I don't see why GPL'd software cannot work alongside proprietary software. In fact I use both GPL'd and proprietary software.
However what I think you mean is that you want to link your proprietary software with the GPL'd software or make a work based on the GPL'd software.
Now if you replace the GPL'd portion with proprietary code from another company, you still have to pay a licensing fee or get permission and still may not be as free to do with the 3rd party proprietary code as you wish to.
You are complaining because the GPL will not allow you or your employer to relicense the free code you have received to restrict the same freedoms in others that you enjoyed.
And while Free Software is open source, open source is not always free software.
In my day to day work I avoid using any software that is GPLed because of commercial concerns (out side of my control) I cannot release details of software. So I have to reinvent everything and the open source community loses out on anything beneficial I may have done. A lose lose situation.
So how exactly does the community lose out? Since you are developing proprietary software, you are not releasing anything so how does it benefit the community?
And why cannot release details of the software? Because its encryption libraries and DRM. Well don't DRM I hear you say. The real world situation is this. Media companies want DRM. I agree that its not useful and doesn't actually benefit the media companies but until their minds are changes its here to stay. Whether that's right or wrong its a fact. There's nothing we can do about that.
So using logic. The media companies want DRM. So any companies wanting to show their content have to comply with their requirements and use DRM. So don't show their content some may argue. But the providers are commercial companies. If Dish network didn't show Sci-Fi channel for example viewers may switch to DirecTV. So if providers are using DRM their software has to be proprietary which precludes GPLed code.
Tivo is allowed to use Linux in their product. But then they would have to abide by the rules of the GPL if they wish to use GPL'd code. If they wish to restrict the rights of others, then they should have written their software from scratch. Tivo had it easy. They got to profit off the freely available Linux, and then used a loophole in the GPL to get around the requirements. You claim that people who use proprietary software and media need to abide by the license, then why is it so hard for you to understand that you should play by the rules of the free software community?
The point is not the DRM, but the fact that they got to profit off the work of many developers while using a loophole to get around the license requirements. They have to abide by the rules now and thats a bad thing?
Don't get me wrong. I am all for the rights of people/companies to release proprietary software. I just don't think its right when the very same people/companies whine about being forced to comply with the license.
Besides, the author considers monetary benefits to be the only real benefits. What he also fails to mention that by giving copyrights a limited term society benefits by helping people build upon the works of others once the legally sanctioned monopoly time is over.
After all didn't Newton say " If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
So what you are saying is that you spied on every single Indian student in your university and caught them cheating. With your skills of observation you should be working for Homeland security. Hell, you should be working for the CIA since you can instantly figure out exactly what everyone is doing at a given time.
My college roommate was Indian. He said that, of his entire class, only one person in each class did the assignments; the others copied his answers. He said this is routine at Indian universities.
I went to a university (Rutgers) with LOTS of Indians and never heard of this. Prior to Rutgers I did 2 years at Middlesex County College and never heard it there either.
I get extremely pissed when I call a company for support (or an Airline!) and I have to talk with someone I cannot understand what they are saying and they cannot understand me. It is just a slap in the face to the consumer.
Sadly, the problem is not just the language. The support services end up hiring the cheapest possible labor which may or may not be overseas. The accent and/or language idiosyncrasies are only part of the problem. Combine that with a drone who is reading from a script and the problem becomes worse. I have been just as frustrated with American techs as I have with Indian or central American techs.
Then you have the various levels of people you have to go through when dealing with outsourced companies trying to get things resolved. Sadly many of these companies have poorly trained project managers who do not do a good job. I was helping out a local company whose development work was done by someone in China (but the project manager was in the US) and communication was extremely hard and frustrating. It was only when we finally got in touch with the developer directly, did we see that the issue lay with the PM and not the developer.
Unless the person is excellent at english, it is very difficult to work closely with them on complex issues.
As long as the person is competent in English, you should have no problems dealing with them. I have experienced more issues dealing with Chinese developers than Russian/Eastern European and Indian developers. Ironically, the chinese developers almost always send email with perfect grammar with little to no typos, but have found it harder to get the message across to them.
That would mean that since her site has no robots.txt, her badly designed, ransom letter font littered site will not be indexed by google, yahoo and other search providers. Sounds like a winning scenario.
What you pay Red Hat for is the entitlement package i.e support. If you wish to install RHEL on 100 machines when you only have a support package for 10, then only those 10 machines will be able to use Red hat's update service or get technical support.
