If the trash over there is a big enough problem to require deodorant guns it sounds like it's also big enough to use those high-volume plasma incinerators.
Not likely when IT will be making a short call to HR that will get you sent packing.
And in this particular case deservedly so.
Apart from wasting company time, filesharing can expose the company to legal liability...perhaps even more so that privately since the RIAA will probably drool more at the corporate treasury than Joe Sixpack's own wallet.
Google already burned a huge bridge by using Hong Kong to do an end run around Chinese censorship laws.
Which promptly got them blocked and most likely incensed the Chinese government against them. They are likely to be taking the attempt as an affront to their authority and the bureaucrats may well decide to take it personally.
If I were Google, I'd be packing my bags and getting out of there fast before the Red Army decided to swoop in and confiscate everything, or worse.
People care more about price than they do product origin......And that includes the people using chinese parts to make american goods, and chinese materials to make american parts.
While it's true that in general the bigger you are the easier it is to trample on the legal rights of those smaller than you, there have been a few GPL cases where the GPL was indeed upheld.
At least one case in Germany IIRC, and likewise a couple more in the United States.
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How do you spend oodles releasing specs in the first place?
Printing manuals and chewing up ink and paper, fine.
Putting it online though? That's dirt cheap.
Linux will be ready for the desktop when hardware manufacturers stop thumbing their noses at FOSS and start releasing the damn specs for their stuff.
They don't wanna support it? Fine! Release the specs and let us volunteer developers do all the hard work. We'll write your drivers for you.
We don't have a *state* property tax.
There's still often a municipal property tax levied by the city.
Considering that you have to be a corporate shill to get nominated by either party I'm not quite sure.
Maybe if I could vote negatively that would change.
That way, if both sides sucked bad enough mr independent would win by default.
If the trash over there is a big enough problem to require deodorant guns it sounds like it's also big enough to use those high-volume plasma incinerators.
Considering that things are worse in China than they are here in the USA, maybe that's a good thing globally.
Which, sadly, teaches kids that it's ok to cheat and/or break the rules if you can get away with it.
Hello baby CEOs.
Because Microsoft lobbyists are in bed with congress critters.
I'd be using google buzz right now if it weren't for their autofollow blunder that forever tainted my contact list.
If there was a way I could kick everyone without banning them I'd do it and go back.
Not likely when IT will be making a short call to HR that will get you sent packing.
And in this particular case deservedly so.
Apart from wasting company time, filesharing can expose the company to legal liability...perhaps even more so that privately since the RIAA will probably drool more at the corporate treasury than Joe Sixpack's own wallet.
In which case I would rather get to the issue of why domestic products cost such a metric shitload of moolah to buy in the first place.
The same way the cotton industry got pot classified as a Schedule I substance, most likely.
Better than wearing beige pajamas, drinking a banana broccoli milkshake and singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer weiner" I'll bet...
If the margins are too low then there's too much supply.
Google already burned a huge bridge by using Hong Kong to do an end run around Chinese censorship laws.
Which promptly got them blocked and most likely incensed the Chinese government against them. They are likely to be taking the attempt as an affront to their authority and the bureaucrats may well decide to take it personally.
If I were Google, I'd be packing my bags and getting out of there fast before the Red Army decided to swoop in and confiscate everything, or worse.
People care more about price than they do product origin... ...And that includes the people using chinese parts to make american goods, and chinese materials to make american parts.
I'm quite sure that American made goods use Chinese parts.
And American made parts use Chinese materials (rare earths anyone?).
And being in a hurry and having business to attend to at the border often makes it profitable to surrender your goods and just move on.
That doesn't change the fact that *classifying* the sucker on grounds of national security is a bunch of bullshit.
Only if you read the patent and then push on ahead anyway. By reading them you get a heads up of what not to implement.
You shouldn't be infringing patents to begin with anyway, so what's the difference?
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The reason prior art is risky is because it's an affirmative defense that the defendant, not the plaintiff, bears the burden of proof for.
Reading patents is a good idea.
Since unlike with copyright, originality is not a defense to a patent infringement claim.
While it's true that in general the bigger you are the easier it is to trample on the legal rights of those smaller than you, there have been a few GPL cases where the GPL was indeed upheld.
At least one case in Germany IIRC, and likewise a couple more in the United States.
What kind of a screwed up layout is that?