not to criticize your english because I know not everyone on here is a native english speaker. I know I make countless mistakes myself... but best can be used as a verb, and it has the same meaning as beat.
If i remember from my economics class correctly, being able to divide and name a price for a given market based on how much they are able to pay is textbook monopolistic behavior. I think I recall that one of the provisions for the Microsoft remedy was to force microsoft to implement uniform pricing, rather than raise the price for those who sold competing OSes.
Assuming this does support a standard API, wouldn't this give us the ability (albeit closed source ability) to read the unencrypted mpeg stream?
If that's the case, then how could DeCSS be any more a tool for piracy than this? If the MPAA lets this go, then they'd be admitting that DMCA case against DeCSS would have no merit (as if it ever did). Of course we'd still have the reverse engineering case to deal with.
I think this could be good because free software authors need to be protected from any liability. On the other hand, It would may also reinforce the "no reverse engineering" clauses that are included with so many shrink wrap licenses. I certianly hope that these clauses are found to be unenforcable because that would prevent others from writing products that interoperate, and reduce competition.
It's possible that he intends to use it this way. Depending on how he chooses to enforce this patent, it could really be used for good purposes. Much in the same way RMS has used a library being GPL'd in stead of LGPL'd to encourage application writers to GPL their works. It could potentially be even more powerful than RMS's method, because it would be applicable to all works that are covered by the patent, not just derivitave works of the code. Of course he could always just use it to make money as well, which is fine as long as GPL'd works can use it and does not infringe upon our freedoms granted by the GPL.
I think the most obvious answer is that Hurd will be able to use it, but BSD will not. The reason for this is that since the Hurd is GPL'd there will be no license incompatibilities. In fact, I believe the GPL has certian requirements on the licensing of a patent, otherwise there would be a conflict. If you were not able to use it in another non-Linux, but GPL'd project, It would seem to me that this would violate the GPL. It is an unfortunate side effect that this could not be used in BSD projects. Hopefully the patent owner could make an exception, without losing the ability to enforce his patent.
What about all the skeletons of ape like creatures that have been discovered? are they not transitional? seems like a never ending argument to me, as transitional means whatever you want it to mean. If I find a transitional fossilized skeleton, you can simply say that it's far to big of a jump, and that we need to find another speciman to show a smoother transition. How convenient.
Has it ever occured to you that evolution might not be a steady and slow process, but something that takes place very rarely, but at very quick spurts (geologically speaking) therefore, the transitional species may have only existed for a short time, thus making it very difficult to find a perfectly smooth set of transitional specimans.
This is, of course just one possible explanation which may or may not be valid. After all, science is basically testing a hypothesis. It may be that today's fossil records doesn't fully support evolution, but it's closer to proving it than disproving it. You seem to imply the oppisite in your post.
The MS trial is about over. I wonder if this news story has been designed to influence just what kind of punishment that MS gets. I wouldn't worry about the project REALLY getting dropped... I just thing they wanted to give the judge something to think about. --
In my opinion, the redhat's rc file setup is one of the best designs that I've seen yet. Very organized. Maybe you just need someone to explain to you how it works and you might change your mind about it. --
About samba printing problems: I noticed this one as well, but aparently samba (or at least the version included w/ redhat 6) defaults to sysv printing. I changed it to bsd and everything works just fine. --
It's nice to see someone with some clout defending redhat. Redhat might not do every last little thing right, but they are certianly not the great satan that alot of misinformed users think. I think the existance of redhat has been good for the community. --
I definately understand this guy's fear. Although I really like redhat, I don't want to see it become so dominant that it squelches out the other distributions. If I were to purchase a piece of non-free software, I would place a high value on being able to run it on any distro i choose. Are you listening metroworks? --
I hate to break it to ya, but us Linux finatics are being hired and at quite good salaries too. If we weren't so finatical about our OS, I don't think it would have come this far. --
Perhaps redhat should run a cron job on the ftp server that extracts the spec file from a.src.rpm and put it in it's own directory. That would add a significant amount of convenience i think. --
I can't believe these fucking pricks. I say we should write scripts that send them fake/random data so as to destroy the usefulness/reliability of their database in protest. If we cause alot of trouble for them, maybe they'll reconsider these annoying restrictions. --
I took a look at some of the screen dumps of this thing on their website and it looks pretty slick. I'm really glad to see this happening. I really anticipate alot of lesser known vendors to begin releasing their code GPL as they find it will give them a boost in popularity and give them an opportunity to make more money off of service and support. This will also put pressure on the big boys, which is always healthy for the market. --
Since many of us run Linux or some free OS, how hard would it be to write a driver that can be configured to spit out any PSN that the user desired? Hell, it might not even require modifying the kernel. If it is implemented in Netscape, a patch for mozilla might be all you need. So then people would start trading around PSN's just the same as they used to do those porn passwords. It would be easy for websites to pull PSN's from people's computers, thus destroying the validity and usefulness of the PSN. I have a strong feeling that this thing will be short lived.
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not to criticize your english because I know not everyone on here is a native english speaker. I know I make countless mistakes myself... but best can be used as a verb, and it has the same meaning as beat.
These screenshots are so life like you'd think they're photographs! Man, I can't wait for this game! ;-)
If i remember from my economics class correctly, being able to divide and name a price for a given market based on how much they are able to pay is textbook monopolistic behavior. I think I recall that one of the provisions for the Microsoft remedy was to force microsoft to implement uniform pricing, rather than raise the price for those who sold competing OSes.
