Just because Bill Gates has done good things with his money doesn't change that fact that he obtained it unethically.
They way you put it, you make it seem like the best way to help 3rd world countries is for a company to accumulate loads of money by any means possible and then spend it on things they deem to be "good deeds".
Of course, we have a system similar to this already. It's called tax. And guess what? We get to vote on how it is spent.
I aggree that people have distored views on these people. Bill Gates isn't inherently evil, he's just persued what he considered to be "the american dream". The Great Gatsby is a good example of this.
People who are saying that Gates only gives to charity to make himself "seem" like a better person are most likely wrong. Do we see the new worlds richest person doing things like this?
In the end, we can't change the past. What we can change is the future, and I beleive that the future is free software.
Computing is the most important technology of our age and the propriatary business model only limits the development of the technology.
Free software may not cure disese, but the improvement of technology will ultimatly help improve the science which goes behind curing disease.
I agree he should not receive jail time for this... seriously.
A hefty fine [i]may[/i] be in order, depending on the circumstances (i didnt RTFA).
If he's that good at breaking security (even if he fails at the hacker mentality), he could probably make a living despite not getting such good grades anyway so it was a pretty stupid thing to do.
The term "intelectual property" is used to generalise three things which have vague similarities but in reality are very different.
These three things are copyright law, patent law, and trademark law.
Copyright law was introduced as an incentive to creators of copyrightable things for them to create more of what they do. The incentive was that they could more easily make money from it, but the copyright was to last a short amount of time.
Patent law was introduced to encourage businesses to publish ideas and techniques but still be able to use them as a business advantage, in order to promote progress.
Trademark law was introduced to stop confusion arising between different products, if they accidentally (or deliberately) ended up with the same name.
The issue of copyright seems to be mostly what you are interested in from what you wrote.
Please consider watching this speech by Richard Stallman as I believe it will clear up many discrepancies and it also likely contains what you are looking for.
The truth of the matter is Linux was originally developed to abandon the idea that beauty and "hand-holding" was necessary to create a great operating system
What the hell is this guy on about?
Linux was originally developed because Linus wanted to try writing his own kernel. Then they got together and put the GNU tools round it - which was developed to allow people to use their computer in freedom - to create GNU/Linux.
True, that was many people's incentive to use GNU/Linux, but making things easier has always been on the agenda - just depending on the level of control you require,
Anyway, I don't have much respect for Linus's opinions at the moment - especially on the GPLv3 and GNOME vs KDE.
odds are that they're not using the computers for their intended purpose.
Intended purpose? Wasn't the intended purpose of computers was to crack German encryption?
All DRM, non-free licensing and other forms of restriction just limit the use of computers. Who can predict the ways that people will be using computers in the future? In any event anyone (including the kids who get these laptops) should have the ability to study how the software works should they choose to. This is yet another form of education.
The laptops themselves have many uses to help educate children. For example, they can take the place of expensive textbooks, writing implements and notebooks. They provide access to previously unavailable information. They allow you to see moving examples of how things work, instead of just written descriptions or still images. They allow people to creative in a way in which was once impossible.
I'm just wondering that if everyone that payed the $650 cost of photoshop had payed $650 to someone to add a feature to GIMP, then would the combined effort create a program much better than photoshop?
What's stopping you using a modern GNU/Linux distro (assuming hardware support)?
It just gets me because a lot of people will tell you that GNU/Linux is great if you don't intend to play the latest games on it (ie, the ones that don't work in wine), but if you just want to browse the web, listen to music, chat to friends, edit images, whatever else you can do with the tons of Free Software available, then its great as long as your hardware is well supported.
Also it means you lose all the overhead from vista, and you get improved security without the Treacherous Computing and DRM rubbish.
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Says he who praises threesomes in their signature!
Just because something good came out of it, doesn't mean it wasn't wrong.
This is all in the past now anyway, yes something good came out of it, but that doesn't mean we should let them get away with it in the future.
Just because Bill Gates has done good things with his money doesn't change that fact that he obtained it unethically.
They way you put it, you make it seem like the best way to help 3rd world countries is for a company to accumulate loads of money by any means possible and then spend it on things they deem to be "good deeds".
Of course, we have a system similar to this already. It's called tax. And guess what? We get to vote on how it is spent.
I aggree that people have distored views on these people. Bill Gates isn't inherently evil, he's just persued what he considered to be "the american dream". The Great Gatsby is a good example of this.
