I'm a South Carolinian, and I wrote him. He never even sent an acknowledgement. Even though I usually vote democrat, I will not vote for him next time unless he does a complete about face. Maybe he should revise his bill to be like the one in the House, which requires the music industry to license their music to other online services, and doesn't force you to have "devices" in your electronic equipment.
Why would they want to hide information/decisions concerning internet cases from the public? Are the people pressing this bought out by the RIAA or something? Government + Secret = Bad Public Policy.
I don't claim to know everything, but I do know how to use the web to find almost anything software related that I need. If these people would start using Google to find prior art they may have some luck =).
Are the people in the patent office uneducated? People that work in that kind of field need to be educated in technology, so that they don't make inane mistakes such as this. If you understand what a template is, you would also understand that it's nothing new or innovative that deserves intellectual property protection. Next thing you know, someone will patent window styles.
Being a musician, who does his own production, I would say stick with the Windows before switching to Mac.
There may be good software for Macs, I don't know. However, when it comes down to it, it is difficult to program on a Mac, and almost everything is propietary. At least if you use open source software in Linux, if you don't like the way something works, you can code something up yourself.
Oh, and on more reason to stay away from Mac. Can we say one-button mouse, or even worse, a mouse with no buttons?
This is what happens when we tread into new territory. Different courts make opposing decisions, some for the good, some for the bad. Government pass laws, some good, some bad. Eventually the dust will settle, and hopefully someone will straighten out the mess that has already been created.
Yahoo! is a trademark of an internet portal. Yahoo Serious' "business" has nothing in common with Yahoo!'s, so what does it even have to do with him? I think the schmuk just wants to get in the news because it has eluded him for quite a few years. Either that or he's looking for a quick buck (settlement).
Do you know of any Nerd that listens to N'Sync? Nope, that's left to prepubescent girls who could care less about computers. (Sorry guys, those prepubescent girls in chatrooms are really hairy, old men).
"If they are not controlled more effectively and consumers redirected to legitimate offerings, there won't be new businesses. That's obvious," Rosen continued."
This statement says it all. It's all about control and money. Sad thing is, if they didn't have these services to sue, they would go after individual artists that distribute their own MP3s. After all, it's stealing their (member companies) business.
What I'm wondering is, if I release my music under the Open Audio license, is some moronic recording association gonna try to get fees off of it in some way? Hell, I'm almost willing to bet they're still collecting off of music that's in the public domain. Bloodsuckers...
As a hobbyist artist, I agree with everything you said. Personally, I'm going to start releasing all of my music under the Open Audio license. If the word gets out about this, and artists start releasing music under it, the major corporation's will lose control in such a way as they cannot litigate against.
1. Only use GPLed or other Open licensed software.
2. Only listen to Open Audio Licensed music.
3. Try to contribute your own stuff when possible.
4. Encourage others to do the same.
5. If you can't do this all at once, try to ween yourself slowly off the commercial stuff.
I wonder how long it will be before they try blocking my Gnutella client? I transfer more with it than I could possibly do with a webserver. Of course, I'll just put Apache on a different port. I just use it so I can access certain files I need from wherever I'm at anyhow.
The thing is, you'd think that the uplink limit was enough...
Well, if things go well, all the cool, useful technologies will remain free. Such as HTML, PHP, Linux, GPLed compilers, etc etc. The beauty in that is, you won't have to spend tons of money to have access to the latest, greatest technologies, and anyone with a brain and some time can learn them.
I love KDE, it's what inspired me to move away from Windows and start using Linux. The interface is very nice and stable, and it has a lot of style. Pretty funny how Windows XP seems to steal some of their features uh? Wonder what is in store for us in 3.0???
-Shade
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I'm a South Carolinian, and I wrote him. He never even sent an acknowledgement. Even though I usually vote democrat, I will not vote for him next time unless he does a complete about face. Maybe he should revise his bill to be like the one in the House, which requires the music industry to license their music to other online services, and doesn't force you to have "devices" in your electronic equipment.
-Shade
Maelstrom on my tv, that's gotta be interesting. Just hope the penguins don't eat my nachos!
-Shade
Why would they want to hide information/decisions concerning internet cases from the public? Are the people pressing this bought out by the RIAA or something? Government + Secret = Bad Public Policy.
