at least in this instance, patent is different from copyright?
Granted it all roots down to the same base concept, that of "intellectual property" (whatever that means....), but it seems that most of the people posting here seem to support patenting software constructs.... I thought that was a bad thing.
The problem is, inevitably, who will decide "what is reasonable". We don't need a bunch of rogue grey hats attempting to see what systems they can destroy because the person managing them hasn't secured them against XYZ.
However, to a certain extent I agree with you: but the sad truth is that people don't learn, and most people haven't got a clue in their heads that the "would you like to remove spyware from your machine" popup windows might result in malware being downloaded to their machine.
that the article's author missed completely what is meant by "Free software". "Free" means at the very least that one is free to use the software as you see fit and have access to the source code, not that the software *must* cost $0.00.
I can hear RMS now....
... when in fact they don't want you to know they did a little gambling on the side with the PayPal money or subscribed to an adult porn site [...] If they claimed any of those things, their complaints wouldn't hold up a full 100%.
How would either of those things make their complaint any less valid?
Of course, this is all assuming that such isn't against PayPal's TOS, which I haven't *actually* read.
Its being a freebie mailbox is irrelevent. That's not what I was talking about. Besides, when MS bought out hotmail, it was back in the day when bandwidth was cheap and everything was free on the web. Remember those post-bubble days?
Hell, the only thing I use web-based emails for are throwaway spam accounts, or IM accounts. I'm not the ignorant one here, so stop the accusations.
Yes.. That terrible, evil company.. They were so wrong to give you a free email service. How dare they..
It's not free. It's ad-supported, meant to make them money. It's MS' aim to draw people in so they can suck money from them. If they want to make money, they could provide a better service, namely one that people are willing to use. What would you say if the provider of your primary email account, something you've come to rely upon, was bought out by $MULTINATIONAL_CORP and you started getting 5 megs of spam email a day?
most people don't want to contribute to one of the several alpha/beta projects that have bare functionality and then watch it go down the tube
that's the way things go sometimes. But you've got to consider what causes projects to fail? Lack of interest (though this falls under several categories, including "no leadership" and "not enough people to do the work that needs to be done"), as well as something that duplicates the work of another project.
But that's where the code-sharing of open source comes in handy - you have the potential to avoid a lot of unnecessary code duplication. How many propriatary-code software projects barely get off the ground, and are scrapped. Of course, we rarely ever hear about those.
Yes, the contract allows Comcast to cut off users like that, but do we want them to?
If you'd see the piles of spam everyday that my coworkers and I get, even the filtered stuff, every day, in addition to the stuff on all my other accounts, you'd want them shut down too.
Let's not even start on the virus-spewing zombies...
I thought I'd seen this comment before somewhere...
Re:EXACTLY, you are the kinda person I talk about.
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Alright, troll, I'll bite. Tell me this.
sure alot of people are married, alot of people work for alot of reasons, but fact is half the population isnt married
This includes what, about 6% widowed (probably most of whom are elderly and/or retired). And what about the 28% whom aren't married? What percentage of these are children and/or adolescents? Hmm?
Last time I *tried* to make an install, disk druid replied "can't set partition table". And that was that. Indeed, I've tried so hard to get a linux setup to work, but for me, but it never manages to work.
Can someone explain to me how the setup program detects the mouse and the keyboard automatically and successfully, but yet when the OS finally boots, the mouse won't work, and pressing a key on the keyboard locks the machine??? Yes, I've had this happen. And I've had more trouble than enough with autodetecting mice. And *really* don't get me started about how when you restart a machine that's got a fresh install it won't boot again, *ever*, until you wipe the OS and reinstall.
Hell, I've tried RH 7.1, 7.3, 8, Debian, god forbid even Caldera, but all of them have failed in some way or another, repeatedly (but not consistently, mind you).
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The company who found the genes on the guy probably wouldn't have had any motivation to do so if they couldn't protect it with patent.
Ok, so with millions of people dying all around, with the human race possibly facing extinction, there is absolutely no motivation to find said genes?
gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."
