Comment Inducing copyright infringement (Score 1) 243
I assume this is one of those charges that they don't intend to pursue fairly, as FBI warnings, and DVD encryption have done a lot more towards "Inducing copyright infringement" than isoHunt.
I assume this is one of those charges that they don't intend to pursue fairly, as FBI warnings, and DVD encryption have done a lot more towards "Inducing copyright infringement" than isoHunt.
That we have a (rather legitimate) concern of being sued for the arrangement of bits we have access to.
> This is, of course, wrong. Such local installations are normally done with "sudo", which does not require root passwords.
Obviously wrong? How are they going to use sudo if it isn't configured by default. This is Fedora not Ubuntu
Production Windows code can be locked away. not the same for Linux.
> so I don't think it's unreasonable to think they might have helped MS on security issues without doing anything nasty
Nice thing is that NDAs and trade secrets can be applied to everyone who touches the production build code for Windows. The same in not true for Linux (SELinux)
Well, an enterprise can choose to enable allowing installation sans password of signed packages... not necessary to be a default.
And the command not found tie in is already available in F12
They did the legal thing. If you want to give them credit for that fine. But I don't see what specifically makes it the right or wrong thing.
> his is actually a good example of why Microsoft (and others) may dislike the GPL
Because you can violate it and then just say "oops, sorry about that"?
Say what you want about Google, but they at least seem to honor robots.txt. Is this technology not available to Mr. Murdoch's websites?
I would image that package management for FatELF packages would suck, as there would be no clean and simple way to specific architecture.
My most recent was quite painless -- I had extrapolated from that installing Ubuntu type distros would be even easier. I wonder what went wrong.
If it determines your career path, the it is your prime motivator, maybe even your sole motivator. I'm not convinced that being people predisposes you to being a slave to money.
I had hoped that the best scientist and engineers would be motivated by something more than just money.
Assuming that many of the the books are in English, the OLCP should have an app which teaches English; one which assumes no prior knowledge.
As in a desktop client written specifically to utilize this.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.