The problem isn't DRM, it's copyrights. DRM is just one of many tools to enforce it, where when used in a way to controll people it would, in a normal world, fall by the wayside like all those other "key" schemes that never worked out.
But when you assert that you have a right to restrict what other people copy, even when the cat's out of the bag, then it takes on a whole new meaning. Like the right to regulate hardware companies who don't participate. The right to monitor other peoples computers for the sake of "enforcement". And the right to pry into peoples private content.
Just one note, before anyone goes spewing about copyrights and morality, could you please type in "Against Copyrights" into any internet search engine and get your facts straight first. Hint (copying is not piracy, nor steeling food out of the mouths of artists, and it's not property).
Well first off, if you have a bunch of high end enterprise customers in one corner willing to pay buco bucks, and then a bunch of small scale users in the other - the direction is a no brainer. However, I could easially see them taking the enterprise server market by storm, and being an irresistable sell to Microsoft who would then get the high end enterprise users they have always dreamed of. You had better bet Microsoft would pay top dollar for that market. Then Micrisoft could easially migrate to closed more proprietary system in due time. Hell, Microsoft already reuses so much freebsd code, they're experts at taking free code and turning it into closed systems. It'd be alot easier then you think. Anyhow, if things don't go that way - eventually they will get back to the desktop when the enterprise market saturates. It's just a matter of allocating resources.
This attitude that I'm somehow violating someone by copying things is bogus morality. Sorta like saying you're going to hell if you don't follow the Kings choosen religion. Well I call bullshit. If you stole my car, yes I would feel violated, but if you just want to make a copy - hell, have two. Infact, it's a Geo, there are 10 million coppies. I dont feel violated. Perhaps I mow my lawn with vertical stripes instead of horizontal, well please, copy that too! I promose I won't feel violated either, nor will I try to collect royalties. In fact, I might feel complemented.
Of course, maybe it's illegal copying, but then again maybe it's illegal to sit at the front of the bus too. So what! I hate to point out the obvious, but freely copying, especially music, is inherently good and beneficial.
Kazaa is a major source of on-line piracy - they cannot deny this. However, P2P file sharing does have legitimate uses, and the tool cannot be blamed for what it is used for. Rat poison can be used to kill people, but that is about how it is used, not what it is.
I hate to point out the obvious, but illegal copying IS a legitimate and JUST use. Copyrights are what's unjust, copyrights are the tool used to wrongly restrict copying that people have no moral or inherent right to restrict. Type in "against copyrights" in any internet search engine, and it won't be long before you see exactly what I mean. Learn the truth and the truth shall set ye free!
I just wanted to say that free markets are about freedoms and not about markets. When you have true freedoms, then the markets will tend to take care of themselves as people use tohse freedoms to their benefit and advantage.
Microsoft is not about free markets because it is not about freedom. In fact they assume on faith, that the right to restrict what other people copy at their disposal, copyrights, is a fundamental inherent right. It is not. In the future I have no doubt that copyrights will be lumped in with the right of the government to choose your speech, and the right of government to choose your religion, or even the right to own slaves (another false 'property' right). In the meantime, we just half to fight it out. Microsoft will not sit arround passively while people who exercise their freedoms cut into revenues. All hell will surely break loose.
I would argue that companies like Disney corp have done more harm to our nations children than all the other culprits combined. It is a simple scientific fact that the average child over the age of 8 has more thinking and mental capacity than most full grown adults - yet we still continue to treat them like stupid, inmature, idiots and hide them from the real world. If we focused as much on teaching people how to exercise controll over their lives, and encouraging responsibility as we did from hiding kids (and especially teens) from the real world. I think you'd be amazed at how many teenage "problems" wouldn't be problems anymore. It's no wonder so many teens rebel nowdays.
If you think things are bad with SCO, wait till we start to hurt Microsoft's revenue stream, then all hell will break loose. With that much at stake, things are bound to get violent.
Name one freedom that wasn't achieved without a fight. Rights and freedoms are useless without the right to secure those rights as well. It also reminds me of that saying.. if you have slaves on the plantation, but silence on the battlefield, that is not peace. Copyrights by their very definition are a form of controll, and by their very nature touch everybody. It is a worthy cause worth fighting, and it is a worthy cause to recuit others to. Large and powerfull interests are clashing - like it or not this is a war, like it or not you are taking sides even if you choose not to take sides. It reminds me of the people who wantingly believed that the slave states could get peacfully get along with the free states (US history btw). They were pitiful, and they just didn't get it, and they were taking sides too even if they tried to deny it.