You are however free to hire your own sys admins who can download and/or recompile the source rpms yourself. I remember a client who had RHEL installed without any support options and he just recompiled and source rpms and updated his system himself.
And no they cannot prevent you from redistributing. CentOS does it after rebranding it.
For a good majority of the people who have portable mp3 players, lossy vs lossless does not matter. I have a great set of headphones for my gaming system because yes sound does matter there. I listen to music on that machine as well and the difference is night and day.
However when I am out for a walk listening to my mp3s, the earbuds etc are not of high enough quality where lossy vs lossless matters that much. Most of my music is 320kbps so I do like better bitrates but a 20mb VBR mp3 or ogg file does not sound that much different than a 40mb FLAC file of the same song.
1. The install is non-standard. They move stuff into wierd locations and often you have to add special considerations to your build process to make it work on RedHat based systems.
I am guessing that the last Red Hat release you worked on was 7.x. I am running Fedora here and it uses the LSB layout.
2. The packaging system sucks donkey balls! I can't stress that enough. RPM is awful. They have tried to fix it with all sorts of tacked on systems but they all suck. They're always slow as hell and the dependancy system often doesn't work right. I mean the term "RPM hell" was coined for a reason.
RPM by itself does not really cause all those problems. The issue is that there used to be many distros which use RPM. Red Hat, Mandrake (now Mandriva), Connectiva, SuSE, Caldera and TurboLinux to name a few. They all had their own ways of putting things in different places and these caused conflicts. People would just go to rpmfind.net, download an rpm, make no note of which distro the rpm was made for, install it with --force and --nodeps and then blame the dependency hell they encounter as being caused by rpm when in reality they used the rpm for a different distro than what they installed it on.
Debian on the other hand, had ONE source for their packages. If many distros used.debs and those distros all put files in different places, then people would experience the same issue there.
It is a bit better now with yum, apt4rpm which does dependency management while installing software.
But I am biased because I started with Slackware (basically before there was anything else) and went to Debian not long after. Although I have tried many, many distros over the last 15 years I always come back to Debian based systems. Ubuntu is what I run now because it has the goodness of Debian with a better/faster development model.
I used slackware too and if you blindly install and/or remove packages it is quite possible to screw up your slackware box as well. I know because I have done so. I learnt my lesson from that.
Raymond's comments are idiotic because (1) he was using the RAWHIDE repository where things do break, (2) he used --force and --nodeps to remove a package after rpm warned him that it would remove files that other packages depended on. He did so anyway which rendered his system unusable. Then instead of booting the install cd with linux rescue passed at the bootloader and fix the issue, he decided to flame the fedora-devel list. He could just as easily have done the same thing with Ubuntu and then proceeded to flame there.
I've used both Ubuntu and Fedora Core 6 recently. I am afflicted with distro fever which means that every so often I will try out a new distro. To be perfectly honest, I quite enjoy both Ubuntu and Fedora. Both work great for me and I cannot complain about either of them. I have yet to experience dependency hell with Fedora and if rpm is so bad, then dependency hell must run rampant right?
Apple makes most of its money from hardware. That is the biggest insurance of all, do they really care if someone has a pirated copy of OS X as long as they buy a mac to run it on? Obviously not.
As for cdkeys, the server version of OSX needs a cdkey. Now consider something as small as Quicktime. To get all the features you do indeed need to buy a license which gives you an authorization key. I have not installed Final Cut Pro or any of their major applications they they sell, but I assume you need to have some sort of authorization key to run those as well.
OS X is not all what Apple makes.And making a blanket statement such saying they don't need CDKeys is blatantly false. I pointed 2 applications which require such keys.
If apple were to release OS X for all intel based machines tomorrow, you can be damned sure they will have a similar mechanism such as Microsoft's to make sure noone 'pirates' their software.
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It is not just the developers actually. On quite a few occasions, I have witnessed project managers not doing their job properly and allowing feature creep at the 11th hour.
I used to work for a small PC reseller and many customers tried to weasel their way out of paying for a copy of Windows. We sold our OEM copies of XP with these machines for what it cost us (i.e we made no profit on the OS) and people still asked us to put pirated copies for $20.
Needless to say we refused, some customers decided to buy their machines from other small shops which were only too happy to do what they asked.
However most of the requests for pirating was not for Windows XP, but Photoshop and Office. One guy was pretty persistent. He bought the machine and when we delivered the box to his residence, his first question was "where can I download Photoshop?" I told him www.adobe.com:-)
I worked in a traditional office setting and its not that much different really. I had my own office and I saw my boss during our monthly meeting. Outside of that it was all through email, IM and phone. I could have just not come in to work and noone would have noticed, the work which needed to be done, was done. There was communication.
