The point is that you don't know if I would have paid for something if there were no means to obtaining it illegaly.
Given the amount of stuff some people copy it is an economic impossibility that they would have bougt all the same stuff otherwise.
This fallacy of depriving of earnings when commiting copyright infringement needs to be fought strongly. It is false, it is not true, it is propaganda ejaculated by the PR firms of companies that are taking away your most basic rights to benefiting from the creations of others.
I don't download anything illegaly, and go and buy religiously my CDs and DVDs second hand since I don't feel like feeding this beast that is the entertainmen industry, but I sustain that attacking people providing a tool is immoral.
If the rapacious entertainment industry were going for the scalps of the pople copying stuff (file sharere with farms of servers sharing thousend of illegal material) they would have my full support.
But they have gone against VCRs, MP3 players, DRM hackers, all whose yield legitimate technologies for legitimate (and illegal) purposes.
That is unnacceptable, no matter if you are a vulgar pirate or an outstanding citizen that crosses the streets always in the corners and help the old ladies to reach the other side.
.... the wise one, Batman incarnate, explain why in practically all legal systems theft and copyright infringment are punished by different laws?
If what you say was true, oh iluminted one, all the body of law regarding copyright infringement would not exist.
I want to remind you, oh Dear Leader, than when somebody commits copyright infringement by electronic means there is no taking of money as you portray since you can't probe that somebody that downloads something from the Internet would have bought the same thing, if the medium to get it illegaly did not exist. That is a bizarre idea of lost income that perpetuates the lie that an item not sold is an item stolen from you.
If you can't see beyond that falacy, you may be more than the Joker and less like Batman, dear Neo.
I wish the US would leave the rest of the world alone, the schaemful problems of poverty and destitution back there should be enough to concentrate the minds of any serious goverment.
Unfortunately the US economy is in need of the military complex to redress the economic imbalance of an obscene public debt. And the poorest in the US are sold this idiotic dream of bettering themselves by maning the US murderous machine.
The US is bad in so many ways that to find people pretending that the US has any moral authotiry to impose anything anywhere would be laughable if the implications were not so terribly serious.
This claim about WMDs is completely and utterly discredited, it is publicly and widely documented that the current group in power in the US had on its agenda to attack Iraq no matter what, and here we are, having to endure political ostriches continue to defend the indefensible.
I am sure that Hussein also bought all the other countries in the security council, like Mexico, that in spite of enormous pressure from the US and potential "under the table" sanctions, stood their ground because there was absolutely no credible evidence of WMDs.
You quote people out of context, people that publicly had said exactly the opossite, not once, but many times, and somehow you believe that defends your arguments.
Well, such tactics defend nothing and only show how cynical some people are that no matter what will stick to the unsusteinable without regard for the obvious.
Converting apps: you have to upgrade anyway when MS snaps its fingers, so convert instead of upgrading.
Retraining? What do you mean? That you don't give training to your employess after each new iteration of MS's software? No wonder those "Learn Office in 24 hours" books sell like hot cakes.
Importing and exporting documents? What are you smoking? 90% of the documents will open fine. For the rest I have a windows machines, or even better vmware in a Linux machines where I can convert the few convoluted MS Office documents that can't be opened.
Your cultural ignorance and bias is so monumental that is not even funny watch such shitty arguments fall to the ground.
So you don't want your daughter to have leadership traits? Great, I hope she enjoys her 50 years of domestic servitude, mine will hopefully lead others.
And as for CEOs being humble, I frankly don't know in which galaxy you are living, but must be quite a special place...
I am not conversant with theremin's musical literature, but any original compositions for this instrument would predate the composers mentioned in the article by several decades.
Companies using Linux don't care about OS market share, they care about services, they don't sell the distro, they sell computing platforms that have the hughe advantage that are completely open.
You may not care about this as a geek in your basement playing games and pretending that you are a hacker or cracker (fscking root kits...) but it is pure gold to have access to the source code of an application for unncountable reasons that would be too long to describe here.
And I am not talking about small companies. The two industries I am most familiar with, oil industry and financial institutions have embraced FLOSS, Linux included, but always as part of a comprehensive package of support and services.
Companies trying to distribute distros as their only business model (are there still any of those?) may be worried, companies using Linux as cornerstone of their business model as solution providers have nothing to fear from the Mini Mac.
I am pretty sure your pen is ideal for: -Search one entry amongst 200+ in a phone list. -Keep encrypted information accesible. -Play and analyze chess. -Find the fastest route in a subway network (London, Mexico City, Hambutg, etc.) -Check the kamasutra's positions to impress a nice lady when it matters.
It is not like most people have to install the OS in most computers for bunny's sakes.
