business.timesonline.co.uk — Mozilla Foundation's Gervase Markham recalls an incident where a UK Trading Standards Officer cannot believe that software licensed under GPL can be redistributed by others. The officer claims it makes it impossible for them to enforce UK anti piracy legislation
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plkrtnFeb 22, 2006
DoubtfulSalmon has it spot on.Most Brits also know a fanny pack is American English for a bum bag...We also know that if your fanny is aching you mean your arse (which is ass in AE)American's saying "arse" is quite funny to hear actually... and "pub"
richardiscoolFeb 23, 2006
What about the employees in Mozilla's office - aren't there like 40?
alex_bosworthFeb 24, 2006
The funny thing is just a little while ago there was a digg story about how people are selling FireFox and the comments were overwhelmingly people who didn't believe that was legal?Mozilla actually could stop them from selling FireFox if they wanted to, by enforcing their Trademark, so they would have to call it 'GenericBrowser' instead, ala Redhat vs CentOS, but why would they want to?
tkdwilsonFeb 24, 2006
"""""There should really be an IQ test before any person can be in charge of any part of the government.""""""Knew a guy with a genius IQ that's car broke down, so he attached a rope to it and was trying to pull it to a mechanic. Eric Wilson
tkdwilsonFeb 24, 2006
""""Claiming that IQ doesn't apply past age 16 is just idiotic. It is not the only measure of intelligence but it is a damn good estimate most of the time.""""""Do they even do actual IQ tests after 16? From an educational standpoint they don't for highschools and such that is. I never took an actual IQ test. Got 148 on iqtest.com. but not sure how close that really comes. Eric Wilson Eric Wilson
grahamstwFeb 24, 2006
@shangothrax: "Actually, the Americans got it right about Aluminium. I don't remember exactly where that error came from though."In 1808 Humphry Davy, proposed the original name, "alumium", while trying to isolate from the mineral "alumina". In 1812 he changed the name to aluminum to match its Latin root. Then someone pointed that the other recently elements all ended in -ium, so they changed it.Americans spelt it aluminium to start with, but then some guy in 1892 spelt it "aluminum" on his adverts and the new spelling stuck!-- More here: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling</a>