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That's what freedom is all about, in my opinion. You have GOT to be kidding. Freedom is all about falling on your sword and saber rattling. At the same time, even! It's all about accusing other people of various crimes against the state, such as "hating freedom" or using software that contains un-"...

Come to think of it, if you wanted to clean that sentence up even more, you could drop the "or no price" altogether, as "You may charge any price" also accounts for a price of zero (or no price).

Edit: I forgot to say that despite all of this interesting discussion, from a personal standpoint, I am actually finding myself liking the BSD license more and more. A while back (in a thread a long time ago) I commented about how the BSD license seemed more "free" to me than the GPL. Thanks for sh...

Now, under the GPLv3, I could rightfully say, "Give me $25.00 and I'll sell you a copy of Bashpodder." Putting aside the issues of copyright and trademark, can't you do that with GPLv2? I might be wrong, but I thought _anyone_ could sell GPLv2 software -- it's just that you have to convey the four ...

I am, in no way, an authority on the GPL and all the legal-speak within it. However, when I first read v3, there were some inconspicuous changes in the wording that I made me say "hmmm...." Just one example, regarding "copying and distributing" GPLv2 says: You may charge a fee for the physical act o...

All this talk about the freedom to choose, yet some people aren't happy with Linus' choice so they continue to badger him about it. He's happy with GPL v2 and he has the freedom to use it. Get over it and move on. Too much of our energy is wasted on this crap, in my opinion. Those that don't like Li...

Jason Scott, director of "BBS: The Documentary", is working on a new project. Get Lamp is "a documentary about Text Adventures (later Interactive Fiction), the storytellers who created them, and their unique place in the history of computer games." Looks pretty interesting and should be ready for th...

I wanted to mention: The Commodore community lost another talented coder this past weekend. Jim Butterfield past away on June 29th, 2007, due to cancer. I remember watching Jim on TVO (a public television channel in Ontario) when I was a teenager, which contributed to my interest in micro-computers ...

I had a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (with the 16k memory module!!!!) almost 25 years ago. That was a blast. Not to mention the cassette-based storage... I'm assuming that you no longer have it with you. I remember that my uncle had a Timex Sinclair. He bought it as a kit. I also remember him loaning it to ...

I did have an Amiga 2000HD with the IBM 8080 board, so you really had two computers in one. Cool. I always wanted an Amiga, but I was just finishing college and a new career at the time, so I never had the money to buy one. I think it was around '94 / '95 when my original 128 packed it in. I believ...

Okay, this weekend I picked myself up a Commodore 128 to replace the one that put me through college. And tonight I loaded up GEOS and played around with it for a bit.... more on my blog, here . So now I'm really feeling nostalgic for, what I call, the Golden Age of personal computing. Who'd like to...

Tsuroerusu wrote:Yeah that I also think was a little odd, but you know companies always keep stuff like that secret.

Not all of them. I think Mandriva's position on this matter is quite clear.

If I were a Red Hat / Fedora user, I'd be concerned about the "can't answer that question" comment. That's the info. I was trying to pass along.

I personally don't think Red Hat will do this, first of all, when Novell did their deal, Red Hat came out and lambasted it and claimed to never do such a thing. Hmmmm..... so far my "Spidey Senses" have served me pretty well. Red Hat CEO says he talked patents with Microsoft In an interview with Re...

Snarkout wrote:The key word in my post is "remotely." Locally, on my LAN, streaming of all sorts is just fine with SSHFS. I love it!

I get it.

Anyway, it's a useful tool. I'm liking it a lot, too. It's fish:// on steroids!