Normally a techie type in some form or another (either in a shop, OEM, or a script written by a geek for a big computer manufacturer) will install the OS first.
With Linux that techie very often is a friend or colleague that got tired of the "Windows eXPerience" [tm].
Your argument is frankly pointless, you are just stating the fucking obvious, which does not contribute much to the debate to be bluntly honest.
By now people should be painfully aware ot the drawbacks of one solution only. For goodness sake, have 15 years of Windows dominance not taught people that lack of choice is far worse than "too many" choices?
Give me the chaotic way of Linux any day. Responsible, intelligent people thrive with choices, conformist people like to be told what to do and use.
If Jose User (who is that guy anyway?) is forced to choose, perhaps it will be for his own good. If he does not want choice, he knows where to go: back to the Windows world (the most akin thing to a coummunist ideal in the IT world: do as you are told, all the IT resources centrally controlled by ne entity) or to the Apple world (ditto, but they will give you eye candy in the process).
I very much doubt there are many people out there that obsessed with a show, but again, this is an observation based in no statistical data, but I am quite perceptive!
Many small companies will require configuration and support they can afford. IBM et all will not be able to provide for that (it will not be cost effective to baby-sit a 10 body company's IT infrastructure).
A lot of companies will require to customize software to their exact needs. It is impossible for IBM or anybody else to do all this kind of work.
And in any case I don't see anything wrong with working for IBM, the big advantage would be that idiotic NDAs will not stop enterprising people at having a go to get a piece of the action of the IT pie since there would not be unassialable cost of entry against new players (in the form of patented and closed sofware).
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The point is that you don't know if I would have paid for something if there were no means to obtaining it illegaly.
Given the amount of stuff some people copy it is an economic impossibility that they would have bougt all the same stuff otherwise.
This fallacy of depriving of earnings when commiting copyright infringement needs to be fought strongly. It is false, it is not true, it is propaganda ejaculated by the PR firms of companies that are taking away your most basic rights to benefiting from the creations of others.
But that does not mean you are correct.
I don't download anything illegaly, and go and buy religiously my CDs and DVDs second hand since I don't feel like feeding this beast that is the entertainmen industry, but I sustain that attacking people providing a tool is immoral.
If the rapacious entertainment industry were going for the scalps of the pople copying stuff (file sharere with farms of servers sharing thousend of illegal material) they would have my full support.
But they have gone against VCRs, MP3 players, DRM hackers, all whose yield legitimate technologies for legitimate (and illegal) purposes.
That is unnacceptable, no matter if you are a vulgar pirate or an outstanding citizen that crosses the streets always in the corners and help the old ladies to reach the other side.
.... the wise one, Batman incarnate, explain why in practically all legal systems theft and copyright infringment are punished by different laws?
If what you say was true, oh iluminted one, all the body of law regarding copyright infringement would not exist.
I want to remind you, oh Dear Leader, than when somebody commits copyright infringement by electronic means there is no taking of money as you portray since you can't probe that somebody that downloads something from the Internet would have bought the same thing, if the medium to get it illegaly did not exist. That is a bizarre idea of lost income that perpetuates the lie that an item not sold is an item stolen from you.
If you can't see beyond that falacy, you may be more than the Joker and less like Batman, dear Neo.
.... the right to impose anything at all?
I wish the US would leave the rest of the world alone, the schaemful problems of poverty and destitution back there should be enough to concentrate the minds of any serious goverment.
Unfortunately the US economy is in need of the military complex to redress the economic imbalance of an obscene public debt. And the poorest in the US are sold this idiotic dream of bettering themselves by maning the US murderous machine.
The US is bad in so many ways that to find people pretending that the US has any moral authotiry to impose anything anywhere would be laughable if the implications were not so terribly serious.
This claim about WMDs is completely and utterly discredited, it is publicly and widely documented that the current group in power in the US had on its agenda to attack Iraq no matter what, and here we are, having to endure political ostriches continue to defend the indefensible.
I am sure that Hussein also bought all the other countries in the security council, like Mexico, that in spite of enormous pressure from the US and potential "under the table" sanctions, stood their ground because there was absolutely no credible evidence of WMDs.
You quote people out of context, people that publicly had said exactly the opossite, not once, but many times, and somehow you believe that defends your arguments.
Well, such tactics defend nothing and only show how cynical some people are that no matter what will stick to the unsusteinable without regard for the obvious.
Converting apps: you have to upgrade anyway when MS snaps its fingers, so convert instead of upgrading.
Retraining? What do you mean? That you don't give training to your employess after each new iteration of MS's software? No wonder those "Learn Office in 24 hours" books sell like hot cakes.
