They won't discriminate against any party wanting to make a GPL/LGPL implementation - no one will be able to make one. Thus they're "non-discriminatory". As I understand it the ND part of RAND licensing means that they won't discriminate against competitors but let all interested parties license it under the same terms. Those terms may or may not allow open source development, as long as they're the same for everyone.
What if you used MS Word? It might well be the case that Microsoft would argue that the.DOC file contains their IP...
They can't, at least with current versions of the.DOC file format. However, they could add a field in all.DOC files containing a small piece of MS IP, such as a BMP of the Word logo or something, in future versions of the.DOC format. This would make it illegal for OpenOffice and other competitors to create such files, since they'd have to include MS' IP. Of course, I'm not sure if Bush could keep the DoJ at bay if MS would do something that blatantly anti-competitive...
So, basically, you weren't allowed to give out the SDK's to anybody, and since you don't have permission to use the SDK, it is illegal to distribute the resulting binaries (kind of like the Quake I for Dreamcast that was floating around - it required WinCE to build, but only licensed Sega developers had legal rights to use the WinCE SDK). On this issue, I completely agree with Microsoft.
The problem isn't that you haven't got permission to use the SDK, the problem is that the finished binary contains statically linked MS code that you haven't got permission to distribute.
If I use illegal copies of Microsoft Notepad to write a novel (as if), they can't stop me from distributing that novel. If I use an illegal copy of Adobe Photoshop to create an image, they can't do anything to prevent me from distributing that image either.
It's only when my work contains any intellectual property I'm not allowed to distribute I can't distribute it, no matter how it was created.
The symbols in Civilization were icons for different technology advances, and you were asked which earlier advances you need to research the advance the icon stood for. The funny thing is, after a while you knew what all the icons meant, and you knew what technology advances were needed, without looking in the manual.
Goddess, I must've spent thousands of hours playing that game.
Except that in Europe you don't have to pay to receive either SMS messages or phone calls (unless your receiving it when roaming abroad, but that's pretty irrelevant), so that hasn't got anything to do with it.
This is how you use this precedent to MAKE MONEY FAST from home, AND hurt big bad Microsoft to boot:
1. Find nudie pics on the internet. If you fail this, kill yourself immediately. 2. Put pictures of your own head on the naked bodies. 3. From an internet cafe, create an account with a fake name on Microsoft Germanies photo sharing/whatever site. Upload the pictures to this site. 4. Sue Microsoft Germany for posting fake nude images of you on the net. Tell them to sign a formal agreement that they will not appear again. If they won't, you get money. If they do sign, post the images again and sue them for breach of contact, and get money. 5. Repeat until rich.
Um, yeah, not forcing me to buy Office XP is really a Bad Thing. That's almost as bad as... well, I can't really think of anything that bad. You should write your congressperson and ask them to do something about this horrible situation before it gets out of hand and companies start selling computers without Windows, so people can choose what software they want on their computers themselves, because that would be like the Baddest Thing ever.
The argument isn't that DeCSS isn't a circumvention device just because said circumvention is legal. The argument is that a tool shouldn't be illegal just because it can be used in illegally.
Yes, DeCSS is widely used for illegal purposes. So is Microsoft Windows. DeCSS could and can be used for legal purposes, and DeCSS equivalent code is used today by Linux DVD players for completely legal DVD playing.
Bottomline is that DeCSS was an easy target, 2600 got whacked for breaking the DMCA, and the content industry got some value for the money they bought the law with.
I'm just happy I live in a democracy, not a plutocracy, myself, and I can legally write a snippet of code and release it without having to worry about what others will use it for.
No, I have tickets for an advance screening at 21:00. In GMT+1, so I get to see it 9 hours 1 minute before CmdrTaco in Ann Arbor.
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No, it doesn't. Copyright infringement is illegal, just like theft is, but that doesn't qualify it as theft, just like it doesn't qualify as other illegal acts like murder or assault.
Just because you think copyright infringement is akin to theft doesn't make it so.
IANAL, but I'm not a lying troll as the above poster.
Since you damn (North, South, what's the difference?) Americans in Argentina can't keep your economy functioning, all of you (no matter if you live in Argentina or the US or wherever) should stop acting so superior and blah blah blah.
Repeat after me: Europe is not one country.
Of course, the EU will probably create it's own EU-wide DMCA soon bought to you by the usual suspects, but that's neither here nor there.
Yes, that was the point. However lfourrier didn't seem to understand the problem (that DVDs can't be viewed over an RF signal (unless your player is Macrovision free like my Samsung 709)), and posted a solution that wouldn't work since Mary only had RF input on her TV.
