Not really. Lets use BitTorrent as an example. BitTorrent links chunks to a torrent. If it were to just track chunks, you could get a speed up for certain torrents.
Lets say I make a torrent, example-v1.0.torrent, containing file X (with the checksum "foobar"), and file Z (with the checksum "deadbeef"). I seed it, people download it, yippie.
Now lets say later on, file X changes, and now has the checksum "barfoo". So I create example-v1.1.torrent. Under the current BitTorrent system, both file X and file Z would have to be seeded from scratch. Whereas if you were to merely track chunks, anyone currently distributing file Z, which hans't changed, would be used in the seeding of example-v1.1.torrent.
For things like operating system ISOs, you could get a head start when seeding new versions. For compressed data, like MP3s or videos, you're screwed.
This strikes me on par with the typical predictions made 30 years ago. Allmost none of them have come to pass.
Can someone dig up those predictions, compile a list, and publish it on their blog? I'd really like to see how many predictions from 10, 20, 30, and 50 years ago have come true.
Also, in your last question, you state that the license and copyright is irrelevent, in which case your scenario can be argued against the GPL too. Futhermore, this implies that you're no longer debating licenses, but instead voicing your complaints against corporations.
It seems that your definition of a "perfect world" is one where the GPL is inherent.
In a truly perfect world, you license the code under whatever license you want for whatever reason you want, and people respect the license. Corporations who use BSD-licensed code are not stealing anything: They are doing what the license grants them the ability to do. Authors who license code under the BSD license fully understand that this is a possability. If they had any problems with it, they'd use another license.
Finally, a note about freedom: Freedom is the ability to do what others think is wrong. If you take that ability away, as the GPL has done, you have taken away freedom itself. This isn't to say that I have a problem with people using the GPL license: I don't. I have a problem with it being labeled as "free."
The author of some code contacts the OpenBSD to communicate that copyright was infringed upon.
The reason this is getting play is because the author of the code went public, sending the email to a lot of people, without contacting the infringing author privately first. That's just bad form (not that stealing code is good form).
I'll assume you're talking about whether or not cheese is good for you or not, or not. Well, whole milk only has 3% fat, so I'd say there's little to gain by using a lesser cheese. You do, however, lose a ton in the flavor department.
Chicago is a much nicer, safer, cleaner and just better city than New York. Notice that game makers don't generally use it.
That's because Chicago has something New York has long forgotten: Class. In Chicago, crime isn't spilling onto the streets. It's locked away in the Government itself.
If you wanted to set a crime game in Chicago, it'd have to be about stealing election votes, selling illegal drivers licenses, and collecting kick backs from major Government projects. The final mission would be to break into Meigs Field at 2AM and illegally destroy the runways (using tax-payer funded crews, no less).
In some places, it's called the mafia. In Chicago, it's called the Government.
But if enjoying life is doing everything that is bad for you, why not do all that stuff anyways? If you avoid it, by defintion, you haven't really lived.
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My money is on whoever rigs up a Amazon's Mechanical Turk-based system fast enough.
Not really. Lets use BitTorrent as an example. BitTorrent links chunks to a torrent. If it were to just track chunks, you could get a speed up for certain torrents.
Lets say I make a torrent, example-v1.0.torrent, containing file X (with the checksum "foobar"), and file Z (with the checksum "deadbeef"). I seed it, people download it, yippie.
Now lets say later on, file X changes, and now has the checksum "barfoo". So I create example-v1.1.torrent. Under the current BitTorrent system, both file X and file Z would have to be seeded from scratch. Whereas if you were to merely track chunks, anyone currently distributing file Z, which hans't changed, would be used in the seeding of example-v1.1.torrent.
For things like operating system ISOs, you could get a head start when seeding new versions. For compressed data, like MP3s or videos, you're screwed.
You wouldn't: You'd write code in your language of choice that outputs HTML.
My rebuttal: When we stop questioning science, stop questioning what we know about the world, science ceases to exist.
(By the way, I'm a proud Libertarian.)
(since we basically make copies of some parts to be used numerous times)
You don't copy code: You generalize it into a function.
So are temperatures. *ducks from thrown chair*
No, really, they do. They like solving problems. Having to implement the solution is the boring part, no matter how it's going to be done.
This strikes me on par with the typical predictions made 30 years ago. Allmost none of them have come to pass.
Can someone dig up those predictions, compile a list, and publish it on their blog? I'd really like to see how many predictions from 10, 20, 30, and 50 years ago have come true.
Can you cite one instance of this ever happening?
Also, in your last question, you state that the license and copyright is irrelevent, in which case your scenario can be argued against the GPL too. Futhermore, this implies that you're no longer debating licenses, but instead voicing your complaints against corporations.
It seems that your definition of a "perfect world" is one where the GPL is inherent.
In a truly perfect world, you license the code under whatever license you want for whatever reason you want, and people respect the license. Corporations who use BSD-licensed code are not stealing anything: They are doing what the license grants them the ability to do. Authors who license code under the BSD license fully understand that this is a possability. If they had any problems with it, they'd use another license.
Finally, a note about freedom: Freedom is the ability to do what others think is wrong. If you take that ability away, as the GPL has done, you have taken away freedom itself. This isn't to say that I have a problem with people using the GPL license: I don't. I have a problem with it being labeled as "free."
Sharing does not imply contributing to a commons, as you suggest. It is an act between individuals and, therefore, can stop at any given individual.
The author of some code contacts the OpenBSD to communicate that copyright was infringed upon.
The reason this is getting play is because the author of the code went public, sending the email to a lot of people, without contacting the infringing author privately first. That's just bad form (not that stealing code is good form).
The BSD license is more permissive, and the GPL is more free.
How is the GPL more free? Code licensed under the GPL is encumbered by the GPL, and therefore not free.
Now we can put our Y2K supplies to good use.
A company so large, they don't give a damn what any individual is doing.
I'll assume you're talking about whether or not cheese is good for you or not, or not. Well, whole milk only has 3% fat, so I'd say there's little to gain by using a lesser cheese. You do, however, lose a ton in the flavor department.
Next question please.
You ask an excellent question.
Next question please.
Slide 2: Cheese
Slide 3: Conclusion
Thank you, I will now take questions from the audience.
He only used 60% of his brain when writing the article. Sadly, he collected 100% of his pay check.
(Obl: 43% of people know that all statistics are made up.)
But Serenity wasn't that great of a film. Firefly was an amazing TV show, but the film was without the same depth.
Chicago is a much nicer, safer, cleaner and just better city than New York. Notice that game makers don't generally use it.
That's because Chicago has something New York has long forgotten: Class. In Chicago, crime isn't spilling onto the streets. It's locked away in the Government itself.
If you wanted to set a crime game in Chicago, it'd have to be about stealing election votes, selling illegal drivers licenses, and collecting kick backs from major Government projects. The final mission would be to break into Meigs Field at 2AM and illegally destroy the runways (using tax-payer funded crews, no less).
In some places, it's called the mafia. In Chicago, it's called the Government.
Oh wait...
So then I start a manufacturing business that doesn't price fix and become the new overlord.
If they allow people to mashup their shows and whatnot, you can wave bye-bye to YouTube.
But if enjoying life is doing everything that is bad for you, why not do all that stuff anyways? If you avoid it, by defintion, you haven't really lived.