What Are You Doing Right Now
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Adding a huge filing cabinet to my office. So full clean out here too. My desk is almost totally bare at this point (phone, keyboard and mouse only right now).
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I'm so sorry.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The sign of a busy mind is a cluttered desk... Figured out what you're going to do next?
Either
Start moving people to our new Citrix machines...
Upgrade or replace a PC in bagging........
Sort out backups from our RN3220 to and NAS in another building ...........HOLD ON it's 4:35 here home time in 20minutes i'll just sot on the forum lol
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Setting up a new kvm host in my lab in order to test deployment for debian based machines with kickstart+preseed file.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The sign of a busy mind is a cluttered desk... Figured out what you're going to do next?
Either
Start moving people to our new Citrix machines...
Upgrade or replace a PC in bagging........
Sort out backups from our RN3220 to and NAS in another building ...........HOLD ON it's 4:35 here home time in 20minutes i'll just sot on the forum lol
This sounds like a plan to me. 8-) ... Sadly, I still got 4 hours and change, lol.
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Chatting with AT&T tech support about how they messed up my cellular bill.
Pray for me.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Chatting with AT&T tech support about how they messed up my cellular bill.
Pray for me.
Just for calling expect a $35 to $75 "service fee"
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Chatting with AT&T tech support about how they messed up my cellular bill.
Pray for me.
Just for
callingexisting expect a $35 to $75 "service fee"FTFY
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Where has @wirestyle22 gotten to? Haven't seen him in a bit.
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TYPING a letter on this:
The Serial number leads me to it's date of manufacture to be about 1923 - $3 then would be be quite a bit then... and after nearly 100 years, still works nicely.
Sorting out the layout of a battery unit,.. a single 4s (4 batteries in series) moved to a 4s4p (4 series/4 parallel) and without a BMS (battery monitoring system). Parts list for the build is growing, hoping the layout helps prevent missing a part or two.
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@thwr That's what I figured.
The second and third paragraphs of this article highlight what I thought was strange: https://blog.nexcess.net/2016/08/03/how-can-developers-make-a-living-from-gpl-plugins/
The idea that under the GPL it seems like it's allowed to take someone's work and distribute it as your own (either for free or for a fee). While that's clearly an ethical problem, it doesn't seem to be disallowed.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr That's what I figured.
The second and third paragraphs of this article highlight what I thought was strange: https://blog.nexcess.net/2016/08/03/how-can-developers-make-a-living-from-gpl-plugins/
The idea that under the GPL it seems like it's allowed to take someone's work and distribute it as your own (either for free or for a fee). While that's clearly an ethical problem, it doesn't seem to be disallowed.
The question to me comes down to - what are you paying for? As has been discussed here before, the typical claim for cost is the distribution expense, not the software on the media.
As for claiming the work as your own, I didn't read it, so i don't know if that's allowable or not. It might boil down to a wording game.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr That's what I figured.
The second and third paragraphs of this article highlight what I thought was strange: https://blog.nexcess.net/2016/08/03/how-can-developers-make-a-living-from-gpl-plugins/
The idea that under the GPL it seems like it's allowed to take someone's work and distribute it as your own (either for free or for a fee). While that's clearly an ethical problem, it doesn't seem to be disallowed.
Of course you can. The GPL has, from day one, guaranteed that you can distribute the work and charge for it. That was explicitly built into the license as a requirement.
It's not an ethical problem in the slightest. It's not disallowed... it's a protected right. The entire GPL ecosystem is built on this.
You cannot CALL It your own, however. You must maintain the licensing and acknowledgements of the original. You cannot lie about it.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
As for claiming the work as your own, I didn't read it, so i don't know if that's allowable or not. It might boil down to a wording game.
You can't claim the work as your own. But you can claim the packaging as your own. RHEL is made by Red Hat, but they can't claim to have made the Linux kernel.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The question to me comes down to - what are you paying for? As has been discussed here before, the typical claim for cost is the distribution expense, not the software on the media.
Doesn't matter. They can charge for whatever piece that they want, the GPL protects that right.
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Had to go put our older dog to sleep this morning. So today is a sucky Monday
Sorry, just saw this
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Pumpkin carving time
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr That's what I figured.
The second and third paragraphs of this article highlight what I thought was strange: https://blog.nexcess.net/2016/08/03/how-can-developers-make-a-living-from-gpl-plugins/
The idea that under the GPL it seems like it's allowed to take someone's work and distribute it as your own (either for free or for a fee). While that's clearly an ethical problem, it doesn't seem to be disallowed.
Of course you can. The GPL has, from day one, guaranteed that you can distribute the work and charge for it. That was explicitly built into the license as a requirement.
It's not an ethical problem in the slightest. It's not disallowed... it's a protected right. The entire GPL ecosystem is built on this.
You cannot CALL It your own, however. You must maintain the licensing and acknowledgements of the original. You cannot lie about it.
But you can fork a project and call that fork your own. AFAIK you just need to reference the original project. Or is such a reference just good practice?
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Thought I would start with this job:-
Sort out backups from our RN3220 to and NAS in another buildingWhile i'm cloning a PC for bagging.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr That's what I figured.
The second and third paragraphs of this article highlight what I thought was strange: https://blog.nexcess.net/2016/08/03/how-can-developers-make-a-living-from-gpl-plugins/
The idea that under the GPL it seems like it's allowed to take someone's work and distribute it as your own (either for free or for a fee). While that's clearly an ethical problem, it doesn't seem to be disallowed.
Of course you can. The GPL has, from day one, guaranteed that you can distribute the work and charge for it. That was explicitly built into the license as a requirement.
It's not an ethical problem in the slightest. It's not disallowed... it's a protected right. The entire GPL ecosystem is built on this.
You cannot CALL It your own, however. You must maintain the licensing and acknowledgements of the original. You cannot lie about it.
But you can fork a project and call that fork your own. AFAIK you just need to reference the original project. Or is such a reference just good practice?
It's not just good practice it is required under the GPL licensing.
