I never listened to folk music until I heard Lucy Kaplansky. After a her last album, I bought her album with Dar Willams and Richard Shindell called "Cry Cry Cry". Now I'm a fan! Then, I found out she plays right here in NYC all the time!
But what does this have to do with Fair Use Rights?
Take a look at the county-by-county election returns from the 2000 campaign. It's an absolute sea of red, except for a few small blotches of blue up and down the coastlines and other small blotches in the Midwest.
County-by-county, it was a Bush blowout. Not even close.
Except when you take into account for population. Isn't that how someone should be elected?... by number of votes? or should Montana win out because they have big splotches of no one living there?
Read an OEM EULA - resale is fine so long as you dont split it up.
Good thing the EULA isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Your assuming that this EULA is legaly valid, and that Microsoft can call it a license as if they have the right to set terms on the software they sell.
They don't. Copyright gives them no right to post conditions.
When you buy it you own it.
You don't seem to understand. This license effects users of software. It has nothing to do with developers. People aren't using pieces of Bitkeeper in their own programs.
Is the use of software now subject to a license? As far as I'm concerned you are not bound by a license for just use of the software. If I want to use Bitkeeper code then his license applies to me.
I prefer calling it the "war on some drugs" - the drugs the current administration doesn't like for whatever reason. Tea, coffee, beer and cigarettes don't contain drugs apparently.
<troll> Gee isn't sugar a drug? How come that isn't outlawed? </troll>
Note the word "economics." Liebowitz and Margolis are economists opposed to an "excessive inertia" theory, for which QWERTY is often cited as an example. Rather than try to prove their point with a generally valid argument, they simply attack
Dvorak as a dubious replacement for QWERTY.
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You mean that keeping the source code locked up and secret would save us from this apocalypse? Maybe you should tell those BSD people. They give the code away too!
Do you know what a hard drive cost in 1984? Do you know how big it was?
What were they? 10 megabytes? The floppy was 700k.
Just think of all the PC makers that are out of business today. Apple is still in business. They must do something right.
So what's your solution? Non-standardized tests? Have every school district make up their own "special" test? Why do you consider this testing any more a "trivia quiz" the normal test teachers make up?
The point of the article was that New York incorrectly based their cutoff scores for summer school on the test. The people at CTB/McGraw-Hill told them *not* to. Sounds like your example of students zoning out after the SOL is the same problem, but it has nothing to do with the test.
Your rant about treating kids like potentials is heartwarming for a picket sign, but if you can't give an example how to change things, it's just hot wind. These tests try to *raise* the lowest common denominator. The brightest kids do fine. What's wrong with that?
I'm sure that you have years of experience in testing science so tell me what type of testing is used for kids who think and solve problems? What's your idea? What type of test do you recommend?
For that matter, it's worth pointing out that the GPL actually restricts my freedom! I cannot do just anything with GPL-ed code. So Stallman's blathering about "free" software is a little disingenuous. What he really means is that he (or the FSF) should dictate how we use software.... But let's be completely honest: GPL-ed software is not literally and wholly free. It is "mostly" free (yes, I can distinguish between free beer and free speech). I can't do just anything I wish with it.
I guess the USA isn't a free country. I can't freely go around killing people!:( Does a free country have no laws? Free doesn't mean you can do anything you want. Can you use it? FREE! Can you base another software program on it as well? FREE! Stallman only asks one thing of you and that is you can't undermind his copyright. If he allows you to use the code you can't take that away from others.
Course you want to be able to use someone else software to lock up the code. To not release the source. To make it un-free. You think that it's unfair that you can't take his code an take it away from him. Your just another BSD troll saying the GPL is viral. The BSD license makes restrictions as well.
Say IBM releases a file-system. They GPL it and Linux starts using it, and some smart person comes up with a better caching algorithm, improving the performance drastically. Now IBM can take that improvement, rewrite it to obtain their own copyright, and fold it into their closed-source version of that file-system as well.
Couldn't anyone rewrite the code and slap new copyright on it? After all when IBM GPLs a piece of code it's our code.
Notice that of this list, only foreign intelligence agents are described as "suspected". Everyone else is given a "true" identifier, or at least one with no modifier indicating lack of certainity. This may seem like nit-picking, but contextual analysis of this nature certainly can give insight into the inherent biases of a given culture.
You'd think a person who used the term "contextual analysis" would be able to understand a simple sentence.
The FBI has used Internet eavesdropping tools to track fugitives, drug dealers, extortionists, computer hackers and suspected foreign intelligence agents, documents show.
Looks to me that if they wiretapped and convicted a fugitive, drug dealer, extortionists and some computer hackers and wiretapped someone they suspected was a foreign agent (whether or not they were), that sentence would be the truth.
Any bias would be on the part of the journalist inferring from FOIA documents. Maybe the bias is your own?
Gnome was started because the Free Software Foundation ("information wants to be free") got itself in high moral dudgeon over the fact that an independently developed (meaning, no one kissed Richard M. Stallman's, uh, ring) desktop, KDE, was being produced under terms that no user could find objectionable but that the Free Software Foundation found insufficiently "free," based upon its made-up definition of the word.