Assuming this does support a standard API, wouldn't this give us the ability (albeit closed source ability) to read the unencrypted mpeg stream?
If that's the case, then how could DeCSS be any more a tool for piracy than this? If the MPAA lets this go, then they'd be admitting that DMCA case against DeCSS would have no merit (as if it ever did). Of course we'd still have the reverse engineering case to deal with.
ohhh yeah, RPM is such an evil standard released under that horribly restrictive and propiotary GPL.
This is exactly what I've been waiting for. And at $299 it's pretty affordable too :-)
Yeah, the free software author might be forced to give a full refund. How disasterous!
I think this could be good because free software authors need to be protected from any liability. On the other hand, It would may also reinforce the "no reverse engineering" clauses that are included with so many shrink wrap licenses. I certianly hope that these clauses are found to be unenforcable because that would prevent others from writing products that interoperate, and reduce competition.
It's possible that he intends to use it this way. Depending on how he chooses to enforce this patent, it could really be used for good purposes. Much in the same way RMS has used a library being GPL'd in stead of LGPL'd to encourage application writers to GPL their works. It could potentially be even more powerful than RMS's method, because it would be applicable to all works that are covered by the patent, not just derivitave works of the code. Of course he could always just use it to make money as well, which is fine as long as GPL'd works can use it and does not infringe upon our freedoms granted by the GPL.
I think the most obvious answer is that Hurd will be able to use it, but BSD will not. The reason for this is that since the Hurd is GPL'd there will be no license incompatibilities. In fact, I believe the GPL has certian requirements on the licensing of a patent, otherwise there would be a conflict. If you were not able to use it in another non-Linux, but GPL'd project, It would seem to me that this would violate the GPL. It is an unfortunate side effect that this could not be used in BSD projects. Hopefully the patent owner could make an exception, without losing the ability to enforce his patent.
There are no known transitional fossils.
What about all the skeletons of ape like creatures that have been discovered? are they not transitional? seems like a never ending argument to me, as transitional means whatever you want it to mean. If I find a transitional fossilized skeleton, you can simply say that it's far to big of a jump, and that we need to find another speciman to show a smoother transition. How convenient.
Has it ever occured to you that evolution might not be a steady and slow process, but something that takes place very rarely, but at very quick spurts (geologically speaking) therefore, the transitional species may have only existed for a short time, thus making it very difficult to find a perfectly smooth set of transitional specimans.
This is, of course just one possible explanation which may or may not be valid. After all, science is basically testing a hypothesis. It may be that today's fossil records doesn't fully support evolution, but it's closer to proving it than disproving it. You seem to imply the oppisite in your post.
Words cannot describe how glad I am to see this happen.
Sorry... I already got dibbs on those. If you're real nice tho, we might invite you to BBQ when we grill 'em up.
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The MS trial is about over. I wonder if this news story has been designed to influence just what kind of punishment that MS gets. I wouldn't worry about the project REALLY getting dropped... I just thing they wanted to give the judge something to think about.
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last I read about the new licencing scheme is that mozilla is co-licenced under the GPL.
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In my opinion, the redhat's rc file setup is one of the best designs that I've seen yet. Very organized. Maybe you just need someone to explain to you how it works and you might change your mind about it.
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About samba printing problems: I noticed this one as well, but aparently samba (or at least the version included w/ redhat 6) defaults to sysv printing. I changed it to bsd and everything works just fine.
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It's nice to see someone with some clout defending redhat. Redhat might not do every last little thing right, but they are certianly not the great satan that alot of misinformed users think. I think the existance of redhat has been good for the community.
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I definately understand this guy's fear. Although I really like redhat, I don't want to see it become so dominant that it squelches out the other distributions. If I were to purchase a piece of non-free software, I would place a high value on being able to run it on any distro i choose. Are you listening metroworks?
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I hate to break it to ya, but us Linux finatics are being hired and at quite good salaries too.
If we weren't so finatical about our OS, I don't think it would have come this far.
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Perhaps redhat should run a cron job on the ftp server that extracts the spec file from a .src.rpm and put it in it's own directory. That would add a significant amount of convenience i think.
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I can't believe these fucking pricks. I say we should write scripts that send them fake/random data so as to destroy the usefulness/reliability of their database in protest. If we cause alot of trouble for them, maybe they'll reconsider these annoying restrictions.
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I took a look at some of the screen dumps of this thing on their website and it looks pretty slick.
I'm really glad to see this happening. I really anticipate alot of lesser known vendors to begin releasing their code GPL as they find it will give them a boost in popularity and give them an opportunity to make more money off of service and support. This will also put pressure on the big boys, which is always healthy for the market.
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Since many of us run Linux or some free OS, how hard would it be to write a driver that can be configured to spit out any PSN that the user desired? Hell, it might not even require modifying the kernel. If it is implemented in Netscape, a patch for mozilla might be all you need. So then people would start trading around PSN's just the same as they used to do those porn passwords. It would be easy for websites to pull PSN's from people's computers, thus destroying the validity and usefulness of the PSN. I have a strong feeling that this thing will be short lived.
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I hope this ends up being good for VA. I think they're a good company.
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