I'm a libertarian in the sense that I believe in giving people more freedom, including the freedom to give up one's freedom, ie. sell oneself into slavery. The amount of money that the government spends is not as important to me as preserving basic freedoms.
If I have a property and you steal it, I lose use of my property. If you sneak onto my computer and copy my bits, I still have them. So no, intellectual "property" is not property.
The GPL requires the release of "the preferred form for making modifications" to a work. So if you have some code that you work on and you use an obfuscator on it then compile that you have to release the original code, not the obfuscated stuff.
As a libertarian, I think it's a perfectly legitimate action - using Windows harms everyone by encouraging people to develop only for MS, strengthening their monopoly and allowing them to implement even worse pricing/EULAs/lockin. So the government has to step in and encourage some competition.
To prevent dual licensing, you can: 1) Give the copyright to someone else 2) Release it into the public domain 3) Release it under the BSD license, so even if you dual license it everyone will simply sue the BSD version
They are a neutral tool like a screwdriver - you can use it to put nails into stuff and you can stab people with it. The Pirate Bay going down would hurt free software and free music/video just as much, or even more, than it would hurt pirates.
It's whether they are capable of filtering that matters. (If I were them, i would have flagged the bad torrents with viruses and such not deleted them, sort of like modding a troll down to -1)
Electronic voting has the (yet unrealized since it interferes with the corporate vision of electronic voting as a profit powerhouse) potential to be much cheaper and gives the results in 0 minutes rather than 120.
I disagree - corporations should be allowed to complain all they want. It's political contributions that are the problem. And lobbyists "discussing their concerns" with politicians over a table in a $20,000-per-seat restaurant.
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I'm a libertarian in the sense that I believe in giving people more freedom, including the freedom to give up one's freedom, ie. sell oneself into slavery. The amount of money that the government spends is not as important to me as preserving basic freedoms.
If I have a property and you steal it, I lose use of my property. If you sneak onto my computer and copy my bits, I still have them. So no, intellectual "property" is not property.
Copyright is not property, and it is not a right. So no, libertarians are not pro-restrictive copyright.
The GPL requires the release of "the preferred form for making modifications" to a work. So if you have some code that you work on and you use an obfuscator on it then compile that you have to release the original code, not the obfuscated stuff.
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Wait, so making a useful tool is bad because criminals also benefit from it?
As a libertarian, I think it's a perfectly legitimate action - using Windows harms everyone by encouraging people to develop only for MS, strengthening their monopoly and allowing them to implement even worse pricing/EULAs/lockin. So the government has to step in and encourage some competition.
No, 1.1. 1 kib = 1.024 kb, 1 mib = 1.048 mb, i gib = 1.074 gb, 1 tib = 1.100 tb.
TB is used for both. Operating systems prefer 1.1 trillion while hard drive makers prefer 1 trillion because it makes their stuff seem 10% bigger.
To prevent dual licensing, you can:
1) Give the copyright to someone else
2) Release it into the public domain
3) Release it under the BSD license, so even if you dual license it everyone will simply sue the BSD version
Even if everyone actually switched to using google, every minute TPB stays up is one minute that the other services don't get cracked down.
They are a neutral tool like a screwdriver - you can use it to put nails into stuff and you can stab people with it. The Pirate Bay going down would hurt free software and free music/video just as much, or even more, than it would hurt pirates.
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It's whether they are capable of filtering that matters. (If I were them, i would have flagged the bad torrents with viruses and such not deleted them, sort of like modding a troll down to -1)
it's quite obvious.
Opti = optimum = best
gene = gene
ticks = blood sucking creatures
Clearly they're using genetic engineering to optimize the reproduction and destructive power of insects.
Encourage piracy? The local RIAA should send a few lawyers their way.
1) Take two different versions from two different retailers (or the same retailer, if the watermarks are personalized, making uploads traceable)
2) Check the RGB values of every pixel of every frame (you can write a program to do this)
3) For areas where the values differ, insert a random number between the two values.
4) Watermarks are destroyed beyond recognition, even watermarks which make subtle changes to the entire screen
Keep working on his existing fork of it?
Only Google is left! All hail the holy spirit of Google up in the cloud(s)!
A financial transaction is protected speech? I really have to doubt that unless given strong evidence.
You've got the holy war wrong. Clearly gedit is by far superior.
Are you sure it's a typo? They could be taking a lesson from the Linux kernel but being a bit more subtle.
Electronic voting has the (yet unrealized since it interferes with the corporate vision of electronic voting as a profit powerhouse) potential to be much cheaper and gives the results in 0 minutes rather than 120.
I disagree - corporations should be allowed to complain all they want. It's political contributions that are the problem. And lobbyists "discussing their concerns" with politicians over a table in a $20,000-per-seat restaurant.
What's the fine? Can I get away with paying 1% of it?