Imagine a company selling tires has a 90% market share. Suppose they are convicted monopolists. How would competitors react to this company offering the city police new tires for free for the next five years. Would the city even go with this firm, if they knew they were obliged to keep buying these same tires for many years to come afterwards? For the city traffic infrastructure would need to buy from them afterwards...
So do I paraphrase you correctly this way: "This country can just lift educational use of software out of its copyright policy. They have a sovereign right to do so."
Seems to me as if you don't know things like WIPO or the Bern convention too well... Malaysia too has voluntarily entered into international intellectual property treaties. Copyright is much more set in stone than you think.
About the only countries in the world that can just put aside such important international treaties they voluntarily agreed to are the US (especially) and China. And even for them, things have gotten much more difficult the last few years.
As a Free Software user, I have deep respect for copyright laws. I expect everyone to act responsibly and condemn piracy. It is a task for government to act against software piracy. That is a way of keeping the market open and honest.
Monopolies were born from and are sustained by piracy. How do you think Microsoft software got so widespread? The corporate world abuses the lack of government attention to software piracy in any way they see suitable to their own corporate strategy.
By not reacting against piracy, you allow a convicted monopolist to undercut competitors (Free Software in this case) on pricing. And education is a key area where finally some competition might be taking off in the near future.
But not if this minister gets away with his irresponsible deed. Maybe we should ask the BSA to react if they haven't already?
Not the entire source is provided, it seems. This DOES look like a GPL violation.
Now the Gnucleus folks don't have the money to sue.
The FSF probably won't sue. This gives powerful GPL opponents too much of a chance to associate GPL with pirating in the mainstream press. Even if Gnucleus has its fair uses...
Seems like a very unhealthy situation to me. Morpheus knows this very well...
>Our Congress isn't passing laws for the rest of the world. Yet.
Helms-Burton law on Cuba. Just to name one that is perceived as extremely extraterritorial in Europe.
...
With a little research, you could find so many of these extraterritorial laws. They are not felt as extraterritorial as much as outside the country. But they ARE.
Like in the Dresden bombing by the end of World War II?
B52's are ready for the museum, '40s and '50s antiques. Try to do precision bombing with those...
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Does anyone have an idea of the amounts of energy needed to succesfully launch anything into space? They're huge!
When used for just a billionaire's holiday is called spoiling energy. Is this a Good Thing(TM)?
At least, the rocket fuel for commercial launches should be taxed. It costs so much to the environment. Even if it's pure hydrogen, it also has to be produced. See the article from a few days ago on fuel cells.
Not of course, that if NASA has any chance of earning a few extra bucks, they probabaly won't refuse.
Just bombing Afghanistan with food, medicine and clothing would be quite a lot MORE EFFICIENT. Toys for the children should also be included. Who can resist that? As long as you don't throw barbies at them...
It would also have been a hell of a lot CHEAPER. AND it could help the American economy. America is strong enough to do this. Look at the succes this brought them with the Marshall plan after World War II.
PLUS Europe (not taking into account the UK) would become a lot more helpful.
As an EXTRA, you would have the Arab nations support, instead of having to threaten them.
Even the relations between Israel and the Arab world could get better with such actions, since the Israeli's could join the effort.
It might also have a LONG TERM positive influence on reducing terrorist activity.
But defense... oops sorry... WAR INDUSTRY would not really have made so much profit out of it.
Oh, well, just a thought...
BTW: Does anyone know about the reasons of the state of emergency in Florida?
Having your lyrics copied in ancient Greece and Rome was seen as an honor. It contributed to your status as an author.
Even plagiarism -not revealing sources- raised the prestige of the original author a lot.
It was not until the beginning of renaissance that a paradigm shift took place.
I can't imagine they're just firing this "crème de la crème" group.
HP must have quite a few projects up the sleeve they could be put to very good use for.
I'll try to explain a few key related principles of social democracy paradigm on education in most of Western Europe (excluding, of course, the UK, that has a much more individualist paradigm, just like the US).
In social democracy, a key value to education is impartiality. Education should give citizens a sense of criticism. This keeps society healthy when dealing with new evolutions.
A little example.