Venus is better (upper atmosphere)
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First off, the air pressure, gravity, sunlight, and temperature in the upper atmosphere on venus is very close to earth's. It also has a ton of carbon based chemichals for sustained life and oxygen in such an environment could be easially extracted. If fact it is the closest in the solar system to earth.
Even though the upper atmosphere is mostly sulfuric acid, dealing with that is a lot easier than dealing with the vacume of space, lack of gravity, extreme tempurature shifts and almost complete lack of extra hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. A slightly pressurized oxygen baloon could easially float on it's own weight and sustain large city complexes, and if it leaked it could be fixed in due time and wouldn't immediately kill everybody.
But most importantly - life on venus would be self sustainable because there are loads of natural resources and absolutely no shortage of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and a variety of other elements. (not in raw form of course)
I understood the problem, you don't understand what I'm saying. I'm pointing out a *potential* vulnerability, a hack to bitkeeper is much less likely to be noticed and notified if found than a hack to CVS that would modify the Kernel code. Lets not assume that because BitKeeper is generic that it couldn't be used for a Linux specific hack.
I couldn't help thinking that if this kind of attack was done within the closed-source BitKeeper instead, and we didn't have open sourced CVS to ferrit it out - it might never have been caught.
As a parent, I also want add that it is a lot easier to protect my daughter from guns, porn, drugs and whaever other devil that they are likely to conjure up than it is from a system that becomes more and more like a police state.
Why arn't people discussing how to protect thrir kids from that?
Apparently people think it's allright when you have a bias for superior technology, or for example, a bias that the earth is round rather than flat. But when it comes to a bias in favor of free (as in freedom, not beer) then all of a sudden it becomes so taboo - not even Linus wants to have that bias. I think that is such a shame, hasn't history shown that it's a worthy and rational bias by now?
IMHO this is just another sad story of a company who is going to sink because they don't understand that customers buy services, not patents. If they were smart, they would advertize the process to the whole world in a way that is unmistakable that they invented it, and they would license it in a way that is almost free - accept that they are not locked out of future innovations of the people who use it.
Even if that failed, they could do an Ely Whitney strategy, who never made a penny from the cotton gyn, but made tons from other manufacturing contracts that were given to him specifically because of his reputation.
By doing it this way, they will have neither. It is really sad to see people sink themselves like this. I guess the old axiom is true, the best way to ruin someone over is to tell them that they have rights that they don't really have (in this case, patents) and watch them destroy themselves persuing it.
Open Office is attractive, not because of the cost, but because it does not lock people into closed vendors and closed technologies. IMHO the whole goal is provide an escape to the abuses of copyright and EULA's. Offer people a way out, and they will come. They did with Linux.
IMHO we are looking at these packages in the wrong way. Instead of looking at them as a competitive alternative to Microsoft, we should be looking to them as a transitional tool to get people over to free (not as in beer) standards and software.
Unfortunately alot of people forget that free markets are not about markets, but about freedoms. When you secure the appropiate freedoms, then the markets will take care of themselves as people use those freedoms to persue their goals, interests, and can persue financial gain justly.
Strong industry and an oppressive state is a formula for a Hitler like government every time. Any time an economey grows, you always have social strife and struggle, but unlike western countries - China has no internal checks and balances to keep the government from freaking out. It could very easially become a militant police state.
The ONLY check and balance China has is the USA - and frankly we are not doing our job. While I dont think we should block trade, we need to be ready to force the issue with Tiawan and Hong Kong and make investors who invest in China sign off that their investments are not and will not be secured by the US government. We should openly discourage foriegn investment, and need to persue any policy that makes them economically weaker and us economically stronger, and knock off the copyright and intellectual property bullshit (the culturial open sharing of knowledge is one of the few counterbalances there). We should have underground networks that smuggle chineese disadents out, and we should have lots and lots of favorable treaties and agreements with India to offset the Chineese threat. Now that we more or less got Pakastan off Indias back, we should encourage them to be the force that counteracts China.
