No, It's fine if you want to write a program and give it away for free.
I like writing programs, I personally do write GPL. But I have written shareware, back in the day I wrote a nice menu program for MSDOS, I only asked $10.00 I only got $150.00 for it, and $100.00 of that was a site license for Georgia (the southern state)
Shareware releases certain rights to the user or to the next one in line. GPL releases different rights (and responsibilities). If I had written software "for sale" to take my software for free when I have not released that right and to copy it for others when I had not released that right is to appropriate my work, my effort, without my consent, making me a slave.
Just because I enjoy doing somthing dosen't mean you get to say whether I should be paid for doing it.
i.e. no RSS publisher will embrace the extensions if they are incompatible with the majority of reader apps
Since Microsoft is the biggest gorilla on the block, where ever they lead the RSS publihers will follow. If they extend RSS and Patent those extensions no one else can build readers that have the extensions (unless they pay for a licsense)
Will the publishers use only the free subset? why? Everyone running Windows will have an RSS reader that can understand the full extended set. Because Microsoft is a MONOPOLY they get to do that sort of thing...
(please tell me more people run LINUX or OSX than WINDOWS)
So? If 10 or 20 artists, including some "big names" formed their own record company they could also get records played, They could stage large concerts where the bands would become "known" There are no laws that prevent a few artists from doing this, and I think I know one big name that would like to join...
The artist formerly known as "The artist formerly known as..." who had to give up his own name to the record company until the contract was over.
I don't like the record companies much - but it is still not right to copy without rights.
You are more attacking me than my point. Try again.
Why is it outragious to expect that someone won't take my work, that I depend on for a living and give it away for free? I am talking about hours of work, days, weeks of work, Labor over a computer instead of being out with my freinds or family.
Software does not spring out of nothing, and even though I **may** have fun writing it, I am still giving up other things to do so. There are also people who find writing software a terrible chore, but it pays the bills.
This case is not about a PUBLIC good, they are not building public infrastructure, they are building a freakin private office building. Emminent Domain is for taking land for PUBLIC works - Roads or Schools, not to increase the tax base.
You can no longer own land, you have to be the highest tax bidder for that land or it will be "Sold" for you to the highest tax bidder.
And when they are gone, where will your precious music come from? Who will make CDs for you to listen to (and copy)? You will be forced to hum the music (probably badly) to your friends, and they to you, in order to enjoy your music.
Oh, and you could go to a concert... If the band you like is still together, and playing in a venue near you.
But if I work for Months or Years to create a game, intending to sell it. If you take the game by copying it without right, and give it to others who copy it without right. If you had done that you are playing the game that was for sale for free.
You are forcing me to program for your enjoyment without paying me. By doing this you are making of me a slave.
The deal between the artist and the record company is not germane to this discussion. If the artists want a better deal perhaps several of them could band together and form their own record company. Everything necessary to creating CDs and selling them on the Internet can be done at home.
No DRM No "Trusted" computing. Linux, on old machines if need, be and our own UUCP network when we can no longer participate in the Internet. The only thing that will stop our freedom is if it is made illegal.
If you feel the same way as I and the Parent, reply and step up.
This is just like the spam email with everything spelled in spamish vi.aglra chermist
If you have to go to those lengths to get past a filter I put up, get a hint, I am not interested in whatever your pushing. The filter is there for a reason.
We delete the cookies for a reason. Marketers who wont take NO for an answer is the reason.
If you want to know things about me ask, give me the chance to decide to answer or not - stop sneaking around behind me and putting your notes in my back pocket.
I heard that a website can only open it's own cookies, but I don't belive it.. so stop keeping data on me *insecurly* on my own hard drive, where others can snoop.
A prime example of this, an article on Slashdot some time ago, was a fireman who's house burned down. Fire investigations proved that it was arson, that the fire started in one of the basement vents. "Fire Starter" logs were found there. They were bought at a local grocery store.
The fireman's "discount card" at that grocery store provided a record of his purchace of "Fire Starter" logs.
Yes it was arson, ** but ** it was another person that started the fire, not the fireman.
An inocent man was almost sent to prison on the word of a machine, on a record collected, on a privacy lost.
Another difference between a webhost and second life is that the server for a webhost is standard and many people run them, If your webhost goes out of business you can find another. If second life goes out of business, can you move your mansion to another "world provider"?
As long as you don't care about your fair use rights. I mean real fair use rights, the right to play on any device I choose, not just the ones they dictate, the right to content shift for my own use in more convenient form (not to share but really for my own use)
The right to be able to write and run my own programs and to be able to give a program I have written to someone else who will appreciate it, and to be able to run programs from other independent programmers who give them to me either in source code or in compiled binary.
If you have no use for those rights then fine go forth from here you won't feel the loss when it comes.
I am not the only one who cares about these things.
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No, It's fine if you want to write a program and give it away for free.
I like writing programs, I personally do write GPL. But I have written shareware, back in the day I wrote a nice menu program for MSDOS, I only asked $10.00 I only got $150.00 for it, and $100.00 of that was a site license for Georgia (the southern state)
Shareware releases certain rights to the user or to the next one in line. GPL releases different rights (and responsibilities). If I had written software "for sale" to take my software for free when I have not released that right and to copy it for others when I had not released that right is to appropriate my work, my effort, without my consent, making me a slave.
Just because I enjoy doing somthing dosen't mean you get to say whether I should be paid for doing it.
