Personally I buy the music I like in order to actually pay the musician, how else can I ask people to pay for the software I build every day? I do buy CD's. I do pay for stuff I think is of quality - I am merely saying that this is not true for everybody.
Maybe, just maybe, people steal music because it is too expensive in their eyes. I believe (I have no facts to base this on) that many man-hours are spent calculating the right price for music (and other copyrighted material that can be pirated in this fasion) in order to make sure enough people buy the music and few enough people pirate it.
People ignore the speed limits if they are set "unreasonably" low, and people ignore the copyright law if the copyrighted material is sold at too high a price. This is the way it is going to continue to be. P2P apps are just the latest way for people to break the laws the do not feel are just.
The -en postfix is german for plural. Saying "a boxen" as in "a windows boxen" (your parent) is like saying "a boxes" and demonstrates lack of clue. The correct term (if one can speak of correctness of slang) would be "a windows box" or "a couple of windows boxen".
NY Times random login generator there should be more of these, we need to make our lives easier, there is no need whatsoever for nytimes to require my userinformation to display free articles. If they want to display their articles freely why have these login requirements at all?
I had thought they would reject my project because I abandoned the first project I tried to host with them.
Hardly, they're here for us to use for sharing free software. That is their primary intent with the sourceforge site. Should you abandon this project and the next two or three projects, then you have still contributed ideas and source to the free software community.
If your software is GPL'ed I believe that sourceforge will be more than happy to host your project for you, including multimedia files. As far as I remember they allow you to have up to 250MB stored at any time.
As an additional bonus you get to use all the nice features of sourceforge.
These are very good points and I will be taking them to my employer in the hopes of getting to make a game!
And I would very much like to release any further development on the project to the general public. But would my work not still be a derivative work if it was build on the FreeCraft scripting language, and therefore forced to be under the GPL?
I want to make a game, but I also want to be able to pay rent and eat food. Therefore I would like to see an LGPL'ed library that I would be able to convince my boss to let me work with. In using LGPL'ed libraries, corporate business would actively fund the further development of those libraries. This is a Good Thing(tm). Having GPL'ed libraries that force my company to keep using proprietary code means less corporate funding for open source software. This is not a Good Thing(tm).
Yes it did indeed answer my question, thank you. I'm sorry to hear that i won't be able to use this library and therefore is less likely to be paid for making a game. I'll just have to continue making a living off other proprietary code and hoping that I someday might be making a game.
From the GPL license: If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission.
I would have like to have it released under the LGPL license so I could use it w/o GPL'ing my game.Would the LGPL license not be more appropriate for a library of this kind?
AFAIK I cannot write a game, which is not GPL'ed and uses a GPL'ed library. Is that not so? In order for me to release a game that is (for example) free to use on top of an open source OS but costs money if used on a proprietary OS (read: windows users should pay - the rest of us should go free!)
I could convince my employer to start making a game that is free for non-windows users, but I would be unable to convince him to go ahead and make a totally free game - he wants to earn some money off it (and could still be convinced to ignore the OSS users).
So, for this to be usable for me I would like to have a less restrictive license on this project
The question you are asking is not as hard to answer as you may think it is... Being that you sell your software in taiwan and someone from taiwan steals it, maybe he should be trialed by taiwaneese (sp?) law. Were you to sell it in any other country and someone from that country would steal it, then they should be trialed according to the laws of the country where they commited the crime (given that stealing software is a crime in that country).
Basically, take a moment to think logically, it isn't really that hard...
I may not have explained myself clearly (excuse me but english is not my first language), but surely you can see that it's not very hard to know which laws apply.
Give me a P2P solution that allows me to selectively authorize requests to my system and communicate only with those other people that I wish to communicate with.
Is that not exactly what DirectConnect does?
(I haven't used any of these products so I do not know for sure, but AFAIK DirectConnect has hubs that the maintainer sets some requirements on which people who want to join have to meet.)
I'd prefer the country where the copyright holder resides. Otherwise people who stole from me ought to have their hands cut off (some middle eastern law)...
Why should copyright holders have the right to go against the laws of their country and use the laws of any foreign country? The fact that their copyrighted material is available internationally should hardly make the copyright holder choose which law to use...
You can play the game perfectly w/o a connection to battlenet. Go ahead and play with your friends at a lan party, choose LAN game in stead of Battlenet in the multiplayer menu in the game.
Why is it that so much effort is spent on a task that should be only a very minor part of your computing experience?
On of the big reasons for not switching to Linux (for many people) is the initial impression it gives. Remeber that first impressions last. If an OS installation doesn't feel good (in addion to being quick and easy, easy meaning "with buttons and stuff" to a windows user) it cannot possibly be any good when running. Or so it seems many windows users think.
Oh, and that.sig of yours: "NoPopIE [daishar.com], Internet Explorer popup killer (win2k/xp only, for now) " - Nothing beats mozilla at eliminating popups.
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The getaway car analogy is childish.
Untrue, the getaway car analogy perfectly describes why law making is such a difficult job.
Personally I buy the music I like in order to actually pay the musician, how else can I ask people to pay for the software I build every day? I do buy CD's. I do pay for stuff I think is of quality - I am merely saying that this is not true for everybody.
I never said that kind of behavior was correct or moral - just that this is the way people act.
Maybe, just maybe, people steal music because it is too expensive in their eyes. I believe (I have no facts to base this on) that many man-hours are spent calculating the right price for music (and other copyrighted material that can be pirated in this fasion) in order to make sure enough people buy the music and few enough people pirate it.
