The GPL has always been morality first, freedom second.
I suppose you can say that, but the "morality" of the GPL is "freedom first".
The maximum amount of freedom is achieved simply by releasing software into the public domain, not by licensing through the GPL.
RMS does not believe that to be the case. The people that use the GPL for their projects do not believe that to be the case.
Other people believe differently and write licenses to reflect that (or release into the public domain) - what is so hard about this?
RMS's "motivation" is Free software (and yes, all the ideology that goes along with it), if you don't think the GPL is the best way to get there, don't use it when you release free software. Simple enough?
They are poor businessmen if they think the way to get the most profits is to scare everyone out of the business with ridiculous fees.
Let's see, they are making money hand over fist providing a service that is no longer needed, and at the same time have managed to cultivate an image of tragic victims of scary Internet Piracy while their profits are rising.
Holy crap, you can include as many "disclaimers" as you want, but you still spent like three paragraphs on them saying that they installed Windows. What did you want them to say instead, that "studies have shown that MS Windows has a lower TCO than OpenBSD"?
If they installed Windows, they installed fucking Windows, OK? The point is that the fibre wasn't hard to configure.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 ran great with no tuning at all, and took fifteen minutes to install. It also cost as much as paying me to do the entire set of tests.
Sounds great! Which version of Linux were you running it on?
Seriously, I think I'd be happily using many Microsoft products, if it wasn't for Microsoft the company.
"SQLite 2.7.6 is significantly faster (sometimes as much as 10 or 20 times faster) than the default PostgreSQL 7.1.3 installation on RedHat 7.2 for most common operations."
A drunken badger is 10 to 20 times faster than a default Postgres 7.1.3 installation. The 7.x branch, and particularly the early releases, had pretty bad performance (for this type of queries, at least) - they didn't really start sorting that out until 7.4
Isn't SQLite a bit of a toy though? Something like HSQLDB or (better yet) Berkeley DB usually seems more appealing when you don't need a standalone DB server.
However, now if the guys at GeekSquad do the exact same thing it's now 'stealing'....
Wtf? It's Consumerist that's calling it "stealing" (and yes, I would call that "copying", not "stealing"). How the fuck is it "hypocrisy" when entirely different people say different things?
I really don't get the people on the "copyright infringement is stealing" bandwagon - why don't we also start calling both rape and murder "arson", what's the difference, they are all bad, right?
That the justification for it is the "protection of morals" - you'd think they've stopped trying to do that in the 18th century or so.
The idea that "[i]t is not possible at law to give consent to the type of activity covered by the offence"
The criminalization of possession of staged activity of such type.
All of 805: leaving aside the, um, "contentious" reasoning behind it, since when can they just randomly ban things to send "messages" about what they consider to be appropriate? That doesn't leave a whole lot of free speech intact if they can randomly ban fictionalized material because they deem it "possibly harmful" or "desensitizing".
This is supposed to be one of them First World countries, right?
It's like buying a the whole Mu Gu Gai Pan meal when all you want from it is the egg rolls.
Yeah! What the hell is it with having to listen to all of Die Walküre when I really just want the Ride of the Valkyries? Or having to look at the whole La Gioconda when I only like the smirk?
Come to think of it, where do they get off making me buy the whole song? What if I just want the parts where they go "Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa..." or "My lovely lady lumps" and not the rest of the filler garbage? This tyranny must come to an end!
Albums are portfolios. They represent a body of work at a period of time.
So, I don't think anyone was really talking about concept albums in particular (they are, after all, a tiny minority), but I think the point of an album is to be a little more cohesive than you describe. A good album does hang together pretty well, both musically and thematically, and has a sensible progression, even if there is no "story" behind it (doesn't have to be as structured as, let's say, "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven", but you also couldn't put "Ghost Reveries" on shuffle and get the same effect out of it). You can't just grab the last 12 songs you wrote, arrange them alphabetically, and call that an album.
Not that I don't enjoy actual concept albums ("Gothic Kabbalah" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" come to mind).
the lyrics reek of "moving units in the 13-20 year old demographic."
I was just thinking that Moving Units would be a great name for a band - turns out it already is.
Well, I guess I'm screwed then, since what I want are good albums not the ability to just buy the single.
I may be wrong here, but I'm thinking that if you can't manage to put out a good album, that single of yours is probably not all that fantastic anyway.
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injecting their personal morality into the laws governing open source software with the release of GPLv3
So the FSF can pass laws now? I actually don't think I'm against that...
Or are they just injecting them into their license? How dare they inject their values into their license!
The GPL has always been morality first, freedom second.
I suppose you can say that, but the "morality" of the GPL is "freedom first".
The maximum amount of freedom is achieved simply by releasing software into the public domain, not by licensing through the GPL.
RMS does not believe that to be the case. The people that use the GPL for their projects do not believe that to be the case.
Other people believe differently and write licenses to reflect that (or release into the public domain) - what is so hard about this?
RMS's "motivation" is Free software (and yes, all the ideology that goes along with it), if you don't think the GPL is the best way to get there, don't use it when you release free software. Simple enough?
