It's almost certainly a little more complicated than that. For instance, monogamy is advantageous from an evolutionary standpoint, since it prevents the large-scale spread of disease, and it has social advantages as well.
This kind of crap irritates me. Don't hire me on a contract that says that I'll work for 8 hours, but "from time to time" will have to put in extra unpaid time, and then expect me to regularly work 50-80 hours a week. If that's what you wanted then you can put it into the contract and pay me for it. (In reality, I probably wouldn't go for a job that wants that much time out of time---I've done it before and I just get burned out).
The time and place to play on the internet is at home.
You still have your cell phone for quick calls and text messaging.
It depends on the job. If I'm working as a programmer or an electronics engineer, then I'm going to definitely need Internet access. Or would you prefer that I only use the knowledge that I can fit in my brain?
Another thing to ask (in companies with immature management, anyway) is who came up with the deadlines. Some companies consistently choose "aggressive" deadlines in order to "motivate" their employees.
When your boss finds out that this downtime could be better spent dividing the code into smaller files to reduce compile time, you're going to be fired.
Except the build system doesn't handle dependencies properly anymore, and the boss doesn't want anybody messing with it right now.
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If you'll notice, the original statement was about it being foolish to use a license/software to push a moral war and social reform. And clearly it's not. Why? Because before the GPL, was there any license *like* the GPL?
If you'll notice, the original statement was about it being foolish to use a license/software to push a moral war and social reform. And clearly it's not. Why? Because before the GPL, was there any license *like* the GPL?
While your analysis may be the reasonable one, I see no indication from reading Linus' comments that he understands the GPLv3 drafts enough to comment constructively on them. He seems to fancy himself a lawyer, when it is clear that he is not.
In any case the teen almost certainly has the right to come and go as s/he pleases at 16, whether the parent realizes this or not.
I would replace "come and go" with "go".
At the same age that the child can legally "come and go as s/he pleases", that child can be kicked out of the house. If the 16-year-old "adult" (hah!) wants to live in the parents' house, s/he can live by the parents' rules.
Yes because we can so trust the parents to have the teenager's interests in mind when it comes to these things.
Teens are generally not responsible adults. The ones who are are capable of moving out on their own, and getting their own car.
If the parents aren't considering the teenager's interests, then that teenager is probably already screwed beyond repair, and a GPS device isn't exactly going to make the situation worse.
Just to clarify, Linus's viewpoint is largely irrelevant to this discussion. It is extremely unlikely that Linux will *ever* move to a later version of the license because every contributor would have to approve this. So the GPL v2 will stay for the Linux kernel for the forseable future.
Perhaps Linus' tree will stay GPL2, but if you do some research, you'll find that:
Many files in Linux are licenced under "version 2 or any later version", and
Despite Linus' bogus claims to the contrary, large portions of older versions of Linux are licenced under "any version [of the GPL] ever published by the Free Software
Foundation", according to section 9 of GPLv2.
With that in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if a GPLv3 fork of Linux emerged.
My position is that TiVo (the company) uses information in building their binaries that that are not distributing. That means that they are not distributing "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it", and they are not distributing "all the source code for all modules [their binary] contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable."
The problem is that we're not certain enough that any judge would agree, thus the more specific language in GPLv3.
If I'm signing software to certify that it's been clean-built and tested, I do not want someone modifying the code and then distributing copies under my key.
Then don't build a hardware platform that cannot run software that was built without using your keys.
Motorola 68000... 16 bits of address space accessible at a time
What do you mean by "at a time"? I've used an MC68000 chip. It had a flat 32-bit address space (well, it was actually a 24-bit address space, but it used 32-bit registers to access it).
don't take it from me, they have had web pages for many years.
I assume you mean that they have had different web pages for many years, but that's not true. http://www.fsf.org/ and http://www.gnu.org/ used to serve the same web site, until the former was redesigned a year or two ago. (See archive.org for May 25, 2003, for example).
But it's true that the GNU project and the FSF are different, and the FSF has increasingly been distinguishing the two.
Heh. I'm not surprised to see Bruce Perens on Slashdot, considering his UID is 3872. On the other hand, given that he was around when Slashdot wasn't the Windows-user-dominated troll-fest that it is now, maybe I should be.
