Are we speaking Latin all of a sudden? In any case, the rule is more complicated than that. It depends on the declension. E.g. the plural of 'opus' is 'opera'.
There is a middle way. Jabber uses the email server idiom (user@server.com) for instant messaging user names. You can run your own server if you want, or use one of the many free ones on the internet. And no single company or organisation controls the traffic. Just like email! And like email, your ISP could easily provide a Jabber server, just as they have news servers, smtp and so on.
"If there was no copyright protection for software, the GPL would not be needed. Binary-only distribution would not be viable in such a system."
No, software vendors could protect their proprietary binaries with encryption / DRM. But also, something like the GPL, but in the form of a contract rather than a license, could perhaps still exist.
You can make commercial GPL'd software that links to GPL Qt. You can't make closed-source software that links to GPL Qt when you only have a GPL-licensed copy of Qt, because of the GPL. There's no sense in which the GPL Qt undermines the proprietary license. None at all.
You're right that the GPL is in some sense 'anti-author', but who gives a fuck? The users heavily outweigh the authors. And you can still make money off authoring GPL'd software (hello RedHat). As if that was important anyway.
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Ass.
PS the claim isn't that sequels are bad, anyway. It's that they are worse than the originals.
Oh great. I'll just kill myself now.
Companies don't have the right to free speech.
The English plural of 'virus' is 'viruses'. HAND.
Jabber is decentralized. It works, There is no spam. Hve you tried it?
There are loads of public Jabber servers out there, and they're not overloaded. As Jabber usage grows, so will the number of servers. Look here
There is a middle way. Jabber uses the email server idiom (user@server.com) for instant messaging user names. You can run your own server if you want, or use one of the many free ones on the internet. And no single company or organisation controls the traffic. Just like email! And like email, your ISP could easily provide a Jabber server, just as they have news servers, smtp and so on.
No, software vendors could protect their proprietary binaries with encryption / DRM. But also, something like the GPL, but in the form of a contract rather than a license, could perhaps still exist.
You can make commercial GPL'd software that links to GPL Qt. You can't make closed-source software that links to GPL Qt when you only have a GPL-licensed copy of Qt, because of the GPL. There's no sense in which the GPL Qt undermines the proprietary license. None at all.
You're right that the GPL is in some sense 'anti-author', but who gives a fuck? The users heavily outweigh the authors. And you can still make money off authoring GPL'd software (hello RedHat). As if that was important anyway.
The "Gnome filesystem" supports ssh, yes. The new file picker (Gnome 2.whatever) will presumably support it. Nautilus does already.