> You can link anything with GPL'ed code as long as it's other GPL (or GPL-equivalent) code.
A library you'd like to link to must be either good or necessary or both.
Some guys spent hours and hours writing it and in many cases companies spewed money into it. They even went through the hassle of making it available to you and the general public.
Now, you are complaining that they're saying "It's ok for you to use our lib, but we want something in return" ???
I simply do not understand that.
I think that software is agonizing under a shift in the economical paradigm, a shift that software it self has really helped trigger. I think we're on a elongated threshold to another way of thinking 'goods and value'.
The GPL's intent almost seems to be accelerating this shift.
In a GPL like world, we can all deliver systems on the same tried bases, systems that will interoperate across the board. There'll be almost no secrets - a new technology that makes an impact will be available to all.
Business will focus on the fact that most usable software is very complex (OS, Browser, word processor, webserver, DB etc..), therefore utilizing it becomes very complex too. That's where the business will collect their bread, human expertise.
That's how I understand the GPL idea. It is my understanding that the science world worked like this up until somewhere in this century, where patents became the rage.
I kinda like the idea, because if everything plugs into everything, a lot more connections can be made.
To be honest I don't really understand the GPL it self nor it's implications, mainly because I've never bothered to read it.
Right now I am very thankful that PHP and PEAR do not require me to GPL the stuff I am doing, otherwise I'd probably not be doing it.
Another problem could be that broadband over powerlines only work if there is a current in the powerlines to carry the data.
If that is the case (and I suspect it is) then broadband over powerlines wouldn't work of course, and the article would still be silly for making that statement, it would just be silly for another reason than what you guys carry forth here.
Saying that all computersystems stops operating on a power outage is not correct.
I'd rather do that with my GF, got one of those too?
Oh you have u say ?
Nahhh... I don't believe it, you're fibbing. You're a typical and dedicated wanker. The anal type too, yup - a regular gutprobing snotjob is what you are.
Go on - try it again - call me something more.
I'll call you: asswipe, pussyenvier, master of the wankerchief, the self-polishing hand-job machine, brown finger.
It's fun and you can even see if you can catch my speling mistake too !
I've yet to encounter a single bug in my current Firefox installation.
To get there however, I had to create a whole new profile, because the old profile would cause bugs in the 0.9 (which I've subsequently updated to 0.9.2)
It even shows slews and slews of large pictures without failing now, which is very good for my ahem... studies !
Bruce Simpson of New Zealand, the designer of a homebrew cruise missile as reported here, has been left destitute by hastily-imposed restrictions of his national authorities, and is now offering his services to any non-terrorist willing to provide room, board, travel, expenses, and a negotiated rate
Hooray - what a fawking hero. He builds weapons because he's just such a geeky nerd, and you know, it is really interesting from a tech POV !
I hope he misfires one of his contraptions, and ends up swallowing it - what a @$##@% scumbag...
Load of crap man... They deliberately served a page that would not function in a particular browser. The explanation that it was a bugfix for Opera 6 does not hold - since Opera 6 showed the IE page just fine.
Besides I don't see Mozilla as an innovation project - it's about making the best damned browser there is, and it is. Innovation can come from 3rd parties in Mozilla (I'd like to see you try that with Opera)
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What, if any, typical differences do you see in persons producing mucho alpha and persons who don't ?
> You can link anything with GPL'ed code as long as it's other GPL (or GPL-equivalent) code.
A library you'd like to link to must be either good or necessary or both.
Some guys spent hours and hours writing it and in many cases companies spewed money into it. They even went through the hassle of making it available to you and the general public.
Now, you are complaining that they're saying "It's ok for you to use our lib, but we want something in return" ???
I simply do not understand that.
I think that software is agonizing under a shift in the economical paradigm, a shift that software it self has really helped trigger. I think we're on a elongated threshold to another way of thinking 'goods and value'.
The GPL's intent almost seems to be accelerating this shift.
In a GPL like world, we can all deliver systems on the same tried bases, systems that will interoperate across the board. There'll be almost no secrets - a new technology that makes an impact will be available to all.
