Furthermore, [Stallman] believes software is an entity unto itself that has rights, just as a person has rights.
I've read most of the "philisophical" articles over at gnu.org, but I don't recall anything remotely like that. Can you point me to something RMS has said or written on that subject?
I don't know what it's like elsewhere, but here in New Zealand eyeglass frames cost several hundred dollars for no apparent reason. I'm sure the machines that churn them out don't charge that much.
My grandfather's essentially simple hearing aids cost thousands, too.
However, according to the "Best Fish Guide" published by the "Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand", no New Zealand fishery qualifies as "well managed, with low habitat damage, and/or bycatch".
Two questions - the first a tease, the second more or less serious, both regarding the WSP:
1) WHY do most professional Web designers seem unable to comprehend HTML's alt attribute?
2) The WSP's doing a great job on browser makers (thanks), but (perhaps coz it's lead/supported by so many designers) it stays pretty quiet about designer standards - an equally serious problem crippling the Web. Any plans in this regard - or are Web users going to have to set up "The Other Web Standards Project" (...or something to that effect) themselves?
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I've read most of the "philisophical" articles over at gnu.org, but I don't recall anything remotely like that. Can you point me to something RMS has said or written on that subject?
I don't know what it's like elsewhere, but here in New Zealand eyeglass frames cost several hundred dollars for no apparent reason. I'm sure the machines that churn them out don't charge that much.
My grandfather's essentially simple hearing aids cost thousands, too.
It's "because they can".
Third option: buy CDs and DVDs second-hand. Side-step the enemy and support local business.
Instead of just not paying for it, don't watch it at all. Or don't listen to it.
Or buy it second hand.
I do a lot of language translation, and it's pretty obvious to me that it requires understanding. Good automated translation is holodeck territory.
I'm in New Zealand, where everything's clean and green.
Our "Ministry of Fisheries" is downplaying the report.
However, according to the "Best Fish Guide" published by the "Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand", no New Zealand fishery qualifies as "well managed, with low habitat damage, and/or bycatch".
Two questions - the first a tease, the second more or less serious, both regarding the WSP:
1) WHY do most professional Web designers seem unable to comprehend HTML's alt attribute?
2) The WSP's doing a great job on browser makers (thanks), but (perhaps coz it's lead/supported by so many designers) it stays pretty quiet about designer standards - an equally serious problem crippling the Web. Any plans in this regard - or are Web users going to have to set up "The Other Web Standards Project" (...or something to that effect) themselves?
No offence, just serious disillusionment.