Re: Roy Schestowitz Doesn't Even Understand The Implications of the GPL

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Moshe Goldfarb.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:19:56 -0700 (PDT), robert.e.clayton@gmail.com wrote:

> Caught this rather embarrassing (for Roy) exchange on BN:
>
> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/28/miguel-de-icaza-vs-gpl/
>
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>
> #
> Roy Schestowitz said,
> August 30, 2008 at 3:09 am
>
> I didn¡¦t add this to the text above (cited it instead and talked about
> it in IRC), but the licence is possibly designed to permit change of
> ¡¥de facto¡¦ ownership or control. Microsoft cannot stand the GNU GPL
> and, in case it buys Novell, that matters.
> #
> AlexH said,
> August 30, 2008 at 4:06 am
>
> @Roy: totally false.
>
> All open source licenses are perpetual when ownership changes, the
> new owner can change the license on the software but that doesn¡¦t
> affect existing users.
>
> I¡¦m not surprised that you don¡¦t understand Miguel¡¦s comment and think
> it FUD. Probably because you don¡¦t know your history: when it was
> created, it was put under the GPL for ¡§political¡¨ reasons, and was
> thus inaccessible to both proprietary apps but also non-GPL compatible
> open source apps (e.g., Apache-licensed apps) and also to those non-
> copylefted projects who didn¡¦t want to be forced to release under the
> GPL (good example: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-12/msg01038.php).
>
> This rubbed some people up the wrong way, not because it was GPL, but
> because of how overtly the point was made. It¡¦s a historical argument
> well-known amongst the free software community.
>
> Miguel is referring to that debate. He may not prefer the GPL, I don¡¦t
> know his personal view, but his comment is about which licenses you
> use where in the stack, not whether or not certain licenses are good
> or bad.
>
> I¡¦ve stopped expecting you to correct your false stories, but maybe
> this will help inform you in the future.
> #
> Roy Schestowitz said,
> August 30, 2008 at 4:10 am
>
> All open source licenses are perpetual when ownership changes,
> the new owner can change the license on the software but that doesn¡¦t
> affect existing users.
>
> Yes, but miss not the point that the GPL ensures there is an
> obligation to /keep/ it open.
>
> Microsoft has already ¡¥closed-sourced¡¦ some BSD code.
> #
> AlexH said,
> August 30, 2008 at 4:14 am
>
> The GPL doesn¡¦t have any such obligation, sorry Roy.
>
> If you are the copyright owner, you can change the license to a closed
> license and make all your future releases under that.
>
> The GPL copyleft works only ¡§against¡¨ non-copyright owners. No
> copyright license can restrict the activity of the rightful copyright
> owner.
> #
> Roy Schestowitz said,
> August 30, 2008 at 4:32 am
>
> Okay, so you seem to be suggesting that if Microsoft buys Novell, then
> it can change Mono¡¦s licence and close it regardless.
> #
> Dan O'Brian said,
> August 30, 2008 at 6:06 am
>
> I hate to say it, but ¡§Duh¡¨ at Roy¡¦s last comment.
>
> Iff Microsoft were to buy Novell, everything that Novell has copyright
> ownership of, they could relicense - regardless of whether it is GPL
> or not.
>
> I honestly cannot believe that this is ¡§news¡¨ to anyone, it¡¦s so
> fundamental.
>
> FWIW, since Mono is LGPL and MIT/X11 licensed - if Microsoft were to
> buy Novell (or even if they don¡¦t), you could fork Mono and relicense
> GPLv3 because neither license has any restriction against doing so.
>
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>
> Yes, that's correct ladies and gentlemen, Roy Schestowitz doesn't even
> understand the most basic of principles that his beliefs are built
> upon.
>
> If he can be so wrong about what the GPL means, what else is he wrong
> about?
>
> Roy Schestowitz's credibility is 0.


Roy Schestowitz is an idiot.
He couldn't even figure out how to filter people out of COLA without
filtering at the ISP level.
That's pretty sad.

What can you expect from a person who is approaching 10 years at University
and still has not graduated?
A person who posts to literally every corner of the Internet 24x7 ?

