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Cox may mean: Coxswain Cox, Haute-Garonne, a commune of the Haute-Garonne département, in France Cox, Spain, a municipality of the province of Alicante, in Spain Cox Enterprises Apples: Cox Orange, found by Mister Cox Cox's Orange Pippin, also found by Mister Cox People: Alex Cox, filmography Sid and Nancy Alan Cox, leader person in Linux Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General; Watergate

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In computer gaming, a MUD (multi-user dungeon, dimension, or sometimes domain) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games, and social instant messaging chat rooms. Typically running on a bulletin board system or Internet server, the game is usually text driven, where players read descriptions of rooms, objects, events, other characters, and computer-controlled creatures or non-play ...

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• MUD - History
• MUD - Variations on MUDs
• MUD - Graphical MUDs
• MUD - Talkers and spods
• MUD - RPI MUDs
• MUD - Complex Combat MUDs

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BitMover used to provide access to the system for certain open source or free software projects, the most famous (and controversial) of which was the source code of the Linux kernel. The license for the "community" version of BitKeeper had allowed for developers to use the tool at no cost for open source or free software projects, provided those developers did not participate in the development of a competing tool (such as CVS, GNU Arch, Subversion or ClearCase) for the duration of their usage of BitKeeper plus one year. This restriction app ...

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BitKeeper, BitKeeper - Zero-cost BitKeeper for Linux and other open source projects, BitKeeper - Footnotes

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The "open source" label came out of a strategy session held in Palo Alto in reaction to Netscape's January 1998 announcement of a source code release for Navigator (as Mozilla). A group of individuals at the session included Todd Anderson, Larry Augustin, John Hall, Sam Ockman, Christine Peterson and Eric S. Raymond. They used the opportunity before the release of Navigator's source code to clarify a potential confusion caused by the ambiguity of the word "free" in English. The 'open source' movement is generally thought to have begun with t ...

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Open-source software, Open-source software - Terminology, Open-source software - Open source model, Open-source software - Open-source license, Open-source software - Open source movement, Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source, Open-source software - Open source vs. free software, Open-source software - Participants in OSS development projects, Open-source software - Open source software development tools, Open-source software - Source code revision control, Open-source software - Testing tools, Open-source software - Bug/Error/Defect tracking tools, Open-source software - Communication, Open-source software - Advocates, Open-source software - Prominent projects and organizations, Open-source software - Examples of open source software, Open-source software - Notes

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DRM controls are sometimes proposed to be enforced through so-called trusted computing. However, trusted computing creates the prospect of a computer system which cannot be trusted by its owner, but rather its behavior can be remotely manipulated at any time, regardless of the legal merits of such manipulation. Most opponents have little faith that the courts or legislatures will be able to limit such manipulation to only that which is legally permitted. Several laws relating to DRM have been proposed or enacted in various juri ...

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Digital rights management, Digital rights management - Introduction, Digital rights management - Legal enforcement of DRM, Digital rights management - Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital rights management - Other copyright implications, Digital rights management - DRM advocates, Digital rights management - DRM opponents, Digital rights management - DRM and Internet music, Digital rights management - Controversies consequences and examples, Digital rights management - Copyright law vs. particular techniques, Digital rights management - Consumer vs. Professional equipment, Digital rights management - European dialogues on DRM concerns, Digital rights management - Inclusion within GPL v3, Digital rights management - Quotes, Digital rights management - DRM implementations, Digital rights management - Related concepts

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DRM controls are sometimes proposed to be enforced through so-called trusted computing. However, trusted computing creates the prospect of a computer system which cannot be trusted by its owner, but rather its behavior can be remotely manipulated at any time, regardless of the legal merits of such manipulation. Most opponents have little faith that the courts or legislatures will be able to limit such manipulation to only that which does not infringe the legal righ ...

