would you agree that it's OK for Dell to bundle a modified copy of Windows with their PCs that would only run on Dell hardware? Of course not, you bought Windows, dammit!
Wrong, you bought a customised version of Windows! If you buy a cut-down version of a software package for a cut-down price, that does not give you any rights to the full product. I disagree with what Apple are doing, but your analogy is a crock.
The difference is that violating the GPL is violating copyright, because the GPL is an additional rights grant on top of your copyright rights, which are unchanged whereas Apples licence is a revocation of copyright rights that Judge Dean D. Pregerson says doesn't stand up.
Do you know if that's a final ruling, with all apeals finished? The only info I can find easily on the 'net says "this is sure to be appealed, though".
"We can block out rogue applications or compromised applications or broken applications," says the Singapore-based manager of Microsoft's digital media division, Winston Chan. "From the Microsoft standpoint we will get feedback from individual (content) companies and use the licence to lock out those applications. If an application has been broken, we only have to update the licence server. You have to go through the process with Microsoft and be issued a certificate."
Does this mean that if MoRE crack RealPlayer's key, then all copies of RealPlayer worldwide suddenly stop working?
Playing the averages, and looking at reputations. My company has a reputation for always finishing projects, even if it costs us money. You might not get the slickest system ever, it might be a bit late, it might not be entirely what you expected due to technological constraints, but you'll get a system that you can tick off on your to-do list, and use to justify the expense to the shareholders. That's a very valuable reassurance to a customer, but it has to be paid for. If we ran every project to a really tight margin, we would go under the first time we had to dip into our pockets and found them empty.
It was on a computer, and it asked multiple-choice questions, with a score assigned to each answer, so stupid mistakes lost a lot of points, and different "correct" answers were worth different points. If you do well in a category, it starts asking more difficult questions, so the test is always challenging no matter how good you are. I scored very highly, so I consider it an accurate measure;-)
I'd mod it down as "Another inapplicable analogy comparing information to physical goods", but there's no category for that.
My point is, copyright law is infringement of my liberty. I'll accept it to a certain degree, but when the law stops me from doing very reasonable things with my own property, just in case I might also do something illegal, then that's where i draw the line.
All the recent 3d games look like everything is made of shiny plastic. The screenshots of Doom III that I've seen all look like shiny plastic. Halo looks like shiny plastic. It's only engines based on or prior to Quake II that don't suffer from this.
The safe harbor is unavailable if: the copyright owner impairs the trading of files that don't contain her copyrighted work, unless such impairment is necessary to impair the trading of her copyrighted work...
So they aren't allowed to impair my legal file trading, unless the only way that they can guarantee protecting The Lion King is to spoof any file that contains the word Lion" and "King". In which case it's ok for them to hack anyone that is trading files that contain these two words. Lovely.
Only 2 of us showed up, and Starbucks closed at 7pm. We had a good old geeky chat though, rambling through fave hacks, censorship, quantum mechanics, and np maths problems.
I've often wondered why the American pronunciation (jiga) lost out to the British (giga) - the trend is usually in the other direction (e.g. science students in the UK no longer get marked down for writing "sulfur" as against "sulphur").
And it might be that all of humanity is a derivative work of a work which has passed into public domain.
Derivitive works of PD works are subject to copyright. If I do a new translation of something by Socrates or Critias, I own the copyright on the translation.
So what happens when we move x,z, other letters not frequently used to the outside and start writing uber-dense perl code where the $, [,], etc. keys are in the center of the keyboard?
What the true hacker really needs is a keyboard with lcd displays on the top of the keys, that automatically reorganises itself to move frequently-used keys near the 'home' positions.
1. Wahibism is an Islamic sect and is about 200 years old,
Created, or at least cultivated, by the British Empire in order to break the power of the Sultans, AIUI. It isn't just America that fucks up world politics, we did our share.
That's all fair enough, I took the OP's word that he is being put away for treason and being a member of the Taleban, the latter I didn't realise was inherently illegal. I'm bored of this thread now.
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You so do have the right to redistribute the method, as long as the method itself contains no Apple copyrighted material.
The difference is that violating the GPL is violating copyright, because the GPL is an additional rights grant on top of your copyright rights, which are unchanged whereas Apples licence is a revocation of copyright rights that Judge Dean D. Pregerson says doesn't stand up.
Do you know if that's a final ruling, with all apeals finished? The only info I can find easily on the 'net says "this is sure to be appealed, though".
Playing the averages, and looking at reputations. My company has a reputation for always finishing projects, even if it costs us money. You might not get the slickest system ever, it might be a bit late, it might not be entirely what you expected due to technological constraints, but you'll get a system that you can tick off on your to-do list, and use to justify the expense to the shareholders. That's a very valuable reassurance to a customer, but it has to be paid for. If we ran every project to a really tight margin, we would go under the first time we had to dip into our pockets and found them empty.
My brother met Osama Bin Laden in Saudi Arabia - apparently it's a fairly common name over there.
It was on a computer, and it asked multiple-choice questions, with a score assigned to each answer, so stupid mistakes lost a lot of points, and different "correct" answers were worth different points. If you do well in a category, it starts asking more difficult questions, so the test is always challenging no matter how good you are. I scored very highly, so I consider it an accurate measure ;-)
I'd mod it down as "Another inapplicable analogy comparing information to physical goods", but there's no category for that.
My point is, copyright law is infringement of my liberty. I'll accept it to a certain degree, but when the law stops me from doing very reasonable things with my own property, just in case I might also do something illegal, then that's where i draw the line.
I've seen Halo in motion, and the effect is still there, most noticeably on stationary surface textures.
All the recent 3d games look like everything is made of shiny plastic. The screenshots of Doom III that I've seen all look like shiny plastic. Halo looks like shiny plastic. It's only engines based on or prior to Quake II that don't suffer from this.
Only 2 of us showed up, and Starbucks closed at 7pm. We had a good old geeky chat though, rambling through fave hacks, censorship, quantum mechanics, and np maths problems.
Hey, why not use the black borders on widescreen broadcasts for advertising space?
I've often wondered why the American pronunciation (jiga) lost out to the British (giga) - the trend is usually in the other direction (e.g. science students in the UK no longer get marked down for writing "sulfur" as against "sulphur").
Seriously, if just a handful of the passengers had had guns, I think the terrorists would have had a hard time taking over those 'planes.
When I read "Yep, it's a dupe", I thought it meant that the article was bogus (shor for duplicitous, as in "I've been duped!")
That's all fair enough, I took the OP's word that he is being put away for treason and being a member of the Taleban, the latter I didn't realise was inherently illegal. I'm bored of this thread now.
I agree with the US's military action in Afghanistan. I'm questioning the 'treason' of John Walker Lindh.