Me, for example. I find mp3s from musicians I've never heard of (sometimes I have, doesn't matter), I like them, I go find & buy their CDs. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Damn free music is costing me a fortune!
( Funny thing I've noticed tho... I rarely listen to the radio any more... )
Would that be the department responsible for the moon landing hoax? And are we sure this whole pole-flippage thing isn't just another hoax? One that all the compass manufacturers in the world are in on too? It is all starting to make sense now.... I mean, what IS that stuff in there with the needle... water? I doubt it.. its obviously some form of brain control serum...
4. Gain from *not* having to upgrade due to it no longer being supported. Proprietary software forces you to upgrade and infact is built into their model. If you don't buy they go bankrupt
I disagree. Noone can FORCE you to upgrade. I've got Office 95, on Windows 95, 7 years old on one machine. [I've got a linux box too - please don't unleash the ninjas] Supported? I think not. However, I haven't been forced to upgrade anything by anyone. As long as the commercial product did everything the submitter needs, why would they ever have to upgrade?
There _is_ a TCO argument here: you may end up having to support an old hardware configuration for the out-of-date proprietary software (I mimic the reboot sounds my W95 beast makes fairly accurately by now). And staff that remember how the old hardware/config all works. That you can figure into TCO evals. Not the cost of a forced upgrade.
5. Allows you to *gain* from quick bug fixes, security patches and the like
Partially agree. You get quick bug, security, etc fixes if your in-house expert spends some of his time to watch for them, monitor the appropriate lists, go get them, install them, test them.... for which he will expect to be compensated, no doubt. Just because the developers of the open source product do it for free doesn't mean your local engineering staff will be so kind.
It pains me to say it, but 4 & 5 sound like typical TCO attacks on proprietary software.
I think its funny to click the "It's Funny. Laugh." link and see:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 23:38:53 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_perl/1.27 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6g X-Powered-By: Slash 2.003000 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 OK The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, pater@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
I read the article, as I'm sure everyone else did (ha!). An observation:
Does anyone else think that the AOTC might have a better chance of getting their point across if the article didn't read like something straight out of Conspiracy Theory? I expected some insight, some indepth discussion about WHY each bill was bad and WHAT chilling effects on various technology areas it might have. Instead, I got FUD. And, no matter how well-intentioned, FUD == FUD.
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If you beleive in morality and the Gospel you and you're family mus't boycott Holloween. It is a Pagan holliday that celebrates pure Evil and the power of Satin. Do not allow you're children to wear costume, do not let them go to holloween party's, and do not hand out candy to kid's who are glorrifying Satin. This type of holliday has no place in a post 9-11 world!
If you believe in spalling and the Grammer you and you're family mus't boycott this post. It is Practically Illiterate and celebrates pure Ignorance and the power of Not Paying Attention In Grade School. Do not allow you're children to read post, do not them go to the same skool as the poster, but do hand out spalling books to kid's who are glorrifying bad Spalling. This type of ignnorance has no place in a post 9-11 world!
including excellent guitarists such as Steve Vai, Slash, or Ritchie Sambora...
There are no amazing guitarists to look up to today, unless you listen to power metal (Stratovarius, Rhapsody, Blind Guardian, etc) or evil power metal like Children of Bodom, and that's a good thing.
Funny, you just described why I _like_ punk music. No wanking guitar players. The song is the message, who needs a million notes per minute or exotic scales? That's kind of the whole point, ya know....
... and the record companies begin to drool thinking of all the people who will go out and RE-BUY all those great back catalog recordings that have long since paid for themselves 10x over.
Just imagine our grandchildren will tell their children that the "Nine" is an artifact of history when people thought there were only nine planets in the Solar System...
"... Nine for the Mortal Men doomed to die,..."
Oops, make that Ten. Imagine our granchildren telling their children about the time in history when the Nine became Ten.
(oof, no sleep and something something make matt unfunny. unfunnier. whatever.)
The problem here is that the DMCA violates the fair use clause of the existing copyright laws. The solution is NOT a law that defeats a portion of the DMCA. The solution IS to repeal the DMCA and replace it with a non-fascist alternative.
According to the DMCA, isn't any bill that proposes amending, weakening, or repealing the DMCA to allow copying of protected works itself considered a circumvention device and therefore in VIOLATION OF the DMCA? Boucher and Lofgren are both anti-DMCA terrorists and should be locked up before they legislate again...