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Digital rights management, Digital rights management - Introduction, Digital rights management - Legal enforcement of DRM, Digital rights management - Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital rights management - Other copyright implications, Digital rights management - DRM advocates, Digital rights management - DRM opponents, Digital rights management - DRM and Internet music, Digital rights management - Controversies consequences and examples, Digital rights management - Copyright law vs. particular techniques, Digital rights management - Consumer vs. Professional equipment, Digital rights management - European dialogues on DRM concerns, Digital rights management - Inclusion within GPL v3, Digital rights management - Quotes, Digital rights management - DRM implementations, Digital rights management - Related concepts

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The first games we might today call MUDs appeared in 1977 on the PLATO system. In Europe at around the same time, MUD development was centered around academic networks, particularly at the University of Essex where they were played by many people, both internal and external to the University. In this context, it has been said that MUD stands for "Multi-Undergrad Destroyer" due to their popularity among college students and the amount of time devoted to the MUD by the student. The popularity of MUDs of the Essex University tradition escalated ...

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MUD, MUD - History, MUD - Variations on MUDs, MUD - Graphical MUDs, MUD - Talkers and spods, MUD - RPIMUDs, MUD - Complex Combat MUDs

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DRM controls are sometimes proposed to be enforced through so-called trusted computing. However, trusted computing creates the prospect of a computer system which cannot be trusted by its owner, but rather its behavior can be remotely manipulated at any time, regardless of the legal merits of such manipulation. Most opponents have little faith that the courts or legislatures will be able to limit such manipulation to only that which is legally permitted. Several laws relating to DRM have been proposed or enacted in various juri ...

See also:

Digital rights management, Digital rights management - Introduction, Digital rights management - Legal enforcement of DRM, Digital rights management - Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital rights management - Other copyright implications, Digital rights management - DRM advocates, Digital rights management - DRM opponents, Digital rights management - DRM and Internet music, Digital rights management - Controversies consequences and examples, Digital rights management - European dialogues on DRM concerns, Digital rights management - Quotes, Digital rights management - DRM implementations, Digital rights management - Related concepts

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The university was founded in 1872 as University College Wales. The first principal was Thomas Charles Edwards and initially there were just 26 students. In 1894 the college joined the University of Wales as a founder member. (Prior to this students had been submitted for examinations of the University of London). In 1919 the world's first department of international politics was founded at Aberystwyth. Past professors include R. ...

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University of Wales Aberystwyth, University of Wales Aberystwyth - History, University of Wales Aberystwyth - Geography, University of Wales Aberystwyth - Departments, University of Wales Aberystwyth - Alumni

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Sveasoft firmware is typically advertised as being able to increase the router's radio transmission power from 28 milliwatts to 251 milliwatts, as well as being able to use 14 channels for 802.11b transmissions instead of the 11 normally permitted in the US or 13 permitted elsewhere. Modifications to power and frequency may interfere with other electronics, and are illegal in some jurisdictions. The maximum power permitted by the US FCC for WiFi with a 5 dBi or less antenna is 1000 mW [1], the maximum power permitted by the European ETSI is 100 mW, both EIRP, i.e. including antenna gain. Using channels ...

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Sveasoft, Sveasoft - People, Sveasoft - Features, Sveasoft - Firmware versions, Sveasoft - Satori, Sveasoft - Alchemy, Sveasoft - Talisman, Sveasoft - Software licensing, Sveasoft - Controversies, Sveasoft - Distribution, Sveasoft - Personnel, Sveasoft - GPL disputes, Sveasoft - The Talisman controversy, Sveasoft - Other third-party firmware, Sveasoft - Payment disputes

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed in the United States in an effort to make the circumvention of DRM systems illegal. It was passed without debate, and without even token opposition, Congress being lobbied by the content industries and apparently under the impression that it was a "technical" enactment, without significant public policy implication. It has been widely imitated by governments elsewhere. Despite the passing of this law, which has since received substantial opposition on Constitutional grounds, it is easy t ...

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Digital rights management, Digital rights management - Introduction, Digital rights management - Legal enforcement of DRM, Digital rights management - Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital rights management - Other copyright implications, Digital rights management - DRM advocates, Digital rights management - DRM opponents, Digital rights management - DRM and Internet music, Digital rights management - Controversies consequences and examples, Digital rights management - Copyright law vs. particular techniques, Digital rights management - Consumer vs. Professional equipment, Digital rights management - European dialogues on DRM concerns, Digital rights management - Inclusion within GPL v3, Digital rights management - Quotes, Digital rights management - DRM implementations, Digital rights management - Related concepts

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The WRT54G router runs a version of Linux. Many of the software packages in the firmware are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), including the Linux kernel. Some of the software packages are under other licenses, and some of those parts are closed source. Sveasoft provides firmware under an annual subscription for 20 U.S. dollars per year, which also gives access to the support forum. Talisman requires that the MAC addresses of each router are registered on Sveasoft's web site. The web site software writes each author ...

