If you give away the software and make it available for free on various websites, you are in effect giving up your ability to make money by selling the software
Sure that's trivially obvious but that's not what you said. You said "by releasing it as GPL" which is completely different. Just because you license your software under the GPL doesn't equate to just giving it away for free.
Not only that, he took the copyright that the law gives him for such software and gave up any ability to make money off it by releasing it as GPL.
*facepalm* Have you actually read the GPL?
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
Yep, it's not as if judges and the Bar only recently got pissed at him. He's been the thorn in the side of the Florida legal system for years and years. He just got way too cocky and he finally is now paying for his years of shenanigans.
Your statement makes no sense. Civil penalties only have meaning because the government enforces them. If there is no government enforcement they have no force of law.
"They" shouldn't go after anybody for what is a civil law issue. It is not for the government to enforce. If you violate somebody's copyright, and they sue, that should be it.
You do realize that it is the government that hands out and enforces those civil penalties right?
Wrong department. You want to be blaming the compositors - not the rendering technique.
No, it's very much the right department. When the vast majority of the rendered CGI doesn't even look photorealistic, there isn't anything better compositing is going to do.
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FFXI not real MMO.
Ummm.. lol? Exactly how is it not an MMO?
Go look at e.g. WoW, AoC, Warhammer, etc... Not playable with console scheme.
In what way? All you would do is have macros set to key combos to do things just like the vast majority of people do in other mmos on PCs.
So it was in the top 4 on the chart for 3 years and has averaged over 3x the subscribers needed to be profitable. Yep, what a huge failure it is.
Exactly why is a keyboard/mouse required? It's amazing how hundreds of thousands of people had no problems playing FFXI without a keyboard/mouse.
Yep it's not like anyone played FFXI or anything.
If you give away the software and make it available for free on various websites, you are in effect giving up your ability to make money by selling the software
Sure that's trivially obvious but that's not what you said. You said "by releasing it as GPL" which is completely different. Just because you license your software under the GPL doesn't equate to just giving it away for free.
Not only that, he took the copyright that the law gives him for such software and gave up any ability to make money off it by releasing it as GPL.
*facepalm* Have you actually read the GPL?
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money? Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney Next time please do the two seconds of research it would take to not look like a complete dumbass.
In an unrelated story, recent studies have shown that French bashing was old and stale 7 years ago.
EA stopped churning out rubbish some time ago.
Last week?
Well no duh. They clearly are publishing stuff on paper if they want CMYK support.
EA canceling a game due to it being of low quality? That's a good one...
Wait? Windows Mojave is really Windows Vista?!?!?!
Conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar.
Yep, it's not as if judges and the Bar only recently got pissed at him. He's been the thorn in the side of the Florida legal system for years and years. He just got way too cocky and he finally is now paying for his years of shenanigans.
No, it takes filing tons and tons of frivolous lawsuits and wasting countless hours of court time and taxpayer money to get where he is at.
That would be Open for WHOM?.
So this system just built itself without any outside human interaction?
Did you actually expect a deceently written summary in a post by ScuttleMonkey? Come on now...
That's GDDR5, not DDR5. There's a big difference.
So why not just use the dozens of other utilities out there that already make either 1:1 or compressed DVD-5 copies?
So basically America was fine as long as the president's dick sucking remained a secret?
Exactly what would there be to investigate? Is paying an employee to write on a blog against the law?
Enforces, not necessarily.
Your statement makes no sense. Civil penalties only have meaning because the government enforces them. If there is no government enforcement they have no force of law.
"They" shouldn't go after anybody for what is a civil law issue. It is not for the government to enforce. If you violate somebody's copyright, and they sue, that should be it.
You do realize that it is the government that hands out and enforces those civil penalties right?
-fold, a suffix added to a cardinal number signifying "multiplied by"
Wrong department. You want to be blaming the compositors - not the rendering technique.
No, it's very much the right department. When the vast majority of the rendered CGI doesn't even look photorealistic, there isn't anything better compositing is going to do.