What are the reasons 'big-name bands' don't abandon the RIAA and share their music via alternative methods of production/promotion/delivery? Why do successful artists not break away from the RIAA 'deals'* that/. and other forums vehemently condemn as a corruption of culture, artist integrity and pollution to the meaning of 'art'?
Have the/. crowd become deluded to believe that even the 'artists' they respect and trust (the "real" artists that we liken our favorites to be - as opposed to the Brittany Spears/Backstread Fahrenheit 411 Boyz/Celine Dion et al) actually 'care about integrity'? Is the 'truth' in fact that even 'our favorite artists' are also a product of the RIAA music-machine? Have these products simply been crafted to appeal to a specific demographic: us?
If the latter is not the case, why wouldn't those in the position to, not strike out independently now that the possibility exists?
Noting that some artists have contractual obligations, and some others are corrupted by greed (they would then by definition fall into the 'our favorite artists are also products' category).
BTW: I still listen to Flood, thanks for the 'gift'... *Yes this could be a Catch22.
One person's political views are another persons 'terrorism' - make no mistake - you do not want entrenched powers to have these kind of rights over personal liberties. The peoples of the planet empower the governments of the world - why do people act as if these organizations have inherent rights/privilege/powers? We do not want to allow our governments to hold contempt and suspicion for the average citizen...
eco-protection agency breathing down your neck about protecting the forest
Sorry - you loose all respect from me with the above display of ignorance. Maybe it would be better if you mowed the Rainforest down to raise cattle for a local McDonalds? Dont forget the chemical spewing plastics factory to produce PokemonPlasticPrizes for Happy Meals.
If Wine 1.0 is available (Thanks to the Wine Team!) wont this accelerate the development and deployment of M$'s ".NET" cra^H^H^Hstuff?
I believe M$ is very actively creating a moving target - sure you'll be able to emulate Office2000, but what happens when Office".NET" is 'un-emulate-able" simply because it lives somewhere else and runs through your browser? Running Linux to emulate 'old' Windows Software becomes a little less attractive than The New Exciting! M$".NET" stuff...
Everyone go back and have a look at this pic that was provided above. Pay special attention to the reflection in the TV of the room the photographer is in... it looks like the guy is living in a rail-car!
Lets have a collection and send this Geek-in-Need some dough, or invite him to live in a warm basement where he can learn and grow. Where is Sally Struthers when you need her! Don't fret little DC geek; help is on the way!
Lets not call it consumer rights but a human right. I reject the notion that I am a 'consumer' - I am a citizen, a person, a brother, husband and a great many things - NONE OF THEM ARE 'CONSUMER'
Not to make a federal case of it, but should the browser be an adjunct to the interface--or should it become the interface itself?
God help us.
and maybe the results will infuse new energy into the aging PC itself sarcasm.start(cluelessauthor); What we need to do is replace PC's with a better - more NOW! - interface... yeah! Video, Sound and Text dont cut it anymore... we need a new paradigmn man - we need to think outside the box...sarcasm.end(cluelessauthor);
What a load of crap. Dont get me wrong, I love change, I love to see new technolody and real innovation - but does anyone else get the feeling that there is a force right now in computing pushing 'change' for change's sake? I dont get it, Im pretty convinced that the PC 'idea' is still a pretty good one. Other 'technology devices' have value for specific functions, but its pretty hard to argue that the power and adaptability of a PC. A PC has a lot to offer to those devices in order to 'empower them' to some degree. Short of creating all 'tech devices' equal (making them 'self-aware' and 'self-discovring' in an adhoc 'peer-to-peer' network) I cant see the PC being replaced any time soon.
As for the first quote above - what a horrible prospect... havnt these people ever heard of XWindows? I mean, isnt the browser a replacment for the 'network portability' of an X App? How much 'easier' would life be if a browser was an XServer - or tech of similar mind... just an idea...
What is the most likely result of the following; Home Depot, Burlington Coat Factory and Musicland adopting GNU/Linux based POS systems: #1) Teams of internal developers making CVS submissions to various projects, bugfixes and kernel hacks? #2) Donations to various GNU/Linux or Free Software projects that are 'in line' with the financial where-with-all of these organizations considering the $ 'saved' #3) The VP of IT of each company gets a massive bonus for saving The Company money. The whole Board of Directors buys another Mercedes.
