Comment: Re:"Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested"???... (Score 1) 280
Shame that one of the programmers wasn't named Will Robinson.
Comment: Re:OK, dumb question after reading the article (Score 0) 747
Who gives a shit. Every project available is governed by the contractual agreement the owner/developer/patent holder applied to it. One cannot justify saying that it should be one way just because it would better suit a broader audience in one individual's perspective. If the general public cannot govern themselves then what is the point of doing business. Why the hell should anybody do anything for anyone else. We might as well just destroy one market to destroy every other market in existence. The ignorant view of people is astounding sometimes.
I'm not putting blame on you Estanislao. I'm just pushing the argument further. Fundamentally those two stipulations provide so much conflict it's impossible for people to see straight. If private property is forced into public domain then why even try to do anything. But at the same time, if there is an exploit out there shouldn't the consumer be able to protect themselves in a timely, respectful manner? I'm about ready to dump Linux and focus solely on BSD. This bullshit of open standards is wearing thin quickly to no general benefit to business or even the consumers the software is trying to provide a solution for.
Journal: Mixed Emotions.
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It feels like I'm at the end of my wits sometimes. Every effort put things in their own allocated place but obligations get strained in order to fulfill those same obligations. As you might or might not know or even care for that matter, what I wish to achieve. The best ideal is to provide jobs for programmers. To do that I have to focus on my own efforts to build capital. I would prefer to do it within reason to keep my efforts pure from interests that could eventually undermine what I belie
Comment: Re:Meh (Score 1) 4
Always, but the little successes mean just as much as the consequences we all face in life. It's a good reminder that we are human and we have to go forward whether we feel able or not.
Comment: Re:It is, indeed... (Score 1) 4
Unfortunately, experience goes only as far as the results we are left with. It's time to move forward. So much holding us back and yet the majority of the obstruction comes from own will or lack of it. It's good to know there are friends out there you can tell provide the honesty you are looking for.
How to open source a library + maintain ownership?
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HenryC writes "My company has a closed source webservice that clients submit data to. We were hoping to open source the client, so users can extend it / fit it into their own needs and if that is succesfull, eventually open source everything. However, it sounds like it is very hard to open source a client library and still maintain enough ownership to keep the quality high and keep it consistent with our webservice. For example, we don't want people using it in a way that collects data which would violate the privacy policy. We don't have the funds for an IP lawyer but still want to go through with this. Does anybody have any recommended reading, or case studies, or anything that would be helpful for us to figure out which license to use and how to add any additional info to keep this safe?"
Comment: Re:No (Score 1) 3
C3P0, of course. Seriously lame attempt at a ST/SW flamewar which has never been done before EVAR!!!
Red Hat enlists community help fighting trolls->
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Stickster writes "Back in 2007, IP Innovation filed a lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell. IP Innovation is a subsidiary of Acacia Technologies. You may have heard of them — they're reported to be the most litigious patent troll in the USA, meaning they produce nothing of value other than money from those whom they sue (or threaten to sue) over patent issues. They're alleging infringement of patents on a user interface that has multiple workspaces. Hard to say just what they mean (which is often a problem in software patents), but it sounds a lot like functionality that pretty much all programmers and consumers use.
That patent was filed back on March 25, 1987 by some folks at Xerox/PARC, which means that prior art dated before that date is helpful — and art dated before March 25, 1986 is the most useful. (That means art found in a Linux distribution may not help, seeing as how Linus Torvalds first began the Linux kernel in 1991.)
Red Hat has invited the community to join in the fight against the patent trolls by identifying prior art. They are coordinating efforts through the Post Issue Peer to Patent site, which is administered by the Center for Patent Innovations at the New York Law School, in conjunction with the US Patent and Trademark Office."
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That patent was filed back on March 25, 1987 by some folks at Xerox/PARC, which means that prior art dated before that date is helpful — and art dated before March 25, 1986 is the most useful. (That means art found in a Linux distribution may not help, seeing as how Linus Torvalds first began the Linux kernel in 1991.)
Red Hat has invited the community to join in the fight against the patent trolls by identifying prior art. They are coordinating efforts through the Post Issue Peer to Patent site, which is administered by the Center for Patent Innovations at the New York Law School, in conjunction with the US Patent and Trademark Office."
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Comment: There will never be one distro to rule them all... (Score 1) 791
but the evolution of Linux begins at the base. With new releases being a norm every six months, new developments come and go. The linux kernel is the fundamental base. The extensions surrounding the kernel should have a fundamental to reshape how the kernel is exploited. There needs to be a market leader to invest time and resources to simplify how the kernel should be exploited. It will change the dynamic for Linux distributions while maintaining the integrity of the opensource community. The fundamental of the kernel isn't the problem, it's the fundamental of the extensions surrounding the kernel that is.
In my belief, there needs to be a distribution that bridges the gaps between other distros, then another one to break down dependencies exclusively. It doesn't necessarily require totalitarian consolidation but there needs to be a community effort to focus on variations of the types of consolidation.
Fedora has done great efforts with security but has some fault with stability for certain features. It's cutting edge just not as stable as I would like it to be at times. OpenSuSE has stability, ease of use and great insight into stable features but with encrypting the root and swap partition by copying files over to another partition, repartition, then move the files back is a bit of a stretch for the average user. The system updates could be more aggressive but hardware support for nvidia and ati drivers is perfection. Debian is great and stable, very proactive in terms of updates but in terms of getting it to meet up to current technological standards without sacrificing it's open integrity is the only thing that keeps me from switching over fulltime. Ubuntu needs stability. Most of the updates are no more than scripts to get things by. You see this when trying to do a base server install and then attempt to piece together a decent windows manager on top of it. If a system had the security of Fedora/Red Hat, the stability and ease of use of OpenSuSE/Novell, not to mention the integrity of Debian, you would have one hell of a distribution. If anybody has the time, they could learn a lot from Linux from Scratch. I'm doing my part but I'm just one person. Anybody out there willing to work on a project like this, I would be more than willing to help out.
CraigsList and eBay in Court->
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TechForensics writes "Why did eBay sue CraigsList in a Delaware court? eBay alleges that CraigsList is "unfairly discriminating" against it as a minority shareholder in CraigsList. More specifically it accuses CraigsList of holding meetings to which eBay was not invited to plan strategies to dump eBay's investment, which Craigslist claims in a countersuit was made for the sole purpose of ripping off trade secrets. It should be interesting to follow this one."
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