The GPL is not a EULA and you know it. It's a distribution license (i.e. to RUN a GPLd program, the end user needn't agree to it) and it's raison d'être is being a hack to turn copyright on itself--in order for the GPL to be invalid, so must be copyright law itself.
I really don't have much sympathy for somebody with a non-legitimate copy being burned by WGA, nor for anybody who avoids security patches so that they won't be affected by WGA.
Sure, but do you have any sympathy for the people being spammed and DDoSed by botnets caused by Microsoft deciding to try to wring a few more tiny golden egglets out of the golden goose? Not to mention that by pushing a copy protection self-help trojan as a security update, they eroded the trust of legitimate users in their automated update process, resulting in even more unpatched machines.
. . . people would be "leery" of installing "security patches," MS having pushed down things like WGA as a "critical updates." Of fscking course the people running dodgy copies of Windows are going to assume that each new wave of patches might come with a copy protection trojan, in light of the fact they've done it before. So in fact, Microsoft has caused the problem they're bellowing about in the name of attempting to inhibit piracy of Windows.
Indeed. Looks like all the apologists who said his vote for the FISA amendments was just political expediency but that he'd work against wireless wiretapping once in office have a little egg on their faces.
Criticism of Apple's heavy-handed App Store practices = troll. Nice to see the fanbois get mod points too, but I do have more karma than Shiva. Bring it.
If it does, better keep it on the queue-tee and not tell Apple! Seriously, I hope the author releases this for an open (or at least less closed--about the best we have in the phone arena at the moment) platform at some point as well
I didn't call you names--if you're referring to my reference to fanboys and shills, it wasn't directed at you, but it seems you think you resemble that remark. Anyway, you did start out by calling me a liar for using what you said. This discussion is over, because you would obviously rather engage in ad hominem than concede that you're wrong.
I'm sure that's a nice argument for the shills and the DRM fanboys, but as long as the paper books exist, they'll be more desirable if for no other reason than lack of DRM and the preserved (enforceable--the moral right always exists absent a specific rental contract) right of first sale.
The publishers' desire for control will be what forces paper books out of the market, not consumer demand. I didn't specifically advocate piracy so spare me the "buy it or do without" tripe; I only pointed out that the pirates will produce a more desirable product should the publishers controls become too rapacious. Q.v. the music industry--do you think we would really be able to purchase MP3s without DRM infestation today had it not been for the pirates?
Sure, it's not just for raising costs, it's also for eliminating the option to truly purchase a copy of a book. Fortunately, the pirates have our back--even the toughest digital restrictions management routine is no match for a person with good eyes and swift typing fingers, so that will set an upper limit on what the public will have to endure in terms of oppressive restrictions.
All that argument aside, you still admit that an electronic, digital restrictions encumbered copy of a book with no effective way to exercise the right of first sale and tethered to what is effectively a fancy dongle costs just as much or more than the same book in good old-fashioned dead tree format. Where's my incentive to buy this again?
For now, until IBM issues a takedown or changes its robots.txt (archive.org will retroactively honor robots.txt, which I think is bullshit, but it's their site). Taken from this link
Full biography
Robert W. Moffat, Jr. is senior vice president and group executive, IBM Systems and Technology Group. Named to this position in July 2008, Mr. Moffat is responsible for all IBM hardware offerings as well as the microelectronics division, which translates IBM research and development into semiconductor solutions for IBM systems and OEM clients. In addition, the companys integrated supply chain operations, which include global manufacturing, procurement and customer fulfillment, report to him.
Mr. Moffat was senior vice president, Integrated Operations. In this cross-functional role created in July 2005, he led an initiative to transform and integrate the companys supply chain and service delivery operations globally, leveraging new business process designs and advanced technology to achieve greater levels of efficiency while improving IBM's market responsiveness.
Prior to that, Mr. Moffat was senior vice president and group executive of IBM's Personal and Printing Systems Group, where he was responsible for worldwide sales, development, manufacturing and marketing of Personal Computers, Printing Systems and Retail Store Solutions. Before that, he was vice president, finance and planning for the Enterprise Systems Group.
Mr. Moffat has held a number of executive positions at IBM, including general manager of manufacturing, fulfillment and procurement initiatives for the PC business. He led the team that pioneered the Advanced Fulfillment Initiative, and channel collaboration initiatives, which were awarded the 1999 Franz Edelman Award, the highest recognition for achievement in operational research and management sciences, and supply chain management.
His other positions at IBM, since joining in 1978, included assistant general manager, finance, planning, and business support for the IBM PC Company in Europe, and vice president of finance and planning.
Mr. Moffat is a member of the IBM Performance Team and the IBM Corporate Operations Team. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for The Manufacturing Institute, an educational and research affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers. He is also a non-voting observer on the Board of Directors of Lenovo Group Limited.
Mr. Moffat is a graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, with a B.S. degree in Economics. He also holds an MBA in Management Information Systems from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.
Yes, that was Microsoft, for OWA. And if they had had any idea how useful it would be to everyone else, they would have encumbered it legally or crippled it technically or both.
More like how important it is to AT&T not to have network neutrality codified into regulation. This move is only to mollify the FCC and get them off their backs so they can still double-dip by charging companies running popular sites for "preferential" (read non-degraded) access to AT&T subscribers.
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The GPL is not a EULA and you know it. It's a distribution license (i.e. to RUN a GPLd program, the end user needn't agree to it) and it's raison d'être is being a hack to turn copyright on itself--in order for the GPL to be invalid, so must be copyright law itself.
If I ever do notice any throttling, I sure as hell am going to drop from paying for the "premium" speed tier I'm paying for now.