If that's the case, then can't we rule out people running XP at home?
in Corporate America, copyright violation is a criminal act.....
granted, when I made my post to this article there were ~50 others, not 200, and a lot of them have been modded down. But still, witness:
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at least in this instance, patent is different from copyright?
Granted it all roots down to the same base concept, that of "intellectual property" (whatever that means....), but it seems that most of the people posting here seem to support patenting software constructs.... I thought that was a bad thing.
The problem is, inevitably, who will decide "what is reasonable". We don't need a bunch of rogue grey hats attempting to see what systems they can destroy because the person managing them hasn't secured them against XYZ.
However, to a certain extent I agree with you: but the sad truth is that people don't learn, and most people haven't got a clue in their heads that the "would you like to remove spyware from your machine" popup windows might result in malware being downloaded to their machine.
that the article's author missed completely what is meant by "Free software". "Free" means at the very least that one is free to use the software as you see fit and have access to the source code, not that the software *must* cost $0.00. I can hear RMS now....
I think there's a significant difference between Big Heartless Corporation and Poor Inner-City Schoolchild....
open first pic, hit 'b', go to directory, add all, advanced -> resize, start.
Not that much more complicated.
batch commmand structures aren't limited to *NIX based machines you know. Unfortunately the windows GUI makes it a lot less common.
How would either of those things make their complaint any less valid?
Of course, this is all assuming that such isn't against PayPal's TOS, which I haven't *actually* read.
Its being a freebie mailbox is irrelevent. That's not what I was talking about. Besides, when MS bought out hotmail, it was back in the day when bandwidth was cheap and everything was free on the web. Remember those post-bubble days?
Hell, the only thing I use web-based emails for are throwaway spam accounts, or IM accounts. I'm not the ignorant one here, so stop the accusations.
It's not free. It's ad-supported, meant to make them money. It's MS' aim to draw people in so they can suck money from them. If they want to make money, they could provide a better service, namely one that people are willing to use. What would you say if the provider of your primary email account, something you've come to rely upon, was bought out by $MULTINATIONAL_CORP and you started getting 5 megs of spam email a day?
that's the way things go sometimes. But you've got to consider what causes projects to fail? Lack of interest (though this falls under several categories, including "no leadership" and "not enough people to do the work that needs to be done"), as well as something that duplicates the work of another project.
But that's where the code-sharing of open source comes in handy - you have the potential to avoid a lot of unnecessary code duplication. How many propriatary-code software projects barely get off the ground, and are scrapped. Of course, we rarely ever hear about those.
Don't forget the chainsaw....
exactly where in the article does it say that the EU can now execute people for copyright infringements?
before any reasonable person believes such an outrageous claim, you'll have to back that up.
until then: -1, Troll
If you'd see the piles of spam everyday that my coworkers and I get, even the filtered stuff, every day, in addition to the stuff on all my other accounts, you'd want them shut down too.
Let's not even start on the virus-spewing zombies...
hmmm....
Is this the next "all your base" ?
I thought I'd seen this comment before somewhere...
sure alot of people are married, alot of people work for alot of reasons, but fact is half the population isnt married
This includes what, about 6% widowed (probably most of whom are elderly and/or retired). And what about the 28% whom aren't married? What percentage of these are children and/or adolescents? Hmm?
Last time I *tried* to make an install, disk druid replied "can't set partition table". And that was that. Indeed, I've tried so hard to get a linux setup to work, but for me, but it never manages to work.
Can someone explain to me how the setup program detects the mouse and the keyboard automatically and successfully, but yet when the OS finally boots, the mouse won't work, and pressing a key on the keyboard locks the machine??? Yes, I've had this happen. And I've had more trouble than enough with autodetecting mice. And *really* don't get me started about how when you restart a machine that's got a fresh install it won't boot again, *ever*, until you wipe the OS and reinstall.
Hell, I've tried RH 7.1, 7.3, 8, Debian, god forbid even Caldera, but all of them have failed in some way or another, repeatedly (but not consistently, mind you).