You know, I can find no reason whatsoever to feel in any way sorry for him (her?), dispite you obviously expecting that people should. Can you tell me why he should expect a share in the profits of other people's industry?
You go on to talk about how people design around patents. That is exactly my point. People intentionally avoid using ideas because of the patent system. A lot. How can you say this is promoting innovation?
Well, it means we end up with 10 ways to do the same thing. How is that not innovation? That said, I quite disagree with patents.
It's a fetus. It might be only few clustered cells without any brain-functions.
If you leave it alone for a few months it is pretty much guarenteed to develop brain functions. If you had a disease (an imaginary one, only found in morality questions) that caused you to have no brain functions temporarily, would it be ok to kill you, even if we knew that you would recover? After all, you wouldn't suffer any pain and your kidneys and heart might be needed by someone else.
I'll give the new version a whirl, but to be perfectly honest the last time I tried it I found it unusable. Unlike toe others, I don't mind about the graphics, but the basic usability just wasn't there. This from someone who actually wanted to play the thing.
I disagree. If the control data for the document references the embedded font, I don't see how it can be just mere aggregation. Mere aggregation is including both in a zip file, and saying "the document looks nice with this font".
Point 2 is incorrect however. The tool is for interoperability between those who use BK, and these who don't. It's not useless for those who don't use BK in the first place.
For instance, the bugs grew uglier so they wouldn't get eaten. How did they do that? But let's suppose they did. The article claims their DNA actually changed. I don't get that at all.
All the pretty bugs got eaten that's how. If you eat all the pretty bugs, what have you got left? Ugly bugs!
If IBM is betting the farm on open source, tell me why their IT infrastructure consultancy business who run the (extremely big) network where I work are the reason we are upgrading to Windows XP? I think IBM see open source as valuable for what it can add to IBM's portfolio, but it's certainly not the only option they push.
that money was taxed when it was income of the employer (Oh no! double taxation)
Is this correct? I think generally speaking, it wasn't taxed when it belonged to the employer. Profits after paying employee salaries are taxed. Revenue isn't.
No it's not. The fact that it is not covered by Income Tax should tell you something. Income is money recieved in payment for goods, services, and so on. It is a tax on new wealth introduced into the economy.
Inheritance is typically the transfer of wealth from one relative to another on their death. Since it doesn't grow (except possibly due to related "income" which is already taxed) it will diminish to nothing in a few generations if it is taxed. Which, as the guy said, is the whole point of "inheritance tax", whether you agree with it's social aim or not.
The web has helped set UI development back 15 years
If the web is so bad, why can everyone and their dog can surf it, but the family expert gets called in to do anything related to a using a UI application.
When a person crosses the line into doing something illegal, well, it's illegal because we have laws against it already.
Anything can be made illegal. It doesn't mean anything to say that people should be allowed to say whatever they want so long as it's not illegal, unless your moral sensibilities somehow coincide exactly with all the laws that have been passed in your country.
I don't see how that can work. Looking at all the polls will just vary depending on the number of questions asked that lead in a particular direction. You have no guarentee that intrest groups will not sponsor 10 polls with different questions but leading the way they want giving the impression that the other polls are anomalies.
The problem is that they (and many other things) are technical jargon that shouldn't appear in an end user oriented product if at all possible. Now, I agree that for a developer it's hard and annoying to replace everything that is the correct technical name for something with some newbified baby words, but it is apparently necesssary, and that's why companies are supposed to employ usability and localization experts (including localization from Computereze to English).
Unfortunately, (some) Linux Gurus have forgotten the meaning of usability. Accustomed to the intrincated labyrinths of the command line, they just don't care to make something more user friendly (particularly the installations).
Why should they? They are by and large not writing for anybody but themselves, and whoever is interested enough to put up with the interface or look at the code. If you don't like it, don't use it. Those (commercial vendors, etc..) who are distributing such applications unmodified to mass users need a big slap upside the head however.
The guy doing the reverse engineering was not using BK and so was not subject to the license. He was under no obligation moral or legal to comply with either the spirit or the letter of the license. The issue was that he works at the same place as Linus -> no more free license for Linus. If Linus worked somewhere else there would be no issue.
Big toe is more important because it frees the opposable thumbs on the arms from use in locomotion leading to all the advanced tool use, and brain development that we so love about ourselves. Other apes have opposable thumbs and toes.
Well, perhaps not, but as a lawyer he is paid to be totally objective is his advice to his client (and totally subjective in his arguing of his clients case).
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You know, I can find no reason whatsoever to feel in any way sorry for him (her?), dispite you obviously expecting that people should. Can you tell me why he should expect a share in the profits of other people's industry?
All maintenance fees do is ensure that the only ones with IP of whatever form are large corporations that don't think twice about the cost of the fee.
I'll give the new version a whirl, but to be perfectly honest the last time I tried it I found it unusable. Unlike toe others, I don't mind about the graphics, but the basic usability just wasn't there. This from someone who actually wanted to play the thing.
I disagree. If the control data for the document references the embedded font, I don't see how it can be just mere aggregation. Mere aggregation is including both in a zip file, and saying "the document looks nice with this font".
Point 2 is incorrect however. The tool is for interoperability between those who use BK, and these who don't. It's not useless for those who don't use BK in the first place.
If IBM is betting the farm on open source, tell me why their IT infrastructure consultancy business who run the (extremely big) network where I work are the reason we are upgrading to Windows XP? I think IBM see open source as valuable for what it can add to IBM's portfolio, but it's certainly not the only option they push.
I do believe that the Bush Doctrine now in place has no time for international treaties, so I'd say it's still largely up for grabs.
No it's not. The fact that it is not covered by Income Tax should tell you something. Income is money recieved in payment for goods, services, and so on. It is a tax on new wealth introduced into the economy.
Inheritance is typically the transfer of wealth from one relative to another on their death. Since it doesn't grow (except possibly due to related "income" which is already taxed) it will diminish to nothing in a few generations if it is taxed. Which, as the guy said, is the whole point of "inheritance tax", whether you agree with it's social aim or not.
I don't see how that can work. Looking at all the polls will just vary depending on the number of questions asked that lead in a particular direction. You have no guarentee that intrest groups will not sponsor 10 polls with different questions but leading the way they want giving the impression that the other polls are anomalies.
We are anti-patent, but we are pro-schadenfreude.
The problem is that they (and many other things) are technical jargon that shouldn't appear in an end user oriented product if at all possible. Now, I agree that for a developer it's hard and annoying to replace everything that is the correct technical name for something with some newbified baby words, but it is apparently necesssary, and that's why companies are supposed to employ usability and localization experts (including localization from Computereze to English).
The guy doing the reverse engineering was not using BK and so was not subject to the license. He was under no obligation moral or legal to comply with either the spirit or the letter of the license. The issue was that he works at the same place as Linus -> no more free license for Linus. If Linus worked somewhere else there would be no issue.
So why doesn't our Open Source hero just fork the codebase, oh wait...
Big toe is more important because it frees the opposable thumbs on the arms from use in locomotion leading to all the advanced tool use, and brain development that we so love about ourselves. Other apes have opposable thumbs and toes.
Well, perhaps not, but as a lawyer he is paid to be totally objective is his advice to his client (and totally subjective in his arguing of his clients case).