Speaking of easy, openSUSE is also the first of the major Linux distros that makes it simple to upgrade the system over the Internet. With most distros, you need to download an ISO image of the new release and then boot from it to upgrade your Linux distribution. However, I was able to do an in-place upgrade of openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2 on my ThinkPad over a Wi-Fi connection. This arrangement makes upgrading the entire operating system as simple as installing one really big program.
You can dispute the definition of "popular" or "major", but Gentoo user has been doing this since day one. In fact, there is no such thing as major version upgrade. You just emerge --update incrementally. I do it about twice a month. Everything is over the internet.
IANAL, so this is confusing even though I previously thought GPL was pretty straight forward. The following hypothetical is in no way related to busybox:
Suppose A wrote some software and released it under GPL, then later abandoned it.
Scenario 1: B took over with the blessing of A, who's off to do other stuff (so there is no trademark dispute here). He never quite like the way A's done things. So B rewrites most the code, all the core algorithms.
Questions. Who owns the right? Surely B owns version 2.0 and A version 1.0, but can A still make claim about version 2.0? Is 2.0 still a derivative work from 1.0? (I think yes) If so, what about scenario 2 below.
Scenario 2: C also saw the value in A's project, and he also wants to do things differently. C never saw the code itself, even though he's entitled to. So C rewrites essentially the same project coming up with similar algorithm with B and release it under non-libre license.
The result of both scenario is the same: complete rewrite of A's GPL'd code. In the first scenario, incremental changes are supposedly log and therefore must re-released under GPL. In the second scenario, there is not reference to A's code, but how can C prove that he never looked at A's code it court? It is opened after all.
If the license was just about anything but GPL (apache, BSD, whatever), he could do just that. But he can't.
Help me understand the issue here. Oracle, the big bad corporate entities here, now owns MySQL, the trademark. In what sense does it own the code? It certainly can't close what's already open. Being GPL, they cannot just close it from this point on either. If the problem that they won't accept code from the community from this point on, isn't that what a fork is for? Well, you probably can't call it MySQL any more, but a rose is a rose. Right? If the concern here is that it'd add some code that's tie to its patents, I am not sure what's the solution to that except abolishing softwar patent.
If the code were under any other license, any new code might, depending on how the wind blows in Oracle, never see the light of day.
Is this why SONY introduced the slim? Some company scooping up a large number of PS3, on each Sony takes a loss on, for computation purpose with no intend of buying game?
They could have just asked Red Octane to release "Child Porn Encryption Hero".
And there's the problem. You hear the claim that a corporation is legally a "person" and therefore needs all the rights and privileges we guarantee to people, but really they're not treated like people. They're not bound by the same rules as people. They don't have the responsibilities people have. They have more rights and more freedoms than people have. And if a corporation gets itself into enough trouble, the people running it can essentially close up shop and walk away without consequences.
Exactly, when I was a kid, I was confused why many companies called themselves "Limited". Why would you want to "limit" your company. When I grew up learn basic economic, it turns out that means "Limited Liability". Yes, I know it's a slightly different context (as in they can't go after the owner/board for debt of the company), but it seems applies equality well in the legal/punitive sense.
Why don't they just charge a small shipping fee? I think most people would find that reasonable even for something that is "free".
I am convinced S/H is how those late night infomercial makes $ anyway. "Order now, and we'll send you a second unit absolutely free! Only pay extra shipping and handling".
Judging by the crap people are willing to buy---and Ubuntu is pretty the opposite of crap---just because of psychology of cheap, but not free, I am surprised people haven't been marketed to this way by Desktop Linux vendor (if there is such thing). Especially with wubi installer you can now try Ubuntu rick free (punt intended).
It's something that only a geek would do; and even if a geek does this, it doesn't matter. There aren't too many geeks in rural China, and it could be that there is more software available for Red Flag Linux in those remote areas than for Windows.
Show me a farmer's 10 year old son (or daughter), and I'll show you someone who will very quickly learn how to tingle with a computer.
Why? Because warez, even on CDs, need to be delivered and sold, and they need to be localized, and they need to be pre-cracked, and everything should work so that a rice farmer can just plug it in and use. But how many warez are like that?
