So you want us to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, but you also bemoan nuclear power?
So what exactly is YOUR solution? Nuclear is a perfectly viable solution until we come up with something better. At the very least, it's far cleaner than burning coal for our energy.
Wouldn't simply compelling the defendant to release the code with the appropriate acknowledgements be more in line with the community spirit of the GPL? A monetary settlement seems unnecessarily punitive.
American Schools weren't the height of enlightenment and education until NCLB was enacted. Just look up "outcome-based education" that was popular in the early/mid 90's.
Yes, NCLB is an awful education program, but it certainly isn't the first awful education program this country has suffered through.
It's not a teacher problem, it's a work ethic problem.
I can't imagine that Japanese teachers bend over backwards to make math and science fun, but Japanese students somehow excel in those subjects.
Why? Because these students have a strong work ethic. They don't go to school to be entertained, they go to learn, and they appreciate the value of education.
American students don't have the same respect for education. Unless it entertains them, they have no use for it. And even if a certain teaching style/tool does hold their attention, that alone doesn't make it effective.
All the fancy gadgets and fun projects don't amount to jack if students have no motivation to learn.
Why should anybody be forced to do anything with code? If they don't want to re-distribute the code, they shouldn't have to. I thought the "free" in "Free Software" was about freedom.
If I was a developer, I'd be very wary around GPL'd code. I believe the GPL is unnecessarily restrictive, and OSS would be better off without ANY restrictions on use.
Afterall, information wants to be free. Limiting its potential with arbitrary restrictions benefits nobody.
At risk of wandering offtopic, the parent post is a microcosm of why people don't try OSS. A user asks for help/opinion, and it gets thrown back at him/her. Almost as un-helpful as "RTFM".
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Oh please! Stop trying to wrap your want of free shit around some noble humanitarian cause.
If you break the law and get caught, why should you not face the music?
The only thing that accomplishes is make their case for them when they go to congress to buy a new law.
If they can show a correlation between falling sales and rising downloads, they can argue that people still want their product, but are obtaining it illegally, depriving the industry of sales.
However if they have falling sales AND falling downloads, that would suggest that people just don't want their product anymore.
Of course most people simply want shit for free, and disguise it as a protest.
Such an effort will have ZERO impact as long as you ignore the other half of the equation.
People also have to stop downloading RIAA/MPAA stuff.
As long as people demonstrate a demand for their product (either by buying or downloading), the industries will have ammunition to bring to their favorite congresscritters.
In fact, doesn't downloading instead of buying make the industries' case for them?
Stop buying and downloading RIAA music. Stop buying and downloading MPAA movies.
When the music/movie industries were making blanket charges against whole groups of people, a great hue and cry erupted here that they should instead be targetting the individual lawbreakers.
Now that the industries are doing exactly that, why don't I hear much support coming from the Slashdot community? Isn't this what you asked for?
I guess you really do believe the tongue-in-cheek references to "Slashdot Groupthink".
I know for a fact that not every Slashdot reader is of similar mind on issues discussed here. If I were a paying subscriber, I'd be pretty pissed if my money were to be used to fund a political effort with which I personally disagree.
Besides, isn't there a FSF and EFF for this kind of thing?
"My kid isn't a disruptive, impolite, disorganized little jackass. He's sick! Dare suggest anything else, and you might impune my parenting abilities."
Why is every bad habit these days assigned a diagnosis of "addiction"?
I'll tell you why. Because if we can blame our bad habits on a disease, something out of our control, then we can absolve ourselves of any responsibility for it.
Face it, most of these purely psychological "addictions" that plague modern society can be corrected with a little behavior modification and a little willpower.
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I think that would be more interesting to know.
Are you paranoid or just a dumbass? On what grounds would The Man squash the distribution of YOUR film (as in YOU own the copyright)?
So you want us to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, but you also bemoan nuclear power?
So what exactly is YOUR solution? Nuclear is a perfectly viable solution until we come up with something better. At the very least, it's far cleaner than burning coal for our energy.
Is it still OK to violate RIAA and MPAA copyrights?
But we're talking about the GPL here; doesn't "stop violating the author's copyright" == "compelled to release code and acknowledge authors"?
You say "stolen" as if the "victim" of the "crime" is deprived of property.
Code can't be "stolen".
