Re: floss enforcement/compliance

2004-02-29 Thread Novica Nakov
ed phillips wrote: > Novika, Missed me by a letter. :) > You hinted that you are familiar with MySQL? I was talking about MySQL AB's lawsuit against NuSphere in 2002, for which they received help from FSF. > I'm curious. They seem in their licensing literature ( > http://www.mysql.com/produc

Re: floss enforcement/compliance

2004-02-29 Thread Benjamin Geer
ed phillips wrote: > I'm curious. They seem in their licensing literature( > http://www.mysql.com/products/opensource-license.html ) > to be trying to scare non-Linux users, companies, and government > organizations into purchasing commercial licenses. I thought MySQL's interpretation of the GPL s

The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)

2004-02-29 Thread geert lovink
Notes on the State of Networking By Geert Lovink and Florian Schneider February 2004 (Written for the free theory paper Make World #4, printed in 10,000 copies and distributed at the Neuro-Networking in Europe-festival in Munich. URL: www.makeworlds.org). No longer the society, the political p

Re: ultima thule

2004-02-29 Thread Carl Guderian
You know what's gonna happen next. Bootleg copies of Ulysses online and pages available to download, so festival attendees can read from them in the streets of Dublin *in front of crowds*, in case they don't have their own paperback copies. Back in the day, land was leased out for 99 (or 999) years

Re: floss enforcement/compliance

2004-02-29 Thread Benjamin Geer
ed phillips wrote: > If you are the > government of Extremadura and you need to release an application to > all your far flung Linux servers that > does foo and stores bar in a MySQL database, you are free to > distribute this on all your computers without formally having to > inflict the ugly, jus

Re: The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)

2004-02-29 Thread Benjamin Geer
geert lovink wrote: > After an exciting first phase of introductions and > debates, networks are put to the test: either they transform into a body > that is capable to act, or they remain stable on a flatline of information > exchange, with the occasional reply of an individual who dares to > disa

Internet newspapers as alternative media... OhmyNews from South Korea

2004-02-29 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
*** Internet newspapers as Alternative Media: The Case of OhmyNews in South Korea *** by Cheon Young-Cheol South Korean society was under military dictatorship from the 1970s to the 1980s. In those days, many journalists protested against the military authorities. Some of them went to jail and

Re: floss enforcement/compliance

2004-02-29 Thread ed phillips
Thanks Ben and Novica, I'm not knocking MySQL for making money or for having a commercial license in addition to a GPL version. In fact, a few years ago, I contributed in some small ways to the MySQL project myself. I think highly of Monty, etc. I wish them continued success. In fact, however, th

Re: floss enforcement/compliance

2004-02-29 Thread ed phillips
Thanks Ben and Novica, I'm not knocking MySQL for making money or for having a commercial license in addition to a GPL version. In fact, a few years ago, I contributed in some small ways to the MySQL project myself. I think highly of Monty, etc. I wish them continued success. In fact, however, th