People ignore the speed limits if they are set "unreasonably" low, and people ignore the copyright law if the copyrighted material is sold at too high a price. This is the way it is going to continue to be. P2P apps are just the latest way for people to break the laws the do not feel are just.
The -en postfix is german for plural. Saying "a boxen" as in "a windows boxen" (your parent) is like saying "a boxes" and demonstrates lack of clue. The correct term (if one can speak of correctness of slang) would be "a windows box" or "a couple of windows boxen".
NY Times random login generator there should be more of these, we need to make our lives easier, there is no need whatsoever for nytimes to require my userinformation to display free articles. If they want to display their articles freely why have these login requirements at all?
I had thought they would reject my project because I abandoned the first project I tried to host with them.
Hardly, they're here for us to use for sharing free software. That is their primary intent with the sourceforge site. Should you abandon this project and the next two or three projects, then you have still contributed ideas and source to the free software community.
If your software is GPL'ed I believe that sourceforge will be more than happy to host your project for you, including multimedia files. As far as I remember they allow you to have up to 250MB stored at any time.
As an additional bonus you get to use all the nice features of sourceforge.
These are very good points and I will be taking them to my employer in the hopes of getting to make a game!
And I would very much like to release any further development on the project to the general public. But would my work not still be a derivative work if it was build on the FreeCraft scripting language, and therefore forced to be under the GPL?
If you want to make a game make one
I want to make a game, but I also want to be able to pay rent and eat food. Therefore I would like to see an LGPL'ed library that I would be able to convince my boss to let me work with. In using LGPL'ed libraries, corporate business would actively fund the further development of those libraries. This is a Good Thing(tm). Having GPL'ed libraries that force my company to keep using proprietary code means less corporate funding for open source software. This is not a Good Thing(tm).
Did this answer your questions?
Yes it did indeed answer my question, thank you. I'm sorry to hear that i won't be able to use this library and therefore is less likely to be paid for making a game. I'll just have to continue making a living off other proprietary code and hoping that I someday might be making a game.
From the GPL license:
If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission.
Does this not include linking to the program?
I would have like to have it released under the LGPL license so I could use it w/o GPL'ing my game.Would the LGPL license not be more appropriate for a library of this kind?
AFAIK I cannot write a game, which is not GPL'ed and uses a GPL'ed library. Is that not so? In order for me to release a game that is (for example) free to use on top of an open source OS but costs money if used on a proprietary OS (read: windows users should pay - the rest of us should go free!)
I could convince my employer to start making a game that is free for non-windows users, but I would be unable to convince him to go ahead and make a totally free game - he wants to earn some money off it (and could still be convinced to ignore the OSS users).
So, for this to be usable for me I would like to have a less restrictive license on this project
Given that technology the rest of the technologies could be achieved rather quickly...
I think python and ruby look very interesting (well ruby more than that special education language called python). The problem. NO CPAN.
Ruby has RAA (Ruby Application Archive). It is already as messy as CPAN, even though CPAN has lived much longer...
The question you are asking is not as hard to answer as you may think it is... Being that you sell your software in taiwan and someone from taiwan steals it, maybe he should be trialed by taiwaneese (sp?) law. Were you to sell it in any other country and someone from that country would steal it, then they should be trialed according to the laws of the country where they commited the crime (given that stealing software is a crime in that country).
Basically, take a moment to think logically, it isn't really that hard...
I may not have explained myself clearly (excuse me but english is not my first language), but surely you can see that it's not very hard to know which laws apply.
LOL, point taken :)
Give me a P2P solution that allows me to selectively authorize requests to my system and communicate only with those other people that I wish to communicate with.
Is that not exactly what DirectConnect does?
(I haven't used any of these products so I do not know for sure, but AFAIK DirectConnect has hubs that the maintainer sets some requirements on which people who want to join have to meet.)
I'd prefer the country where the copyright holder resides. Otherwise people who stole from me ought to have their hands cut off (some middle eastern law)...
Why should copyright holders have the right to go against the laws of their country and use the laws of any foreign country? The fact that their copyrighted material is available internationally should hardly make the copyright holder choose which law to use...
These days people sue each other for everything! ;)
PS: I guess it all make more sence if you s/sue/use/
ehh... a google search on Limises Yonarch did not produce a single hit, could you explain your reference to the rest of us ?
You can play the game perfectly w/o a connection to battlenet. Go ahead and play with your friends at a lan party, choose LAN game in stead of Battlenet in the multiplayer menu in the game.
Why is it that so much effort is spent on a task that should be only a very minor part of your computing experience?
On of the big reasons for not switching to Linux (for many people) is the initial impression it gives. Remeber that first impressions last. If an OS installation doesn't feel good (in addion to being quick and easy, easy meaning "with buttons and stuff" to a windows user) it cannot possibly be any good when running. Or so it seems many windows users think.
Oh, and that .sig of yours: "NoPopIE [daishar.com], Internet Explorer popup killer (win2k/xp only, for now) " - Nothing beats mozilla at eliminating popups.
I agree that the original DOS terminology may not be the most precise, its the idea I'm arguing for.
Fair enough. And you are right, the option should be available. It just irritates me whenever someone copies MS just for the sake of copying MS.
The KDE people aren't the only people who think that a GUI idea is a good one just because it's one of microsoft's ideas...