-Shade
Well, that's one bad law knocked out. Now we have to deal with Holling's (Democrat, SC) SSSCA. I'm sure there are even worse bills on the horizon =(.
-Shade
I don't claim to know everything, but I do know how to use the web to find almost anything software related that I need. If these people would start using Google to find prior art they may have some luck =).
Are the people in the patent office uneducated? People that work in that kind of field need to be educated in technology, so that they don't make inane mistakes such as this. If you understand what a template is, you would also understand that it's nothing new or innovative that deserves intellectual property protection. Next thing you know, someone will patent window styles.
-Shade
Being a musician, who does his own production, I would say stick with the Windows before switching to Mac.
There may be good software for Macs, I don't know. However, when it comes down to it, it is difficult to program on a Mac, and almost everything is propietary. At least if you use open source software in Linux, if you don't like the way something works, you can code something up yourself.
Oh, and on more reason to stay away from Mac. Can we say one-button mouse, or even worse, a mouse with no buttons?
-Shade
This is what happens when we tread into new territory. Different courts make opposing decisions, some for the good, some for the bad. Government pass laws, some good, some bad. Eventually the dust will settle, and hopefully someone will straighten out the mess that has already been created.
-Shade
"Maybe he should just copyright [slashdot.org] the concept of naming and be done with it. :-)"
Hmmm, wouldn't that be a patent?
-Shade
Yahoo! is a trademark of an internet portal. Yahoo Serious' "business" has nothing in common with Yahoo!'s, so what does it even have to do with him? I think the schmuk just wants to get in the news because it has eluded him for quite a few years. Either that or he's looking for a quick buck (settlement).
-Shade
Here is the ultimate weapon on anti-terrorism.
-Shade
Do you know of any Nerd that listens to N'Sync? Nope, that's left to prepubescent girls who could care less about computers. (Sorry guys, those prepubescent girls in chatrooms are really hairy, old men).
"If they are not controlled more effectively and consumers redirected to legitimate offerings, there won't be new businesses. That's obvious," Rosen continued."
This statement says it all. It's all about control and money. Sad thing is, if they didn't have these services to sue, they would go after individual artists that distribute their own MP3s. After all, it's stealing their (member companies) business.
-Shade
What I'm wondering is, if I release my music under the Open Audio license, is some moronic recording association gonna try to get fees off of it in some way? Hell, I'm almost willing to bet they're still collecting off of music that's in the public domain. Bloodsuckers...
The cool towns would be Interbase, Kylix, Romula!
How bout the towns of Midas, Delphi, Vulcan?
As a hobbyist artist, I agree with everything you said. Personally, I'm going to start releasing all of my music under the Open Audio license. If the word gets out about this, and artists start releasing music under it, the major corporation's will lose control in such a way as they cannot litigate against.
I'm thinking MTV (Music TeleVision) might have a problem with Microsoft using their acronym.
-Shade
"The art of flying is to throw yourself at the ground... and miss." - Douglas Adams
Pioneer has a dvd-r/rw and cd-r/rw combo here at Best Buy for $799. Therefore, HP is not the first.
And here's how we can make sure it doesn't
1. Only use GPLed or other Open licensed software.
2. Only listen to Open Audio Licensed music.
3. Try to contribute your own stuff when possible.
4. Encourage others to do the same.
5. If you can't do this all at once, try to ween yourself slowly off the commercial stuff.
Together, we can make a difference.
I wonder how long it will be before they try blocking my Gnutella client? I transfer more with it than I could possibly do with a webserver. Of course, I'll just put Apache on a different port. I just use it so I can access certain files I need from wherever I'm at anyhow.
The thing is, you'd think that the uplink limit was enough...
-Shade
Finally, Back to the Future 2 may not be too far off! I want to be the first with a hoverboard. Seems that the Skycar is already on it's way though.
-Shade
Well, if things go well, all the cool, useful technologies will remain free. Such as HTML, PHP, Linux, GPLed compilers, etc etc. The beauty in that is, you won't have to spend tons of money to have access to the latest, greatest technologies, and anyone with a brain and some time can learn them.
-Shade
I love KDE, it's what inspired me to move away from Windows and start using Linux. The interface is very nice and stable, and it has a lot of style. Pretty funny how Windows XP seems to steal some of their features uh? Wonder what is in store for us in 3.0??? -Shade "The art of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss." -Douglas Adams
I see no link to a petition. You can however, host one here