Lets say your Moms favourite offspring wrote an awesome song and recorded it as a present Let's say she was so proud that she gave a copy to a friend, who gave it to a friend who was in a band that made a another recording of it and made a whole bunch of money from it. Lets say the members of the band said
"this copy of the song was given to us it's ours and I don't give a shit what your kid thinks"
Limiting the time of copyright seems reasonable to me, though I don't know what time period would be appropriate. One justification for copyright is to encourage (incentivize is such an awful word) people to be creative. Here in the UK therre was a recent debate about extending the period of copyright protection for works such as the songs sung by Elvis Presley. This lead many people to comment on how effective this would be in pursuading Elvis to continue being creative:)
Could you give an example of such a work? If it has gone out of copyright why would you need permission? Can you give an example of a juristiction where copyright is valid for 200 years. I think you are commenting on something you have little knowledge of. If I am wrong could you give some URL's that back up your interpretations?
"Copyrights are too extended in time, right now they are virtually endless, and the public doesn't actually benefit from them."
So extending copyrights excessively is not a good idea...
"I don't think we should be granting distribution privileges to authors anymore."
Perhaps a better suggestion is not to extend copyright time period? Or are you suggesting that copyright has not been an incentive to creativity in the past?
I used the term "allows" to mean "makes sense to", but you knew that. Copyright gives people like me an opportunity and motivation to be creative, because of a financial motivation. Of course some people have the intrinsic desire to be creative and would do so without financial motivation. But for me copyright law allows (makes sense for) me to charge for stuff I write.
Gosh, and I thought it was part of the mechanism that allows me to charge for the stuff I write (e.g. http://www.examulator.com/tamer/ ) Nice to know that I'm a member of the ruling classes though.
Betamax and VHS were battles for compatibility, you could not play a Beta Video on a VHS machine. LCD screens and Plasma both play the same signals, in that sense there is no comparison with the VHS Betamax story.
I hope they have improved their idea of distance learning at CSU since I was there in the early nineties. I remember phoning a tutor with a problem and he suggested "popping round to his office". Oh, yeah and I'll do that by popping on an hours plane flight.
Let's be very clear about this, Moodle is available under the GPL (The Gnu Public License), if you have a problem with that, then let us all know about it.
The interesting thing about Moodle (apart from being awesome software) is that there is a proper business plan behind it. The international network of commercial support organisations is a result of careful nurturing and management from Moodle HQ. (See Moodle Partners at http://www.moodle.com./
Document wizard a core feature? I think of core features as Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Slide show creation, none of which require Java (neither does the help system).
It would be fair to say that some non core features of OpenOffice use Java, it would not be fair to say that OpenOffice is a C++/Java hybrid any more than a Linux distribution is a C/Bash hybrid, because it ships with some very useful Bash scripts.
I start up OpenOffice on a machine with no Java (no JDK no JVM) I open up a large document (40,000 words), I edit it, I save it in its native format, just for a laugh I save it in a non native format. I then open up an OO.org spreadsheet and enter some data, I save it. Wait but this cannot be happening because OpenOffice is a C++/Java hybrid, is it magic, am I imagining it?/sarcasm.
A few years ago I was working on a book where the other editors were using Word and change tracking. I used OpenOffice and was pleased and surprised to find the change tracking worked fine for us. It might be worth urging those folks to register a bug and conditions to cover their experience.
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Lets say your Moms favourite offspring wrote an awesome song and recorded it as a present Let's say she was so proud that she gave a copy to a friend, who gave it to a friend who was in a band that made a another recording of it and made a whole bunch of money from it. Lets say the members of the band said
"this copy of the song was given to us it's ours and I don't give a shit what your kid thinks"
Limiting the time of copyright seems reasonable to me, though I don't know what time period would be appropriate. One justification for copyright is to encourage (incentivize is such an awful word) people to be creative. Here in the UK therre was a recent debate about extending the period of copyright protection for works such as the songs sung by Elvis Presley. This lead many people to comment on how effective this would be in pursuading Elvis to continue being creative :)
Could you give an example of such a work? If it has gone out of copyright why would you need permission? Can you give an example of a juristiction where copyright is valid for 200 years. I think you are commenting on something you have little knowledge of. If I am wrong could you give some URL's that back up your interpretations?