Sure, but do you have any sympathy for the people being spammed and DDoSed by botnets caused by Microsoft deciding to try to wring a few more tiny golden egglets out of the golden goose? Not to mention that by pushing a copy protection self-help trojan as a security update, they eroded the trust of legitimate users in their automated update process, resulting in even more unpatched machines.
. . . people would be "leery" of installing "security patches," MS having pushed down things like WGA as a "critical updates." Of fscking course the people running dodgy copies of Windows are going to assume that each new wave of patches might come with a copy protection trojan, in light of the fact they've done it before. So in fact, Microsoft has caused the problem they're bellowing about in the name of attempting to inhibit piracy of Windows.
Indeed. Looks like all the apologists who said his vote for the FISA amendments was just political expediency but that he'd work against wireless wiretapping once in office have a little egg on their faces.
Right, but not every email is in one place. They'd have to raid every mail server associated with your every correspondent.
Criticism of Apple's heavy-handed App Store practices = troll. Nice to see the fanbois get mod points too, but I do have more karma than Shiva. Bring it.
If it does, better keep it on the queue-tee and not tell Apple! Seriously, I hope the author releases this for an open (or at least less closed--about the best we have in the phone arena at the moment) platform at some point as well
I'm an Apple hater and I knew that it was FlavorAid.
Technically, it was FlavorAid, not Kool-Aid. Although it is always enjoyable to see Mac fanbois frothing at the mouth.
And he forgot "The cloud is just another name for timesharing." The 1960s called; it wants it glass house computing model back.
Whoever modded that down is a humorless dick.
THIS IS SPARKFUN!
I didn't call you names--if you're referring to my reference to fanboys and shills, it wasn't directed at you, but it seems you think you resemble that remark. Anyway, you did start out by calling me a liar for using what you said. This discussion is over, because you would obviously rather engage in ad hominem than concede that you're wrong.
I'm sure that's a nice argument for the shills and the DRM fanboys, but as long as the paper books exist, they'll be more desirable if for no other reason than lack of DRM and the preserved (enforceable--the moral right always exists absent a specific rental contract) right of first sale.
The publishers' desire for control will be what forces paper books out of the market, not consumer demand. I didn't specifically advocate piracy so spare me the "buy it or do without" tripe; I only pointed out that the pirates will produce a more desirable product should the publishers controls become too rapacious. Q.v. the music industry--do you think we would really be able to purchase MP3s without DRM infestation today had it not been for the pirates?
Sure, it's not just for raising costs, it's also for eliminating the option to truly purchase a copy of a book. Fortunately, the pirates have our back--even the toughest digital restrictions management routine is no match for a person with good eyes and swift typing fingers, so that will set an upper limit on what the public will have to endure in terms of oppressive restrictions.
And being able to sell the device but not each book isn't the right of first sale.
All that argument aside, you still admit that an electronic, digital restrictions encumbered copy of a book with no effective way to exercise the right of first sale and tethered to what is effectively a fancy dongle costs just as much or more than the same book in good old-fashioned dead tree format. Where's my incentive to buy this again?
Point taken, but schools can and do foreclose on the credential. Ask a student who defaulted how easy it is to get a transcript in that situation.
Full biography
Robert W. Moffat, Jr. is senior vice president and group executive, IBM Systems and Technology Group. Named to this position in July 2008, Mr. Moffat is responsible for all IBM hardware offerings as well as the microelectronics division, which translates IBM research and development into semiconductor solutions for IBM systems and OEM clients. In addition, the companys integrated supply chain operations, which include global manufacturing, procurement and customer fulfillment, report to him.
Mr. Moffat was senior vice president, Integrated Operations. In this cross-functional role created in July 2005, he led an initiative to transform and integrate the companys supply chain and service delivery operations globally, leveraging new business process designs and advanced technology to achieve greater levels of efficiency while improving IBM's market responsiveness.
Prior to that, Mr. Moffat was senior vice president and group executive of IBM's Personal and Printing Systems Group, where he was responsible for worldwide sales, development, manufacturing and marketing of Personal Computers, Printing Systems and Retail Store Solutions. Before that, he was vice president, finance and planning for the Enterprise Systems Group.
Mr. Moffat has held a number of executive positions at IBM, including general manager of manufacturing, fulfillment and procurement initiatives for the PC business. He led the team that pioneered the Advanced Fulfillment Initiative, and channel collaboration initiatives, which were awarded the 1999 Franz Edelman Award, the highest recognition for achievement in operational research and management sciences, and supply chain management.
His other positions at IBM, since joining in 1978, included assistant general manager, finance, planning, and business support for the IBM PC Company in Europe, and vice president of finance and planning.
Mr. Moffat is a member of the IBM Performance Team and the IBM Corporate Operations Team. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for The Manufacturing Institute, an educational and research affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers. He is also a non-voting observer on the Board of Directors of Lenovo Group Limited.
Mr. Moffat is a graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, with a B.S. degree in Economics. He also holds an MBA in Management Information Systems from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.
July 2008
Yes, that was Microsoft, for OWA. And if they had had any idea how useful it would be to everyone else, they would have encumbered it legally or crippled it technically or both.
. . . but also the rest of the sky including the moon and the stars.
What's the site they were bitching about? I'm sure a few more mirrors could spring up.
I meant to say "instead of the other way around" :).
More like how important it is to AT&T not to have network neutrality codified into regulation. This move is only to mollify the FCC and get them off their backs so they can still double-dip by charging companies running popular sites for "preferential" (read non-degraded) access to AT&T subscribers.