Actually no that's not just his opinion, but the actual definition of a 'crime' is clearly defined in the Constitution and basically requires violence and/or harm to another person to be a crime. All the non-violent 'crimes' that people are currently being jailed or held in prison for are technically illegal according to the constitution.
Where did you find this? The U.S. Constitution mentions "crime" or "criminal" in 2.4 (impeachment of President), 3.2.3 (trial by jury in the same state), 4.2.2 (interstate rendition), 5.5 (grand jury; double jeopardy; self-incrimination; due process), 5.6 (speedy and public trial by jury, etc.), 5.13 (slavery can be a punishment for crime), and 5.14 (states can take away voting privileges of convicted criminals). Nowhere does the document mention that crimes have to have a victim. Can you quote article and section?
First of all, there is no federal law which so states, rather it is a doctrine, which is a court interpretation which sets a precedent.
First sale is explicitly protected by 17 USC 109 (Limitations on exclusive rights: Effect of transfer of particular copy or phonorecord), and computer software not stored on a semiconductor is also subject to 17 USC 117 (Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs).
For instance, check out the captcha project [captcha.net] at CMU.
I looked at captcha and found that it may generate problems with disability legislation in some jurisdictions. For instance:
Blind people and people behind text terminals can't pass bongo because it requires GIF images.
Deaf people, people behind text terminals, people too poor to afford a sound card whose hardware interface is documented, and people not highly fluent in one of the six chosen languages can't pass byan.
The fbw test generates sentences that still make perfect sense. For instance, it often chooses a proper name as the word to substitute, and users who do not have knowledge of the geography ("Evansville, CA" instead of "Los Angeles, CA") or the personal names of a particular region will often fail. The long sentences common to pre-1923 English literature produce a "needle in the haystack" effect. (The developers acknowledge that the fbw test is still under development.)
Gimpy delivers broken images.
The only accessible test (fbw) doesn't always work, and the other three are not accessible to those with disabilities. Watch somebody get sued under the ADA.
The DMCA doesn't outlaw the trafficking of a security circumvention device. Only tools which circumvent access to a *copyrighted work*.
And because works in the public domain are not copyrighted, it only takes one person to use access control on a public domain work to allow Americans to release tools designed to decrypt that specific public domain work and that "happen" to also decrypt copyrighted works. (See also Charlie Chaplin DVD.)
This is why is why Congress passed the DMCA and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act during the same week, during the same media cover (both Kosovo and Lewinsky), and using the same unaccountable method (voice vote). Disney didn't want to be the one to provide the loophole mentioned earlier by releasing a DVD of "Steamboat Willie" and "Plane Crazy," two of the first five Mickey Mouse films.
Consider the use of this codec in a portable digital music player -- all the code would be burned into ROM, and there is no way for the user to replace/update the code
you are almost right, there's no how to recompile embedded software.
But you also said:
Fork LGPL and build your own version with a special paragraph for embedded systems.
The Guile scripting engine and the Linux kernel have a similar exception in their licenses. However, I like the following method:
Or you can ask every potencial "user" (the library user is the programmer/projectist) to find a way to easily update the firmware and allow the user to compile it.
However, in an embedded system, resources tend to be much more scarce. You don't always have the luxury of people able to dynamically link in the codec.
And exactly why can't you dynamically link code on an embedded system? The vtable for a lossless audio decompressor would take what, eight machine words? See also my previous comment that gives a way to run even GPL software on an embedded system.
GPL is often not a realistic option, even for companies that want to support open source. A lot of commercial products contain software licensed from multiple parties. Even if a company wants to GPL its code, they may not be able to because it's linked against proprietary code licensed from another party.
To link GNU GPL 2 licensed code to proprietary code in an embedded environment, use a pair of pipes and a simple filesystem. The GPL requires only that everything linked into one "executable" be GPL compatible, and if you have all your proprietary stuff isolated in one area of flash memory and all the GPL software in another (perhaps using some sort of simple filesystem), and you limit communication between GPL code and proprietary code to a pair of pipes, you can obey the GPL.
It becomes even easier with the GNU Lesser GPL 2.1, as LGPL code such as FLAC can run in-process with proprietary code, but you still have to provide a method to relink and reflash.
Of course he also established most 20th century sci-fi themes. See "The Time Machine"
What did that predict? Precious Moments people?
let's see... several centuries before 802701, ant people from another planet land on Earth and find the Precious Moments people (who call themselves "Eloi") living there to be easy pickings, especially compared to what happened about 800,000 years in iD4. The "Morlocks," as the ant people come to be known, set up shop underground. They begin to slaughter Eloi who have already reproduced several times.
