Competition is what GPL is against.
What would I want to invest tons of money in making sure that my product is superior to anything competition might create when as soon as I release it they will be able to incorporate all my hard work into their code at no cost?
So what if I can do the same ? If they don't have any meaningful features I can take it is me who lost because my product now is no different than anything else on the market, despite the fact that it was me who innovated here.
"I just hope to see the day when the GPL is no longer needed because copyrights have been abolished everywhere"
What do you do for living ?
If it is programming then be afraid, the day your rights to your code are abolished it will be the day your work has no value to anyone ( or should I say, the fact that you did that work has no meaning to anyone)
"The main thing is not letting them get away with something like "ok, we'll fix it, but we'll keep selling this until we do""
"If you consider that the normal practice for a software company is to make money by selling what they write, GPLing their code could put a large dent in their revenues. "
Finally, somebody admitting that the goal of GPL is too kill commercial viability of software development.
How in the world this is promoted by people whose only ability to make money is related to they coding skills is beyond me.
How about Gas Company having right to access your installation in order to prevent/fix any emergencies?
Do you think their right to do that expires when you leave that house and new owner can kick them out and endanger whole neighborhood?
All they are saying here is that if they go out and install some of their equipment on your property they should have a right to access it even if you are no longer owner of this property.
The problem is that this institution is not run for profit and therefore has no accountability to anyone.
If they were forced to compete against other schools you would immediately see improvements (for one money would be spent more wisely)
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Nice try.
However, Jews do not whine and as far as I know they are doing pretty well _despite"_ racism and bigotry they were subjected for couple of hunder years.
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So what ?
Are we going to take turns who's on top or maybe we should try to actually abide by our current laws which prohibit different treatment based on race ( that goes for Affirmative Actions as well)
Who is to say that government handouts are sign of civilized society?
Or ban on guns ? Or so called "pollution control" (btw. Europe is not cleaner than US )
Who is to decide that?
If you ask liberal, he will agree with you but the same token conservatives will vigorously oppose this statement.
"Because QPE writes to the screen directly, it doesn't provide the ability to share the screen among different toolkits the way you do in the X11 world. "
You mean networked protocol ?
Are you serious ?
As to the price for QPE...
Direct quote from trolltech site
"Also released today is the Qt Palmtop Environment, which is the first Personal Information Management (PIM) package for embedded Linux released under the GPL."
"I just made the regular mistake of most americans. Socialism doenst suck!!! It has tradeoffs like everything else, but many socialist countries are richer than the US, like Denmark where I live, or Sweden, Germany or for that matter Canada.."
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How fucking sweet ?
They killed one of the best OS around while offering nothing instead.
Nice.
Competition is what GPL is against.
What would I want to invest tons of money in making sure that my product is superior to anything competition might create when as soon as I release it they will be able to incorporate all my hard work into their code at no cost?
So what if I can do the same ? If they don't have any meaningful features I can take it is me who lost because my product now is no different than anything else on the market, despite the fact that it was me who innovated here.
I thought the goal here was to discurage people from writing the same code over and over again.
"I just hope to see the day when the GPL is no longer needed because copyrights have been abolished everywhere"
What do you do for living ?
If it is programming then be afraid, the day your rights to your code are abolished it will be the day your work has no value to anyone ( or should I say, the fact that you did that work has no meaning to anyone)
"Hence GPL software is legal no matter what and would most likely be protected under the anti-trust laws. "
Yeah, that would prove the widely known fact that GPL software is simply irrelevant in the real world.
In the end; how is that different that corporations suing for unauthorized use of their intellectual property?
Fucking hypocrites.
You can't really make money selling GPL stuff, so maybe suing people will cover for this inability.
"The main thing is not letting them get away with something like "ok, we'll fix it, but we'll keep selling this until we do""
"If you consider that the normal practice for a software company is to make money by selling what they write, GPLing their code could put a large dent in their revenues. "
Finally, somebody admitting that the goal of GPL is too kill commercial viability of software development.
How in the world this is promoted by people whose only ability to make money is related to they coding skills is beyond me.
"As a programmer, the value of having the source code for all the software that is available under GPL to learn from is invaluable. "
Great, so once you improve your skills what are you going to do ?
Write more GPL code or work for somebody else writing commercial code ?
How about Gas Company having right to access your installation in order to prevent/fix any emergencies?
Do you think their right to do that expires when you leave that house and new owner can kick them out and endanger whole neighborhood?
All they are saying here is that if they go out and install some of their equipment on your property they should have a right to access it even if you are no longer owner of this property.
"Where, exactly, is the accountability in privatizing education?"
In the fact that in competition for students schools will have to make sure that academic standards are high or they will go out of business.
The problem is that this institution is not run for profit and therefore has no accountability to anyone.
If they were forced to compete against other schools you would immediately see improvements (for one money would be spent more wisely)
Not of all time but cetrainly in first 5.
Nice try.
However, Jews do not whine and as far as I know they are doing pretty well _despite"_ racism and bigotry they were subjected for couple of hunder years.
Any lessons here for AA ?
Do you extend your judgment to all these minority racial groups as well ?
Isn't Napster by any chance American company ?
So what ?
Are we going to take turns who's on top or maybe we should try to actually abide by our current laws which prohibit different treatment based on race ( that goes for Affirmative Actions as well)
Who is to say that government handouts are sign of civilized society?
Or ban on guns ? Or so called "pollution control" (btw. Europe is not cleaner than US )
Who is to decide that?
If you ask liberal, he will agree with you but the same token conservatives will vigorously oppose this statement.
Hell, obviously one cannot sell software for Linux and still make a profit.
"Because QPE writes to the screen directly, it doesn't provide the ability to share the screen among different toolkits the way you do in the X11 world. "
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You mean networked protocol ?
Are you serious ?
As to the price for QPE
Direct quote from trolltech site
"Also released today is the Qt Palmtop Environment, which is the first Personal Information Management (PIM) package for embedded Linux released under the GPL."
Check your facts before you post.
Hehehe.
This guy was counting on some sort of response, preferably from French and you just played right into it
Hmm, so it seem like you like Apple. I happened to prefer MS interface much more so who is right , me or you ?
"I just made the regular mistake of most americans. Socialism doenst suck!!! It has tradeoffs like everything else, but many socialist countries are richer than the US, like Denmark where I live, or Sweden, Germany or for that matter Canada.."
By whos standards ?
"We'll implement a national plan with solid targets to make jobs our first economic priority. "
Do they care to explain how are they going to accomplish this ?
We are not Democracy, or should I say, we are Democracy on state level where it should really count.