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Sveasoft, Sveasoft - People, Sveasoft - Features, Sveasoft - Firmware versions, Sveasoft - Satori, Sveasoft - Alchemy, Sveasoft - Talisman, Sveasoft - Software licensing, Sveasoft - Controversies, Sveasoft - Distribution, Sveasoft - Personnel, Sveasoft - GPL disputes, Sveasoft - The Talisman controversy, Sveasoft - Other third-party firmware, Sveasoft - Payment disputes

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DRM vendors and publishers coined the term digital rights management to refer to the types of technical measures discussed here. As the name implies, it applies only to digital media. Digital media have gained in popularity over analog media both because of technical advantages associated with their production, reproduction, and manipulation, and also because they are sometimes of higher perceptual quality than their analog counterparts. Since the advent of personal computers, digital media files have become easy to copy an unl ...

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Digital rights management, Digital rights management - Introduction, Digital rights management - Legal enforcement of DRM, Digital rights management - Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital rights management - Other copyright implications, Digital rights management - DRM advocates, Digital rights management - DRM opponents, Digital rights management - DRM and Internet music, Digital rights management - Controversies consequences and examples, Digital rights management - Copyright law vs. particular techniques, Digital rights management - Consumer vs. Professional equipment, Digital rights management - European dialogues on DRM concerns, Digital rights management - Inclusion within GPL v3, Digital rights management - Quotes, Digital rights management - DRM implementations, Digital rights management - Related concepts

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While DRM systems are ostensibly designed to protect an author's right to control copying, this protection is only half of the bargain between the copyright holder and the state. The other half of the bargain is that after a statutorily-defined period of time the copyright work becomes part of the public domain for anyone to use freely. DRM systems currently employed are not time limited in this way, and although it would be possible to create such a system (under compulsory escrow agreements, for example), there is currently no mechanism to remove the copy control systems embedded into wor ...

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Digital rights management, Digital rights management - Introduction, Digital rights management - Legal enforcement of DRM, Digital rights management - Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital rights management - Other copyright implications, Digital rights management - DRM advocates, Digital rights management - DRM opponents, Digital rights management - DRM and Internet music, Digital rights management - Controversies consequences and examples, Digital rights management - Copyright law vs. particular techniques, Digital rights management - Consumer vs. Professional equipment, Digital rights management - European dialogues on DRM concerns, Digital rights management - Inclusion within GPL v3, Digital rights management - Quotes, Digital rights management - DRM implementations, Digital rights management - Related concepts

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Many organizations, prominent individuals, and computer scientists are already opposed to DRM in its various currently proposed forms. Two notable opponents are John Walker in his article, The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle[3], and Richard Stallman in his article/story The Right to Read. Professor Ross Anderson of Cambridge University heads a British organization which has been ...

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Digital rights management, Digital rights management - Introduction, Digital rights management - Legal enforcement of DRM, Digital rights management - Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital rights management - Other copyright implications, Digital rights management - DRM advocates, Digital rights management - DRM opponents, Digital rights management - DRM and Internet music, Digital rights management - Controversies consequences and examples, Digital rights management - Copyright law vs. particular techniques, Digital rights management - Consumer vs. Professional equipment, Digital rights management - European dialogues on DRM concerns, Digital rights management - Inclusion within GPL v3, Digital rights management - Quotes, Digital rights management - DRM implementations, Digital rights management - Related concepts

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There are several types of tools used to aid the activities performed in Open Source Software projects. These tools include the following; Open-source software - Source code revision control. Main article: Revision control In OSS development the participants, who are mostly volunteers, are distributed amongst different geographic regions so there is need ...