Then in 802701, a traveler from the past reintroduces "fire" and related technologies into the Eloi culture. After he leaves, the Eloi begin to awaken. One of them (named Colin) is the first to find out that all the food is coated with drugs to keep the Eloi people stupid ("raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all, I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me" -- M. Manson). While fasting, he finds that he learns much more quickly. Thus, he becomes the leader of the revolution...
Even the people who put them in the US constitution realised that - which is why copyrights have an expiration date.
Copyrights have an expiration date, all right: the heat death of the universe. Every 20 years, DisneyCo donates millions of dollars of soft money to both major parties and seems to require employees to donate to candidates or get fired, in order to get sh*t like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act passed. It extends the copyright term from 75 to 95 years (or from life+50 to life+70 for works created after 1 Jan 1978 by individual authors). How does such a term extension "promote the progress of science and useful arts" as required by U.S. Const. 1.8.8?
I don't see any reason to believe that the existence of intellectual property rights would have hindered the Renaissance -- or helped it much either.
Watch one painter sue another painter. Watch one composer sue another composer. Had strong, long term copyrights existed during the Renaissance, the world would have seen more lawsuits than works of art.
The first U.S. Congress originally created copyright law to protect authors from piratical publishers. Now it works the other way around: publishers sue their customers for promoting the publishers' products with fan fiction and the like.
When limited to the U.S., these entities would have to get a.com.state.us address
Except in Colorado, where you could conceivably get.co.us to match.co.uk. Similar parallels exist such as Nebraska (.ne.us) to parallel.net, Oregon (.or.us) to parallel.org, and Alaska (.ak.us) to parallel.ac.uk.
http://toys.r.us ? I would make it a backwards 'R,' but my keyboard got stuck.
Given that the Cyrillic letter whose glyph looks like a reversed Latin R ('', charentity Я) says 'ya' in Russian (see the TETIS story and ndex.ru), the correct hostname would be toys.ya.us.
Qt non-commercial is not GPL compatible
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Heard of Qt non-commercial on windows?
Not GPL compatible, not even free software. Heck, the QPL is freer than the Qt non-commercial license. This license issue is a blocker for all apps designed to link against Qt Free Edition under GNU GPL or that use libraries licensed under GNU GPL.
The non-commercial license is not available at all on Mac OS X unless the user installs an X11 server.
Allegro is a multimedia app toolkit
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Allegro and SDL aren't application toolkits.
SDL may not be (doesn't even have drawing primitives), but Allegro is much closer, provided that the application falls into the 2D or 3D multimedia domain. For example, Allegro includes its own Unicode implementation and its own file access API (to allow transparent use of compressed datafiles). It also has a wealth of addon libraries including AllegroGL for hardware accelerated graphics. Check it out.
1) Gaming compatibility. There simply is no alternative to using a Microsoft OS if you want to be able to play the vast majority of games that have been made for the PC in the last 20 years.
In other words, you refer to PC games released from 1982 to the end of 2001. You can get 99% MS-DOS compatible DOS from IBM or from Lineo. You can get a 90% MS-DOS compatible DOS from the FreeDOS Project.
Sure, you can run *most* DOS games in DR-DOS--but not all of them
Name some titles? Do they work in IBM's PC DOS?
and at any rate you'd still have to boot a Windows variant to play all the Windows games.
If the game was released before 1996 (that's 14 years of PC games), it probably runs under DOS because DirectDraw didn't come out until 1996, previous Windows versions (without DDraw) lacked the video performance of DOS (e.g. no 320x200x8 mode), and most Windows 3.1 games have free clones by now anyway.
Or just get a Nintendo GameCube or Game Boy Advance and skip the whole thing.
This is especially true since so many Linux apps are enigmatically named
How is it any different on windows? Notwithstanding Microsoft's marketing, how can you tell "Excel" stands for a spreadsheet program? What about "Outlook" for an e-mail and calendar program? What about "Napster" or "Limewire" for a media sharing app?
(how are we supposed to find them in the first place?)
Anyone knows instantly what Media Player does--it plays media, like movies and sounds. Great. But how is an end user supposed to know what xanim does?
xanim: take off the x and you get 'anim' which is one letter away from the 'anime' videos.
I need Photoshop for image editing--The Gimp is okay, and I can do some script-fu with it that I can't under Photoshop, but it isn't as powerful in most respects, is more clunky and difficult to use, and lacks CMYK color separation which is a must for many graphic artists.
