The obligation wouldn't fall upon them. The vendor could just pack the source up into a tarball or something as part and parcel of the app download. Or, the offer to provide a download location for said source.
Unless MS itself modifies the package, they do not become a licensee of the package they are offering. They are in effect merely an e-distributor.
So the "no open source licenses" thing is a totally dick move, as such an obligation is a pile of horse shit for an excuse. Their lawyers should, and almost certainly do know better.
There's probably a "sole and final discretion" type clause that allows MS the right to exercise completely arbitrary fiat. Considering their motives, I have no doubt such will be used to plug any erstwhile loopholes in the license.
A cyberwar is a real war in that belligerents seeking to secure dominance over the enemy exist.
The only difference is that the interconnectedness of the internet only ensures lots of collateral damage.
I'm sure that if tempers flared up enough, an aggressive sovereignty would have zero qualms about trampling over intervening networks to get their way.
Even if I have nothing to hide, intrusive searches interfere with my life and I do not like them even if innocent.
If the government wants to piss away my time they'd better have a damn good reason to, and that means good enough to go to a judge and get a freaking *warrant* first. If they can't even be arsed enough to do that I don't want them wasting my time.
"Killed by mortar fire on the white house using the flag as a wind guide" is a lot more serious and credible than calling the prime minister a coercively telepathic extraterrestrial.
I would be quite alarmed if your example did *not* get taken seriously. Whether or not our president is worth our respect, he has a very important job and things would be worse if that particular post was abandoned and unmanned.
The warranty is a contract. Break its terms, even if those terms have nothing to do with the device's operability, and you forfeit the right to have them repair it on their dime.
And contracts in a warranty situation, as with every other contract out there, are a business matter subject to economics and that funny thing we like to call bargaining power.
Really, that's the only reason. As the holder and/or licensor of the patents and copyrights behind the device, as well as the warchest needed to manufacture it, they are in a position to set terms to their liking. And usually, they'll do so if it suits them, or pleases equally large wireless providers who have weight of their own to throw around.
Have a network used for voice data and don't want smart phones clogging it with data? Muscle cell phone makers into locking their phones down.
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Of course I'm jealous.
It means that my vote as an american citizen is completely worthless.
It was probably not just hush money.
I wouldn't put it past the MAFIAA to threaten lawsuits or the like if he *didn't* take it.
We've already seen what Sony is willing to go through to get its way.
What if they block port 25 as an incentive for you to pay for SMTP access?
Anyone with a resource under their absolute control will be tempted to restrict access to it for economic reasons.
Generally no, but I'm pretty sure HTML5 is a special case.
Seeing as how the article cites it I think HTML5 is a reasonable presumption.
It does when the only way to get a patent license to play it involves accepting a DRM scheme.
The only reason the DVD player does that is because there are patents on the DVD that forbid a device to play it without a license.
The only way to get that license is to agree to implement whatever DRM is demanded.
Same thing with Blu-Ray.
You basically kiss ass and agree to implement DRM, or you risk serious penalties for patent infringement.
DRM is basically a byproduct of "My way or the high way" that is enforced with patents.
Don't bother.
Once he closed an outer tag without first closing an inner tag he already failed XML validation.
Tags have to nest properly AND balance.
And what, put the brilliant minds of the Wright brothers to waste?
I could use the same argument for the human genius that let us invent an airplane and not need wings to fly.
A member of a superset cannot be converted into that superset, nor can a superset be converted into one of its members.
YOu can, however, convert one member of a set into another member of the set.
It's trying to make a redundant change. Without a difference between before and after, there is no delta.
It's much the same as trying to stop a car that's already parked.
Diplomatic consequences are just a polite way of saying pissing off someone that can hurt you.
The obligation wouldn't fall upon them. The vendor could just pack the source up into a tarball or something as part and parcel of the app download. Or, the offer to provide a download location for said source.
Unless MS itself modifies the package, they do not become a licensee of the package they are offering. They are in effect merely an e-distributor.
So the "no open source licenses" thing is a totally dick move, as such an obligation is a pile of horse shit for an excuse. Their lawyers should, and almost certainly do know better.
Is it legal? yes, barring anti-trust implications.
Is it a dick move? You bet.
There's probably a "sole and final discretion" type clause that allows MS the right to exercise completely arbitrary fiat. Considering their motives, I have no doubt such will be used to plug any erstwhile loopholes in the license.
A cyberwar is a real war in that belligerents seeking to secure dominance over the enemy exist.
The only difference is that the interconnectedness of the internet only ensures lots of collateral damage.
I'm sure that if tempers flared up enough, an aggressive sovereignty would have zero qualms about trampling over intervening networks to get their way.
Self modifying code is a questionable programming tactic and many times you will get a segfault if you attempt to write to a program area.
Even if I have nothing to hide, intrusive searches interfere with my life and I do not like them even if innocent.
If the government wants to piss away my time they'd better have a damn good reason to, and that means good enough to go to a judge and get a freaking *warrant* first. If they can't even be arsed enough to do that I don't want them wasting my time.
In other words, the GPL conditionally permits actions that would otherwise be illegal.
"Killed by mortar fire on the white house using the flag as a wind guide" is a lot more serious and credible than calling the prime minister a coercively telepathic extraterrestrial.
I would be quite alarmed if your example did *not* get taken seriously. Whether or not our president is worth our respect, he has a very important job and things would be worse if that particular post was abandoned and unmanned.
Milking said plans without getting irate customers on your existing voice plans due to bandwidth cloggage requires capital investment.
Nokia is behind development of Qt.
Qt is a dependency of KDE.
Should I be worried?
That's different.
As far as the warranty goes, who does the tampering means everything, and what's actually tampered with and how means nothing.
Simple, because a warranty is a contract.
The warranty is void because the manufacturer says it is if you tamper with the software.
And they're probably going to take Qt with them.
KDE, wake up.
The warranty is a contract. Break its terms, even if those terms have nothing to do with the device's operability, and you forfeit the right to have them repair it on their dime.
And contracts in a warranty situation, as with every other contract out there, are a business matter subject to economics and that funny thing we like to call bargaining power.
Because the manufacturer says so?
Really, that's the only reason. As the holder and/or licensor of the patents and copyrights behind the device, as well as the warchest needed to manufacture it, they are in a position to set terms to their liking. And usually, they'll do so if it suits them, or pleases equally large wireless providers who have weight of their own to throw around.
Have a network used for voice data and don't want smart phones clogging it with data? Muscle cell phone makers into locking their phones down.