"Copyrights are too extended in time, right now they are virtually endless, and the public doesn't actually benefit from them."
So extending copyrights excessively is not a good idea...
"I don't think we should be granting distribution privileges to authors anymore."
Perhaps a better suggestion is not to extend copyright time period? Or are you suggesting that copyright has not been an incentive to creativity in the past?
You can sell it, you just don't have a monopoly on selling it (but you knew that)
I used the term "allows" to mean "makes sense to", but you knew that. Copyright gives people like me an opportunity and motivation to be creative, because of a financial motivation. Of course some people have the intrinsic desire to be creative and would do so without financial motivation. But for me copyright law allows (makes sense for) me to charge for stuff I write.
Gosh, and I thought it was part of the mechanism that allows me to charge for the stuff I write (e.g. http://www.examulator.com/tamer/ ) Nice to know that I'm a member of the ruling classes though.
Freeserve was available at a local call rate. I don't consider local call rate "through the nose"
Democratically elected implies it has a mandate from the electorate for its policies.
Is there a shortage of conventional food?
"Your post does a great job of attacking my points in isolation"
You are right there, it does a very good job indeed.
"the kernel is just a file system"
Well you learn something new every day.....
Has anyone ever run the Linux kernel without the GNU infrastructure? Has anyone ever run the GNU infrastructure without the Linx kernel?
Betamax and VHS were battles for compatibility, you could not play a Beta Video on a VHS machine. LCD screens and Plasma both play the same signals, in that sense there is no comparison with the VHS Betamax story.
So Sharepoint service costs nothing apart from the bit where it costs something?
Microsoft did produce an incompatible version of Java, or "polluted" as they called it. Were you aware of this?
I hope they have improved their idea of distance learning at CSU since I was there in the early nineties. I remember phoning a tutor with a problem and he suggested "popping round to his office". Oh, yeah and I'll do that by popping on an hours plane flight.
Could you explain and make clear the statement.
"Nor do they publish lyrics (although they do sometimes)"
So they don't publish lyrics, but they do sometimes? isn't that the same as
"they publish lyrics"
It takes a few hours to become passably OK with HTML, it takes a week or so to become passably OK with Flash.
Let's be very clear about this, Moodle is available under the GPL (The Gnu Public License), if you have a problem with that, then let us all know about it.
The interesting thing about Moodle (apart from being awesome software) is that there is a proper business plan behind it. The international network of commercial support organisations is a result of careful nurturing and management from Moodle HQ. (See Moodle Partners at http://www.moodle.com./
Document wizard a core feature? I think of core features as Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Slide show creation, none of which require Java (neither does the help system).
It would be fair to say that some non core features of OpenOffice use Java, it would not be fair to say that OpenOffice is a C++/Java hybrid any more than a Linux distribution is a C/Bash hybrid, because it ships with some very useful Bash scripts.
I start up OpenOffice on a machine with no Java (no JDK no JVM) I open up a large document (40,000 words), I edit it, I save it in its native format, just for a laugh I save it in a non native format. I then open up an OO.org spreadsheet and enter some data, I save it. Wait but this cannot be happening because OpenOffice is a C++/Java hybrid, is it magic, am I imagining it? /sarcasm.
Where did you work out that 20% of OpenOffice is written in Java? It seems to be able to run without any Java installed at all.
A few years ago I was working on a book where the other editors were using Word and change tracking. I used OpenOffice and was pleased and surprised to find the change tracking worked fine for us. It might be worth urging those folks to register a bug and conditions to cover their experience.