2 PCs running Windows NT Workstation on the same LAN don't qualify as peers? See that's my point. WTF is a server? a client? on a p2p network you are by definition a server and a client/consumer of data. What if you're only leeching? When 2 people swap CDs, they are acting as client and server on a network. A bunch of kids are in a classroom and one of them says: "I'll give you a copy of my latest Metallica CD if you give me a copy of your latest OutKast CD". Doesn't this qualify as p2p? My point is: it's going to be near impossible to define this stuff in legal terms.
Windows filesharing (network 'neighbourhood') letting friends access your FTP server burning to a CD, handing the CD to someone playing a CD in your backyard for your friends (peers)
they're going to have a hell of a time creating the legal language that accomplishes what they want.
...I mailed my old iPod, my friend told me "dude, you're getting a Dell", I received it with the $100, turned it on, loaded some mp3s and it was like BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. My music was gone! So with the $100, I bought a pink iPod mini. Life is good again. My name is Ellen Feiss. I'm a switcher.
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I rip every CD I buy so I can listen to it from anywhere in my house via my slimserver. On the other hand, I never rip DVDs because we only have one TV. There *are* perfectly legimate uses for this stuff.
Agree. I just installed KDE 3.2 (on Mandrake), it seems *a lot* faster than 3.1 or 3.0. May be the new kernel is helping, I'm not sure. But I'm always looking for a KDE upgrade, they're always worthwile.
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Look at what happened to movies. The golden age of Hollywood produced some of the greatest movies ever made, will real artistic content. Look at new releases today, it's mostly crap. Same thing with music: jazz, blues, early rock. The US produced some great stuff. What's on the radio today? Total crap Thank you MTV & ClearChannel.
(yes, there are still some decent indy (& even mainstream) movies & bands...)
USE CASE #1: - Did you download the latest version of X? - no, my lawyer tells me it might contain some stolen, copyrighted code. It could be a huge liability for us. - uh? - yeah, they don't have very good audit trails of the commits on their website. Some patches were even submitted anonymously. Right now, we can only use open source software for which the audit trail is well documented, etc. etc. I think there's only a handful of projects out there that we can use. That open source stuff, it's very risky.
Yes, lawyers will always exists and the FSF is a very good thing. My point was: by doing this, we start letting MS/SCO set the agenda, not us. Why should we have to sign & publish all kinds of documentation when they don't even want to show a line of their code? OSS developpers should be able to keep doing what they're doing the way they were doing it before, i.e. code freely (as in speech/beer/whatever). *Developers* are getting drawn to a space (Law) where they're ill-equipped and very unproductive.
This is a very bad precedent: the OSS community now has to follow processes that in the past, only large corporations could afford: audit trail, overkill documentation, etc. The fact that SCO/MS has managed to move Linus on *their* turf and make him play by *their* rules alas without their resources makes me really nervous: whoever gets to frame the debate always has a disproportionate advantage. What's next? More FUD campaign to fuel the fire, more hoops we'll have to jump through. While OSS people have to play lawyers, they don't write any code.
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bunch of wafflers, eh?
how do you carry that tank in your pocket?
2 PCs running Windows NT Workstation on the same LAN don't qualify as peers? See that's my point. WTF is a server? a client? on a p2p network you are by definition a server and a client/consumer of data. What if you're only leeching?
When 2 people swap CDs, they are acting as client and server on a network.
A bunch of kids are in a classroom and one of them says: "I'll give you a copy of my latest Metallica CD if you give me a copy of your latest OutKast CD". Doesn't this qualify as p2p?
My point is: it's going to be near impossible to define this stuff in legal terms.
In related new, Hatch wants to outlaw the printing press.
Windows filesharing (network 'neighbourhood')
letting friends access your FTP server
burning to a CD, handing the CD to someone
playing a CD in your backyard for your friends (peers)
they're going to have a hell of a time creating the legal language that accomplishes what they want.
here's all it'll take for someone to defeat this:
image:
- flat screen display
- tripod
- good camcorder
sound:
- grab stream from the entertainment center
put them back together... voila.
...I mailed my old iPod, my friend told me "dude, you're getting a Dell", I received it with the $100, turned it on, loaded some mp3s and it was like BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. My music was gone!
So with the $100, I bought a pink iPod mini. Life is good again. My name is Ellen Feiss. I'm a switcher.
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Neil Young is great at getting so much from one note.
So is Kenny G.
I'm joking.
raaaaghhhht... before you could just make screenshots to explain someone how to use an app, now we need full motion video. vive le progres!
maybe... but it sure would revive the video card market.
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I rip every CD I buy so I can listen to it from anywhere in my house via my slimserver. On the other hand, I never rip DVDs because we only have one TV. There *are* perfectly legimate uses for this stuff.
it does refuse to do what I tell it sometimes
Ask Clippy. Nicely.
Agree. I just installed KDE 3.2 (on Mandrake), it seems *a lot* faster than 3.1 or 3.0. May be the new kernel is helping, I'm not sure. But I'm always looking for a KDE upgrade, they're always worthwile.
riiiight. and who's #1? Apple.
yeah, notice how nobody's using Microsoft DRMed files either?
I mean, you'd have to be a moron to rip your CDs as WMA files.
you ssh into it then?
12 Does OpenWRT have a web interface?
Not yet.
what are the benefits of OpenWRT?
Look at what happened to movies. The golden age of Hollywood produced some of the greatest movies ever made, will real artistic content. Look at new releases today, it's mostly crap.
Same thing with music: jazz, blues, early rock. The US produced some great stuff. What's on the radio today? Total crap
Thank you MTV & ClearChannel.
(yes, there are still some decent indy (& even mainstream) movies & bands...)
USE CASE #1:
- Did you download the latest version of X?
- no, my lawyer tells me it might contain some stolen, copyrighted code. It could be a huge liability for us.
- uh?
- yeah, they don't have very good audit trails of the commits on their website. Some patches were even submitted anonymously. Right now, we can only use open source software for which the audit trail is well documented, etc. etc. I think there's only a handful of projects out there that we can use. That open source stuff, it's very risky.
etc.
*THIS* is what they've started.
The American flag?
Yes, lawyers will always exists and the FSF is a very good thing.
My point was: by doing this, we start letting MS/SCO set the agenda, not us. Why should we have to sign & publish all kinds of documentation when they don't even want to show a line of their code? OSS developpers should be able to keep doing what they're doing the way they were doing it before, i.e. code freely (as in speech/beer/whatever).
*Developers* are getting drawn to a space (Law) where they're ill-equipped and very unproductive.
This is a very bad precedent: the OSS community now has to follow processes that in the past, only large corporations could afford: audit trail, overkill documentation, etc. The fact that SCO/MS has managed to move Linus on *their* turf and make him play by *their* rules alas without their resources makes me really nervous: whoever gets to frame the debate always has a disproportionate advantage. What's next? More FUD campaign to fuel the fire, more hoops we'll have to jump through. While OSS people have to play lawyers, they don't write any code.