The copyright war is almost here. Amazingly there are so many parallels to our last civil war. The way the plantation system could no longer controll the labor force and so after desperately regulating slaves (to the point they wernt even allowed to read) failed, then they tried to micro regulate the northern states who had no intention of placing the industrial revolution on hold for the sake of the plantation system. It wasn't long before they broke off into seperate camps and all hell broke loose. Today we see this with SCO and open source tech industries, xcept for this time there is no north and southern boundaries - it will be more like anarchy, and also because the government is so beholden to the media, I am not sure we can rely on them to be on our side this time either, perhaps the courts will take one side - the congress the other. First the battles will play themselves out thru the system, then it will likely play out onto the streets as those who try to impose copyrights try to terrorize, fear monger, buy off, and brow beat those who resist into submission. I could really envision a mafia and gang like enforcement units, and armed independents trying to protect their industries and way of life batteling it out with each other. I know it seems crazy, but when there are trillions and trillions of dollars at stake, crazy things will happen.
I guess this just highlites that what we really need is a true p2p search engine that can not be co-opted by any one interest or orginisation. Perhaps we can create a program where everybody can specify their own search words, but their relavence is rated by peer review.
Not to rain on the prade, but IMHO patents are evil and provide a false sense of security. Even worse, they are murderous, just ask any child dying of AIDS in Africa - why there are no generics available to treat it? Yeah I know soneone is going to invariably going to respond "well, no cure would be invented to begin with if not for patents spew..." but that is simply a crock and is like saying noone would develop free software either.
Also, as soneone who is in an "innovative" company - I just want to say for the record that patents don't help innovation. In fact, it would be more accurate to say we are forced to get patents so we can defend ourselves against frivolous lawsuits, get into cross-licensing agreements rather than sit and get screwed over by large corporations who lock us out of all the latest technology, and make sure someone else dosen't patent what were doing first and then proceed to screw us over.
In truth, I feel like that in order to work with technology, work in a decent environment, and support my family, and be innovative - I half to participate in a system that is morally repulsive. I bitterly resent that.
INAG (I am not a geologist) but my understanding is that the theory that oil came from old plants and animals is today considered wrong. Instead it is produced by ultra high temperature bacteria energized by heat from the earths core.
PS, if you really care about the environment - go nuclear
This article IMHO was very out of touch and even depressing. The future of information technology rests on the death of intellectual property (specifically copyrights), not it's rebirth. The blazing take-on of linux, one would think, would at least give them a hint of what drives the information economey. I just can't comprehend how someone would want to bet their career and their life-future on an "intellectual property" strategy. At this point in the game, it is almost pitifull. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps they're trying to sucker in investors who just still don't know better? so they can get out while before the ship sinks?
What happened to the good ole days...
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I mean the days where they tatooed a number on you and kept track of you by placing you in a concentration camp^H^H^H^H oops I mean resort.
Also this begs the question, if the RFID requirment is so harmless, then what are you going to do when a kid or parent refuses,.. expell them, humiliate them, impose corporal dicipline? Call human services on their parents for neglecting their kid when they are no longer in school. Call the police to take the kids away, and pop a bullet in their heads if they fight back to keep their child?
How much you'd want to bet that they'd call the parents extreme!
In case we've forgotton, those people who refused to let the king choose the peoples religion were.... ZEALOTS. And those people that thought we could run a democracy without a king were in fact..... ZEALOTS, and what about those people who wanted to abolish slavery, well they were..(durm roll please).. ZEALOTS! Before we stick on lables, how about looking at some facts here.
And, how come there are no complaints about ZEALOUT lawyers, and ZEALOT CEO's. In fact, even more so - I was there these last 10 years where zealot CEO's fololowed every single looser trend, that is except Linux. And I was there during the ZEALOUT stock boom fuled by a complete misunderstanding of the information age and technology in general. I was there only a few years ago when I tried to explain to the company I worked for that SCO is going to die and we need to switch to Linux. (they thought I'd done gone psycho, many even laughed at me). To the contrary, I would say that if theres anyone in this world who knows whats going and on not in zealous denial - I would say it's the people who deal with Linux most often.
I found one sentence in his article that really summed up his whole problem - the problem with copyright isn't the concept but rather its granularity
That is simply false and not true to history. For example, it is a good thing that the letter U is not owned by anybody. It is not a matter of a fair and equitable price, even if the royality is one one millionth of a cent, it would be unjust. It is not a matter of who created it, or what their incentive is - and a failure to understand such is a failure to understand what truely drives the internet and the information age today.
The simple fact is that sharing information has an intrinsic value to those who create it as much as those who consume it. And when you restrict someone from sharing content, even if it is a miniscule restriction, then you are violating them even if it is a miniscule violation.
