I can almost guarantee you that an overwhelming majority of heroin and cocaine addicts started off by drinking alcohol. And alcohol kills (directly or indirectly) many, many more people than pot does. By your arguments, then, shouldn't we criminalize alcohol?
Quote:We do not charge end-users for access to our service.
Then 2 inches lower (depending on your resolution):
Quote:When you consider that some of our developers charge more than $75 for a copy of their software, the $0.06 (6 cents) per user that Gracenote generally charges is nominal.
So, basically they do charge the end-user; just indirectly through the software vendor.
Heck, it could be replaced with creating an MD5 checksum of the lengths of the tracks and using that for the CD ID. (Of course the database would have to be updated...).
This shouldn't even be a patentable idea - it is pretty obvious to any programmer how a CDDB-like system could be designed.
How well does Trolltech's buisness model work (the Qt guys)? They release their code under the GPL for free -OR- a buisness can buy a commercial license from them (for a fee). Since they own all of the code they can (legally) get away with doing this (they don't incorporate any outside GPL code into their library, AFAIK). This seems like a great way to use the GPL and have a viable business at the same time. The thing to watch out for, of course, would be accepting GPL'd fixes or whatnot from the community...
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Sun's JDK has 64-bit support for both sparc(v9) and amd64. Just run with the '-d64' flag.
I am SHOCKED! Shocked, I tell you!!!
BUD not BUG!! Grr...
...such as Spud McKenzie. Apprently the old dog likes Bug and fast and secure web-browsing!
No they don't. People want a Napster that you don't pay for.
I can almost guarantee you that an overwhelming majority of heroin and cocaine addicts started off by drinking alcohol. And alcohol kills (directly or indirectly) many, many more people than pot does. By your arguments, then, shouldn't we criminalize alcohol?
Quote: We do not charge end-users for access to our service. Then 2 inches lower (depending on your resolution): Quote: When you consider that some of our developers charge more than $75 for a copy of their software, the $0.06 (6 cents) per user that Gracenote generally charges is nominal. So, basically they do charge the end-user; just indirectly through the software vendor.
Heck, it could be replaced with creating an MD5 checksum of the lengths of the tracks and using that for the CD ID. (Of course the database would have to be updated...). This shouldn't even be a patentable idea - it is pretty obvious to any programmer how a CDDB-like system could be designed.
How well does Trolltech's buisness model work (the Qt guys)? They release their code under the GPL for free -OR- a buisness can buy a commercial license from them (for a fee). Since they own all of the code they can (legally) get away with doing this (they don't incorporate any outside GPL code into their library, AFAIK). This seems like a great way to use the GPL and have a viable business at the same time. The thing to watch out for, of course, would be accepting GPL'd fixes or whatnot from the community...