I live in Canada. Other concerned people live outside the US. How can we put pressure on the US patent office (re: this)? Or the US government (re: DMCA)? Or the US court system (re: DOJ vs MS)?
I'm sick and tired of not being able to do things just because I don't live in the US. It affects me, whether or not I live in the US, and therefore I should have a say in what goes on in the US.
I suggested in an earlier post about forming a tech-related trade union over the internet. Read it. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I'm sorry, but there are *no* good software patents after the first year. Period. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
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We need a few far-fetched demands in our proposal, so when we "compromise", the results will be adequate. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Pretty soon, schools (and therefore taxpayers/students) are going to have to start forking out more money for hard drives, because school-related media will no longer be compressed. We'll all have to store our long lecture soundtracks as WAV instead of mp3, for fear of having it deleted. The same thing will happen to better view compression, etc.
Most of us bitch, most of us complain, but nothing seems to happen. Why? Because the average Joe who doesn't even care about tech-related issues allows the government and large companies to do whatever they want. Whether we like it or not, we're a minority, and we should really organise, already - form an international union.
Many of us work in tech positions, and our employers, and thus big companies, could not run without us. If we threatened an international, national, to regional strike, things would change quite rapidly. Boycotts are not enough; we don't make up enough of the buying population. But we do make up much of the tech population, and we could use that to our advantage, if we could pull ourselves together and form a union.
This union would be different from many unions. Elections would be conducted over the internet (via GnuPG), and membership fees would not be mandatory, as this would limit the number of people willing to participate.
It's time to act, people. Someone should start a web page, and a discussion board to get this new Internet Union together. It is possible, but it will have to be done right. If anyone is interested, I will elaborate further on some of the difficulties we must overcome.
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Where can we get: 1. Lists of any companies/mutual funds that support the RIIA in any way 2. Funding for public service advertisements
How much money do the FSF and OSI have? Are they interested (I know RMS probably is)? Is RedHat likely to be of some help? We need money.
How can I get rich quickly, so I can undermine Microsoft while they're vulnerable, or perhaps possibly take control of them. They've got the budget and the strings to pull. Hmm...:)
Dwayne C. Litzenberger, CEO of Microsoft. I like it! -------- "I already have all the latest software."
So if I am designing a proprietary game with some people over the internet, and I want to send them a patch to our latest source tree, and I have to go though my competitor's routers to do so, I shouldn't be able to encrypt the patch to keep it safe? You're nuts. What about my credit card number? Surely you must think that's safe to spread over the internet! Just look how few credit card frauds are performed over the internet!;)
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Damnation! I didn't tell RS my phone number, but I told them my address (wanted the catalog). Now that MS has access to RadioShack's databases, I want all my personal information removed. How can I accomplish this? -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Absolutely! My dad was getting so pissed off at WP8 yesterday. He was trying touse the down-arrow on the scroll bar, but it was so small that he kept clicking inside the slider, causing a page-down, which was very irritating. He asked me to do the mouse for him, because he couldn't do it properly.
Bottom line: Motif widgets suck. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
When they port CorelDraw, PhotoPaint comes with it. I never actually used CDW, I just started photopaint and started drawing.
Anyone who knows of a simple, geometric shape drawing tool for the Gimp will cause me to love the Gimp forever. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
AOL is a monopoly. There are no other companies that provide the same service as AOL does. AOL has differentiated its product. The above poster didn't mean AOL is a monopoly ISP, but AOL is a monopoly AOL-style service provider. Just like only Intel can make Pentium IIIs, and only RedHat can make Red Hat Linux. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Think about it. We've said before that all public agencies (government) should use free software wherever possible. I believe France did it (or maybe that was Australia, can't remember), and now, so did China. What's to complain about? Let's all remember that world domination can still be achieved, even if the only country that would refuse to adopt something based on emotional grounds (the US) isn't the first one on the bandwagon. Europeans will use Linux soon enough (they simply want the best products; think PAL vs. NTSC, or GSM phones), and so will other people, and the US will eventually follow suit, communist-supported or not. (I wonder what would happen if there was a news report that said communists drink water. I wonder if some USers ("Americans" include all people in North, Central and South America) would stop drinking water, just "'cause that's what commies do.")
The Chinese government wants to use Linux because they think it is, or will soon be, much better than the alternatives. I support this movement.
BTW, Linux has already achieved its critical mass of developers/users needed to keep it running despite political pressures (would YOU stop developing for/using Linux, just because of some media hype that says "it's a commie's OS"?), so the question of "will this hurt Linux" seems more and more absurd.
This will only hurt Linux if you, the users and developers, let it, which you won't. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
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Thank you!:) -------- "I already have all the latest software."
