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Linus Torvalds disagrees with that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Loadable_kernel_m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadable_kernel_module#License...
Looked at the page they linked... still have no idea what it is they're launching, having never heard of it before.

Might be a good idea not to assume that people know what your product is when you write such a release page...
The "Unix issue" is 35 years old
35 years ago they wrote: "UNIX is not the end of the road in operating systems innovations, [...]" but it very much was the final word: Today the only OS's left are those which converged on "the UNIX model" and your mobile and your TV both run UNIX.
This is something real, tangible, and valuable that we can all actually do. All of this month I have felt powerless. This is something within everyone's power to do, and it can definitely help start the ball rolling back the way it came.

It is pretty unfortunate that there is such a short window of time in which this information can be disseminated. I can imagine if there were a bit more time, this could really spread over the whole Web, as the SOPA outroar did. Anyway, we have to do the best we can, with the time we have.
I apologise, I am not familiar enough with the usage of 'guy' to know it is generic in singular (I know it is in plural).
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... and to be fair: Rob Pike absolutely nailed this 13 years ago: http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf
An anarchist could have a novel and useful insight into taxation, despite the straw man you set up.

It's common that deciding to reject the status quo requires strong and considered reasoning.
Do you have evidence to backup your claim? And if so, could you please present it?
Looks good, is to the point, very convenient -- tells you what to say, who to say it to.

Wonderful job guys. I think this is going to be a pretty effective grassroots campaign.
Ok, technically you are correct. Good job. What I meant is he wasn't hacking benevolently to discover vulnerabilities to promote world peace and economic development for poor orphans and endangered species.
Wow, again. Also found:

> Now, putting it publicly on github qualifies as distribution, and therefore this code is also under the GPLv2 license implicitly. The act has already been done, and even if it does contain copyrighted bits by MS, the released version is now forever GPL.

so, yeah.. by this logic I can take my company's code, put it on GitHub under a GPL license and now everyone is free to use it under GPL. Doesn't matter that I don't have the right to license it..
It would be very bad if they do, since that would open the existing exFAT projects up to legal action.

Anyone who has read the Samsung code is "tainted" with the knowledge of Samsung's proprietary techniques which may be copyrighted, so those people may well introduce copyright violations into the code.

In clean-room reverse engineering projects, the people who are examining the system to be reverse engineered are never the same people that actually write the new clean code, thus avoiding the taint of proprietary knowledge.
If it's a derivative work of the Linux kernel (links to internal kernel API) it should be GPL. If Samsung distribute it to users then it should do that under GPL.

Samsung should be the first to relicense it.
I'm in an identical situation as you.
OP here. In the blog post, I use a traditional HTTP routing library on the server, and I return HTTP-like responses. Since I didn't reinvent that part, it's actually pretty trivial to either use the same code and package it into a war file, or just fire up a Jetty in-process if you only have one server instance.
By illegal you mean illegal to distribute. If Samsung used this code internally and it was leaked accidentally, they are not in violation of the GPL.
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"Time gating" is probably the most common free to play business model on IOS. See the top 10 grossing list in the App Store for other games using that model.
You might misunderstand what the purpose of HFT is - it's not about making a small margin on a huge volume of trades, it's all about order fulfillment (liquidity).

I'll try and illustrate with a contrived example. Say i want to buy 1000 shares at no more than $1 each. By using HFT, a trading firm can put together the order 'package' by combining many smaller trades at varying prices such that the average price comes out at the lowest (or target) price.

The competitive edge for a trading firm comes from being able to consistently fulfill orders, meaning they get more orders / customers.

Does that kind of explain the utility of HFT? Yes it allows a trading firm to make more money, but they way they do that is by providing a better service - not by simply exeucting a huge volume of trades and making fractions of a cent from each one.
Canonical is still working with networks and carriers to provide some mid-range as well as high-end smartphones. These will be mass produced and should be cheaper.

The Indiegogo campaign is just a sideline, not the core strategy.
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Giles' conclusion to go with Nginx combined with Lua is a great one. At 3scale we find the combo terrific for the purpose of a high-performance API Gateway:
http://3scale.github.io/2013/01/09/augment-your-api-without-...
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You are not. They messed up something.
(b) because usually you can't. Nor should you be able to...
CloudFlare has a PoP in Sydney. Same price as everywhere else in the world.
Yeah that was a nice game, but really. Take your money and put it into something useful. There's diseases to be cured, politicians to be lobbied, philosophical questions to be investigated, space to explore.. There's poverty and war.

We used to like games when we were kids, of course. But we are adults now. (I assume that most HN-readers are adults.) Shouldn't we care about different things?
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Just a question I thought of this morning.