As Mary's hypothetical TV only had RF in, your scheme makes her unable to plug her VCR in either (aside from the fact she could still connect the VCR by coax). The output of the DVD player now provides both DVD and VCR output, but it isn't in a form she can connect to her TV.
Linux isn't in competition with Windows. Linux isn't an operating system. A GNU/Linux system can compete with Windows, and it might even *gasp* not use the latest release of the Linux kernel. If you want an operating system, install a distro and use the distribution's current, tested kernel. Don't follow the Linux kernel development and install the latest and greatest kernel unless it's Linux, not a replacement for Windows, you're interested in. There's no reason for most users to always use the latest kernel.
I do agree that the latest releases haven't been tested as much as they should have been before being released as stable, but the competing with Windows point is moot.
Most of the Perl coders you have experienced might have been bad, but that says nothing about whether Perl is good or bad. If whatever language you prefer suddenly gets an influx of really poor programmers, will you switch?
Simply check the manufacturers website for information on what processors your laptop supports. If there are models with Mobile Celeron 650's and PIII 850's, they're probably not going to use different mobo's since that wouldn't be cost effective. They're probably not using different BIOSes on different models, either, and if they are it's a simple question of reflashing it.
The difference between different laptops of the same model is CPU, memory, hard drive and a HUGE markup. The rest of the components are in most cases exactly the same.
There are 42 categories of trademarks, and unauthorize use of a trademark is only infringing if the use falls in the same category. Lego is probably registered as a Class 28: Games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles not included in other classes; decorations for christmas trees.
This means I can sell a beer called Lego without them having a legal leg to stand on in a lawsuit unless they have also registered Lego as a Class 32 trademark (Beers; mineral and aerated waters and other non-alcoholic drinks; fruit drinks and fruit juices; syrups and other preparations for making beverages.).
Since LegOS is made for use with Lego's Mindstorm toys, it's pretty clear that it's a class 28 product. If your dog is called LegOS, you're probably pretty safe unless you start selling him as a toy or christmas decoration.
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They won't discriminate against any party wanting to make a GPL/LGPL implementation - no one will be able to make one. Thus they're "non-discriminatory". As I understand it the ND part of RAND licensing means that they won't discriminate against competitors but let all interested parties license it under the same terms. Those terms may or may not allow open source development, as long as they're the same for everyone.
I may be wrong, though, IANALL (licensing).
They can't, at least with current versions of the .DOC file format. However, they could add a field in all .DOC files containing a small piece of MS IP, such as a BMP of the Word logo or something, in future versions of the .DOC format. This would make it illegal for OpenOffice and other competitors to create such files, since they'd have to include MS' IP. Of course, I'm not sure if Bush could keep the DoJ at bay if MS would do something that blatantly anti-competitive...
The problem isn't that you haven't got permission to use the SDK, the problem is that the finished binary contains statically linked MS code that you haven't got permission to distribute.
If I use illegal copies of Microsoft Notepad to write a novel (as if), they can't stop me from distributing that novel. If I use an illegal copy of Adobe Photoshop to create an image, they can't do anything to prevent me from distributing that image either.
It's only when my work contains any intellectual property I'm not allowed to distribute I can't distribute it, no matter how it was created.
The symbols in Civilization were icons for different technology advances, and you were asked which earlier advances you need to research the advance the icon stood for. The funny thing is, after a while you knew what all the icons meant, and you knew what technology advances were needed, without looking in the manual.
Goddess, I must've spent thousands of hours playing that game.
Except that in Europe you don't have to pay to receive either SMS messages or phone calls (unless your receiving it when roaming abroad, but that's pretty irrelevant), so that hasn't got anything to do with it.
Try searching for "why cooperation with rms is impossible" on your favourite p2p service.
This is how you use this precedent to MAKE MONEY FAST from home, AND hurt big bad Microsoft to boot:
1. Find nudie pics on the internet. If you fail this, kill yourself immediately.
2. Put pictures of your own head on the naked bodies.
3. From an internet cafe, create an account with a fake name on Microsoft Germanies photo sharing/whatever site. Upload the pictures to this site.
4. Sue Microsoft Germany for posting fake nude images of you on the net. Tell them to sign a formal agreement that they will not appear again. If they won't, you get money. If they do sign, post the images again and sue them for breach of contact, and get money.
