The O'Reilly network has coined a term that they call LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python. See this article on the O'Reilly network for more information. Understanding the applications mentioned under this monika seem to me to be essential to a being a web programmer these days.
I agee. It's not only that these companies commodify these cultures for their own commercial gain, but that they also often completely bastardize what they commodify. The Maori language has been a social and political battleground for the Moari for a long time now and i'm sure that it pisses them off that these guys can just use it as the basis for a game of all things and probably without any consultation for historical or cultural accuracy.
That's funny because most of the major threads on any Dell-Linux board are how nobody can seem to get the APM to work properly. I own an Inspiron 7500 - which I'm very happy with, and which has never hinted at catching on fire - but I can't for the life of me get the damn AMP stuff to work properly. Perhaps you could elaborate on what you did to get it to work. Oh, and I do know what a taniwha is: only a kiwi would right?
I completely agree with you as well. This guy's rhetorical ranting is just the kind of dangerous fuhrer type hyperbole that gets society into deeper sh*t rather than into any enlightened debate about a complex matter. I'm so sick of listening to these company boys trying to think that they can fix the problem by just inventing another proprietary form of content delivery. I honestly believe that copyright is going to have to adapt in some way, rather than having guys like this propose harsher legislature to the benefit of big business.
Something similar to this happened a few years back to Glassdog.com. The owner had a fairly complicated frameset going that another site ripped off and plonked its own content in to - and a similar debate started. Can you copyright the design? I think this is the issue here - it's not the content that's being contended it's the formatting or outlay of the pages that's at stake.
The basis of copyright law is to strike a balance between providing authors or publishers enought control so that they're motivated to create and disseminate, and to limit control so society benefits from access to works. If you could copyright html then what kind of web would we have? It would be like trying to copyright grammar. What web designer out there didn't learn from looking at and borrowing others code? It's fair use in my book.
Do you see any hipocracy on your part between the anti-establishment stance that many of your songs, and songs of other groups (like Dr.Dre) take, and this particular legal action - which concretely aligns you with such an establishment? Is metallica not now ready to lay in the bed it made?
Something about this site doesn't seem to be in the 'spirit' of anything that the originators of the Web and the Internet originally intended. And it makes me a little sad really to see this kind of crass commercialization, the ebay-ification of knowledge appear. Very specialized knowledge is power and as such will be tradeable, but the kinds of things that this page will be used for seems to me to be more directed at answering homework problems for rich college students. I won't be participating in it - for I agree with the other posts that this is just a newsgroup for $$$ scheme. I regularly answer questions about web development, javascript, and such on newsgroups as a way to give back to a forum that helped me learn so much in the beginning. If that service had cost me everytime I got an answer I wouldn't have been able to develop some of the educational sites that i've made to this date.
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The O'Reilly network has coined a term that they call LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python. See this article on the O'Reilly network for more information. Understanding the applications mentioned under this monika seem to me to be essential to a being a web programmer these days.
I agee. It's not only that these companies commodify these cultures for their own commercial gain, but that they also often completely bastardize what they commodify. The Maori language has been a social and political battleground for the Moari for a long time now and i'm sure that it pisses them off that these guys can just use it as the basis for a game of all things and probably without any consultation for historical or cultural accuracy.
That's funny because most of the major threads on any Dell-Linux board are how nobody can seem to get the APM to work properly. I own an Inspiron 7500 - which I'm very happy with, and which has never hinted at catching on fire - but I can't for the life of me get the damn AMP stuff to work properly. Perhaps you could elaborate on what you did to get it to work. Oh, and I do know what a taniwha is: only a kiwi would right?
I completely agree with you as well. This guy's rhetorical ranting is just the kind of dangerous fuhrer type hyperbole that gets society into deeper sh*t rather than into any enlightened debate about a complex matter. I'm so sick of listening to these company boys trying to think that they can fix the problem by just inventing another proprietary form of content delivery. I honestly believe that copyright is going to have to adapt in some way, rather than having guys like this propose harsher legislature to the benefit of big business.
The basis of copyright law is to strike a balance between providing authors or publishers enought control so that they're motivated to create and disseminate, and to limit control so society benefits from access to works. If you could copyright html then what kind of web would we have? It would be like trying to copyright grammar. What web designer out there didn't learn from looking at and borrowing others code? It's fair use in my book.
Do you see any hipocracy on your part between the anti-establishment stance that many of your songs, and songs of other groups (like Dr.Dre) take, and this particular legal action - which concretely aligns you with such an establishment? Is metallica not now ready to lay in the bed it made?
Something about this site doesn't seem to be in the 'spirit' of anything that the originators of the Web and the Internet originally intended. And it makes me a little sad really to see this kind of crass commercialization, the ebay-ification of knowledge appear. Very specialized knowledge is power and as such will be tradeable, but the kinds of things that this page will be used for seems to me to be more directed at answering homework problems for rich college students. I won't be participating in it - for I agree with the other posts that this is just a newsgroup for $$$ scheme. I regularly answer questions about web development, javascript, and such on newsgroups as a way to give back to a forum that helped me learn so much in the beginning. If that service had cost me everytime I got an answer I wouldn't have been able to develop some of the educational sites that i've made to this date.