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When will the USPTO put a stop on such BS patents, seriously! One day we will run out of colors, layouts and "business models" to patent... and then what?

Patents are meant to encourage entrepreneurship... not fund court rooms and judges' salaries.
No one will even notice when RMS dies.
Stallman, I had this man as a host in my house in Spain as part of a free software convention many years ago and I could tell you that he is one of the worst mannered person I had met in person, and that conclusion was shared with the entire LUG that had to organize it.

I appreciate what he has done with the GPL, but when speaking he could do a disservice for the community.

Something as simple as talking about "Linux" will make him crazy, as he will force you in a rude way to use GNU BEFORE Linux, always despising what Linux Towards made(and this thing called Hurd was going to be way better). As he talked it become obvious that he saw his role as more important than everybody else.

He has "command and control", "you are with me or against me" mentality.
Anyone more competent as a spokesperson for the FSF... would not be.

It is the sort of position that can only be publicly lead by someone who is more than a little eccentric. Anyone else would not be able to walk their own walk.
I disagree on "sparking a robotics revolution". It is akin to suggesting that Songsmith sparked a music revolution. Just because something is easier to do does not make it revolutionary, nor does it necessarily advance the field.

The barriers to entry that you speak of do not exist, unless you consider an Arduino, a motor shield, some sensors, cables and a breadboard costly speciality hardware. Take a look at www.sparkfun.com or www.pololu.com, all the things that come with an iPhone you can get in form of easily programmable modules. Need GPS? Buy a gps module. Need wireless communication? Get BT or XBEE.

Sure, building a robot this way is not as simple as plugging in your smartphone and dragging and dropping some blocks thorough the GUI, but it is not that difficult either, you learn more, and it does not get boring quickly.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think that keeping existing open source projects open source is all Stallman wants.

Do you honestly believe that his comments help push for more free software? I don’t.
That's why Linus, not Stallman, is the first name that comes to my mind when I think about FOSS. He's headstrong, sometimes a bit mean, positively pragmatic but also handsome, and -- oddly -- very likable. He's a bit like Steve Jobs, in a twisted way.
The funeral takes place today.
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But in the mac app store (which is also delivered by itunes) you could.
I have contacts that correct my vision to just about 20/20. Maybe I just have higher than average DPI screens, but most sites (hn included especially) are simply too small for me to sit at a comfortable distance and read comfortably. I don't know where the rest of you eagles come from.
Quite possibly. Would people rather we talked about the year or so that Mr. Jobs made unusual hygiene choices of his own? Both topics seem irrelevant to what the men in question have or haven’t accomplished.
> To him, there is no freedom but absolute freedom; any compromise whatsoever is unacceptable, and he will not sugar-coat his opinions to make them more palatable to those that don't think the same way that he does.

Yes, when asked he will express disdain even for projects like Ubuntu. He will say that iOS is worse, but to him, neither are acceptable. This keeps him from connecting strongly with many who are sympathetic to his cause.

I don't think people who have read a great deal of what he's said, and what others have said about him, are surprised by his recent statement about Steve Jobs. I was actually surprised that he waited 24 hours and managed to keep it short and say something to make it a little less personal (the Chicago mayor quote). I think he's maturing.
This is absolutely ludicrous. Non-competes for interns? I hope the company he worked at isn't in California where their non compete would be void.
"you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories"

Ok, but not use or deploy the results. Basically -- the author should add a license.
Non-competes are not enforceable against non-exempt workers (i.e., hourly, part-time, or independent contractors) in most states, but especially in blue states.

In some states, including California, non-competes are not even enforceable against full-time, fairly high-level employees.

You or the intern needs to talk to a lawyer, b/c it sounds like the NLRB should be having a chat with the potential employee's former employer.
That picture is what tilted the scale for me to get the $79 version. I don't have to look at that creepy face staring back at me, while saving thirty bucks.
Congrats to the pinterest team, perhaps they can invest in more servers now ;P
My Chrome Web Store app has 4000 users, in a couple of months. The previous pay version has about 15. Charging for stuff on the web works if you have a massive reach that comes with things like being on TechCrunch.

This project also benefited from being a vanity purchase.
free software isn't a religious movement like Stallman would like it to be.

it's just a social concept (one of many) of how we humans should organise our interactions with regards to software.

I believe it's an useful concept and probably so do you. For god's sake, we don't need a spokesperson!
The control systems run XP, Vista, or maybe Windows 7 (not sure about 7 yet). This is true of almost all military desktops, and all office automation servers, and most specialized servers (well, Windows Server 2003/2008).

I'm not sure what OS is on the aircraft; I think it's probably a RTOS for flight control and possibly separate processors (running whatever) on a bus for sensor packages. A lot of UAVs have interchangeable sensors, and sometimes a special camera, electronics package, etc. costs more than the airframe, is developed independently, etc.

