Even if they distribute they are only "obligated" to do what Chinese law obligates them too
China is a member of the WTO now, and joined the Berne Convention on copyright. That means that, if the GPL has no standing in Chinese law, then the additional rights granted by the GPL (reduistribution of source) are not available under Chinese law.
None of the threats make legal sense. If they did, SCO would be able to get an injunction to shut down Linux users.
I don't think that's true, because to get an injunction shutting down linux users, you'd have to prove imminent and ongoing harm to SCO, which is not the case. They may be out of pocket, but me continuing to run Linux on my laptop is not harming them. The balance of harm is seriously towards the Linux users being shut down and therefore would be an unreasonable emergency injunction.
A Memphis court has actually ruled that Federal Income Tax is voluntary!
I think that's over-stating the case - the jury didn't convict because "we all felt that the prosecution didn't prove its case". Still, nice idea! I've heard it said before that federal taxation is unconstitutional, as is the United States Army, simply because the constitution doesn't explicitly give Congress those powers, and any power not explicitly granted to congress is reserved to the states.
Why complain? Go buy a smartphone, and leave those that want an open source PDA environment to develop it for themselves. Honestly, what's the point in saying "What's the point?"? The whole ethos of open source is, if you have an itch, you scratch it, and share your scratch code with the world. Someone obviously wanted this, so they developed it. More fool them if they are heading down a technological dead-end, which I don't think they are, but that's up to them. In any case, I guess a lot of this code can be used on a smartphone, which I guess is what the Tuxphone is.
The context of this discussion is an economy that does not require members to work for a living. The point that I was replying to implied that people would die under such circumstances. I don't count "walking over to a full bowl of food and eating it" to be work.
In this case I'd say the texts are study material...
I think that's wishful thinking. There's a difference between learning from a book that was written for people to learn from, and taking a dual-language text and building a translation engine based on the linguistic correlations. The translator contains a large proportion of the text, copied directly from it.
I wonder if the resultant translation engine could be considered a derivative work of the texts that populated it. This system is standing on the shoulders of all the translation efforts that went in to it. I think it's a great idea, but in the current IP climate, could well be shot down in flames. How much dual-language text is available in the PD or on open content licence?
No it isn't, it's happenstance. Our cat lived to a ripe old agem, and it didn't strive to feed itself. It was actually quite healthy, and a damn good mouser.
The RIAA seem to agree on the scope of the perjury clause:
Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies in matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet.
Q: It seems that companies can make up some absurd figure in the billions, claiming it to be actual damages, without any sort of proof they have really lost that much at all from file sharing.
A:The value of the copyrighted material on servers like this is frequently in the millions of dollars. Factor in the number of times those titles are distributed over the Internet, and the damage amounts skyrocket.
But surely that's the problem! They take the production cost, and multiply it by the number of copies made!
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Sorry, not just redistribution of source, but the right to copy the software at all is an additional grant under the GPL.
I'm wrong, Code Red was an active agent, CRClean was the reactive one.
Wasn't there an antidote to Code Red that worked that way? Code Blue rings a bell... [searches Internet] Actually it was Code Green.
Thanks for correcting me.
Admit it, you just did a Google image search for "toy story penguin", didn't you?
Why complain? Go buy a smartphone, and leave those that want an open source PDA environment to develop it for themselves. Honestly, what's the point in saying "What's the point?"? The whole ethos of open source is, if you have an itch, you scratch it, and share your scratch code with the world. Someone obviously wanted this, so they developed it. More fool them if they are heading down a technological dead-end, which I don't think they are, but that's up to them. In any case, I guess a lot of this code can be used on a smartphone, which I guess is what the Tuxphone is.
I meant to say:
<person> pissed = <person> inebrated
liquid pissed = liquid urinated
LOL!
"The liquid was pissed some time later" translated into Language X as "The liquid was urinated some time later"
"John was pissed some time later" translated to Language X as "John was inebriated some time later"
It would assimilate this into it's linguistic map as something like:
pissed = inebrated
liquid pissed = liquid urinated
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The context of this discussion is an economy that does not require members to work for a living. The point that I was replying to implied that people would die under such circumstances. I don't count "walking over to a full bowl of food and eating it" to be work.
I wonder if the resultant translation engine could be considered a derivative work of the texts that populated it. This system is standing on the shoulders of all the translation efforts that went in to it. I think it's a great idea, but in the current IP climate, could well be shot down in flames. How much dual-language text is available in the PD or on open content licence?
And the BBC ran a similar story in 2000.
That's a bit of a cheat, because the walker keeps stepping on it's own feet, but this isn't detected as a collision.
Isn't NAT illegal in the U.S., or just in some states?