Yes, they own the right to those electronic reproductions of Michelangelo sculptures because they produced those creproductions. It did cost them time and money. Please don't expect they'll share these reproductions with you.
If you want your own reproduction, go and make one. Michelangelo's copyright, if any, has expired. No one is hoarding David. It's here, open for everyone to copy.
OTOH Harry Potter's hasn't, so you can't OCR his books. Sorry.
GPL defines "the source code" as "the preferred form for making modifications". I don't know about you guys, but I prefer to modify my genome...er...differently.
No, certainly The Sequence (how's that for a movie title?) is not "the source code" for humans. </just a thought>
If somebody will modify the genome to create a superhuman and then release that superhuman, without also releasing the modifications in source code form, that would violate GPL. (As if anyone will care.)
This whole situation resembles emigration. You know, when a family leaves its home country looking for greener pa$ture$. Who's first to adapt to the new reality? Kids of course! It's a norm for a child of immigrants to do much better than his or her parents.
Let's face it. We are surrounded by the new reality. Some elder folk will adapt to it (shedding much sweat and tears and blood in process). Most will not. But kids will be at home with this new reality, and good luck to them.
Just wait. Soon they'll figure out that our generation coded a huge pile o'crap, throw it away, and create the Internet and everything totally afresh. Don't fool yourself about
lack of interest in Computer Science that colleges are seeing as of late
One doesn't need a college to pick up Computer Sciense (yes I mean the heavy stuff like information theory, formal languages and such).
The Grammar Jew wants you to know that the proper word is copyright, meaning "right to copy". The word "copywrite" does not appear in major dictionaries, but one may argue that it could mean "[to perform] a copywriter's job" or something similar. A copywriter is a writer of advertising or publicity copy.
You better make sure your wife has a chance to read the license, because she will...er...distribute your code. (Jews may choose to put the license directly to the Ketuba).
OTOH your kids are safe, because they are not likely to distribute the "cyb" parts of them, only "org" parts. It's ok to combine non-GPLed stuff with GPL-ed stuff as long as you don't distribute the combination.
But wait...When you...erm...ugh...entertained yourself with your...oh...palm, didn't you actually release your genome to public domain?
Slashdot Mirror
An urban legend.
Envy is also a thing that causes envy, as in "my lawn is the envy of the entire neighbourhood". Is it necessarily a bad thing?
Not quite there, but promising.
DUDE, IF MY WIFE EVER FINDS OUT I HAVE LOOKED THERE, SHE WILL KICK MY ASS.
X-rays? Nah, try radio. Venus was mapped with a radar (the link :)
Bah! "Programming in HTML" is certainly a valid usage. Not less valid then "programming a VCR".
I don't think Noam Chomsky reads Slashdot, and I don't think he defines himself as Jew (saw it somewhere, so don't quote me on that).
Um...I meant something else, like linking against somebody else's code...oh, nevermind.
Thank you.
Buy it, then destroy it (or do whatever you damn please with it). Thank you.
If you want your own reproduction, go and make one. Michelangelo's copyright, if any, has expired. No one is hoarding David. It's here, open for everyone to copy.
OTOH Harry Potter's hasn't, so you can't OCR his books. Sorry.
You mean, like here?
digitize certain young actres...and then release the data under an open source license...the possibilities are, shall I say, endless...
Well, could it be that the junk DNA is what the name suggests --- junk?
GPL defines "the source code" as "the preferred form for making modifications". I don't know about you guys, but I prefer to modify my genome...er...differently.
No, certainly The Sequence (how's that for a movie title?) is not "the source code" for humans.
</just a thought>
If somebody will modify the genome to create a superhuman and then release that superhuman, without also releasing the modifications in source code form, that would violate GPL. (As if anyone will care.)
Officially, DVD doesn't stand for anything.
Let's face it. We are surrounded by the new reality. Some elder folk will adapt to it (shedding much sweat and tears and blood in process). Most will not. But kids will be at home with this new reality, and good luck to them.
Time to learn telephone sanitizing :(
You can always sell Internet domains, they are the simplest...oh wait...
If He had, it expired some 5740 years ago.
The Grammar Jew wants you to know that the proper word is copyright, meaning "right to copy". The word "copywrite" does not appear in major dictionaries, but one may argue that it could mean "[to perform] a copywriter's job" or something similar. A copywriter is a writer of advertising or publicity copy.
OTOH your kids are safe, because they are not likely to distribute the "cyb" parts of them, only "org" parts. It's ok to combine non-GPLed stuff with GPL-ed stuff as long as you don't distribute the combination.
But wait...When you...erm...ugh...entertained yourself with your...oh...palm, didn't you actually release your genome to public domain?