2.SONY did not like people decrypting their software and puting it up for downloads. Anyone, including competing companies could download it and use it to their liking.
As soon as someone would offer an AIBO clone which used illegally-obtained SONY-copywrited software, SONY would have the right to sue them (and most probably get more money in settlement out of the clone manufacturer than they could ever got from AiboPet). On the other hand, owning a "back-up copy" of the software for which you PAID (while offering it for sale) is clearly within fair use rights (IANAL though). The case that manufacturer tried to make it harder for you to back-up the software should be irrelevant -- except under DMCA. I am not sure if AiboPet should've put the image on his website, but offering a program (even for sale!) which accesses the SW and saves the image should be legal. Otherwise content providers would go after all the makers of backup solutions...;-)
you can always dump core of the process
(e.g., kill -SIGSEGV), then load the core file
it into gdb (gdb program corefile) and
issue 'cont'.
The OS state would be gone though (so, no
files besides stdin/stdout), but for purely
computational process that might work as a
one-time shot. At least you could save main
arrays from gdb and read them in into a modified
program.
She did not write about AT&T, remember, the copy I was reading is ~67:), but about railroads (got land rights for cheap), GE (were asked to agree on a fixed prices during WWII and prosecuted later for price fixing), etc. I can not find the exact passage rigth now.
AT&T is just an obvious case for us, younger techie crowd...:)
I think she did mention Standard Oil in support of her claim, I'm not sure about Sugar Tobacco Trusts though.
I hear you!
I posted the original message from my office Windows PC (used mostly as an X-terminal to our SUN cluster, and a sh***y one), now I'm at my home all-Linux box. I know why I have that Win box on my office desk (and it definitely is not my choice). One reason is that it is easier for the support people to take care of just one OS (and I am not paid for taking care of my computer, however more able I would be in that). The other reason is that if a customer (_government_ one, in our case) sends me a file, I better read it right away and do not complain about Word or Excel format. But these are trivial reasons, the company just thinks that it saves some money (the extra time I spend when Windows crash does not count!) and get some more, I can understand that...
I was just curious if anyone remembers any saucy details of MS past relations with the Gov, really...
I was reading Ayn Rand recently (Capitalism: The inknown Ideal, 1967 or so) and she pointed out that in all previous anti-monopoly cases it was the government itself that gave some exclusive rights to the companies and these exclusive rights allowed the companies to grow into the illegal monopolies. The AT&T case supports this statement, but what about Microsoft?
In your opinion, did they (MS) get any exclusive rights from the government or are they the exception of a company which managed to get to this position all by itself?
Roland in NetExpress (they claim to be the first
company to sell Linux computers over the 'Net)
suggested me an ASUS laptop around 1996 and I have
and use it ever since. It is officially called
P6300, BTW. When I spilled beer on the keyboard
(sorry, Roland, I told you it was coffee;) ) and
keys started to be stuck, ASUS have sent me a
replacement keyboard for free. The only other
thing that broke in those 5 years is the left
mouse button cover (still clicks though).
If you need a sturdy one, go ASUS. On the other
hand, I wish it would be a bit lighter, but you
can not have the best of both worlds.
OK, but let us make a difference between a civilian institution and a military organization... The latter might not retain the BEST talent, but the most loyal one (and it gets court-marshalled when it stops being that loyal...) The former one should not expect civilians to be voluntary searched WHENEVER he superiors decide to do that.
Yes, I'm not from the US originally and yes, my employer has rather close ties to the US defence, but (thanks God!) I've never got ANY unreasonable searches so far.
Yeah, I've just thought something alomng the same lines...
You rarely regret the tip you leave to a bartender/server but you quite often thing that I should not have tipped that stripper too much. The difference? In one case you give extra money after you've sampled the goods, in the other --- before in the hope you'll get any...
The Linux/MS extrapolation is up to you...
