And once you stick your code in GPL, there is no way to get it back, ever. You cannot even reuse what you have already developed for new proprietary projects.
Bzzzt. WRONG. If you are the author you're perfectly free to relicense the same software under a non-GPL license and demand $$$ in return. Trolltech does that with Qt.
This "you can't reuse your own software" nonsense is the kind of bald-faced LIE M$ will be feeding upon the PHB's of the world. We need to be around to give them the Truth instead.
Another one: performing a comparative study between the quality of VHS vs. DVD vs. broadcast TV vs. etc. Perhaps that particular scene that best shows the differences in image quality is a battle scene in "The Patriot" -- a CSS'ed disc.
The RIAA is lobbying for legislation mandating the deployment of "secure showers" -- if the user hums an unlicensed song during a shower, it switchs from water to sulphuric acid.
Whats to say they can't have a mixed environment of both Linux and Windows machines? Sounds to me that M$ will be more worried about pilot programs using Linux instead of Windows in a company or the company jumping ship on M$ altogether.
THAT's it!!! This is what happens:
1) Company A is considering migration to Linux.
2) Company A becomes aware that M$ will make them a more likely target to auditing if they quote OS-less PC's.
3) Company A is frightened, even if they're OK license-wise.
4) Company A gives up trying Linux.
IANAL, but you might be on to something ('Funny' moderations aside). What if one could find a certified auditor, or a judge, or some otherwise heavy witness, and do such a thing with some software in their presence? Could you (and the vendor) be interpreted as legally bound by your edited version instead of the vendor's?
Remember, this sort of thing already happens with written contracts. Part 1 offers piece of paper. Part 2 reads it, frowns, ask for rephrasing. And so forth until they agree on a heavily changed version. If clicking "I Agree" is legally binding, I can't see how this isn't.
Is there anyone ou there with the chutzpah to try such a thing? Or, can you provide me a link to a download site with an editable agreement so I can try it myself? I'm serious. Really.
1) Scientist puts up research on his own website.
2) Scientist includes MD5 checksum of file (maybe one MD5 for the ps version, another for the html.gz version etc.)
3) Scientist publishes MD5 and article title in some print media (maybe university journal), to further increase reliability
4) Everyone in the world can put it up for public access reliably. If it matches the published MD5, it's The Real Thing (TM).
5) Copyright negotiation can run in parallel. Reliability isn't an issue anymore.
Like... (correct me if I'm talking BS) if I receive an ECN packet from some IP, I store that IP in a table (maybe saved to disk every now and then) and only use ECN for hosts in that list. That would be the "opt-in" version.
An "opt-out" version could be made too, but I guess an external maintainer would be needed for such a list -- it wouldn't be desirable for every other connection to drop in the process of building what supposedly is a performance booster.
Has this book's copyright ever expired, and if so, did some unconstitutional law make it de-expire? The three volumes' dates of publication are 1910, 1912 and 1913.
You can copy the music you downloaded as much as you want. But the watermark gets copied along with it. Now, if a copy of the track turns up somewhere, the music company will know how to find the watermark and trace it back to you. And there is no easy way to get around this
Let's play devil's (God's?) advocate here.
1. Buy lots of music. Store into notebook.
2. Sell notebook to accomplice. Get cash.
3. File theft of notebook.
4. Preferrably have this happening in some faraway country like India.
5. Get back to USA, crying crocodile tears because of your expensive, lost notebook. Thankfully, you had backups of everything.
Hm, you're right, not easy. But doable. Having everything happen in the same country will be a lot cheaper but a little more risky, what with traceable hardware and all. I guess variations coud be concocted. A nice intellectual exercise, I must say.
Personally, I think it's sad the father pulled his son out of the district.
I don't. Actually, he should have pulled his son out of the country while he was at it. If this trend continues, in a few years it'll be illegal to have an IQ higher than George W. Bush's, and then bye bye technology leadership, bye bye trillion-dollar GNP, bye bye bearable life, hello Mad Max.
Regardless of architecture bits, shouldn't the time_t type be promoted to 64 bits right now, just in case? 32-bit gcc has the 'long long' integer which is just that size.
And if you wrote code like:
long mytime;
time(&mytime);
Then you deserve the coredump you're going to get. They didn't create types like time_t and size_t without a reason, you know.
Imagine you're running a dollar store and someone buys the property next to you and opens a 50 cent store. You don't get angry at the customers for going to the 50 cent store. After all they are only doing whats logical. No you get angry at the new store for being a jerk.
That's like getting angry at the opposing football team for scoring a goal (touchdown for USA people) against you. This is competition, aka Free Market Economy. Compete yourself or fold, but don't whine.
Sadly, many big corporations forget this principle and simply lobby the government to legislate their competition away.
Yes, but what if the next software update makes the TiVo comply with some boneheaded limitation imposed by the copyright nazis? Like "never record this" bits and the like. I think it would be better NOT to connect and maybe hack the software to make it stop flashing those "you should upgrade" messages.