There are tens (hundreds worldwide?) of UAV platforms in the US military, ranging from tiny little throwable tactical systems up through almost U2-sized "real aircraft, minus a pilot" like Global Hawk.
Organ transplant is a for-profit industry in India. Blood, bone marrow, kidneys; everything is bought and sold. There are no waiting lists, doctors sell it to the highest bidder.

Indian doctors engage in organs trading, nice doctors would hook you up with a poor and offer to buy his organs. Evil ones will abduct poor laborers, take out both of their kidneys & other organs, and dump their dead body.

There have been thousands of criminal instances of such horrific incidents and millions of organs traded illegally.

You can read some stories at following links:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1709006,00.htm...

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-02-02/india...

http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/16890/
There is something related to this for lego robots and android phones, Google for "do androids dream of lego mindstorms"?.
The robots + augmented reality games are a great idea.
Why Steve Jobs wasn't so great
RMS: the guy who doesn't have what it takes to finish GNU even after 27 years.
The problem is that Apple's terms add restrictions, which the GPL prohibits. If the author had uploaded the code, Apple's defense could be "Well, they agreed to the terms, so their item is licensed under the combination of our terms plus the GPL's terms, even though the GPL claims that it can't be modified." Unfortunately, that doesn't work AT ALL if the work includes GPLed code from a third party.

The solution is to create an "Itunes Open Source License" which says "The terms of the GPL are superior to the Itunes license when they do not conflict, but the Itunes license is superior if they do."

Or, alternatively, kick Apple's butt until they stop trying to restrict freedoms granted by the GPL. At that point, the usage terms will be compatible with the GPL.
No modern UAV has hardware capable of running an entire Windows installation.

I highly, highly doubt that you're right about this. If you happen to be right, you won't be for long. It might be that nobody wants to run Windows, but there is clear motivation, as well as hardware and software technology, to have a full-scale OS on an advanced UAV.
Enough. Stallman's not /the/ leader of Free Software. He can't be, because he doesn't lead.

He's a rude jackass that wrote some code and few licenses. He works on finding new ways to be a jackass to get attention.

In ideas and code, sure, he's contributed a lot. But he's no leader. That's something different.
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So you can't feel sad for someone dying without it being idol worship? And what about those of us whose lives he directly changed, is it unfair for us to feel a greater sense of loss?

In fact, it is his humanity that I respect and mourn the most: his drive to better himself and the world around him, an uncompromising vision in the face of adversity, and an unwillingness to give up.
No worries. It was a query of clarification not trolling, thanks.
Well, the beard, and other quirks, sort of symbolize how socially off and out-of-touch with normal people Stallman and others like him actually are. It doesn't automatically refute arguments he makes, but it does paint a picture.
It might sound not bad, when you're only used to that.
During his trip to India, Jobs met with Neem Karoli Baba and eventually became Buddhist. He also experimented with LSD. I imagine these experiences, as he specifically states, had a large impact on his life.
Jobs is a legend. RMS is simply infamous.
That depends entirely on what the goals of the organization are.

The FSF seems to be primarily focused on providing information and tools to those who wish to seek it. At this, I believe they do a pretty good job. There are other organizations focused on selling the idea of F/OSS to outsiders, such as OSI.
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>One day we will run out of colors, layouts and "business models" to patent... and then what?

Then a countdown to the expiration of the last patent will start.

And then we will enter an era of freedom of innovation. You will be free to take any design you like and improve on it without fear of being sued into oblivion if your design sees any kind of success.
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"But I see no argument whatsoever here to persuade Jobs' fans that they should be considering free software. Just a petty expression of relief that a rival is no longer available to compete with Stallman's cause."

To me this hit the nail on the head. As far as I can tell, Stallman was just trying to be as inflammatory as possible. There was certainly a more tactful way for Richard to express his opinion on the matter, and he's done nothing but hinder his own cause with his vitriol.
The individual contracts have limited budgets, but if there were a DoD or Government-wide instruction that all systems meet a specific security standard, all contracts would be amended (cost increased along with scope) to comply with that standard. There's very little external pressure to constrain the maximum possible IT and IT security spending within government, especially the military.

The costs of good vs. bad IT security are actually not terribly significant in the context of the overall defense budget, either.

It's really a failure of process and vision, not resource constraint. Government IT and IT security used to lead industry; now consumers especially and even enterprises are more advanced than government.
No. Windows boxes can communicate to an RTOS like VxWorks over a network just fine.
Benjamin's article is bullshit. The only way to deal with crap like that is name and shame, so that the next time a prospective employee googles the company they notice that they have a habit of fucking employees.

