Copyright or IP is not about protect author's rights.
It is about encourage information production and exchange.
If you just focus on the property side or profit side of the problem, you also hurt the goal that people got more and more difficult to produce and exchange information. If you publish an essay, you will be afraid to accidentally sued by someone, how do you feel wanting to write? Blog?
If there is still people wanting to produce, do not tighten the control. If people feel copyright is too big a problem for them to produce, loosen.
The society is now in my opinion that copyright or IP protection is over protected. If you look at what search engines, news, databases are doing these days and how many law suits they receive you understand that control is serve. The IP laws have hurt the production of information. It is working against its goal.
If IP is important, it is time for us to loosen the laws.
Actually, any party which provide software (firmware) should provide source code:
1. If they want copyright protection 2. For security, it should be legislative to have all user have access to the code for inspection for security reason. 3. For inspect of stolen code.
The software industary is hurted by close source. The new generation is learning in the dark, every team have their own coding secret, no outsider can have understanding to their coding, it hurt the education and new comer.
Copyright law should benefit the flow of information and knowledge, not to ban it.
Allow others to re-use your code and modify your code for new feature or bug fix is your own decision and court's ruling.
Provide source code to gain copyright protect. No close source and copyright protection.
It shall be better (un)regulated like our private life.
Not until the net is matured enough, and let all the things happened, and fully understand all people's response to these, regulation should be introduced.
1. If you want to tap into a constant cash flow, without risking into a new business, that is what apple is doing now: cut others' profit
2. If you wish to develope a new platform one that as large or larger than PC: you boost the platform and help the platform concor the world. The business plan can be ads, computing as services, etc.
What I have seen in Asia is that people buy the 1.1.2 OTB which is not working as a phone but was very happy!
People still want one, of cause they hope one day it will be unlocked, use it for other purpose.
If the iphone can not install new apps, what people will buy?
Jobs, it is about a new platform, not just a phone!
Think big, Open Open Open!
Think what make PC sells and Apple die? Why apple fail and PC domainate the world? Do not be a fool again, you ideot!
It should come with a version like that of eeePC. The so call interface is very very bad.
If they decide to use python to write the menu system and let the students access and play with the code. That is fine. However, I would like to have it written in shell.
Many Many public domain materials were being re-license with various CC license also. These happen every day, every where. Especally in Wikis, which people choose a CC license for the whole site, however, some information inside were in public domain.
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Copyright or IP is not about protect author's rights.
It is about encourage information production and exchange.
If you just focus on the property side or profit side of the problem, you also hurt the goal that people got more and more difficult to produce and exchange information. If you publish an essay, you will be afraid to accidentally sued by someone, how do you feel wanting to write? Blog?
If there is still people wanting to produce, do not tighten the control. If people feel copyright is too big a problem for them to produce, loosen.
The society is now in my opinion that copyright or IP protection is over protected. If you look at what search engines, news, databases are doing these days and how many law suits they receive you understand that control is serve. The IP laws have hurt the production of information. It is working against its goal.
If IP is important, it is time for us to loosen the laws.
Actually, any party which provide software (firmware) should provide source code:
1. If they want copyright protection
2. For security, it should be legislative to have all user have access to the code for inspection for security reason.
3. For inspect of stolen code.
The software industary is hurted by close source. The new generation is learning in the dark, every team have their own coding secret, no outsider can have understanding to their coding, it hurt the education and new comer.
Copyright law should benefit the flow of information and knowledge, not to ban it.
Allow others to re-use your code and modify your code for new feature or bug fix is your own decision and court's ruling.
Provide source code to gain copyright protect. No close source and copyright protection.
Provide source codes should be required by law!
GPL also bad!
basically, a computer is build with speed in mind, no trust is being considered when design the whole thing.
Never trust the computer.
Well may be
If more solar battery, more win mile, more land for energy,
means more people in hungry
What will you do?
You pay high oil price for charity?
What if what we done to lower the earth tempature bring
all species removed from earth?
