Maybe you don't read enough Eric Raymond, but it should be obvious to anyone that there's a fundamental difference between protection of property, which you can be for or against, but has a real meaning, and copyrights, an artificial legal fiction created by legislative fiat.
What you're saying is correct, but you're not answering to the parent.
He's absolutely right: the powerful are going to use the legal system to enforce artificial property rights. If they're succesful, it means that reativity and innovation will happen in places where the legal system is unwilling or unable to enforce intellectual property rights.
I guess I wasn't very clear, sorry. English is not my best language.
Even here, in backwards South America, there's a lot of people doing what you're thinking, some of them very competent.
My point was, if they are making some money ripping off MDK, why MDK doen't prevent this offering the cheap CD set themselves.
If the price was more or less the same, I'd prefer to support the distro, but there's no way I'm going to pay boxed set prices for all the distros I try (just as you do, I try every release of the big three).
I've always wondered why MDK didn't do a Cheapbytes themselves: just the CD's, $15. No box, no manuals, no anything. I guess they'd sell a LOT of these.
My point was that good SF wasn't optimistic or escapistic, rather the opposite.
Also, you picked three great books (congratulations for your good taste), but the three were about politics, not science. The only one I'd classify as SF, even remotely, would be Brave New World.
But don't you find strange that of the three examples you give, two were written in the fifties and the other in the sixties? Since when good SF is pleasant?
Do an experiment: compile your list of the ten best SF titles, read them, and if you're not depressed at the end I'd sure like to see your list.
SF and fantasy have nothing in common. I don't know why people insist on putting them together.
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Well, the US has been invading countries with no valid reason for long before 9/11.
Ask Latin America.
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Wholly agree!
Why it is that they're still refusing to face to obvious and nobody calls their bluff?
Opteron is the end of Sun. That's it. Two years at the most.
I guess Michael Dell cries all the way to the bank.
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A future?
Relevancy?
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Agreed.
This guy seems not to realize that he's IT's clown, good only for a laugh.
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Well said!
I'm sorry I spent my moderation points before.
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Maybe you don't read enough Eric Raymond, but it should be obvious to anyone that there's a fundamental difference between protection of property, which you can be for or against, but has a real meaning, and copyrights, an artificial legal fiction created by legislative fiat.
Cheers,
Hate.
Cheers,
What you're saying is correct, but you're not answering to the parent.
He's absolutely right: the powerful are going to use the legal system to enforce artificial property rights.
If they're succesful, it means that reativity and innovation will happen in places where the legal system is unwilling or unable to enforce intellectual property rights.
Agreed. Being spared from the interviewer's musings is a feature, not a bug.
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I'll give you a real-life counter example: myself.
I didn't know a thing about Linux,so:
1. Installed Mandrake Download Edition, duall booting with Win98.
2. Autodetected everything, including cable internet.
3. NEVER had a problem.
4. Two weeks ago: OFF went the Windows partition.
5. Reinstalled, whole disk now.
6 Still no problems.
7. Profit?
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I guess I wasn't very clear, sorry. English is not my best language.
Even here, in backwards South America, there's a lot of people doing what you're thinking, some of them very competent.
My point was, if they are making some money ripping off MDK, why MDK doen't prevent this offering the cheap CD set themselves.
If the price was more or less the same, I'd prefer to support the distro, but there's no way I'm going to pay boxed set prices for all the distros I try (just as you do, I try every release of the big three).
Cheers,
I'm amazed I've had to go this far in the thread to find a coherent post.
If you hadn't posted as an AC, I'd moderate you up.
What's the problem with ads? I spend a lot of time searching for Linux-related products, now they are going to come to me. Why should I be angry?
I agree.
I've always wondered why MDK didn't do a Cheapbytes themselves: just the CD's, $15. No box, no manuals, no anything.
I guess they'd sell a LOT of these.
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>Why do you automatically assume there's something "next?" It's a tactic of the paranoid.
Because invariably, there is. Sad but true.
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Your demonstration succeds in showing that Star Trek is fantasy disguised as Science Fiction.
I agree.
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Dear Slippery:
Thanks for stating the obvious.
When we are talking about SF, I assume we're thinking Solaris (insert obligatory Sun joke here), not Star Wars or the Jetsons.
Maybe we haven't read the same books, but good SF was always anti-utopian.
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My point was that good SF wasn't optimistic or escapistic, rather the opposite.
Also, you picked three great books (congratulations for your good taste), but the three were about politics, not science.
The only one I'd classify as SF, even remotely, would be Brave New World.
Chers,
I've posted in this story, so I can't moderate you up, as I'd wish.
Great post: short, to the point and right.
Bravo!
Just two things:
1) Tolkien's work was written between 1937 and 1948.
2) What has Tolkien to do in a discussion about Science Fiction?
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But don't you find strange that of the three examples you give, two were written in the fifties and the other in the sixties?
Since when good SF is pleasant?
Do an experiment: compile your list of the ten best SF titles, read them, and if you're not depressed at the end I'd sure like to see your list.
SF and fantasy have nothing in common. I don't know why people insist on putting them together.
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There's nothing betond possible?
Do you live in some alternate reality, perhaps?
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Believe me, I don't want to be mean, but you read Asimov for the characters?
Oh, boy!
You're so wrong!
If anything, people's understanding of technology has diminished in the last 50 years, and the belief in magic and the occult has increased.
I don't know where did you get your idea of the fifties, but believe me, you got it all wrong.
I'm old enough to remember.
Cheers,
Ooops, I mean YOUR friend.