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Quote: A true definition of free software would also include the freedom from tinkering with source code... This definition fails MISERABLY when dealing with projects like Blender. I am so frikkin' glad that program is free! Of course, the author of this fluff piece is free to build a framework around Blender. How many man-years would that take right now?
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David O'Neil wrote: I am so frikkin' glad that program is free! The Free and Open Software guys have for at least 25 years chanted their mantra: 'Free', not as in 'free beer' but as in 'free speech'.
Your praise of Blender as free is 'free as in free beer' - unless I completely misunderstand what you are saying.
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I was saying that the article author was keeping too narrow of a focus. In his definition Blender isn't 'free.' I challenge him to make it 'free' by his definition. It is huge, and ever-expanding, and would take him forever to accomplish his 'freedom' version. I say it is 'free' as it is. He would have to be a slave to make it 'free.'
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Let’s dig into the highlights: .NET 7 support, Library Assets, SVG Support, Android 13, the new WebAssembly Bootstrap 7.0, and ASP.NET Core Hosting Project. "We're one, but we're not the same"
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Uno 4.6, CoreWCF 1.0, .Net 7.0, Windows 11, Office 365...
BINGO!!!
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They are claiming that Microsoft is engaging in open-source software piracy by using billions of lines of code written by millions of programmers under various licenses including MIT, GPL, and Apache. "I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites."
Not a dupe - the last one was them complaining about it, now the lawsuit.
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Are you sure about the first type? I would say that's more the exception confirming the rule, because the % of those is reaaaaaalllly low.
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If they're pirating open-source software without regard to its license, it could be a problem. At this point, it's most likely at the level of code snippets, so I wouldn't care if they did it with my code. But as the technology improves, it could end up crossing the line.
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Non-public code snippets would fall under those copywrites. If the author had published the snippets anywhere, including here on Code Project, then the copywrite status become a very serious gray area. If they were published in print media then they become fair game for anyone as Technology Review demonstrated back during the height of the music copywrite legal battles by publishing, in paper format, the code to circumvent one of Sony's copy protection schemes.
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Linus Åkesson's instrument sports custom software and a bellows made of floppy disks. Thus irritating both music lovers, and computer nostalgia fans
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For engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number of meetings expected of engineering managers can end up being a distraction that does more harm than good. Is 'engineers' a word meaning 'everyone' in that headline?
My Stupid Idea of the Day(tm):
Each manager is given a certain allotment for meetings each time period. The allotment is used up based on the salary of everyone they invite to the meeting. They don't know the size of the allotment, or the salaries, they just know the % of the allotment left for that time period. Once the allotment is used up, they can no longer schedule meetings until the next time period.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Each manager is given a certain allotment for meetings each time period. The allotment is used up based on the salary of everyone they invite to the meeting. They don't know the size of the allotment, or the salaries, they just know the % of the allotment left for that time period. Once the allotment is used up, they can no longer schedule meetings until the next time period. Lucky you if meeting only come from managers...
I have had them set by many other people.
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A good technical manager who was something of a mentor in my early days told me that he liked it when he was invited to two conflicting meetings. He would then attend neither, because everyone would assume he was in the other one.
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Since CoreWCF 1.0 was released in April, we have received customer interest in tooling to assist the upgrade from WCF on .NET Framework to CoreWCF on .NET 6 and later versions of .NET. Bad news: It's still WCF
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The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads the country's cyber security mission, is now scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities. They're just looking for the next PM
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Kent Sharkey wrote: is now scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities. Now the real question is... scanning for vulnerabilities to close them or to use them?
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Yes.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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As long as they report those vulnerabilities to the owner of each device so they have the option to fix them. If the devices are home routers then the manufacturer needs to be notified and instructed, under penalty of existing cyber-crime laws that they must fix and make the fixes freely available, with a preference to pushing those fixes to the devices.
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That's how it should go in an ideal world. Sadly we are not in an ideal world
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The creator of the web isn’t sold on crypto visionaries’ plan for its future and says we should “ignore” it. Done.
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As if it would make any difference if we ignore it or not if it gets pushed by the big players...
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Microsoft is bringing the ability to run nested hypervisor (Hyper-V) or nested virtualization to Linux So we can have VMs all the way down
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How about we run them outwards, starting from an instance of Doom? Or Minecraft.
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The obscured "zone of avoidance" in space is a place of mystery, and scientists are peering at what's inside it. Sadly, not a Ring World
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