Ah weel, it's still a copyright issue. The comparison is flawed, but not because it isn't a copyright issue, but because the situations don't match up. In one case, the person in question is maliciously and knowingly violating copyright, while in the other case, the person is violating copyright law in a situation where they are not aware that they are doing so and where they can not reasonably be assumed to know that they are doing so. Intent is a rather large part of both criminal and civil law.
I have to point out that Metallica *still* encourages recording and trading of their bootlegged *live* performances, just like before. They even have several dozen on their website for people who bought their latest CD. There's a big banner at the top of the page that tells you to download them, burn them and pass them around.
How is it in any way dirty? It's remarkably elegant... It takes an insanely small amount of overhead on both the server and client machines and it doesn't break any standards...
If you can get away with just bar charts, take several gifs/jpegs/pngs that are just single colour pixels and have your server-side program fiddle with the heights and widths to draw your bar chart without having the server generate an actual image file.
To be fair, you can charge for whatever you'd like, GPLed or not. You can't [b]relicense[/b] or [b]redistribute[/b] GPLed material in a way that's contrary to the GPL, however.
I'm 19, and I learned how to take a large square root by hand years ago... I still use it fairly frequenly, as I tend to forget to take calculators to things.
Wow... I remember that game... I'm not exactly sure where it came from, it just showed up in my house one day, with no instructions. I never managed to get past the first surgery either. I sure did spend a bunch of time accomplishing absolutely nothing except malpractice, though.
That was exactly the reason the coffee was so hot, though... McDonalds had the temperatures set high because their coffee tasted like crap.
Setting the temperature high makes it harder to taste, because you slightly burn your tastebuds when you first start drinking it. Instead of going with the non-jackass method of getting better coffee, the temperature was set at a dangerous level.
This isn't their plan, since I very much doubt even SCO believes that a court would grant them rights to random other people's copyright because IBM violated contract terms.
Um... they exist for exactly this reason... to reduce the scores on posts that have been moderated up when they really shouldn't have been... If you think some people are abusing this, then metamoderate.
I think that this was probably actually a rather fair time to moderate down, since it really wasn't an incredibly interesting post... Hell, it wasn't even correct about having to use stock distro kernels.
Yeah, you've sure got to watch out for those competing governments stealing your software. It'd sure screw Britain over if China were to get their traffic light control software or something.
Government "subsidies" of a product are a classic example of the reason other nations impose "counter-vailing tarriffs." A preliminary "WTO" ruling has sided with the US's case.
Well, actually, I think you'll find rather conflicting intrepretations of the outcome of the priliminary, non-binding, ruling of the WTO... I think it would be prudent to wait until the final report in July before you start making random statements about things.
To put it in blunt terms: Canada's economy even exists by the grace of US foreign policy. Complaining about such nit-picks is ridiculous.
The United States, on the other hand, obviously gains nothing out of trade with its largest trading partner and would be better off without it.
Then you are a very stupid person... How the hell would suing IBM result in SCO owning Linux, a property which IBM doesn't own? Distribution could be halted, since SCO could go around suing everyone for copyright infringement and win without having to fight too hard, depending on whatever precident is set. However, I doubt seizing random, non-sued people's copyright and awarding it to SCO as damages is anywhere approaching legal in the US, let alone a good idea. You'd not only end up with a bunch of pissed off Linux contributers (corporations and private individuals) suing things, but you'd also have the somewhat odd situation of Linux being a legally freely distributable OS everywhere on the planet except the US... where everyone could still get it anyway, it'd just be copyright infringement.
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Ah weel, it's still a copyright issue. The comparison is flawed, but not because it isn't a copyright issue, but because the situations don't match up. In one case, the person in question is maliciously and knowingly violating copyright, while in the other case, the person is violating copyright law in a situation where they are not aware that they are doing so and where they can not reasonably be assumed to know that they are doing so. Intent is a rather large part of both criminal and civil law.
Wow... how do you define copyright?
