But the problem is that the system is so abused that it is dishonest, if not immoral. You would think that EU representatives/legal committees would recognize this, hence my parent post.
Also, I find your comment about little software companies really offensive, as many of us work for such companies and it's how we put food on the table.
Well, I wouldn't call it a battle so much as paying politicians off. I just can't help but wonder how much graft goes under the table that we just don't see.
Besides, prior owners have no real motivation to bring charges at this point.
You said it - at this point - until some lawyer looking for lunch goes through those papers from the storage unit and sees that these guys are getting popular again. Then he, like other scumbuckets that came before, file a lawsuit to claim ownership of everything.
Even if the code was GPLed, judges eyes glass over when you mention "copyright".
I don't know what has been done to settle it, but verbal assurances are worth the paper that they are written on.
Actually not. Once you throw it away, you're throwing it to the birds.
The problem is more how it was thrown away. If the dumpster was located on private property, then that's tresspassing. Public property - that's a different matter entirely. Laws vary from state to state on this. But you do not see much enforcement anyway, as it's trash.
I imagine that there are different laws for each state that prohibit people from climbing into dumpsters for safety reasons..
So much as the code goes, I searched and could not find information about the status of code ownership/trademarks or current license. I do note that a non-profit was started for the sake of preserving the game.
As an aside, I think this exemplifies why current copyright law is too long, and favors those who have deep pockets for lobbyists to protect a "few" things, while literally everything else goes to the trash.
They made 560 million. Which is better than what I implied, as I took my info from this blurb But their profit comes from 22,000 job cuts and closing plants.
They did not make 13 billion dollars last year moron.
Sure, they may be a large player, they are also not making a lot, if any money. And when they day is done, that's what matters - not if you are a "huge player" or not.
I believe the article said he died in his 90s. If that's that radiation does to you, bring it on.
That's a simplistic view. It could have been uneven distribution of the fallout or the wind or how much becomes dust instead of absorbed in the ground.
FTA; Men, woman and children with no outward marks of injury are dying daily in hospitals, some after having walked around three or four weeks thinking they have escaped.
I would say that walking around in a heavy fallout zone is an extremely unhealthy activity, and if things ever came to that I hope that I am in my own bunker in another region altogether.
So the issue isn't that OS X will be available for 'common' computers as much as Macs WILL be 'common' computers.
Grasshopper, you forget the zillion of low-end computers out there running win98/2000 that people are not going to want to replace, and that linux will run on.
It will be quite some time before Apple x86 becomes as common as these.
The only thing that would change this picture is if Apple changed their mind and released a standalone OS for x86 (unlikely).
I went to "Revenge of the Sith". In the middle of the movie there was this constant babbling behind me. I turned around and looked and there was this slob on his cell phone and he promptly gave me the finger.
Though I went and got the usher, I still feel inclined that I should have used my own physical force.
MPAA - if people stop going to your movies it's because they might be getting tired of cell phones in theatres.
I have the ultimate solution to all of our trademark issues. Simply use MD5 hashes instead of the original names. d6a5c9544eca9b5ce2266d1c34a93222 is catchier than Firefox anyways.
Alternatively, they could go with this catchy number: 13B10\/\/5C|-||_|N!<Z
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Isn't that what naked girls climb out of to protest fur coats?
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
That was back in the day when stuff was made so it could be repaired. Now things are engineered for disposability/cost rather than repairability.
The phrase "There are no user servicable compnents inside" has never meant more than it does today.
Hopefully it will change when we run out of landfills.
In the land of the assholeless, the one-assholed man is king?
So, you are suggesting one-asshole to rule them all??
I think we already have that.
something is simple does not mean it is obvious or non-novel
Agreed. Likewise, just because someone decides to write a patent application does not mean they should receive a patent.
Which seems to be the primary mode of operation for the US patent office these days.
No, you are wrong. What we are seeing are bad patents that are neither unique nor novel and companies abusing the patent system here in the US.
So we end up with patents like Amazon's assinine "one-click" patent, to Kodak pulling out their Wang patents against Java.
I could post links to bad software patents all day long that pretty much 'eclipse' your idea of "really good arguments".
Personally, I take a more balanced view
But the problem is that the system is so abused that it is dishonest, if not immoral. You would think that EU representatives/legal committees would recognize this, hence my parent post.
