Amazon is a big fat store. They sell stuff. It can be electronic or physical. This is handy when what you want is in one format but not the other.
If you choose to ignore a large portion of the relevant product (namely books), then you are at a disadvantage to those that aren't so narrowly focused.
Doesn't matter if it's Books, Video, or Music. Chances are that Amazon has it in one format or another.
Otherwise stuff like Word Perfect, Oracle, SimCity 3000, and Steam wouldn't exist for Linux. Free Software can co-exist quite peaceably with coders that want you to pay for their work.
Problems only arise when you want to treat someone else's work like your own exclusive property. That's usually not necessary.
Although it's ultimately about keeping contributors happy. It's not about your personal crusade. Nor is it about Stallman's really.
If you are a project of one with no one else to keep happy, of course you can be much more flexible with your licensing. I suspect this is the case for most of the stuff on GitHub.
In other words, just lay over and take whatever the state gives you. Expand that to include any random thug because you've happily given all of your rights to the state.
Trespassing and burglary are not "percieved infractions". They are common law crimes.
As far as stupidity goes, one would hope that law enforcement professionals would meet a higher standard a random civilian or even a collection of them.
Foxconn has to engage in ADULT risk analysis here. Just to get started, they need to dedicate considerable resources should they decide to fight these patents head on. That money is gone regardless of the results and those results are very unpredictable.
Juries can be fickle things and the potential negative consequences are most dire.
Realizing that discretion may be the better part of valor is a big part of "adult" thinking.
Foxconn actually has something to lose. Some idiot posting in a web forum does not.
> I would like you to invent something, spend millions of dollars developing it,
NOTHING we are talking here about represents a large investment here. Although that's not really the point. It's yet another distraction that corporate shills like to throw out.
Patents are meant to encourage companies to disclose interesting things that would not otherwise see the light of day. Patents are not about "rewarding investment". They are not about sweat equity. They are not a virtual land grab.
There is no hypocrisy here because the Slashdot crowd complaining about Microsoft here would raise the same issues for Tivo and any number of other companies.
Ultimately, a troll is someone extracting money for something they don't really own. Whether or not such a person is a "non practicing entity" is really a red herring. It distracts from the really important question.
Should there even be a "property interest" in that thing to begin with?
So it's all down to proprietary plugins again anyways. So all of this nonsense about standards really doesn't mean a damn thing. Why pollute HTML5 with this nonsense then? It's supposed to be a standard. Let it remain a standard.
Keep the plugin nonsense separate.
If people want to push proprietary blob nonsense then they can do it outside of the standards like they do already. All you're really doing here is trying to mask a non-standard and kid yourself.
Netflix and Amazon are fine so long as you don't care about quality or features. Being able to use your own playback software is actually very handy. Being able to avoid dependence on a real time Internet connection is also very handy.
Both suffer from feature and UI "fragmentation" across different devices with older devices not having newer features or UIs enabled.
Netflix might be faster for that first episode. Once you've gotten to the second one, that advantage is pretty much gone.
Give an end user a choice and they will probably opt for the local content over the Netflix version.
MacOS specifically avoided the "bend over and say ahh" requirements for decoding BluRay. That is why BluRay playback is not supported on MacOS. The same is true for CableCard. Cable Card tuners have similar sorts of "trusted path" requirements.
Yet despite of all of this... the lack of wide platform support for Netflix is supposed to be due to "lack of sufficient built in DRM".
"Finding something" and "finding what you actually want" are really entirely separate use cases. One is a little less demanding than other to the point where you might even be able to achieve it with a pair of rabbit ears.
All that "great UI" boils down to is being able to keep track of the most recently accessed files in a directory. Once you've got that then you've pretty much replicated that "great interface for TV episodes".
That's really just 3 choices although it looks like a lot more.
Although all of this stuff is heavily distributed. It's like the entire Microsoft "ecosystem" where you've got multiple companies working on different things. Replication of effort is no great tragedy there either.
Getting away crushing hegemony mentality is the whole point of using SOMETHING ELSE. Contaminating all possible alternatives with that kind of mentality kind of defeats the point of having them.
Serious software vendors support serious Linux distributions.
For the main remaining use case for Windows, that leads to a pair of pretty obvious choices that are already the default choices for non-desktop business software.
The "fragmentation" isn't nearly as bad as the trolls want you to think it is.
Those obscure vertical market apps only get you so far, or rather they only trap so many users. Beyond that, people are free to dump Microsoft and have been for a long time actually.
A lot of the perceived need to stick with Microsoft has been a total sham for most people.
It just took the tablet to make people realize that.
A tablet looks just different enough to a n00b consumer for them to get over their mental block that PC == Microsoft.
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PATA and floppy drives were already out of style when service packs were still being released for XP.
From a support perspective, XP just isn't that old. It's a recently discontinued product regardless of how long of a supported service life it had.
You can also be overspecialized.
Amazon is a big fat store. They sell stuff. It can be electronic or physical. This is handy when what you want is in one format but not the other.
If you choose to ignore a large portion of the relevant product (namely books), then you are at a disadvantage to those that aren't so narrowly focused.
Doesn't matter if it's Books, Video, or Music. Chances are that Amazon has it in one format or another.
> it really can't be done in my business and many others.
No. It just can't be done in your business.
You are the extreme fringe. Don't try to kid yourself.
The GPL doesn't exclude closed source projects.
Otherwise stuff like Word Perfect, Oracle, SimCity 3000, and Steam wouldn't exist for Linux. Free Software can co-exist quite peaceably with coders that want you to pay for their work.
