> When somebody would make a free processor,
There are free processors, today. They are written in HDL.
> would it be possible to do
> that in such a way that it's possible to check that the hardware is the
> working-out of the drawings?
There are no drawings involved, as far as I know. Any
> It would of course also be ok to upload photos of monuments if the
> copyright has expired, i.e. 70 years after the creator has died.
True, and let me note how this is an incentive to kill architects and
artists (and authors in general).
A few months ago my local newspaper celebrated the
Substantially it says that an attempt of estimation of TCO by the
municipality IT manager, have been taken and mystified by Microsoft
to create the report.
[...]
The journalist argue an errata corrige by Microsoft ;-)
Hmm... public administration, injustice this is a work for...
The
This is an ... amazing piece. This Oracle executive (read: someone who
is high up enough that their words won't be edited) seriously thought
this made Oracle look competent and trustworthy:
https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/those_who_can_t_do
I'm sorry, I don't get the point of
Hmm, you're the only person so far I know of who hasn't reacted in shock.
Then you are lucky, because your aquaintance is smart and competence.
* The attitude of security by obscurity, as if telling your customers
don't look! stops the black hats for a second.
This I noted. Do you think
For consortia standards, the resulting standards tend to be free of cost
to access, have variable freedom from encumbrance to use [...]
It depends. Or maybe we think of different things about consortia.
IEEE stuff is not free of cost, but is freely implementable. I think
this falls under
Hello.
Does one exist?
Search engines find a number of them, even if a number of people here
prefers free stuff to open source. So the reply is yes, unless you
make a sharper question.
If not, is anyone aware of any attempts to develop one?
I know about the f-watch (f can be a four letter
I've come across various business cards where people put some message on
the back about their product or their vision
Has anybody tried this with free software principles?
The back of my business card is a recipe, because my mission is
spreading information. It has .data, .text and .bss, in
me:
Any metaphor with physical goods is weak;
Thomas Doczkal:
Guido mentioned in his mail[1] a recipe (for cooking I imagine).
Yes. And, in some environments, it is good. I use it myself (as I said
in the other thread, side B of my business card is a bugged recipe).
But a recipe is
Hello.
I read the thread, and I disagree with all opinions expressed.
Software is information, and has zero marginal cost in replication and
spreading. Any metaphor with physical goods is weak; people will
soon find the weak points of the metaphor, and disregard free
software. I quote the last
Daniel Pocock:
Ok, so smart is convenient marketing but if we want to refer to such a
phone, as distinct from a legacy mobile, just using the word mobile
may not be sufficient
Is there any other terms that could be used?
I personally just say telephone or phone, and people just
understand
Please find confusing sentences with software bellow:
* Free Software gives us essential freedom that other type of software
deny us.
Ok.
* Free Software can be used as tool.
as tool sounds bad to me, but it's not a problem with software.
* There is an incredible number of Free
Did I miss something?
It looks very good to me, but software like all *ware is not
countable. It is a substance, like stuff, butter, milk, crap.
Use is wrong in several places of the leflet and should be
fixed accordingly.
/alessnadro
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Hello Vicen.
[...] I realized
that in Spain, and perhaps in the entire European Union, most computers
are sold with a proprietary OS already installed, without
My advice to you would be to email licens...@fsf.org and see what they think.
You might also want to contact the OSI about this.
That's true. Nonetheless, I'm interested in seeing Andreas' points here
as well.
/alessandro
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I also don't believe that free software is always cheaper; I can point
to many examples where it is more expensive.
I would be interested in these examples, and the time period of the
measurement.
I am interested in Alex' examples too.
My experience is with a data-acquisition application
Under NDA development it is frequent that you can't reveal information
through readable function names or variables, or even comments
explaining the limits of certain values, etc...
It is frequent, but this is not the case. Please read the relevant
information about the contract. The people
namely the consumer demand powers the fact that Microsoft has a virtual
monopoly.
I understand that manufacturers want to preinstall windows on every
laptop instead of doing that on demand in 95% of them.
I have no problem in getting a system with windows eXPired on it, as
long as I can get a
I'm sorry to contradict you, but this is completely wrong:
There is no law in the world that will protect you from slander if you
explicitly allow for the right to modify a work. You cannot sue a
person for using a free software program in a manner that you consider
bad since you explicitly
Yes, since the output is static. The output of a program isn't.
Then a program to generate the prime numbers or calulate
the digits of pi or whatever similar is documentation.
I think this is getting boring, although some interesting point have
been made in the past days. Actually, you agreed
It's clear from the context that he means gfdl manuals. You should
have learnt that software to you means program, while to him it
means everything except my desk. [...]
That's a lie about me. I guess that's why you think I'm difficult
to deal with. Stop lying about my views and all will
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