I hope it is Case#1 or Case#2. We know that it takes alot of effort to convince people to 'get' the reasons and value of Free Software. One of the major flaws of the GNU license (IMHO) is that there is not method or action for people who have no intention of 'contributing' to A) Admit they dont care to participate or B) Mechanism for compensation for the efforts of others or C) insert-your-idea-here-similar-to-above
My fear is that Free Software is going to turn into a subsidy system for Big Business... the least they could do is say Thank-You.. or send RMS, Havoc, Linus, Alan Cox, a discount card. They (and thousands of others) have saved these companies from the M$ Tax surely they 'owe something back.'
At least then I would have a reason for the invulnerability
Number one reason Iridium will not be de-oribited:$5,000,000,000 it cost to put it up.
'Everyone' obviously sees the value of the $5B array of sats 'we' have already put up - collectively the planet sees it as a usefull asset. The problem is* corporatists have corrupted our communities and our minds - we feel powerless - to the point where no one is willing to say "we can run them Non-Profit for the all people" or set up a quick and dirty 'world organization' and get quick commitments of government dollars to fund their usage... why is it that the next owners have to be a For-Profit corporation??? People of the planet obviously see the value - why cant 'civic will' step up and assume ownership???
With the alternative being de-orbiting $5,000,000,000 - what seems like a more plausable/reasonable/sane idea? How did 'profit making corporations' become the only method of force/action/will on the planet?? Why the HELL are we standing around hoping some corporatist is going to step up and save this resource 'for us'?
*Just what you need - another/. a$$hole know-it-all telling you what the 'real problem is'...;)
I wonder how many nodes of the type recently described here on/. you could buy for $250,000. Instead of a boat with 20PCs why not run a cheap and dirty 803.11b network and connect these communities permanently?
Thats a surprise, to think, Sony will now sell (GLV)The Next Big Thing(TM) after the monopoly rights runs out on their existing technology. If there were no patents - wouldnt they have had to develop (GLV)The Next Big Thing(TM) sooner in order to justify selling their wares?
reminiscent of a similar move made by the company in the early 1960s. An American inventor of a new type of CRT display device called the Lawrence Tube (after the inventor) was unable to interest any U.S. television manufacturer in its worth. Sony seized the opportunity and the Lawrence Tube became the Trinitron in 1968
Had their been no patent available on the Trinitron - if the technology was freely available in the public domain - how long ago would we have been buying ourselves (GLV) The Next Big Thing(TM) Monitors?!?
It seems corporatists want to have their cake and eat it too - they want to do as they please (pollute, collude, rape), but they want the rest of us (via our Corporatist $whoring$ governments) to guarantee their pocket books...
Its almost laughable... what a wonderfully perfect display*...
Sorry - your problem is your shop has a weak union. What does your union Rep do with his/her time?
They force people with skills into a lower pay scale to match up with the people who don't have a clue This is a horrible idea, do you want people to have to participate in ultra-capatalism, ever competing with one another - with no bargaining power against the bosses?
What you would rather see is thousands of 'cluefull' potential employees beg, scratch and claw for the 'opportunity' to have some crappy job - all the while the bosses sit back laughing smoking cigars...
Surely you agree with what Im saying 'in the big picture'? Your specific shop may have a weak union - but abandoning it is not the answer. My suggestion is to unionize the other two shops, band together, and bargain with more power. People are going to get the royal screw in a competition between the bosses and workers - unless you have a means to stick up for yourselves... think about it.
The problems described here are a result of a Capitalist economy. In a Communist economy, central planning deploys resources to fulfill the needs of the people. If quality is lacking somewhere it is not 'hidden' but solved. If solutions are necessary they are implemented based on 'Need vs Desire' not the pocket book of a corporatist whore. They only produce what is needed, there are no 'artificial cycles' in the economy because production is measured to meet need.
The goal of a Communist economy is to produce quality, lasting articles of/youritemhere/. Not profit - not marketing - not advertising. If a deficiency is seen in an industry greater resources are spent by central planning to meet those needs ie:
Problem: PeeCees are arriving at peoples homes with defects, caused by lack of control during assembly. Solution: Improve control systems during assembly & implement quality checks offline. Method: Remove engineers from successful widget manufacturing, re-assign. Remove Q.A. people from yadda manufacturing, re-assign.