Wouldn't simply compelling the defendant to release the code with the appropriate acknowledgements be more in line with the community spirit of the GPL? A monetary settlement seems unnecessarily punitive.
American Schools weren't the height of enlightenment and education until NCLB was enacted. Just look up "outcome-based education" that was popular in the early/mid 90's.
Yes, NCLB is an awful education program, but it certainly isn't the first awful education program this country has suffered through.
It's not a teacher problem, it's a work ethic problem.
I can't imagine that Japanese teachers bend over backwards to make math and science fun, but Japanese students somehow excel in those subjects.
Why? Because these students have a strong work ethic. They don't go to school to be entertained, they go to learn, and they appreciate the value of education.
American students don't have the same respect for education. Unless it entertains them, they have no use for it. And even if a certain teaching style/tool does hold their attention, that alone doesn't make it effective.
All the fancy gadgets and fun projects don't amount to jack if students have no motivation to learn.
Why should anybody be forced to do anything with code? If they don't want to re-distribute the code, they shouldn't have to. I thought the "free" in "Free Software" was about freedom.
If I was a developer, I'd be very wary around GPL'd code. I believe the GPL is unnecessarily restrictive, and OSS would be better off without ANY restrictions on use.
Afterall, information wants to be free. Limiting its potential with arbitrary restrictions benefits nobody.
Obviously you've never tripped a well-concealed Goatse landmine. No browser is equipped to deal with that kind of damage!
At risk of wandering offtopic, the parent post is a microcosm of why people don't try OSS. A user asks for help/opinion, and it gets thrown back at him/her. Almost as un-helpful as "RTFM".
Oh please! Stop trying to wrap your want of free shit around some noble humanitarian cause.
If you break the law and get caught, why should you not face the music?
The only thing that accomplishes is make their case for them when they go to congress to buy a new law.
If they can show a correlation between falling sales and rising downloads, they can argue that people still want their product, but are obtaining it illegally, depriving the industry of sales.
However if they have falling sales AND falling downloads, that would suggest that people just don't want their product anymore.
Of course most people simply want shit for free, and disguise it as a protest.
Such an effort will have ZERO impact as long as you ignore the other half of the equation.
People also have to stop downloading RIAA/MPAA stuff.
As long as people demonstrate a demand for their product (either by buying or downloading), the industries will have ammunition to bring to their favorite congresscritters.
In fact, doesn't downloading instead of buying make the industries' case for them?
Stop buying and downloading RIAA music. Stop buying and downloading MPAA movies.
Why is this presented as such a Bad Thing(tm)?
When the music/movie industries were making blanket charges against whole groups of people, a great hue and cry erupted here that they should instead be targetting the individual lawbreakers.
Now that the industries are doing exactly that, why don't I hear much support coming from the Slashdot community? Isn't this what you asked for?
This "collective voice" you speak of does not exist. If you haven't noticed, there are a lot of different opinions on various issues discussed here.
I guess you really do believe the tongue-in-cheek references to "Slashdot Groupthink".
I know for a fact that not every Slashdot reader is of similar mind on issues discussed here. If I were a paying subscriber, I'd be pretty pissed if my money were to be used to fund a political effort with which I personally disagree.
Besides, isn't there a FSF and EFF for this kind of thing?
What happened to the person from whom the movies were downloaded? He/she most certainly WAS distributing them in violation of copyright law.
camcorder
MP3 player
digital camera
PDA
Personal video player
Personal tv
Cellphone
toothbrush and toothpaste
shampoo AND conditioner
toilet paper
hairbrush
credit cards
week's worth of clothing
golf clubs
my car
Chinese hooker
Anyone who doesn't think these belong in a phone is simply a luddite who resists technological evolution.
...but first you need to convince me why a cell phone needs a hard drive to begin with.
Exactly.
"My kid isn't a disruptive, impolite, disorganized little jackass. He's sick! Dare suggest anything else, and you might impune my parenting abilities."
Slightly OT rant:
Why is every bad habit these days assigned a diagnosis of "addiction"?
I'll tell you why. Because if we can blame our bad habits on a disease, something out of our control, then we can absolve ourselves of any responsibility for it.
Face it, most of these purely psychological "addictions" that plague modern society can be corrected with a little behavior modification and a little willpower.
Umm, are you saying that the information we've collected from these probes over the past 30 years has been worthless?