People who are saying that Gates only gives to charity to make himself "seem" like a better person are most likely wrong. Do we see the new worlds richest person doing things like this?
In the end, we can't change the past. What we can change is the future, and I beleive that the future is free software.
Computing is the most important technology of our age and the propriatary business model only limits the development of the technology.
Free software may not cure disese, but the improvement of technology will ultimatly help improve the science which goes behind curing disease.
I agree he should not receive jail time for this... seriously. A hefty fine [i]may[/i] be in order, depending on the circumstances (i didnt RTFA). If he's that good at breaking security (even if he fails at the hacker mentality), he could probably make a living despite not getting such good grades anyway so it was a pretty stupid thing to do.
Was about to post the same thing
That's what she said
or cause substantial emotional distress to a person
They just broke their own law, by trying to make the law.
Oh yeah, what about The Getaway, wasn't that quite closely modelled on London?
Please assume the party position now, or you'll miss the cake!
You know, I really had to try to resist commenting on your grammar there.
Wait....
crap...
Secondly, there is already a free version of Ubuntu, called Gobuntu. gNewSense exists because "pure" isn't good enough
Looks like someone didnt RTFA...
The term "intelectual property" is used to generalise three things which have vague similarities but in reality are very different.
These three things are copyright law, patent law, and trademark law.
Copyright law was introduced as an incentive to creators of copyrightable things for them to create more of what they do. The incentive was that they could more easily make money from it, but the copyright was to last a short amount of time.
Patent law was introduced to encourage businesses to publish ideas and techniques but still be able to use them as a business advantage, in order to promote progress.
Trademark law was introduced to stop confusion arising between different products, if they accidentally (or deliberately) ended up with the same name.
The issue of copyright seems to be mostly what you are interested in from what you wrote.
Please consider watching this speech by Richard Stallman as I believe it will clear up many discrepancies and it also likely contains what you are looking for.
This is the first part of a 12 part youtube video
Something tells me your not being totally serial.
I'd hate to see what these headsets would be like in Soviet Russia.
http://gaddbiwdftapglkq.onion/ is the new wikileaks link. I don't think that can be censored :D
What the hell is this guy on about?
Linux was originally developed because Linus wanted to try writing his own kernel. Then they got together and put the GNU tools round it - which was developed to allow people to use their computer in freedom - to create GNU/Linux.
True, that was many people's incentive to use GNU/Linux, but making things easier has always been on the agenda - just depending on the level of control you require,
Anyway, I don't have much respect for Linus's opinions at the moment - especially on the GPLv3 and GNOME vs KDE.
what does: #woman man give you then?
You'd have to kill someone pretty fast to stop them pronouncing a silent letter.
odds are that they're not using the computers for their intended purpose.
Intended purpose? Wasn't the intended purpose of computers was to crack German encryption?
All DRM, non-free licensing and other forms of restriction just limit the use of computers. Who can predict the ways that people will be using computers in the future? In any event anyone (including the kids who get these laptops) should have the ability to study how the software works should they choose to. This is yet another form of education.
The laptops themselves have many uses to help educate children. For example, they can take the place of expensive textbooks, writing implements and notebooks. They provide access to previously unavailable information. They allow you to see moving examples of how things work, instead of just written descriptions or still images. They allow people to creative in a way in which was once impossible.
I'm just wondering that if everyone that payed the $650 cost of photoshop had payed $650 to someone to add a feature to GIMP, then would the combined effort create a program much better than photoshop?
Yeah so the other day, i was walking around town with my mate, and we were really thirsty.
And we walked for ages, until we met this guy, and we asked him for a drink, and he gave us a drink!
What's stopping you using a modern GNU/Linux distro (assuming hardware support)?
It just gets me because a lot of people will tell you that GNU/Linux is great if you don't intend to play the latest games on it (ie, the ones that don't work in wine), but if you just want to browse the web, listen to music, chat to friends, edit images, whatever else you can do with the tons of Free Software available, then its great as long as your hardware is well supported.
Also it means you lose all the overhead from vista, and you get improved security without the Treacherous Computing and DRM rubbish.
Hope this causes D&D to be more popular again. It's a great game - but no one plays it.
Why does this remind me of the stuff that Aztec scientists beleived
This is pretty damn funny but it should still be modded offtopic lol