Yeah, right. Mac users not only tolerate bugs, they scream viciously at anyone who even suggests they're present. The belief seems to be that bugs couldn't possibly exist and everything Apple does is perfection itself. Anything that goes wrong must be the user's fault, somehow.
No, you don't get it. Corporations aren't assets. They're evil sentient beings.
Or at least I have to assume that's what the "corporations have all the rights and none of the responsibilities" horseshit is about. God I love when hippies go off on meaningless rants.
What you're actually pointing out are the rare geeks who also happen to have business acumen. There are plenty of non-geeks who run successful businesses, but there are few shining examples of the geeks who do so. That points towards the OP being correct.
And if you look at it without bias, it's obviously true. Their monopoly came about because they beat all comers, and they eagerly enter new markets, sometimes without success. The conditions that defined them as a monopoly (which are fairly narrow given their current business) don't even exist anymore.
This isn't to say that their business practices are a shining example of ethics and decency, although I'm sure some of you will read it that way.
This country was never a colony. Certain parts of it were colonized by said EU member, but the country built itself through the standard methods of genocide and thievery.
You're missing the overall point - your ideology requires that everyone agree with you, or be compelled to do so. The opposing ideology says "Do as you will, it's your choice."
I don't see how restricting choice (as the GPL attempts to do) is promoting general freedom. It certainly increases the freedom of a certain class of people, namely those knowledgeable enough to make modifications on their own, however it does so at the expense of nearly everyone else on the planet to choose something else.
I'm certainly not going to throw my support behind a group of elitists like that.
It always amuses me how advocates of the BSD license always reserve their strongest vitriol for anyone who dares to use BSD-licensed code in a GPL app, thereby preventing changes being rolled back into the original - even though this is exactly what they profess the superiority of the BSD license to be!
You must be using a different Internet, because I've never seen this argument at all. No one who uses BSD, or Apache, or any of the other truly free licenses cares about getting contributions back. We just think it would be nice, we don't require it. We allow you to use our code as you wish, not as we wish. That's the point.
Sometimes to make something seem like something it isn't, you have to make an illogical argument and hope the emotions of the listeners can be preyed upon so they will agree with you.
And compared to what people in other countries pay in taxes, the US is fairly cheap. Amongst many other differences. Your priorities apparently are not the priorities of the general US consumer. You have two remedies - start your own business to do things the way you want, or move somewhere that does things the way you want. Notice that whining on the Internet is not amongst the options, at least not the effective ones.
I'm sorry, you just blamed your lack of internet connectivity options on George Bush? I personally would move if it's that important. Of course, I'm still laughing at all the chuckleheads who would have moved to Canada in '04, they really would have, except they're too lazy or whatever to do anything but whine on the Internet. Kinda like you.
And where the hell did you get the idea that the costs to the company were the only basis of the charges they make to you? They aren't in business to be nice, you know.
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If the release provides stability updates (implying the last paid release is unstable) then it's kinda shitty to charge for them.
Of course, this is all rumors, so getting indignant about it now is stupid. And very, very Slashdot.
Yeah, right. Mac users not only tolerate bugs, they scream viciously at anyone who even suggests they're present. The belief seems to be that bugs couldn't possibly exist and everything Apple does is perfection itself. Anything that goes wrong must be the user's fault, somehow.
Such things amuse me.
No, you don't get it. Corporations aren't assets. They're evil sentient beings.
Or at least I have to assume that's what the "corporations have all the rights and none of the responsibilities" horseshit is about. God I love when hippies go off on meaningless rants.
Feel free to start a telecom. It's not like anyone is actively stopping you.
Thank you for shattering the myth that a low UID automatically means insight, knowledge, and intelligence.
I'm more impressed with Jace Hall than the game.
What you're actually pointing out are the rare geeks who also happen to have business acumen. There are plenty of non-geeks who run successful businesses, but there are few shining examples of the geeks who do so. That points towards the OP being correct.
Hell, they don't think their cause is worth inconveniencing themselves.
No, instead we should be defending Democrats bought by the Hollywood community who put draconian copyright restrictions into place.
Yeah, they're all scum. Even the ones you like.
I learned here at Slashdot that Europe is perfect, so this couldn't have happened there.
If that's what you see, you really oughta get your eyes checked.
The opposite of Free Software zealots isn't proprietary software zealots. It's people who don't get emotionally involved in a machine.
And if you look at it without bias, it's obviously true. Their monopoly came about because they beat all comers, and they eagerly enter new markets, sometimes without success. The conditions that defined them as a monopoly (which are fairly narrow given their current business) don't even exist anymore.
This isn't to say that their business practices are a shining example of ethics and decency, although I'm sure some of you will read it that way.
This country was never a colony. Certain parts of it were colonized by said EU member, but the country built itself through the standard methods of genocide and thievery.
Shhh, let the zealots scream and whine about things they don't understand. It's so much easier than thinking critically about the issues.
I guess all the money Microsoft has doesn't actually exist.
In other words, stop trying to pretend like your way is the only one that works.
You're missing the overall point - your ideology requires that everyone agree with you, or be compelled to do so. The opposing ideology says "Do as you will, it's your choice."
I don't see how restricting choice (as the GPL attempts to do) is promoting general freedom. It certainly increases the freedom of a certain class of people, namely those knowledgeable enough to make modifications on their own, however it does so at the expense of nearly everyone else on the planet to choose something else.
I'm certainly not going to throw my support behind a group of elitists like that.
You must be using a different Internet, because I've never seen this argument at all. No one who uses BSD, or Apache, or any of the other truly free licenses cares about getting contributions back. We just think it would be nice, we don't require it. We allow you to use our code as you wish, not as we wish. That's the point.
Sometimes to make something seem like something it isn't, you have to make an illogical argument and hope the emotions of the listeners can be preyed upon so they will agree with you.
And compared to what people in other countries pay in taxes, the US is fairly cheap. Amongst many other differences. Your priorities apparently are not the priorities of the general US consumer. You have two remedies - start your own business to do things the way you want, or move somewhere that does things the way you want. Notice that whining on the Internet is not amongst the options, at least not the effective ones.
I'm sorry, you just blamed your lack of internet connectivity options on George Bush? I personally would move if it's that important. Of course, I'm still laughing at all the chuckleheads who would have moved to Canada in '04, they really would have, except they're too lazy or whatever to do anything but whine on the Internet. Kinda like you.
You still pay for long distance? How bizarre.
And where the hell did you get the idea that the costs to the company were the only basis of the charges they make to you? They aren't in business to be nice, you know.
That isn't actually a rebuttal, if indeed you even thought it was.
And what standard did Netscape follow?
Hey, guess what, neither do we. But don't let your ignorance hold you back.
We can generalize that to the rallying cry of the lonely nerd: If you don't agree with me you're either stupid or crazy.
You, sir, are an ass.