But yes, Bruce is a much better spokesman than ESR. He always has been.
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It's almost certainly a little more complicated than that. For instance, monogamy is advantageous from an evolutionary standpoint, since it prevents the large-scale spread of disease, and it has social advantages as well.
This kind of crap irritates me. Don't hire me on a contract that says that I'll work for 8 hours, but "from time to time" will have to put in extra unpaid time, and then expect me to regularly work 50-80 hours a week. If that's what you wanted then you can put it into the contract and pay me for it. (In reality, I probably wouldn't go for a job that wants that much time out of time---I've done it before and I just get burned out).
It depends on the job. If I'm working as a programmer or an electronics engineer, then I'm going to definitely need Internet access. Or would you prefer that I only use the knowledge that I can fit in my brain?
Another thing to ask (in companies with immature management, anyway) is who came up with the deadlines. Some companies consistently choose "aggressive" deadlines in order to "motivate" their employees.
Except the build system doesn't handle dependencies properly anymore, and the boss doesn't want anybody messing with it right now.
And? Is that supposed to mean something?
(Methinks the moderator who modded the parent comment "Offtopic" is smarter than he looks.)
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Makes me wonder... would the "obnoxious" BSD advertising clause have been waived if it weren't for RMS and the GNU project?
Only if you're running Linux on top of a GNU microkernel or virtualization environment.
Or do you think IP/TCP and TCP/IP are synonymous?
While your analysis may be the reasonable one, I see no indication from reading Linus' comments that he understands the GPLv3 drafts enough to comment constructively on them. He seems to fancy himself a lawyer, when it is clear that he is not.
Where do you think this teen got the free time to create this device? Perhaps it was from already not being invited to parties?
Step 1. Jocks refuse to invite geek to parties
Step 2. Geek sells GPS device to jocks' parents.
Step 3. Fun and Profit!
Since when does parenting involve trusting teens without limit?
Damn right.
I would replace "come and go" with "go".
At the same age that the child can legally "come and go as s/he pleases", that child can be kicked out of the house. If the 16-year-old "adult" (hah!) wants to live in the parents' house, s/he can live by the parents' rules.
Arguably, it is to some extent, if those children are going to participate/vote/etc in your society.
Otherwise, I agree completely.
Teens are generally not responsible adults. The ones who are are capable of moving out on their own, and getting their own car.
If the parents aren't considering the teenager's interests, then that teenager is probably already screwed beyond repair, and a GPS device isn't exactly going to make the situation worse.
More or less, if you're trying to distinguish it from your OOo/Debian/Linux box.
Perhaps Linus' tree will stay GPL2, but if you do some research, you'll find that:
With that in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if a GPLv3 fork of Linux emerged.
Indeed. Have you ever seen a Linux binary that was signed by Linus?
My position is that TiVo (the company) uses information in building their binaries that that are not distributing. That means that they are not distributing "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it", and they are not distributing "all the source code for all modules [their binary] contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable."
The problem is that we're not certain enough that any judge would agree, thus the more specific language in GPLv3.
Then don't build a hardware platform that cannot run software that was built without using your keys.
This post by Alsee explains the keys-are-source-code clause quite well.
No. Blizzard is going to have to apologize for the bnetd fiasco before I'll be buying anything from them.
What shareware definition?
What do you mean by "at a time"? I've used an MC68000 chip. It had a flat 32-bit address space (well, it was actually a 24-bit address space, but it used 32-bit registers to access it).
I assume you mean that they have had different web pages for many years, but that's not true. http://www.fsf.org/ and http://www.gnu.org/ used to serve the same web site, until the former was redesigned a year or two ago. (See archive.org for May 25, 2003, for example).
But it's true that the GNU project and the FSF are different, and the FSF has increasingly been distinguishing the two.
Heh. I'm not surprised to see Bruce Perens on Slashdot, considering his UID is 3872. On the other hand, given that he was around when Slashdot wasn't the Windows-user-dominated troll-fest that it is now, maybe I should be.
But yes, Bruce is a much better spokesman than ESR. He always has been.