minix - tannenbaum won!
juan
juan.g71 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 10:54:10 PST 2017
On Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:36:44 -0500
John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
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> On November 9, 2017 1:16:02 PM EST, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 12:19:45 -0500
> >John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
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> >> >
> >> > also, the fact that motherfucking intel gets to 'save'
> >> > money by using free stuff isn't exactly good news either.
> >> >
> >> > last but not least, at some point it's quite ridiculous
> >> > for open source advocates to give weapons to their enemies.
> >>
> >>
> >> Minix is BSD-licensed, so anyone can take it and do what they will
> >> with it. I guess you're advocating for GPL only in open source
> >> stuff? I can see both sides of the argument...
> >
> > well it's a dilemma. I don't think 'intellectual property' is
> > justified or enforceable at all. But that in turn means that
> > good ideas can be used by all sorts of hardly-human scum.
> >
> > As to 'legal' licences in the american fascist, I mean,
> > 'legal' system they are just bullshit written by lawyers.
> > GPL relies on 'copyright' doesn't it.
> >
> >
>
> Right - which is why I personally prefer BSD licensed stuff, seems to
> come closer to doing away with the whole notion of copyright.
yeah - then again, using copyright to limit the damage caused
by copyright and to put material in some sort of public domain
might seem like a valid compromise. But what happens when the
copyright term expires? Well, argually that's not a problem
since copyright now lasts 140 fucking years average...oops.
>
> But it can obviously have negative side effects, as we see, when the
> state, or corporations, build on these efforts for their nefarious
> purposes... Not sure there's a good solution here. Except of course
> for the utter destruction of the state ;)
pretty much...
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> >> > > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
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