Also, I find your comment about little software companies really offensive, as many of us work for such companies and it's how we put food on the table.
forbid the use of GPL'ed software for public institutions in countries
Like the US?? On the surface it may seem like a good idea, but it just makes things worse by encouraging the use of patented software.
The more people that see an alternative open platform and why it exists, the easier it will be to change things in the long run.
If people stopped consuming protected media, including songs from iTunes, it would make a difference
When people do that sort of thing, it's called 'piracy'.
Well, I wouldn't call it a battle so much as paying politicians off. I just can't help but wonder how much graft goes under the table that we just don't see.
Besides, prior owners have no real motivation to bring charges at this point.
You said it - at this point - until some lawyer looking for lunch goes through those papers from the storage unit and sees that these guys are getting popular again. Then he, like other scumbuckets that came before, file a lawsuit to claim ownership of everything.
Even if the code was GPLed, judges eyes glass over when you mention "copyright".
I don't know what has been done to settle it, but verbal assurances are worth the paper that they are written on.
Actually not. Once you throw it away, you're throwing it to the birds.
The problem is more how it was thrown away. If the dumpster was located on private property, then that's tresspassing. Public property - that's a different matter entirely. Laws vary from state to state on this. But you do not see much enforcement anyway, as it's trash.
I imagine that there are different laws for each state that prohibit people from climbing into dumpsters for safety reasons..
So much as the code goes, I searched and could not find information about the status of code ownership/trademarks or current license. I do note that a non-profit was started for the sake of preserving the game.
As an aside, I think this exemplifies why current copyright law is too long, and favors those who have deep pockets for lobbyists to protect a "few" things, while literally everything else goes to the trash.
Does it at least have a better name than Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
Do you mean something like "Arms up - this is a stickup" ??
They made 560 million. Which is better than what I implied, as I took my info from this blurb But their profit comes from 22,000 job cuts and closing plants.
They did not make 13 billion dollars last year moron.
Sure, they may be a large player, they are also not making a lot, if any money. And when they day is done, that's what matters - not if you are a "huge player" or not.
I believe the article said he died in his 90s. If that's that radiation does to you, bring it on.
That's a simplistic view. It could have been uneven distribution of the fallout or the wind or how much becomes dust instead of absorbed in the ground.
FTA;
Men, woman and children with no outward marks of injury are dying daily in hospitals, some after having walked around three or four weeks thinking they have escaped.
I would say that walking around in a heavy fallout zone is an extremely unhealthy activity, and if things ever came to that I hope that I am in my own bunker in another region altogether.
They don't own all of the patents on digital camerss, and there have been various lawsuits over them.
In fact, Kodak operates a lot like sco does, not really innovating anything but making money from litigation.
It would be better if they went out of business.
Yup. If we bought pentiums made in space each one would cost $20,000.
Things are good because they are good, not because they have a robot, alien, spaceship, magic, etc
Well, if the robot or alien is really sexy and has a fast spaceship, I'd call it good.
It's fine sci-fi characters like Seven of Nine and T'Pol that really give me geek wood, not so much warp drive engines.
You can have those back.
I can't wait until I become a CEO of a large company so that I can patent what other CEOs already do and think.
So the issue isn't that OS X will be available for 'common' computers as much as Macs WILL be 'common' computers.
Grasshopper, you forget the zillion of low-end computers out there running win98/2000 that people are not going to want to replace, and that linux will run on.
It will be quite some time before Apple x86 becomes as common as these.
The only thing that would change this picture is if Apple changed their mind and released a standalone OS for x86 (unlikely).
I, for one, welcome our new google pay overlord.
maybe it will give the characters some depth
Yes they will be deep. Deep in the Ewok forest, that is.
I went to "Revenge of the Sith". In the middle of the movie there was this constant babbling behind me. I turned around and looked and there was this slob on his cell phone and he promptly gave me the finger.
Though I went and got the usher, I still feel inclined that I should have used my own physical force.
MPAA - if people stop going to your movies it's because they might be getting tired of cell phones in theatres.
I have the ultimate solution to all of our trademark issues. Simply use MD5 hashes instead of the original names. d6a5c9544eca9b5ce2266d1c34a93222 is catchier than Firefox anyways.
Alternatively, they could go with this catchy number: 13B10\/\/5C|-||_|N!<Z
I think that comment applies to the 7400 ttl era stuff.
But you're right, fpgas are anything but standard, and they are the parts that turn on all the standard glue logic if there is any.
There was a day when all there was was a 6502 and a board full of ttl chips and a voltage regulator at one end.