the FSF relies on copyright law. One of its cornerstones is the GPL, and like all licenses it does depend on enforcable copyright law or code protected by it could deliberately be used in proprietary software and neither the FSF nor anyone else could do anything about it.
Without copyright law there will be no proprietary software.
I do still doubt it. Piracy existed for like forever and 'content-producers' weren't bankrupted by it. 'Content-producers' fight piracy not because they're threatened by it, but because they want to increase their profits.
No. This means that students will keep their cool ideas to themselves, so the University won't get anything anyway while implementation of students' ideas is delayed.
Those, who can not afford things above, they use Linux on desktop. And Linux on desktop has miserable market share percentage. That means that company are not going to invest into these things just because it is free stuff.
If all people who can't afford windows and office or Mac used linux it would have the largest market share..
Marxism could be called 'just a philosophy', but equally with Stallman's position it causes human misery and removes human satisfactions by contradicting your nature.
The fact is that allowing original works (stories, music, paintings, photography, software, sculpture, inventions, etc.) to fall directly into the public hands, without reward to the creator, DISCOURAGES the creation of said original works.
Disagree. People create works of art not to get paid but for sheer fun of it. Paying them for it would help them focus on it though.
IMO even government support will be better that current perverse copyright-based system. Restricting access to such immaterial and easily duplicable things is silly.
There have been great people that came along and made breakthroughs, but always this was the result of their building work of others.
You're confusing things here. Working alone doesn't preclude you from building on other people's work, while working in group often does due to NIH etc.
Industry is something that manufactures goods or services(in this case disks). If goods that it produces doesn't satisfy requirements of consumers, bankruptcy is a logical consequence.
He was referring to disks themselves as garbage, not to their content. You can only buy/sell disks, buying/selling movies just plain doesn't make sense.
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That will not be proprietary software, but secret software ;)
the FSF relies on copyright law. One of its cornerstones is the GPL, and like all licenses it does depend on enforcable copyright law or code protected by it could deliberately be used in proprietary software and neither the FSF nor anyone else could do anything about it.
Without copyright law there will be no proprietary software.
I do still doubt it. Piracy existed for like forever and 'content-producers' weren't bankrupted by it. 'Content-producers' fight piracy not because they're threatened by it, but because they want to increase their profits.
That's the problem. Most of us don't have time to master games.
No. Most of us don't have time to play games at all. Targeting people who don't have time to play games is pointless.
I don't have any. My user name is ironic indeed :)
(yes, games are out, that's what consoles are for.)
That is an overestimation. Many games run under wine, and number of supported games grows constantly. IMO that's very good since I hate consoles.
wow. tell it to the judge kid. I'm sure he will be so impressed by your reasoning.
There's no point in telling that to judge because he/she most likely knows the difference between stealing and copyright infringement.
The question is, why those modems aren't in router mode by default?
No. This means that students will keep their cool ideas to themselves, so the University won't get anything anyway while implementation of students' ideas is delayed.
Most likely in this case that was dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
All IDEs suck, including Visual Studio, so I stick with vim too.
Those, who can not afford things above, they use Linux on desktop. And Linux on desktop has miserable market share percentage. That means that company are not going to invest into these things just because it is free stuff.
If all people who can't afford windows and office or Mac used linux it would have the largest market share..
Marxism could be called 'just a philosophy', but equally with Stallman's position it causes human misery and removes human satisfactions by contradicting your nature.
That is even more true for economic determinism.
Stallman's philosophy, of which Perens is a supper and not just a fan, is anti-business.
I'm sorry that Stallman's philosophy hurts your religious feelings, but it's just a philosophy. Get a life.
What do does this rant based on strawman arguments has to do with Technocrat.net?
Pirated versions of Microsoft's software are also distributed through bittorrent, so this will crush Microsoft too :)
If I had mod points, I'd mod you funny! Imagine activation servers in times when most players didn't have Internet access!
Do you not think artists should get paid?
Yes.
The fact is that allowing original works (stories, music, paintings, photography, software, sculpture, inventions, etc.) to fall directly into the public hands, without reward to the creator, DISCOURAGES the creation of said original works.
Disagree. People create works of art not to get paid but for sheer fun of it. Paying them for it would help them focus on it though.
IMO even government support will be better that current perverse copyright-based system. Restricting access to such immaterial and easily duplicable things is silly.
I'm sure they will be as successful as multi-turreted tanks.
Linux is a toy.
So is Windows. But this fact doesn't prevent it from enjoying wide hardware support. So this is non-issue.
No. Not Invented Here syndrome.
There have been great people that came along and made breakthroughs, but always this was the result of their building work of others.
You're confusing things here. Working alone doesn't preclude you from building on other people's work, while working in group often does due to NIH etc.
For the same reason as why they're unwilling to adapt their definition of "blue" to mean "pebble".
Industry is something that manufactures goods or services(in this case disks). If goods that it produces doesn't satisfy requirements of consumers, bankruptcy is a logical consequence.
He was referring to disks themselves as garbage, not to their content. You can only buy/sell disks, buying/selling movies just plain doesn't make sense.