Notes"The GPL is a bait-and-switch. It shows you functional code that might very well solve your problem, and then says, "Oh, no, you can't actually use this, because you work for a living." "Unfurl
Notes"This morning the VMware’s customers that upgraded their virtual data centers with the new Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2 (build 103908) had an awful surprise: any virtual machine that is turned off cannot be powered on again, and any attempt to execute a VMotion (the live migration of a VM from one host to another) fails. ... To further aggravate the situation, today is the so called Microsoft Patch Tuesday, so a number of guest operating systems are being automatically (or manually for those unaware of the issue) rebooted."Unfurl
Notes"So, I’ve now lived a classic corporate public affairs nightmare: announcing a lawsuit against the American Red Cross. Would I have chosen this exercise as a reputation-building opportunity for Johnson & Johnson? No, of course not."Unfurl
Notes"Product activation sucks. It sucks because your continued use of the software you purchased is forever dependent on the continued availability of the licence server. And it sucks because your licence can be unilaterally revoked because someone, somewhereUnfurl
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