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Comment Re:Once again: no (Score 1) 744

The RC was just released a few days ago. But the final 9.10 is still not on their website.

Once again: yes. but, I guess we'll just have to keep arguing for a couple of hours waiting for the website to make the announcement. Theeeeeen maybe the debate will be over.

Comment Re:Fine? (Score 1) 622

I agree about the money portion, but it's already apparently hit the nytimes. Isn't that "main stream media in the states" ?

Part of the verdict included an order for the sect to pay for widespread news coverage of the verdict in _foreign_ newspapers. So yes, maybe this time it will be heard in the US.

Comment Re:Why is OSS no longer in the kernel? (Score 1) 815

OSS was deprecated because 4front pulled the rug out from under users and started demanding money for binary-only versions, and it was easier to write an entire API from scratch instead of trying to fix the crap they'd left in the kernel.

OSS4 is never going in because 4front has a dangerously wrong idea of how the GPL2 works and think they they have the right to infect applications using this API with their licence.

Do not want!

Sorry, I still don't get it. They've been building OSS4 for years, it seems a good tool for the job, and yet it cannot be included in the kernel or distributed by various distros ? If they add trouble understanding GPL 5 years ago, ok, but isn't there any communication between 4front and the rest of the community on the subject. Weird.

Comment Re:My analogy... (Score 1) 207

This analogy is far-fetched. You could imagine something more realistic : Let's imagine the banking industry being fed up with people being indepted. Imagine a low is enacted stating that any person accused of having their bank account below zero three time is banned from the entire banking industry for one year... As it a chance to be passed ?... who knows

Comment Re:3 strikes on 3 strikes (Score 0) 207

All countries should have a law that prevents their governments from being allowed to repeatedly reattempt to pass a law the got turned down once already. Especially when the law has already been found to be unconstitutional.

How then could we reverse a law that seems OK in any given generation but that cannot be applied/understood 50 years later ? Or a law that just became plain stupid because of the normal evolution of society ? Gun control in the US seems the perfect exemple of this. The whole world perfectly understands that having guns & ammo in your home (sorry, should I say "arms") in not the way a society should be run and murders make the headlines because they're very uncommon. Yet the US cannot make themselves change their constitution.. (sorry for the change of subject)

Comment Re:We all have broken the law (Score 2, Informative) 207

This is a very US-centric vision that may be applicable to the US (I wouldn't know). But this article is about a franch low: - France uses a very different legal system, where laws most often don't have to be "tested in court" - Being arrested for nothing and released afterwards cannot cost you your job Now this law is indeed unapplicable but that has nothing to do with the legal system itself (at least, not the french one).

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