I stopped reading here. I see where this is going. Trollsville USA!
Absolutely right! Why isn't there such a thing as a license exchange? Where people donate their old win 95 and 98, 98se licenses to charity groups and schools. I went to my library with old pIIs but they didn't want the licensing headaches. They turned the computers down! I couldn't believe it! A library turning down free computers!
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A long time? What was it? Three days maybe? Most people didn't even know what Lott said before Bush called it "offensive and "wrong."
This was the Republicans doing. Lott drops out and Cheney takes up as Majority Leader.
I guess that makes it faster than my car. :)
Thanks for nothing Nullsoft.
Could someone please run demoroniser over stuff before posting it?
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But what does this have to do with Fair Use Rights?
County-by-county, it was a Bush blowout. Not even close.
Except when you take into account for population. Isn't that how someone should be elected? ... by number of votes? or should Montana win out because they have big splotches of no one living there?
Good thing the EULA isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Your assuming that this EULA is legaly valid, and that Microsoft can call it a license as if they have the right to set terms on the software they sell.
They don't. Copyright gives them no right to post conditions. When you buy it you own it.
Is the use of software now subject to a license? As far as I'm concerned you are not bound by a license for just use of the software. If I want to use Bitkeeper code then his license applies to me.
Is Lindows the next Microsoft?
It certainly looks like they've learned a lot from them.
"The internet will collapse in 1996." -Bob Metcalf, Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder.
Can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis?
..... wrong joke.
Damn
It's not blind at all! Have you seen any press on Microsoft in the past ten years? There is good reason not to trust them.
I prefer calling it the "war on some drugs" - the drugs the current administration doesn't like for whatever reason. Tea, coffee, beer and cigarettes don't contain drugs apparently.
<troll> Gee isn't sugar a drug? How come that isn't outlawed? </troll>
are you gonna compare coffee with heroin?
Note the word "economics." Liebowitz and Margolis are economists opposed to an "excessive inertia" theory, for which QWERTY is often cited as an example. Rather than try to prove their point with a generally valid argument, they simply attack Dvorak as a dubious replacement for QWERTY.
You mean that keeping the source code locked up and secret would save us from this apocalypse? Maybe you should tell those BSD people. They give the code away too!
Do you know what a hard drive cost in 1984? Do you know how big it was?
What were they? 10 megabytes? The floppy was 700k.
Just think of all the PC makers that are out of business today. Apple is still in business. They must do something right.
Maybe your being a little too critical!
So what's your solution? Non-standardized tests? Have every school district make up their own "special" test? Why do you consider this testing any more a "trivia quiz" the normal test teachers make up?
The point of the article was that New York incorrectly based their cutoff scores for summer school on the test. The people at CTB/McGraw-Hill told them *not* to. Sounds like your example of students zoning out after the SOL is the same problem, but it has nothing to do with the test.
Your rant about treating kids like potentials is heartwarming for a picket sign, but if you can't give an example how to change things, it's just hot wind. These tests try to *raise* the lowest common denominator. The brightest kids do fine. What's wrong with that?
I'm sure that you have years of experience in testing science so tell me what type of testing is used for kids who think and solve problems? What's your idea? What type of test do you recommend?
I guess the USA isn't a free country. I can't freely go around killing people! :( Does a free country have no laws? Free doesn't mean you can do anything you want. Can you use it? FREE! Can you base another software program on it as well? FREE! Stallman only asks one thing of you and that is you can't undermind his copyright. If he allows you to use the code you can't take that away from others.
Course you want to be able to use someone else software to lock up the code. To not release the source. To make it un-free. You think that it's unfair that you can't take his code an take it away from him. Your just another BSD troll saying the GPL is viral. The BSD license makes restrictions as well.
The first great cliché of the Internet, ... was "information wants to be free." The notion, ... was that no one should have to pay for
"content"
When did this ever mean giving "content" away for free! Do they think that old Abe Lincoln was giving slaves away at a discount!
Couldn't anyone rewrite the code and slap new copyright on it? After all when IBM GPLs a piece of code it's our code.
You'd think a person who used the term "contextual analysis" would be able to understand a simple sentence.
The FBI has used Internet eavesdropping tools to track fugitives, drug dealers, extortionists, computer hackers and suspected foreign intelligence agents, documents show.
Looks to me that if they wiretapped and convicted a fugitive, drug dealer, extortionists and some computer hackers and wiretapped someone they suspected was a foreign agent (whether or not they were), that sentence would be the truth. Any bias would be on the part of the journalist inferring from FOIA documents. Maybe the bias is your own?
Got me? But I do remember Gates calling the internet a "fad". Look up the original edition of "The Road Ahead".
I stopped reading here. I see where this is going. Trollsville USA!
Absolutely right! Why isn't there such a thing as a license exchange? Where people donate their old win 95 and 98, 98se licenses to charity groups and schools. I went to my library with old pIIs but they didn't want the licensing headaches. They turned the computers down! I couldn't believe it! A library turning down free computers!