Personally, since Fog Creek is also in nyc, I'm guessing theladders.

theladders is in nyc, indeed is in austin/bay area, simply hired is bay area, I'm not sure where dice and monster are
> Linux Towards

One day, someone is going to have to fix autocorrect. It's batting 0 for 2 here.
What freedoms are gained from using Apple devices? Freedom to purchase things from Apple's app store? Freedom to install iTunes?

Do you equate freedom with empowerment? I do agree that Apple's devices have empowered people. But freedom and empowerment are not the same thing. You have more freedom to modify and adapt a post-it note than you do an iPhone.

The freedom issue is whether people have control over the machines they invite into their lives. Especially recently, Apple's devices force you into an (arguably exploitative) dependency.
What would it even mean to "finish GNU"? That doesn't make any sense.
I want simplicity and straight-forwardness of a single mouse click.
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I'm also 41, and I've recently had to take my glasses (for near-sightedness) off for anything at reading distance.

But I still prefer the smallest fonts on my e-reader, and relatively small fonts on my iPad and laptop computer.

While I don't mind larger fonts at 16px, I'm not willing to make that tradeoff for improved readability vs. not having to scroll as much.
No one is complaining about using LLVM they way it's supposed to be used. The problem is that LLVM has been promoted for use cases that it totally sucks for (JIT, portable bitcode).
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Since Google has a license to the IV portfolio, would Motorola be covered by that license if the sale to Google goes through?
Jobs was a notoriously private person, so I'm fairly confident saying that if you didn't know him personally, you aren't qualified to guess how he'd react to the death of someone. My guess is that he'd be quite reflective on the concept of death, but then again, I'm not qualified to speculate either.
If they've got anything to say to Steve they should've said it to HIS FACE when he was alive. RMS is a low life pig and a coward and I won't be surprised if people piss in his grave after he dies a lonely death.
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Perhaps Bill Hewlett when Steve was a kid? He cold called him up when he was 12.

http://www.hp.com/retiree/history/founders/hewlett/quotes.ht...

I wonder if Bill mentored Steve later when Steve was at Apple?
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He definitely has charisma. I remember seeing a video of him and Stallman on stage, and Linus' kid comes on stage and starts playing with Linus while Stallman is ranting about freedom.
the OS/kernel
They finished the "Not Unix!" part, but then they have to go and do the remaining GNU part. Since it's recursive, this could take a while.
one of the better ones, in my opinion.
This alternate submission from about the same time seems to have got the attention and discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085004
The bio in op-eds is a standard in journalism. It's added by the editor, not the author.
I don't think the outcry over RMS' statement was because people disagreed with him ... some do and some don't. But it's hard to ignore the utter tactlessness of stating you're happy a recently departed individual is gone. And you could also argue that Jobs pushed the state of our art. When would the GUI have reached mainstream without the original MacIntosh?

So ... everyone has good and bad sides, with some leaning more one way or the other. I'd argue that civility is becoming our society's most lacked attribute.
I dont claim to know what Richard Stallman wants or what effects his words have.
I think he meant psychopath rather than sociopath. It's been hypothesized that many great CEO's are psychopathic.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/06/14/why-som...
Your comment has the first mention of beard that I saw in this thread. Let's not derail this discussion.
Is there a distribution of Linux that has removed all of the Gnu stuff and anything connected to Stallman? I think there would be quite a lot of value in that personally.
"Steve Jobs did embody the lock down of computing"?

Really? To a hacker, perhaps, but to most people he made computing accessible, giving them tools that they'd never have had no matter how "open" otherwise.
Apple devices give you freedom to not care about your device.

And your distinction between freedom and empowerment is a false one in the real world. Freedom is generally about empowerment. Apple devices give you the power to exercise your freedom -- except along this narrow axis that you and Stallman seem to care so much about.
People do this for kiosks (unattended, public use) all the time. It's a good solution for some things.

It's easier to enforce a security policy on well-managed PCs which turn off various ports in software (AND DISABLE AUTORUN!), vs. trying to physically disable them, but DoD also had people go around and epoxy USB ports, or at the very least put foil seals on them. There are problems with this, like the usb cd-rom token things, and the attack mouse.

One of the few areas of IT security the DoD gets right is physical protection of infrastructure (relatively). Unfortunately, it's usually basically a strong shell with a gooey inside of software/networks, and with big pipes bringing lots of stuff in and out of the shell constantly. Once something bad gets in, it's kind of too late.