Photoshop costs $600. Photoshop Elements (same thing as Photoshop without the CMYK stuff; feature set similar to that of GIMP or Jasc's Paint Shop Pro) costs $100. What's the difference? The royalty for the PANTONE patents.
you see, I'm set in my ways and attached to my apps... There would just be too steep a learning curve to make the effort worthwhile.
Would it cost more than $900 (XP Pro license + Photoshop license) to retrain you to use Free software?
Compatibility with the outside world.
As long as you use standards-based file formats, you should be safe.
Why should I put up with not being able to use a film clip, when I could have done so with Windows?
Why should you put up with stock film vendors who do not make their collections available to their customers in MPEG or MPEG-4 format?
There are some pretty strange and obscure file formats that have been developed over the years, but almost alays there is software for Windows which will handle it.
If a file format is obscure enough, the software that can convert it to a more transparent format tends to be older, and WINE tends to run older software more reliably.
B) Chasing Amy uses (pirated) Windows. Microsoft gets no money from him.
Microsoft gets $100,000 from him, maximum statutory damages in the US for copyright infringement.
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it also is a cross platform development platform. So it provides cross platform facilities for many activities - file access, sockets, database access
Just MySQL and PostgreSQL, or does it also talk to common proprietary DBMS such as oracle, sybase/mssql, etc?
printing, font handling, Unicode and internationalisation
How big does a distribution have to be to include glyphs for all 50,000 or so Unicode UCS-2 characters?
preference handling, XML support including SVG, various image formats
How much of the price of a Qt license covers the Unisys royalty for a popular "various image format"?
regexps, data and time classes, multimedia classes
Multimedia as in video playback? Is Qt trying to become like the other QT?
Does it handle press/release semantics for keypresses, or just press/repeat? Does it handle joysticks (erm, "industrial control devices")? Does it handle reading mouse motion not limited by the four walls of the screen (necessary for object manipulation in a 3D environment)? Does it handle sound?
Yes, I'm getting into the domain of Allegro or SDL, but only to show that Qt isn't the be-all and end-all of application toolkits.
So use something that's not "quite broken" e.g.GCC
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Ever try to compile large non=Qt C++ code in HP/UX with quite broken compilers?
Easy.
Download GCC source code.
Use your K&R compatible C compiler to build GCC.
Use GCC to build GCC and G++.
Compile large non-Qt C++ code in HP/UX with quite unbroken compilers.
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Actually no that's not just his opinion, but the actual definition of a 'crime' is clearly defined in the Constitution and basically requires violence and/or harm to another person to be a crime. All the non-violent 'crimes' that people are currently being jailed or held in prison for are technically illegal according to the constitution.
Where did you find this? The U.S. Constitution mentions "crime" or "criminal" in 2.4 (impeachment of President), 3.2.3 (trial by jury in the same state), 4.2.2 (interstate rendition), 5.5 (grand jury; double jeopardy; self-incrimination; due process), 5.6 (speedy and public trial by jury, etc.), 5.13 (slavery can be a punishment for crime), and 5.14 (states can take away voting privileges of convicted criminals). Nowhere does the document mention that crimes have to have a victim. Can you quote article and section?
First of all, there is no federal law which so states, rather it is a doctrine, which is a court interpretation which sets a precedent.
First sale is explicitly protected by 17 USC 109 (Limitations on exclusive rights: Effect of transfer of particular copy or phonorecord), and computer software not stored on a semiconductor is also subject to 17 USC 117 (Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs).
I'm curious what you're using that's got an SH4 in it?
The Sega Dreamcast console contains a Hitachi SH4 processor and runs Linux and NetBSD.
DVD is not software.
Do you claim that the Dragon's Lair game, which runs on the DVD-Video menu virtual machine, does not count as software?
For instance, check out the captcha project [captcha.net] at CMU.
I looked at captcha and found that it may generate problems with disability legislation in some jurisdictions. For instance:
The only accessible test (fbw) doesn't always work, and the other three are not accessible to those with disabilities. Watch somebody get sued under the ADA.
The DMCA doesn't outlaw the trafficking of a security circumvention device. Only tools which circumvent access to a *copyrighted work*.
And because works in the public domain are not copyrighted, it only takes one person to use access control on a public domain work to allow Americans to release tools designed to decrypt that specific public domain work and that "happen" to also decrypt copyrighted works. (See also Charlie Chaplin DVD.)
This is why is why Congress passed the DMCA and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act during the same week, during the same media cover (both Kosovo and Lewinsky), and using the same unaccountable method (voice vote). Disney didn't want to be the one to provide the loophole mentioned earlier by releasing a DVD of "Steamboat Willie" and "Plane Crazy," two of the first five Mickey Mouse films.
where do i click?
