You mean Walkerton, Ontario. But that has nothing to do with the Federal Government, It's The Ontario Tory's fault. They cut and cut and look at what has happened. Now they think they can make it "all better" by saying they'll toughen up the laws.. bah
Some other AC mentioned an idea. LET'S let them close reverse engineering and all that other stuff.
We have all the tools we need to create BETTER protocols and BETTER applications then any closed source company could do.
Since most of us use GPL or BSD licenses, our own protocols would REQUIRE closed source companies to publish any changes they make (made). Because of our protection from the open source licences. We could force the closed source companies if we can generate protocols that make the general public/small business companies happy.
I see this as a possibility to isolate companies like Micro$oft and such by cornering them into using OUR OWN OPEN source protocols instead of closed protocols.
How about we sue both of them for anti-compeditive actions such as FORCING us to use a W1ndows OS to view DVD movies? Since the REAL issue is not piracy but our ability to use DVD products in OTHER ALTERNATIVE Operating systems other then Micro$oft W1ndows.
It's time we took a stand and said *NO*, we're not going to take this shit anymore. We need to make companies listen to us and demand they respond to their customers or risk backlash. This is a free world (so we think) and we have the RIGHT to use Linux (or another OS) to play DVD movies.
If the industry can't listen we have to make them listen. Perhaps by blocking DVD movies on the web?
We need to have a campaign to let the public know what these two organizations are doing. Fight fire with fire!
I don't post very much on slashdot but this issue has pissed me off hugely and If I had the money I'd so the hell out of both of them for their incompentence!
We need to turn the tables and prove that they are purposely alienating UNIX users from using DVDs on their systems.
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You mean Walkerton, Ontario. But that has nothing to do with the Federal Government, It's The Ontario Tory's fault. They cut and cut and look at what has happened. Now they think they can make it "all better" by saying they'll toughen up the laws.. bah
Some other AC mentioned an idea. LET'S let them close reverse engineering and all that other stuff.
We have all the tools we need to create BETTER protocols and BETTER applications then any closed source company could do.
Since most of us use GPL or BSD licenses, our own protocols would REQUIRE closed source companies to publish any changes they make (made). Because of our protection from the open source licences. We could force the closed source companies if we can generate protocols that make the general public/small business companies happy.
I see this as a possibility to isolate companies like Micro$oft and such by cornering them into using OUR OWN OPEN source protocols instead of closed protocols.
That almost looks like a template they copied and used for the DVD suit ;-)
lame. They can't even be creative with their lawsuits! hahaha!
How about we sue both of them for anti-compeditive actions such as FORCING us to use a W1ndows OS to view DVD movies? Since the REAL issue is not piracy but our ability to use DVD products in OTHER ALTERNATIVE Operating systems other then Micro$oft W1ndows.
It's time we took a stand and said *NO*, we're not going to take this shit anymore. We need to make companies listen to us and demand they respond to their customers or risk backlash. This is a free world (so we think) and we have the RIGHT to use Linux (or another OS) to play DVD movies.
If the industry can't listen we have to make them listen. Perhaps by blocking DVD movies on the web?
We need to have a campaign to let the public know what these two organizations are doing. Fight fire with fire!
I don't post very much on slashdot but this issue has pissed me off hugely and If I had the money I'd so the hell out of both of them for their incompentence!
We need to turn the tables and prove that they are purposely alienating UNIX users from using DVDs on their systems.
(We need lots of money and a fund)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!