Which plan sounds like a better method to satisfy the needs of the people of the planet? What is the purpose of producing 'things'? To satisfy the needs of people -or- has the goal strangely become to 'expand the economy' and make profit? We are increadibly productive workers as a result of (technology) productivity improvements - why aren't people benefiting? Isnt the problems described here a natural product of a capitalist system? Competition Increases. Quality Decreases. (Price Decreases - irrelevant).
Yes - this would truly be a tragedy. Imagine a dark future where you are required to dial 12 maybe 13 numbers!
We must stand and fight! The future depends on us! If people are required to dial more than 8 numbers for a phone call, stop and imagine the impact on the chiiilldreen. Please wont someone think of the children! What will this do to our prescious bodily fluids?!? Run! Panic! Hide!
Unions are fucking useless, and I say this from the experience of someone who has worked truly shitty jobs without representation
Unions are weak if members dont stand up to bosses together.
If it weren't for the union, we'd be getting pay commensurate with what other telecom companies give where I work.
So the bosses have told you "we'd pay you more out of the goodness of our *cough*black*cough* hearts if you didn't have a Union, we'd pay you as much as these people, we promise... but since you have that nasty-anti-American Union you have to suffer while these non-unionized employees get treated better". And you believe that?
I live in a Auto Union Town in Southern Ontario, and let me tell you, the CAW helps assure half the population of this city has decent wages, security, benefits in a safe and reasonable work environment. As long as other regions of the world promise to work harder, under worse conditions, for less money, we are all at jeopardy. Letting corporatists play one city/region against another in a race to the bottom (in terms of work standards/compensation) is NOT what we want to do.
It is more and more important now that the corporatists are mounting their 'globalization' assault on the people of the planet that we WISEN UP! and realize that workers do not have to compete against one another for standard labour jobs... why promise yourself at an ever lower standard? You only force the standards down... think of the future!
If this job sucks so bad, get another one... it's not like there aren't tons of them out there
people have the right to decent work environment - the answer is not 'move along'! People need to demand to be treated better - and form Unions to defend themselves against bosses who dont give a damn about anything except $$$. The article makes my stomach turn - those people need a Union like ive never heard before.
When I did OA Tech Support for a (Big Three Engineering dept) we had a WinXX client/NT Server arrangment for file/print...
Two greatest sources of headaches: Users dont understand they need to log in the network to print or use network resources (because of former slack admin). Users endlessly saying "I need the 'g' drive", "Can I have access to the 'L' Drive?" - I spent untold hours trying to explain how drive mapping worked, and that the label was meaningless.. after giving a 10minute talk 560123^12 times I gave up trying to explain it... I made them 'go see another person who has the drive you want and follow this script (start, run, command,net use).
This my.mp3.com & Napster subscription crap is not good enough for me. I refuse to pay $10-20 for a CD (or any other equally unreasonable price) that should cost me almost NOTHING - Id be willing to download entire WAV CDs and Burn my own if it was available and at a reasonable cost based on that distribution method.
The fact is the RIAA is a monopoly - you can see this in how rigid they are with new delivery technology. Until the RIAA is gone I will not pay one single cent for music. I will be burning my own COPIES of CDs and downloading MP3s at will. I refuse to support a tyrannical monopoly in any form.
For those who will say I am a cheap pirate and nothing more: As long as monopolists try and dictate to the customers, for no reason other than to justify their present business methods, systems and sheer existence they wont get a nickel from me. Technology has rendered the RIAA obsolete - Simple Fact, what they are trying to do is use their monopoly to muscle control of a 'market' they want to dictate to on their unreasonable terms. For those who would argue the RIAA is not a monopoly: If they were not wouldn't one or some of their members have adapted to meet this new demand in the market place? This is they type of mess Capatalism get you.
It's a matter of principle - right and wrong is not black and white, what the RIAA is trying to do is by far 'more wrong' than people demanding reasonable access to modern culture.
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What are the reasons 'big-name bands' don't abandon the RIAA and share their music via alternative methods of production/promotion/delivery? Why do successful artists not break away from the RIAA 'deals'* that /. and other forums vehemently condemn as a corruption of culture, artist integrity and pollution to the meaning of 'art'?
/. crowd become deluded to believe that even the 'artists' they respect and trust (the "real" artists that we liken our favorites to be - as opposed to the Brittany Spears/Backstread Fahrenheit 411 Boyz/Celine Dion et al) actually 'care about integrity'? Is the 'truth' in fact that even 'our favorite artists' are also a product of the RIAA music-machine? Have these products simply been crafted to appeal to a specific demographic: us?
