As far as I know, the courts view more recent acts of Congress as the more recent expression of democracy. If the United States Code is internally inconsistent, then the judge will tend interpret the law so as to follow those sections enacted later more closely than those sections enacted earlier. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which may make click-wrap EULAs binding, was enacted more than a century after the Sherman Antitrust Act.
I am not a lawyer, but I watch a lot of "Law & Order".
If you already have an Internet terminal, and you just want to add magical human flight, get a Gillette Mach 3 Turbo(tm) razor. It's a lot cheaper than a new operating system license, even at volume prices.
Under standard copyright law, you cannot derive from or create an aggregate work from my code without my permission. This means no linking, period.
Under section 117 of standard copyright law, the owner of a copy can derive from a computer program to a limited extent:
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is
not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or
(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful.
To make a binding contract, both sides must give something up. You give up the right to reverse engineer the software, sue Apple, run the OS on non-Mac hardware, etc., and Apple gives you "the authority of the copyright owner" under 17 USC 1201 to run the installer that decrypts the computer programs that make up Mac OS X.
So don't agree to the license agreement and figure out how to install OS X anyways.
The installer that displays the EULA can be thought of a device that effectively controls access to the copyrighted Mac OS X computer program and is therefore eligible for protection under 17 USC 1201, enacted as part of the DMCA. And if the DMCA is inconsistent with existing first sale and backup laws, the DMCA takes precedence because it was enacted later.
They say that only to promote their own hardware. Heck, Sun once[1] said the same thing about the CDE that came with the Solaris operating environment.
Not everybody can afford the hardware fees, monthly service fees, and possibly family relocation fees involved with wireless Internet access. Or do you refer to downloading a tarball of the online docs and installing them locally? Is that possible?
there is no reason to have CD prices of 10-20 year old albums in the 15-20 price range.
Yes there is. The CDs still cost $15 to $20 because they're only 10-20 years old, which is brand-new in comparison with other copyrighted works. Expect a price drop around ninety-five years or so.
I'm sorry, 99 cents a song is absurd. I dont know how they charge you, but unless the price was 25 a download
Twenty-five cents per download is also absurd. Federal regulators have set the statutory licensing rate for the musical work alone (independent of any sound recording thereof) at eight cents per copy, to increase in step with the Consumer Price Index, payable to the songwriter's publisher (which generally splits it 50-50 with the songwriter). This would leave little or nothing for the record label and the service provider.
If it was 20-50 cents, I believe you could make it work.
Not feasible. Federal regulators have set the price of licensing the musical work itself (the melody, independent of any recording thereof) at about eight cents per copy (pegged to the Consumer Price Index), which would leave little or nothing for the label, artist, or service provider.
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Where are these hacks?
One hack to run Win32 apps on the Xbox console is Wine.
Another is running Microsoft Windows within VMware or the old version of Plex86 (back when it was a VMware replacement and not a clone of User Mode Linux).
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Viola is an instrument.
"Viola" is also Spanish for "he rapes", as in raping Microsoft for $100 when buying an Xbox console.
The Windows version of Qt 1. is incompatible with GPL libraries, and 2. requires Microsoft Visual Studio, which costs over $1,100. If I had that kind of money, I'd buy me a new PC to run Linux on instead of buying MSVC.
Damn you KDE for making the icons and look of the interface hardcoded! Damn you for denying me the right to change the icons and the interface! Damn you to hell!
Damn you end-users for wanting to get actual work done and not to sit around all day not tweaking KDE's icons! Damn you to Redmond!
I define a *n?x operating system as any operating system that conforms in spirit to the Single UNIX Specification. I define a UNIX operating system as any *n?x operating system that carries the Open Group's UNIX brand. I define a *n?x GUI as any GUI which is designed to run on a *n?x operating system and which has a reasonably complete free implementation. (X desktops qualify, and the Mac GUI will qualify once gnustep matures to the point where porting Cocoa apps becomes trivial.)
Mozilla has 99% of the features most people want either by default or through extensions
Is there an extension for NTLM authentication on a desktop platform other than Windows? Mozilla 1.4a for Windows has NTLM, but AFAIK it just tunnels through Windows's own NTLM support and won't work on BSD (FreeBSD, Mac OS X) or GNU (Mandrake, Debian) systems.
Compared to that, qt is free - grab the gpl version
Has the GPL version of Qt been ported to Cygwin?
"Install Linux." Has Linux been ported to the hardware of my PC which I received as a gift? How can I use Linux without tying up my CD-ROM drive if I don't have much free space left on my hard drive?
"Buy a new PC, and make sure to check the Linux distributions' compatibility lists first." Are you looking to hire a programmer with a BS in computer science in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, area?
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As far as I know, the courts view more recent acts of Congress as the more recent expression of democracy. If the United States Code is internally inconsistent, then the judge will tend interpret the law so as to follow those sections enacted later more closely than those sections enacted earlier. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which may make click-wrap EULAs binding, was enacted more than a century after the Sherman Antitrust Act.
I am not a lawyer, but I watch a lot of "Law & Order".
But this contract, being 1) a shrink-wrap EULA , and 2) limiting the use of enclosed product unlawfully, is pretty much unenforceable.
What about "the Software comes encrypted, and the DMCA prohibits you from decrypting this Software without agreeing to this License"?
First sale doctrine.
DMCA.
If you already have an Internet terminal, and you just want to add magical human flight, get a Gillette Mach 3 Turbo(tm) razor. It's a lot cheaper than a new operating system license, even at volume prices.