There's a lot of awesome new Intel stuff to make PC hardware potentially more secure -- secure boot, CPU features, memory protection, etc. Combined with the right OS, you could go a long way. Unfortunately a lot of people are also against this technology because it has been used for Digital Rights Management (DRM) anti-piracy, other privacy violations, etc. I was really against it for those reasons, but have come to think it would on the whole be a net win for society to have more secure IT, even if not being able to break it so easily means some people can use computers for bad things.
So you shoot down his "fortune-cookie wisdom", and correct him with the same type of analogy. Was the bile necessary?
No, they are in Maryland. I don't care about naming the company. I care about putting the kid in a bad position.
What?! I think Stallman has always been pretty clear about what he wants. It’s not clarity that he lacks as a spokesperson.
Dice is in Des Moines, IA. Monster is HQ'd in Maynard, Mass.
I mean just get them to sign it away with a disclaimer that says 'i release this data under a creative commons licence' and host it somewhere that HIPAA doesn't apply
"Eventually, the technicians had to use a software tool called BCWipe to completely erase the GCS’ internal hard drives."

You mean they paid $40 a license for dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda?

(I know BCWipe is a secure delete tool. But a computer virus can't perform forensic analysis of your hard drive.)
"I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone."

This means to me that Stallman is glad that Jobs is no more a malign influence on people's computing.

But he is not glad that he is dead.

That is exactly the same thing the poster says about Stallman:

"While I'd love it if Stallman would retire, or at the very least improve his social skills, I hope he lives to be 120. As long as he's alive, there's hope he might change. I'd never be glad that he's gone. And I'm certainly not glad that Steve is."

Saying that you'd love it if Stallman would retire means that you would be glad if he's gone.
> Innocents will only be hurt during the transitional period

Oh, well, if we won't be hurting them forever, that's fine then.
You don't have to be dishonest to do well.
>I don't think he knows what 'compromise' or 'real world' mean.

Isn't that how we got a functional free software stack though? A "real world" "compromise" pragmatic guy would have bought another printer and moved on.

The world needs idealists. We may not always agree with them, they sometimes sound crazy, but they play an important role.
It's not theladders. It's in Maryland, not New York.
Forget about a lawyer, the intern should call the state's labor board.

They'll cut them down to size for free and be thrilled to do it.

Seriously, I often see advice on HN to lawyer up over an employee disagreement, but your home state's government probably already has a ton of people waiting to jump all over that situation for you. The laws are so employee-friendly it's often pretty unfair.
Analyse what they know:
1. It's a keylogger
2. They've been aware of it for weeks
3. They admit that they can't seem to beat it
4. These are isolated systems and it's likely that the attack was via USB drives

Based on those facts, is it likely that this is benign? Are there known viruses that fit this pattern? Who's in charge of this project, and what do they say about it? Is it SOP for viruses to be able to completely beat military security for weeks? What are the possible security breaches? Why attack this part of the system?

There's a lot of questions that could and should be asked. Instead, Ars just repeated history and summarized the press release.
There is no difference between either the Phelps or the Stallman message.

There... uh.. seems to be a lot of difference between "god kills soldiers because gay people exist" and "software should be free." Even though his quip about Jobs's death was tacky, I'm still gonna give RMS more points than the Westboro Baptist Church.
I'm probably the hugest fan of Apple, and Jobs there is. I grew up on Macintoshes, own one of every iPhone and iPad. Five Apple Laptops in 11 years (three on my bed right now.)

But, I also love Open Software, and, from Stallman's perspective, I can see why Steve Jobs and his higher and higher walled gardens was seen as a threat to the Open Source movement.

Now, as for me - I don't really care, because I _love_ my iPhone4, my Macbook Air, and Terminal.App is my constant companion.

All in all I thought Stallman's response was as respectable and restrained as it could be for someone with his unflinching posture.
Metro is content- and context- oriented. It will present a file browser when you need one, containing the kind of content you care about. For example, add a picture to a tweet in your Twitter app and get an image gallery. The idea is for you not to have to care where files are located.
He probably means Hurd.
Man, reading your comment, my first guess is that you are single and unemployed.

I mean, yeah, okay, that's harsh. but yeah, I also thought that women mostly cared about money... until I gained some experience in the matter. I also thought that people worked hard at large corporations as a matter of course; again, I was disabused of the notion after gaining some experience.

Really, at large corporations? the way to get by is to be good enough that nobody wants to be mean to you (because you might leave and then nobody would be able to do your work) and to not work too hard.

That's how people who are really good at large corporations are compensated. They don't fuck with you and they don't expect a whole lot of work.

who works hard at a large corporation? that's like joining a startup for the job security.

But, you know what? small companies also have drama. At small corporations, if anything, it's harder to avoid the drama. Today is going to be dedicated, mostly, to dealing with drama within my company, oh, and drama it is. Yeah, there's less paperwork when a small company wants to fire someone, but it can still be a really big deal; the work still needs to get done, so I can't solve the drama that way.
No hard feelings; nice little site you have. I would drop reference to bitter humor from "hire me" page though; not many bosses I know like bitter people.
If you want GNU/Hurd so much, why don't you start working on it?
Seth Godin just offered $10,000 to a match (or the charity of their choice).
Wrong.

Jobs is a legend.

RMS is a pig.