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The problem isn't DRM, it's copyrights. DRM is just one of many tools to enforce it, where when used in a way to controll people it would, in a normal world, fall by the wayside like all those other "key" schemes that never worked out.
But when you assert that you have a right to restrict what other people copy, even when the cat's out of the bag, then it takes on a whole new meaning. Like the right to regulate hardware companies who don't participate. The right to monitor other peoples computers for the sake of "enforcement". And the right to pry into peoples private content.
Just one note, before anyone goes spewing about copyrights and morality, could you please type in "Against Copyrights" into any internet search engine and get your facts straight first. Hint (copying is not piracy, nor steeling food out of the mouths of artists, and it's not property).
Thank You, now please continue....
Well first off, if you have a bunch of high end enterprise customers in one corner willing to pay buco bucks, and then a bunch of small scale users in the other - the direction is a no brainer. However, I could easially see them taking the enterprise server market by storm, and being an irresistable sell to Microsoft who would then get the high end enterprise users they have always dreamed of. You had better bet Microsoft would pay top dollar for that market. Then Micrisoft could easially migrate to closed more proprietary system in due time. Hell, Microsoft already reuses so much freebsd code, they're experts at taking free code and turning it into closed systems. It'd be alot easier then you think.
Anyhow, if things don't go that way - eventually they will get back to the desktop when the enterprise market saturates. It's just a matter of allocating resources.
This attitude that I'm somehow violating someone by copying things is bogus morality. Sorta like saying you're going to hell if you don't follow the Kings choosen religion. Well I call bullshit. If you stole my car, yes I would feel violated, but if you just want to make a copy - hell, have two. Infact, it's a Geo, there are 10 million coppies. I dont feel violated. Perhaps I mow my lawn with vertical stripes instead of horizontal, well please, copy that too! I promose I won't feel violated either, nor will I try to collect royalties. In fact, I might feel complemented.
Of course, maybe it's illegal copying, but then again maybe it's illegal to sit at the front of the bus too. So what! I hate to point out the obvious, but freely copying, especially music, is inherently good and beneficial.
Kazaa is a major source of on-line piracy - they cannot deny this. However, P2P file sharing does have legitimate uses, and the tool cannot be blamed for what it is used for. Rat poison can be used to kill people, but that is about how it is used, not what it is.
I hate to point out the obvious, but illegal copying IS a legitimate and JUST use. Copyrights are what's unjust, copyrights are the tool used to wrongly restrict copying that people have no moral or inherent right to restrict. Type in "against copyrights" in any internet search engine, and it won't be long before you see exactly what I mean. Learn the truth and the truth shall set ye free!
I just wanted to say that free markets are about freedoms and not about markets. When you have true freedoms, then the markets will tend to take care of themselves as people use tohse freedoms to their benefit and advantage.
Microsoft is not about free markets because it is not about freedom. In fact they assume on faith, that the right to restrict what other people copy at their disposal, copyrights, is a fundamental inherent right. It is not. In the future I have no doubt that copyrights will be lumped in with the right of the government to choose your speech, and the right of government to choose your religion, or even the right to own slaves (another false 'property' right). In the meantime, we just half to fight it out. Microsoft will not sit arround passively while people who exercise their freedoms cut into revenues. All hell will surely break loose.
I would argue that companies like Disney corp have done more harm to our nations children than all the other culprits combined. It is a simple scientific fact that the average child over the age of 8 has more thinking and mental capacity than most full grown adults - yet we still continue to treat them like stupid, inmature, idiots and hide them from the real world. If we focused as much on teaching people how to exercise controll over their lives, and encouraging responsibility as we did from hiding kids (and especially teens) from the real world. I think you'd be amazed at how many teenage "problems" wouldn't be problems anymore. It's no wonder so many teens rebel nowdays.
If you think things are bad with SCO, wait till we start to hurt Microsoft's revenue stream, then all hell will break loose. With that much at stake, things are bound to get violent.
Name one freedom that wasn't achieved without a fight. Rights and freedoms are useless without the right to secure those rights as well. It also reminds me of that saying .. if you have slaves on the plantation, but silence on the battlefield, that is not peace.
Copyrights by their very definition are a form of controll, and by their very nature touch everybody. It is a worthy cause worth fighting, and it is a worthy cause to recuit others to. Large and powerfull interests are clashing - like it or not this is a war, like it or not you are taking sides even if you choose not to take sides. It reminds me of the people who wantingly believed that the slave states could get peacfully get along with the free states (US history btw). They were pitiful, and they just didn't get it, and they were taking sides too even if they tried to deny it.
