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If only we could combine a CREATION thread with a LINUX thread... |
Posted on 08/28/2007 9:43:45 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
But you are using it, willfully. Revised offer: We'll both be allowed on web sites and other publicly-accessible servers no matter what they're running. Otherwise I quit my use of Linux and you quit your use of Windows. Come on, you've claimed me as a Linux lover and supporter. Here's your chance to make sure one less person is using Linux.
We'll make the term of the boycott just one week, renewable upon agreement. Are you chicken?
Besides, above is only your highly uneducated opinion. Even if you did know what you're talking about, making blanket statements such as this is idiotic without a targeted situation. "Better" in your opinion means not free, which immediately divorces your opinion from the reality that most people use.
Can't bring yourself to admit how terribly wrong you were to claim Apple is based on Linux, typical of Linux guys, another poster here once argued with me till he was blue in the face that my Blackberry ran Linux when it's actually a Sun O/S.
BSD products make every attempt to dump Stallman's software, as little of it is used as possible, hopefully it will all be gone one day. As I already said, it's Unix, Stallman's GNU is "not unix", Linux being a foreign clone itself.
He claimed Linux was going up and Windows was going down which was easily disproven. Vista alone is already on more desktops than all Linux combined, while Windows servers just gained several points of market share. You guys can’t even beat M$ by giving it away LOL.
No, the intent is to keep the software free, and allow users to modify it. Using hardware controls to prevent modification is not in keeping with the spirit of the GPL.
If Tivo doesn’t like the freedom for users that the GPL protects, why don’t they use BSD?
LOL I’ve had Linux guys posting in this very thread who’ve previously accussed me of being in cults and having sex with goats when they’ve been proven wrong, you guys are good at dishing it out but obviously have very fragile skins when it comes to taking it.
Users are absolutely able to modify the Linux that TiVO uses on their hardware. Users just don't have the right to tell TiVO how to design their hardware. If they don't like it, don't buy a TiVO, and instead download that Linux and put it on non-TiVO hardware.
It's a software license. It has no business dictating hardware design. Controlling the hardware may be Stallman's intent, but trying to do so through a software license is an abuse of copyright.
As a "Linux guy" the offer still stands for me to boycott the local use of Linux for a week in exchange for you not using Windows for a week.
Are you afraid to accept the offer? This should be really hard for me if I'm a "Linux guy." Or are you lying about me?
BTW Dominick, his claims about me are, as usual, out of context. In fact, the "goat" thing was to show how he often takes me out of context in order to misrepresent my position.
Which TiVo does! You can download and view all of their changes. Which some have done to build their own similar systems.
Using hardware controls to prevent modification is not in keeping with the spirit of the GPL.
They don't prevent chances to the software they prevent you from running altered software on the Hardware that they themselves put together.
The anti tivo thing is a power grab to turn the GPL into what some have accused it of being. NO GPL related resources are in that hardwareso you have no rights to it..
Thank you. I'm hopeful you feel the same way about the FSF moonbat's claims that Microsoft has forfieted their patent rights by entering their agreement with Novell, but certainly not counting on it.
The FSF stated that under the license Microsoft cannot only give patent protection to a small subset of people using the software it distributes or pays others to distribute. It did not say they forfeited their patent rights. They are still free to sue for infringement in instances not related to the software they distribute or pay others to distribute.
They did with respect to patent rights affecting the moonbat's code. So as I expected you seem to still side with the moonbats whenever their new license virally affects Microsoft.
Then limit your statements in the future to what is actually affected. BTW, are you ready to complain that Sun's CDDL has a patent protection clause, too?
Wrong of course, he clealy mentioned "Samba" which is used in servers and desktops but rarely if ever in embedded systems, and where's his proof for embedded systems? For example Windows is used in several popular cellphonnes here in the US but last I heard Linux only had one model here that's just finally being released after years of similar bogus hype.
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“Hypervisor” sounds like a boss who’s working on his 12th cup of morning coffee...
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