it's stupid to say : open source (as GPL, LGPL, FLOSS etc..) is not
necessary as we can just buy open source (but closed in fact)
software. because of - closed source is IP (intellectuall property -
watever this means, abstractive and poor words) and NOBODY exept the
owner CAN modify it, change
Closed Source isn't Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property
merely is what it is. And what it is quite simply is 'property' (in
whatever physical manifestation that takes) generated by one's
Intellect(good old grey matter). Closed or Open source is merely a
legal framework that defines how
I am sure you've got the best of intentions, but as far as I know:
* people are free to choose their vocabulary as they see fit on
gentoo-amd64. Especially when they are generally as helpful as Duncan ;)
* this is not the first time (and certainly not the last) that Duncan
and many others use
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 16:50, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 9/26/06, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to get my printer working and have installed cups. When I
start cupsd I get the following message:-
/etc/init.d/cupsd start
* Starting cupsd ...
cupsd: Child
Closed Source isn't Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property
merely is what it is. And what it is quite simply is 'property' (in
whatever physical manifestation that takes) generated by one's
Intellect(good old grey matter). Closed or Open source is merely a
legal framework that defines
There sure as heck is a difference between slaveryware and
freedomware. It may seem to you that, for non-programmers, there is
no difference between not being able to recode Microsoft or Apple
software vs Linux software, but there is a world of difference. With
proprietary software, there is
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Bob Young wrote:
That's almost entirely a theoretical difference, in the real world
this freedom is actually exercised very little if at all.
Almost?!? How many people actually use the freedoms guaranteed by the
US constitution? For almost all of
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From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:36 PM
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)
Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], mused, then expounded:
It absolutely is just like a car, or a house, or anything else. If my
house could only be modified by the original builder, it would never
be modified -- I'd never even get a picture hung for want of being
able to put a nail in a stud. Now maybe I
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I am sure you've got the best of intentions, but as far as I
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:23:12PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote:
I run Linux, and Gentoo specifically, because I dislike being told
what I can do on my computer and how I am to do it. I run an AMD platform
because I dislike being told there is one way my platform shall operate,
and from whom I
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With Linux, even
if I can't do it, there are hundreds of
[EMAIL PROTECTED], mused, then expounded:
I have long had a fantasy of sorts of someone coming out with a
generic processor taht could be reconfigured on the fly -- of coming
up with my own instruction set for it, so a custom gcc backend could
produce code for it, and it would be immune to
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Bob Young
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not saying he doesn't have the freedom to use them, I'm suggesting that
they are inaccurate and their connotations don't reflect the true
relationship between vendors and users, and for that reason their use should
be reconsidered.
But they
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:41:36PM -0700, Bob Young wrote:
Article 1 - Free exercise of religion: Lots of people every day.
Article 2 - Right to keep and bear arms: Regulated, but many many people own
guns.
Article 12 - Right to vote: True that the percentage of voter turn out isn't
as high
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:10:15PM -0700, Bob Young wrote:
Analogies suck, software isn't a car, or a house, or anything else, it's
software. If you can't make you're point without analogies, maybe you
haven't thought it through clearly enough.
Heh. Analogies are beyond your grasp, eh? I
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a very shallow definition of the essence of freedom, from the
perspective of most end users, your scenario doesn't really change anything.
From the end users perspective s/he is still dependent on someone else to
make the changes. I wouldn't
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On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:41:36PM -0700, Bob Young wrote:
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But they *do* accurately reflect the relationship between vendors and
users from Duncan's viewpoint. Your viewpoint is obviously different,
but doesn't mean yours is the only true one.
Oh please, spare me the relative truth crap. You can argue
On 9/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But they *do* accurately reflect the relationship between vendors and
users from Duncan's viewpoint. Your viewpoint is obviously different,
but doesn't mean yours is the only true one.
Oh
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On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would you go to war, or be willing to die for the freedom that open source
provides? If not, then equating it with the freedoms that real mean and
women have fought and died for is to marginalize the importance the word is
meant to convey.
No, but
Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 29
Sep 2006 13:12:06 +0100:
Thanks to Mark, Duncan and Kirby, for your help, sorry for the delay in
replying.
Reinstalling cups did the trick
Thanks. Nice to know it has been resolved and what did the trick.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted
below, on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:33:39 -0700:
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Bob Young wrote:
That's almost entirely a theoretical difference, in the real world this
freedom is actually exercised very little if at all.
Would you go to war, or be willing to die for the freedom that open
source
provides? If not, then equating it with the freedoms that real mean
and
women have fought and died for is to marginalize the importance the
word is
meant to convey.
Uh oh; we're going to talk about Iraq now, aren't
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Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift
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On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL
Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:01:19 -0700:
When was the last time that you personally submitted a *patch* for some
open source app/utility/driver?
Matter of fact, altho I don't claim to do C or C++, I do do a bit of
scripting,
On Friday 29 September 2006 15:10, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -
slaveryware)':
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With Linux, even
if I can't do it, there are hundreds of
Paul Colquhoun [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat,
30 Sep 2006 09:46:00 +1000:
When I use kmplayer to watch a video (wmv format, in this case) it appears
I have a choice. If I configure kmplayer to use mplayer, I get sound but
no picture, conversely, if I
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From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:21 PM
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Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)
Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:31 PM
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I think Duncan has adequately justified his use the
Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:09:23 -0700:
[richard j. fish wrote]
No, but that is *my* opinion. However Duncan has stated previously
that, while he probably wouldn't be willing to die to defend his freedom
regarding open source
On Friday 29 September 2006 19:01, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread
drift -slaveryware)':
No, No, NO! *anybody* can't!
Yes, anybody can. However, most people decide that the effort required for
them to make the change is greater than the
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That being said, way less than 5 percent of the population has even
the slightest bit of interest in learning the things that you and I
have chosen to dig in to...Those people are no less free for using
CSS, and the fact is,
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Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:33 PM
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Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)
For me (and it appears for you as well), a greater
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