by endorsing copyrights, society creates a culture that's inclined to promote hype over substance. This unnaturally attracts away the people who are attracted to pretty looking interfaces, and asthetically elloquent solutions. Getting rid of copyrights would go a long way to migrating the two cummunities - we can already see a larger artistic attraction to Linux than any other unix os in history - so this support the theory even more. (eg gimp, gnome were unthinkable with other unices)
would you have shot that lady that didn't go to the back of the bus would you have turned in those jews who refused to wear a star-of-david would you have cut off the feet of slaves who escaped? Your generalisation about "KNOWINGLY" breaking the law is borderline psycho, you really need to get in touch with the real world (BTW - I went 5mph over the speed limit on my way to work this morning, and didn't report that 1.00 tip I made the day before to the IRS - so what, shoot me!) BTW2: copyrights and patents are not a right, at least in the US the constitution makes it extremely clear that they are a short-term incentive to bring innovation and art into the public knowledge base - hardly what seems to be happening with these persicutions
wasnt there a guy in california named ty, who owned the ty.com domain before beanie babies ever existed. then they bullied him out of his domain name without even going to court. if so, I think it would be rather bad for slashdot to promote beanie awards. I looked on the internet for this story, but couldn't find it... Has anyone else seen it??? thanks
I agree that something need to be done about patents, and the existence of a pool of patents that anyone could use for defensive purposes may be very beneficial to society. But pooling creates another problem. Just like in WW1 - where when one country went to war and triggered off a bunch of treaties that dragged the whole of europe in war within the month - the same could happen with a defensive patent pool, where one person triggers off an defensive suit, which triggers off another, which triggers off a titlewave of lawsuits that affects every last company in America. As least people in this group are finally discussing the possibility that patents may not be all that great for innovation in America after all.
OK, I might be able to see why they think they might beat out IBM, and can blow off the Mac, and I could see why they might think that they can make the Alpha obsolete, and I could possibly comprehend that they might think that they're better than HP, and can ignore VA and RedHat, and I could even see why they might think that they can still compete against x86 makers who are catching up in performance to their workstations real fast. But thinking that they can outdoo everybody combined in the OS department is just going too far!! sheesh, for God's sake - what's it gonna take for these guys to get a hint. And this is coming from a sysadmin for solaris boxes too.... I see the coming of Linux and I can't wait to dunp every other OS. It's just so fusterating dealing with soooo many stupid people in the IT busisness.
In case you haven't noticed, all of these companies embrace copyrights as their bread and butter, while Linux/the internet/ and all the innovators who are doing somthing now days pratically repell copyrights by their very nature. Until we come to a consensus on this point, I don't think slashdot will ever have a concensus that it can move forward with.
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by endorsing copyrights, society creates a culture that's inclined to promote hype over substance. This unnaturally attracts away the people who are attracted to pretty looking interfaces, and asthetically elloquent solutions. Getting rid of copyrights would go a long way to migrating the two cummunities - we can already see a larger artistic attraction to Linux than any other unix os in history - so this support the theory even more. (eg gimp, gnome were unthinkable with other unices)
would you have shot that lady that didn't go to the back of the bus
would you have turned in those jews who refused to wear a star-of-david
would you have cut off the feet of slaves who escaped?
Your generalisation about "KNOWINGLY" breaking the law is borderline psycho, you really need to get in touch with the real world
(BTW - I went 5mph over the speed limit on my way to work this morning, and didn't report that 1.00 tip I made the day before to the IRS - so what, shoot me!) BTW2: copyrights and patents are not a right, at least in the US the constitution makes it extremely clear that they are a short-term incentive to bring innovation and art into the public knowledge base - hardly what seems to be happening with these persicutions
thankyou, i think ill burry my head in the sand now ;)
wasnt there a guy in california named ty, who owned the ty.com domain before beanie babies ever existed. then they bullied him out of his domain name without even going to court. if so, I think it would be rather bad for slashdot to promote beanie awards. ... Has anyone else seen it???
I looked on the internet for this story, but couldn't find it
thanks
I agree that something need to be done about patents, and the existence of a pool of patents that anyone could use for defensive purposes may be very beneficial to society. But pooling creates another problem. Just like in WW1 - where when one country went to war and triggered off a bunch of treaties that dragged the whole of europe in war within the month - the same could happen with a defensive patent pool, where one person triggers off an defensive suit, which triggers off another, which triggers off a titlewave of lawsuits that affects every last company in America.
As least people in this group are finally discussing the possibility that patents may not be all that great for innovation in America after all.
OK, I might be able to see why they think they might beat out IBM, and can blow off the Mac, and I could see why they might think that they can make the Alpha obsolete, and I could possibly comprehend that they might think that they're better than HP, and can ignore VA and RedHat, and I could even see why they might think that they can still compete against x86 makers who are catching up in performance to their workstations real fast. But thinking that they can outdoo everybody combined in the OS department is just going too far!! sheesh, for God's sake - what's it gonna take for these guys to get a hint.
And this is coming from a sysadmin for solaris boxes too.... I see the coming of Linux and I can't wait to dunp every other OS. It's just so fusterating dealing with soooo many stupid people in the IT busisness.
In case you haven't noticed, all of these companies embrace copyrights as their bread and butter, while Linux/the internet/ and all the innovators who are doing somthing now days pratically repell copyrights by their very nature. Until we come to a consensus on this point, I don't think slashdot will ever have a concensus that it can move forward with.