Have the
If the latter is not the case, why wouldn't those in the position to, not strike out independently now that the possibility exists?
Noting that some artists have contractual obligations, and some others are corrupted by greed (they would then by definition fall into the 'our favorite artists are also products' category).
BTW: I still listen to Flood, thanks for the 'gift'...
*Yes this could be a Catch22.
prevent terrorism
One person's political views are another persons 'terrorism' - make no mistake - you do not want entrenched powers to have these kind of rights over personal liberties. The peoples of the planet empower the governments of the world - why do people act as if these organizations have inherent rights/privilege/powers? We do not want to allow our governments to hold contempt and suspicion for the average citizen...
eco-protection agency breathing down your neck about protecting the forest
Sorry - you loose all respect from me with the above display of ignorance. Maybe it would be better if you mowed the Rainforest down to raise cattle for a local McDonalds? Dont forget the chemical spewing plastics factory to produce PokemonPlasticPrizes for Happy Meals.
If Wine 1.0 is available (Thanks to the Wine Team!) wont this accelerate the development and deployment of M$'s ".NET" cra^H^H^Hstuff?
I believe M$ is very actively creating a moving target - sure you'll be able to emulate Office2000, but what happens when Office".NET" is 'un-emulate-able" simply because it lives somewhere else and runs through your browser?
Running Linux to emulate 'old' Windows Software becomes a little less attractive than The New Exciting! M$".NET" stuff...
Everyone go back and have a look at this pic that was provided above. Pay special attention to the reflection in the TV of the room the photographer is in... it looks like the guy is living in a rail-car!
Lets have a collection and send this Geek-in-Need some dough, or invite him to live in a warm basement where he can learn and grow. Where is Sally Struthers when you need her! Don't fret little DC geek; help is on the way!
Lets not call it consumer rights but a human right. I reject the notion that I am a 'consumer' - I am a citizen, a person, a brother, husband and a great many things - NONE OF THEM ARE 'CONSUMER'
incumbent spectrum-holders pushing regulations which protect their investments
Read as: Corporate $whores$ line the pockets of a corrupt US Government. When did profit become the sole civic will of the US Government?
Not to make a federal case of it, but should the browser be an adjunct to the interface--or should it become the interface itself?
God help us.
and maybe the results will infuse new energy into the aging PC itself
sarcasm.start(cluelessauthor); What we need to do is replace PC's with a better - more NOW! - interface... yeah! Video, Sound and Text dont cut it anymore... we need a new paradigmn man - we need to think outside the box...sarcasm.end(cluelessauthor);
What a load of crap. Dont get me wrong, I love change, I love to see new technolody and real innovation - but does anyone else get the feeling that there is a force right now in computing pushing 'change' for change's sake? I dont get it, Im pretty convinced that the PC 'idea' is still a pretty good one. Other 'technology devices' have value for specific functions, but its pretty hard to argue that the power and adaptability of a PC. A PC has a lot to offer to those devices in order to 'empower them' to some degree. Short of creating all 'tech devices' equal (making them 'self-aware' and 'self-discovring' in an adhoc 'peer-to-peer' network) I cant see the PC being replaced any time soon.
As for the first quote above - what a horrible prospect... havnt these people ever heard of XWindows? I mean, isnt the browser a replacment for the 'network portability' of an X App? How much 'easier' would life be if a browser was an XServer - or tech of similar mind... just an idea...
What is the most likely result of the following; Home Depot, Burlington Coat Factory and Musicland adopting GNU/Linux based POS systems:
#1) Teams of internal developers making CVS submissions to various projects, bugfixes and kernel hacks?
#2) Donations to various GNU/Linux or Free Software projects that are 'in line' with the financial where-with-all of these organizations considering the $ 'saved'
#3) The VP of IT of each company gets a massive bonus for saving The Company money. The whole Board of Directors buys another Mercedes.
I hope it is Case#1 or Case#2. We know that it takes alot of effort to convince people to 'get' the reasons and value of Free Software. One of the major flaws of the GNU license (IMHO) is that there is not method or action for people who have no intention of 'contributing' to A) Admit they dont care to participate or B) Mechanism for compensation for the efforts of others or C) insert-your-idea-here-similar-to-above
My fear is that Free Software is going to turn into a subsidy system for Big Business... the least they could do is say Thank-You.. or send RMS, Havoc, Linus, Alan Cox, a discount card. They (and thousands of others) have saved these companies from the M$ Tax surely they 'owe something back.'