I was introduced to open-source through Github (I know, I'm young and green), I have no context about what it was like beforehand, I thought pull-requests were a core git feature and Github just put a nice wrapper on them :)

So, when you found a bug in OSS pre-Github/Bitbucket et-al, how would you fix it? Where would you discuss it, on mailing lists? And when it was fixed/merged, how would you inform people what had happened, why, and how the changes might affect them?
> I'm a big girl

I believe the key part of this is the "I'm a big X" pattern (i.e. "I'm an adult"), not that the person is female.
>So, a glide to an emergency landing means that the flight is not over?

By the very definition of the world "flight", yes.
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You refer to dependency_links as a "misfeature," but I'm wondering why?
Contrary to popular belief, copyright law doesn't exist to ascertain dominion from an author onto it's creation. It exists to regulate exchanges and distribution of such creation, giving a controlled and finite monopoly to the original author with a guarantee that said creation ends up in the public domain.
GPL exists to bypass such monopoly and implement a form of public domain (copyleft) that is compatible with copyright law.
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Not just copyrighted. Microsoft claims a whole bunch of patents related to exFAT. This means you can't legally implement exFAT without a license to those patents, even if you've never even seen the Samsung code. This is the reason why exfat-fuse is not part of any large Linux distributions.
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It's hard to tell - there doesn't seem to be any proof of this and in the case of leaked code I'd be wanting proof.
OK, the concept of "abstract dependencies" makes sense, but boy is it a complicated way to fix an edge case. How many times have you had to swap out a concrete dependency vs how many times have you bashed your head against the wall about the proper way to setup a python library? I know my experience skews heavily toward the latter.

I wish python had an equivalent to npm. npm does a lot of things right: local packages by default, recursive dependency resolution, a simple declarative package specification (package.json), and the ability to run your own private npm registry. And it wraps up the logic of a bunch of tools: virtualenv + pip + (distutils / setuptools / distribute / distutils2).
Isn't this is a general trend with Android/Cyanogenmod hackers? If you go on something like xda-developers then there's a sticky saying "please don't post GPL violations".

Early Cyanogen releases were fast and loose with redistribution of Google proprietary apps, which got the author in a spot of trouble IIRC. Right now the distribution of these ROMS is IMO pretty suspect - they include whole swathes of binary blobs that they really shouldn't be redistributing willy nilly. If you want the proprietary pieces that belong to the manufacturer of your phone, you should have to pull them off yourself. The ROM creators shouldn't be pulling these bits off of their phones and re-distributing them.

The fact that so many prebaked ROMs are distributed though megaupload-alikes is a bit of a giveaway as to the general philosophy of that community.
Illustrations like these do more harm than good. It lets people imagine that spaces are getting 'flooded' with 'stuff'. Radio is a light. A blinking light. A transmitting antenna like a light bulb. If your receiver can see the light blink (or a reflection of it) the signal gets through. Radio has the added benefit that (especially at longer wavelengths) most of the material world appears to be made of tissue paper.
This. Honestly, how can they act like we should pay for the DLC when it was ready for ME3 on day one! I am totally against DLC and have only ever bought DLC for Skyrim because it added enough gameplay to be worth the cost.
I really wanted a design tool that was fluid like Photoshop but thought like a developer. I left my job at MIT, partnered with a good friend and started building it. It's been seven months and we're proud to finally demo it publicly. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
A lot of "unofficial fan based" projects seem to be tolerated by the IP owners while there's no money involved, even if they get quite large.

These guys are asking for $400,000.

Anyone taking bets on how long until we see some sort of takedown notice?
The interface is so frustrating! I just want to view a slideshow of photos, but your carousel on the main page keeps leading to new pages!

That said, this is a pretty cool project, and a nice idea as well.
So how soon till Square shuts this down with a C&D?
Yeah! That'll work! Just like the Occupy movement.

Will there be beer?
Not the original commenter, but if you are looking for the intellectual underpinning of conservatism then I'd guess Edmund Burke would be a good start. I'd summarise as 'don't tinker with things you don't fully understand' but that overly simplifies it.
Yes it does. Gravity changes spacetime, so the locally flat spacetime at the bottom of a gravity well isn't the same as the locally flat spacetime at the top of a well, but it's still flat in both cases.
Oh for crying out loud. This is a childish argument. Does every human endeavour need a quantifiable amount of "goodness" attached to it?
$3.8M/day * 365 days = $1.387B/yer

With a profit margin of only 20%, one can become a billionaire in a little more than 3 years? There's plenty room to find another way of making money after 5 years of reading the wave this way, even if this kind of business suddenly drops to $0/day after five years, which won't happen.
I care about poverty and war and politics and curing cancer, of course, but that's not all I think about 100% of the time. I can only speak so definitely for myself, but I'd be willing to bet that you don't either. You could apply your logic to all sorts of things, and look down your nose at having a drink with friends, or walks along the beach, or painting, or playing the piano. Why play with your kids, there are diseases to be cured, come on! None of really live our lives like that.

