I'm not in the UK, but some of the other posters are... would you use someRandomFreewareWebBrowser (other than MSIE) that the school board hates and told you not to use (not like they're going to be doing audits or anything...) ? It is free, after all...
because microsoft (et al.) will not die simply because we flame them, they'll die for various reasons (in this case because OSS is going to whip microsoft's @$$)
you'd never see a real teacher get fired over "not following lesson plans" or not teaching. Hell, they can't be fired for anything short of having sex with a minor (or committing a felony of some form or another...maybe). HINT TO MODERATORS:"Hell,..." != troll
So, what you're saying is once machines achieve sentience and creativity, Sweden should better change their copyright rules or a good defense against hordes of autonomous robot warriors? All your copyright are belong to us!!!
I've seen software offered under a dual license:
either the release or a slightly outdated release is GPL or whatever, and either the dev version or the latest release is proprietary, eventually becoming GPL as new ones come out. See www.virtualbox.org
So who is to blame if a song input from a user results in a generation of notes that is already has a copyright? Officially and for the moment disregarding the existing copyright, the user holds copyright over any output that was produced based on his (her) input (IANAL, this isn't a law firm etc.). Therefore, the program is a tool for creation. Now considering the copyright, if RIAA never finds out (obviously they're the copyright holder), you could probably safely discard it without a lawsuit, but technically, you should be responsible for its output if it comes from your input. Again, IANAL, this isn't formal legal advice, YMMV, talk to a real lawyer etc.
Thus, the proper way to phrase it is that their private property rights were violated -- Google trespassed. As a result, their reasonable expectation to a certain measure of privacy, due to their property configuration, was not fulfilled. Hence, the damages they are asking for. Problem is, that means prosecution, not suing. The defendant doesn't give you money in criminal court. We've been over this.
Google should countersue the couple for mental anguish for having to deal with another completely frivolous lawsuit and the stress on the employees that it creates. Also for defamation of character and libel.
Office: OpenOffice.org was preinstalled on my Ubuntu, you could also go with AbiWord (which is in fact a full suite of software, AbiWord is just the word processor)
Adobe: GIMP(shop) and Inkscape; evince and gnash (which IMHO does need some work, but what doesn't these days; maybe it's just me)
iMove: Kino and Pitivi Video Editor
Coda: Quanta Plus and Screem HTML/XML Editor
GarageBand:Audacity
Scrivener: No idea what that is, had to look it up on WP. "for writers." Seems that it can be replaced with OpenOffice.org Writer and a good folder hierarchy (nautilus), assuming the average user is a writer or needs that level of complexity. Or one could use "jotter" and "sticky note" programs like Gjots2 Jotter, which has hierarchal organization.
iDVD:GnomeBaker and k3b (Softpedia loves k3b!)
There are plenty more programs for each purpose, these are just popular/installed on my machine. Had to do a bit of poking around on Wikipedia to find out what your programs do.
But you've got admit, it's pretty cool how they address you by name throughout this carefully composed, personal email response made Just For You. <Insert variable "name" here>, bunch of shit...[and so on]
He didn't just email them, he filled out a form. A cs rep chose this from about 50-100 (could be 500 for all I know, but IMHO 500 is waay too many) standard messages and runs it through a program to insert the name. Everything other than a thirty second reading of the question (wow, that sounded weird) and a two second "I chose message # 3" is automated. They've obviously received this question before. It read like state-of-the-art boilerplate text.
Microsoft no longer cares about most markets because the only one that doesn't have major competition is the PC. Microsoft can't deal with the Pandora's Box of updating critical, widely used things when Linux is slowly gaining ground. If they lose the PC, they lose their only near-monopoly. So they don't care about other issues because they aren't as important to the incentive of making a profit as maintaining a near-monopoly. Hopefully everyone understands the previous sentence... it basically summarizes the rest of the comment.
