license is probably the reason they’re doing it. no way around that without infringing copyright law I guess.

you could check how other FOSS do it. e.g. you externally link it as a library and use another license the user has to agree on just for that.

screw syncterm, what’s a good & secure BBS software for linux? with doors and mails and nice menu navigation, zmodem and everything…?

I remember amiexpress and prometheus from amiga times, they were a breeze to setup, configure & maintain.

What are you trying to prevent? You can’t release anything (opensource or not) without risking someone stealing the idea without patenting.

No FOSS license will prevent that (quite the opposite, it encourages copying/modifications). Those licenses just prevent someone using your code commercially without releasing the source code again.

not sure why you think that. if it’s indistinguishable, it’s still prior art. If it’s something better or different than your code, it’s a new thing.

Patents protect technical principles, not actual sourcecode.

no, the patent office would find your publication, deem it Prior Art and not grant the patent. If it would miss it (some don’t research very well), anyone can notify them to void the patent afterwards anytime.

IANAL, there are lawyers specialized on patents who’ll reassure you for free/cheap (relatively, they are friggin expensive). It also depends on legislature. Countries that break/never agreed to the PCT will do what they please.

NAL but my understanding always was, that you can’t patent anything in your name, when it’s already published.

That would make any patent related clause void anyway.

much more important: we’d be years ahead with storage technology.

now poison it

your own fault. get a nuclear reactor next time d’uh…

https://www.zischka-matratzen.de/.cm4all/mediadb/IMG_5804.JPG

I’d like to see the bedbug that survives this. As mentioned elsewhere, this is used by (hopefully) every hospital, elderly home or hotel for worse stuff than bedbugs.

The mattresses leave this thing in a pristine state.

When you refund a mattress they just surface clean it

yuck. I doubt that. It’s manual work and far more expensive than a machine.

but getting them dry would be a challenge

seriously? I mean, there is a chance no such service exists in your town. Bad luck then. But there is close to zero chance it doesn’t exist in your country.

What do you think hospitals do? (Or good hotels, as mentioned). Source: Worked in an elderly home that used such a service regularly.

Here’s an image of such a mattress washing machine.

They work.

That’s not true. All mattresses except the cheapest foam ones are washable (they are, too but they might change properties then). But why get a used cheap one?

There are mattress washing services with giant washing machines that are used by hotels. Ask hotel staff to find one.

You can’t get rid of most of the build-up.

You actually can get rid of all the buildups. Just like with clothes. Also don’t think sellers throw it away when you refund a mattress - they wash it and sell it again.

just ask beforehand if you can test it quickly. while that’s not 100% proof, most people are honest (at least when giving away stuff for cheap/free). There’s a risk, but at worst you get free trash. Never happened to me, tho.

Also most high-quality stuff is always salvageable. Surely it’s more hassle then if you have to order spare parts or such.

Some things basically come for free when they were used. Washing machine, stoves… Disassembling them to fully clean them takes a day or two, but it’s still faster than buying new and chances are good, someone wants to get rid of their high quality stuff near you and will give it away for cheap if you “dispose” it for them.

You can even wash a mattress for a few bucks. If it’s good quality, a decade old used filthy mattress can come out like brand new.

People finding that gross or poorish are the reason, stuff is so cheap

BS.

You can’t walk 5 minutes in any major city into any direction and not meet some pro-palestine protestors.

Also Talkshows discuss palestine stuff for days now.

you do know thar space exploration is a great investment and brings wealth to countries, right?

sillicon valley wouldn’t exist like today without the apollo program.

this guy played piano with his dick on TV

Maybe it’s probably not necessary to kickass the “world’s #2 strongest army” but knowing how to use your dick certainly doesn’t hurt obviously.

not sure why you’re downvoted. of course member states enforce it.

We live in the real world. If you don’t submit the government forms how they want you to, they shrug and fine the shit out of you.

Then you just don’t know the law. There is no legislation that enforces Acrobat in any civilized country without alternative.

Quite the opposite: Send macroridden documents to any decently secure infrastructure and you get a big fat warning in the subject if it’s not filtered entirely. Officials LOVE to do that extra call ensuring that this document is really from you before opening it and no phishing attempt…not.

Source: working >25 years in IT, >15 years for government IT

EDIT: we got some real Adobe Acrobat Fanboy here, eh? ;-)