First off, the air pressure, gravity, sunlight, and temperature in the upper atmosphere on venus is very close to earth's. It also has a ton of carbon based chemichals for sustained life and oxygen in such an environment could be easially extracted. If fact it is the closest in the solar system to earth.
Even though the upper atmosphere is mostly sulfuric acid, dealing with that is a lot easier than dealing with the vacume of space, lack of gravity, extreme tempurature shifts and almost complete lack of extra hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. A slightly pressurized oxygen baloon could easially float on it's own weight and sustain large city complexes, and if it leaked it could be fixed in due time and wouldn't immediately kill everybody.
But most importantly - life on venus would be self sustainable because there are loads of natural resources and absolutely no shortage of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and a variety of other elements. (not in raw form of course)
I understood the problem, you don't understand what I'm saying. I'm pointing out a *potential* vulnerability, a hack to bitkeeper is much less likely to be noticed and notified if found than a hack to CVS that would modify the Kernel code. Lets not assume that because BitKeeper is generic that it couldn't be used for a Linux specific hack.
I couldn't help thinking that if this kind of attack was done within the closed-source BitKeeper instead, and we didn't have open sourced CVS to ferrit it out - it might never have been caught.
As a parent, I also want add that it is a lot easier to protect my daughter from guns, porn, drugs and whaever other devil that they are likely to conjure up than it is from a system that becomes more and more like a police state.
Why arn't people discussing how to protect thrir kids from that?
Apparently people think it's allright when you have a bias for superior technology, or for example, a bias that the earth is round rather than flat. But when it comes to a bias in favor of free (as in freedom, not beer) then all of a sudden it becomes so taboo - not even Linus wants to have that bias. I think that is such a shame, hasn't history shown that it's a worthy and rational bias by now?
Just my opinion.
IMHO this is just another sad story of a company who is going to sink because they don't understand that customers buy services, not patents. If they were smart, they would advertize the process to the whole world in a way that is unmistakable that they invented it, and they would license it in a way that is almost free - accept that they are not locked out of future innovations of the people who use it.
Even if that failed, they could do an Ely Whitney strategy, who never made a penny from the cotton gyn, but made tons from other manufacturing contracts that were given to him specifically because of his reputation.
By doing it this way, they will have neither. It is really sad to see people sink themselves like this. I guess the old axiom is true, the best way to ruin someone over is to tell them that they have rights that they don't really have (in this case, patents) and watch them destroy themselves persuing it.
Open Office is attractive, not because of the cost, but because it does not lock people into closed vendors and closed technologies. IMHO the whole goal is provide an escape to the abuses of copyright and EULA's. Offer people a way out, and they will come. They did with Linux.
IMHO we are looking at these packages in the wrong way. Instead of looking at them as a competitive alternative to Microsoft, we should be looking to them as a transitional tool to get people over to free (not as in beer) standards and software.
Unfortunately alot of people forget that free markets are not about markets, but about freedoms. When you secure the appropiate freedoms, then the markets will take care of themselves as people use those freedoms to persue their goals, interests, and can persue financial gain justly.
Strong industry and an oppressive state is a formula for a Hitler like government every time. Any time an economey grows, you always have social strife and struggle, but unlike western countries - China has no internal checks and balances to keep the government from freaking out. It could very easially become a militant police state.
The ONLY check and balance China has is the USA - and frankly we are not doing our job. While I dont think we should block trade, we need to be ready to force the issue with Tiawan and Hong Kong and make investors who invest in China sign off that their investments are not and will not be secured by the US government. We should openly discourage foriegn investment, and need to persue any policy that makes them economically weaker and us economically stronger, and knock off the copyright and intellectual property bullshit (the culturial open sharing of knowledge is one of the few counterbalances there). We should have underground networks that smuggle chineese disadents out, and we should have lots and lots of favorable treaties and agreements with India to offset the Chineese threat. Now that we more or less got Pakastan off Indias back, we should encourage them to be the force that counteracts China.
