It seems to me that our government (U.S.) is wasting valuable tax dollars trying to regulate an unregulatable entity. What I see is big businesses trying desperately to avoid change. Corporations don't want their existing money making industries to dry up. What they don't realize is that it is only a matter of time. Does the record industry really think they can stop people from downloading MP3s? Don't they realize that laws are only useful when followed? When the majority of people decide to break a law, that law becomes useless. Simply put, if copying material is illegal, then the people will copy illegally. It doesn't matter what laws are in place. If there is a desire, that desire will be fulfilled.
You think that's bad! The company I work for is now Verizon Wireless. It looks like like the love child between Verisign and Amazon.com What an ugly baby;-)
The final word on this is simple the GPL was created by the Free Software Foundation. Here is the URL of the GPL License.
http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html#SEC1
Richard Stallman is the President of the Free Software Foundation. Linus Torvalds has absolutely nothing to do with the Free Software Foundation. Here is a link of those who are affiliated with the FSF
http://www.fsf.org/people/people.html
Thank You Good Night! Don't forget to tip your waitress!
I just wanted to clarify that Linux Torvolds did not create the GPL license structure. GPL stands for GNU Public License. Linus is in no way affiliated with the GNU organization. GNU is a project straight from the FSF (Free Software Foundation) which is headed up by Richard Stallman.
Many of us do. I choose to not run proprietary software because of how I feel towards the Free Software Movement and where this movement can take us. I love to play video games, however a while back I made a decision that I would not play any game that was not free. I don't mean free as in it's cost, I mean free as in what I can do with it once I own it. I truely feel, as do many others, that once I own something, it is my right to do with it as I please. I should be allowed to modify the software, redistribute the software, whatever I want. I really want to play DVD's on my linux box. However, I myself am not willing to sacrafice my principals for that goal. I will continue to watch them on my TV until a solution presents itself. I urge others to do the same.
If Microsoft actually added a dialog box, that stated such things, all the outlook users would flip out thinking that they accidentially downloaded child p0rn or something and call their helpdesk saying they didn't mean to do anything wrong. This would increase the amount of calls the helpdesk support person (Who really is just a customer service representative who can barely transfer a call let alone support computer problems) and their statistics would shoot through the roof. This would cause the customer service manager to bitch at the IT manager and then the IT manager would bitch at the MCSEs. When the MCSEs can't figure out why CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't fix the problem, they will beg for help from the UNIX admins. The MCSEs will walk into the UNIX admin's office and inturrupt a perfectly good game of depending on the type of administrator that holds the coveted title of UNIX Administrator. A few have been detailed out below:
A. The BOFH way - Sure I'll help you out. I'll need your repair floppies and the Administrator password for the NT domain. (Flipping on the bulk eraser as I state this)
B. The Practical BOFH - What operating system does this run on? (Response is MS anything) Sorry, I don't know anything about Microsoft. You should contact them and maybe they can be of some assistance. (Knowing that the MCSEs are not in license compliance with any of their servers nor do they have a support agreement)
C. The MCSE convert* - Have you tried CTRL-ALT-DEL?
* MCSE convert - this is the smartest NT admin** at the company. He got stuck with the Unix systems because the Unix Admin jumped ship when the company got purchased by a much larger company.
** smartest NT admin - This term is similar to a blond with half a brain.
I got banned from Napster and am having trouble getting a new ID. Here is what I've tried: Metallicasucks Metallicasux Metallicablows . . . . IHateMetallica
I don't get it. It says that all these ID's are already in use...:P
I just wanted to throw in an analogy. Assuming that the DeCSS source is legal. How can the compiled source be illegal. The going argument is that the compiled source is a tool for piracy.
Well, in a similar instance, a gun is a tool for killing. Yet owning a gun is not illegal. Using a gun for target practice or hunting is not illegal. Just using it to kill humans/endangered species is.
The point? If you use DeCSS to decode and watch DVD's on you Linux Box you should not be found guilty of a crime. If you use it to decode DVD's and then generate VCD's and sell them on the streets of NYC that's another issue. Of course I believe if you own something you should be free to do with it as you please. Even if that means replicating and distributing it. by the way IANAL lol!
I don't understand why this even made headlines. Steve Gutenberg hasn't made a film in years. Actually, he hasn't done any serious acting ever. I mean common. He made a bunch of police academy movies and I think he was in cacoon but I can't be sure since there aren't any websites devoted to his filmography. That is how lame this actor is. I guess the guys at slashdot are running out of stories.
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It seems to me that our government (U.S.) is wasting valuable tax dollars trying to regulate an unregulatable entity. What I see is big businesses trying desperately to avoid change. Corporations don't want their existing money making industries to dry up. What they don't realize is that it is only a matter of time. Does the record industry really think they can stop people from downloading MP3s? Don't they realize that laws are only useful when followed? When the majority of people decide to break a law, that law becomes useless. Simply put, if copying material is illegal, then the people will copy illegally. It doesn't matter what laws are in place. If there is a desire, that desire will be fulfilled.