Will you
respect mother nature? Or just do things un-fully-understand? semi-blindly?
Just because you want your voice heard? Just have desire to order people?
The net are semi-public place.
It shall be better (un)regulated like our private life.
Not until the net is matured enough, and let all the things happened, and fully understand all people's response to these, regulation should be introduced.
Do not play god.
Mozilla should be a serious player in (offline) web app development platform.
Why no body use it?
Why people are excited with AIR? Why not Mozilla?
This is about how to view the profit:
1. If you want to tap into a constant cash flow, without risking into a new business, that is what apple is doing now: cut others' profit
2. If you wish to develope a new platform one that as large or larger than PC: you boost the platform and help the platform concor the world. The business plan can be ads, computing as services, etc.
What I have seen in Asia is that people buy the 1.1.2 OTB which is not working as a phone but was very happy!
People still want one, of cause they hope one day it will be unlocked, use it for other purpose.
If the iphone can not install new apps, what people will buy?
Jobs, it is about a new platform, not just a phone!
Think big, Open Open Open!
Think what make PC sells and Apple die? Why apple fail and PC domainate the world? Do not be a fool again, you ideot!
Let the information flow.
Make browser that meet standards.
That IE have hurt the whole web and information flow. And all from shameful business practices.
Bill, correct that before doing charity!
It is not about money.
It is to encourage sharing of knowledge that improve the whole mankind.
If you do not share, you have no protection. If you do not want sharing, there should be no protection.
The copyright law should make anyone wanting to access a piece of intellectual work possible, with a cost.
The copyright law should make sure protected intellectual works be archived by some institution.
The assumption of single origin should not be trusted.
No copyright protection for any close source thing.
The evil will reborn from dead. Only God can stop it.
They should make a back end product, storing, indexing, shareing, publishing, work groups, etc.
Provide a fancy interface on line is a dead end.
It will have damage our weather worse than anything else!
STOP PLAYING GOD!
Stop doing things you do NOT known well!
Stop follow others like a ideot.
In the beginning html is simple.
Once upon a time, Mozilla want to create a platform to develop specific clients.
Now, comes the iphone:
You want to run ajax version to edit your document on-line?
What are web-services?
Why keeping to chase fancy interface and make the more and more complicate things?
I want to ask a question: What is the platform you want to develop for the next big thing: the handheld device.
What platform you want to develop for the device that have no display?
Can ajax suit a platform for voice only or more innovative interface?
KISS! with love.
I do not own one, but I play the virtual machine.
It should come with a version like that of eeePC. The so call interface is very very bad.
If they decide to use python to write the menu system and let the students access and play with the code. That is fine. However, I would like to have it written in shell.
I want more: especially format conversion
I rather not opt for Raid.
The main reason is that I find it hard to add new drive to it as the drive is growing fast.
I think the tech should change to allow different size of disk to work together.
You want to sell the tickets ONLY?
Or
You want to have controlled the tickets? You care only your business, what do you want to controll others?
You sell your music, not to control the music.
Many Many public domain materials were being re-license with various CC license also. These happen every day, every where. Especally in Wikis, which people choose a CC license for the whole site, however, some information inside were in public domain.
Why GPL bar the various code into linux? Why linux doesn't get more driver? why linux does not have ZFS?
Why companies were multi-lincense codes?
Because GPL is trouble!
Free the source code, free the industral.
If that means sever traffic jam, then this is not going to be allowed to replace the current network.
Take find/replace for example.
When they will admit that user need a better find/replace and start to build it?
They just care about their ego. That is a dead end.
It will be very interesting to see how pop ups works.
I knew that some do count on trust or image to make money. But why people click the pop ups? Why people were not teach not to click on popups?
Educate the kids, educate the people.
Why comments, footnotes and endnotes are not there !!!!
Why something already got defined in microformat is defined?
time, meter is notthing related to html, w3c should think about its reason for existance.
Bye W3C, you forgot what you should do. We should drop you.