Importing and exporting documents? What are you smoking? 90% of the documents will open fine. For the rest I have a windows machines, or even better vmware in a Linux machines where I can convert the few convoluted MS Office documents that can't be opened.
... but just out of my poor memory I remember that they used to have far bigger, really obscene numbers.
If the numbers you are quoting are true they look like the numbers of a consolidates, stable company.
Those numbers (in percentages) had been going down and there are hugh pressure in the market to find alternatives to MS.
Linux in the coporate world and perhaps the mini Mac in the personal market are going to challenge seriously MS's dominance.
Uncultivated persons are not up to date in important current affairs, so I certainly think you should not care about this.
Yep, falling fast, and deservingly so.
Your cultural ignorance and bias is so monumental that is not even funny watch such shitty arguments fall to the ground.
So you don't want your daughter to have leadership traits? Great, I hope she enjoys her 50 years of domestic servitude, mine will hopefully lead others.
And as for CEOs being humble, I frankly don't know in which galaxy you are living, but must be quite a special place...
I hope moderators smack you hard, you offtopic monster.
I am not conversant with theremin's musical literature, but any original compositions for this instrument would predate the composers mentioned in the article by several decades.
What about posting articles talking about features, bug fixes and enhancements. I mean, we are talking about software after all, aren't we?
Companies using Linux don't care about OS market share, they care about services, they don't sell the distro, they sell computing platforms that have the hughe advantage that are completely open.
...) but it is pure gold to have access to the source code of an application for unncountable reasons that would be too long to describe here.
You may not care about this as a geek in your basement playing games and pretending that you are a hacker or cracker (fscking root kits
And I am not talking about small companies. The two industries I am most familiar with, oil industry and financial institutions have embraced FLOSS, Linux included, but always as part of a comprehensive package of support and services.
Companies trying to distribute distros as their only business model (are there still any of those?) may be worried, companies using Linux as cornerstone of their business model as solution providers have nothing to fear from the Mini Mac.
But you need to know what you are doing (Red Hat in paranoid security mode would be a good start).
They are going to be fscking free with a formerly Iran based Ayatollah as leader.
You USians sometimes are overwhelming with the size of your naivity.
People should be prepared for these floods since anybody can have his 15 minutes of fame at any time in the Internet....
European did not eat dodos, they tasted horrible.
The pigs and other animals brought by Europenas eat dodo's eggs and exhausted their food sources and chased them out of their ecological niches.
... that art is in the eye of the observer.
If you think it is art, then it is art.
Do not expect me to share your deviant artistic tastes though.
I am pretty sure your pen is ideal for:
....technophobes ....
-Search one entry amongst 200+ in a phone list.
-Keep encrypted information accesible.
-Play and analyze chess.
-Find the fastest route in a subway network (London, Mexico City, Hambutg, etc.)
-Check the kamasutra's positions to impress a nice lady when it matters.
Etc., etc., etc.
Keep your pen matey
It is not like most people have to install the OS in most computers for bunny's sakes.
Normally a techie type in some form or another (either in a shop, OEM, or a script written by a geek for a big computer manufacturer) will install the OS first.
With Linux that techie very often is a friend or colleague that got tired of the "Windows eXPerience" [tm].
Your argument is frankly pointless, you are just stating the fucking obvious, which does not contribute much to the debate to be bluntly honest.
But thanks for asking.. NOT.
By now people should be painfully aware ot the drawbacks of one solution only. For goodness sake, have 15 years of Windows dominance not taught people that lack of choice is far worse than "too many" choices?
Give me the chaotic way of Linux any day. Responsible, intelligent people thrive with choices, conformist people like to be told what to do and use.
If Jose User (who is that guy anyway?) is forced to choose, perhaps it will be for his own good. If he does not want choice, he knows where to go: back to the Windows world (the most akin thing to a coummunist ideal in the IT world: do as you are told, all the IT resources centrally controlled by ne entity) or to the Apple world (ditto, but they will give you eye candy in the process).
At least they sell you the PVR functionality.
....
NTL in the other hand
.... are of no statistical importance.
I very much doubt there are many people out there that obsessed with a show, but again, this is an observation based in no statistical data, but I am quite perceptive!
IBM and others are big but not infinite.
Many small companies will require configuration and support they can afford. IBM et all will not be able to provide for that (it will not be cost effective to baby-sit a 10 body company's IT infrastructure).
A lot of companies will require to customize software to their exact needs. It is impossible for IBM or anybody else to do all this kind of work.
And in any case I don't see anything wrong with working for IBM, the big advantage would be that idiotic NDAs will not stop enterprising people at having a go to get a piece of the action of the IT pie since there would not be unassialable cost of entry against new players (in the form of patented and closed sofware).