In today's immediate gratification society the idea of having to wait 7 years (and we all know of course it isn't going to double every year. It takes a better statistician then I to even begin to guess how much Linux's use will increase next year). Its also why Japan is having its densely populated cities (along with other areas) laid down with fibre optic while we're stuck with inferior methods of internet access. Japanese businesses are willing to look at the long-term while American businesses only look to the next quarter.
I have no idea how you're post is relevant to mine. I say that people think an illegitimate route is legal, you go on about a whole bunch of other quite clearly illegitimate routes (for anyone with even half a brain).
If the purpose was to go after infringers in order to recuperate lost sales, they wouldn't be going after housewives or children who pirate for personal use, they'd be going after commercial pirates. Y'know, the people that the ridiculously high penalties were created for?
Instead the MPAA's purpose is to create an environment of fear. This is presumably so people will forget their fair use rights and give them up so the MPAA studios can put even more DRM on their products.
Sounds great for Internet cafes though. No need to look down the computer using software (that can be circumvented, often by simply installing Firefox >:D), it comes preinstalled. Although there'd need to be some timer or something for it to be truly useful in such instances.
Microsoft shilled out $66 million to someone to produce a FUD campaign. I'd hardly call that working, although I'm sure everyone involved thought and still think it was money well spent.
Lawsuits these days aren't finished until they've had at least one appeal. Its doubtful SCO can hold on for an appeal so no, there won't be any rulings that the spinmeisters can't spin away.
So I take it Mac has released their 20 year old software? No? Guess they consider it important enough to keep unreleased as well then and yet I don't see people saying they should revisit their business model.
The human body has plenty of useless-but-neutral features--earlobes, for one Boy will they laugh at you in 100 years time when earlobes are revealed to have a very important function. Has this article taught you nothing?
I am not a coward, however I refrain from posting such information indiscriminately. There's a difference. See slashdot calls you an anonymous coward, therefore its perfectly alright for me to poke a bit of fun at you. You can also call me a coward, but people might not take it quite as lightly. Now you could poke fun at me using "speaker of the" (as others have done in the past).
The truly free market allows me to build clones of the iPhone and sell them with no consideration to patents or copyright. Until we have such a truly free market, businesses like Apple should have to suffer certain restrictions, one of which might be selling unlocked phones.
Then it's your fault, not the vendors... Unless of course writes code that does nothing EXCEPT break modded phones. It would sort of be like Microsoft detecting you have open office installed on your computer while giving you a patch for Microsoft Word and then bricking your computer.
Now I've seen nothing but insinuations that Apple did this myself. But some lawyer obviously thinks there is a bit more then insinuations. Whether or not he's hoping to confuse the courts or has a good case remains to be seen.
Wait, someone STEALS (and I'm deliberately using the loaded and inaccurate term here) from Microsoft, and Microsoft is liable for something that happens when they use the STOLEN product? Wow, I'm all for consumer rights, etc, etc. But you're not a consumer if you've broken the law in obtaining the product.
Thanks, I'll have to give Suse a try. It seems like its much easier then the last distro I tried (and yes muds are still telnet based. I just included it to be exhaustive;)).
but everyone pirating it still uses the previous versions with no security updates installed. Microsoft should not support and help pirates. If people want to pirate, and then spew forth lots of spam, they should be prosecuted for pirating and whatever laws there are that make distributing viruses and spam illegal.
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In today's immediate gratification society the idea of having to wait 7 years (and we all know of course it isn't going to double every year. It takes a better statistician then I to even begin to guess how much Linux's use will increase next year). Its also why Japan is having its densely populated cities (along with other areas) laid down with fibre optic while we're stuck with inferior methods of internet access. Japanese businesses are willing to look at the long-term while American businesses only look to the next quarter.
FreeBSD costs even less to buy then Linux? No? Then how is that a reason to switch to FreeBSD?
Actually that would be a 100% increase. 0.81% is not a 100% increase of 0.37%
I have no idea how you're post is relevant to mine. I say that people think an illegitimate route is legal, you go on about a whole bunch of other quite clearly illegitimate routes (for anyone with even half a brain).
If the purpose was to go after infringers in order to recuperate lost sales, they wouldn't be going after housewives or children who pirate for personal use, they'd be going after commercial pirates. Y'know, the people that the ridiculously high penalties were created for?
Instead the MPAA's purpose is to create an environment of fear. This is presumably so people will forget their fair use rights and give them up so the MPAA studios can put even more DRM on their products.
Sounds great for Internet cafes though. No need to look down the computer using software (that can be circumvented, often by simply installing Firefox >:D), it comes preinstalled. Although there'd need to be some timer or something for it to be truly useful in such instances.
Microsoft shilled out $66 million to someone to produce a FUD campaign. I'd hardly call that working, although I'm sure everyone involved thought and still think it was money well spent.
Lawsuits these days aren't finished until they've had at least one appeal. Its doubtful SCO can hold on for an appeal so no, there won't be any rulings that the spinmeisters can't spin away.
So all of their 20 year old code is part of Darwin is it? Somehow I doubt it.
The algorithm works towards a final solution. Evolution is blind. There's no real comparison except to say how different they are.
I think this might be prior art.
You don't understand:
Avoiding paying for something is good.
Paying for something is bad.
Patents help make sure people have to pay.
Yes but saying that he intelligently designed a new antennae with the aid of software is taboo around here.
So I take it Mac has released their 20 year old software? No? Guess they consider it important enough to keep unreleased as well then and yet I don't see people saying they should revisit their business model.
I am not a coward, however I refrain from posting such information indiscriminately. There's a difference. See slashdot calls you an anonymous coward, therefore its perfectly alright for me to poke a bit of fun at you. You can also call me a coward, but people might not take it quite as lightly. Now you could poke fun at me using "speaker of the" (as others have done in the past).
That's not a dupe:
article #1 - people are talking about a class action lawsuit.
article #2 - the class action lawsuit is filed with the courts.
See how those two are different? I know you're a coward, but try to show a bare minimum of intelligence.
The truly free market allows me to build clones of the iPhone and sell them with no consideration to patents or copyright. Until we have such a truly free market, businesses like Apple should have to suffer certain restrictions, one of which might be selling unlocked phones.
Now I've seen nothing but insinuations that Apple did this myself. But some lawyer obviously thinks there is a bit more then insinuations. Whether or not he's hoping to confuse the courts or has a good case remains to be seen.
Wait, someone STEALS (and I'm deliberately using the loaded and inaccurate term here) from Microsoft, and Microsoft is liable for something that happens when they use the STOLEN product? Wow, I'm all for consumer rights, etc, etc. But you're not a consumer if you've broken the law in obtaining the product.
Thanks, I'll have to give Suse a try. It seems like its much easier then the last distro I tried (and yes muds are still telnet based. I just included it to be exhaustive ;)).
Kinda serious, kinda kidding. It was serious insomuch as the premise (of a bomb that turns people gay) itself allows ;)