Funny. I remember when I was in University (early 90's) I read some fine print in a student manual that plainly stated that the university had the right to patent your work. The notice wasn't hidden, but it was probably ignored by many people.
but it's still stupid
In the USA if you so much as play the radio over your office's intercom, then you also have to play royalties since it's considered "commercial space".
The court is merely saying that the taxi cab is a "commercial space" as well.
I'd dump win2k in a heartbeat if drivers were available for many of the peripherals that I need to use. My usb scanner, for example, is not supported by SANE.
The whole length and breadth of peripherals out there will (95% percent of the time) work with windows.
So, I'm forced to scan in Win2k, save the file to my old cobalt cube 2(I friggin' love those things), and then reboot into linux to edit the file in the Gimp. (which doesn't help me out doing color seps or any pre-press work like Photoshop does, but that's an entirely different thread altogether)
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Funny. I remember when I was in University (early 90's) I read some fine print in a student manual that plainly stated that the university had the right to patent your work. The notice wasn't hidden, but it was probably ignored by many people.
but it's still stupid
In the USA if you so much as play the radio over your office's intercom, then you also have to play royalties since it's considered "commercial space".
The court is merely saying that the taxi cab is a "commercial space" as well.
I'd dump win2k in a heartbeat if drivers were available for many of the peripherals that I need to use. My usb scanner, for example, is not supported by SANE.
The whole length and breadth of peripherals out there will (95% percent of the time) work with windows.
So, I'm forced to scan in Win2k, save the file to my old cobalt cube 2(I friggin' love those things), and then reboot into linux to edit the file in the Gimp. (which doesn't help me out doing color seps or any pre-press work like Photoshop does, but that's an entirely different thread altogether)
Of course, those of us working in the tech office parks of Burlington and Waltham do not have to worry about the Republic of Cambridge.