It depends on what the legal definition of a "copy" is perhaps. If I make a backup copy of windows XP, and loose the original, and then sell the backup on ebay with the license and cd-key, I believe I have not violated a copyright restriction or a law. The "copy" becomes the original when the original is destroyed. That's the purpose of fair use. I believe that some elected official of judge will need to clearify this for us.
But,
they don't have to "go for it". It's not their choice. Just
like the publishers of books probably wouldn't like public libraries to
exist. But they do exist. I believe, and I could be wrong,
that if I pay full price for a CD, I can lend it to a friend so long as
no copies are made, and I am not violating any law or copyright.
I believe this is would fit the legal definition of "transfer of
license", where I own the license to listen to the music and I am
transferring it to my friend for a period of time. Sharing the
songs digitally would in effect be the same thing so long as nobody can
be carrying around the same piece of purchased material as anybody
else.
In fact, my public library has some music CDs and books on tape you can check out.
So, I don't see how doing this digitally would be any problem at all -
maybe my library will offer it.
So, is there any reason that this can't lead to "digital music libraries" where the songs are "checked out". This could make legal downloads nearly costless (like checking a book out from the public library). The only hurdle is to keep people from checking out copies for super-extended periods of time such that nobody else can check that copy out.
Have you been looking at the "recent comments" section? That's changed 2 times in the last three weeks. What about the changes to moderation over the last year or so? Google has been doing a relatively good job of filtering out as much search spam as they can (remember the fiasco in January?) on the search engine side, so it stands to reason that they'd do the same for froogle.
I don't think that the majority of the intended audience of this paper is asking those questions. I believe that IBM's support for desktop Linux is minimal while their server support is extremely heavy. They will give support to customers who purchase an IBM Linux server and need to get a RAID card working in it.
But their opinion, and the opinion of most non-slashdoters, is that Linux isn't ready for the desktop now for home and many coporate users.
This isn't a flamebait. It's just that the article isn't supposed to answer these questions. XP professional IS what they recommend and for a good reason. Support for wlan isn't IBMs problem. Servers don't need to have a wireless network connection. If you want support for Linux Hardware from IBM, go here.
I agree, except all of the alternatives you've stated came out AFTER the winner. If you want to geat the guy on top, you've got to have a reason big enough to move the industry. Sure price/features are important, but so is compatibility. Right now, more web browsers support gif and Flash, more people have Word, and people are bombarded with adds for windows programs that don't work on Linux.
That's not totally openoffice's fault. If your friend would have sent you the file in an open format, then you wouldn't have had a problem.
Let's look at it in reverse. Your friend has openoffice and you only have Word. He sends you the sxw file, and you can't open it. Now your argument would be that Word isn't ready because it can't read openoffice files.
Now, I know it's not the same thing because doc is standard, closed, but standard. But, if he would have sent you a file in HTML, PDF or, best, RTF (which is, by the way, an older standard than Word), it would have looked fine in either word processor.
I've had the problem you are talking about between two MS Word users exchanging DOC files. Openoffice, in my opinion, treats sxw files better than word treats DOC files.
ctually, I believe that the wireless networks in Asia and Europe are better for two really good reasons:
Space. The USA has a lot of open space. The cost/customer is might higher is less densely populated areas.
FCC and the stupid military bands. We've had radio
communication over here longer, and the US Military has control of
giant unused chunks of bandwidth they won't give back to the FCC.
For both backward compatibility with old AM radios, HAM, the almost
completely unused hi-def TV bandwidth, UHF TV, and the military,
there's just not that much space left for everything else compared to
the rest of the world.
I honestly believe that the government's regulation of telco's wouldn't
help. And you are sampling one part of the telecommunication
business. Look at internet infrastructure/prices, and long
distance rates. Both of which are much better in the US I
believe. Most people in the US can get under $.03/minute anywhere
in the US, Canada, and Mexico (so I can call eastern Canada from
southern CA (South Western US) for under $.03/minute). How much
does it cost to call Germany from Brittan? How much is a
3MB-down/384k-up cablemodem connection in Europe? Mine is
$60/month.
Interesting.
But this isn't a matter of fact, it's a matter of opinion from which a
judge can decide based on the evidence that is presented by the
prosecutor. I believe that there is more evidence that the
prosecutor was too ignorant to make a good case, or the judge was too
ignorant to make a proper ruling than there is any evidence that
bribery took place. I believe that many people on this list,
including me, are have a bias against Microsoft, and therefore are
about are about as likely to agree with ANY negative court ruling about
Microsoft as Bill Gates himself. He would say that it was too
harsh, and we would say that it was not harsh enough.