At least then I would have a reason for the invulnerability
/. a$$hole know-it-all telling you what the 'real problem is'... ;)
Number one reason Iridium will not be de-oribited:$5,000,000,000 it cost to put it up.
'Everyone' obviously sees the value of the $5B array of sats 'we' have already put up - collectively the planet sees it as a usefull asset. The problem is* corporatists have corrupted our communities and our minds - we feel powerless - to the point where no one is willing to say "we can run them Non-Profit for the all people" or set up a quick and dirty 'world organization' and get quick commitments of government dollars to fund their usage... why is it that the next owners have to be a For-Profit corporation??? People of the planet obviously see the value - why cant 'civic will' step up and assume ownership???
With the alternative being de-orbiting $5,000,000,000 - what seems like a more plausable/reasonable/sane idea? How did 'profit making corporations' become the only method of force/action/will on the planet?? Why the HELL are we standing around hoping some corporatist is going to step up and save this resource 'for us'?
*Just what you need - another
I wonder how many nodes of the type recently described here on /. you could buy for $250,000. Instead of a boat with 20PCs why not run a cheap and dirty 803.11b network and connect these communities permanently?
their now patent-free Trinitron technology
Thats a surprise, to think, Sony will now sell (GLV)The Next Big Thing(TM) after the monopoly rights runs out on their existing technology.
If there were no patents - wouldnt they have had to develop (GLV)The Next Big Thing(TM) sooner in order to justify selling their wares?
reminiscent of a similar move made by the company in the early 1960s. An American inventor of a new type of CRT display device called the Lawrence Tube (after the inventor) was unable to interest any U.S. television manufacturer in its worth. Sony seized the opportunity and the Lawrence Tube became the Trinitron in 1968
Had their been no patent available on the Trinitron - if the technology was freely available in the public domain - how long ago would we have been buying ourselves (GLV) The Next Big Thing(TM) Monitors?!?
It seems corporatists want to have their cake and eat it too - they want to do as they please (pollute, collude, rape), but they want the rest of us (via our Corporatist $whoring$ governments) to guarantee their pocket books...
Its almost laughable... what a wonderfully perfect display*...
Sorry - your problem is your shop has a weak union. What does your union Rep do with his/her time?
They force people with skills into a lower pay scale to match up with the people who don't have a clue
This is a horrible idea, do you want people to have to participate in ultra-capatalism, ever competing with one another - with no bargaining power against the bosses?
What you would rather see is thousands of 'cluefull' potential employees beg, scratch and claw for the 'opportunity' to have some crappy job - all the while the bosses sit back laughing smoking cigars...
Surely you agree with what Im saying 'in the big picture'? Your specific shop may have a weak union - but abandoning it is not the answer. My suggestion is to unionize the other two shops, band together, and bargain with more power. People are going to get the royal screw in a competition between the bosses and workers - unless you have a means to stick up for yourselves... think about it.
Why do you think your shop is so weak?
The problems described here are a result of a Capitalist economy. In a Communist economy, central planning deploys resources to fulfill the needs of the people. If quality is lacking somewhere it is not 'hidden' but solved. If solutions are necessary they are implemented based on 'Need vs Desire' not the pocket book of a corporatist whore. They only produce what is needed, there are no 'artificial cycles' in the economy because production is measured to meet need.
/youritemhere/. Not profit - not marketing - not advertising. If a deficiency is seen in an industry greater resources are spent by central planning to meet those needs ie:
The goal of a Communist economy is to produce quality, lasting articles of
Problem: PeeCees are arriving at peoples homes with defects, caused by lack of control during assembly.
Solution: Improve control systems during assembly & implement quality checks offline.
Method: Remove engineers from successful widget manufacturing, re-assign. Remove Q.A. people from yadda manufacturing, re-assign.
Which plan sounds like a better method to satisfy the needs of the people of the planet? What is the purpose of producing 'things'? To satisfy the needs of people -or- has the goal strangely become to 'expand the economy' and make profit? We are increadibly productive workers as a result of (technology) productivity improvements - why aren't people benefiting? Isnt the problems described here a natural product of a capitalist system? Competition Increases. Quality Decreases. (Price Decreases - irrelevant).
