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Comment: Re:On the topic of choosing a CC license: (Score 1) 210

by tao (#36261650) Attached to: FSF On How To Choose a License

I find it quite handy to be able to have source code snippets in the documentation (even when these "snippets" a long enough to be copyrightable and thus subject to the license), or generate documentation from the source code.

And if you'd bothered to read the quote in the parent post, you might've noticed the quote about not using CC-licenses because they're not compatible with the GPL. So pray tell, why the hypocrisy of advising against using a CC license for documentation (based on not being GPL compatible) when the GFDL isn't GPL compatible either?

Opera

Encoder failure delays Die Walkure opera->

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elmo_dynamo writes "The set of the Met Opera's Die Walkure is an extraordinary thing to behold. Massive "planks" rotate under the control of a computer and are projected upon, creating forests when vertical, the heavens and the earth when more horizontal, and Brunhilde's rock in the last act. There are encoders in each plank to read out the angle of rotation. One of the encoders wasn't seated properly, causing a 45 minute delay of the transmission to opera lovers in over 2000 cinemas worldwide. This was not the first time the set has had a problem."
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Comment: Re:Well that's nice. (Score 1) 212

by tao (#36061280) Attached to: Sony Encourages Linux On Their Phones
Both of those divisions have something in common though. They're both media divisions. It seems to be some sort of natural law that mediacorporations have to become assholes as soon as they pass a certain size. Most independent labels are awesome. All big record companies, movie conglomerates, large game developers, etc. are pissheads.

The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble. -- Thomas Carlyle

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