Ask yourself honestly, was the decision against Microsoft in Europe
really that bad? I don't think so. I was expecting
something that might actually make a dent in the monopoly.
Neither the US or the EU was capable of doing that because the majority
of users (minus the MS zealots and the Linux zealots) actually seem to
agree/don't care/don't know any better about the rulings.
How
is this insightful? Is there any proof that MS bought off
politicians? Is there any proof that these politicians actually
influenced the judicial system or to prosecutors? Conspiracy
theories! I believe that these guys just didn't know enough about
their subject. They weren't corrupt, they were ignorant, and
naive. Just because the law didn't go your way doesn't mean that
the lawyers are corrupt.
I know a ton of people (we may call them MS-zealots) who believe that the US Antitrust case was
handled perfectly. It's up to the politicians to do what the
majority of their constituency wants (especially when their
constituency is supposed to know more about the subject than them), and
it seems to me that we are all in the minority on this issue.
What's wrong with "slashdot.org.icann" "computers.geek.openni c"?
That's how the DNS system is supposed to work btw.
It's a great idea, until we start bickering about who is responsible for the.icann,.opennic, etc TLD's and we start over again.
Unless, ICANN plays ball, and starts giving out TLD's for alternative orgs this isn't going to be easy to make work. Aren't we supposed to have a say about stuff like this at ICANN?
Perhaps opennic should just start doing this. People would still have to alter their DNS setting to get into these special.geek.opennic domains, but at least that's a TLD they may be able to sue ICANN over.
Legally, how is mirroring a breach of copyright? If you give credit to the author and make no changes to content that was already available for free and still is, then isn't this fair use?
Or maybe that opt-click or ctrl-click (or whatever it is) to too much trouble. Right, I am a PC/Linux user, but still I know this.
More to the point, the grandparent noted that he came from windows to Linux. Most distributions ship with a theme more similar to the windows theme, so it makes sense that that transition was easier.
Also, I heared that UPnP and rendevous both use the same IETF draft. I believe that Windows XP already auto-detects CUPS printers. At least it does on my network.
My problem with NFS is that it requires all machines on the network to have the same userID->userName mapping. With CIFS, even under Linux, everything is dynamic. I can take my Linux notebook between my company's linux based network and my homes linux based network, and everything just works.
That's assuming that all of these microdrives are ending up on ebay NOW. What about people buying them for themselves, or people with dozens or hundreds of drives but holding them to keep supply low (to keep the price up). IANA Statistician, but I would expect it to be a slightly larger percent, but not more than 2-5%.
Even worse, is the average user trying to get the computer to output to the TV set. Very few people really want to have the family gathered around the computer to watch "The Simpsons". Normally, the computer is in another room, or in a position where running a wire from the TV to the computer would be less that aesthetically pleasing. I know my wife wouldn't have it.
That's a lot of work. If you have a Linux mail server, it's a lot more simple for the end user. Just put this into/etc/procmailrc and all of your executable and zip file attachments are toast:
:0 H * ^Content-Type: multipart {:0 B
*.*\/name=.*\.(bat|chm|exe|com|hlp|hta|jar|js|jse|l nk|mdb|pif|scr|shb|shs|vb|vbe|vbg|vbs|wmz|wsf|wsh| zls|dbx|mht|wab|asf|zip)(")?(\ *|\t*)$
{ # LOG="${NL}Possible virus:${NL}Matched Expression = ${MATCH}${NL}":0/dev/null
} }
I agree. Perhaps it's a combination of the X the free, and the fact that a lot of port sites are using the xfree86 term in their search engine spamming.
Slashdot Mirror
It depends on what the legal definition of a "copy" is perhaps. If I make a backup copy of windows XP, and loose the original, and then sell the backup on ebay with the license and cd-key, I believe I have not violated a copyright restriction or a law. The "copy" becomes the original when the original is destroyed. That's the purpose of fair use. I believe that some elected official of judge will need to clearify this for us.
But, they don't have to "go for it". It's not their choice. Just like the publishers of books probably wouldn't like public libraries to exist. But they do exist. I believe, and I could be wrong, that if I pay full price for a CD, I can lend it to a friend so long as no copies are made, and I am not violating any law or copyright. I believe this is would fit the legal definition of "transfer of license", where I own the license to listen to the music and I am transferring it to my friend for a period of time. Sharing the songs digitally would in effect be the same thing so long as nobody can be carrying around the same piece of purchased material as anybody else.
