Apple has seen these numbers before. They're currently on a crest, but they'll sink and rise again. They have an upper limit of around 10-15% market share. They've made it quite clear that they don't *want* any more than that, and aren't interested in meeting the needs of the rest of the market.
If they decoupled their anaemic hardware offerings from their OS, they could see double digit growth yearly, but failing that they'll stay right where they've always been.
It can be used in a commercial product, and it can be used alongside a proprietary product, but if they use it *in* a proprietary product, they have to open it up.
Commercial != Proprietary
The community certainly does get something back when free code is used in a commercial product. Consider all the hackable routers like the Linksys WRT's.
Yeah, I was wrong about that bit, but it doesn't change the larger point. You can still make requesting it from you much more difficult than using the public mirrors without violating the GPL.
You're required to provide sources upon request only to those you've distributed binaries to. You're not required to put them on the net, you can charge a reasonable handling fee, and you're not required to provide them to third parties.
So you'd be well within your rights to say, "Send $25 and the UPC from the box and I'll mail you a disk, or you can go download it from sunsite."
That's certainly preferable from a business standpoint, but far fewer people are going to be willing to contribute under than license, which leads to inferior products in general. There's a reason these companies don't use a BSD OS.
Set up QoS rules as you like. If he's cooperative about it, downgrade the bittorrent priority based on the ports he uses for it. If he's not, just downgrade all his traffic.
Take a look at a brick and mortar store retail store that sells computers. You probably won't see anything over $1000, because that's not what the market that buys computers there wants.
People going to Staples or whatever to buy a PC want a cheap office machine, emphasis on cheap, and they want it immediately. People willing to spend more or wait a few days will either order from somewhere like Dell, have a whitebox store assemble one from parts, or just do it themselves.
Electricity generation *can*, but it doesn't need to. The simple fact is that we can generate electricity without any carbon emissions with hydroelectric where available and nuclear where not. There's no justifiable reason to attribute carbon emissions from a coal fired plant to it's clients; alternatives are available, but regulators have dropped the ball in allowing coal to be used.
Using "MULTIPLYBY" instead of "*" is asinine, because both are equally descriptive. Putting a comment above the line telling people why you're doing it isn't.
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Would you expect to be able to use a car with no prior training or practise?
As long as we're throwing around stupid metaphors, someone's got to use cars. :P Work in a standard transmission for bonus points.
Apple has seen these numbers before. They're currently on a crest, but they'll sink and rise again. They have an upper limit of around 10-15% market share. They've made it quite clear that they don't *want* any more than that, and aren't interested in meeting the needs of the rest of the market.
If they decoupled their anaemic hardware offerings from their OS, they could see double digit growth yearly, but failing that they'll stay right where they've always been.
It can be used in a commercial product, and it can be used alongside a proprietary product, but if they use it *in* a proprietary product, they have to open it up.
Commercial != Proprietary
The community certainly does get something back when free code is used in a commercial product. Consider all the hackable routers like the Linksys WRT's.
But I won't code for free. That's the real difference.
I'm happy to let you use things I've written, but if you're not willing to reciprocate with what you do with it, you'll need to cut me a cheque.
Yeah, I was wrong about that bit, but it doesn't change the larger point. You can still make requesting it from you much more difficult than using the public mirrors without violating the GPL.
a) They can still license their code under something other than the GPL for a price, so if you just take it you're depriving them of that.
b) True, but the SFLC can offer to represent the authors pro-bono, which I imagine is what's happening.
Obviously, YANAL.
You're required to provide sources upon request only to those you've distributed binaries to. You're not required to put them on the net, you can charge a reasonable handling fee, and you're not required to provide them to third parties.
So you'd be well within your rights to say, "Send $25 and the UPC from the box and I'll mail you a disk, or you can go download it from sunsite."
That's certainly preferable from a business standpoint, but far fewer people are going to be willing to contribute under than license, which leads to inferior products in general. There's a reason these companies don't use a BSD OS.
Supports cd checking, at least for whatever they use in Civ4.
I'll just point out that women are bad at math.
This is pure misandry.
Of the solar systems we've surveyed extensively, 100% of them contain at least one life bearing planet.
But they don't insist on it.
It requires all participants to be omniscient.
From here.
Set up QoS rules as you like. If he's cooperative about it, downgrade the bittorrent priority based on the ports he uses for it. If he's not, just downgrade all his traffic.
No entity can grant property rights they cannot enforce.
Yes, lots of people are buying >$1,000 PCs, but they're not doing it in the traditional retail channel, which is all NPD measures.
Take a look at a brick and mortar store retail store that sells computers. You probably won't see anything over $1000, because that's not what the market that buys computers there wants.
People going to Staples or whatever to buy a PC want a cheap office machine, emphasis on cheap, and they want it immediately. People willing to spend more or wait a few days will either order from somewhere like Dell, have a whitebox store assemble one from parts, or just do it themselves.
This would be why they won't release the source to their drivers, then.
Data centres emit absolutely no carbon. Zero.
Electricity generation *can*, but it doesn't need to. The simple fact is that we can generate electricity without any carbon emissions with hydroelectric where available and nuclear where not. There's no justifiable reason to attribute carbon emissions from a coal fired plant to it's clients; alternatives are available, but regulators have dropped the ball in allowing coal to be used.
Using "MULTIPLYBY" instead of "*" is asinine, because both are equally descriptive. Putting a comment above the line telling people why you're doing it isn't.
Does assuming anyone who disagrees with you watches Fox News. They're not even allowed to broadcast in my country, even if I did own a television.
Negroponte decrying fundamentalism. That's rich.
In the free world, "defying" the RIAA is perfectly legal.
The content on your machine is not altered in any way. Once you pass it off, you really have no say in what's done with it.
How is this any different in principle from the ad stripping software we've always had?
Can it levitate a squirrel?