That's all fine and dandy, except Debian isn't accepting new maintainers right now. So I can't even do any non-maintainer uploads of packages I own, never mind taking up orphaned packages or something.
Also, I'm a computer-savvy, novice C programmer (can hack others' code, can't start my own yet), average sh programmer, who wants to help the Debian project. Where can I find odd jobs to do, and where do I send updates?
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That's for us to decide, you troll. Grow up and quit whining, and we'll stop calling you a troll. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
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For the benefit of the readers, I'm skip the explanation of why no theory is true...;-)
Aw... come on! Please? -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Re:Tesla is to Torvalds, as Edison is to Gates.
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Yes, but you need a lot more of it.
Touch your fingers between +/- 5VDC, then touch your fingers bwtween 5VAC. You definitely feel the latter. (I speak from experience. Ouch!) -------- "I already have all the latest software."
At some point we should recognize that he really does believe that the world is a better place for the changes he has brought about.
I don't disagree with you, I do think Gates thinks the world is a better place because of himself, but...
He dropped out of college to take up programming for the Altair, because he was sure someone else would, had he not. Today, he seems to think that had he not done it, nobody else would have, and we wouldn't have PCs in our homes.
The fact is that we would. Some other company (maybe IBM?) would have gotten into the PC market. One of the reasons Microsoft has a monopoly today is because Bill and Paul had the foresight to realise that the PC was going somewhere. Had everyone gotten into the PC business at roughly the same time, they may now have been in equal competition. And even if they weren't, and some company did rise as a monopoly, it may have abused its power much less than Microsoft has. And think: could there be any worse abuse of monopoly power than Microsoft exercises?
My $0.02. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
As soon as I see formal Linux support of AOL, I'll believe it. Until then, Linux is merely a toy for those who still live at home withtheir moms.
Oh no! Quick! Go tell tell RedHat that you have the answer to all their financial problems! Oh? RedHat doesn't have any financial problems? I didn't think so, anyway. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Heh, yeah, and wouldn't it be sad when MS would find out that it's illegal for then to use the code, because the BSDL conflicts with the GPL! -------- "I already have all the latest software."
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I live in Canada. Other concerned people live outside the US. How can we put pressure on the US patent office (re: this)? Or the US government (re: DMCA)? Or the US court system (re: DOJ vs MS)?
I'm sick and tired of not being able to do things just because I don't live in the US. It affects me, whether or not I live in the US, and therefore I should have a say in what goes on in the US.
I suggested in an earlier post about forming a tech-related trade union over the internet. Read it.
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"I already have all the latest software."
I'm sorry, but there are *no* good software patents after the first year. Period.
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"I already have all the latest software."
We need a few far-fetched demands in our proposal, so when we "compromise", the results will be adequate.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Pretty soon, schools (and therefore taxpayers/students) are going to have to start forking out more money for hard drives, because school-related media will no longer be compressed. We'll all have to store our long lecture soundtracks as WAV instead of mp3, for fear of having it deleted. The same thing will happen to better view compression, etc.
Most of us bitch, most of us complain, but nothing seems to happen. Why? Because the average Joe who doesn't even care about tech-related issues allows the government and large companies to do whatever they want. Whether we like it or not, we're a minority, and we should really organise, already - form an international union.
Many of us work in tech positions, and our employers, and thus big companies, could not run without us. If we threatened an international, national, to regional strike, things would change quite rapidly. Boycotts are not enough; we don't make up enough of the buying population. But we do make up much of the tech population, and we could use that to our advantage, if we could pull ourselves together and form a union.
This union would be different from many unions. Elections would be conducted over the internet (via GnuPG), and membership fees would not be mandatory, as this would limit the number of people willing to participate.
It's time to act, people. Someone should start a web page, and a discussion board to get this new Internet Union together. It is possible, but it will have to be done right. If anyone is interested, I will elaborate further on some of the difficulties we must overcome.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Where can we get:
:)
1. Lists of any companies/mutual funds that support the RIIA in any way
2. Funding for public service advertisements
How much money do the FSF and OSI have? Are they interested (I know RMS probably is)? Is RedHat likely to be of some help? We need money.
How can I get rich quickly, so I can undermine Microsoft while they're vulnerable, or perhaps possibly take control of them. They've got the budget and the strings to pull. Hmm...
Dwayne C. Litzenberger, CEO of Microsoft. I like it!
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"I already have all the latest software."
Two things:
PGPfone/Speakfreely
and I hope you don't live in the US (it would be illegal for you to exportthe software out of the US)
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How ironic.
So if I am designing a proprietary game with some people over the internet, and I want to send them a patch to our latest source tree, and I have to go though my competitor's routers to do so, I shouldn't be able to encrypt the patch to keep it safe? You're nuts.
What about my credit card number? Surely you must think that's safe to spread over the internet! Just look how few credit card frauds are performed over the internet!
