they don't give root access to you because then they would have to give it to EVERYBODY
This isn't grade school, and root isn't an entitlement. IT can give root to people they trust and they shouldn't have to answer to that, at least until they screw up. Seriously, though, if you've got competent people, it shouldn't be an issue. If you don't, god help you.
Clippy only exists because Bill wanted to get into Melinda's pants.
No, Clippy is a watered down version of what the MS research guys dreamed up - it was so accurate in predicting what users were doing that it wigged them out.
While I totally agree with what Ted Turner says, I think he's missed one tiny thing: the freakin' internet. And digital TV. And the huge & growing increase in avenues of communication.
Exactly how many people get most of their news from the Inet? is it even 10%? If you discount those who get their news from websites run by media conglomerates, how many are left? I don't know anybody like that.
Oh, and digital TV? What's that got to do with anything?
I understand what he is saying and agree with the problem, but his proposed solution We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces just outsources this problem to the government, which is in on the whole big media thing, since the government has an inherent conflict of interest when regulating big media outlets.
Umm, what?! This is exactly the sort of thing the government is good for. Government defends the country (military), provides a base level of welfare (police, fire, building inspectors), and regulates commerce (usury laws, anti-trust, anti-fraud). Who else is going to do this?
PLEASE, let's not pummel this guy for a) doing the right thing b) doing it in a way that will hurt his interestes and c) for his move toward colorizing movies almost 20 YEARS ago
Well, I still wanna beat on him for that last one.
Why not just change the law to make media companies to accommodate to customers needs?
Sure, then we can change the law to make people like Ken Lay not engineer an energy crisis and raid the pension fund. We can call it the Kittens and Puppies Act
It's like thinking teen agers could write music and play instruments: this is impossible since music is only able to be created by advanced artists with years of training who work for large symphony orchestras.
Go to work in flip-flops, a Hawaiian shirt, sunlasses and tell everyone you are on vacation. Make Pacman noises, and talk to your invisible friends. Claim insanity and see if that works.
I've got everything but the sunglasses and weird noises. Oh, and I haven't screwed anything major up.
Why is it that Cable and Telcos always luanch these things in the middle of No place...
When the inevitable FUBARs happen, there are less pissed off people and less stuff to fix. Then when they've worked out the deployment bugs, they can try a larger market.
The interesting number is, what percentage of the aggregate corporate income is taxed, not the number of corporations that are taxed. Most corporations are teeny non-revenue producing shells.
It's not just paper corps that don't pay taxes - Microsoft and GE tend not to pay income tax either.
The trick is to remember that trademarks are only granted where the public can rely on that mark to identify that marked goods or services stem from a single source. If copyright expires, then there are multiple possible sources for works that are DERIVATIVE of the public domain original, as well as copies of the original itself. Thus, the public can no longer rely on the trademark to identify the sole source of those works.
That doesn't jibe with your first paragraph - in order to copy Steamboat Willie, you need only secure rights to mickey in the context of that film. Other Rodent-based works are not derivative of Wille, so much as they are use of the Rodent in question.
Peter Pan is in the public domain, but that doesn't matter in the worlds of bus lines or peanut butter.
Yeah, well a bus line is a different context from a children's story, so that makes sense.
Obviously you would choose this, since the law can't force you to remove the protection once it enters the public domain, and if the generic type of the protection technique is used to protect current works too, others can't break it.
Or you can add an escrow clause that requires an unprotected copy to be held in trust for the term of the copyright.
I'd say #3 - what you're basically saying is that you can have the current copyright terms or you can add DRM of varying restrictiveness. Since most GPL code doesn't use DRM, it's not affected.
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they don't give root access to you because then they would have to give it to EVERYBODY
This isn't grade school, and root isn't an entitlement. IT can give root to people they trust and they shouldn't have to answer to that, at least until they screw up. Seriously, though, if you've got competent people, it shouldn't be an issue. If you don't, god help you.
did you forget it was only Netscape-based browsers that supported this tag?
Yeah, IE had the marquee tag
Clippy only exists because Bill wanted to get into Melinda's pants.
No, Clippy is a watered down version of what the MS research guys dreamed up - it was so accurate in predicting what users were doing that it wigged them out.
With the REPLY-TO set, anyone that presses reply goes to your prefered destination.
Except that a lot of people (and possibly MUAs) reply to the from address.
