I never said comparably to the main population. I said a choice between near poverty and relegating art to being a side hobby rather than your main job. The reality is, that's how many authors, musicians and open source programmers work, and our society is suffering because of it.
That's a pretty incorrect understanding of RMS's economic model. He never advocated a pure donation economy and has clarified multiple times that there is nothing wrong with making a profitable business around open source software. If you want to try relying on the viability of his model, go work for Red Hat for a few years.
"Sharing is good" - I love how Stallman is once again so open with other peoples creations as well as his own. If you want to share, why not simply stick to sharing those things you are allowed to? But oh no, that's not good enough - the 'people' must be allowed to share *everything*
Stallman doesn't recognize the idea that other people's (digital) creations belong to their creators. They belong to the people.
Yup, I have just read that and its a pile of crap - the whole idea seems to be to reward those who are successful less and less, and reward those who are failing more. Why are those who are popular less deserving of those who are not?
So you would prefer the current system, where 0.1% of the artists are driving around in million dollar cars to their fifty million dollar mansions and getting one or two DUIs on the way while the other 99.9% are barely making a living and thus have to get a day job and only have 3-5 hours every day to actually be creating stuff? Less social inequality is good.
These are WEB apps, not downloadable ones (technically, the client gets downloaded into your browser cache, but that's usually the extent of it). It's about the ongoing security risk and harm that the apps are causing, and if you've been using Rockbox (to use their hall of shame example) for a year and you stop because of the website, they've still done you a service.
Bing was created mainly as an attack on Google and an attempt to get into the search business, not because Microsoft had something new to offer in search. This is being done in the same spirit, and it will also turn out bad, with many users going to google.com to search just because Google is that much better.
Not to mention this will cause a shitload of damage on the poor who have to spend every cent they get (causing massive difficulties while getting very little actual tax revenue out of them) while the rich can just hoard their excess money as they see fit.
You can always make tax exemptions for food, clothing, housing, medicine, etc. As for rich people hoarding money, they have to spend it at some point - otherwise they might as well not be rich.
ICP is being a good company and not using lawyers and the patent process to needlessly restrict others and you're criticizing them for it? Has capitalism become our new morality now?
but I have always thought the best of the tech crowd were too busy being into their tech to get into the body modification scene.
Programmers care about things being useful, not pretty. It applies to the software they write and it applies to the body modifications they are willing to accept.
I agree that complex proprietary formats are a big problem, but can you define "binary formats" a little better? Everything except for stuff in a few experimental architectures (trinary, analog, etc) is stored in a binary form.
Trusting a human is given serious consideration with all the recent Human problems (40000 dead/year, AFAIK)? This should be modded funny, they even mentioned putting drunk/distracted/sleepy humans in charge.
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It's in Canada, and they still have to rely on monopoly-owned (but regulated) cables, but they exist
And in version 7 they'll implement ls.
And they'patent it.
I never said comparably to the main population. I said a choice between near poverty and relegating art to being a side hobby rather than your main job. The reality is, that's how many authors, musicians and open source programmers work, and our society is suffering because of it.
That's a pretty incorrect understanding of RMS's economic model. He never advocated a pure donation economy and has clarified multiple times that there is nothing wrong with making a profitable business around open source software. If you want to try relying on the viability of his model, go work for Red Hat for a few years.
"Sharing is good" - I love how Stallman is once again so open with other peoples creations as well as his own. If you want to share, why not simply stick to sharing those things you are allowed to? But oh no, that's not good enough - the 'people' must be allowed to share *everything*
Stallman doesn't recognize the idea that other people's (digital) creations belong to their creators. They belong to the people.
Yup, I have just read that and its a pile of crap - the whole idea seems to be to reward those who are successful less and less, and reward those who are failing more. Why are those who are popular less deserving of those who are not?
So you would prefer the current system, where 0.1% of the artists are driving around in million dollar cars to their fifty million dollar mansions and getting one or two DUIs on the way while the other 99.9% are barely making a living and thus have to get a day job and only have 3-5 hours every day to actually be creating stuff? Less social inequality is good.
Yes, this is the beginning of their move to being a strong, profitable business instead of just the charity arm of Mark Shuttleworth.
Netcraft is dying, Netcraft confirms it.
These are WEB apps, not downloadable ones (technically, the client gets downloaded into your browser cache, but that's usually the extent of it)
That is incorrect.
Please explain.
And when the commodity is employers, marginal cost = the usefulness of the work you're doing.
Clearly, we must kill 50-75% of the existing programmers.
These are WEB apps, not downloadable ones (technically, the client gets downloaded into your browser cache, but that's usually the extent of it). It's about the ongoing security risk and harm that the apps are causing, and if you've been using Rockbox (to use their hall of shame example) for a year and you stop because of the website, they've still done you a service.
Ha! Spelling pedants, get your weapons and attack! He's left aisle 4 wide open!
Make 1 in 250 cigarettes have some explosives inside instead of what's normally in there. Now THAT would make smoking fun.
Bing was created mainly as an attack on Google and an attempt to get into the search business, not because Microsoft had something new to offer in search. This is being done in the same spirit, and it will also turn out bad, with many users going to google.com to search just because Google is that much better.
Not to mention this will cause a shitload of damage on the poor who have to spend every cent they get (causing massive difficulties while getting very little actual tax revenue out of them) while the rich can just hoard their excess money as they see fit.
You can always make tax exemptions for food, clothing, housing, medicine, etc. As for rich people hoarding money, they have to spend it at some point - otherwise they might as well not be rich.
that pirates are, as usual, getting a superior product. Remind me, why am I supposed to pay for the legit version again?
I was referring to what the final product looks like, not the underlying algorithms.
ICP is being a good company and not using lawyers and the patent process to needlessly restrict others and you're criticizing them for it? Has capitalism become our new morality now?
but I have always thought the best of the tech crowd were too busy being into their tech to get into the body modification scene.
Programmers care about things being useful, not pretty. It applies to the software they write and it applies to the body modifications they are willing to accept.
I agree that complex proprietary formats are a big problem, but can you define "binary formats" a little better? Everything except for stuff in a few experimental architectures (trinary, analog, etc) is stored in a binary form.
Inexcusable acts do not become less inexcusable and deserving of less outrage just because you do them a lot.
Here you go
Looks like the settlement has already been implemented by Sla
Trusting a human is given serious consideration with all the recent Human problems (40000 dead/year, AFAIK)? This should be modded funny, they even mentioned putting drunk/distracted/sleepy humans in charge.
Patented in 2006
I don't use Microsoft software so I'm 100% safe. Thanks, Microsoft!
Are Evince, Okular and the like vulnerable, or do they not implement the full PDF standard that is being exploited here?