When you said "property", imported vastly more assumptions than your definition of a "right". Though, of course, all you are doing is categorizing social norms. By your definition, Apple is invoking a privilege, granted to it by copyright and enforced by use of mathematical locks, to prevent others from utilizing their property in the manner they see fit. They are stepping in between the agreements of third parties, such as me, a developer, and Adobe, the makers of Flash, and my customers, all of whom would like to see Flash on the iPhone, and perfectly capable of putting Flash on the iPhone, but cannot without violating an agreement with Apple of arbitrary restrictions, which we were compelled to agree to by copyright law, though all we are concerned with is a physical machine.
Intellectual property only exists as an incentive to promote the creation of valuable things, it is not an end to itself. It is a norm that has been stretched to the breaking point by DRM systems and closed infrastructure, which exist not to create valuable things, but to funnel rent to whomever controls the infrastructure.
But what does it say about the state of programming practice writ large when so many developers believe that their "rights" are trampled because they cannot write programs for a particular device in a particular language? Or that their "freedom" as creators is squelched for the same reason?
It says Apple violated a well-established social norm, aka, a "right".
So what? If you want the largest install base, use the lowest API set. After all, not everybody *wants* to upgrade. Especially in a commercial setting, you need a business justification to change something. You don't fix what ain't broke.
Have Google broken any APIs between versions? Not that Apple would never do that... *cough*
They need a new law to enforce the law that is already a law? That don't make no sense.
Just to piss you people off, we should open the borders. If goods and capital can move freely, why shouldn't cheap labor? The world is flat, get used to it.
It's always funniest when they steal "Born in the USA". The entire song is dripping with contempt for all the hypocrisy the Republicans stand for, and they're oblivious to it.
Pop quiz, hotshot. Garry Kasparov is coming to kill you, and the only way to change his mind is for you to beat him at chess. What do you do, what do you?
Just because the iPod is the Toyota Camry of mp3 players doesn't mean the iPhone gets to be the most expensive thing Toyota sells. It's an LS 400, at most. Hell, the Lexus analogy itself is stretching things.
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You sound like Neville Chamberlain.
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Oh, right, because the law does such a wonderful job keeping corporations in line. Like it keeps politicians honest, and drugs off the streets.
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When you said "property", imported vastly more assumptions than your definition of a "right". Though, of course, all you are doing is categorizing social norms. By your definition, Apple is invoking a privilege, granted to it by copyright and enforced by use of mathematical locks, to prevent others from utilizing their property in the manner they see fit. They are stepping in between the agreements of third parties, such as me, a developer, and Adobe, the makers of Flash, and my customers, all of whom would like to see Flash on the iPhone, and perfectly capable of putting Flash on the iPhone, but cannot without violating an agreement with Apple of arbitrary restrictions, which we were compelled to agree to by copyright law, though all we are concerned with is a physical machine.
Intellectual property only exists as an incentive to promote the creation of valuable things, it is not an end to itself. It is a norm that has been stretched to the breaking point by DRM systems and closed infrastructure, which exist not to create valuable things, but to funnel rent to whomever controls the infrastructure.
It says Apple violated a well-established social norm, aka, a "right".
That's odd. For some reason your post appears in Comic Sans. Must be a bug in Firefox.
Every website in the world uses Verdana.
Or, at least they do on my computer. Who cares what a web designer thinks looks good, I just want the text to be legible.
And by God, as a taxpayer, I'm never going to pass up an opportunity to be outraged over nothing!
He's wrong for viewing pictures of girls in bikinis while on government time
Whereas reading Slashdot on a private employer's time is perfectly acceptable.
You liberal nerds are just jealous you don't have female coworkers sending you naughty pictures.
Apple is the new Microsoft, after all.
So what? If you want the largest install base, use the lowest API set. After all, not everybody *wants* to upgrade. Especially in a commercial setting, you need a business justification to change something. You don't fix what ain't broke.
Have Google broken any APIs between versions? Not that Apple would never do that... *cough*
You know it, I know it, and the American people know it.
It is the rest of the world that is crazy!
They need a new law to enforce the law that is already a law? That don't make no sense.
Just to piss you people off, we should open the borders. If goods and capital can move freely, why shouldn't cheap labor? The world is flat, get used to it.
At what point was the watch disassembled at a molecular level and then reproduced in bulk by a nano-lathe?
It's always funniest when they steal "Born in the USA". The entire song is dripping with contempt for all the hypocrisy the Republicans stand for, and they're oblivious to it.
Paper: it's what books were made of before DRM.
Gawker media's COO has replied claiming that the warrant was served illegally due to Mr. Chen's status as a journalist.
There are two falsehoods in that statement.
And which laws? The MPAA rating system is not required by any law.
No, you hide, put two in his back when he comes looking for you, then put one in the head. Checkmate, motherfucker.
Pop quiz, hotshot. Garry Kasparov is coming to kill you, and the only way to change his mind is for you to beat him at chess. What do you do, what do you?
> Maybe you should reconsider your assumptions. There are innumerable solutions to this system.
And the vast majority of those solutions are violence, even in bad sci-fi.
I know! How dare he try to regulate the people who tried to influence him! Doesn't he know a politician's role is to be bought and stay bought?
Just because the iPod is the Toyota Camry of mp3 players doesn't mean the iPhone gets to be the most expensive thing Toyota sells. It's an LS 400, at most. Hell, the Lexus analogy itself is stretching things.
You sound like Neville Chamberlain.
Oh, right, because the law does such a wonderful job keeping corporations in line. Like it keeps politicians honest, and drugs off the streets.
Yeah, a Corvette engine.