Since Microsoft is the biggest gorilla on the block, where ever they lead the RSS publihers will follow. If they extend RSS and Patent those extensions no one else can build readers that have the extensions (unless they pay for a licsense)
Will the publishers use only the free subset? why? Everyone running Windows will have an RSS reader that can understand the full extended set. Because Microsoft is a MONOPOLY they get to do that sort of thing...
(please tell me more people run LINUX or OSX than WINDOWS)
So? If 10 or 20 artists, including some "big names" formed their own record company they could also get records played, They could stage large concerts where the bands would become "known" There are no laws that prevent a few artists from doing this, and I think I know one big name that would like to join...
The artist formerly known as "The artist formerly known as..."
who had to give up his own name to the record company until the contract was over.
I don't like the record companies much - but it is still not right to copy without rights.
Outragious?
You are more attacking me than my point. Try again.
Why is it outragious to expect that someone won't take my work, that I depend on for a living and give it away for free? I am talking about hours of work, days, weeks of work, Labor over a computer instead of being out with my freinds or family.
Software does not spring out of nothing, and even though I **may** have fun writing it, I am still giving up other things to do so. There are also people who find writing software a terrible chore, but it pays the bills.
I am fine with that, as long as the Band does it... So if there are bands that do that, support them.
If you respect the musician don't make him/her entertain you for free. don't copy without right.
Where do I go to get a CD from Enya that has not passed through RIAA hands? That Enya herself has recorded and will
provide to me?
If you don't like paying $20 for a CD, Don't buy it. But don't copy it without right either.
Where do I sign the petition!
Note I am not posting AC.
Failing this - Eminent Domain needs to now be restricted by law to PUBLIC WORKS, Roads, Schools, and Parks.
No, The constitution says public use as well as compensated for. So they can only take your land for a **Public** use and must compensate you for it.
I also belive that the ammount that is usually offered is much less than "fair market value".
This case is not about a PUBLIC good, they are not building public infrastructure, they are building a freakin private office building. Emminent Domain is for taking land for PUBLIC works - Roads or Schools, not to increase the tax base.
You can no longer own land, you have to be the highest tax bidder for that land or it will be "Sold" for you to the highest tax bidder.
To the highest tax bidder.
You will be compensated! 50 cents on the Dollar for your home's worth.
And when they are gone, where will your precious music come from? Who will make CDs for you to listen to (and copy)? You will be forced to hum the music (probably badly) to your friends, and they to you, in order to enjoy your music.
Oh, and you could go to a concert... If the band you like is still together, and playing in a venue near you.
But if I work for Months or Years to create a game, intending to sell it. If you take the game by copying it without right, and give it to others who copy it without right. If you had done that you are playing the game that was for sale for free.
You are forcing me to program for your enjoyment without paying me. By doing this you are making of me a slave.
The deal between the artist and the record company is not germane to this discussion. If the artists want a better deal perhaps several of them could band together and form their own record company. Everything necessary to creating CDs and selling them on the Internet can be done at home.
No DRM No "Trusted" computing. Linux, on old machines if need, be and our own UUCP network when we can no longer participate in the Internet. The only thing that will stop our freedom is if it is made illegal.
If you feel the same way as I and the Parent, reply and step up.
do you mean...
" t e="true"....
ls -monad
filename="."
owner="jruser"
isdir="true
ownerread="true"
ownerwrite="true"
ownerexecu
Every shell tool would recognise -monad output and be able to parse the fieldnames so you could:
ls -monad | grep isdir=true | sort filename | show_as_list
If a shell tool sees a -monad input, it produces -monad output so -monad would only have to be used on the source command.
Somthing like this??
Where's a modpoint when you need one!
This is going in my cookie file!
Who has time to go and READ all the cookies that collect.
This is just like the spam email with everything spelled in spamish vi.aglra chermist
If you have to go to those lengths to get past a filter I put up, get a hint, I am not interested in whatever your pushing. The
filter is there for a reason.
We delete the cookies for a reason. Marketers who wont
take NO for an answer is the reason.
Not exactly me too...
If you want to know things about me ask, give me the chance to decide to answer or not - stop sneaking around behind me and putting your notes in my back pocket.
I heard that a website can only open it's own cookies, but I don't belive it.. so stop keeping data on me *insecurly* on my own hard drive, where others can snoop.
If privacy is indeed lost, we must work all the harder to regain it. If it is not yet lost, we must work hard to keep it.
A prime example of this, an article on Slashdot some time ago, was a fireman who's house burned down. Fire investigations proved that it was arson, that the fire started in one of the basement vents. "Fire Starter" logs were found there. They were bought at a local grocery store.
The fireman's "discount card" at that grocery store provided a record of his purchace of "Fire Starter" logs.
Yes it was arson, ** but ** it was another person that started the fire, not the fireman.
An inocent man was almost sent to prison on the word of a machine, on a record collected, on a privacy lost.
OpenOffice....y _tools/neoofficej.html With no X11 needed!
:^)
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivit
And from apple's own website too!
Another difference between a webhost and second life is that the server for a webhost is standard and many people run them, If your webhost goes out of business you can find another. If second life goes out of business, can you move your mansion to another "world provider"?
And sales taxes are probably an equal mess everywhere. Why don't they just average all the sales taxes and charge that?
As long as you don't care about your fair use rights. I mean real fair use rights, the right to play on any device I choose, not just the ones they dictate, the right to content shift for my own use in more convenient form (not to share but really for my own use)
The right to be able to write and run my own programs and to be able to give a program I have written to someone else who will appreciate it, and to be able to run programs from other independent programmers who give them to me either in source code or in compiled binary.
If you have no use for those rights then fine go forth from here you won't feel the loss when it comes.
I am not the only one who cares about these things.