I agree with the arguments that DCMA are bad. He shouldn't have been jailed for what he did. But! he makes it a little difficult for himself because he tried to sell (I read it somewhere) the stuff. He should have posted it on the net in good hacker spirit.
Stupid post. You forget cost of entry. I have a shitty 56K modem (that mostly gets 44K). I'm not going to download 10-20M to get a different browser. Fortuntely for me, I use Linux which usually has Netscape on the distribution. (And no, it doesn't crash on me. IE on Win crashes more).
If I could get AOL to include NS on their CDs, I would, and I would go get one of those CDs and install it.<br>
No I wouldn't go to cleveland (from Boston) to get new tires.
If KDE is a monopoly, and it is "integrating" the two things because it will kill off their competition, then yes it should be seperated.
If on the other hand, GNOME and KDE and.... are all heading in the same direction, and I can choose to use any of them (buy SuSE, get KDE; buy RedHat, get GNOME) readily, then no, that's acceptable.
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I agree with the arguments that DCMA are bad. He shouldn't have been jailed for what he did. But! he makes it a little difficult for himself because he tried to sell (I read it somewhere) the stuff. He should have posted it on the net in good hacker spirit.
If I had karma, I'd mod him into a hole in the ground. He speaks not for me.
Stupid post. You forget cost of entry. I have a shitty 56K modem (that mostly gets 44K). I'm not going to download 10-20M to get a different browser. Fortuntely for me, I use Linux which usually has Netscape on the distribution. (And no, it doesn't crash on me. IE on Win crashes more).
If I could get AOL to include NS on their CDs, I would, and I would go get one of those CDs and install it.<br>
No I wouldn't go to cleveland (from Boston) to get new tires.
If KDE is a monopoly, and it is "integrating" the two things because it will kill off their competition, then yes it should be seperated.
.... are all heading in the same direction, and I can choose to use any of them (buy SuSE, get KDE; buy RedHat, get GNOME) readily, then no, that's acceptable.
If on the other hand, GNOME and KDE and