It'll be much more helpful if you actually know what's going on, like how they arrested 100+ high profile memebers of Falun Gong. The estimated size of Falun Gong is at 70 million members in China, while the communist party is only at 60 million.
So they're scared they got some real political power, and they crack them down. However, Falun Gong is more like a martial arts discipline.
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You might not know it, but RMS is advocating the ideal form of capitalism.
Perfect competition only manifests inself in markets with no barriers of entry. This is the case with GPL software. You can sell GPL'ed software, but you must make the source available with your case's, thus effectively canceling out any barriers of entry propeitary software might impose.
The form of monopolistic competition in most markets in unhealthy to the consumer in the long run. That is why there are anti-trust laws. Monopolistic competition eventually leads to monopoly.
Selling GPL programs is as pure/ideal as capitalism gets, because when capitalism operates this way, there are no monopolies, and self interest is made to work for the benifit of everyone.
It is near impossible to put a value on something as abstract as a collection of bits, but it is posibile to charge for a service. The results of this service can then be GPL'ed and resold for a nominal (distribution) fee, thus _creating_ wealth.
However, the system in place creates high barriers of entry as it effectively introduces a local monopoly on the patented device, or copyrighted work. The creators of early IP laws were aware of this, and put a time cap on how log this local monopoly can be enforced.
In short, even the people who made these laws didn't think they were a good idea, although it was a necessity to facilitate invention.
Capitalism is more a way of distributing resource, and is not an end in itself.
Um.. well you're right if you're a gamer. However, in the real world, not everybody use their machines as frag stations. K6 interger performance is still strong.
Besides, it's only because of the K6 that we're seeing sub $80 Celeron prices. Think Intel would throw out money like that without competition? No way..
The fact that ST is mostly space drama, where we see people doing their daily stuff (abit weird daily stuff). ST is also focused on morals and alot of trekkers apprieciate it.
OTOH, SW is all legend. It's about a hero who goes out, fight badguys, save the universe and (hopefully) get the girl (which I think OB1 will not, judging from the ST rumour floating around, duh! there's luke)
Maybe you can afford the $?,??? to buy NT server and SQL server and run Quake2 on your server (hahaha), but that doesn't mean you got a license to troll.
If you really understand what's going on under the hood in Win/Office 2000, you really won't want to talk about it.
If he made enough money from royalties this time around, maybe he'll rethink that sequel thingy. Then again, like he hasn't made enough already from the originals.
Maybe he should think about paying back to the fans that have supported his films.
IP has served it's purpose over the centuries, but it's come to a time when the whole notion of IP is somewhat irrelevant to our society.
Formerly most IP laws were used on designs and information that are human-readable. However, in some strange extension, IP laws also applied to information that is not human readable, ie. binaries.
This provides a very big problem and is also what most people just pass over. We are in a age in which there are things called black box products, in which economics apply in a different sense. No longer are there scarcities in the production of these products (as the production of machine code is near zero), but design cost are high in terms of programmer labor.
Physical products can only be produced by also reproducing the design of the original. In other words, a physical product is also has embedded design plans. Similarly, if you purchase a car, you can take it apart and gain knowledge on how it was built and how it works. However, with binaries, that is no longer the case. Reverse engineering binaries often end up with heaps of obfuscated sources.
The real question here is if black box products really intelectual property. What is IP anyways? It is a effective scheme to induce motivation through marginalizing unscarce resources by introducing artificial rights. It worked, because most IP before computers were human readable. It allowed a compromise between ethics and market forces.
But now, the distribution of binaries pose a very real problem. The scale has tipped and information can now be devices. This is unique, as stated above, information devices are in essence black box products. The design of these products are no longer visible.
All in all, this a lose-lose situation. There is no accountability in the product as the design of the program is no longer visible to the end-user. It is anti-competitive, since it propangates trade secrets, which prohibit the free flow of information, adding barriers to entry. The list goes on and on.
Recently, there has been more and more talk of ethics, and universal standards of what's right and what's wrong. We should be long gone from the ancient modernist notion of grand narratives. There is, of course, no universal standard, but there is a measure of what works and what doesn't to you and me.
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They don't want encryption software on the web. Period.
Pls. don't bold your paragraphs when there is nothing really special there. It is really annoying. Thanks.
In an oss/fs world, binary inoperability is not a big issue. Source support for different platforms is. Install Linux one day and see what that means.
Who would want to run a applications through a emulation/thunking layer when they can run it natively.
