This may work in the US, but the US is merely but ONE country with Internet access. The RIAA has no teeth outside the US, so in effect all they're doing is trying to create an island on the Internet. Good luck.
The same goes for Software patents and the DMCA. The U.S. is going to end up being the country where you can't, while in the "free" world you can.
...sure brings back some memories. The first time I saw one was while shopping in a drugstore and of course immediately dropped in a coin to try it out. The grapics were just white lines on a black screen but the game sure was addictive.
At the risk of being redundant...neither. The ad sums up all the benefits of open source in very creative and imaginative way. And I must say, despite their sordid past, I am really impressed with the effort that IBM is putting behind the Linux movement and hope to see their profits soar selling "free" software.
You are perfectly allowed to do what you want with your music, but when you share it with other people, it's considered a public showing. Just like on video tapes/dvds with the fbi warning at the beginning. You are allowed to watch the movie, copy it, destroy it, whatever, however, you did not buy the right for public showing of that copy.
How many people need to be present for it to be considered a "public" showing? Is there a limit on how many friends I can invite over to watch the movie with me? Two? Ten? Fifty? A hundred? A thousand? As long as I paid for the movie and don't charge anyone admission all I'm doing is sharing my right to view it with them.
I still don't see how Open source BIOS developers are going to get the latest and greatest chipset documents, errata, etc.
When 32bit protected mode processors came about the bios pretty much came irrelevant as far as the operating system was concerned because its routines were programmed for a 16bit real mode environment.
Why is $12 too expensive? People pay $15-25 for DVD movies...
A DVD movie is usually 90 to 180 minutes of entertainment and a bargain at $20. A music CD on the other hand rarely has more than 10 minutes of anything worth listening to.
The only means to fight against DRM is to encourage and support legislation which guarantees the rights of consumers to backup, copy, move, transcode, etc., purchased multimedia and software products.
Considering how far that strategy has gotten us with the DMCA in general and DeCSS in particular, refusing the use programs that force DRM on users is the better option.
The best opposition to this would be and Open Source BIOS. I've no idea if this is possible, likely, or already being done. It simply seems like the best response to DRM enabled BIOS.
The OpenBios project has been in the works for a while now.
Because the company wishes to make money on the content that is displayed on the device. There isn't anything wrong with this.
Of course there isn't. The only problem is most companies limit the viewability of their content to a particular device rather than making it available to all to purchase.
Why is it that when someone attempts to lock stuff they deem propritary so it won't get copied all over the place, so they can make a buck, someone has to come along to nullify it?
Perhaps because they are so impressed with the inventor's product that they want to be able to use it on their system of choice? Actually, from other posts this doesn't seem to qualify...but I can think of hundreds of programs I would buy if they would only work on Linux.
I thought SCO are argueing that the GPL is invalid and that all GPL code is public domain (I think to try to get around the fact they've been distributing linux after the dispute started) so it won't matter to SCO that Sun are distributing Linux.
In the unlikely event the GPL is ruled invalid the authors would still retain their rights to their sourcecode.
I believe that if you used dumpster dived code to make a diagram, and then used that to make the code you are open for abuse. Because you could have accidentaly infringed.
Accidentally infringed...interesting term. I guess that means that an artist who was inspired by the "Mona Lisa" should never paint a picture of a smiling woman.
The problem is Linux is so prone to IP infringement, as it has not established any formal procedures for merging alien code.
Actually Linux is much less prone to infringing other peoples IP than makers of proprietory software are because its source code is available for anyone to read. This is the same procedure that book publishers have been using successfully since the printing was first developed.
The software will be written by others. You are naive to think that Brazil will now hire more programmers. In fact the opposite will hapen, it will FIRE more programmers. Brazil will use the FREE software that others write, i.e. you. Didn't you read the fucking article?
They will need to programmers and administrators to maintain and run the systems. But, even if they didn't it still money that stays in Brazil and out of Bill Gate's pockets.
Why should the Brazilian government worry about how much taxes the U.S. government gets? Look, no matter how hard American "Congress Critters" try to make it be so, software is not a limited physical resource.
Somewhere along the line so idiot thought it would be a good idea to make the rest of the world be America's "IP" bitches without considering that the rest of the world would object. Perhaps its time for Americans to wake up and smell the (Brazilian) coffee before it's too late.
So... all M$ would have to do would be to distribute free copies of their software to the Brazilian government in order to solve this, correct?
You mean "give the man a fish" instead of giving him the means to fish? No, if Brazil truly wanted to use the savings from not paying Microsoft licenses to stimulate its own economy.
....Brazilian programmers won't be needed. After all, free software will be de rigeur. This will free up much valuable embezzlement money for corrupt officials to steal, that would have otherwise gone to pay programmers.
Chances are though that Brazillian officials are much more likely to spend their embezzled money in Brazil than Microsoft programmers are.
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For Linux/BSD users:
Go to Freshmeat or Sourceforge and do a search.
For Windows users:
You see the box at the top of your browser? Yes, the one with the long strong a characters in it. Uh huh, that's the one....
This may work in the US, but the US is merely but ONE country with Internet access. The RIAA has no teeth outside the US, so in effect all they're doing is trying to create an island on the Internet. Good luck.
The same goes for Software patents and the DMCA. The U.S. is going to end up being the country where you can't, while in the "free" world you can.
Most BSD users don't want this. Ports works quite well for us, thank you very much. Any shortcomings that Ports has, are being worked on.