But not all of OS X is OSS. Significant chuncks of it are closed and proprietary.
And cloned.
Under standard copyright law, you cannot derive from or create an aggregate work from my code without my permission. This means no linking, period.
Under section 117 of standard copyright law, the owner of a copy can derive from a computer program to a limited extent:
I explained how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act may make click-wrap EULAs binding in this comment.
You can't breach a EULA as they are not binding contracts.
According to one interpretation, the EULA has been a binding contract since the DMCA was enacted in October 1998. (See how installers may qualify as copy-protection.)
To make a binding contract, both sides must give something up. You give up the right to reverse engineer the software, sue Apple, run the OS on non-Mac hardware, etc., and Apple gives you "the authority of the copyright owner" under 17 USC 1201 to run the installer that decrypts the computer programs that make up Mac OS X.
So don't agree to the license agreement and figure out how to install OS X anyways.
The installer that displays the EULA can be thought of a device that effectively controls access to the copyrighted Mac OS X computer program and is therefore eligible for protection under 17 USC 1201, enacted as part of the DMCA. And if the DMCA is inconsistent with existing first sale and backup laws, the DMCA takes precedence because it was enacted later.
OS X is better.
They say that only to promote their own hardware. Heck, Sun once[1] said the same thing about the CDE that came with the Solaris operating environment.
[1] Sun now pushes GNOME.
That's what online docs are for.
Not everybody can afford the hardware fees, monthly service fees, and possibly family relocation fees involved with wireless Internet access. Or do you refer to downloading a tarball of the online docs and installing them locally? Is that possible?
A niche that is becoming more and more irrelevant as Serial ATA and FireWire take over for SCSI.
I thought FireWire and Serial Attached SCSI were implementations of SCSI over a serial link, and Serial ATA was a subset of Serial Attached SCSI.
there is no reason to have CD prices of 10-20 year old albums in the 15-20 price range.
Yes there is. The CDs still cost $15 to $20 because they're only 10-20 years old, which is brand-new in comparison with other copyrighted works. Expect a price drop around ninety-five years or so.
I'm sorry, 99 cents a song is absurd. I dont know how they charge you, but unless the price was 25 a download
Twenty-five cents per download is also absurd. Federal regulators have set the statutory licensing rate for the musical work alone (independent of any sound recording thereof) at eight cents per copy, to increase in step with the Consumer Price Index, payable to the songwriter's publisher (which generally splits it 50-50 with the songwriter). This would leave little or nothing for the record label and the service provider.
there's no reason in the world why other MP3 makers can't include it in their firmware, or even offer a patch.
Other than that an AAC decoder is more expensive than an MP3 decoder?
If it was 20-50 cents, I believe you could make it work.
Not feasible. Federal regulators have set the price of licensing the musical work itself (the melody, independent of any recording thereof) at about eight cents per copy (pegged to the Consumer Price Index), which would leave little or nothing for the label, artist, or service provider.
Where are these hacks?
One hack to run Win32 apps on the Xbox console is Wine.
Another is running Microsoft Windows within VMware or the old version of Plex86 (back when it was a VMware replacement and not a clone of User Mode Linux).
Viola is an instrument.
"Viola" is also Spanish for "he rapes", as in raping Microsoft for $100 when buying an Xbox console.
Grab the windows version if you want.
The Windows version of Qt 1. is incompatible with GPL libraries, and 2. requires Microsoft Visual Studio, which costs over $1,100. If I had that kind of money, I'd buy me a new PC to run Linux on instead of buying MSVC.
Where does one go to become an "Official" video game reviewer?
Buy a printing press and manage to get at least a couple myriad subscribers.
Damn you KDE for making the icons and look of the interface hardcoded! Damn you for denying me the right to change the icons and the interface! Damn you to hell!
Damn you end-users for wanting to get actual work done and not to sit around all day not tweaking KDE's icons! Damn you to Redmond!
Then what makes it unix-like?
I define a *n?x operating system as any operating system that conforms in spirit to the Single UNIX Specification. I define a UNIX operating system as any *n?x operating system that carries the Open Group's UNIX brand. I define a *n?x GUI as any GUI which is designed to run on a *n?x operating system and which has a reasonably complete free implementation. (X desktops qualify, and the Mac GUI will qualify once gnustep matures to the point where porting Cocoa apps becomes trivial.)
Mozilla has 99% of the features most people want either by default or through extensions
Is there an extension for NTLM authentication on a desktop platform other than Windows? Mozilla 1.4a for Windows has NTLM, but AFAIK it just tunnels through Windows's own NTLM support and won't work on BSD (FreeBSD, Mac OS X) or GNU (Mandrake, Debian) systems.
If you want to close a tab just click on it with the middle mouse button.
That would require me to attach an external mouse or trackball to my laptop computer, whose touchpad does not have a Middle Button(TM).
If you middle click on a link, open link in a new tab. If you middle click off of a link, activate the autoscroll. Simple as that.
How does one "middle click off a link" when the link covers the whole page, such as when the link is a large image?
Compared to that, qt is free - grab the gpl version
Has the GPL version of Qt been ported to Cygwin?
"Install Linux." Has Linux been ported to the hardware of my PC which I received as a gift? How can I use Linux without tying up my CD-ROM drive if I don't have much free space left on my hard drive?
"Buy a new PC, and make sure to check the Linux distributions' compatibility lists first." Are you looking to hire a programmer with a BS in computer science in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, area?