The best thing to do is open the floodgates of truth, let the government block it, and fight your way around the blocks. Don't give in to those who would take freedom away- ever.
No market encumbered by patents, copyrights, DRM, and lock-in is a free market.
The apologists will continue to spout "If they were that bad, nobody would buy their stuff!" regardless. Capitalism is a lie (in the computer industry, at least.)
It is as simple as selling mariguana in the Netherlands. It is legal and moral to do it there, and in contrast it is illegal and immoral to sell it on the USA.
No. Either it's legal and moral in the Netherlands, and illegal and moral in the US; or it's legal and immoral in the Netherlands and illegal and immoral in the US.
Morality is independent of the law.
There's certainly those kinds of relationships in the USA. Ever follow college sports?
(Yes, I know it's not on the same par, but still.)
What's the good word? TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!
Step 1: Recognize fair use
Step 2: Recognize that the copyright laws (and patent laws, but that's another matter) as they exist today are ridiculous
Step 3: REFORM!
Someone get these lawyers on the RIAA's case. The sooner we're rid of copyright abuses, the sooner we can put a sane system in place. Though the other way around may work better.
Actually enforcing fair use is a good start.
Actually, RMS has specifically criticized people who write licenses saying "This is not for commercial use" and/or add that to their "GPL-licensed" product.
What I would like to see would be something along the lines of the GNU.org "free vs non-free" page, only instead of classifying "free as in beer" software as "free as in freedom- or not", it classified software as "ethically proprietary" and "maliciously proprietary".
Adobe Acrobat, Flash? Opera? Ethical.
Windows Vista? Malicious.
Even something as simple a classification as "benign proprietary software"- ie: proprietary software that is no more "evil" than merely being proprietary as opposed to software that is proprietary and goes on to take more rights besides.
Just so you know, Stallman has said copyright should be 5 years on his essays on gnu.org.
He actually suggested 10 in a speech, someone asked "isn't that too much?"- his reply was basically "I'd prefer 5 but 10 is a good start on a compromise."
The GPL is based on copyright. Getting rid of it entirely would invalidate the GPL and make everything public domain to be snapped up by whichever large corporation could power it out the fastest.
If I saw someone getting tasered for bullshit like this at my college, I'd probably find it hard to stop myself from attacking the cop to help the guy.
Christopher Tolkien is releasing a book this upcoming spring called "The Children of Hurin". I'm betting that we'll be seeing the tragedy of Turin Turambar in the theaters soon.
A Muslim in the US cannot use his or her religion to force laws, just as a Christian or a Buddhist can't.
Tell that to the radical Christan fundamentalist bigots in the US today, please. These people need to be beat over the head with a 10-pound metal-bound Constitution until they realize they do not have the power to take away other peoples' freedoms in the name of "God".
This is an irritating mentality: that playing well is somehow "cheating".
If it's built into the game and you're not hacking the game- it's not cheating. Snaking in Mario Kart, sniping in Halo, throwing in Street Fighter- all are degraded as "cheap" or "cheating", when in reality it's just good play.
The whole point of a game is that both people are trying to win. Intentionally playing badly defeats the purpose.
They're going to do one of two things:
(1): charge for a program that lets Vista read the Zune
or
(2): Release an entirely different kind of Zune that works with Vista, and force everyone who bought the original to buy another one.
This is Microsoft we're talking about.
I hope you, and those like you, manage to get this nonsense straightened out. You are indeed a patriot to fight against the RIAA's corruption. I wish you the best of luck.
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The best thing to do is open the floodgates of truth, let the government block it, and fight your way around the blocks. Don't give in to those who would take freedom away- ever.
From what I understand, the next Gnome will have the "control-L is always on" thing on by default. Can anyone confirm this?
gconf-editor is exactly what you're looking for.
No market encumbered by patents, copyrights, DRM, and lock-in is a free market.
The apologists will continue to spout "If they were that bad, nobody would buy their stuff!" regardless. Capitalism is a lie (in the computer industry, at least.)
