Yes, you develop for the iphone. I assume you own a mac, cause running osx (where the develop platform only works on) on a 'regular' intel, would bring you in a world of legal pain.
So, I have to buy a mac to develop for the iphone. Yeah, they really love open source and freedom.
off-course everybody gains from open source if it is done in the good way. In the mac world, it is just apple that is gaining. That is not open source. If you embrace open source, you don't close your phone and you let everyone write for it. It's really that simple.
Yes but open source was primary supposed to be good for the end-user. If I can not install my app on my phone without breaking the law we have serious problem implementing this open-source thingie;)
Oh come on, be fair here. Apple doesn't really love the open-source community. That they gave away a little to gain a lot of it. If you disagree, try installing your own software on your Iphone without jailbreaking it first.
Thank you and the other people for giving your views. Because we can sounds like a perfect legitimate reason and I did my part of 'well, because I want to see if I can' myself.
ZFS is indeed a value-improvement of debian I think and that is cool. (well I think that is cool).
Still I am not really satisfied with the answers (sorry, please don't take this personal cause it isn't) I just hope the devs have some sort of great masterplan that totally makes sense.
Yeah but since Steve Jobs owns 50.6% of shares I am very confused... Didn't he had anything to say in this? Steve would probably charge you money if you were willing to take over his mother in law!
As a long time debian user who also has to work with freebsd sometimes I don't get it. Why use freebsd with GNU apps, when you can just run freebsd? And why freebsd and not lets say, openbsd or netbsd?
What is the advantage in using the freebsd-kernel instead of the linux-kernel? I have access to every linux app when I use freebsd and to be honest, if I knew my way around bsd as I do under debian I would probably switch. But I am missing the improvement for Debian here. Can someone please clear this up for me a bit?
Without DRM, without rewarding Activision for giving us less game for more money.
I for one am quite grateful to Activision. I never knew it was so rewarding to just download a 6 hour demo (singleplayer) on the pirate bay and I will never ever in my life go back to the weird way of paying a big multinational a lot of money to F me in the A.
Thank you activision! I wished someone opened my eyes 20 years ago. It would have saved me at least 10.000 euro (that is like a million us dollar) over the time.
Activision is my an hero.
(sure, mod this down. Or you can see that despite this game being successful in terms of sale, it also has cost MS over 2% of their gold-subscroptions (they banned a lot of consoles over this game). I wonder what would have made more income in taxes over a period of lets sa 4 years.)
I would have modded you up, but since the post already is at 5 insightful and I in fact don't have any modding points, you will have to do with this virtual pat on the shoulder.
*pats*
You may kindly enquire, but I hope you don't mind if I evenly kindly decline to answer.
The reason being that I have given away to much personal information already here on slashdot in the past and due to my way of making a living (I play in a band) I type things under this nick I could never type with my real name or it would have serious consequences for me.
But think: kings valley, eggerland mystery, hyper rally. Think MSX:)
Hope you can forgive me.
On the globe that is. If you do not want to get sued (I am European so we don't have that problem really here) make sure you are NOT officially an US developer. Create a cheap company on some island in the middle of nowhere where the US has nothing to say. When the original creator starts wanting to get paid for your work, move to that island and just enjoy it! Laws are so utterly complex, one law overruling or disagreeing with another law that it would be foolish to think you by yourself can fight against that system. They will just bleed you dry if they really want to and have the resources to do so.
However, and this is more serious advice. I like to make remakes of oldschool games myself. Sometimes with new elements, but I have also made a lot 1:1 remakes. In those cases I just wrote to the original creator. Asking if they were ok with it. This was all non-profit though, but for the 8 games I remade, 1 guy said he didn't want me to remake it. So I ignored him, remade it for myself but never gave it to anyone.
I never ran into problems with that last tactic. And I think it really is the best advice I can give you. Track down and contact the original maker and ask them permission. That would save you so much trouble if they agree.
Hmmz, neh not disable it. Just make sure it stops working after an hour, gives you irritating popups and general makes your life suck.
Oh wait, they implemented that before this lawsuit!
