In most of the world Liberalism = Conservative.
The reason being that Liberalism means "free of (too much) governement interference".
This is opposite to what Socalist and Christan parties want.
All the same they can be extremely conservative (ingrained in old ways) as well:-)
No it does not make sense, nobody forced the US studio's to release their movies 6-12 months later in other countries.
This has no influence what so ever on the income of the studio's.
Greed, greed and customer gouging is all that's behind it.
On the face of it it's of course different, protection of the cinema's and associated industries.
The fact these are not suffering in Region 1 where everything is NOT 6-12 months delayed is conveniently forgotten.
And when it's possible to make a profit in India with Indian prices it's equally possible with a similar price in Europe, the US or Australia.
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I wish you were right, such sites do exist and trading in personal info is illegal in some European countries.
But here I hit the problem: some countries, there still is no European law governing this type of (ab)use of personal information.
Indeed a system like in the UK or The Netherlands where with only one simple registration in a central and independent database you can stop all unwanted mail and phone calls is nice!
But it does not yet include E-mail and it offers no solution to foreign Spam....
Either you are a Troll or an Idiot or,
going by your distrust of what you call governement I'm led to believe you live in (South?) America.
Us in places (Europe) where capitalism is alive and kicking yet controled via the democraticaly elected governement(s), we in vast majority strongly believe in legislation to curb excesses.
Teh translations of the Bundestux campaign, including their own, are may be just a little harsher than the original piece in the statement about Microsoft in the context of Democratic Values.
I may be wrong but my perception of the original German text is more along the lines that Microsoft is not an added value to the Democratic process, thus kind of implying Democracy would be better served with an Open System.
The infrastructure to bring pirated CD's into even the most remote parts of the world is clearly present, the same path is available to OS software.
There is indeed a feeling in many of the lesser developed countries that anything offered to them what is less than the best (=most expensive) is another way of the West to stay ahead.
It is papers like the one we discuss that could possibly break this foolish notation in the case of OS.
The resources and intellect to use and expand on OS is certainly available, it only needs to become *Sexy*
I agree the vast majority of 3rd world computers (including those in SA) run on pirated Micro$oft.
I don't agree the users would not be able to f.e. recompile a Kernel. Quite the contrary, two things are needed to compile a Kernel on an older machine, the will to and plenty of time. Time is the cheapest thing around in these places and the will to do it can be promoted with programs like proposed in the original document.
Personaly I am convinced that those learning to use a computer using OS tools will, after the obvious initial problems, become far more qualified than those just clicking the pre-programmed buttons of closed source.
You are quite correct about Micro$oft's ambitions as a Justice department in their own right.
Yet at the same time it seems no decent jurisprudence seems to exist in the US of A to support their claim.
And in countries like Germany and Holland Jurisprudence has gone against the Micro$oft view and there are even companies who's business plan is based on trade in second-hand software licences!
I'd be surprised Microsoft would get away with their claims of greed in South Africa.
If I want the internet... well, that part will stay free.
No it won't, that's just the point of these scheme's; you get a broadband wireless connection explicitly for the purpose of downloading media from where ever, you don't need it to call home!
And just that added benefit (at a high price!) is being frustrated by these drm scheme's, for sure such a device will refuse to play any content that does not have the proper signature, regardless where it came from.
And what do the Phone Companies think of this?
Their broadband licences have prooven too expensive for quite a few and now they get another obstacle in the way of selling this service.
As soon as there is one Phone Company not using such a rights-management system (why should they??) they'll be the top of the crop overnight!
Clearly you don't get it: You hear something on the radio, when you like it you have it send to your computer via E-mail and that's the place where you can listen to it again, not on your phone!
But you are right about the price, 2 Euro's times the number of tracks on a CD makes it expensive.
And the Contend Owner thing, well it's sloppy journalism but we know what they mean.
I'm afraid you point to one of the largest discrepancies between media policy and real world when it comes to Linux support by well known names.
Another example of this is Toshiba, on the face of it they commit themself to Linux but when you look through their dedicated Linux website there is still very little (or none) support for the little things that make their computers different.
At least Michael recognised it with (warning, manager-speak)
local systems would get saturated every time a plane flies over them. Are you talking about GSM (900Mhz/1800Mhz)phones? this one is COMPLETELY new to me.
Hmm, Leuk_he you need to read the conditions of use of your phone!
It is not only the aviation rules that for reasons of aviation safety ban the use of phones on board planes, it's also the telco's that threaten you with loosing your subscription when you use it (the cell phone) from a plane and thus upsetting the cellular system.
You do know how the cellular system works I hope...
It seems you have no international experience.
In the world outside of the US of A signs are in the forms of pictograms that don't need words.
For example the international standard ISO 3864 is described as follows: The graphic-only approach communicates the safety label's message quickly and without the use of words. This is the preferred format in the European community due to the concentration of diverse languages.
In the US the ANSI Z535.4 standard is in use and still includes lots of text.
Hmm, I'm Dutch and I have yet to see one of those ID cards.
I use my passport when at the bank or such and my drivers licence at the post office (these idiots don't accept a passport as ID!!)
To answer another question, in The Netherlands you always have to carry an ID as a foreigner and as a Dutch national only when you are in some special situations like at a football (soccer) game or other places where disturbances are not uncommon.
Alltoghether ID card carrying is indeed seen as a bad memory of the Nazi occupation. That's why Dutchmen are often getting in trouble in France where checks on ID are more common than in any other European country:-)
With a 500Mb cap I DO pitty you.