I chose to go to work since it was in downtown San Francisco and the my choices for lunch were much better there than where I lived (San Carlos).:-)
Not just that, but why should this situation be any different from SCO's claim to JFS etc? If binary blobs can be construed as being subject to the Linux kernel license, then why can't SCO's claims on JFS be construed as the same? After all both scenarios are very similar.
Some broad generalisations that I will stand behind:
* India is really a pretty xenophobic place, generally hostile to most everything non-Indian.
* India is deeply conservative and fearful of change.
* The Indian educational system penalises innovation and creative thinking.
* Indian politics are always parochial. If a proposal doesn't somehow poke a stick in the eye of those bastards in the next village/city/state/country, then it's not going to pass.
Those are some pretty broad generalizations. I would wager you probably have never spoken to an Indian (outside of level 1 tech support), read or even seen anything about India on TV. Its almost like me saying "All Germans are Nazis, All French are cowards, All Brits have bad teeth, and All Americans are war mongers." India has a large number of foreigners who are visiting/live there and almost every place I have been to in India have been extremely friendly to foreigners. Calling India xenophobic basically tells me that you have absolutely no CLUE about India. You other points except for the education issue (which I will agree needs to be improved in helping students explore and find out rather than memorize), your other points are just as laughable.
Hell I am of Indian origin, and I get frustrated by Indian tech support people. Then I realized that the only difference is that if it was not outsourced, I would get an American who has no power to do anything, who has no access to information beyond what I could get from the web and who has the critical thinking skills of a muffin. I go through this every time I have to call up any company regardless of whether the tech support is in India or the US. 99% of level tech support read from a script and thats it. Just politely ask for level 2 and you should get someone competent either from the US or whatever country they outsourced to. But then again you knew that. It is just more handy to blame Indian people. Even if the people were from Philippines or Malaysia, the responses would still be the same not due to the people but due to the tech support policies implemented by the companies. i.e Only so many minutes on the phone, read from a script etc.
I spent almost 2 weeks getting my XP Professional installed and working properly (for what reason would an OS not come with PS/2 generic mouse drivers?).
2 weeks for a clean install of XP? I don't buy it. Unless you have some really strange hardware combination or faulty hardware, I cannot imagine it taking ANYONE 2 weeks to install XP unless they are doing it for the first time. More than likely your claim is an exaggeration or you built the machine, slacked off for 2 weeks and did your install.
I have a pretty basic configuration and it takes me around 90 minutes to install XP including all updates from Windows Update and all my drivers. It could probably be shorter except that I grab a beer and watch TV while windows update is doing its work.
And they have always had PS/2 support. And this is the part of your claim that makes me want to call shennanigans. Windows has its problems its true, but people here seem to exaggerate it so such an extent that makes it obvious that they are talking out of their ass.
The one thing I will agree from your post is that any sort of Upgrade option will be a nightmare. Windows has never done a good upgrade job in any revision since Windows 95.
Maybe the pictures but not the email. Besides copyrighting emails would open up another can of worms, namely whistleblowers who could then be sued for copyright infringement.
Actually this entire drama is based on a falsehood, i.e the ad which was posted. In essence what he has done is run a phishing scam, except that in this case his reward is not monetary, its his perverse enjoyment in harassing other people.
Your mistake is in assuming that these men are deadbeat dads who get a girl pregnant and then run away into the sunset. This kind of scenario also happens to men who have been through a bad divorce where the woman can be vicious enough to deprive the children of their father just to satisfy her ego. Even if the child was born out of wedlock, why should it matter? Child support is child support and we already have enough penalties against men who skip out on it.
The sole fact that these men can be put into a sex offender like registry similar to one mandated by Megan's Law, in essence having men who are just accused being treated like a pedophile murderer is wrong. Just try and imagine that you have been accused of a sex crime and having to register as a sex offender anywhere you go. This would also prevent you from getting a job, moving into a new neighbourhood all because someone _ACCUSED_ you.
Regardless of whether the accuser has been convicted of perjury, from what the article says it appears that the persons name will still be on the registry for 6 years after which the person can petition to have it removed. The state could still say no however and your reputation will be completely destroyed.
This type of law will just bring about more people blackmailing others, puts too much power into the hands of a scorned lover or ex wife or just someone with a grudge.