Schwarzenegger can't become president without a Constitutional amendment which probably isn't going to happen in this age of xenophobia.
If I had mod points, I'd be tempted to mod this up for the sheer irony of it.
Actually, that gets you Hydrazine- details on the process here.
This is mustard gas. Not the same. Mod parent down.
It is as simple as selling mariguana in the Netherlands. It is legal and moral to do it there, and in contrast it is illegal and immoral to sell it on the USA.
No. Either it's legal and moral in the Netherlands, and illegal and moral in the US; or it's legal and immoral in the Netherlands and illegal and immoral in the US.
Morality is independent of the law.
There's certainly those kinds of relationships in the USA. Ever follow college sports?
(Yes, I know it's not on the same par, but still.)
What's the good word? TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!
Actually, they'd stop profiting from this bullshit, but that's a profit for society. I guess it depends on who you ask.
BARF!
(Warning: the above link contains NSFW images.)
Step 1: Recognize fair use Step 2: Recognize that the copyright laws (and patent laws, but that's another matter) as they exist today are ridiculous Step 3: REFORM!
Someone get these lawyers on the RIAA's case. The sooner we're rid of copyright abuses, the sooner we can put a sane system in place. Though the other way around may work better.
Actually enforcing fair use is a good start.
Actually, RMS has specifically criticized people who write licenses saying "This is not for commercial use" and/or add that to their "GPL-licensed" product.
linux-generic Complete Generic Linux kernel linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.17 modules on x86_64 generic linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.17 modules helper script linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels sun-java5-bin Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 sun-java5-jre Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Well, I'd say I'm pretty well-off, there.
What I would like to see would be something along the lines of the GNU.org "free vs non-free" page, only instead of classifying "free as in beer" software as "free as in freedom- or not", it classified software as "ethically proprietary" and "maliciously proprietary".
Adobe Acrobat, Flash? Opera? Ethical.
Windows Vista? Malicious.
Even something as simple a classification as "benign proprietary software"- ie: proprietary software that is no more "evil" than merely being proprietary as opposed to software that is proprietary and goes on to take more rights besides.
Just so you know, Stallman has said copyright should be 5 years on his essays on gnu.org.
He actually suggested 10 in a speech, someone asked "isn't that too much?"- his reply was basically "I'd prefer 5 but 10 is a good start on a compromise."
The GPL is based on copyright. Getting rid of it entirely would invalidate the GPL and make everything public domain to be snapped up by whichever large corporation could power it out the fastest.
That's the point of the copyleft in the GNU General Public License.
If I saw someone getting tasered for bullshit like this at my college, I'd probably find it hard to stop myself from attacking the cop to help the guy.
Christopher Tolkien is releasing a book this upcoming spring called "The Children of Hurin". I'm betting that we'll be seeing the tragedy of Turin Turambar in the theaters soon.
A Muslim in the US cannot use his or her religion to force laws, just as a Christian or a Buddhist can't.
Tell that to the radical Christan fundamentalist bigots in the US today, please. These people need to be beat over the head with a 10-pound metal-bound Constitution until they realize they do not have the power to take away other peoples' freedoms in the name of "God".
This article was reported and written by John C. Dvorak for MarketWatch.
Why am I not surprised?
This is an irritating mentality: that playing well is somehow "cheating". If it's built into the game and you're not hacking the game- it's not cheating. Snaking in Mario Kart, sniping in Halo, throwing in Street Fighter- all are degraded as "cheap" or "cheating", when in reality it's just good play. The whole point of a game is that both people are trying to win. Intentionally playing badly defeats the purpose.
They're going to do one of two things: (1): charge for a program that lets Vista read the Zune or (2): Release an entirely different kind of Zune that works with Vista, and force everyone who bought the original to buy another one. This is Microsoft we're talking about.
I hope you, and those like you, manage to get this nonsense straightened out. You are indeed a patriot to fight against the RIAA's corruption. I wish you the best of luck.