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2.SONY did not like people decrypting their software and puting it up for downloads. Anyone, including competing companies could download it and use it to their liking. ;-)
As soon as someone would offer an AIBO clone which used illegally-obtained SONY-copywrited software, SONY would have the right to sue them (and most probably get more money in settlement out of the clone manufacturer than they could ever got from AiboPet). On the other hand, owning a "back-up copy" of the software for which you PAID (while offering it for sale) is clearly within fair use rights (IANAL though). The case that manufacturer tried to make it harder for you to back-up the software should be irrelevant -- except under DMCA. I am not sure if AiboPet should've put the image on his website, but offering a program (even for sale!) which accesses the SW and saves the image should be legal. Otherwise content providers would go after all the makers of backup solutions...
you can always dump core of the process
(e.g., kill -SIGSEGV), then load the core file
it into gdb (gdb program corefile) and
issue 'cont'.
The OS state would be gone though (so, no
files besides stdin/stdout), but for purely
computational process that might work as a
one-time shot. At least you could save main
arrays from gdb and read them in into a modified
program.
She did not write about AT&T, remember, the copy I was reading is ~67 :), but about railroads (got land rights for cheap), GE (were asked to agree on a fixed prices during WWII and prosecuted later for price fixing), etc. I can not find the exact passage rigth now.
:)
AT&T is just an obvious case for us, younger techie crowd...
I think she did mention Standard Oil in support of her claim, I'm not sure about Sugar Tobacco Trusts though.
I hear you!
I posted the original message from my office Windows PC (used mostly as an X-terminal to our SUN cluster, and a sh***y one), now I'm at my home all-Linux box. I know why I have that Win box on my office desk (and it definitely is not my choice). One reason is that it is easier for the support people to take care of just one OS (and I am not paid for taking care of my computer, however more able I would be in that). The other reason is that if a customer (_government_ one, in our case) sends me a file, I better read it right away and do not complain about Word or Excel format. But these are trivial reasons, the company just thinks that it saves some money (the extra time I spend when Windows crash does not count!) and get some more, I can understand that...
I was just curious if anyone remembers any saucy details of MS past relations with the Gov, really...
I was reading Ayn Rand recently (Capitalism: The inknown Ideal, 1967 or so) and she pointed out that in all previous anti-monopoly cases it was the government itself that gave some exclusive rights to the companies and these exclusive rights allowed the companies to grow into the illegal monopolies. The AT&T case supports this statement, but what about Microsoft?
In your opinion, did they (MS) get any exclusive rights from the government or are they the exception of a company which managed to get to this position all by itself?
(this sounds like an ad, but it is not! :) )
;) ) and
Roland in NetExpress (they claim to be the first
company to sell Linux computers over the 'Net)
suggested me an ASUS laptop around 1996 and I have
and use it ever since. It is officially called
P6300, BTW. When I spilled beer on the keyboard
(sorry, Roland, I told you it was coffee
keys started to be stuck, ASUS have sent me a
replacement keyboard for free. The only other
thing that broke in those 5 years is the left
mouse button cover (still clicks though).
If you need a sturdy one, go ASUS. On the other
hand, I wish it would be a bit lighter, but you
can not have the best of both worlds.
Just my $0.02
Paul B.
OK, but let us make a difference between a civilian institution and a military organization... The latter might not retain the BEST talent, but the most loyal one (and it gets court-marshalled when it stops being that loyal...) The former one should not expect civilians to be voluntary searched WHENEVER he superiors decide to do that.
Yes, I'm not from the US originally and yes, my employer has rather close ties to the US defence, but (thanks God!) I've never got ANY unreasonable searches so far.
Federal bureocracy maybe?
PaulBu
is "01 April 2000"! :)
/. recycle April Fool's day
:)
I wonder why does
jokes (?) as news?
Paul
(they have the courts/police/gov't/guns on their side) :)
Hey, some of us (ER) do seem to (still) have guns on our side
Yeah, I've just thought something alomng the same lines... You rarely regret the tip you leave to a bartender/server but you quite often thing that I should not have tipped that stripper too much. The difference? In one case you give extra money after you've sampled the goods, in the other --- before in the hope you'll get any... The Linux/MS extrapolation is up to you...