So, if you work for the state or local government and do computer support, go into work tomorrow and announce you've applied for the license, but haven't received it yet.
Sorry, Senator/Judge/Mayor/Officical who decided you need a license, but I can't reset your password because I don't have a license. You'll just have to wait a few weeks until I receive it.
Could you use your credit card company to help out?
I have always received my rebates, but have wondered if you put the sale in dispute saying you have not received all of the purchased items, if this might give you some leverage.
What if we all wrote the RIAA and requested to pay for permission to use a very small, say 10 second, piece of a song in a single performance for a single individual. Like something used in a power point presentation for a single supervisor?
What could that cost? Ten seconds of music for a single listener?
What would they do if a couple of million people requested such permission. And we all did it tomorrow?
Course, their initial payment scheme might not be acceptable, so we might all want to negotiate, individually, through several versions of agreement.
That might keep their lawyers busy for a while.
I'm a "expensive expert" for unix.
I spend about 30 minutes a day total, monitoring my systems.
The rest I spend helping my windows brethren handle all of their issues. Especially the weekly patches, reboots, service stoppages, and so on.
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So, if you work for the state or local government and do computer support, go into work tomorrow and announce you've applied for the license, but haven't received it yet. Sorry, Senator/Judge/Mayor/Officical who decided you need a license, but I can't reset your password because I don't have a license. You'll just have to wait a few weeks until I receive it.
Could you use your credit card company to help out? I have always received my rebates, but have wondered if you put the sale in dispute saying you have not received all of the purchased items, if this might give you some leverage.
What if we all wrote the RIAA and requested to pay for permission to use a very small, say 10 second, piece of a song in a single performance for a single individual. Like something used in a power point presentation for a single supervisor? What could that cost? Ten seconds of music for a single listener? What would they do if a couple of million people requested such permission. And we all did it tomorrow? Course, their initial payment scheme might not be acceptable, so we might all want to negotiate, individually, through several versions of agreement. That might keep their lawyers busy for a while.
I'm a "expensive expert" for unix. I spend about 30 minutes a day total, monitoring my systems. The rest I spend helping my windows brethren handle all of their issues. Especially the weekly patches, reboots, service stoppages, and so on.