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Damnation! I didn't tell RS my phone number, but I told them my address (wanted the catalog). Now that MS has access to RadioShack's databases, I want all my personal information removed. How can I accomplish this?
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Absolutely! My dad was getting so pissed off at WP8 yesterday. He was trying touse the down-arrow on the scroll bar, but it was so small that he kept clicking inside the slider, causing a page-down, which was very irritating. He asked me to do the mouse for him, because he couldn't do it properly.
Bottom line: Motif widgets suck.
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"I already have all the latest software."
When they port CorelDraw, PhotoPaint comes with it. I never actually used CDW, I just started photopaint and started drawing.
Anyone who knows of a simple, geometric shape drawing tool for the Gimp will cause me to love the Gimp forever.
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about the only other thing that users miss from a Windows system is a blue screen 8-)
Both KDE and GNOME have a screensaver that emulates all sorts of crash screens from different operating systems, including Win9x and WinNT.
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You actually serious about this? I'd sure like to help. I can code Python, but I can't do much with images/etc.
Gimme a shout if you're serious.
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AOL is a monopoly. There are no other companies that provide the same service as AOL does. AOL has differentiated its product. The above poster didn't mean AOL is a monopoly ISP, but AOL is a monopoly AOL-style service provider. Just like only Intel can make Pentium IIIs, and only RedHat can make Red Hat Linux.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Think about it. We've said before that all public agencies (government) should use free software wherever possible. I believe France did it (or maybe that was Australia, can't remember), and now, so did China. What's to complain about? Let's all remember that world domination can still be achieved, even if the only country that would refuse to adopt something based on emotional grounds (the US) isn't the first one on the bandwagon. Europeans will use Linux soon enough (they simply want the best products; think PAL vs. NTSC, or GSM phones), and so will other people, and the US will eventually follow suit, communist-supported or not. (I wonder what would happen if there was a news report that said communists drink water. I wonder if some USers ("Americans" include all people in North, Central and South America) would stop drinking water, just "'cause that's what commies do.")
The Chinese government wants to use Linux because they think it is, or will soon be, much better than the alternatives. I support this movement.
BTW, Linux has already achieved its critical mass of developers/users needed to keep it running despite political pressures (would YOU stop developing for/using Linux, just because of some media hype that says "it's a commie's OS"?), so the question of "will this hurt Linux" seems more and more absurd.
This will only hurt Linux if you, the users and developers, let it, which you won't.
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Thank you! :)
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I wanna help, but I'm not a C guru. What do I do?
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That's all fine and dandy, except Debian isn't accepting new maintainers right now. So I can't even do any non-maintainer uploads of packages I own, never mind taking up orphaned packages or something.
Also, I'm a computer-savvy, novice C programmer (can hack others' code, can't start my own yet), average sh programmer, who wants to help the Debian project. Where can I find odd jobs to do, and where do I send updates?
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They run at a few kVs. I think even some of those plasma flatscreens do too.
No offense, but it sucks to be you (pronounced: I don't live in the US)
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That's for us to decide, you troll. Grow up and quit whining, and we'll stop calling you a troll.
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For the benefit of the readers, I'm skip the explanation of why no theory is true... ;-)
Aw... come on! Please?
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Yes, but you need a lot more of it.
Touch your fingers between +/- 5VDC, then touch your fingers bwtween 5VAC. You definitely feel the latter. (I speak from experience. Ouch!)
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Exactly. That guy is so wired that all the electricity would be directed to ground anyway.
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At some point we should recognize that he really does believe that the world is a better place for the changes he has brought about.
I don't disagree with you, I do think Gates thinks the world is a better place because of himself, but...
He dropped out of college to take up programming for the Altair, because he was sure someone else would, had he not. Today, he seems to think that had he not done it, nobody else would have, and we wouldn't have PCs in our homes.
The fact is that we would. Some other company (maybe IBM?) would have gotten into the PC market. One of the reasons Microsoft has a monopoly today is because Bill and Paul had the foresight to realise that the PC was going somewhere. Had everyone gotten into the PC business at roughly the same time, they may now have been in equal competition. And even if they weren't, and some company did rise as a monopoly, it may have abused its power much less than Microsoft has. And think: could there be any worse abuse of monopoly power than Microsoft exercises?
My $0.02.
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"I already have all the latest software."
As soon as I see formal Linux support of AOL, I'll believe it. Until then, Linux is merely a toy for those who still live at home withtheir moms.
Oh no! Quick! Go tell tell RedHat that you have the answer to all their financial problems! Oh? RedHat doesn't have any financial problems? I didn't think so, anyway.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Heh, yeah, and wouldn't it be sad when MS would find out that it's illegal for then to use the code, because the BSDL conflicts with the GPL!
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