Since Gentoo's Portage is based on Ports, wouldn't this just be them giving back to community they borrowed from?
Those were the days, simple and fun open source businessmodels.
If you replace the "?" with:
2: Charge a quarter to use the machine.
Your formula actually works B-)
How did you get the slashdot id 173? A 3 digit id???
;-)
Did you buy it at ebay? What was your bid?
I hear he got it for a song B-)
...sure brings back some memories. The first time I saw one was while shopping in a drugstore and of course immediately dropped in a coin to try it out. The grapics were just white lines on a black screen but the game sure was addictive.
IBM pays developers to improve Linux which only makes sense for them because they have to support the software that runs on their machines anyway.
Does that make me weird, sad, or both?
At the risk of being redundant...neither. The ad sums up all the benefits of open source in very creative and imaginative way. And I must say, despite their sordid past, I am really impressed with the effort that IBM is putting behind the Linux movement and hope to see their profits soar selling "free" software.
And yes, it brought tears to my eyes too.
You are perfectly allowed to do what you want with your music, but when you share it with other people, it's considered a public showing. Just like on video tapes/dvds with the fbi warning at the beginning. You are allowed to watch the movie, copy it, destroy it, whatever, however, you did not buy the right for public showing of that copy.
How many people need to be present for it to be considered a "public" showing? Is there a limit on how many friends I can invite over to watch the movie with me? Two? Ten? Fifty? A hundred? A thousand? As long as I paid for the movie and don't charge anyone admission all I'm doing is sharing my right to view it with them.
I still don't see how Open source BIOS developers are going to get the latest and greatest chipset documents, errata, etc.
When 32bit protected mode processors came about the bios pretty much came irrelevant as far as the operating system was concerned because its routines were programmed for a 16bit real mode environment.
Why is $12 too expensive? People pay $15-25 for DVD movies...
A DVD movie is usually 90 to 180 minutes of entertainment and a bargain at $20. A music CD on the other hand rarely has more than 10 minutes of anything worth listening to.
The only means to fight against DRM is to encourage and support legislation which guarantees the rights of consumers to backup, copy, move, transcode, etc., purchased multimedia and software products.
Considering how far that strategy has gotten us with the DMCA in general and DeCSS in particular, refusing the use programs that force DRM on users is the better option.
The best opposition to this would be and Open Source BIOS. I've no idea if this is possible, likely, or already being done. It simply seems like the best response to DRM enabled BIOS.
The OpenBios project has been in the works for a while now.
Because the company wishes to make money on the content that is displayed on the device. There isn't anything wrong with this.
Of course there isn't. The only problem is most companies limit the viewability of their content to a particular device rather than making it available to all to purchase.
Why is it that when someone attempts to lock stuff they deem propritary so it won't get copied all over the place, so they can make a buck, someone has to come along to nullify it?
Perhaps because they are so impressed with the inventor's product that they want to be able to use it on their system of choice? Actually, from other posts this doesn't seem to qualify...but I can think of hundreds of programs I would buy if they would only work on Linux.
I thought SCO are argueing that the GPL is invalid and that all GPL code is public domain (I think to try to get around the fact they've been distributing linux after the dispute started) so it won't matter to SCO that Sun are distributing Linux.
In the unlikely event the GPL is ruled invalid the authors would still retain their rights to their sourcecode.
People so stupid and ignorant that they can't spell DESCEND, you mean?
We tri to spell the inglish korrectaly, and hav found huked on fawnix veree helpful. Wot rool to appli? "C" befor "S" eckscept aftur "E"?
You insult Americans by calling us "USAians"...
That's right...they should be calling us "The Weans".
I believe that if you used dumpster dived code to make a diagram, and then used that to make the code you are open for abuse. Because you could have accidentaly infringed.
Accidentally infringed...interesting term. I guess that means that an artist who was inspired by the "Mona Lisa" should never paint a picture of a smiling woman.
The problem is Linux is so prone to IP infringement, as it has not established any formal procedures for merging alien code.
Actually Linux is much less prone to infringing other peoples IP than makers of proprietory software are because its source code is available for anyone to read. This is the same procedure that book publishers have been using successfully since the printing was first developed.
The software will be written by others. You are naive to think that Brazil will now hire more programmers. In fact the opposite will hapen, it will FIRE more programmers. Brazil will use the FREE software that others write, i.e. you. Didn't you read the fucking article?
They will need to programmers and administrators to maintain and run the systems. But, even if they didn't it still money that stays in Brazil and out of Bill Gate's pockets.
Why should the Brazilian government worry about how much taxes the U.S. government gets? Look, no matter how hard American "Congress Critters" try to make it be so, software is not a limited physical resource.
Somewhere along the line so idiot thought it would be a good idea to make the rest of the world be America's "IP" bitches without considering that the rest of the world would object. Perhaps its time for Americans to wake up and smell the (Brazilian) coffee before it's too late.
So... all M$ would have to do would be to distribute free copies of their software to the Brazilian government in order to solve this, correct?
You mean "give the man a fish" instead of giving him the means to fish? No, if Brazil truly wanted to use the savings from not paying Microsoft licenses to stimulate its own economy.
With all these problems the Brazillian government certainly has better things to do with its people's money than renew Microsoft licenses.
Chances are though that Brazillian officials are much more likely to spend their embezzled money in Brazil than Microsoft programmers are.