Or better yet, turn an ordinary PC with a video capture card into a TiVo-like machine with entirely open source software. Is there anybody working on something even remotely similar to this?
Well I think he has one point, We are seeing and enjoying the content without seeing the advertising. But this might lead to a new problem. When the advertiser can not get his message out, we might get bombed in other areas ( radio, print, and billboard ) or otherwise we will have to pay to watch TV.
Those of us who have cable (and therefore are the only ones for which TiVo makes sense -- or does it work with plain old antenna TV too?) ALREADY pay for TV. Channels should get their revenue from that only.
Some movie channels already don't show commercials in the middle of movies (only between them). They don't seem to be going broke because of that. TiVo won't damage those more than VCRs do.
Is it still free (as in beer)? I heard you have to buy a subscription now. If this is so, I'll stay with Red Carpet. Third world income level, you know.;)
The problem is not ease of use (or installation) any more; it's advertising and marketing.
And FILE FORMAT COMPATIBILITY. This is the big one IMHO, maybe even more than marketing. It doesn't matter if KWord or AbiWord or StarOffice are usable AND can make good documents AND have been advertised during the Super Bowl; they have to be able to display and print the docs sent Joe Average by his neighbor who uses M$ Office. Ditto for Gnumeric etc. versus Excel.
You can't. As long as there are different nations, each one of them has to admit there are things legal in Nation A and illegal in Nation B. Example: I live in a country (Brazil) in which software patents are not recognized, so I have the RIGHT to, say, set up a 1-click shopping site. Now, if the US governments admittedly DoS's my site because of THEIR laws you can be sure I'll raise all the hell I can. Yes, I'll sue GWB himself if I have to.
Of course, "admittedly" is the key word here. The German govt was plain stupid in leaking their plans. If Dubya wanted to DoS me, I'd probably have no way of knowing it was ordered by him.
I remember a Biblical movie were David, still a soldier or something, comes to the King after a battle and drops a bloody bag at his feet (which we do see in a close-up). He says it's the foreskins of 200 or something enemies. Ewwww! What a shining example for the kids!
I don't understand them. What's their point? They're dragging their big customers through hell for tiny, tiny amounts of money.
Tiny? I don't know how the fines are in the USA, but in Brazil any infringer has to pay 3,000 times -- yes, three thousand -- the value of each foul software. That means if you mistakenly installed Office in N+1 machines while you had N licenses, you owe around half a MILLION dollars. That's for ONE copy of ONE infringing software. This is law.
Now, what ABES (Brazil's BSA) does during an audit is coax companies into sweet deals that bind them into buying (usually M$) software for life in return for not prosecuting. This is the usual. But it's changing.
I heard of a bust in which ABES refused any deal and is going for the full fines in the courts. In practice, M$ (or some other maker, but I'm almostrcertain it was only M$ software involved) will own all assets of the company, and maybe all personal assets of company owners. The M$ person who talked to the press said that's how it's going to be around here from now on. No deal. Never. Full money. Neat, huh?
It's like fishing in a barrel. Every company here, even those who make all efforts to stay legit, will have at least one slip in licensing. And the very few who don't, misplace one or two license papers among the hundreds they have. Easy money. "I like that building. Let's do an audit, I want to own it." Al Capone is alive and well.
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Bzzzt. WRONG. If you are the author you're perfectly free to relicense the same software under a non-GPL license and demand $$$ in return. Trolltech does that with Qt.
This "you can't reuse your own software" nonsense is the kind of bald-faced LIE M$ will be feeding upon the PHB's of the world. We need to be around to give them the Truth instead.
Another one: performing a comparative study between the quality of VHS vs. DVD vs. broadcast TV vs. etc. Perhaps that particular scene that best shows the differences in image quality is a battle scene in "The Patriot" -- a CSS'ed disc.
The RIAA is lobbying for legislation mandating the deployment of "secure showers" -- if the user hums an unlicensed song during a shower, it switchs from water to sulphuric acid.
THAT's it!!! This is what happens:
1) Company A is considering migration to Linux.
2) Company A becomes aware that M$ will make them a more likely target to auditing if they quote OS-less PC's.
3) Company A is frightened, even if they're OK license-wise.
4) Company A gives up trying Linux.
Where's the DOJ when you REALLY need them?
Remember, this sort of thing already happens with written contracts. Part 1 offers piece of paper. Part 2 reads it, frowns, ask for rephrasing. And so forth until they agree on a heavily changed version. If clicking "I Agree" is legally binding, I can't see how this isn't.
Is there anyone ou there with the chutzpah to try such a thing? Or, can you provide me a link to a download site with an editable agreement so I can try it myself? I'm serious. Really.
As they say, the more the merrier.
1) Scientist puts up research on his own website.
2) Scientist includes MD5 checksum of file (maybe one MD5 for the ps version, another for the html.gz version etc.)