They have to pay that little poor bad company 270 million in damages.... So no- I don't think this is an inside job. Would it not have been way cheaper to just push their own standard? As they did... with xml...?
I am getting so sick of these companies misusing the hard work of others. Microsoft Office has been free for home-users since version 1, same goes for their OS, windows 1 to 7. All free to the average home user and then some business that never created a damn thing comes in, demands more cash than 99.9% of startups would make in total in 200 years (look it up... it's true:D ) and kills a great product while doing so. This is why open source and free software just doesn't work. The patentbitches wait silent for a couple of years and then they come... And they come hard.
Man, I sure hope that MS will do the right thing, and "forget" to inform Thepiratebay that they need to stop distributing MS Office.
And it's cheap too, 12 jars for only $67.88!
(I'm a Dutchie, I can send you 12 jars of very good peanut-butter (pindakaas as we call it) for a whole lot less! And trust me, it's good stuff!
Now just for me to grind on (and very offtopic - sorry), what does a 'normal' jar of peanut butter costs in the US? Cause unless they put it in golden jars, I find 6.50 for a handful of peanuts, a bit of salt and a jar to put it all in a but overpriced.
It's not the fact that someone sees me naked, it's about the fact that I want my damn privacy.
I have yet to see the first terrorist ask me to strip naked. Yet apparently when the first goverment-official tells me he wants to have a look at my dick that I have to comply!
One thing is sure. I have lost 0% safety and privacy to terrorist. But I lost 100% safety and privacy to goverments the last 20 years. And I bet this goes for 99.9% of the people in the western world.
It has to stop you know...
I think this idea is great in achieving what it is intended for. Less abuse/hacking of accounts. But what if more games take this up. Is it smart to buy a new cabinet to store all those devices now, or should I wait a bit, see if prices of cabinets drop?
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I am very sorry, but you do not understand the history of open source. Please feel free to as Theo.
Yes, you develop for the iphone. I assume you own a mac, cause running osx (where the develop platform only works on) on a 'regular' intel, would bring you in a world of legal pain. So, I have to buy a mac to develop for the iphone. Yeah, they really love open source and freedom. off-course everybody gains from open source if it is done in the good way. In the mac world, it is just apple that is gaining. That is not open source. If you embrace open source, you don't close your phone and you let everyone write for it. It's really that simple.
Thanks for that link! I didn't knew that!
Yes but open source was primary supposed to be good for the end-user. If I can not install my app on my phone without breaking the law we have serious problem implementing this open-source thingie ;)
Oh come on, be fair here. Apple doesn't really love the open-source community. That they gave away a little to gain a lot of it. If you disagree, try installing your own software on your Iphone without jailbreaking it first.
Thank you for the link to the why-page. It does explains things for me.
Thank you and the other people for giving your views. Because we can sounds like a perfect legitimate reason and I did my part of 'well, because I want to see if I can' myself. ZFS is indeed a value-improvement of debian I think and that is cool. (well I think that is cool). Still I am not really satisfied with the answers (sorry, please don't take this personal cause it isn't) I just hope the devs have some sort of great masterplan that totally makes sense.
Ai, you are right and I stand corrected. Always good to learn something new. He owns 7% of disney shares, but he still is the largest shareholder.
Yeah but since Steve Jobs owns 50.6% of shares I am very confused... Didn't he had anything to say in this? Steve would probably charge you money if you were willing to take over his mother in law!
Chapeau Walt Disney! This is just plain cool and I would have never expected Disney to open up anything! Hope they will set and continue this trend!
As a long time debian user who also has to work with freebsd sometimes I don't get it. Why use freebsd with GNU apps, when you can just run freebsd? And why freebsd and not lets say, openbsd or netbsd? What is the advantage in using the freebsd-kernel instead of the linux-kernel? I have access to every linux app when I use freebsd and to be honest, if I knew my way around bsd as I do under debian I would probably switch. But I am missing the improvement for Debian here. Can someone please clear this up for me a bit?
