separate term for "pirate on the high seas" in Sweden, namely sjörövare, which literally means sea robber. The word pirat (i think you can guess the translation) is more generic, but in contemporary common speak means someone doing copyright infringement.
It already did. Miljöpartiet (The Environmental Party) was first voted into the parliament in 1988, and back then they were in practice a single-issue party. As time has passed, they have taken a mostly social democratic stance on most other issues, making them now an entrenched member of the socialist bloc. Several times they were the force that tip the scale, so they have had an improportional amount of power given their rather low voting base (since they threatened to side with the right bloc in certain issues if the Social Democrats didn't listen enough).
So single-issue parties can have a lot of power in Sweden, and the Environmental Party is the proof.
Exactly. I have read hundreds of posts on various message boards saying that they sympathize with the Pirate Party, but they wouldn't want to waste their vote on a party that won't make it into the parliament (because of the 4% minimum voting base required to take a seat).
Obviously, it can. Apparently (according to the Wikipedia article on IKEA), the holding companies, e.g. Stichting INGKA Foundation, that own the IKEA stores are registered in the Netherlands. INGKA means Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, and he is also the chairman of the INGKA Foundation.
In my view it is still Swedish, just registered somewhere else, probably to evade Swedish taxes, which are the highest in the world.
They have a page in english too. It would be strange if they didn't, giving the amount of attention the party have received abroad. :)
I don't think so. Most voters were simply more concerned with what they perceive as more important issues, such as the unemployment rate. The previous administration was hiding unemployment in various ways, e.g. by giving the unemployed useless work to do or putting them into useless "education" programmes, while removing them from the unemployment statistics. Thus, they could claim an unemployment rate of 4% instead of the actual 17%. Voters were sick of this, and of the previous prime minister, who claimed that jobs were now appearing, even if no unemployed ever saw them. Of the last 70 years, the Social Democrats have ruled for more than 60 years. I guess they were too confident that they would be re-elected.
We don't have an analogue to the american White House, which is a combined workplace and residence for the president. The prime minister of Sweden's office is in Rosenbad, and his official residence is Sagerska Palatset. The analogue to the US Congress is the Swedish Riksdag, which is situated at Riksdagshuset.
You pay for Windows (hopefully), which includes patent licenses for the various media codecs. You pay nothing for Fedora Core, so which money should Red Hat or the Fedora Project use to pay your patent licenses?
As others have told you, the Livna repository contains various useful packages that Fedora cannot officially supply. This includes prebuilt drivers for nVidia and ATI graphics cards for every kernel available. Download the Livna release package to set up the Livna repository on your computer, and then install the nVidia drivers with
After this, the nVidia drivers will be updated automatically, without any recompiling on your part. I use both the nVidia and ATI drivers from Livna, and I never had to compile them myself.
Do you have SELinux enabled? SELinux is rumored to slow the system down quite a bit, and that is one of the reasons why I have it turned off. Thus, my Fedora Core 5 running Gnome is at least as responsive as Windows XP running on the same computer (I run a dual-boot system). You can change the SELinux settings in the System->Administration->Security level and firewall dialog.
You could actually uninstall them manually (using e.g. yumex), like I did.
I think that the build number of the original unpatched Windows XP was 850 or 950. I don't know what the current build number is, but it is surely in the thousands.
I noticed that some updates in Windows requires reboots and others don't. Isn't it possible that those requiring reboots were kernel updates while the rest were non-kernel component updates?
Guess what? Several P2P software makers also had those disclaimers ("This software may not be used to violate copyrights"), but they got shut down anyway, because of contributory copyright infringement. Why is this different?
The problem I have with Microsoft doing good things is that given their history, I immediately start wondering where the catch is.
What did you think was hard in the Fedora Core installation? And which version are we talking about?
Ease of installing Windows XP? Did you ever install it from the Windows XP media (and not from a computer-supplied recovery disk)? I'd say that Fedora Core is about as easy to install as Windows XP (haven't tried installing Vista yet), but the Windows installer is much more irritating. Especially the pattern "click a few buttons, wait five minutes, click buttons, wait five minutes, click buttons, wait..." is very irritating, I'd much prefer the Fedora way of "make all settings in one go, and then wait for half an hour while installing".
Not to mention those pesky pirates.
Why would it be better if the LGPL libraries would have been GPL instead? The reason to be for the LGPL is that it should be unnecessary to have two libraries doing the same thing on the same system. If we would take as an example the GNU Libc, using the GPL instead of the LGPL would force users that want to run GPL-incompatible software to install a sepatare Libc that allows linking for such software. Thus, the LGPL was created for free software that has equivalent non-free software, such as GNU Libc. Free software that does not have non-free equivalents, such as Readline, are licensed under the GPL.
My Pentium M 760 is only 32-bit but still claims to support the NX bit (called XD by Intel).
I really liked how the problem was solved in Civilization: Call To Power. In this game, tile improvements were built with a tax on shield production. The tax collected "Public Works" credits that could subsequently be used to build tile improvements or perform terraforming. Each improvement had its own cost, and took a specific amount of time to build. I could e.g. select "Advanced mines" and click on each tile where I wanted such a mine, given I had the required PW credits. No units had to be created to do this. There was also a Capitalization-style build project called "Infrastructure", that would convert the entire shield output of a city into PW credits.
You might want to try iPodLinux on it instead. Then you can do a lot of things not supported by Apple, like playing OGG files. If you need the original Apple functionality, it is available by holding down some button during boot/reset, in essence making it a dual-boot system.
The I suggest Windows, it already supports most DRM schemes, surveillance systems and other toóls to verify that you are not committing any crimes.
Or, if you must use a Unix system, use SCO. They would be very happy to have a new customer for once in the last three years. They have a tendency to sue their customers though, so just don't blame me when you're hit with a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
The problem for this to occur is that DRM is fundamentally incompatible with open source. Since DRM is used against the computer owner, and open source by definition can be used to prevent the computer being used against the owner by third parties, DRM in an open source system is a contradiction.
I also had that problem with my Dell laptop on Fedora Core 4. That issue turned out to be caused by misconfigurated defaults in the mixer settings. Try turning on the external amplifier in the mixer control panel.