3) Scientist publishes MD5 and article title in some print media (maybe university journal), to further increase reliability
4) Everyone in the world can put it up for public access reliably. If it matches the published MD5, it's The Real Thing (TM).
5) Copyright negotiation can run in parallel. Reliability isn't an issue anymore.
An "opt-out" version could be made too, but I guess an external maintainer would be needed for such a list -- it wouldn't be desirable for every other connection to drop in the process of building what supposedly is a performance booster.
Has this book's copyright ever expired, and if so, did some unconstitutional law make it de-expire? The three volumes' dates of publication are 1910, 1912 and 1913.
1. Buy lots of music. Store into notebook.
2. Sell notebook to accomplice. Get cash.
3. File theft of notebook.
4. Preferrably have this happening in some faraway country like India.
5. Get back to USA, crying crocodile tears because of your expensive, lost notebook. Thankfully, you had backups of everything.
Hm, you're right, not easy. But doable. Having everything happen in the same country will be a lot cheaper but a little more risky, what with traceable hardware and all. I guess variations coud be concocted. A nice intellectual exercise, I must say.
Duly mirrored on my homepage. Server & perpetrator (yours truly) are in Brazil. DMCA can't catch me. (I hope)
I don't. Actually, he should have pulled his son out of the country while he was at it. If this trend continues, in a few years it'll be illegal to have an IQ higher than George W. Bush's, and then bye bye technology leadership, bye bye trillion-dollar GNP, bye bye bearable life, hello Mad Max.
So that thing Dilbert and Wally gave the PHB (long gone from the archives by now, anyone saved it?) was ACTUALLY a notebook?
Regardless of architecture bits, shouldn't the time_t type be promoted to 64 bits right now, just in case? 32-bit gcc has the 'long long' integer which is just that size.
And if you wrote code like:
long mytime;
time(&mytime);
Then you deserve the coredump you're going to get. They didn't create types like time_t and size_t without a reason, you know.
Works in hex too (only 4 69's allowed, sorry...):
>perl -MPOSIX -le 'print ctime(0x69696969)'
Thu Jan 15 20:25:45 2026
That's like getting angry at the opposing football team for scoring a goal (touchdown for USA people) against you. This is competition, aka Free Market Economy. Compete yourself or fold, but don't whine.
Sadly, many big corporations forget this principle and simply lobby the government to legislate their competition away.
Or better yet, turn an ordinary PC with a video capture card into a TiVo-like machine with entirely open source software. Is there anybody working on something even remotely similar to this?
Those of us who have cable (and therefore are the only ones for which TiVo makes sense -- or does it work with plain old antenna TV too?) ALREADY pay for TV. Channels should get their revenue from that only.
Some movie channels already don't show commercials in the middle of movies (only between them). They don't seem to be going broke because of that. TiVo won't damage those more than VCRs do.
Is it still free (as in beer)? I heard you have to buy a subscription now. If this is so, I'll stay with Red Carpet. Third world income level, you know. ;)
And FILE FORMAT COMPATIBILITY. This is the big one IMHO, maybe even more than marketing. It doesn't matter if KWord or AbiWord or StarOffice are usable AND can make good documents AND have been advertised during the Super Bowl; they have to be able to display and print the docs sent Joe Average by his neighbor who uses M$ Office. Ditto for Gnumeric etc. versus Excel.
Of course, "admittedly" is the key word here. The German govt was plain stupid in leaking their plans. If Dubya wanted to DoS me, I'd probably have no way of knowing it was ordered by him.
I'm not a hardware whiz but isn't it possible to cut some wire in a plain-vanilla el cheapo IDE HD and achieve the same effect?
It might be the same movie you saw.
Or worse, grabbing some suburban old couple's house, car and savings because they had 2 PCs with M$Office installed but only 1 purchased copy.
Tiny? I don't know how the fines are in the USA, but in Brazil any infringer has to pay 3,000 times -- yes, three thousand -- the value of each foul software. That means if you mistakenly installed Office in N+1 machines while you had N licenses, you owe around half a MILLION dollars. That's for ONE copy of ONE infringing software. This is law.
Now, what ABES (Brazil's BSA) does during an audit is coax companies into sweet deals that bind them into buying (usually M$) software for life in return for not prosecuting. This is the usual. But it's changing.
I heard of a bust in which ABES refused any deal and is going for the full fines in the courts. In practice, M$ (or some other maker, but I'm almostrcertain it was only M$ software involved) will own all assets of the company, and maybe all personal assets of company owners. The M$ person who talked to the press said that's how it's going to be around here from now on. No deal. Never. Full money. Neat, huh?
It's like fishing in a barrel. Every company here, even those who make all efforts to stay legit, will have at least one slip in licensing. And the very few who don't, misplace one or two license papers among the hundreds they have. Easy money. "I like that building. Let's do an audit, I want to own it." Al Capone is alive and well.