Maybe Green Dam contains copied without authorization -- I don't know.
But referring to copied code as "piracy" or "stolen" is propaganda, just as bad as the Chinese government's propaganda. The term "intellectual property" makes the article a vague and confused as the term itself -- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html.
Whenever someone uses that term, you can't tell what in the world he might be talking about (unless you are an expert and can figure it out from other knowledge).
Customer service can't answer "Why can the iPhone 3G only be activated by Apple and AT&T?" or "The iPhone 3G has GPS support. How can users be sure that the GPS cannot be used to track their position, without their permission?" or even "Why does iTunes still contain so much DRM-laden music?" -- sure they can.
They were already answering questions about iTunes Plus with its limited amount of DRM-free music, for one.
Invasion? You mean, taking advantage of Apple's online retail booking system and getting people to voluntarily go and ask questions of their paid customer service employees?
From what I heard... Microsoft purchased some laptops from the project, and then put Windows on them themselves, just like you or I could... and then distributed those to see how it worked out. In total around 250 machines.
This is a website primarily for free software and GNU/Linux news though. I know in recent years that has weakened slightly, but I think the release of a bunch of software that everyone is encouraged to download, share, study, modify, run and distribute is somewhat different to 'proprietary software company release new model of their $2000 operating system dongle' in terms of its usefulness to society.
No, it was under a license that prohibited commercial use.
As an example, Torvalds then cites his own, self-made, original Linux source license, which basically said: "Give all source back, and never charge any money". It took me a few months, but I realized that the 'never charge any money' part was just asinine. It wasn't the point. The point was always "give back in kind".
"In other words," he continued, "my original license very much had a 'fear and loathing' component to it. It was exactly that 'never charge any money' part. But I realized that in the end, it was never really about the money, and that what I really looked for in a license was the 'fairness' thing."
Not free software! When Linux was first announced and released it was not free software. It became free in 1992 when Linus rereleased it under the GNU GPL. (See the release notes for version 0.12.)
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Out of interest, what do you disagree with?
WCDMA is the "3G" technology that the iPhone uses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-CDMA_(UMTS)
Maybe Green Dam contains copied without authorization -- I don't know.
But referring to copied code as "piracy" or "stolen" is propaganda, just as bad as the Chinese government's propaganda. The term "intellectual property" makes the article a vague and confused as the term itself -- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html.
Whenever someone uses that term, you can't tell what in the world he might be talking about (unless you are an expert and can figure it out from other knowledge).
Please point me to where I can download the source code to the iPhone kernel.
And the gift cards are good for more than just music...
Wait for Treacherous Computing... if that ever comes to light, that will do exactly that.
have you turned on one of the latest smartphones? iPhone, Android, etc... they take about 20-30 seconds to boot.
Why degraded?
Sell me a PDF of your book. No DRM, no bullshit... for a reasonable price :)
Out of interest, why does your book need to be sold as a printed copy? Can you not sell a PDF for say $5, instant download?
Gnash or Swfdec, sure.
Moonlight is deceptive. The code is LGPL, the codecs are EULA.
Flash isn't free software though, which is the point here.
Nah. Book an appointment at all the Apple Stores in the area... around here it's 4 I think.
But you'd like to paint the FSF as doing a 'meatspace DDoS' as it helps you write them off as loonies I guess. Tell me, are you a Mac user?
Customer service can't answer "Why can the iPhone 3G only be activated by Apple and AT&T?" or "The iPhone 3G has GPS support. How can users be sure that the GPS cannot be used to track their position, without their permission?" or even "Why does iTunes still contain so much DRM-laden music?" -- sure they can.
They were already answering questions about iTunes Plus with its limited amount of DRM-free music, for one.
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That's not true.
Windows users of iPods/iPhones are just one example of a non-Mac OS user going for support at a genius bar. They also provide pre-sales advice.
And Parallels is non-free software. I'm kinda glad more things don't support EFI. EFI is pretty terrible for freedom.
Invasion? You mean, taking advantage of Apple's online retail booking system and getting people to voluntarily go and ask questions of their paid customer service employees?
From what I heard... Microsoft purchased some laptops from the project, and then put Windows on them themselves, just like you or I could... and then distributed those to see how it worked out. In total around 250 machines.
I use emacs you insensitive clod! We've had that feature for years!
And the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENUM
Nice. Something ever so slightly silly about that.
3 years - 2 years = not a problem.
But er.. yeah.
This is a website primarily for free software and GNU/Linux news though. I know in recent years that has weakened slightly, but I think the release of a bunch of software that everyone is encouraged to download, share, study, modify, run and distribute is somewhat different to 'proprietary software company release new model of their $2000 operating system dongle' in terms of its usefulness to society.
No, it was under a license that prohibited commercial use.
As an example, Torvalds then cites his own, self-made, original Linux source license, which basically said: "Give all source back, and never charge any money". It took me a few months, but I realized that the 'never charge any money' part was just asinine. It wasn't the point. The point was always "give back in kind".
"In other words," he continued, "my original license very much had a 'fear and loathing' component to it. It was exactly that 'never charge any money' part. But I realized that in the end, it was never really about the money, and that what I really looked for in a license was the 'fairness' thing."
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5627827397.html
Not free software! When Linux was first announced and released it was not free software. It became free in 1992 when Linus rereleased it under the GNU GPL. (See the release notes for version 0.12.)