They are poor businessmen if they think the way to get the most profits is to scare everyone out of the business with ridiculous fees.
Let's see, they are making money hand over fist providing a service that is no longer needed, and at the same time have managed to cultivate an image of tragic victims of scary Internet Piracy while their profits are rising.
I'd say they know what they are doing.
Yes! As a big fan of Microsoft's music, I can't wait to pay them for it.
As opposed to the ones that have moving parts?
There's a copyright on "Spiderman"? I'd like to see how that works.
(Seriously, we go over the whole Copyright vs Trademark thing like twice a week)
The garbage collector has an impact on the correctness of a program now? Is there any limit to the evils of the Java garbage collector?
Holy crap, you can include as many "disclaimers" as you want, but you still spent like three paragraphs on them saying that they installed Windows. What did you want them to say instead, that "studies have shown that MS Windows has a lower TCO than OpenBSD"?
If they installed Windows, they installed fucking Windows, OK? The point is that the fibre wasn't hard to configure.
Are there any executive branch positions that are not meant to serve at the pleasure of the President
Well, as I understand it, the Vice President has no relationship to the President whatsoever, so that's one.
"Hey, it's that 'the barbecue's over' sound again!"
That's only about 1.5 laptop meters! The thinking machines are here!
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 ran great with no tuning at all, and took fifteen minutes to install. It also cost as much as paying me to do the entire set of tests.
Sounds great! Which version of Linux were you running it on?
Seriously, I think I'd be happily using many Microsoft products, if it wasn't for Microsoft the company.
I'm sure that's true, but that page is crap:
"SQLite 2.7.6 is significantly faster (sometimes as much as 10 or 20 times faster) than the default PostgreSQL 7.1.3 installation on RedHat 7.2 for most common operations."
A drunken badger is 10 to 20 times faster than a default Postgres 7.1.3 installation. The 7.x branch, and particularly the early releases, had pretty bad performance (for this type of queries, at least) - they didn't really start sorting that out until 7.4
Isn't SQLite a bit of a toy though? Something like HSQLDB or (better yet) Berkeley DB usually seems more appealing when you don't need a standalone DB server.
I couldn't figure out how to set that up
Better hope you never have to use Oracle.
Most of that is true (although code isn't the same as a block of text), but 80 is still low - something like 100 to 120 feels more comfortable.
However, now if the guys at GeekSquad do the exact same thing it's now 'stealing'....
Wtf? It's Consumerist that's calling it "stealing" (and yes, I would call that "copying", not "stealing"). How the fuck is it "hypocrisy" when entirely different people say different things?
I really don't get the people on the "copyright infringement is stealing" bandwagon - why don't we also start calling both rape and murder "arson", what's the difference, they are all bad, right?
The original story was written by Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Oh, that Arthur C. Clarke.
What on earth are you talking about?
This whole Trojan Voucher business should really put to rest all that annoying "GPL is viral" FUD - well done!
- That the justification for it is the "protection of morals" - you'd think they've stopped trying to do that in the 18th century or so.
- The idea that "[i]t is not possible at law to give consent to the type of activity covered by the offence"
- The criminalization of possession of staged activity of such type.
- All of 805: leaving aside the, um, "contentious" reasoning behind it, since when can they just randomly ban things to send "messages" about what they consider to be appropriate? That doesn't leave a whole lot of free speech intact if they can randomly ban fictionalized material because they deem it "possibly harmful" or "desensitizing".
This is supposed to be one of them First World countries, right?It's like buying a the whole Mu Gu Gai Pan meal when all you want from it is the egg rolls.
Yeah! What the hell is it with having to listen to all of Die Walküre when I really just want the Ride of the Valkyries? Or having to look at the whole La Gioconda when I only like the smirk?
Come to think of it, where do they get off making me buy the whole song? What if I just want the parts where they go "Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa..." or "My lovely lady lumps" and not the rest of the filler garbage? This tyranny must come to an end!
(I think I hurt my sarcasm gland...)
Albums are portfolios. They represent a body of work at a period of time.
So, I don't think anyone was really talking about concept albums in particular (they are, after all, a tiny minority), but I think the point of an album is to be a little more cohesive than you describe. A good album does hang together pretty well, both musically and thematically, and has a sensible progression, even if there is no "story" behind it (doesn't have to be as structured as, let's say, "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven", but you also couldn't put "Ghost Reveries" on shuffle and get the same effect out of it). You can't just grab the last 12 songs you wrote, arrange them alphabetically, and call that an album.
Not that I don't enjoy actual concept albums ("Gothic Kabbalah" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" come to mind).
the lyrics reek of "moving units in the 13-20 year old demographic."
I was just thinking that Moving Units would be a great name for a band - turns out it already is.
Well, I guess I'm screwed then, since what I want are good albums not the ability to just buy the single.
I may be wrong here, but I'm thinking that if you can't manage to put out a good album, that single of yours is probably not all that fantastic anyway.
That just can't be real. What the hell?
I'm not sure why you think COBRA helps; it allows you to pay the monthly premium at 100%, not only the portion you paid.
Yes, but it's 100% of the group rate - that does help some people.