From how I see it, the DeCSS trial is more important the the Napster ruling. DeCSS was open sourced, the public could view it and determined whether this was harmful or postive to world of information technology. Now Napster claims the high ground, yet this service is primarliy a windows client, I use Mac and Linux myself, is non-opensource, and remeber this product is much ado bout nothing. They are also in it for the money, not for creating this utopia of people sharing information. I work as a software engineer myself developing FREE products, contributing ideas for a greater community of users. This product does not do this att all.
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From how I see it, the DeCSS trial is more important the the Napster ruling. DeCSS was open sourced, the public could view it and determined whether this was harmful or postive to world of information technology. Now Napster claims the high ground, yet this service is primarliy a windows client, I use Mac and Linux myself, is non-opensource, and remeber this product is much ado bout nothing. They are also in it for the money, not for creating this utopia of people sharing information. I work as a software engineer myself developing FREE products, contributing ideas for a greater community of users. This product does not do this att all.
This napster thing, how bout we hold a minute of silence for someone who dedicated his life for a better cause then napster.
Now i have something to play with at work before they fire me!!!!!!!!
That is why people who are professional use FINAL CUT and AFTER effects