Actually, my main problem with this particular Kickstarter is the blatant copyright infringement, which Kickstarter usually takes down.
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Has G4 been actually deployed?

And it seems some Gen4 will get Ivy Bridge 8 Core Xeon E5, 256GB Ram and Intel SC3700 SSD?

And why only 10Gbps Per Server, surely you could fit one more Solarflare in?

Other then that i really hope Cloudflare could expand beyond the current PoP.
There are plenty of options in AU that are priced similarly to their presence in other countries.

Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Rackspace via Akamai etc
I can sort of see is logic. If a company has a private stash of GPL code (say, Google is running a special fork of Linux), and it gets leaked, even though the leak was illegal the code might still be distributable under GPL.

But ... this code was never (afaik) legitimately GPL. Maybe Samsung had based it on GPL code (in which case, it's GPL), but we'd need some proof.
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Who cares? Just re-time commits after work hours and lie. It's better than doing nothing. Just make sure your machine is not bugged.
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I find these two claims together a bit odd.

"It is well known, that social buttons effect your site’s overall loading time."

"Like Button is loaded asynchronously and does not slow down your website."

All popular services I know of also load their social buttons asynchronously, and just because it doesn't block rendering, doesn't mean it doesn't slow things down.
While there are some $60 titles that are so good you can justify paying that much for a mere 10 hours of play, most are not worth nearly that much due to lack of replayability. If everyone keeps buying lousy games for full price the companies will keep producing lousy games because they don't need to be creative. I think many gamers have realized this and that is why indie games have been cropping up everywhere lately. I paid $10 for minecraft and have gotten hundreds of hours out of it so the cost is small per hour.
That's amazing. Do you have any tips for buying a business? Maybe some books to recommend?
I'm highly curious about this from a strategic long term point, not a tactical individual issue. Who is rxrz? Before June 24th, he/she/it (it aka an alias) didn't exist on github.

If this is someones paid project (who's paying?) to disrupt exFAT work, its doing pretty well, only took about a month to possibly destroy the whole area of operation. Effective. Probably pretty cheap.

So, follow the money. Who benefits? Could they (or a subcontractor of a subcontractor, etc) be hiring someone to sabotage a project?

There's a critical matter of identity here. We're discussing this as if its a J random hacker individual scenario. It might not be, and there's no reason to suggest it goes either way. Also looking at the github record this individual has apparently never done anything else, and didn't "exist" until recently, which is ... odd.

This situation needs to be looked into. I would give it maybe 75% chance of pure cluelessness and flaming, and maybe 25% chance of being something... more complicated; or worse.
Anyone used the service before? Apparently it's like dropbox but doesn't take up any space and data gets encrypted client side...
«American immigration policy, which is a lot more "open door"»

I do not now about that. My impression is that American immigration is just more promoted (and exploited) than in other countries, not necessarily easier or more open. It is like an industry on itself. Other countries are not that eager to sell themselves to immigrants, which I guess it's because the general feeling about what already belongs to locals and is not to be sold.
That looks like a very poor, straight-up bad idea. The story was fun as a game, but I feel a lot of doubt that it would anything beyond laughable as a film.

I wish them luck if they really want to do it, but I certainly won't be backing it.
I hope you'll be downvoted to hell.

HN should be about constructive criticism. We're all intelligent people, we can all tear down anything we put our mind at, but that doesn't mean that we should, or we wouldn't leave our house every day.

I know I'm a cynic and it's a bad habit I'm trying to change, maybe you should try too.
Yep, Square has a history of protecting their trademarks too. They shut down "Crimson Echoes" which was a no-cash-involved fan game too based on Chrono Trigger.
Apparently he indeed was evil:
"On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL. In this demonstration, he poured TEL over his hands, then placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems whatsoever. Midgley himself was careful to avoid mentioning to the press that he required nearly a year to recover from the lead poisoning brought on by his demonstration at the press conference."
I have a question.

It's pretty much a safe bet that the NSA runs Open Source Software. You can't do anything on the internet these days without using FLOSS.

I'm not an expert in software licenses but can't GNU, Linus, Mozilla and all other Open Source contributers revoke the NSA's license to use their software?

