Comment Re:You were paid to do a job, right? (Score 1) 349
Even big, established companies incentivize employees with various equity-ish options,
Incent. The word is incent.
Even big, established companies incentivize employees with various equity-ish options,
Incent. The word is incent.
It's one thing to choose how to license your own code; it's quite another to insist that others license their code the same way, simply because it may have some tenuous connection to your code.
I don't think the connection is tenuous. Is the theme intended to be run as part of Wordpess? Yes. Does the theme work without Wordpress? No. Sounds like a derivative work to me.
IMO there is a big difference between coding to an established interface (let's say POSIX) and writing an extension (theme/plugin/whatever) that is intended to run only as part of a specific piece of software (like Wordpress).
If you want to create your own non-GPL blogging software to run your own themes, go for it. If you want to save time by using someone else's work, you have to abide by their rules. I am pretty sure that this definition of derivative work has not been tested in court yet, but it really has nothing to do with the GPL specifically.
We're forced to purchase car insurance with no government-provided option, BY LAW.
How is that a bad thing? You might feel differently when your car is totaled by an uninsured driver, who has no money to pay for your medical bills even if you sue him.
I honestly don't even think IPv6 is needed. We just need recall some of those huge blocks of IP addresses that have been allocated for no good reason and implement NAT/proxies more widely.
NAT requires jumping through all sorts of hoops to try to get back to the host-to-host connectivity that IP used to allow. It's slowing the adoption of things like IPSEC and makes any application that requires peer-to-peer connections a chore to set up. NAT is not a good thing.
Just about every single company uses firewalls nowadays anyway, there is absolutely no reason for them to have huge blocks of IP addresses like they currently do (they don't even use them!).
While I agree that some organizations have many more addresses than they will ever use, firewalls have nothing to do with NAT. Every company *should* use a firewall, of course, but firewalls worked perfectly well before NAT, and they will continue to work after NAT dies a deserved death.
Standard certs do nothing to establish identity. They merely establish that the site is not being spoofed.
Isn't "preventing spoofing" just another way of saying "establishing identity?"
Have they ever advertised against Firefox?
Oh, yes they did!
The magistrate isn't going to care that the contract was too long for your little brain to easily comprehend.
Apparently they do care... that's why the companies are being fined. Contracts require a "meeting of the minds" and an unreadable EULA should hardly qualify.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion