I haven't read the end-user agreement. However, they're free to ask that I not give copies away. They are not free to require that I not give copies away.
I can redistribute GPL'd software, still under the GPL, with a note attached (and credited to me, not the original authors), asking the recipient to please plant tulips. I cannot require them to do so. As long as the language is obviously a request, and is not confused with a term of the license, I am in compliance with the GPL. If my tulip request starts to look like a licensing term, then I may run afoul of the GPL in a hurry.
It's an odd strategy, but it may be legal.
BTW, I am not a lawyer, and have not consulted with one. Etc.
It's about keeping your bank from selling your financial history to whomever is interested. Banks can (and will) require you to allow them to read your credit report (and to write to your credit report) as a condition of applying for a loan. However, given the strong negativwe response, banks probably won't put a waiver in their paperwork that you would be *required* to complete.
Some banks may try it, depending on how much money they make selling consumer information. However, if you balk, I doubt that they would turn you away.
They may be more interested in distributing content without a licensing fee than in distributing players without paying a licensing fee. To produce a DVD, a license fee must be paid per disk. If they produce a disk using their new format, there is no fee. (This is a win for independent producers of content, as well as for countries keen on reducing cash transfersto the DVD consortium).
To make a player that plays just this new protocol, there is no license fee involved (I presme). The players they'll probably make will be APEX-like, playing DVDs, CDs, MP3s, and will probably pay a DVD licensing fee. At least, auditable units, or units shipped to the west will pay fees. Who knows about grey-market ones.
This service pack complies with the November settlement.
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Among the changes is a new control that will allow PC makers or consumers to replace Microsoft software with third-party applications from Microsoft's competitors, such as AOL Time Warner and RealNetworks.
Under the Justice Department settlement, Microsoft must allow consumers or PC makers to hide user access to five pieces of so-called middleware: Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger and Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine.
Shortening the sample (song, TV show) doesn't have to change the pitch. You don't have to just speed it up. If you move the domain to phase space (recording of the harmonic spectrum over time) and compress there, you retain pitch information and compress the time so notes/words are shorter. Of course, if you're not careful you get errors (ringing from improperly chosen envelopes, etc), but with reasonable assumptions these are minor.
Region coding it is a little silly, but it would keep it from being sold in the US, or Japan, or other NTCS countries. European DVDs are encoded in PAL, rather than NTSC, so a UK region 0 disk still won't play on most US TV sets without a PAL to NTSC converter, or a DVD player with an inboard (software) converter.
They may find the email list useful as a tool to try to change jurisdiction. If Microsoft can prove that Lindows was doing business in Washington state (through a Washington state address in the email list), it may make it easier to change jurisdiction to Washington, where Microsoft has many more lawyers and the case would be more convenient for them.
If I patent an invention that consists of (among other things) a serial cable, I don't own a patent on all serial cables. I own a patent on a serial cable used in conjunction with the other components I list in the manner described by the patent.
GM doesn't necessarilly own patents on machine screws, although these screws may be constituents of designs patented by GM.
Patent & Copyright are irrelevant to reverse engineering issues. Patent prevents you from using the idea, copyright prevents duplication (except for fair use.) Neither prevent you from playing with a thing you've bought to determine how it's made, they just restrict what you can do with that knowledge.
You can't manufacture a patented invention, and you can't duplicate a copyrighted expression. (Although you can talk about a patented invention, or use and pass on the knowledge in a copyrighted expression.)
As the article says at the end, "Or, CAT [Cable Address Translator, a NAT that reports to the cable company]could replace NAT altogether, at least in equipment hand-picked by MSOs for home-network service packages."
The article seems to show an understanding that they can't do anything about NAT, they'd be hard pressed to remove it from homes. But they can offer IT service contracts to deal with "certified" devices connected to their cable modem, enumerated behind a "CAT" box.
Bad as it sounds, this may be nice for folks who want conected devices in their home but aren't IP-savvy. The cable company would have to be able to see into this network to maintain it, and people would pay more to get (cable-company-quality) service.
I don't see this as being a very big market, in the same way that not many people now have phone line service contracts in their homes.
Yea, the cable companies would like to charge per-device fees to all customers, but I don't see how they could.
I'm at a friend's house. My library (in my Archos) is in the car, hers in on her PC. We're talking, her music is playing. Something I like and didn't know about comes on. Cool!
I get the Archos from the car, plug it into her computer via USB. Drag & drop file transfer.
You hear the song, you want it then. If it sticks to you, later you buy the album to get more.
The Archos Jukebox is a combination USB hard drive (6 gig, upgradeable) and MP3 player. It exerts absolutely no control over what you put on the hard drive, and works with any computer with a USB driver. (I don't know what the included "MusicMatch" software is for, I never installed it.)
It is a little bulky for carying around, but is great for use in the car and office.
The "CD Logo" agreement (zipped) is available from here.
According to this, the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo can only be used "on discs complying with the CD-DA specification: IEC 60908 and/or the Philips-Sony Compact Disc Digital Audio System Description) also known as the RED Book)."
You've eaten purple potatoes before, right? The skin of the potatoe is purple, not the meat. If you peel them, they look like ordinary smallish potatoes.
They're good eating baked, but I'm not so certain that they mash well.
No, that's just the way it works for some crimes. This keeps the defendant from being able to pressure the plantiff to drop charges. For example, if you beat your girlfriend, and she then drops charges, the state may (properly) prosecute you anyway.
I didn't know that the DMCA counted as that sort of crime.
The reason to run Lunux on PalmOS on WinCE is purely for the geek appeal, not because it's more efficient. Do it because you can, do it once, decide it's annoying and not quite so neat a week or so later, and then just load Linux directly on there.