5. Repeat until rich.
Um, yeah, not forcing me to buy Office XP is really a Bad Thing. That's almost as bad as... well, I can't really think of anything that bad. You should write your congressperson and ask them to do something about this horrible situation before it gets out of hand and companies start selling computers without Windows, so people can choose what software they want on their computers themselves, because that would be like the Baddest Thing ever.
The argument isn't that DeCSS isn't a circumvention device just because said circumvention is legal. The argument is that a tool shouldn't be illegal just because it can be used in illegally.
Yes, DeCSS is widely used for illegal purposes. So is Microsoft Windows. DeCSS could and can be used for legal purposes, and DeCSS equivalent code is used today by Linux DVD players for completely legal DVD playing.
Bottomline is that DeCSS was an easy target, 2600 got whacked for breaking the DMCA, and the content industry got some value for the money they bought the law with.
I'm just happy I live in a democracy, not a plutocracy, myself, and I can legally write a snippet of code and release it without having to worry about what others will use it for.
No, I have tickets for an advance screening at 21:00. In GMT+1, so I get to see it 9 hours 1 minute before CmdrTaco in Ann Arbor. </gloat>
No, it doesn't. Copyright infringement is illegal, just like theft is, but that doesn't qualify it as theft, just like it doesn't qualify as other illegal acts like murder or assault.
Just because you think copyright infringement is akin to theft doesn't make it so.
IANAL, but I'm not a lying troll as the above poster.
No, they seem to be continuing operations on the dark side.
Since you damn (North, South, what's the difference?) Americans in Argentina can't keep your economy functioning, all of you (no matter if you live in Argentina or the US or wherever) should stop acting so superior and blah blah blah.
Repeat after me: Europe is not one country.
Of course, the EU will probably create it's own EU-wide DMCA soon bought to you by the usual suspects, but that's neither here nor there.
Yes, that was the point. However lfourrier didn't seem to understand the problem (that DVDs can't be viewed over an RF signal (unless your player is Macrovision free like my Samsung 709)), and posted a solution that wouldn't work since Mary only had RF input on her TV.
As Mary's hypothetical TV only had RF in, your scheme makes her unable to plug her VCR in either (aside from the fact she could still connect the VCR by coax). The output of the DVD player now provides both DVD and VCR output, but it isn't in a form she can connect to her TV.
The language is the Blask Speech, however the alphabet is Elvish.
"Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"
Er... Just for whom's entertainment do you play games for? I play them for my own entertainment, and I'd imagine your child would do the same.
Linux isn't in competition with Windows. Linux isn't an operating system. A GNU/Linux system can compete with Windows, and it might even *gasp* not use the latest release of the Linux kernel. If you want an operating system, install a distro and use the distribution's current, tested kernel. Don't follow the Linux kernel development and install the latest and greatest kernel unless it's Linux, not a replacement for Windows, you're interested in. There's no reason for most users to always use the latest kernel.
I do agree that the latest releases haven't been tested as much as they should have been before being released as stable, but the competing with Windows point is moot.
Most of the Perl coders you have experienced might have been bad, but that says nothing about whether Perl is good or bad. If whatever language you prefer suddenly gets an influx of really poor programmers, will you switch?
they did the OpenBSD and shipped with everything turned off their users would scream
If they can't even start the web server service on the machine then perhaps they shouldn't be running a web server in the first place?
Simply check the manufacturers website for information on what processors your laptop supports. If there are models with Mobile Celeron 650's and PIII 850's, they're probably not going to use different mobo's since that wouldn't be cost effective. They're probably not using different BIOSes on different models, either, and if they are it's a simple question of reflashing it.
The difference between different laptops of the same model is CPU, memory, hard drive and a HUGE markup. The rest of the components are in most cases exactly the same.
Much as I love the Quest for Glory series, they do contain quite a bit of violence. In fact, fighting is a pretty central part of the game...
Sorry, forgot to add a link: Trademark Categories.
There are 42 categories of trademarks, and unauthorize use of a trademark is only infringing if the use falls in the same category. Lego is probably registered as a Class 28: Games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles not included in other classes; decorations for christmas trees.
This means I can sell a beer called Lego without them having a legal leg to stand on in a lawsuit unless they have also registered Lego as a Class 32 trademark (Beers; mineral and aerated waters and other non-alcoholic drinks; fruit drinks and fruit juices; syrups and other preparations for making beverages.).
Since LegOS is made for use with Lego's Mindstorm toys, it's pretty clear that it's a class 28 product. If your dog is called LegOS, you're probably pretty safe unless you start selling him as a toy or christmas decoration.