It'll be much more helpful if you actually know what's going on, like how they arrested 100+ high profile memebers of Falun Gong. The estimated size of Falun Gong is at 70 million members in China, while the communist party is only at 60 million.
So they're scared they got some real political power, and they crack them down. However, Falun Gong is more like a martial arts discipline.
Try this link
http://home.utah-inter.net/clalor/lin ux_ce.html
All you wanted to know getting those wince thingymijigs working under 'nix.
It's easy.. enable firewall support.. that's all..
ya think if the gov didn't break up ma bell, then could we get low long distance taday?
think of what the cablecos will do after they lured ya on the bait? They'll chew on ya ass won't let go.
duh! it's also slower than a monolithic kernel..
Similar to the US
You might not know it, but RMS is advocating the ideal form of capitalism.
Perfect competition only manifests inself in markets with no barriers of entry. This is the case with GPL software. You can sell GPL'ed software, but you must make the source available with your case's, thus effectively canceling out any barriers of entry propeitary software might impose.
The form of monopolistic competition in most markets in unhealthy to the consumer in the long run. That is why there are anti-trust laws. Monopolistic competition eventually leads to monopoly.
Selling GPL programs is as pure/ideal as capitalism gets, because when capitalism operates this way, there are no monopolies, and self interest is made to work for the benifit of everyone.
It is near impossible to put a value on something as abstract as a collection of bits, but it is posibile to charge for a service. The results of this service can then be GPL'ed and resold for a nominal (distribution) fee, thus _creating_ wealth.
However, the system in place creates high barriers of entry as it effectively introduces a local monopoly on the patented device, or copyrighted work. The creators of early IP laws were aware of this, and put a time cap on how log this local monopoly can be enforced.
In short, even the people who made these laws didn't think they were a good idea, although it was a necessity to facilitate invention.
Capitalism is more a way of distributing resource, and is not an end in itself.
Um.. well you're right if you're a gamer. However, in the real world, not everybody use their machines as frag stations. K6 interger performance is still strong.
Besides, it's only because of the K6 that we're seeing sub $80 Celeron prices. Think Intel would throw out money like that without competition? No way..
The fact that ST is mostly space drama, where we see people doing their daily stuff (abit weird daily stuff). ST is also focused on morals and alot of trekkers apprieciate it.
OTOH, SW is all legend. It's about a hero who goes out, fight badguys, save the universe and (hopefully) get the girl (which I think OB1 will not, judging from the ST rumour floating around, duh! there's luke)
Maybe you can afford the $?,??? to buy NT server and SQL server and run Quake2 on your server (hahaha), but that doesn't mean you got a license to troll.
If you really understand what's going on under the hood in Win/Office 2000, you really won't want to talk about it.
If he made enough money from royalties this time around, maybe he'll rethink that sequel thingy. Then again, like he hasn't made enough already from the originals.
Maybe he should think about paying back to the fans that have supported his films.
IP has served it's purpose over the centuries, but it's come to a time when the whole notion of IP is somewhat irrelevant to our society.
Formerly most IP laws were used on designs and information that are human-readable. However, in some strange extension, IP laws also applied to information that is not human readable, ie. binaries.
This provides a very big problem and is also what most people just pass over. We are in a age in which there are things called black box products, in which economics apply in a different sense. No longer are there scarcities in the production of these products (as the production of machine code is near zero), but design cost are high in terms of programmer labor.
Physical products can only be produced by also reproducing the design of the original. In other words, a physical product is also has embedded design plans. Similarly, if you purchase a car, you can take it apart and gain knowledge on how it was built and how it works. However, with binaries, that is no longer the case. Reverse engineering binaries often end up with heaps of obfuscated sources.
The real question here is if black box products really intelectual property. What is IP anyways? It is a effective scheme to induce motivation through marginalizing unscarce resources by introducing artificial rights. It worked, because most IP before computers were human readable. It allowed a compromise between ethics and market forces.
But now, the distribution of binaries pose a very real problem. The scale has tipped and information can now be devices. This is unique, as stated above, information devices are in essence black box products. The design of these products are no longer visible.
All in all, this a lose-lose situation. There is no accountability in the product as the design of the program is no longer visible to the end-user. It is anti-competitive, since it propangates trade secrets, which prohibit the free flow of information, adding barriers to entry. The list goes on and on.
Recently, there has been more and more talk of ethics, and universal standards of what's right and what's wrong. We should be long gone from the ancient modernist notion of grand narratives. There is, of course, no universal standard, but there is a measure of what works and what doesn't to you and me.
Black box software doesn't work.