I think -you're- missing the point. The whole problem -is- the GPL.
The GPL doesn't allow the author to encumber licenced software with restrictions, such as limiting the reuse of patent-encumbered code to web use only.
Therefor the GPL zealots want these patents to be released for use in any application.
In summary, The FSF has a problem with their own licence, the GPL, blocking them from using technologies that are being made freely available for use on the web.
I better get down to Staples and buy all the manila folders I will need in the near future before the current versions are recalled.
I don't know about you, but without tabs manila folders will be pretty much useless to me. Think it will take Manilla Inc.long to licence Adobe's hot new tab technology?
You're assuming there would be a stripped down and a seperate "full" version of Windows available.
The court could just find that Windows, on CD or preinstalled by manufacturers, could not include IE and that if the customer wants IE they would have to download it, just like they have to download Netscape Navigator.
No, the contracts between the distributors don't obligate you, but the licences they release their software under (in this case the software is a film) does obligate you.
One of the conditions of that licence is that you will only watch a film in the region it was encoded for.
Note this text on the back of most every DVD sold in the US that is region encoded.
"Warning: For sale, rental or private home use in the USA or Canada only."
Its not line the shrink wrap licences on software. In this case the stipulation is clear as day on the packaging.
Incorrect.
The copyright holder may transfer his rights to others for a fee.
For example, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is distributed by Sony Picture Classics in the USA and by Warner Bros in France. Were you to buy a region 2 disk you would be depriving Sony Picture Classics of the revenue it would receive for selling the disk when they are the only ones licenced to sell it in the USA.
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I think -you're- missing the point. The whole problem -is- the GPL.
The GPL doesn't allow the author to encumber licenced software with restrictions, such as limiting the reuse of patent-encumbered code to web use only.
Therefor the GPL zealots want these patents to be released for use in any application.
In summary, The FSF has a problem with their own licence, the GPL, blocking them from using technologies that are being made freely available for use on the web.
Not anyone's problem but their own.
Microsoft says phooey to foi
I better get down to Staples and buy all the manila folders I will need in the near future before the current versions are recalled.
I don't know about you, but without tabs manila folders will be pretty much useless to me. Think it will take Manilla Inc.long to licence Adobe's hot new tab technology?
Egad! Now my plans for world domination are thwarted!
Unless... anyone know where I can find an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
All that needs to happen is to get Sony, Toshiba, etc, the cd-player manufacturers, to use imbedded Linux to power their players.
Suddenly copy-protected CDs woudn't be worth anything, as no new CD players could play them.
You're assuming there would be a stripped down and a seperate "full" version of Windows available.
The court could just find that Windows, on CD or preinstalled by manufacturers, could not include IE and that if the customer wants IE they would have to download it, just like they have to download Netscape Navigator.
I bet they'd love our opinions :)
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No, the contracts between the distributors don't obligate you, but the licences they release their software under (in this case the software is a film) does obligate you. One of the conditions of that licence is that you will only watch a film in the region it was encoded for. Note this text on the back of most every DVD sold in the US that is region encoded. "Warning: For sale, rental or private home use in the USA or Canada only." Its not line the shrink wrap licences on software. In this case the stipulation is clear as day on the packaging.
Incorrect. The copyright holder may transfer his rights to others for a fee. For example, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is distributed by Sony Picture Classics in the USA and by Warner Bros in France. Were you to buy a region 2 disk you would be depriving Sony Picture Classics of the revenue it would receive for selling the disk when they are the only ones licenced to sell it in the USA.