Here is a little about Roy Schestowitz (not my Blog BTW):

http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/2007/09/roy-schestowitz-liar.html

"Roy Schestowitz is a career college student at some liberal artsy
university. He has never had a job or any responsibility in his life and
his poor parents have been supporting his butt for many years. Instead of
actually graduating like you're supposed to this proven liar spends 24
hours a day, 7 days a week (including all holidays) posting lies to every
corner of the internet. He posts to a Microsoft-hate newsgroup called COLA
for instance where he finds the time to make thousands of posts each month.
Really... this is no exaggeration. He literally makes several thousand
posts per month to this lowly newsgroup instead of studying or getting a
job. He was posting so much and misusing his college computers so much that
after several warnings and complaints his school had no choice but to
suspend his internet posting privileges. (He's not supposed to use school
computers for personal gain.) Now he uses Mark Kent's account (another
linux liar) to spew his lies and hatred from.

He was recently found guilty of stealing artwork from other websites and
posting them on his site despite the clear and obvious copyright warnings.
He has no hesitation in shamelessly stealing the work of others and posting
it up on his website as his own in order to try and make a few pennies
profit.

Other than posting to COLA he has his own anti-Microsoft website and
created for-profit websites that attempt to boycott linux vendors he
doesn't like such as Novell, Xandros and etc. His specialty is to take news
stories and twist the headline and contents of the story into something
that was never written. Unsuspecting readers will see the post from Roy
Schestowitz and assume it's the truth when in reality it's nothing but
lies, delusions, ravings and rants from this immature child. "


Roy Schestowitz is a hoot to observe on ICQ and some of the statements he
makes are so ludicrous that it's difficult to imagine how he could even
begin to believe them himself.

Also entertaining is observing him conjuring up methods for dealing with
what he deems *trolls* in other groups and sites he posts in.

IOW people who disagree with his paranoid, incorrect, unsubstantiated
claims of lunacy and compairacy theories.

Currently Roy Schestowitz is calling for the Novel and Microsoft executives
to be put into prison!!!

Schestowitz is a couple of cubes short of a Rubik....


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
 
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Micoshaft asstroturfers Doesn't Even Understand The Implications of the GPL

Micoshaft asstroturfing fraudster pounding the sock Moshe Goldfarb
wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Department of Marketing:

> R


Micoshaft asstroturfers don't fully understand the implications of the GPL.

It is the GPL that gives them work because Micoshaft is very afraid
and funds asstroturfers to attack individuals on the net.

Governments and politicians just sit and watch it all go through
right under their noses drunk on tax payer money
when they should be making such activity illegal and award tripple damage
to individuals that are being harmed by micoshaft marketing manager's
decisions to order up attacks on individuals and who get away with it with
no harm to them whatsoever.

More reasons to ban micoshaft from the workplace for good.

Here is article I find earlier written by Rex Ballard...



"
Here are some tactics I've been hearing about from different companies
who are trying to prevent another "forced upgrade" to Vista at the
cost of jobs, poor earnings reports, and loss of productivity.

Executive Management Approval
Employees who want Vista or Office 2007 have to get approval from
their supervisor, who has to get approval from his supervisor, and so
on up the chain almost to the CEO or COO.  If a lower level manager
approves, and doesn't get prior approval from his management, a
substantial charge is assessed to his budget, sufficient to clearly
and negatively affect his bonuses.  In effect, any Vista or Office
2007 he personally approves, comes out of his bonus.

The point is that most lower level workers are not willing to go
through the hassles of writting a justification sufficient to merit
the approval of a high level executive, and mid-level managers aren't
going to eliminate their chances of promotion or bonuses by bucking
upper management.


Self Funded Personal Platforms

The company will provide the PC and Windows 2000, XP, or Linux, but if
the employee feels that he has to have Vista or Office 2007, they have
to purchase it through the corporate procurement system, and the cost
of the software will be deducted from their bunuses or raises.

Linux bonuses
Company offers bonuses, or adds to annual bonuses based on the
employee's ability to use Linux, with higher bonuses for Linux in
Native mode, slightly less for Virtual Mode, because they have taken
the time to self-train and take responsibility for their own desktop
or laptop environment.