A school A magazine editorial criticises company X for something bad (environment, social, whatever). Allowing this is part of the school's effort to teach students a critical view of what's happening. It is seen as a Good Thing (TM).
Imagine company X stops funding the school magazine after this critical review. Funding goes to another, less critical school B. School B is seen as worse than school A, because it offers less education towards an attitude of structured, well argumented criticism. Still, school B gets more funding than school A.
Within a social democrat way of thinking, advertising lowers the value of education substantially, because it financially favors those institutions limiting well-argumented criticism.
The high value attached to absolute impartiality is the main reason for not allowing advertising or sponsoring in education in many European countries.
* a 100 million pounds donation to the openoffice project
objective: premium quality office software (without the viruses)
* a 100 million pounds investment in MS Exchange alternatives
objective: premium quality groupware (without the viruses)
* a 100 million pounds donation to the gnu project (a 20000 pct budget increase for them)
objective: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, he'll have plenty of good ideas
* a 200 million pounds support initiative for alternatives to Microsoft software
* a 300 million pounds marketing campaign for alternatives to Microsoft software
* an 80 million pound investment in a free drink for every UK citizen (I'll have a glass of Sauternes wine, thank you:-)
How am I supposed to copy this without breaking DMCA?
Is a cd player with a digital out a circumvention device?
I am releasing MY recordings for free, in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats, under the EFF's Open Audio License. This kind of promotion really works!
You could start with 3d modelling in software, and end up with several manufacturers using cool designs that are a lot more affordable. And interoperable.
Development cost to manufacturers would be close to zero.
You would need lower critical mass for production. Each manufacturer has the advantage of the "installed base" of compatible manufacturers.
Such stuff would be a hell of a lot cheaper to get into a kid's hands. Which is good for the not-so-wealthy among them.
Putting things into the public domain is NOT possible.
Even if you really, really want to, legally spoken, you can't. You have rights you can't deny.
As for the GPL being anti-business:
GPL is -not- anti-business. It saves many businesses big bucks. They get a lot of decent software for free.
GPL 's not even anti-software business. It creates huge opportunities. It creates opportunities for software services firms and custom-made products on top of GPL software. If you don't want to join this evolution, then go the way the dinosaurs went.
GPL 's not even entirely anti-closed software business.
It's anti-closed standards-closed software business. But hey, try to open a 10 years old prorietary document. You'll have one reason already to appreciate GPL.
Besides: If you don't like GPL, don't use it. Nobody forces you.
I would love to say I have a choice, but no point trying to get a Dell without paying taxes to a certain company.
Suppose Dell was my office's IT equipment supplier (it is not). I would be forced to do spend money on things (Windows licenses) I feel are highly immoral to be obliged to purchase.
Man, the GPL is built upon a clear vision. Disagree with the vision. But the GPL itself is not a vision. It's a legal document. Sorry chap, can't diagree with that. Can't be pro, can't be against. Use it or not, and feel good or not about using it.
Do you feel threatened by the GPL? Strange, since I'm quite sure it's not Richard Stallman who's buying the White House! "Hey George, couldn't you help my friend a hand? He's trying to get this little Bill thing passed. No big deal, not difficult to remember. It's only five letters: SSSCA"
Oops, shhh, I didn't mean to reveal the secret purpose of the millions for that presidential campaign.:-p
This is not censorship. Nobody seems to force them to do what they're doing.
BUT...
What makes music valuable? Only the music itself, and the words that come to it?
There are certain pieces of music that are part of collective memory. A community of people that can share similar feelings and thoughts around the same piece of music. "Imagine", by John Lennon, for example, unites many around a dream of world peace.
Self-censorship like on these radio stations kills off at least part of a collective memory. This kills an important part of the value behind music.
If only half of the people I talk to know John Lennon's song, instead of many more, something beautiful is clearly lost.
Self-censorship like this is stealing the background of a broad collective memory.
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Imagine a company selling tires has a 90% market share. Suppose they are convicted monopolists. How would competitors react to this company offering the city police new tires for free for the next five years.
Would the city even go with this firm, if they knew they were obliged to keep buying these same tires for many years to come afterwards? For the city traffic infrastructure would need to buy from them afterwards...
