Furthermore, it seems that if Larry McVoy wanted patent-like protection on the ideas in BitKeeper, he should have just filed patents. At least we understand how patents work.
US$5-10 wouldn't cover all the patent licenses; I suspect it would be over $20. And I suspect few people would pay, given that the corporate media players cost $0.
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During their implementation (which started years ago), they were aware that there were no software patents in Europe.
Given the number and scope of multimedia patents, the only way to clean up any potentially infringing code would involve rm -rf...
That's called Akimbo. Offering niche content over IPTV is a great strategy for a small startup, but the big, conservative telcos won't be satisfied with niche content. It's replace cable or nothing.
GnomeMeeting already supports H.323. So open source developers could just retire, having already "solved the problem", or they could move on, building software that interoperates with common IM systems.
when you're inviting people to upload a lot of something, how do you keep tabs on it?
SafeSearch has been around for a while. Google's stated position on porn is that if you're looking for porn they want you to find it, and if you're not then they don't. It seems like they could do this for video too. This will probably require considerable research, but it doesn't seem impossible.
for sony to manufacture a few gibabytes size of a memorystick wouldn't be that much when considering what the movies would probably cost
Oh really? A 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo sells for over $300. The manufacturing cost is probably at least $200. Maybe you could use mask ROM instead of flash, but that would probably cost more, not less.
But under that scheme there would still be one company for any particular domain. So if you want to register, say, slashdot.com, you still wouldn't have a choice.
Why all the fuss about who should administer these? Is it doing any difference if it's Big Corporation A or B?
Yes, because some people would drop the price to $2/year if they were in charge. It's a small difference in absolute dollars, but the relative difference is huge and exposes how much VeriSign is overcharging.
Also, VeriSign has a bad habit of implementing evil stuff like SiteFinder, although other companies would be likely to try the same thing if they were handed a monopoly.
But I think phone calls should be private, and the only way for a police department or FBI to wiretap should be with a court order.
And that's what CALEA gives them. So in this case you actually agree with the government, even if you don't realize it.
According to the article, congress gave telcom companies $500,000,000 to enforce the laws they passed? Why doesn't the government give me money to enforce their pollution laws, so I can get my car fixed up.
This is the only way to use BitTorrent because all incoming traffic to ResNet is blocked.
I suspect you mean incoming connections are blocked. In that situation BitTorrent works fine, although the performance is not optimal. In many cases, sub-optimal BitTorrent is still faster than the alternatives.
Limiting bandwidth based on applications is counter to the end-to-end nature of the Internet and unfair to users. Providers should allocate bandwidth to users (e.g. with fair queueing) and let each user do whatever they want. If a user chooses to use up all their bandwith with P2P, it wouldn't affect anyone else.
Hmm, I wonder if we'll see a growth of cinemas that actually pirate themselves, swapping or buying cheap digital copies rather than shelling out for the original stuff? Who would know, after all?
The movie distributors, perhaps? "Hi, I see you're advertising that your theatre is showing Robots, but we're the exclusive distributor in Ireland and we don't have any record of you purchasing it. The police will be shutting down your establishment in 3... 2... 1..."
Anyone know if these new cinemas include a DRM system that would prevent this?
Get into the official kernel. If a driver isn't in Linus's tree, it doesn't matter, so you will be on an endless treadmill of API breakage. Once your driver is in the official kernel tree, the kernel hackers will take responsibility for most of the API refactoring.
Know the politics. Most Linux kernel developers aren't accountable to anyone and don't negotiate. You will have to put up with whatever requirements they give you if you want your code to be part of the kernel.
Know the effort. You will probably be asked to rewrite your drivers, possibly more than once. This will take months. If you don't do it, then open-sourcing the drivers was mostly wasted effort.
As others mentioned, coding style is important. Also, wrappers are not allowed in the kernel, so call kernel APIs directly instead of wrapping them. The result is a totally Linux-specific driver, but the rules are the rules (see above).
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Furthermore, it seems that if Larry McVoy wanted patent-like protection on the ideas in BitKeeper, he should have just filed patents. At least we understand how patents work.
How do you distinguish patents which exist solely for the sake of preventing compatibility and patents which exist to make money?
US$5-10 wouldn't cover all the patent licenses; I suspect it would be over $20. And I suspect few people would pay, given that the corporate media players cost $0.
During their implementation (which started years ago), they were aware that there were no software patents in Europe.