Question: If I have a site that LINKS to a site that LINKS to FARC (say, Google, or heck/. by now), would I then be violating the Patriot Act? I can imagine the arguments against for both interpretations. "no, you aren't violating the law because you aren't directly providing material support...." "yes you are violating the law... its like donating money to a charity that funnels it to a terrorist group"
But then suppose the 3rd party site I link to is outside the US, and thus not subject to the Patriot Act. Gets even cloudier.
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"Hey! We don't have to outrun the hyenas any more, just the humans! This is GREAT!!!!"
Even 14000 years ago, it was a dog-eat-dog world. Or a dog-eat-man world.
Seems like I smell the faint odor of Onions...
pay in cash (until cash transactions are outlawed)
make random, sudden, large withdrawals and deposits in your accounts
(large being a relative term in my case)
barter. I'd like to see them track "traded three chickens for a
bale of hay and running some CAT-5" &until barter becomes illegal)
Me, for example. I find mp3s from musicians I've never heard of (sometimes I have, doesn't matter), I like them, I go find & buy their CDs. Lather, rinse, repeat.
... I rarely listen to the radio any more ... )
Damn free music is costing me a fortune!
( Funny thing I've noticed tho
... or maybe the FemSims can start protesting virtual or oh-so-real war ala' this example.
They were getting great results until that damn guy stepped in to the picture asking "can you hear me now?"
--matt
"Luciferase" -- the glowing green protein of the devil.
"There is no moon....."
I disagree. Noone can FORCE you to upgrade. I've got Office 95, on Windows 95, 7 years old on one machine. [I've got a linux box too - please don't unleash the ninjas] Supported? I think not. However, I haven't been forced to upgrade anything by anyone. As long as the commercial product did everything the submitter needs, why would they ever have to upgrade?
There _is_ a TCO argument here: you may end up having to support an old hardware configuration for the out-of-date proprietary software (I mimic the reboot sounds my W95 beast makes fairly accurately by now). And staff that remember how the old hardware/config all works. That you can figure into TCO evals. Not the cost of a forced upgrade.
Partially agree. You get quick bug, security, etc fixes if your in-house expert spends some of his time to watch for them, monitor the appropriate lists, go get them, install them, test them.... for which he will expect to be compensated, no doubt. Just because the developers of the open source product do it for free doesn't mean your local engineering staff will be so kind.
It pains me to say it, but 4 & 5 sound like typical TCO attacks on proprietary software.
(i reply to my reply - what a loser) ... and does anyone else think that the acronym "AOTC" was carefully chosen for its geek appeal?
I read the article, as I'm sure everyone else did (ha!). An observation:
Does anyone else think that the AOTC might have a better chance of getting their point across if the article didn't read like something straight out of Conspiracy Theory? I expected some insight, some indepth discussion about WHY each bill was bad and WHAT chilling effects on various technology areas it might have. Instead, I got FUD. And, no matter how well-intentioned, FUD == FUD.
.. as flamebait. Me with mod points, and unable to mod the story. I guess it could be worse ...
...
"Congress Passes RIAA-sponsored bill Mandating Adoption of Microsoft DRM and Outlaws RedHat and RMS for DMCA Violations"
did I miss anything?
Funny, you just described why I _like_ punk music. No wanking guitar players. The song is the message, who needs a million notes per minute or exotic scales? That's kind of the whole point, ya know
Who will gag the gaggers?
...
3. Profit!!!
oh, and i simply must say this:
1. Form FMF (Free Music Foundation)
2. Freely release free music from independent artists
3. ???
4. Profit!!! To pass on to the artists!!!
"Hello, this is Dr. Kevorkian speaking."
COBOL: "Dr. Kevorkian, you have to help me! Please....."
Oops, make that Ten. Imagine our granchildren telling their children about the time in history when the Nine became Ten.
(oof, no sleep and something something make matt unfunny. unfunnier. whatever.)
According to the DMCA, isn't any bill that proposes amending, weakening, or repealing the DMCA to allow copying of protected works itself considered a circumvention device and therefore in VIOLATION OF the DMCA? Boucher and Lofgren are both anti-DMCA terrorists and should be locked up before they legislate again...
Question: If I have a site that LINKS to a site that LINKS to FARC (say, Google, or heck /. by now), would I then be violating the Patriot Act? I can imagine the arguments against for both interpretations. "no, you aren't violating the law because you aren't directly providing material support ...." "yes you are violating the law ... its like donating money to a charity that funnels it to a terrorist group"
:-(
But then suppose the 3rd party site I link to is outside the US, and thus not subject to the Patriot Act. Gets even cloudier.
this hurts my head