Last time I was in China, the local software shop sold pre-crack photoshop for < $1 USD. Same goes for AutoCAD, Visual Studio...
Agreed. We have a de facto "ID" in America. It is called social security number. Originally only used to identify tax payer, look how much of every American's financial lives now actually ride on it. And it was not even designed to be secured in the first place.
I was posting in a Hong Kong (note: not the mainland) Linux user group forum the other day and advising someone to use dyndns.org. The string "dyndns.org" got filtered into ">>>
I didn't know dyndns is a threat in HK.
The idea of total war fare like that was not the norm in conflicts even 200 years ago. Perhaps some historian here can point out (I think it was the French revolution) when it became norm to mobilize all civilian in war making effect and therefore "justify" the opposite side to crush totally the infrastructure of the enemy.
With FF (Linux and Windows), with heavily commented on article, I often get the message that says JS is taking too long to load, would you like to stop/continue loading it? The only sane choice is to stop. In that case, most of the comments become buried and I'll have to RTFA to know what's going on.
It works here. I am watching "PBS/Frontline" on a neighboring, one of the four workspaces/virtual desktops as we speak...when is window going to get multi-desktop on a stock install?
whether it's encrypted or not. With encryption it is (in principle) harder. The weakest link is usually not the computer engineering but social engineering anyway.
But what's stopping other companies from making the same deal? Someone like Google, who wants to and seems to have the muscle to guard (or at least classify?) all digital information, made the deal first is not completely surprising.
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Speaking of easy, openSUSE is also the first of the major Linux distros that makes it simple to upgrade the system over the Internet. With most distros, you need to download an ISO image of the new release and then boot from it to upgrade your Linux distribution. However, I was able to do an in-place upgrade of openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2 on my ThinkPad over a Wi-Fi connection. This arrangement makes upgrading the entire operating system as simple as installing one really big program.
You can dispute the definition of "popular" or "major", but Gentoo user has been doing this since day one. In fact, there is no such thing as major version upgrade. You just emerge --update incrementally. I do it about twice a month. Everything is over the internet.
Anyone faced with a woman about to deliver, and their first thought is "I know, I'll go search around on google" is my hero.
I don't know. FTA:
Five minutes after the delivery the midwife arrived to cut the umbilical cord of their fourth child.
What kind of geek is he when he can't master delivering a baby the forth time around? I would have memorized the wiki-article by now.
IANAL, so this is confusing even though I previously thought GPL was pretty straight forward. The following hypothetical is in no way related to busybox:
Suppose A wrote some software and released it under GPL, then later abandoned it.
Scenario 1: B took over with the blessing of A, who's off to do other stuff (so there is no trademark dispute here). He never quite like the way A's done things. So B rewrites most the code, all the core algorithms. Questions. Who owns the right? Surely B owns version 2.0 and A version 1.0, but can A still make claim about version 2.0? Is 2.0 still a derivative work from 1.0? (I think yes) If so, what about scenario 2 below.
Scenario 2: C also saw the value in A's project, and he also wants to do things differently. C never saw the code itself, even though he's entitled to. So C rewrites essentially the same project coming up with similar algorithm with B and release it under non-libre license.
The result of both scenario is the same: complete rewrite of A's GPL'd code. In the first scenario, incremental changes are supposedly log and therefore must re-released under GPL. In the second scenario, there is not reference to A's code, but how can C prove that he never looked at A's code it court? It is opened after all.
are there any superman?
If the license was just about anything but GPL (apache, BSD, whatever), he could do just that. But he can't.
Help me understand the issue here. Oracle, the big bad corporate entities here, now owns MySQL, the trademark. In what sense does it own the code? It certainly can't close what's already open. Being GPL, they cannot just close it from this point on either. If the problem that they won't accept code from the community from this point on, isn't that what a fork is for? Well, you probably can't call it MySQL any more, but a rose is a rose. Right? If the concern here is that it'd add some code that's tie to its patents, I am not sure what's the solution to that except abolishing softwar patent.
If the code were under any other license, any new code might, depending on how the wind blows in Oracle, never see the light of day.