First click your CD drive's icon. Then click the big seashell icon with 'setup' written below it.
Consider the use of this codec in a portable digital music player -- all the code would be burned into ROM, and there is no way for the user to replace/update the code
Two words: Flash memory. See also my previous comment.
you are almost right, there's no how to recompile embedded software.
But you also said:
Fork LGPL and build your own version with a special paragraph for embedded systems.
The Guile scripting engine and the Linux kernel have a similar exception in their licenses. However, I like the following method:
Or you can ask every potencial "user" (the library user is the programmer/projectist) to find a way to easily update the firmware and allow the user to compile it.
Bulls-eye. It's just a matter of
However, in an embedded system, resources tend to be much more scarce. You don't always have the luxury of people able to dynamically link in the codec.
And exactly why can't you dynamically link code on an embedded system? The vtable for a lossless audio decompressor would take what, eight machine words? See also my previous comment that gives a way to run even GPL software on an embedded system.
GPL is often not a realistic option, even for companies that want to support open source. A lot of commercial products contain software licensed from multiple parties. Even if a company wants to GPL its code, they may not be able to because it's linked against proprietary code licensed from another party.
To link GNU GPL 2 licensed code to proprietary code in an embedded environment, use a pair of pipes and a simple filesystem. The GPL requires only that everything linked into one "executable" be GPL compatible, and if you have all your proprietary stuff isolated in one area of flash memory and all the GPL software in another (perhaps using some sort of simple filesystem), and you limit communication between GPL code and proprietary code to a pair of pipes, you can obey the GPL.
It becomes even easier with the GNU Lesser GPL 2.1, as LGPL code such as FLAC can run in-process with proprietary code, but you still have to provide a method to relink and reflash.
Of course he also established most 20th century sci-fi themes. See "The Time Machine"
What did that predict? Precious Moments people?
let's see... several centuries before 802701, ant people from another planet land on Earth and find the Precious Moments people (who call themselves "Eloi") living there to be easy pickings, especially compared to what happened about 800,000 years in iD4. The "Morlocks," as the ant people come to be known, set up shop underground. They begin to slaughter Eloi who have already reproduced several times.
Then in 802701, a traveler from the past reintroduces "fire" and related technologies into the Eloi culture. After he leaves, the Eloi begin to awaken. One of them (named Colin) is the first to find out that all the food is coated with drugs to keep the Eloi people stupid ("raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all, I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me" -- M. Manson). While fasting, he finds that he learns much more quickly. Thus, he becomes the leader of the revolution...
Anybody want to help me write the sequel?
Even the people who put them in the US constitution realised that - which is why copyrights have an expiration date.
Copyrights have an expiration date, all right: the heat death of the universe. Every 20 years, DisneyCo donates millions of dollars of soft money to both major parties and seems to require employees to donate to candidates or get fired, in order to get sh*t like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act passed. It extends the copyright term from 75 to 95 years (or from life+50 to life+70 for works created after 1 Jan 1978 by individual authors). How does such a term extension "promote the progress of science and useful arts" as required by U.S. Const. 1.8.8?
I don't see any reason to believe that the existence of intellectual property rights would have hindered the Renaissance -- or helped it much either.
Watch one painter sue another painter. Watch one composer sue another composer. Had strong, long term copyrights existed during the Renaissance, the world would have seen more lawsuits than works of art.
The first U.S. Congress originally created copyright law to protect authors from piratical publishers. Now it works the other way around: publishers sue their customers for promoting the publishers' products with fan fiction and the like.
When limited to the U.S., these entities would have to get a .com.state.us address
Except in Colorado, where you could conceivably get .co.us to match .co.uk. Similar parallels exist such as Nebraska (.ne.us) to parallel .net, Oregon (.or.us) to parallel .org, and Alaska (.ak.us) to parallel .ac.uk.
http://toys.r.us ? I would make it a backwards 'R,' but my keyboard got stuck.
Given that the Cyrillic letter whose glyph looks like a reversed Latin R ('', charentity Я) says 'ya' in Russian (see the TETIS story and ndex.ru), the correct hostname would be toys.ya.us.
Heard of Qt non-commercial on windows?
Allegro and SDL aren't application toolkits.
SDL may not be (doesn't even have drawing primitives), but Allegro is much closer, provided that the application falls into the 2D or 3D multimedia domain. For example, Allegro includes its own Unicode implementation and its own file access API (to allow transparent use of compressed datafiles). It also has a wealth of addon libraries including AllegroGL for hardware accelerated graphics. Check it out.