So do I paraphrase you correctly this way:
"This country can just lift educational use of software out of its copyright policy. They have a sovereign right to do so."
Seems to me as if you don't know things like WIPO or the Bern convention too well...
Malaysia too has voluntarily entered into international intellectual property treaties.
Copyright is much more set in stone than you think.
About the only countries in the world that can just put aside such important international treaties they voluntarily agreed to are the US (especially) and China. And even for them, things have gotten much more difficult the last few years.
As a Free Software user, I have deep respect for copyright laws.
I expect everyone to act responsibly and condemn piracy. It is a task for government to act against software piracy. That is a way of keeping the market open and honest.
Monopolies were born from and are sustained by piracy. How do you think Microsoft software got so widespread?
The corporate world abuses the lack of government attention to software piracy in any way they see suitable to their own corporate strategy.
By not reacting against piracy, you allow a convicted monopolist to undercut competitors (Free Software in this case) on pricing. And education is a key area where finally some competition might be taking off in the near future.
But not if this minister gets away with his irresponsible deed. Maybe we should ask the BSA to react if they haven't already?
Not the entire source is provided, it seems. This DOES look like a GPL violation. Now the Gnucleus folks don't have the money to sue. The FSF probably won't sue. This gives powerful GPL opponents too much of a chance to associate GPL with pirating in the mainstream press. Even if Gnucleus has its fair uses... Seems like a very unhealthy situation to me. Morpheus knows this very well...
>Our Congress isn't passing laws for the rest of the world. Yet.
Helms-Burton law on Cuba. Just to name one that is perceived as extremely extraterritorial in Europe.
...
With a little research, you could find so many of these extraterritorial laws. They are not felt as extraterritorial as much as outside the country. But they ARE.
Like in the Dresden bombing by the end of World War II?
B52's are ready for the museum, '40s and '50s antiques. Try to do precision bombing with those...
Does anyone have an idea of the amounts of energy needed to succesfully launch anything into space? They're huge!
When used for just a billionaire's holiday is called spoiling energy. Is this a Good Thing(TM)?
At least, the rocket fuel for commercial launches should be taxed. It costs so much to the environment. Even if it's pure hydrogen, it also has to be produced. See the article from a few days ago on fuel cells.
Not of course, that if NASA has any chance of earning a few extra bucks, they probabaly won't refuse.
Just bombing Afghanistan with food, medicine and clothing would be quite a lot MORE EFFICIENT. Toys for the children should also be included. Who can resist that? As long as you don't throw barbies at them...
It would also have been a hell of a lot CHEAPER. AND it could help the American economy. America is strong enough to do this. Look at the succes this brought them with the Marshall plan after World War II.
PLUS Europe (not taking into account the UK) would become a lot more helpful.
As an EXTRA, you would have the Arab nations support, instead of having to threaten them.
Even the relations between Israel and the Arab world could get better with such actions, since the Israeli's could join the effort.
It might also have a LONG TERM positive influence on reducing terrorist activity.
But defense... oops sorry... WAR INDUSTRY would not really have made so much profit out of it.
Oh, well, just a thought...
BTW: Does anyone know about the reasons of the state of emergency in Florida?
100 + 479 = 579 is almost 600
100 * 6 = 600
Sextupling seems correct to me
I saw the gift info on the broken Fasttrack compatibility.
Why would a company expose itself to more lawsuit risks deliberately by centralising control? They throw away the very reason of P2P.
On september 29, the protocol changes, and 4 days later, there's a RIAA attack. A coincidence? Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster must have known...
Then why did they do this?
... The man turned his head, and wondered what other bizarre features and creatures he would meet in this splendid universe of dreams ...
Having your lyrics copied in ancient Greece and Rome was seen as an honor. It contributed to your status as an author. Even plagiarism -not revealing sources- raised the prestige of the original author a lot. It was not until the beginning of renaissance that a paradigm shift took place.
I can't imagine they're just firing this "crème de la crème" group.
HP must have quite a few projects up the sleeve they could be put to very good use for.
...Linux related development, for example?
...and I'm happy with that.
I'll try to explain a few key related principles of social democracy paradigm on education in most of Western Europe (excluding, of course, the UK, that has a much more individualist paradigm, just like the US).