Without DRM, without rewarding Activision for giving us less game for more money. I for one am quite grateful to Activision. I never knew it was so rewarding to just download a 6 hour demo (singleplayer) on the pirate bay and I will never ever in my life go back to the weird way of paying a big multinational a lot of money to F me in the A. Thank you activision! I wished someone opened my eyes 20 years ago. It would have saved me at least 10.000 euro (that is like a million us dollar) over the time. Activision is my an hero. (sure, mod this down. Or you can see that despite this game being successful in terms of sale, it also has cost MS over 2% of their gold-subscroptions (they banned a lot of consoles over this game). I wonder what would have made more income in taxes over a period of lets sa 4 years.)
as in, special Olympics?
I would have modded you up, but since the post already is at 5 insightful and I in fact don't have any modding points, you will have to do with this virtual pat on the shoulder. *pats*
You may kindly enquire, but I hope you don't mind if I evenly kindly decline to answer. The reason being that I have given away to much personal information already here on slashdot in the past and due to my way of making a living (I play in a band) I type things under this nick I could never type with my real name or it would have serious consequences for me. But think: kings valley, eggerland mystery, hyper rally. Think MSX :)
Hope you can forgive me.
On the globe that is. If you do not want to get sued (I am European so we don't have that problem really here) make sure you are NOT officially an US developer. Create a cheap company on some island in the middle of nowhere where the US has nothing to say. When the original creator starts wanting to get paid for your work, move to that island and just enjoy it! Laws are so utterly complex, one law overruling or disagreeing with another law that it would be foolish to think you by yourself can fight against that system. They will just bleed you dry if they really want to and have the resources to do so. However, and this is more serious advice. I like to make remakes of oldschool games myself. Sometimes with new elements, but I have also made a lot 1:1 remakes. In those cases I just wrote to the original creator. Asking if they were ok with it. This was all non-profit though, but for the 8 games I remade, 1 guy said he didn't want me to remake it. So I ignored him, remade it for myself but never gave it to anyone. I never ran into problems with that last tactic. And I think it really is the best advice I can give you. Track down and contact the original maker and ask them permission. That would save you so much trouble if they agree.
Hmmz, neh not disable it. Just make sure it stops working after an hour, gives you irritating popups and general makes your life suck. Oh wait, they implemented that before this lawsuit!
They have to pay that little poor bad company 270 million in damages.... So no- I don't think this is an inside job. Would it not have been way cheaper to just push their own standard? As they did... with xml...?
I am getting so sick of these companies misusing the hard work of others. Microsoft Office has been free for home-users since version 1, same goes for their OS, windows 1 to 7. All free to the average home user and then some business that never created a damn thing comes in, demands more cash than 99.9% of startups would make in total in 200 years (look it up... it's true :D ) and kills a great product while doing so. This is why open source and free software just doesn't work. The patentbitches wait silent for a couple of years and then they come... And they come hard.
Man, I sure hope that MS will do the right thing, and "forget" to inform Thepiratebay that they need to stop distributing MS Office.
Thanks for clearing that one up for me. That price sounds a lot more reasonable.
And it's cheap too, 12 jars for only $67.88! (I'm a Dutchie, I can send you 12 jars of very good peanut-butter (pindakaas as we call it) for a whole lot less! And trust me, it's good stuff! Now just for me to grind on (and very offtopic - sorry), what does a 'normal' jar of peanut butter costs in the US? Cause unless they put it in golden jars, I find 6.50 for a handful of peanuts, a bit of salt and a jar to put it all in a but overpriced.
Which is pretty weird considering the lemons themselves can be used as a battery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_battery and http://hetlab.kro.nl/hightech/citroenbatterij.aspx (includes a nice video)
is my beer in danger? That's what I would like to know!
It's not the fact that someone sees me naked, it's about the fact that I want my damn privacy. I have yet to see the first terrorist ask me to strip naked. Yet apparently when the first goverment-official tells me he wants to have a look at my dick that I have to comply! One thing is sure. I have lost 0% safety and privacy to terrorist. But I lost 100% safety and privacy to goverments the last 20 years. And I bet this goes for 99.9% of the people in the western world. It has to stop you know...
I think this idea is great in achieving what it is intended for. Less abuse/hacking of accounts. But what if more games take this up. Is it smart to buy a new cabinet to store all those devices now, or should I wait a bit, see if prices of cabinets drop?