1) Gaming compatibility. There simply is no alternative to using a Microsoft OS if you want to be able to play the vast majority of games that have been made for the PC in the last 20 years.
In other words, you refer to PC games released from 1982 to the end of 2001. You can get 99% MS-DOS compatible DOS from IBM or from Lineo. You can get a 90% MS-DOS compatible DOS from the FreeDOS Project.
Sure, you can run *most* DOS games in DR-DOS--but not all of them
Name some titles? Do they work in IBM's PC DOS?
and at any rate you'd still have to boot a Windows variant to play all the Windows games.
If the game was released before 1996 (that's 14 years of PC games), it probably runs under DOS because DirectDraw didn't come out until 1996, previous Windows versions (without DDraw) lacked the video performance of DOS (e.g. no 320x200x8 mode), and most Windows 3.1 games have free clones by now anyway.
Or just get a Nintendo GameCube or Game Boy Advance and skip the whole thing.
This is especially true since so many Linux apps are enigmatically named
How is it any different on windows? Notwithstanding Microsoft's marketing, how can you tell "Excel" stands for a spreadsheet program? What about "Outlook" for an e-mail and calendar program? What about "Napster" or "Limewire" for a media sharing app?
(how are we supposed to find them in the first place?)
OSDN Freshmeat.
Anyone knows instantly what Media Player does--it plays media, like movies and sounds. Great. But how is an end user supposed to know what xanim does?
xanim: take off the x and you get 'anim' which is one letter away from the 'anime' videos.
I need Photoshop for image editing--The Gimp is okay, and I can do some script-fu with it that I can't under Photoshop, but it isn't as powerful in most respects, is more clunky and difficult to use, and lacks CMYK color separation which is a must for many graphic artists.
Photoshop costs $600. Photoshop Elements (same thing as Photoshop without the CMYK stuff; feature set similar to that of GIMP or Jasc's Paint Shop Pro) costs $100. What's the difference? The royalty for the PANTONE patents.
you see, I'm set in my ways and attached to my apps ... There would just be too steep a learning curve to make the effort worthwhile.
Would it cost more than $900 (XP Pro license + Photoshop license) to retrain you to use Free software?
Compatibility with the outside world.
As long as you use standards-based file formats, you should be safe.
Why should I put up with not being able to use a film clip, when I could have done so with Windows?
Why should you put up with stock film vendors who do not make their collections available to their customers in MPEG or MPEG-4 format?
There are some pretty strange and obscure file formats that have been developed over the years, but almost alays there is software for Windows which will handle it.
If a file format is obscure enough, the software that can convert it to a more transparent format tends to be older, and WINE tends to run older software more reliably.
B) Chasing Amy uses (pirated) Windows. Microsoft gets no money from him.
Microsoft gets $100,000 from him, maximum statutory damages in the US for copyright infringement.
winquake (quake1), for example, runs like shit under win2k. My framerate there is about 30fps vs. win98's 80fps.
Quake 1's code is free software. You might want to look at QuakeForge.
They'll probably still be using it in 2101, too.
Will OS/2 set up us the bomb?
it also is a cross platform development platform. So it provides cross platform facilities for many activities - file access, sockets, database access
Just MySQL and PostgreSQL, or does it also talk to common proprietary DBMS such as oracle, sybase/mssql, etc?
printing, font handling, Unicode and internationalisation
How big does a distribution have to be to include glyphs for all 50,000 or so Unicode UCS-2 characters?
preference handling, XML support including SVG, various image formats
How much of the price of a Qt license covers the Unisys royalty for a popular "various image format"?
regexps, data and time classes, multimedia classes
Multimedia as in video playback? Is Qt trying to become like the other QT?
Does it handle press/release semantics for keypresses, or just press/repeat? Does it handle joysticks (erm, "industrial control devices")? Does it handle reading mouse motion not limited by the four walls of the screen (necessary for object manipulation in a 3D environment)? Does it handle sound?
Yes, I'm getting into the domain of Allegro or SDL, but only to show that Qt isn't the be-all and end-all of application toolkits.
Ever try to compile large non=Qt C++ code in HP/UX with quite broken compilers?
Easy.
To pick up your point on licensing, Qt is either GPL or pay.
Heck, Qt is either X11 or pay. If you use the free version of Qt, you need to install Cygwin/XFree86 on all Windows machines that deploy your app.
Being intelligent, they will no doubt farm us as we farm cows.
You mean like the ant people that farm the Precious Moments people in the year 802,701?
Maybe not.