Annual surcharges.
Rather than just giving every employee a copy of Windows and Office,
the employees department gets charged for the licenses and support
they are using.  For example, a call to the help desk for XP issues
would be over $300 per call.  A support call for Linux might be as
little as $30 per call.  In addition, administrative fees and support
fees for just having XP or Linux are similarly proportionally priced.

Full Time Reportinng
Time spent dealing with Windows XP or Office issues, ranging from back-
up and restore to reinstallation of software or Windows, has to be
reported separately on a time sheet.  If this time is from the 40 hour
work week, it's treated similar to "sick time".  If it's done in
ADDITION to the standard 40 hour week, it is considered volunteer
effort, but this gives companies a much better picture of how much
time is spent dealing with Microsoft related issues, and makes a
better case for switching to Linux.

Extra time spent installing and learning to use Linux ad Open Office
are treated like training, since these are new skills that the company
wants to encourage.  Since this training time indicates a willingness
to follow corporate guidelines,   Therefore this is a positive when
considering bonuses, raises, and promotions.


Client Provided software
More consulting firms are now expecting the client to pay for special
software.  If the client is using Vista and/or Office 2007 and won't
share documents in a legacy friendly way, the consultant has to
purchase the software through corporate procurement, and expense it to
the client along with travel and other expenses (at full corporate
price).  This is because too many clients have been "giving" pirated
copies of Vista and Office 2007 to consultants, and the corporate
licenses ONLY apply to permanent employees of the corporation.  The
consulting company is liable to Microsoft for the pirated licenses and
could even face a $10,000 per copy fine for the copyright violation.
In some countries, the penalties for stealing are quite severe,
including the loss of body parts.


Automated License and software audits

Most corporations now have the ability to get a comprehensive list of
who has what software, and many are on the lookout for pirated copies
of Vista or Office 2007.  If it's not on the inventory as a purchased
license, then it's pirated.  Many companies are also asking violators
to come to the data center or customer support depot and have their
laptops re-imaged.  Some corporate desktops can automatically be re-
imaged if pirated software is detected.

There are also some new viruses out that are causing full indexes of
the entire file-system to be generated, and sending the index to some
unknown location on a "trickle" basis.  If your laptop is suddenly
runnig very SLOWLY, this might be why.

Another virus is looking for file-sharing software such as bit-
torrent, if it's found, the virus deletes all mp3 files.  It only
impacts Win2K, XP and Vista users.

Seems like a lot of corporate and hacker forces are starting to make
Windows users really "suffer" for their addiction to Windows.  And
attempts to install Vista are pretty much the road to an
"Intervention".

"

So start with LiveCDs me thinks....

http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com
 
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robert.e.clayton@gmail.com

Re: Micoshaft asstroturfers Doesn't Even Understand The Implicationsof the GPL

On Aug 30, 1:17 pm, 7 <website_has_em...@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote:
> Micoshaft asstroturfing fraudster pounding the sock Moshe Goldfarb
> wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Department of Marketing:
>
> > R

>
> Micoshaft asstroturfers don't fully understand the implications of the GPL.
>
> It is the GPL that gives them work because Micoshaft is very afraid
> and funds asstroturfers to attack individuals on the net.
>


This suggests that Roy Schestowitz must be a Microsoft astroturfer.

Thanks for the confirmation.
 
M

Moshe Goldfarb.

Re: Micoshaft asstroturfers Doesn't Even Understand The Implications of the GPL

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:51:35 -0700 (PDT), robert.e.clayton@gmail.com wrote:

> On Aug 30, 1:17 pm, 7 <website_has_em...@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote:
>> Micoshaft asstroturfing fraudster pounding the sock Moshe Goldfarb
>> wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Department of Marketing:
>>
>>> R

>>
>> Micoshaft asstroturfers don't fully understand the implications of the GPL.
>>
>> It is the GPL that gives them work because Micoshaft is very afraid
>> and funds asstroturfers to attack individuals on the net.
>>

>
> This suggests that Roy Schestowitz must be a Microsoft astroturfer.
>
> Thanks for the confirmation.


There is some evidence to suggest that Roy Schestowitz is indeed a
Microsoft astroturfer working as a reverse troll.


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
 
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