Business will focus on the fact that most usable software is very complex (OS, Browser, word processor, webserver, DB etc..), therefore utilizing it becomes very complex too. That's where the business will collect their bread, human expertise.
That's how I understand the GPL idea. It is my understanding that the science world worked like this up until somewhere in this century, where patents became the rage.
I kinda like the idea, because if everything plugs into everything, a lot more connections can be made.
To be honest I don't really understand the GPL it self nor it's implications, mainly because I've never bothered to read it.
Right now I am very thankful that PHP and PEAR do not require me to GPL the stuff I am doing, otherwise I'd probably not be doing it.
Eh... UPS anyone ?
Another problem could be that broadband over powerlines only work if there is a current in the powerlines to carry the data.
If that is the case (and I suspect it is) then broadband over powerlines wouldn't work of course, and the article would still be silly for making that statement, it would just be silly for another reason than what you guys carry forth here.
Saying that all computersystems stops operating on a power outage is not correct.
I'd rather do that with my GF, got one of those too?
Oh you have u say ?
Nahhh... I don't believe it, you're fibbing. You're a typical and dedicated wanker. The anal type too, yup - a regular gutprobing snotjob is what you are.
Go on - try it again - call me something more.
I'll call you: asswipe, pussyenvier, master of the wankerchief, the self-polishing hand-job machine, brown finger.
It's fun and you can even see if you can catch my speling mistake too !
While you think it over, I'll be having some fun,
CYA
I know how to spell pity - english just isn't my native language. You speak any foreign languages ?
Must be sad to be such a twat
FP - pitty I have nothing to say :)
D'OH ! You have to search for 'Screw Me' to get that ...
Nope - it's not buggy.
I've yet to encounter a single bug in my current Firefox installation.
To get there however, I had to create a whole new profile, because the old profile would cause bugs in the 0.9 (which I've subsequently updated to 0.9.2)
It even shows slews and slews of large pictures without failing now, which is very good for my ahem... studies !
Bruce Simpson of New Zealand, the designer of a homebrew cruise missile as reported here, has been left destitute by hastily-imposed restrictions of his national authorities, and is now offering his services to any non-terrorist willing to provide room, board, travel, expenses, and a negotiated rate
Hooray - what a fawking hero. He builds weapons because he's just such a geeky nerd, and you know, it is really interesting from a tech POV !
I hope he misfires one of his contraptions, and ends up swallowing it - what a @$##@% scumbag...
Above link redirects to the bathtub girl. I never saw her before - now I wish myself back in the good old days where I'd only heard about her
> If you run a search on Kerry's site, you will find it to be case insensitive which leads me to think that it's not a *nix machine.
Or mebbe they use MySQL ?
Soviet Union won WWII, at least far more so than the US.
> iisreset
Great, I've been wanting that. Plz name others ?
or CTRL+W
Wave of the future ? More like blast from the past, early win95 did this - and it sucked.
Or a near-life experience ?
Yeah - its so stupid that MS pays $12mill to NOT have it go to court :)
If you don't like an extension - don't install it ???
OK - I don't know when it was introduced in Mozilla and you may be right, I thought it was the other way around.
Re: 3rd parties - I mean the extension system of Mozilla, Opera hasn't got anything like that. Pie menus is an extension - it was made by a 3rd party.
Load of crap man... They deliberately served a page that would not function in a particular browser. The explanation that it was a bugfix for Opera 6 does not hold - since Opera 6 showed the IE page just fine.
Thats wrong buddy - Opera6 showed the MSN page with the IE stylesheet just fine.
Find as you type : Mozilla
Besides I don't see Mozilla as an innovation project - it's about making the best damned browser there is, and it is. Innovation can come from 3rd parties in Mozilla (I'd like to see you try that with Opera)
Saying that it was 50 years ago doesn't include any statement on wether it WAS the first or not !
Javascript is wonderful - I wish PHP was a serverside Javascript language and not a new C'ish flavour
> Thanks Mr. Trentblase for NOT burning up that karma bonus, MY karma must have sky-rocketed into the ground by now.
:)
Oops - that ended up sounding sulky. I really did mean thnx, and nothing else