The only people who are going to be affected are the programmers at sco but i am sure they would find alternate employment once this fiasco is over.
Since when does SCO have programmers?
While I totally agree with what Ted Turner says, I think he's missed one tiny thing: the freakin' internet. And digital TV. And the huge & growing increase in avenues of communication.
Exactly how many people get most of their news from the Inet? is it even 10%? If you discount those who get their news from websites run by media conglomerates, how many are left? I don't know anybody like that.
Oh, and digital TV? What's that got to do with anything?
I understand what he is saying and agree with the problem, but his proposed solution We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces just outsources this problem to the government, which is in on the whole big media thing, since the government has an inherent conflict of interest when regulating big media outlets.
Umm, what?! This is exactly the sort of thing the government is good for. Government defends the country (military), provides a base level of welfare (police, fire, building inspectors), and regulates commerce (usury laws, anti-trust, anti-fraud). Who else is going to do this?
PLEASE, let's not pummel this guy for a) doing the right thing b) doing it in a way that will hurt his interestes and c) for his move toward colorizing movies almost 20 YEARS ago
Well, I still wanna beat on him for that last one.
Why not just change the law to make media companies to accommodate to customers needs?
Sure, then we can change the law to make people like Ken Lay not engineer an energy crisis and raid the pension fund. We can call it the Kittens and Puppies Act
Who has SCO sued that can't pay?
Try actually reading what you reply to:
Unless you're on retainer and your client wants it done no matter what (SCO for example). Then it's okay and won't hurt your pocketbook.
It is not our information, it is information about us.
Depends on where you live. In most sensible countries, information about me is owned by me.
It's like thinking teen agers could write music and play instruments: this is impossible since music is only able to be created by advanced artists with years of training who work for large symphony orchestras.
Take Mozart for instance (cheap shot, I know).
I work for the Air Force. We call them something different.
I don't know about the USAF, but I hear taht, in the Army, they call it "2nd Lt. with a map and a compass."
Go to work in flip-flops, a Hawaiian shirt, sunlasses and tell everyone you are on vacation. Make Pacman noises, and talk to your invisible friends. Claim insanity and see if that works.
I've got everything but the sunglasses and weird noises. Oh, and I haven't screwed anything major up.
considering 133 years ago they didn't have "computers" in the traditional sense.
Hell, they didn't even have electricity back then.
Why is it that Cable and Telcos always luanch these things in the middle of No place...
When the inevitable FUBARs happen, there are less pissed off people and less stuff to fix. Then when they've worked out the deployment bugs, they can try a larger market.
Inflexibility is yet another trait that linux users need to come to grips with
Nice how you utterly fail to cite any examples. Rather, you just assert the same thing 3 or 4 times.
I am wondering how they press you to upgrade and collect license fees for something that doesn't exist.
"That bug is fixed in the current release, I promise."
The interesting number is, what percentage of the aggregate corporate income is taxed, not the number of corporations that are taxed. Most corporations are teeny non-revenue producing shells.
It's not just paper corps that don't pay taxes - Microsoft and GE tend not to pay income tax either.
The trick is to remember that trademarks are only granted where the public can rely on that mark to identify that marked goods or services stem from a single source. If copyright expires, then there are multiple possible sources for works that are DERIVATIVE of the public domain original, as well as copies of the original itself. Thus, the public can no longer rely on the trademark to identify the sole source of those works.
That doesn't jibe with your first paragraph - in order to copy Steamboat Willie, you need only secure rights to mickey in the context of that film. Other Rodent-based works are not derivative of Wille, so much as they are use of the Rodent in question.
Peter Pan is in the public domain, but that doesn't matter in the worlds of bus lines or peanut butter.
Yeah, well a bus line is a different context from a children's story, so that makes sense.
3. Sell video
Obviously you would choose this, since the law can't force you to remove the protection once it enters the public domain, and if the generic type of the protection technique is used to protect current works too, others can't break it.
Or you can add an escrow clause that requires an unprotected copy to be held in trust for the term of the copyright.
I'd say #3 - what you're basically saying is that you can have the current copyright terms or you can add DRM of varying restrictiveness. Since most GPL code doesn't use DRM, it's not affected.
Yeah, I had a car like that once too!
Maybe you should consider getting a Toyota?
Heh. The joke's on you - I already have a Toyota!
What do you mean, 'dead'?
Yeah, he just went home.