Ive received 3 HP 4500N Colour LaserJets in the last 2 months, $7000CDN each - one was DOA.
Of the 300 or so Dell Desktops my OA people put out, 15 were DOA.
sarcasm.start();
Yes - this would truly be a tragedy. Imagine a dark future where you are required to dial 12 maybe 13 numbers!
We must stand and fight! The future depends on us!
If people are required to dial more than 8 numbers for a phone call, stop and imagine the impact on the chiiilldreen. Please wont someone think of the children! What will this do to our prescious bodily fluids?!? Run! Panic! Hide!
sarcasm.end();
I always thought a video card was a selling your video short
Understand jibberish not. Dotslash someone would please editor hire for.
Unions are fucking useless, and I say this from the experience of someone who has worked truly shitty jobs without representation
Unions are weak if members dont stand up to bosses together.
If it weren't for the union, we'd be getting pay commensurate with what other telecom companies give where I work.
So the bosses have told you "we'd pay you more out of the goodness of our *cough*black*cough* hearts if you didn't have a Union, we'd pay you as much as these people, we promise... but since you have that nasty-anti-American Union you have to suffer while these non-unionized employees get treated better". And you believe that?
I live in a Auto Union Town in Southern Ontario, and let me tell you, the CAW helps assure half the population of this city has decent wages, security, benefits in a safe and reasonable work environment. As long as other regions of the world promise to work harder, under worse conditions, for less money, we are all at jeopardy. Letting corporatists play one city/region against another in a race to the bottom (in terms of work standards/compensation) is NOT what we want to do.
It is more and more important now that the corporatists are mounting their 'globalization' assault on the people of the planet that we WISEN UP! and realize that workers do not have to compete against one another for standard labour jobs... why promise yourself at an ever lower standard? You only force the standards down... think of the future!
Workers of the WORLD UNITE!
No, they also exist so people are treated fairly, compensated fairly and enjoy reasonable security. Safety is a big issue - but not the only one!
Workers of the World UNITE!
If this job sucks so bad, get another one... it's not like there aren't tons of them out there
people have the right to decent work environment - the answer is not 'move along'! People need to demand to be treated better - and form Unions to defend themselves against bosses who dont give a damn about anything except $$$. The article makes my stomach turn - those people need a Union like ive never heard before.
Have you never heard of a UNION ? This is what they are for...
When I did OA Tech Support for a (Big Three Engineering dept) we had a WinXX client/NT Server arrangment for file/print...
Two greatest sources of headaches:
Users dont understand they need to log in the network to print or use network resources (because of former slack admin).
Users endlessly saying "I need the 'g' drive", "Can I have access to the 'L' Drive?" - I spent untold hours trying to explain how drive mapping worked, and that the label was meaningless.. after giving a 10minute talk 560123^12 times I gave up trying to explain it... I made them 'go see another person who has the drive you want and follow this script (start, run, command,net use).
This my.mp3.com & Napster subscription crap is not good enough for me. I refuse to pay $10-20 for a CD (or any other equally unreasonable price) that should cost me almost NOTHING - Id be willing to download entire WAV CDs and Burn my own if it was available and at a reasonable cost based on that distribution method.
The fact is the RIAA is a monopoly - you can see this in how rigid they are with new delivery technology. Until the RIAA is gone I will not pay one single cent for music. I will be burning my own COPIES of CDs and downloading MP3s at will. I refuse to support a tyrannical monopoly in any form.
For those who will say I am a cheap pirate and nothing more: As long as monopolists try and dictate to the customers, for no reason other than to justify their present business methods, systems and sheer existence they wont get a nickel from me. Technology has rendered the RIAA obsolete - Simple Fact, what they are trying to do is use their monopoly to muscle control of a 'market' they want to dictate to on their unreasonable terms. For those who would argue the RIAA is not a monopoly: If they were not wouldn't one or some of their members have adapted to meet this new demand in the market place? This is they type of mess Capatalism get you.
It's a matter of principle - right and wrong is not black and white, what the RIAA is trying to do is by far 'more wrong' than people demanding reasonable access to modern culture.
Id suggest you all do the same - F the RIAA.
sysadmins and UNIX grognards say, X is holding Linux back
Id probably agree - are there any Linux (*NIX) GUIs being developed that abandon X?