Problems only arise when you want to treat someone else's work like your own exclusive property. That's usually not necessary.
Although it's ultimately about keeping contributors happy. It's not about your personal crusade. Nor is it about Stallman's really.
If you are a project of one with no one else to keep happy, of course you can be much more flexible with your licensing. I suspect this is the case for most of the stuff on GitHub.
In other words, just lay over and take whatever the state gives you. Expand that to include any random thug because you've happily given all of your rights to the state.
Trespassing and burglary are not "percieved infractions". They are common law crimes.
As far as stupidity goes, one would hope that law enforcement professionals would meet a higher standard a random civilian or even a collection of them.
> Grow up.
You first.
Foxconn has to engage in ADULT risk analysis here. Just to get started, they need to dedicate considerable resources should they decide to fight these patents head on. That money is gone regardless of the results and those results are very unpredictable.
Juries can be fickle things and the potential negative consequences are most dire.
Realizing that discretion may be the better part of valor is a big part of "adult" thinking.
Foxconn actually has something to lose. Some idiot posting in a web forum does not.
> I would like you to invent something, spend millions of dollars developing it,
NOTHING we are talking here about represents a large investment here. Although that's not really the point. It's yet another distraction that corporate shills like to throw out.
Patents are meant to encourage companies to disclose interesting things that would not otherwise see the light of day. Patents are not about "rewarding investment". They are not about sweat equity. They are not a virtual land grab.
There is no hypocrisy here because the Slashdot crowd complaining about Microsoft here would raise the same issues for Tivo and any number of other companies.
Ultimately, a troll is someone extracting money for something they don't really own. Whether or not such a person is a "non practicing entity" is really a red herring. It distracts from the really important question.
Should there even be a "property interest" in that thing to begin with?
If not, then they are a troll.
It's not the toll that makes the troll.
...and I am happy as a clam with all of my Steam games.
As an end user, even neglecting remote desktop use cases, I am still missing the point of trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Yeah. That whole MS-DOS dominance of desktop computing had nothing do do with anything.
> Nope, it just means that Wayland is a poor fit for your niche use case.
Look at that... an Apple Mentality retort to go with your Apple style technology.
> Honestly, why do people hate on products that obviously don't meet there needs?
That usually has to do with the product in question being shoved down everyone's throats.
No. He's just someone that has real world requirements that you would like to ignore.
While X haters were busy in their echo chamber, the rest of the world discovered the utility of network transparent GUIs.
So it's all down to proprietary plugins again anyways. So all of this nonsense about standards really doesn't mean a damn thing. Why pollute HTML5 with this nonsense then? It's supposed to be a standard. Let it remain a standard.
Keep the plugin nonsense separate.
If people want to push proprietary blob nonsense then they can do it outside of the standards like they do already. All you're really doing here is trying to mask a non-standard and kid yourself.
...unsolved by the Hauppauge 1313.
Netflix and Amazon are fine so long as you don't care about quality or features. Being able to use your own playback software is actually very handy. Being able to avoid dependence on a real time Internet connection is also very handy.
Both suffer from feature and UI "fragmentation" across different devices with older devices not having newer features or UIs enabled.
Netflix might be faster for that first episode. Once you've gotten to the second one, that advantage is pretty much gone.
Give an end user a choice and they will probably opt for the local content over the Netflix version.
MacOS specifically avoided the "bend over and say ahh" requirements for decoding BluRay. That is why BluRay playback is not supported on MacOS. The same is true for CableCard. Cable Card tuners have similar sorts of "trusted path" requirements.
Yet despite of all of this... the lack of wide platform support for Netflix is supposed to be due to "lack of sufficient built in DRM".
It's just bogus nonsense that ignores the facts.
...you mean like the Pirate Bay?
So much for that strategy of "avoiding Linux" in order to keep content safe.
> But how do you implement DRM in a web browser in *BSD or Linux in such a way that I can't capture the decrypted video to disk?
The same exact way you would on a Mac or under Windows.
There's nothing magical about Linux that makes it any more or less amenable to running a debugger.
"Finding something" and "finding what you actually want" are really entirely separate use cases. One is a little less demanding than other to the point where you might even be able to achieve it with a pair of rabbit ears.
Some people are just less demanding.
All that "great UI" boils down to is being able to keep track of the most recently accessed files in a directory. Once you've got that then you've pretty much replicated that "great interface for TV episodes".
There's not much to it really.
That's really just 3 choices although it looks like a lot more.
Although all of this stuff is heavily distributed. It's like the entire Microsoft "ecosystem" where you've got multiple companies working on different things. Replication of effort is no great tragedy there either.
Getting away crushing hegemony mentality is the whole point of using SOMETHING ELSE. Contaminating all possible alternatives with that kind of mentality kind of defeats the point of having them.
Serious software vendors support serious Linux distributions.
For the main remaining use case for Windows, that leads to a pair of pretty obvious choices that are already the default choices for non-desktop business software.
The "fragmentation" isn't nearly as bad as the trolls want you to think it is.
Those obscure vertical market apps only get you so far, or rather they only trap so many users. Beyond that, people are free to dump Microsoft and have been for a long time actually.
A lot of the perceived need to stick with Microsoft has been a total sham for most people.
It just took the tablet to make people realize that.
A tablet looks just different enough to a n00b consumer for them to get over their mental block that PC == Microsoft.
The rights of a gun nut are no more or less valuable than the rights of some guy that wants to marry another guy.
And a violent drunk doesn't need a gun to maim or kill anyone.