Since the MPA and NMPA are now claiming that tabs violate their copyright, how does this affect music teachers? When I learnt how to play a guitar from a private teacher, he used a combination of sheet music and tablature to teach me how to play. He wrote down the music notation as well as the tabs and did not use any published book.
If they MPA and NMPA are shown to have rights concerning music tabs, then teachers will find it much harder to teach since they HAVE to purchase *AA authorized sheet music and cannot 'reverse engineer' the sounds into notations.
The scary part is that in the future other forms of media will be restricted so much that any cultural development will stagnate so much that we all might as well be zombies.
But they really should have picked a different platform instead of hiding behind a technicality in the GPLv2. There are pleny of for-profit companies that would have sold them an OS
Uhmm if I get a copy of the now defunct BSD/OS, I dont have the right to reuse code. I don't have the right to make a derivative product based on it and redistribute it.
The issue is that with the BSD license, people who receive your code, can now restrict others from using it in any way they please including yourself if they so wish. While this may not be a problem for many people, it is for others. The GPL was written to make sure that everyone who gets the code has an _EQUAL_ right to it.
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I don't see why GPL'd software cannot work alongside proprietary software. In fact I use both GPL'd and proprietary software.
However what I think you mean is that you want to link your proprietary software with the GPL'd software or make a work based on the GPL'd software.
Now if you replace the GPL'd portion with proprietary code from another company, you still have to pay a licensing fee or get permission and still may not be as free to do with the 3rd party proprietary code as you wish to.
You are complaining because the GPL will not allow you or your employer to relicense the free code you have received to restrict the same freedoms in others that you enjoyed.
And while Free Software is open source, open source is not always free software.
So how exactly does the community lose out? Since you are developing proprietary software, you are not releasing anything so how does it benefit the community?
Tivo is allowed to use Linux in their product. But then they would have to abide by the rules of the GPL if they wish to use GPL'd code. If they wish to restrict the rights of others, then they should have written their software from scratch. Tivo had it easy. They got to profit off the freely available Linux, and then used a loophole in the GPL to get around the requirements. You claim that people who use proprietary software and media need to abide by the license, then why is it so hard for you to understand that you should play by the rules of the free software community?
The point is not the DRM, but the fact that they got to profit off the work of many developers while using a loophole to get around the license requirements. They have to abide by the rules now and thats a bad thing?
Don't get me wrong. I am all for the rights of people/companies to release proprietary software. I just don't think its right when the very same people/companies whine about being forced to comply with the license.
Well said.
Besides, the author considers monetary benefits to be the only real benefits. What he also fails to mention that by giving copyrights a limited term society benefits by helping people build upon the works of others once the legally sanctioned monopoly time is over.
After all didn't Newton say " If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Don't lose sight of the fact that Indians also eat chilled monkey brains with a spoon. The savages!
So what you are saying is that you spied on every single Indian student in your university and caught them cheating. With your skills of observation you should be working for Homeland security. Hell, you should be working for the CIA since you can instantly figure out exactly what everyone is doing at a given time.
I went to a university (Rutgers) with LOTS of Indians and never heard of this. Prior to Rutgers I did 2 years at Middlesex County College and never heard it there either.
Sadly, the problem is not just the language. The support services end up hiring the cheapest possible labor which may or may not be overseas. The accent and/or language idiosyncrasies are only part of the problem. Combine that with a drone who is reading from a script and the problem becomes worse. I have been just as frustrated with American techs as I have with Indian or central American techs.
Then you have the various levels of people you have to go through when dealing with outsourced companies trying to get things resolved. Sadly many of these companies have poorly trained project managers who do not do a good job. I was helping out a local company whose development work was done by someone in China (but the project manager was in the US) and communication was extremely hard and frustrating. It was only when we finally got in touch with the developer directly, did we see that the issue lay with the PM and not the developer.
As long as the person is competent in English, you should have no problems dealing with them. I have experienced more issues dealing with Chinese developers than Russian/Eastern European and Indian developers. Ironically, the chinese developers almost always send email with perfect grammar with little to no typos, but have found it harder to get the message across to them.
That would mean that since her site has no robots.txt, her badly designed, ransom letter font littered site will not be indexed by google, yahoo and other search providers. Sounds like a winning scenario.
What you pay Red Hat for is the entitlement package i.e support. If you wish to install RHEL on 100 machines when you only have a support package for 10, then only those 10 machines will be able to use Red hat's update service or get technical support.
