Maybe it shouldn't be a question of whether there should be speed limits or not, but what those limits should be for each stretch of road. If the majority of people are exceeding the limit without causing enough accidents to reduce traffic flow then the limit is too low.
Correct, it is an application. It is not necessary for the functionality of the operating system.
People have mentioned KDE. It is not part of Linux. Nor is Firefox. Even GNU tools are not part of the operating system. Regardless, those applications are all from different developers and are not leveraging their position to maintain an illegal monopoly.
It used to be that you could specify what window manager you wanted to use with Windows. If you didn't like Explorer you had options open to you. Along came Disk Defragmenters. Then came Internet Explorer. Then Media Player. Next, a PDF knock-off. MS want's their Search and Anti-virus there, too. When each of these were initially bundled into the Windows Platform they were far from best-of-breed. But by bundling them, MS harmed competition. Soon many of their bundled applications were best-of-breed on the Windows platform, but it wasn't because of Microsoft's development efforts. It was because they had starved their competition.
The quality of software available for Windows would be much better if MS had never bundled and were instead forced to compete on an even playing field.
I am in the tech industry and have used this to my advantage often. The last time was an employer that assigned me additional responsibilities. I said, "Sure, it will cost you an additional $1800 a month". They decided that half of what they were wanting me to do wasn't important and I decided it would only cost them an additional $1000 a month.
It is also complicated by the chain of evidence in regards to proving what computer and user was involved. The ISP's network infrastructure, logging, and security mechanisms will have to be vetted in order to tie an IP address to a particular user account. Then they have to get through the customer's router, local network, and computers to tie a particular computer to that IP address. Finally, they have to tie a particular user to that computer at the specified date and time. This is made more difficult if their are multiple computer's on the customer's network or if wireless connectivity is enabled.
As a defendant, I would want a detailed analysis of the ISP's logging systems to determine the reliability of the ISP's IP-to-customer testimony. At a minimum this would include testimony from the ISP's network staff and would likely include testimony from their vendors on how the each part of their testimony was arrived at and how reliable that information is.
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Different court and different judge.
There goes any chance of downloading version 5.0 today.
Maybe it shouldn't be a question of whether there should be speed limits or not, but what those limits should be for each stretch of road. If the majority of people are exceeding the limit without causing enough accidents to reduce traffic flow then the limit is too low.
Correct, it is an application. It is not necessary for the functionality of the operating system.
People have mentioned KDE. It is not part of Linux. Nor is Firefox. Even GNU tools are not part of the operating system. Regardless, those applications are all from different developers and are not leveraging their position to maintain an illegal monopoly.
It used to be that you could specify what window manager you wanted to use with Windows. If you didn't like Explorer you had options open to you. Along came Disk Defragmenters. Then came Internet Explorer. Then Media Player. Next, a PDF knock-off. MS want's their Search and Anti-virus there, too. When each of these were initially bundled into the Windows Platform they were far from best-of-breed. But by bundling them, MS harmed competition. Soon many of their bundled applications were best-of-breed on the Windows platform, but it wasn't because of Microsoft's development efforts. It was because they had starved their competition.
The quality of software available for Windows would be much better if MS had never bundled and were instead forced to compete on an even playing field.
I am in the tech industry and have used this to my advantage often. The last time was an employer that assigned me additional responsibilities. I said, "Sure, it will cost you an additional $1800 a month". They decided that half of what they were wanting me to do wasn't important and I decided it would only cost them an additional $1000 a month.
It is also complicated by the chain of evidence in regards to proving what computer and user was involved. The ISP's network infrastructure, logging, and security mechanisms will have to be vetted in order to tie an IP address to a particular user account. Then they have to get through the customer's router, local network, and computers to tie a particular computer to that IP address. Finally, they have to tie a particular user to that computer at the specified date and time. This is made more difficult if their are multiple computer's on the customer's network or if wireless connectivity is enabled.
As a defendant, I would want a detailed analysis of the ISP's logging systems to determine the reliability of the ISP's IP-to-customer testimony. At a minimum this would include testimony from the ISP's network staff and would likely include testimony from their vendors on how the each part of their testimony was arrived at and how reliable that information is.