Is this written by fifteen-year-olds? (Not to slag adolescents, but how anyone older than that and involved in gaming could leave out Dani Bunten, Roberta Williams or Steve Meretzky is beyond me.)
(And what's with including corporations as "godfathers"? Give the designers credit, not the marketers.)
On the other hand, my personal experience with Abiword is that it is a great program to write in. I usually don't need all of the extra cruft that Word or WordPerfect throws in; all I need is a text editor that can do bold, italic, etc. So what I do is write in Abiword, save to an RTF, then import that into WordPerfect to do whatever page-level formatting I need to do.
So it crashes the Mac. What are the damages there? Even if it caused the Mac to vanish into a parallel dimension, you'd only be out the cost of the old machine.
Anyone know when similar improvements to GTK are coming out? I like AA fonts (it's the only way for me to use some fonts on an 800x600 laptop screen), but KDE's too big for my tastes.
Show me where the definition says it increases freedom.
Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution:
[Congress shall have the power] to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
No court in the world (at least that part that signed on to the Berne Convention) would take code from a private owner and throw it into the public domain for violating the GPL. Nor would they require the company to license their code under the GPL. Instead, they would declare that the contract had been breached, and therefore the owner has no right to use GPL'd code in the work. This DOES NOT mean that the owner has to release under the GPL. Instead, he can choose to replace the licensed code with something else.
So what the hell did he sign that contract for (and why the hell did he pay that incompetent lawyer)? If you don't like the terms, you negotiate them or you walk away from the table.
No, it's still illegal; if the owner took you to small claims court she'd win easily. But she'd only get the value of what you copied, which combined with the rules for small claims courts makes it not worth pursuing for major artists.
But that's just the criminal statute (the one with the mandatory penalty). The owners of the material he was distributing could have sued, but they would have to prove damages.
Acronyms aren't descriptive. They might be generic if they're commonly used as words (which might be the case for SSH), but the collection of letters itself doesn't inherently describe the product without knowledge of what the letters stand for.
So just change the name to "Sasha" (in the same manner as "Samba.") As a command, it's annoying to be two letters longer, but that's what alias is for.
Well first off, he always has the option to license the use to OpenSSH (for $1 or whatever).
Er, no. A trademark isn't a patent, and though called IP isn't really a property right the way copyrights and patents are. Licensing doesn't negate the fact that it would dilute the mark.
Torment (the most mature game I've ever played), has a "T" rating (for "animated violence, animated blood, [and] suggestive themes"; the box is labelled "Ages 13 and up."
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Tech culture is very loosely defined here as movies and programs there's a lot of interest in.
And so you wrote about The Pledge? I mean, reviewing SF movies or ones with large mass appeal (I'm sure Hannibal wouldn't be that objectionable, even if it's not geek-specific) is one thing, but this movie isn't going to be seen by many (if not most) Slashdot readers, and probably belongs somewhere else.
The patent system not only carries a promise of a lucrative monopoly. It also carries the threat of someone else getting there just before you do, and obtaining the patent. Now your investment is completely wasted.
Not the U.S. patent system. If you conceive an invention first, then diligently develop your invention from the time you conceive it to the time you reduce it to practice, you can get the patent even if someone else reduced to practice or filed up to a year before you.
How can it be a well-written article if it doesn't even address the incentive for artists to create, which is the fundamental justification for the copyright system?
An acquaintance of mine ran an (unsuccessful) t-shirt business a few years ago. one of his lines were Ts with the emoticons printed on them.
He registered for and recieved copyright on all the emoticons.
Copyright != trademark. An emoticon is uncopyrightable, because it doesn't meet the minimum creativity requirement. It could be trademarked, but if he's no longer in business he doesn't have a trademark.
What makes you think I didn't look it up? I know Despair.com has ":-(" as a trademarked logo on printed material like greeting cards. That's a specific mark for a specific trade. Doesn't mean anyone would expect them to have a chance in hell of winning a suit against an individual who uses ":-(" in their e-mail, much less successfully suing 7,000,000 people in separate suits.
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Agreed about Interplay, but... Descent? What about The Bard's Tale, Wasteland, and Battle Chess? (Not to mention Fallout.)