A device designed to do one thing (bend light of certain wavelength) turns out cannot do another (bend other particle/wavelength). News at 11.
Because as a game console it's sold at below cost? And at least certain levels of product testing already went into it.
Is this why SONY introduced the slim? Some company scooping up a large number of PS3, on each Sony takes a loss on, for computation purpose with no intend of buying game?
They could have just asked Red Octane to release "Child Porn Encryption Hero".
for some kind Hollywood-style heist underway?
On Chrome, works fine but no visible CPU usage improvement.
Chief Orgy Officer comes to mine.
I am on ubuntu and Chromium's about box shows 4.0.226.0. Is this the same as the Windows version?
Does this make facebook profitable now?
And there's the problem. You hear the claim that a corporation is legally a "person" and therefore needs all the rights and privileges we guarantee to people, but really they're not treated like people. They're not bound by the same rules as people. They don't have the responsibilities people have. They have more rights and more freedoms than people have. And if a corporation gets itself into enough trouble, the people running it can essentially close up shop and walk away without consequences.
Exactly, when I was a kid, I was confused why many companies called themselves "Limited". Why would you want to "limit" your company. When I grew up learn basic economic, it turns out that means "Limited Liability". Yes, I know it's a slightly different context (as in they can't go after the owner/board for debt of the company), but it seems applies equality well in the legal/punitive sense.
Why don't they just charge a small shipping fee? I think most people would find that reasonable even for something that is "free".
I am convinced S/H is how those late night infomercial makes $ anyway. "Order now, and we'll send you a second unit absolutely free! Only pay extra shipping and handling".
Judging by the crap people are willing to buy---and Ubuntu is pretty the opposite of crap---just because of psychology of cheap, but not free, I am surprised people haven't been marketed to this way by Desktop Linux vendor (if there is such thing). Especially with wubi installer you can now try Ubuntu rick free (punt intended).
It's something that only a geek would do; and even if a geek does this, it doesn't matter. There aren't too many geeks in rural China, and it could be that there is more software available for Red Flag Linux in those remote areas than for Windows.
Show me a farmer's 10 year old son (or daughter), and I'll show you someone who will very quickly learn how to tingle with a computer.
Why? Because warez, even on CDs, need to be delivered and sold, and they need to be localized, and they need to be pre-cracked, and everything should work so that a rice farmer can just plug it in and use. But how many warez are like that?
Last time I was in China, the local software shop sold pre-crack photoshop for < $1 USD. Same goes for AutoCAD, Visual Studio...
We are Jeffersonians, and the ruling elite (of both major parties--which most libertarians don't consider to be any different) are Hamiltonians.
Yes, the ruling elite operates on you...
Agreed. We have a de facto "ID" in America. It is called social security number. Originally only used to identify tax payer, look how much of every American's financial lives now actually ride on it. And it was not even designed to be secured in the first place.
I was posting in a Hong Kong (note: not the mainland) Linux user group forum the other day and advising someone to use dyndns.org. The string "dyndns.org" got filtered into ">>>
I didn't know dyndns is a threat in HK.
The idea of total war fare like that was not the norm in conflicts even 200 years ago. Perhaps some historian here can point out (I think it was the French revolution) when it became norm to mobilize all civilian in war making effect and therefore "justify" the opposite side to crush totally the infrastructure of the enemy.
like the rest of /.-ers.
With FF (Linux and Windows), with heavily commented on article, I often get the message that says JS is taking too long to load, would you like to stop/continue loading it? The only sane choice is to stop. In that case, most of the comments become buried and I'll have to RTFA to know what's going on.
It works here. I am watching "PBS/Frontline" on a neighboring, one of the four workspaces/virtual desktops as we speak...when is window going to get multi-desktop on a stock install?
whether it's encrypted or not. With encryption it is (in principle) harder. The weakest link is usually not the computer engineering but social engineering anyway.
But what's stopping other companies from making the same deal? Someone like Google, who wants to and seems to have the muscle to guard (or at least classify?) all digital information, made the deal first is not completely surprising.
With ... paranoia about malware and viruses at an all-time high, the time is right to help consumers ...
So trusting someone standing in street corner handing out software is supposed to be...safe?