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Save the Internet from the US(avaaz.org)
207 points by Fice 15y ago|79 comments
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by Fice 15y ago
The patent system is so that almost every non-trivial software can be considered encumbered. Yet the chances of being sued successfully are different. Why will MPEG LA need to push their codec if they could profit from selling patent licens
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by Fice 15y ago
This will surely help MPEG LA make their encumbered codec a standard for publishing video on the web. I would rather use a browser that does not support non-free codecs.
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Ql2500-firmware (crazy package update details)(admin.fedoraproject.org)
1 points by Fice 15y ago|0 comments
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Apple's ebook sales restrictions: the newest reason to use free software(fsf.org)
1 points by Fice 15y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 15y ago
Probably, this is the first site that actually wants it's visitors to understand it's terms of use.
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Photographers face copyright threat after shock ruling(amateurphotographer.co.uk)
92 points by Fice 15y ago|50 comments
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by Fice 15y ago
As I said already, they do not care what we say as long as they get their money. Even if SOPA will not pass, efforts againts Internet freedom will continue. The wide boycott of RIAA, MPAA and all SOPA/PIPA supporters is necessary. If you gi
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by Fice 15y ago
For dynamic content there is I2P.
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by Fice 15y ago
Get it rolling, and then distance yourself safely.
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by Fice 15y ago
It's a pity that your life is so dependent on some computer vendors and media companies. Still, if you pay them you do actually support SOPA and Internet censorship no matter what you say. They really do not care what you say as long as you
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by Fice 15y ago
All those anti-SOPA letters and writings are useless and even hypocritical until people who write them stop supporting SOPA with their money. If you are not going to endure the inconvenience of boycotting SOPA supporters (Apple, Microsoft,
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by Fice 15y ago
As I said already, today's hacker culture is crippled. So called "hackers" here have lost their principles, forgotten the value of freedom, worship the wrong idols. How come an entrepreneur be a hero much more important than any of the rese
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by Fice 15y ago
Being a part of the hacker culture means sharing the hacker ethics, including the principle of information-sharing, which is the base of the FSF philosophy. These principles are not set by someone, there are what is meant by the word "hacke
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by Fice 15y ago
So if I kill people and say "screw you" to anyone who tell me that this is wrong am I a hacker? That is nihilism. If it is called a culture, there must be ethics. For instance, information-sharing is an important hacker ethic: http://www.c
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by Fice 15y ago
FSF: Microsoft's Empty Promise ( http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono )
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by Fice 15y ago
Yes, please see my reply above.
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by Fice 15y ago
The reality is that .NET is a very probable patent trap for the FOSS community and Microsoft is trying hard to make us dependent on it. Unlike .NET, Java has a free implementation (OpenJDK) and any code derived from OpenJDK is granted Java
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by Fice 15y ago
Pragmatism over principle again; today's hacker culture is crippled.
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by Fice 15y ago
Apache will likely release OOo under their permissive license allowing the code to be incorporated into proprietary software. So why do Oracle want to make the OOo code available to Microsoft and IBM for use in their office suites? This may
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by Fice 15y ago
That is from the definition: «Fear, uncertainty and doubt, frequently abbreviated as FUD, is a tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics and propaganda. FUD is generally a strategic attempt to influence public perception b
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by Fice 15y ago
> 1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen The title is pure FUD.
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by Fice 15y ago
I see Microsoft (and probably some other companies) behind the decline of popularity of GPL. They invented the term "viral license" back in 2001. The reason why Microsoft is fighting against GPL while sponsoring non-copyleft open-source pro
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by Fice 15y ago
Yes, I experienced a significant shift in my worldview when I first learned Goedel's incompleteness theorems.
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by Fice 16y ago
The real reason for low adoption of IPv6 is that it would decrease demand in hosting and clould services at least for personal use as everyone will be able to access their home computers from everywhere. Service providers does not want IPv6
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by Fice 16y ago
Then Microsoft started to try the EEE (embrace, extend and extinguish) strategy. Yet the projects under copyleft licenses like GPL are more or less immune to EEE, so MS has started to support permissive open-source against copyleft.
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by Fice 16y ago
What about academia? Working in a university is very different from being employed in a company as it implies more independence and freedom to pursue own research interests.
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by Fice 16y ago
Reminds me of the threading macros (-> and ->>) from Clojure.
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by Fice 16y ago
What I was trying to say is that there is no need to introduce another symbol τ as we can simply refer to "the circle constant" as 2π. I am not suggesting to treat 2π as a single symbol in formulas.
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by Fice 16y ago
Just think of 2π as a single symbol — the circle constant. Why do we need another name for 2π?

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