You are however free to hire your own sys admins who can download and/or recompile the source rpms yourself. I remember a client who had RHEL installed without any support options and he just recompiled and source rpms and updated his system himself.
And no they cannot prevent you from redistributing. CentOS does it after rebranding it.
For a good majority of the people who have portable mp3 players, lossy vs lossless does not matter. I have a great set of headphones for my gaming system because yes sound does matter there. I listen to music on that machine as well and the difference is night and day.
However when I am out for a walk listening to my mp3s, the earbuds etc are not of high enough quality where lossy vs lossless matters that much. Most of my music is 320kbps so I do like better bitrates but a 20mb VBR mp3 or ogg file does not sound that much different than a 40mb FLAC file of the same song.
I am guessing that the last Red Hat release you worked on was 7.x. I am running Fedora here and it uses the LSB layout.
RPM by itself does not really cause all those problems. The issue is that there used to be many distros which use RPM. Red Hat, Mandrake (now Mandriva), Connectiva, SuSE, Caldera and TurboLinux to name a few. They all had their own ways of putting things in different places and these caused conflicts. People would just go to rpmfind.net, download an rpm, make no note of which distro the rpm was made for, install it with --force and --nodeps and then blame the dependency hell they encounter as being caused by rpm when in reality they used the rpm for a different distro than what they installed it on.
Debian on the other hand, had ONE source for their packages. If many distros used
It is a bit better now with yum, apt4rpm which does dependency management while installing software.
I used slackware too and if you blindly install and/or remove packages it is quite possible to screw up your slackware box as well. I know because I have done so. I learnt my lesson from that.
Raymond's comments are idiotic because (1) he was using the RAWHIDE repository where things do break, (2) he used --force and --nodeps to remove a package after rpm warned him that it would remove files that other packages depended on. He did so anyway which rendered his system unusable. Then instead of booting the install cd with linux rescue passed at the bootloader and fix the issue, he decided to flame the fedora-devel list. He could just as easily have done the same thing with Ubuntu and then proceeded to flame there.
I've used both Ubuntu and Fedora Core 6 recently. I am afflicted with distro fever which means that every so often I will try out a new distro. To be perfectly honest, I quite enjoy both Ubuntu and Fedora. Both work great for me and I cannot complain about either of them. I have yet to experience dependency hell with Fedora and if rpm is so bad, then dependency hell must run rampant right?
Apple makes most of its money from hardware. That is the biggest insurance of all, do they really care if someone has a pirated copy of OS X as long as they buy a mac to run it on? Obviously not.
As for cdkeys, the server version of OSX needs a cdkey. Now consider something as small as Quicktime. To get all the features you do indeed need to buy a license which gives you an authorization key. I have not installed Final Cut Pro or any of their major applications they they sell, but I assume you need to have some sort of authorization key to run those as well.
OS X is not all what Apple makes.And making a blanket statement such saying they don't need CDKeys is blatantly false. I pointed 2 applications which require such keys.
If apple were to release OS X for all intel based machines tomorrow, you can be damned sure they will have a similar mechanism such as Microsoft's to make sure noone 'pirates' their software.
It is not just the developers actually. On quite a few occasions, I have witnessed project managers not doing their job properly and allowing feature creep at the 11th hour.
I used to work for a small PC reseller and many customers tried to weasel their way out of paying for a copy of Windows. We sold our OEM copies of XP with these machines for what it cost us (i.e we made no profit on the OS) and people still asked us to put pirated copies for $20.
:-)
Needless to say we refused, some customers decided to buy their machines from other small shops which were only too happy to do what they asked.
However most of the requests for pirating was not for Windows XP, but Photoshop and Office. One guy was pretty persistent. He bought the machine and when we delivered the box to his residence, his first question was "where can I download Photoshop?" I told him www.adobe.com
I worked in a traditional office setting and its not that much different really. I had my own office and I saw my boss during our monthly meeting. Outside of that it was all through email, IM and phone. I could have just not come in to work and noone would have noticed, the work which needed to be done, was done. There was communication.
:-)
I chose to go to work since it was in downtown San Francisco and the my choices for lunch were much better there than where I lived (San Carlos).
Not just that, but why should this situation be any different from SCO's claim to JFS etc? If binary blobs can be construed as being subject to the Linux kernel license, then why can't SCO's claims on JFS be construed as the same? After all both scenarios are very similar.
