Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

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On 16 Dec 2005 16:52:43 -0800, "Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> wrote:

>Responsible Software Licensing
>
>Xah Lee, 200307
>
>Software is a interesting invention. Software has this interesting
Soft, like your head
>property, that it can be duplicated without cost, as if like copying
it costs to dup, dup
>money. Never in history are goods duplicable without cost. But with the
wrong, you can dup your bullshit evrywhere for free
>invention of computer, the ephemeral non-physical programs break that
you don't know what a computer is
>precept. In digital form, programs and music and books all become goods
i bid a gigabuck for that gigabyte
>in essentially infinite quantity.
in a for() loop maybe
>
>All is good except, bads in digital form can also multiply equally,
get a calculator, bad is negative and subtracts, not multiply
>just as goods. Well known examples are computer viruses and email
virus and email or virus in email?
>spams. Unknown to the throng of unix morons are software bads. In a
"software bads" is like asian bads, dumber than dog shit
>unix moron's mind, the predominant quip among hackers is “where is
whats on the morons mind anyway Zah?
>your code?”, singnifying the mentality that a hacker's prestige is
when is mentality signified, do a cat scan do any good?
>judged on how much code he has contributed to the community. Therefore,
per line or content? if the dude is dumb does his software get demoted
>every fucking studs and happy-go-lucky morons put their homework on the
right, the 9 inch dicked moron with the genious iq, and very tall..
>net, with a big stamp of FREE, and quite proud of their
free... suck my 9 inch dick, and quite proud
>“contributions” to the world. These digital bads, including
well, a big dick is a gods gift to women (or did u mean digitial dick)
>irresponsible programs, protocols, and languages, spread like viruses
every program i ever met was irresponsible and never wore condoms
(i never fucked with them so "i" don't know)
>until they obtained the touting right of being the STANDARD or MOST
yup, down south we call them the "John Henry", definetly the standard
>POPULAR in industry, as if indicating superior quality. Examplary are
nah, superior "dick size" doesen't mean mind
>C, Perl, RFC, X-Windows, Apache, MySQL, Pretty Home Page (and almost
oh, u name dropper your so intelligent
>anything out of unix). The harm of a virus is temporal. The harm of
a "virus" is a physical ailment, not a mind doodoo 
>irresponsible software (especially with unscrupulous promotion) is the
i never knew a responsible software, can u name one?  they don't 
talk to me, maybe cause i just curse them out...... hahahaaaaaaaaaaa
>creation of a entire generation of bad thinking and monkey coders. The
i think you mean monkey jakkingoff, which usually leads to bad
thinking, i mean really man step away from the gun and put your hands
in the air...
>scale can be compared as to putting a bullet in a person brain, versus
you mean surgically, i never saw one "put" in there. anybody seen
this happen?
>creating a creed with the Holocaust aftermath.
omg, bring the jews into into it.....
>
>Distribution of software is easily like pollution. I thought of a law
so shit flows downhill eh...

>that would ban the distribution of software bads, or like charging for
keep the software bads to yourself (whatever that is)
>garbage collection in modern societies. The problem is the difficulty
nothin wrong with garbage, its a 3 billion dolla industry
>of deciding what is good and what is bad. Like in so many things, i
can we leave good/bad up got god, or at least anybody with a brain?
>think the ultimate help is for people to be aware; so-called education;
i think toilet paper helps alot better, edu is a mind fuk divorced
from reality ... like u
>I believe, if people are made aware of the situation i spoke of, then
awareness comes when you "find" your navel
>irresponsible software will decrease, regardless any individual's
>opinion.
i never knew a "mind" software that considered itself irresponsible
>
>The most important measure to counter the tremendous harm that
is the epa
>irresponsible software has done to the industry is to begin with
can't we all agree "software" is not people ...
>responsible licenses, such that the producer of a software will be
can't we all agree licenses were made for marriages and dog tags ..
>liable for damage incurred thru their software. As we know, today's
your software killed my country, i want 1 trillion in damages 
>software license comes with a disclaimer that essentially says the
i wish marriage license did
>software is sold as is and the producer is not responsible for any
software is sold. i think you should be instead, we know what u can do
>damage, nor guaranteeing the functionality of the software. It is this,
software functions as it was programmed, not as your conception of
its use ... you should find out what "it" doess first
>that ferments all sorts of sloppitudes and fads and myths to rampage
sounds like the internet and "blogs" ... lots to waste time on there
>and survive in the software industry. Once when software producers are
you won't live long enough to survive it
>liable for their products, just as bridge or airplane or transportation
hey, lets start with the automotive industry first, eh.,, you want to 
survive "their" software first don't ya?
>or house builders are responsible for the things they build, then
hahaaaa, hurricane andrew destroys 50,000 homes ... when the 
"wind" gets big u know ..
>injurious fads and creeds the likes of (Perl, Programing Patterns,
i'm all  wadded up in injuries, send the chiropractor ..
>eXtreme Programing, “Universal” Modeling Language...) will
backticks ? errr, ahhh, jeez.......
>automatically disappear by dint of market force without anyone's
>stipulation.
man, you better switch to vegatables, i think your health will
deteriorate if you keep swallowing the software shit you are 
dishing out ...
>
>In our already established infrastructure of software and industry
i just can't, i mean i could but, its so close to the bottom and
jeez, i'll just summ up on the bottom .
>practices that is so already fucked up by existing shams, we can not
>immediately expect a about-face in software licenses from 0 liability
>to 100% liability. We should gradually make them responsible. And this,
>comes not from artificial force, but gradual establishment of awareness
>among software professionals and their consumers. (Producers include
>single individual to software houses, and consumers include not just
>mom & pop but from IT corps to military.)
>
>Please spread this idea.
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> Xah
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"mom & pop but from IT corps to military"

Xah, please admit to me that your under the influence of 
physocopic drugs!  This hurt me to do this to you man 
but, and I respect you but, you need some serious, serious
evaluation by a shrink.

You can redeam yourself if you post some original dynamite,
earth shaking code that a phenom such as yourself in criticism
really shows he knows what he is talking about. That will only
add credibility to your words (as disjunctive as they are).

Show us how good your really are man, post those genius words
into some God code so we can all really believe in what your 
saying!

Thanks