Comments on: Me and ATI: Things keep getting better

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:29:38 +0000

Yup, I read it. And as offensive as I personally find plagarizing someone else’s work is, I find it even more offensive when it violates a GNU license of any kind. (Not that it’s logical to feel addtional upsetitude…)

The ironic thing is, it appears to be running on WordPress.org software.

If K.Mandla’s not going to get upset about it, I’m not either. But if he changes his mind, or if I find it happens to me, I’m going to take action. I mean, if people want to repost my content elsewhere, and they obey the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence, I’m flattered. I’m pretty sure the GFDL is similar, though, and the only reason someone would create a search-engine blog is to make money (Commerical violation), and the creator of it makes it appear they came up with it themselves, however badly (Attribution violation)

Um…I’ll stop the rant here; my 2.6.30.6 kernel is done compiling and reinstalling on my Thinkpad, there are strange issues with mounting ext4 read-writeable, and it’s 1:34am local time. So, g’night, and after I mess with the kernel a bit more I’ll post something over on my blog about it.

BTW, the 2.6.31 kernel’s out as of the 9th.

By: johnraff

johnraff — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:59:55 +0000

The whole site seems to be like that. On reflection, maybe it’s some evil plan to mop up search engine ranking.

By: johnraff

johnraff — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:55:47 +0000

Have you actually read that post? It’s hilarious, and half-incomprehensible. It’s hard to think anyone would take it seriously.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:29:58 +0000

If nobody stands up for the GFDL, the GFDL loses even more respect. But I’m even more concerned by this method of disguising the content — I doubt any automatic search software that currently exists would catch it easily.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:35:21 +0000

It’s the price of popularity, I guess. Technically everything here is GFDL’ed, so it’s okay, so long as everything they cut-and-paste is likewise GFDL’ed. (Yeah, right.)

There was a big stink on Planet Ubuntu a while back because someone was cutting-and-pasting into a site in Venezuela, I think. There was a lot of righteous indignation and shaking of fists, and then people settled down and went back to navel-gazing.

I don’t see that it matters, really. People are going to steal content no matter what. If anything actually ever became popular, it might be worth enforcing that GFDL. But I have a low opinion of my own content, so I don’t ever see it happening.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:00:34 +0000

You might already be aware of this, but it seems like someone copied your post verbatim, passed it through an online translator into another language and then back again into English, and put it up on their own blog at http://amdvsintel.nits.in/news/me-and-ati-things-keep-getting-better.html

Bill-Gated content theives.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:24:08 +0000

Ah, so that’s why hardware companies won’t release their driver code: people would have efficient drivers and wouldn’t want to upgrade their hardware

I’d rather build the driver myself anyway — with processor-specific optimizations & the -Os flag.

By: ArmorNick

ArmorNick — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:51:34 +0000

You call 4 or 5 years new? I just reached the 1 year and half mark .

I have to agree that Linux keeps getting better and better with hardware compatibility. It’s hardly surprising as more and more people start using it though.