Those are some pretty broad generalizations. I would wager you probably have never spoken to an Indian (outside of level 1 tech support), read or even seen anything about India on TV. Its almost like me saying "All Germans are Nazis, All French are cowards, All Brits have bad teeth, and All Americans are war mongers." India has a large number of foreigners who are visiting/live there and almost every place I have been to in India have been extremely friendly to foreigners. Calling India xenophobic basically tells me that you have absolutely no CLUE about India. You other points except for the education issue (which I will agree needs to be improved in helping students explore and find out rather than memorize), your other points are just as laughable.
Hell I am of Indian origin, and I get frustrated by Indian tech support people. Then I realized that the only difference is that if it was not outsourced, I would get an American who has no power to do anything, who has no access to information beyond what I could get from the web and who has the critical thinking skills of a muffin. I go through this every time I have to call up any company regardless of whether the tech support is in India or the US. 99% of level tech support read from a script and thats it. Just politely ask for level 2 and you should get someone competent either from the US or whatever country they outsourced to. But then again you knew that. It is just more handy to blame Indian people. Even if the people were from Philippines or Malaysia, the responses would still be the same not due to the people but due to the tech support policies implemented by the companies. i.e Only so many minutes on the phone, read from a script etc.
So if someone puts up a phishing site with pictures of cute little kittens and puppies on it, then that is innocent material ?
2 weeks for a clean install of XP? I don't buy it. Unless you have some really strange hardware combination or faulty hardware, I cannot imagine it taking ANYONE 2 weeks to install XP unless they are doing it for the first time. More than likely your claim is an exaggeration or you built the machine, slacked off for 2 weeks and did your install.
I have a pretty basic configuration and it takes me around 90 minutes to install XP including all updates from Windows Update and all my drivers. It could probably be shorter except that I grab a beer and watch TV while windows update is doing its work.
And they have always had PS/2 support. And this is the part of your claim that makes me want to call shennanigans. Windows has its problems its true, but people here seem to exaggerate it so such an extent that makes it obvious that they are talking out of their ass.
The one thing I will agree from your post is that any sort of Upgrade option will be a nightmare. Windows has never done a good upgrade job in any revision since Windows 95.
Maybe the pictures but not the email. Besides copyrighting emails would open up another can of worms, namely whistleblowers who could then be sued for copyright infringement.
If anything, he might be sued for harassment.
Actually this entire drama is based on a falsehood, i.e the ad which was posted. In essence what he has done is run a phishing scam, except that in this case his reward is not monetary, its his perverse enjoyment in harassing other people.
So yea, he can be sued.
Your mistake is in assuming that these men are deadbeat dads who get a girl pregnant and then run away into the sunset. This kind of scenario also happens to men who have been through a bad divorce where the woman can be vicious enough to deprive the children of their father just to satisfy her ego. Even if the child was born out of wedlock, why should it matter? Child support is child support and we already have enough penalties against men who skip out on it.
The sole fact that these men can be put into a sex offender like registry similar to one mandated by Megan's Law, in essence having men who are just accused being treated like a pedophile murderer is wrong. Just try and imagine that you have been accused of a sex crime and having to register as a sex offender anywhere you go. This would also prevent you from getting a job, moving into a new neighbourhood all because someone _ACCUSED_ you.
Regardless of whether the accuser has been convicted of perjury, from what the article says it appears that the persons name will still be on the registry for 6 years after which the person can petition to have it removed. The state could still say no however and your reputation will be completely destroyed.
This type of law will just bring about more people blackmailing others, puts too much power into the hands of a scorned lover or ex wife or just someone with a grudge.
Since the MPA and NMPA are now claiming that tabs violate their copyright, how does this affect music teachers? When I learnt how to play a guitar from a private teacher, he used a combination of sheet music and tablature to teach me how to play. He wrote down the music notation as well as the tabs and did not use any published book.
If they MPA and NMPA are shown to have rights concerning music tabs, then teachers will find it much harder to teach since they HAVE to purchase *AA authorized sheet music and cannot 'reverse engineer' the sounds into notations.
The scary part is that in the future other forms of media will be restricted so much that any cultural development will stagnate so much that we all might as well be zombies.
Amen
Uhmm if I get a copy of the now defunct BSD/OS, I dont have the right to reuse code. I don't have the right to make a derivative product based on it and redistribute it.
The issue is that with the BSD license, people who receive your code, can now restrict others from using it in any way they please including yourself if they so wish. While this may not be a problem for many people, it is for others. The GPL was written to make sure that everyone who gets the code has an _EQUAL_ right to it.