Surely Open Source licenses, just like any other license, can be revoked?
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Too familiar to me to consider it as fictional. As for your "almost went crazy for not doing anything productive" - give it time it'll come to you ;)
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This certainly depends on the individual, but for me, I start with intellectual objections to government power -- and to the implicit acceptance of massive government power found in American liberalism -- and the long record of "Progressive" programs failing to meet their goals and producing instead negative consequences. An example of both of these is Social Security.

It is easy to be contemptuous of most liberal opinions (though this is not sufficient to be opposed to Progressive ideals) as they ignore the disconnect between intention and effect. Many progressive programs are righteous in intention, but harmful in effect. An example is the minimum wage.

I sympathize with OP's position. I too voted for Obama and I now have "liberal" friends making increasingly hair-brained excuses for these mad abuses of civil liberties. They love Obama the man more than they care about his rule.
Did Samsung, in fact, distribute the code in Android devices? If the answer is "yes", wouldn't that make it GPLd?
Exactly. I wouldn't play Dota 2 anymore if all the big fans could simply dump a couple hundred bucks into it and be better than everyone else. It's the reason I stopped playing games like Magic the Gathering as well.
Not likely to happen - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

> The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
Pretty soon I guess. Square shut down many fan projects that didn't even use their assets (like Chrono Trigger resurrection) and weren't supposed to earn money. They basically send DMCAs just for using their trademark (i.e. game title).
It's not open source if you specify who can and cannot use it. There was some bit of software years ago that had a clause like "no neonazis may use this software", and it got DQ'ed from Debian because that made it not free software.

It's a bit like free speech: you really want to be very, very careful about limiting what people can say.
No worries :). I just think of it as another way of saying "dude".
> We used to like games when we were kids, of course. But we are adults now. (I assume that most HN-readers are adults.) Shouldn't we care about different things?

I must have missed the memo, exactly what age was I supposed to stop liking things I used to like and give up all entertainment?

Not that this project has an ice cubes chance in hell, but that's beside the point.
They they can't. Most (all?) of the opensource licenses do not have the "revokable clause" with them.
Possible reasons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians_of_convenience

(Having no dog in this hunt as I'm not Canadian nor do I have any claim on Canadian citizenship or permanent residence, much as I'd like to.)
I'm surprised there's people in East Texas district that has not served on a jury trial for patent infringement.

Always that district court. It's obvious the court there is part of the problem.
I think this is fighting the symptom rather than the cause. NSA is a symptom of a much larger problem, which is taxes. If you didn't have them, you wouldn't have to demand those things in the first place, because all the money you'd give would be given voluntarily and to organizations that you choose and think are important.
Ok. What happens if GNU decides to Fork the GPL v3 and call it "GPLv3+NSA Exception" and then relicense all their code to this new forked license?

A clause in this forked license is that the NSA can't use it.
But the thing is that all the things you wrote about torture apply to drone strikes as well, on a much wider scale. It's not just the explosions that matter. There's a) the constant fear people have that something, somewhere near, might just explode at any time, and b) the sound of drones flying overhead, all the time, pretty much 24h/day, that keeps people from sleeping and scares the cattle. There were some good articles about how this looks in Pakistan back around 2010.
Not necessarily, no. There is a long history of people releasing closed source drivers, particularly on embedded platforms.

So far as I can tell the kernel devs think it's harmful and A Bad Thing (TM), but not a violation.

Also as has been pointed out below, it wouldn't automatically make it GPL. It would make it in violation of GPL and releasing under GPL would fix the violation, but it wouldn't make it GPL.
Timegating is different isn't it? You pay X for Y amount of time, whereas this is you pay X for Y amount of lives. Or have I got my definition of timegating wrong?
> If the answer is "yes", wouldn't that make it GPLd?

No.
This seems less like a story about Amazon and more about the unrealistic expectations set by local politicians in a once-great industry town.
No, you can't revoke their license to use the software they already have, only them breaching the license would lose them the right to use it.

You could change the licensing so that they are not allowed to use future versions, but then that's no longer open source software. The open source definition[0] says:

"5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons."

The last issue you get with this idea is whether the NSA is the most unethical user of these pieces of software, I seriously doubt that is the case. Then you need to introduce clauses to ban everyone else who you feel doesn't behave in the manner you'd like. That'll be fun.

[0] http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
>which is taxes

Let's start with the possible, shall we?
Clause 6 of the Open Source Definition ( http://opensource.org/osd-annotated ) states that open source software licenses cannot discriminate against fields of endeavor. That is, you can't state in your license that an abortion clinic / anti-abortion activists can't use the software and still call it open source.
This is much closer to the actual Erlang philosophy that gets misquoted so often.
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