That's as dumb as saying "there is ZERO link between lost revenue and car theft because they are from people that would never have done business in the first place."
When a product is stolen, there is value taken from the owner that can't be recovered.
What you are forgetting is that your alleged 'car theif' DID NOT TAKE ANYTHING. He used a matter-re-arranger to make a clone of his neighbors car out of dirt or air or garbage or something. That's kind of an important detail. If we were talking about shoplifting CD's, your analogy would work, kind of. But we're not.
You're right: Linux has a much smaller market share, and we can understand that less resources will be devoted to developing, maintaining, and supporting Linux drivers. We're (reluctantly) o.k. with that.
But, if they're going to bother developing linux drivers at all, I don't think it is too much to ask for the source, so we can do the maintaining and supporting ourselves.
I just have to say that the "Free Speech" arguments don't seem to hold a lot of water to me. Don't get me wrong, I hate DRM/DMCA/MPAA as much as the next guy, but free speech?
If this number should be protected by free speech, is it also free speech for me to publish your name, birthday, ssn, and credit card number?
Well, the DMCA does have a counter notifaction mechanism. It seems this is, at least in part, the means by which Viacom has detected the 50 mistakes "so far".
Says Michael Fricklas:
... we're achieving an error rate of.05% - (we have under 60 errors so far)... we'll know more as users respond to communication from YouTube. Also FTA:
Mr. Fricklas asserts that "Under DMCA, I believe that YouTube needs to retain the material and repost it if an individual believes that the copyright notice was in error." If all it takes is a 'counter-notification' to get the content back up, why doesn't everyone just throw back a counter-notification, pending a counter-counter-notification, ad infinitum?
Every thousand years this metal sphere ten times the size of Jupiter floats just a few yards past the earth. You climb on your roof and take a swipe at it with a single feather, hit it once every thousand years `til you've worn it down to the size of a pea. Yeah I'd say that's a long time... but it's only half a blink in the place you're gonna be.
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Then there are other downsides. I'm guessing it drains the battery faster to use the laptop dock thing.
You guess wrong. The battery in the laptop dock actually charges the phones battery when it is docked.
That's as dumb as saying "there is ZERO link between lost revenue and car theft because they are from people that would never have done business in the first place."
When a product is stolen, there is value taken from the owner that can't be recovered.
What you are forgetting is that your alleged 'car theif' DID NOT TAKE ANYTHING. He used a matter-re-arranger to make a clone of his neighbors car out of dirt or air or garbage or something. That's kind of an important detail. If we were talking about shoplifting CD's, your analogy would work, kind of. But we're not.
+10 for stating the obvious.
You're right: Linux has a much smaller market share, and we can understand that less resources will be devoted to developing, maintaining, and supporting Linux drivers. We're (reluctantly) o.k. with that.
But, if they're going to bother developing linux drivers at all, I don't think it is too much to ask for the source, so we can do the maintaining and supporting ourselves.
I just have to say that the "Free Speech" arguments don't seem to hold a lot of water to me. Don't get me wrong, I hate DRM/DMCA/MPAA as much as the next guy, but free speech?
If this number should be protected by free speech, is it also free speech for me to publish your name, birthday, ssn, and credit card number?
Bring on the flames.
Says Michael Fricklas:
... we're achieving an error rate ofEvery thousand years this metal sphere ten times the size of Jupiter floats just a few yards past the earth. You climb on your roof and take a swipe at it with a single feather, hit it once every thousand years `til you've worn it down to the size of a pea.
Yeah I'd say that's a long time... but it's only half a blink in the place you're gonna be.
That's how Randy Describes Eternity.
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