The copyright war is almost here. Amazingly there are so many parallels to our last civil war. The way the plantation system could no longer controll the labor force and so after desperately regulating slaves (to the point they wernt even allowed to read) failed, then they tried to micro regulate the northern states who had no intention of placing the industrial revolution on hold for the sake of the plantation system. It wasn't long before they broke off into seperate camps and all hell broke loose. Today we see this with SCO and open source tech industries, xcept for this time there is no north and southern boundaries - it will be more like anarchy, and also because the government is so beholden to the media, I am not sure we can rely on them to be on our side this time either, perhaps the courts will take one side - the congress the other. First the battles will play themselves out thru the system, then it will likely play out onto the streets as those who try to impose copyrights try to terrorize, fear monger, buy off, and brow beat those who resist into submission. I could really envision a mafia and gang like enforcement units, and armed independents trying to protect their industries and way of life batteling it out with each other. I know it seems crazy, but when there are trillions and trillions of dollars at stake, crazy things will happen.
I guess this just highlites that what we really need is a true p2p search engine that can not be co-opted by any one interest or orginisation.
Perhaps we can create a program where everybody can specify their own search words, but their relavence is rated by peer review.
Not to rain on the prade, but IMHO patents are evil and provide a false sense of security. Even worse, they are murderous, just ask any child dying of AIDS in Africa - why there are no generics available to treat it? Yeah I know soneone is going to invariably going to respond "well, no cure would be invented to begin with if not for patents spew ..." but that is simply a crock and is like saying noone would develop free software either.
Also, as soneone who is in an "innovative" company - I just want to say for the record that patents don't help innovation. In fact, it would be more accurate to say we are forced to get patents so we can defend ourselves against frivolous lawsuits, get into cross-licensing agreements rather than sit and get screwed over by large corporations who lock us out of all the latest technology, and make sure someone else dosen't patent what were doing first and then proceed to screw us over.
In truth, I feel like that in order to work with technology, work in a decent environment, and support my family, and be innovative - I half to participate in a system that is morally repulsive. I bitterly resent that.
INAG (I am not a geologist) but my understanding is that the theory that oil came from old plants and animals is today considered wrong. Instead it is produced by ultra high temperature bacteria energized by heat from the earths core.
PS, if you really care about the environment - go nuclear
PSS, that is not a troll
This article IMHO was very out of touch and even depressing. The future of information technology rests on the death of intellectual property (specifically copyrights), not it's rebirth. The blazing take-on of linux, one would think, would at least give them a hint of what drives the information economey. I just can't comprehend how someone would want to bet their career and their life-future on an "intellectual property" strategy. At this point in the game, it is almost pitifull. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps they're trying to sucker in investors who just still don't know better? so they can get out while before the ship sinks?
I mean the days where they tatooed a number on you and kept track of you by placing you in a concentration camp^H^H^H^H oops I mean resort.
.. expell them, humiliate them, impose corporal dicipline? Call human services on their parents for neglecting their kid when they are no longer in school. Call the police to take the kids away, and pop a bullet in their heads if they fight back to keep their child?
Also this begs the question, if the RFID requirment is so harmless, then what are you going to do when a kid or parent refuses,
How much you'd want to bet that they'd call the parents extreme!
In case we've forgotton, those people who refused to let the king choose the peoples religion were .... ZEALOTS. And those people that thought we could run a democracy without a king were in fact ..... ZEALOTS, and what about those people who wanted to abolish slavery, well they were ..(durm roll please).. ZEALOTS! Before we stick on lables, how about looking at some facts here.
And, how come there are no complaints about ZEALOUT lawyers, and ZEALOT CEO's. In fact, even more so - I was there these last 10 years where zealot CEO's fololowed every single looser trend, that is except Linux. And I was there during the ZEALOUT stock boom fuled by a complete misunderstanding of the information age and technology in general. I was there only a few years ago when I tried to explain to the company I worked for that SCO is going to die and we need to switch to Linux. (they thought I'd done gone psycho, many even laughed at me). To the contrary, I would say that if theres anyone in this world who knows whats going and on not in zealous denial - I would say it's the people who deal with Linux most often.
I found one sentence in his article that really summed up his whole problem - the problem with copyright isn't the concept but rather its granularity
That is simply false and not true to history. For example, it is a good thing that the letter U is not owned by anybody. It is not a matter of a fair and equitable price, even if the royality is one one millionth of a cent, it would be unjust. It is not a matter of who created it, or what their incentive is - and a failure to understand such is a failure to understand what truely drives the internet and the information age today.
The simple fact is that sharing information has an intrinsic value to those who create it as much as those who consume it. And when you restrict someone from sharing content, even if it is a miniscule restriction, then you are violating them even if it is a miniscule violation.