Some people, without being given the right to do so, copy a bunch of text and distribute it. Nope, that's definitely not copyright infringement.
I have to point out that Metallica *still* encourages recording and trading of their bootlegged *live* performances, just like before. They even have several dozen on their website for people who bought their latest CD. There's a big banner at the top of the page that tells you to download them, burn them and pass them around.
In fact, I specifically mentioned using several.
How is it in any way dirty? It's remarkably elegant... It takes an insanely small amount of overhead on both the server and client machines and it doesn't break any standards...
If you can get away with just bar charts, take several gifs/jpegs/pngs that are just single colour pixels and have your server-side program fiddle with the heights and widths to draw your bar chart without having the server generate an actual image file.
To be fair, you can charge for whatever you'd like, GPLed or not. You can't [b]relicense[/b] or [b]redistribute[/b] GPLed material in a way that's contrary to the GPL, however.
I'm 19, and I learned how to take a large square root by hand years ago... I still use it fairly frequenly, as I tend to forget to take calculators to things.
Actually, I think having everyone out to fuck me would, in fact, make for the most pleasurable work day ever.
Wow... I remember that game... I'm not exactly sure where it came from, it just showed up in my house one day, with no instructions. I never managed to get past the first surgery either. I sure did spend a bunch of time accomplishing absolutely nothing except malpractice, though.
That was exactly the reason the coffee was so hot, though... McDonalds had the temperatures set high because their coffee tasted like crap.
Setting the temperature high makes it harder to taste, because you slightly burn your tastebuds when you first start drinking it. Instead of going with the non-jackass method of getting better coffee, the temperature was set at a dangerous level.
Penny Arcade's a respected gaming site, now?
Actually, I think you'll find that he's the victim of a truck...
This isn't their plan, since I very much doubt even SCO believes that a court would grant them rights to random other people's copyright because IBM violated contract terms.
Um... they exist for exactly this reason... to reduce the scores on posts that have been moderated up when they really shouldn't have been... If you think some people are abusing this, then metamoderate.
I think that this was probably actually a rather fair time to moderate down, since it really wasn't an incredibly interesting post... Hell, it wasn't even correct about having to use stock distro kernels.
You forgot:
P.S. You are a dopey fuck.
Yeah, you've sure got to watch out for those competing governments stealing your software. It'd sure screw Britain over if China were to get their traffic light control software or something.
Government "subsidies" of a product are a classic example of the reason other nations impose "counter-vailing tarriffs." A preliminary "WTO" ruling has sided with the US's case.
Well, actually, I think you'll find rather conflicting intrepretations of the outcome of the priliminary, non-binding, ruling of the WTO... I think it would be prudent to wait until the final report in July before you start making random statements about things.
To put it in blunt terms: Canada's economy even exists by the grace of US foreign policy. Complaining about such nit-picks is ridiculous.
The United States, on the other hand, obviously gains nothing out of trade with its largest trading partner and would be better off without it.
Cutting down trees really isn't necessarily a bad thing though...
Except he isn't trying to hire freelancers. He wishes to give an honourarium to volunteers, which is an entirely different situation.
Eh, there have to be concessions for this sort of thing. Honourariums are rather common.
Yes, because Linus is currently being sued!
Hrm... wait...
Then you are a very stupid person... How the hell would suing IBM result in SCO owning Linux, a property which IBM doesn't own? Distribution could be halted, since SCO could go around suing everyone for copyright infringement and win without having to fight too hard, depending on whatever precident is set. However, I doubt seizing random, non-sued people's copyright and awarding it to SCO as damages is anywhere approaching legal in the US, let alone a good idea. You'd not only end up with a bunch of pissed off Linux contributers (corporations and private individuals) suing things, but you'd also have the somewhat odd situation of Linux being a legally freely distributable OS everywhere on the planet except the US... where everyone could still get it anyway, it'd just be copyright infringement.
Foreplay's a noun... :(
I believe they're basing their claims on the Linux kernel, as a result, RMS would support leaving off the GNU