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Open-source software, Open-source software - Terminology, Open-source software - Open source model, Open-source software - Open-source license, Open-source software - Open source movement, Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source, Open-source software - Open source vs. free software, Open-source software - Participants in OSS development projects, Open-source software - Open source software development tools, Open-source software - Source code revision control, Open-source software - Testing tools, Open-source software - Bug/Error/Defect tracking tools, Open-source software - Communication, Open-source software - Advocates, Open-source software - Prominent projects and organizations, Open-source software - Examples of open source software, Open-source software - Notes

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In his 1997 essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar[2], open-source evangelist Eric S. Raymond suggests a model for developing OSS known as the Bazaar model. Raymond likens the development of software by traditional methodologies to building a cathedral, "fully crafted by individual wizards or small bands of mages working in splendid isolation"[3]. He suggests that ...

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Open-source software, Open-source software - Terminology, Open-source software - Open source model, Open-source software - Open-source license, Open-source software - Open source movement, Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source, Open-source software - Open source vs. free software, Open-source software - Participants in OSS development projects, Open-source software - Open source software development tools, Open-source software - Source code revision control, Open-source software - Testing tools, Open-source software - Bug/Error/Defect tracking tools, Open-source software - Communication, Open-source software - Advocates, Open-source software - Prominent projects and organizations, Open-source software - Examples of open source software, Open-source software - Notes

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Several DRM schemes have been implemented. Many see them as "abuse" of copyright (called eSlavery in Europe); DRM proponents have seen them as a "reasonable balance of consumer concerns and artist rights." Examples include: Digital imprimatur Inclusion of commercials on the "unskippable track" on DVDs reserved for the copyright notice; Using the DMCA to restrict access to items that do not qualify for copyright, such as garage door openers and printer ink cartridges; Adding restrictions on text- ...

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Digital rights management, Digital rights management - Introduction, Digital rights management - Legal enforcement of DRM, Digital rights management - Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital rights management - Other copyright implications, Digital rights management - DRM advocates, Digital rights management - DRM opponents, Digital rights management - DRM and Internet music, Digital rights management - Controversies consequences and examples, Digital rights management - Copyright law vs. particular techniques, Digital rights management - Consumer vs. Professional equipment, Digital rights management - European dialogues on DRM concerns, Digital rights management - Inclusion within GPL v3, Digital rights management - Quotes, Digital rights management - DRM implementations, Digital rights management - Related concepts

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Sveasoft - Satori. Satori, along with many other minor releases, is one of the earliest Sveasoft firmware development projects. Nearly all the projects have been halted to develop the Alchemy revisions. It is not recommended to use these earlier firmware releases. Sveasoft - Alchemy. This is the current "public" release, which Sveasoft distributes to both subscribers and non-subscribers. Development has ceased for Alchemy in favor of further development of Talisman, though unofficial development continues to this day. As one of the most mature Sveaso ...

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Sveasoft, Sveasoft - People, Sveasoft - Features, Sveasoft - Firmware versions, Sveasoft - Satori, Sveasoft - Alchemy, Sveasoft - Talisman, Sveasoft - Software licensing, Sveasoft - Controversies, Sveasoft - Distribution, Sveasoft - Personnel, Sveasoft - GPL disputes, Sveasoft - The Talisman controversy, Sveasoft - Other third-party firmware, Sveasoft - Payment disputes

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The definition of open source software was written to be almost identical to the free software definition. There are very few cases of software that is free software but is not open source software, and vice versa. The difference in the terms is where they place the emphasis. Free software is defined in terms of giving the user freedom. This reflects the goal of the free software movement. Open source highlights that the source code is viewable to all and proponents of the term usually emphasize the quality of th ...

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Open-source software, Open-source software - Terminology, Open-source software - Open source model, Open-source software - Open-source license, Open-source software - Open source movement, Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source, Open-source software - Open source vs. free software, Open-source software - Participants in OSS development projects, Open-source software - Open source software development tools, Open-source software - Source code revision control, Open-source software - Testing tools, Open-source software - Bug/Error/Defect tracking tools, Open-source software - Communication, Open-source software - Advocates, Open-source software - Prominent projects and organizations, Open-source software - Examples of open source software, Open-source software - Notes

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