You think that's bad! The company I work for is now Verizon Wireless. It looks like like the love child between Verisign and Amazon.com What an ugly baby ;-)
The final word on this is simple the GPL was created by the Free Software Foundation. Here is the URL of the GPL License.
http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html#SEC1
Richard Stallman is the President of the Free Software Foundation. Linus Torvalds has absolutely nothing to do with the Free Software Foundation. Here is a link of those who are affiliated with the FSF
http://www.fsf.org/people/people.html
Thank You Good Night! Don't forget to tip your waitress!
I just wanted to clarify that Linux Torvolds did not create the GPL license structure. GPL stands for GNU Public License. Linus is in no way affiliated with the GNU organization. GNU is a project straight from the FSF (Free Software Foundation) which is headed up by Richard Stallman.
-X-
Many of us do. I choose to not run proprietary software because of how I feel towards the Free Software Movement and where this movement can take us.
I love to play video games, however a while back I made a decision that I would not play any game that was not free. I don't mean free as in it's cost, I mean free as in what I can do with it once I own it. I truely feel, as do many others, that once I own something, it is my right to do with it as I please. I should be allowed to modify the software, redistribute the software, whatever I want.
I really want to play DVD's on my linux box. However, I myself am not willing to sacrafice my principals for that goal. I will continue to watch them on my TV until a solution presents itself. I urge others to do the same.
-X-
A day in the life of a Unix Admin:
If Microsoft actually added a dialog box, that stated such things, all the outlook users would flip out thinking that they accidentially downloaded child p0rn or something and call their helpdesk saying they didn't mean to do anything wrong. This would increase the amount of calls the helpdesk support person (Who really is just a customer service representative who can barely transfer a call let alone support computer problems) and their statistics would shoot through the roof. This would cause the customer service manager to bitch at the IT manager and then the IT manager would bitch at the MCSEs. When the MCSEs can't figure out why CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't fix the problem, they will beg for help from the UNIX admins. The MCSEs will walk into the UNIX admin's office and inturrupt a perfectly good game of depending on the type of administrator that holds the coveted title of UNIX Administrator. A few have been detailed out below:
A. The BOFH way - Sure I'll help you out. I'll need your repair floppies and the Administrator password for the NT domain. (Flipping on the bulk eraser as I state this)
B. The Practical BOFH - What operating system does this run on? (Response is MS anything) Sorry, I don't know anything about Microsoft. You should contact them and maybe they can be of some assistance. (Knowing that the MCSEs are not in license compliance with any of their servers nor do they have a support agreement)
C. The MCSE convert* - Have you tried CTRL-ALT-DEL?
* MCSE convert - this is the smartest NT admin** at the company. He got stuck with the Unix systems because the Unix Admin jumped ship when the company got purchased by a much larger company.
** smartest NT admin - This term is similar to a blond with half a brain.
I got banned from Napster and am having trouble getting a new ID. Here is what I've tried:
:P
Metallicasucks
Metallicasux
Metallicablows
.
.
.
.
IHateMetallica
I don't get it. It says that all these ID's are already in use...
[cmdrtaco@www /home/cmdrtaco]# crontab -l .GIFS to PNGS and then back /root/scripts/fuck_with_website
/scripts]# cat fuck_with_website
/usr/bin/gif2png -d /home/httpd/pics/*.gif
/home/httpd/html/*.htm | wc -l)
/bin/sed s/.gif/.png/g $1 > $1.new
/dev/mem > hotchick.png
#Script that moves
#again
0 0 * * *
[cmdrtaco@www
#!/bin/bash
#######################################
## Author: CmdrTaco ##
## Date: 9/1/97 ##
## Purpose: I'm Drunk ##
#######################################
# This script takes in the file names of all the
# htm docs for our website.
# Example: $1 is index.htm $2 is faq.htm
COUNT=$(ls
while [ $COUNT -gt 0 ]; do
mv $1.new $1
shift
done
#Just for fun.....I'm really drunk
cat
mailx hemos@slashdot.org
I just wanted to throw in an analogy. Assuming that the DeCSS source is legal. How can the compiled source be illegal. The going argument is that the compiled source is a tool for piracy.
Well, in a similar instance, a gun is a tool for killing. Yet owning a gun is not illegal. Using a gun for target practice or hunting is not illegal. Just using it to kill humans/endangered species is.
The point? If you use DeCSS to decode and watch DVD's on you Linux Box you should not be found guilty of a crime. If you use it to decode DVD's and then generate VCD's and sell them on the streets of NYC that's another issue. Of course I believe if you own something you should be free to do with it as you please. Even if that means replicating and distributing it. by the way IANAL lol!
I don't understand why this even made headlines. Steve Gutenberg hasn't made a film in years. Actually, he hasn't done any serious acting ever. I mean common. He made a bunch of police academy movies and I think he was in cacoon but I can't be sure since there aren't any websites devoted to his filmography. That is how lame this actor is. I guess the guys at slashdot are running out of stories.