Is this written by fifteen-year-olds? (Not to slag adolescents, but how anyone older than that and involved in gaming could leave out Dani Bunten, Roberta Williams or Steve Meretzky is beyond me.)
(And what's with including corporations as "godfathers"? Give the designers credit, not the marketers.)
On the other hand, my personal experience with Abiword is that it is a great program to write in. I usually don't need all of the extra cruft that Word or WordPerfect throws in; all I need is a text editor that can do bold, italic, etc. So what I do is write in Abiword, save to an RTF, then import that into WordPerfect to do whatever page-level formatting I need to do.
So it crashes the Mac. What are the damages there? Even if it caused the Mac to vanish into a parallel dimension, you'd only be out the cost of the old machine.
Anyone know when similar improvements to GTK are coming out? I like AA fonts (it's the only way for me to use some fonts on an 800x600 laptop screen), but KDE's too big for my tastes.
Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution:
No court in the world (at least that part that signed on to the Berne Convention) would take code from a private owner and throw it into the public domain for violating the GPL. Nor would they require the company to license their code under the GPL. Instead, they would declare that the contract had been breached, and therefore the owner has no right to use GPL'd code in the work. This DOES NOT mean that the owner has to release under the GPL. Instead, he can choose to replace the licensed code with something else.
So what the hell did he sign that contract for (and why the hell did he pay that incompetent lawyer)? If you don't like the terms, you negotiate them or you walk away from the table.
No, it's still illegal; if the owner took you to small claims court she'd win easily. But she'd only get the value of what you copied, which combined with the rules for small claims courts makes it not worth pursuing for major artists.
You're joking, right?
So, let me get this straight. It's a crime to use software to combine zeroes and ones in such a manner that sound can be reproduced...
No, it's not. It's a crime to use software to combine zeroes and ones in such a manner that a copyrighted work can be reproduced.
It's a crime to use someone else's creation, the software, that does this
It's a crime to do it; the means are largely irrelevant.
But there were. The Copyright Act of 1976 forbids this in the United States.
But that's just the criminal statute (the one with the mandatory penalty). The owners of the material he was distributing could have sued, but they would have to prove damages.
It's not a trademark until it's used in trade. Hence the name.
The creation of a competing product is not non-commercial usage, even if you give it away for free.
"Secure Shell" isn't generic, it's descriptive. "Encryption-Employing Shell" would be generic.
Acronyms aren't descriptive. They might be generic if they're commonly used as words (which might be the case for SSH), but the collection of letters itself doesn't inherently describe the product without knowledge of what the letters stand for.
He doesn't have to be the first to use the name, as long as nobody else is using it at the time in connection with similar products.
It's the same thing as far as the courts are concerned. Likelihood of confusion and all that.
So just change the name to "Sasha" (in the same manner as "Samba.") As a command, it's annoying to be two letters longer, but that's what alias is for.
Er, no. A trademark isn't a patent, and though called IP isn't really a property right the way copyrights and patents are. Licensing doesn't negate the fact that it would dilute the mark.
Torment (the most mature game I've ever played), has a "T" rating (for "animated violence, animated blood, [and] suggestive themes"; the box is labelled "Ages 13 and up."
And so you wrote about The Pledge? I mean, reviewing SF movies or ones with large mass appeal (I'm sure Hannibal wouldn't be that objectionable, even if it's not geek-specific) is one thing, but this movie isn't going to be seen by many (if not most) Slashdot readers, and probably belongs somewhere else.
Not the U.S. patent system. If you conceive an invention first, then diligently develop your invention from the time you conceive it to the time you reduce it to practice, you can get the patent even if someone else reduced to practice or filed up to a year before you.
How can it be a well-written article if it doesn't even address the incentive for artists to create, which is the fundamental justification for the copyright system?
Copyright != trademark. An emoticon is uncopyrightable, because it doesn't meet the minimum creativity requirement. It could be trademarked, but if he's no longer in business he doesn't have a trademark.
What makes you think I didn't look it up? I know Despair.com has ":-(" as a trademarked logo on printed material like greeting cards. That's a specific mark for a specific trade. Doesn't mean anyone would expect them to have a chance in hell of winning a suit against an individual who uses ":-(" in their e-mail, much less successfully suing 7,000,000 people in separate suits.