Given the number and scope of multimedia patents, the only way to clean up any potentially infringing code would involve rm -rf...
That's called Akimbo. Offering niche content over IPTV is a great strategy for a small startup, but the big, conservative telcos won't be satisfied with niche content. It's replace cable or nothing.
What, you want ClearCase or CMVC? Or do you think Linus et al. are going to switch to ClearCase or CMVC? I'm not sure where you're going with this.
GnomeMeeting already supports H.323. So open source developers could just retire, having already "solved the problem", or they could move on, building software that interoperates with common IM systems.
when you're inviting people to upload a lot of something, how do you keep tabs on it?
SafeSearch has been around for a while. Google's stated position on porn is that if you're looking for porn they want you to find it, and if you're not then they don't. It seems like they could do this for video too. This will probably require considerable research, but it doesn't seem impossible.
"What makes music special in this way?"
It's not encrypted.
That takes time, especially on large drives. Setting the password takes virtually no time.
for sony to manufacture a few gibabytes size of a memorystick wouldn't be that much when considering what the movies would probably cost
Oh really? A 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo sells for over $300. The manufacturing cost is probably at least $200. Maybe you could use mask ROM instead of flash, but that would probably cost more, not less.
Except all the .com servers simply replicate from the .com master, which is run by VeriSign.
AFAIK, no one has figured out how to have multiple registries for a single domain.
But under that scheme there would still be one company for any particular domain. So if you want to register, say, slashdot.com, you still wouldn't have a choice.
Why all the fuss about who should administer these? Is it doing any difference if it's Big Corporation A or B?
Yes, because some people would drop the price to $2/year if they were in charge. It's a small difference in absolute dollars, but the relative difference is huge and exposes how much VeriSign is overcharging.
Also, VeriSign has a bad habit of implementing evil stuff like SiteFinder, although other companies would be likely to try the same thing if they were handed a monopoly.
Ilium is only the first part. Usually authors make the books in a series a little more self-contained, though.
I can see the headlines now:
"Paper: The medium of the future"
"Cost-efficient publishing with paper"
"Books that don't need to be plugged in"
etc.
But I think phone calls should be private, and the only way for a police department or FBI to wiretap should be with a court order.
And that's what CALEA gives them. So in this case you actually agree with the government, even if you don't realize it.
According to the article, congress gave telcom companies $500,000,000 to enforce the laws they passed? Why doesn't the government give me money to enforce their pollution laws, so I can get my car fixed up.
You're not a monopoly with an army of lobbyists.
This is the only way to use BitTorrent because all incoming traffic to ResNet is blocked.
I suspect you mean incoming connections are blocked. In that situation BitTorrent works fine, although the performance is not optimal. In many cases, sub-optimal BitTorrent is still faster than the alternatives.
I think fair queueing is more appropriate than capping, because FQ is work-conserving.
Limiting bandwidth based on applications is counter to the end-to-end nature of the Internet and unfair to users. Providers should allocate bandwidth to users (e.g. with fair queueing) and let each user do whatever they want. If a user chooses to use up all their bandwith with P2P, it wouldn't affect anyone else.
Can you hear my ring tone now? Good.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a FedEx package with a 400GB hard drive.
Hmm, I wonder if we'll see a growth of cinemas that actually pirate themselves, swapping or buying cheap digital copies rather than shelling out for the original stuff? Who would know, after all?
The movie distributors, perhaps? "Hi, I see you're advertising that your theatre is showing Robots, but we're the exclusive distributor in Ireland and we don't have any record of you purchasing it. The police will be shutting down your establishment in 3... 2... 1..."
Anyone know if these new cinemas include a DRM system that would prevent this?
They do.
Why? What's different about telephony drivers?
Get into the official kernel. If a driver isn't in Linus's tree, it doesn't matter, so you will be on an endless treadmill of API breakage. Once your driver is in the official kernel tree, the kernel hackers will take responsibility for most of the API refactoring.
Know the politics. Most Linux kernel developers aren't accountable to anyone and don't negotiate. You will have to put up with whatever requirements they give you if you want your code to be part of the kernel.
Know the effort. You will probably be asked to rewrite your drivers, possibly more than once. This will take months. If you don't do it, then open-sourcing the drivers was mostly wasted effort.
As others mentioned, coding style is important. Also, wrappers are not allowed in the kernel, so call kernel APIs directly instead of wrapping them. The result is a totally Linux-specific driver, but the rules are the rules (see above).