When I got my ADSL connection I downloaded the latest 2 Red Hat CD's the first night!
On your system I could do less than a CD per month....
In The Netherlands a 512/64 (from May on 512/128) connection with static IP and a Fair Use cap costs about E 50.-/month.
There was a bit of an outcry when the price was raised from E 45.- a few weeks ago...
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In most of the world Liberalism = Conservative. :-)
The reason being that Liberalism means "free of (too much) governement interference".
This is opposite to what Socalist and Christan parties want.
All the same they can be extremely conservative (ingrained in old ways) as well
The problem here is they now publicly state such a download might be more than a simple fix of a deficiency and even take away previous functionality.
No it does not make sense, nobody forced the US studio's to release their movies 6-12 months later in other countries.
This has no influence what so ever on the income of the studio's.
Greed, greed and customer gouging is all that's behind it.
On the face of it it's of course different, protection of the cinema's and associated industries.
The fact these are not suffering in Region 1 where everything is NOT 6-12 months delayed is conveniently forgotten.
And when it's possible to make a profit in India with Indian prices it's equally possible with a similar price in Europe, the US or Australia.
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But here I hit the problem: some countries, there still is no European law governing this type of (ab)use of personal information.
Indeed a system like in the UK or The Netherlands where with only one simple registration in a central and independent database you can stop all unwanted mail and phone calls is nice!
But it does not yet include E-mail and it offers no solution to foreign Spam....
Either you are a Troll or an Idiot or,
going by your distrust of what you call governement I'm led to believe you live in (South?) America.
Us in places (Europe) where capitalism is alive and kicking yet controled via the democraticaly elected governement(s), we in vast majority strongly believe in legislation to curb excesses.
I might be wrong but why would they be compelled to publicise the source of an in-house-only application they are not planning to share.
I may be wrong but my perception of the original German text is more along the lines that Microsoft is not an added value to the Democratic process, thus kind of implying Democracy would be better served with an Open System.
There is indeed a feeling in many of the lesser developed countries that anything offered to them what is less than the best (=most expensive) is another way of the West to stay ahead.
It is papers like the one we discuss that could possibly break this foolish notation in the case of OS.
The resources and intellect to use and expand on OS is certainly available, it only needs to become *Sexy*
I don't agree the users would not be able to f.e. recompile a Kernel.
Quite the contrary, two things are needed to compile a Kernel on an older machine, the will to and plenty of time.
Time is the cheapest thing around in these places and the will to do it can be promoted with programs like proposed in the original document.
Personaly I am convinced that those learning to use a computer using OS tools will, after the obvious initial problems, become far more qualified than those just clicking the pre-programmed buttons of closed source.
Yet at the same time it seems no decent jurisprudence seems to exist in the US of A to support their claim.
And in countries like Germany and Holland Jurisprudence has gone against the Micro$oft view and there are even companies who's business plan is based on trade in second-hand software licences!
I'd be surprised Microsoft would get away with their claims of greed in South Africa.
THAT would've shown it's a Texas based company..
Yes that's possibly the outcome of this drive for drm in next generation mobiles, people having to look for alternative devices.
No it won't, that's just the point of these scheme's; you get a broadband wireless connection explicitly for the purpose of downloading media from where ever, you don't need it to call home!
And just that added benefit (at a high price!) is being frustrated by these drm scheme's, for sure such a device will refuse to play any content that does not have the proper signature, regardless where it came from.
Their broadband licences have prooven too expensive for quite a few and now they get another obstacle in the way of selling this service.
As soon as there is one Phone Company not using such a rights-management system (why should they??) they'll be the top of the crop overnight!
But you are right about the price, 2 Euro's times the number of tracks on a CD makes it expensive.
And the Contend Owner thing, well it's sloppy journalism but we know what they mean.
Another example of this is Toshiba, on the face of it they commit themself to Linux but when you look through their dedicated Linux website there is still very little (or none) support for the little things that make their computers different.
At least Michael recognised it with (warning, manager-speak)
Are you talking about GSM (900Mhz/1800Mhz)phones? this one is COMPLETELY new to me.
Hmm, Leuk_he you need to read the conditions of use of your phone!
It is not only the aviation rules that for reasons of aviation safety ban the use of phones on board planes, it's also the telco's that threaten you with loosing your subscription when you use it (the cell phone) from a plane and thus upsetting the cellular system.
You do know how the cellular system works I hope...
Why?
Plenty of oxygen where planes fly!
It's not a space flight or submarine trip where oxygen supply is limited.
For example the international standard ISO 3864 is described as follows: The graphic-only approach communicates the safety label's message quickly and without the use of words. This is the preferred format in the European community due to the concentration of diverse languages.
In the US the ANSI Z535.4 standard is in use and still includes lots of text.
I use my passport when at the bank or such and my drivers licence at the post office (these idiots don't accept a passport as ID!!)
To answer another question, in The Netherlands you always have to carry an ID as a foreigner and as a Dutch national only when you are in some special situations like at a football (soccer) game or other places where disturbances are not uncommon.
Alltoghether ID card carrying is indeed seen as a bad memory of the Nazi occupation. That's why Dutchmen are often getting in trouble in France where checks on ID are more common than in any other European country :-)
Maybe because it's accessible for the typically Linguistically Impaired Americans?
With a 500Mb cap I DO pitty you.
When I got my ADSL connection I downloaded the latest 2 Red Hat CD's the first night!
On your system I could do less than a CD per month....
There was a bit of an outcry when the price was raised from E 45.- a few weeks ago...
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