Have you ever driven to the store on a rider lawnmower? Some things are just fun, not efficient.
Sun's not that stupid. If Sun's license prevents manufacturers from putting a JRE on the box, and sun's options are to change the license or see which manufacturers would like to pay for a JRE license (not very many), Sun will change their license.
They weren't making money with the regular JRE on PCs before, they won't risk Java to start now.
They probably will continue to charge for the server-optimized HotSpot, but that's a different ball of wax.
(After all, I would think the dubious success of Mutually Assured Destruction would be enough to convince even the most hawkishly secretive politician that secrets are more trouble than they're worth, but this is a terribly weird and tasteless example...)
I agree, but for different reasons. I think that the actual success of MAD may help to convince politicians of the utility of the openness of some things. One of the reasons that Mutual Assured Destruction worked as well as it did (where "success" is defined as not nuking one another, which we definitely didn't do, although we got close) was visibility.
"Trust, but verify" was our motto, and the Soviet's.
The greater the secrecy of the nuclear deployment, the greater the instability, the greater the risk. While I would not call either side's deployments particularly "open", penetrating radars make silos hard to hide. Likewise, mobilizing forces and changing DEFCON status is not easy to do in secret, and is usually safer to do publicly.
One can be more relaxed if one is somewhat confident that one's enemy is relaxed.
Yes, that may be true, but/. does not market itself as a tool for private comunications. HotMail is a communications tool (but not too private),.NET is intended for business use, whereas./ is a public forum.
If I post something to./, and expect it to remain private, I deserve to lose.
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I can redistribute GPL'd software, still under the GPL, with a note attached (and credited to me, not the original authors), asking the recipient to please plant tulips. I cannot require them to do so. As long as the language is obviously a request, and is not confused with a term of the license, I am in compliance with the GPL. If my tulip request starts to look like a licensing term, then I may run afoul of the GPL in a hurry.
It's an odd strategy, but it may be legal.
BTW, I am not a lawyer, and have not consulted with one. Etc.
It's biological, not digital. I think that it would be hard to argue (in a legal sense) that a DNA sequence is software.
Some banks may try it, depending on how much money they make selling consumer information. However, if you balk, I doubt that they would turn you away.
To make a player that plays just this new protocol, there is no license fee involved (I presme). The players they'll probably make will be APEX-like, playing DVDs, CDs, MP3s, and will probably pay a DVD licensing fee. At least, auditable units, or units shipped to the west will pay fees. Who knows about grey-market ones.
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Fascinating.See this earlier post.
I don't know who's doing it in Columbus, but I see it a lot on the north side. Whoever it is, *thank you*!
The zelots tend to believe a bit more passionately, and are louder, so are heard out of all proportion to their numbers.
Shortening the sample (song, TV show) doesn't have to change the pitch. You don't have to just speed it up. If you move the domain to phase space (recording of the harmonic spectrum over time) and compress there, you retain pitch information and compress the time so notes/words are shorter. Of course, if you're not careful you get errors (ringing from improperly chosen envelopes, etc), but with reasonable assumptions these are minor.
Region coding it is a little silly, but it would keep it from being sold in the US, or Japan, or other NTCS countries. European DVDs are encoded in PAL, rather than NTSC, so a UK region 0 disk still won't play on most US TV sets without a PAL to NTSC converter, or a DVD player with an inboard (software) converter.
They may find the email list useful as a tool to try to change jurisdiction. If Microsoft can prove that Lindows was doing business in Washington state (through a Washington state address in the email list), it may make it easier to change jurisdiction to Washington, where Microsoft has many more lawyers and the case would be more convenient for them.
Yes, it's a joke.
GM doesn't necessarilly own patents on machine screws, although these screws may be constituents of designs patented by GM.
You can't manufacture a patented invention, and you can't duplicate a copyrighted expression. (Although you can talk about a patented invention, or use and pass on the knowledge in a copyrighted expression.)
The article seems to show an understanding that they can't do anything about NAT, they'd be hard pressed to remove it from homes. But they can offer IT service contracts to deal with "certified" devices connected to their cable modem, enumerated behind a "CAT" box.
Bad as it sounds, this may be nice for folks who want conected devices in their home but aren't IP-savvy. The cable company would have to be able to see into this network to maintain it, and people would pay more to get (cable-company-quality) service.
I don't see this as being a very big market, in the same way that not many people now have phone line service contracts in their homes.
Yea, the cable companies would like to charge per-device fees to all customers, but I don't see how they could.
I get the Archos from the car, plug it into her computer via USB. Drag & drop file transfer.
You hear the song, you want it then. If it sticks to you, later you buy the album to get more.
It is a little bulky for carying around, but is great for use in the car and office.
According to this, the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo can only be used "on discs complying with the CD-DA specification: IEC 60908 and/or the Philips-Sony Compact Disc Digital Audio System Description) also known as the RED Book)."
They're good eating baked, but I'm not so certain that they mash well.
Nope, I've no idea who these bands are.
I didn't know that the DMCA counted as that sort of crime.
Have you ever driven to the store on a rider lawnmower? Some things are just fun, not efficient.
They weren't making money with the regular JRE on PCs before, they won't risk Java to start now.
They probably will continue to charge for the server-optimized HotSpot, but that's a different ball of wax.
"Trust, but verify" was our motto, and the Soviet's.
The greater the secrecy of the nuclear deployment, the greater the instability, the greater the risk. While I would not call either side's deployments particularly "open", penetrating radars make silos hard to hide. Likewise, mobilizing forces and changing DEFCON status is not easy to do in secret, and is usually safer to do publicly.
One can be more relaxed if one is somewhat confident that one's enemy is relaxed.
If I post something to ./, and expect it to remain private, I deserve to lose.