In social democracy, a key value to education is impartiality. Education should give citizens a sense of criticism. This keeps society healthy when dealing with new evolutions.
A little example.
A school A magazine editorial criticises company X for something bad (environment, social, whatever). Allowing this is part of the school's effort to teach students a critical view of what's happening. It is seen as a Good Thing (TM).
Imagine company X stops funding the school magazine after this critical review. Funding goes to another, less critical school B. School B is seen as worse than school A, because it offers less education towards an attitude of structured, well argumented criticism. Still, school B gets more funding than school A.
Within a social democrat way of thinking, advertising lowers the value of education substantially, because it financially favors those institutions limiting well-argumented criticism.
The high value attached to absolute impartiality is the main reason for not allowing advertising or sponsoring in education in many European countries.
* a 100 million pounds donation to the openoffice project
objective: premium quality office software (without the viruses)
* a 100 million pounds investment in MS Exchange alternatives
objective: premium quality groupware (without the viruses)
* a 100 million pounds donation to the gnu project (a 20000 pct budget increase for them)
objective: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, he'll have plenty of good ideas
* a 200 million pounds support initiative for alternatives to Microsoft software
* a 300 million pounds marketing campaign for alternatives to Microsoft software
* an 80 million pound investment in a free drink for every UK citizen (I'll have a glass of Sauternes wine, thank you:-)
How am I supposed to copy this without breaking DMCA?
Is a cd player with a digital out a circumvention device?
I am releasing MY recordings for free, in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats, under the EFF's Open Audio License. This kind of promotion really works!
Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today...
Imagine there's no countries, It isnt hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace...
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, imane all the people Sharing all the world...
You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
That would be cool.
You could start with 3d modelling in software, and end up with several manufacturers using cool designs that are a lot more affordable. And interoperable.
Development cost to manufacturers would be close to zero.
You would need lower critical mass for production. Each manufacturer has the advantage of the "installed base" of compatible manufacturers.
Such stuff would be a hell of a lot cheaper to get into a kid's hands. Which is good for the not-so-wealthy among them.
Putting things into the public domain is NOT possible. Even if you really, really want to, legally spoken, you can't. You have rights you can't deny. As for the GPL being anti-business: GPL is -not- anti-business. It saves many businesses big bucks. They get a lot of decent software for free. GPL 's not even anti-software business. It creates huge opportunities. It creates opportunities for software services firms and custom-made products on top of GPL software. If you don't want to join this evolution, then go the way the dinosaurs went. GPL 's not even entirely anti-closed software business. It's anti-closed standards-closed software business. But hey, try to open a 10 years old prorietary document. You'll have one reason already to appreciate GPL. Besides: If you don't like GPL, don't use it. Nobody forces you. I would love to say I have a choice, but no point trying to get a Dell without paying taxes to a certain company. Suppose Dell was my office's IT equipment supplier (it is not). I would be forced to do spend money on things (Windows licenses) I feel are highly immoral to be obliged to purchase. Man, the GPL is built upon a clear vision. Disagree with the vision. But the GPL itself is not a vision. It's a legal document. Sorry chap, can't diagree with that. Can't be pro, can't be against. Use it or not, and feel good or not about using it. Do you feel threatened by the GPL? Strange, since I'm quite sure it's not Richard Stallman who's buying the White House! "Hey George, couldn't you help my friend a hand? He's trying to get this little Bill thing passed. No big deal, not difficult to remember. It's only five letters: SSSCA" Oops, shhh, I didn't mean to reveal the secret purpose of the millions for that presidential campaign. :-p
This is not censorship. Nobody seems to force them to do what they're doing.
BUT...
What makes music valuable? Only the music itself, and the words that come to it?
There are certain pieces of music that are part of collective memory. A community of people that can share similar feelings and thoughts around the same piece of music. "Imagine", by John Lennon, for example, unites many around a dream of world peace.
Self-censorship like on these radio stations kills off at least part of a collective memory. This kills an important part of the value behind music.
If only half of the people I talk to know John Lennon's song, instead of many more, something beautiful is clearly lost.
Self-censorship like this is stealing the background of a broad collective memory.