Disney is rich. OK, I have no idea who makes Sesame Street, but is it a well known name? Does anyone know what company makes (or made?) it? It doesn't just matter if they're rich, but are they known to be rich? Poor people don't sue (according to common sense rather then actual fact), but no one fact-checks because the process of ignoring the poor and unknown is unconscious in the business world. Then, the poor get together and do a class-action lawsuit, which basically pays to the order of the lawyers, assuming they win. It's the natural order of things in the business world.
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I'm not in the UK, but some of the other posters are... would you use someRandomFreewareWebBrowser (other than MSIE) that the school board hates and told you not to use (not like they're going to be doing audits or anything...) ? It is free, after all...
because microsoft (et al.) will not die simply because we flame them, they'll die for various reasons (in this case because OSS is going to whip microsoft's @$$)
you'd never see a real teacher get fired over "not following lesson plans" or not teaching. Hell, they can't be fired for anything short of having sex with a minor (or committing a felony of some form or another...maybe). HINT TO MODERATORS:"Hell,..." != troll
It's called a class-action lawsuit. IANAL etc.
AFAIK, trespassing is a crime. If I'm right, that means you would go to criminal court about it. What would you sue for?
I've seen software offered under a dual license: either the release or a slightly outdated release is GPL or whatever, and either the dev version or the latest release is proprietary, eventually becoming GPL as new ones come out. See www.virtualbox.org
Google should countersue the couple for mental anguish for having to deal with another completely frivolous lawsuit and the stress on the employees that it creates. Also for defamation of character and libel.
200 million should be a good value.
1. Put potentially objectionable image up
2. Wait for lawsuit
3. ??
4. Profit!
"This image is no longer available" --Google Maps
O RLY? I never would have guessed.
oh, and to the mod: MOD PARENT REDUNDANT please, as this is like his third post or something.
Standards don't matter either because they don't support internet explorer.
- Office: OpenOffice.org was preinstalled on my Ubuntu, you could also go with AbiWord (which is in fact a full suite of software, AbiWord is just the word processor)
- Adobe: GIMP(shop) and Inkscape; evince and gnash (which IMHO does need some work, but what doesn't these days; maybe it's just me)
- iMove: Kino and Pitivi Video Editor
- Coda: Quanta Plus and Screem HTML/XML Editor
- GarageBand:Audacity
- Scrivener: No idea what that is, had to look it up on WP. "for writers." Seems that it can be replaced with OpenOffice.org Writer and a good folder hierarchy (nautilus), assuming the average user is a writer or needs that level of complexity. Or one could use "jotter" and "sticky note" programs like Gjots2 Jotter, which has hierarchal organization.
- iDVD:GnomeBaker and k3b (Softpedia loves k3b!)
There are plenty more programs for each purpose, these are just popular/installed on my machine. Had to do a bit of poking around on Wikipedia to find out what your programs do.He didn't just email them, he filled out a form. A cs rep chose this from about 50-100 (could be 500 for all I know, but IMHO 500 is waay too many) standard messages and runs it through a program to insert the name. Everything other than a thirty second reading of the question (wow, that sounded weird) and a two second "I chose message # 3" is automated. They've obviously received this question before. It read like state-of-the-art boilerplate text.
Sorry, I guess that was a little arrogant of me. Let's just say I'm from the younger generation, and have never heard of the man.
Microsoft no longer cares about most markets because the only one that doesn't have major competition is the PC. Microsoft can't deal with the Pandora's Box of updating critical, widely used things when Linux is slowly gaining ground. If they lose the PC, they lose their only near-monopoly. So they don't care about other issues because they aren't as important to the incentive of making a profit as maintaining a near-monopoly. Hopefully everyone understands the previous sentence... it basically summarizes the rest of the comment.
Please stop. It's annoying and redundant and somehow not rated as such (?).
Disney is rich. OK, I have no idea who makes Sesame Street, but is it a well known name? Does anyone know what company makes (or made?) it? It doesn't just matter if they're rich, but are they known to be rich? Poor people don't sue (according to common sense rather then actual fact), but no one fact-checks because the process of ignoring the poor and unknown is unconscious in the business world. Then, the poor get together and do a class-action lawsuit, which basically pays to the order of the lawyers, assuming they win. It's the natural order of things in the business world.