In fact, my public library has some music CDs and books on tape you can check out. So, I don't see how doing this digitally would be any problem at all - maybe my library will offer it.
So, is there any reason that this can't lead to "digital music libraries" where the songs are "checked out". This could make legal downloads nearly costless (like checking a book out from the public library). The only hurdle is to keep people from checking out copies for super-extended periods of time such that nobody else can check that copy out.
Have you been looking at the "recent comments" section? That's changed 2 times in the last three weeks. What about the changes to moderation over the last year or so? Google has been doing a relatively good job of filtering out as much search spam as they can (remember the fiasco in January?) on the search engine side, so it stands to reason that they'd do the same for froogle.
Sure. We all at slashdot wish that. At least it would help Linux and hurt Microsoft. But that's not what the story is about.
I don't think that the majority of the intended audience of this paper is asking those questions. I believe that IBM's support for desktop Linux is minimal while their server support is extremely heavy. They will give support to customers who purchase an IBM Linux server and need to get a RAID card working in it.
But their opinion, and the opinion of most non-slashdoters, is that Linux isn't ready for the desktop now for home and many coporate users.
This isn't a flamebait. It's just that the article isn't supposed to answer these questions. XP professional IS what they recommend and for a good reason. Support for wlan isn't IBMs problem. Servers don't need to have a wireless network connection. If you want support for Linux Hardware from IBM, go here.
The office formats after 97 are supposed to be backward compatible with 97. Supposed...
I agree, except all of the alternatives you've stated came out AFTER the winner. If you want to geat the guy on top, you've got to have a reason big enough to move the industry. Sure price/features are important, but so is compatibility. Right now, more web browsers support gif and Flash, more people have Word, and people are bombarded with adds for windows programs that don't work on Linux.
That's not totally openoffice's fault. If your friend would have sent you the file in an open format, then you wouldn't have had a problem.
Let's look at it in reverse. Your friend has openoffice and you only have Word. He sends you the sxw file, and you can't open it. Now your argument would be that Word isn't ready because it can't read openoffice files.
Now, I know it's not the same thing because doc is standard, closed, but standard. But, if he would have sent you a file in HTML, PDF or, best, RTF (which is, by the way, an older standard than Word), it would have looked fine in either word processor.
I've had the problem you are talking about between two MS Word users exchanging DOC files. Openoffice, in my opinion, treats sxw files better than word treats DOC files.
- Space. The USA has a lot of open space. The cost/customer is might higher is less densely populated areas.
- FCC and the stupid military bands. We've had radio
communication over here longer, and the US Military has control of
giant unused chunks of bandwidth they won't give back to the FCC.
For both backward compatibility with old AM radios, HAM, the almost
completely unused hi-def TV bandwidth, UHF TV, and the military,
there's just not that much space left for everything else compared to
the rest of the world.
I honestly believe that the government's regulation of telco's wouldn't help. And you are sampling one part of the telecommunication business. Look at internet infrastructure/prices, and long distance rates. Both of which are much better in the US I believe. Most people in the US can get under $.03/minute anywhere in the US, Canada, and Mexico (so I can call eastern Canada from southern CA (South Western US) for under $.03/minute). How much does it cost to call Germany from Brittan? How much is a 3MB-down/384k-up cablemodem connection in Europe? Mine is $60/month.Interesting. But this isn't a matter of fact, it's a matter of opinion from which a judge can decide based on the evidence that is presented by the prosecutor. I believe that there is more evidence that the prosecutor was too ignorant to make a good case, or the judge was too ignorant to make a proper ruling than there is any evidence that bribery took place. I believe that many people on this list, including me, are have a bias against Microsoft, and therefore are about are about as likely to agree with ANY negative court ruling about Microsoft as Bill Gates himself. He would say that it was too harsh, and we would say that it was not harsh enough.
Ask yourself honestly, was the decision against Microsoft in Europe really that bad? I don't think so. I was expecting something that might actually make a dent in the monopoly. Neither the US or the EU was capable of doing that because the majority of users (minus the MS zealots and the Linux zealots) actually seem to agree/don't care/don't know any better about the rulings.
How is this insightful? Is there any proof that MS bought off politicians? Is there any proof that these politicians actually influenced the judicial system or to prosecutors? Conspiracy theories! I believe that these guys just didn't know enough about their subject. They weren't corrupt, they were ignorant, and naive. Just because the law didn't go your way doesn't mean that the lawyers are corrupt.
I know a ton of people (we may call them MS-zealots) who believe that the US Antitrust case was handled perfectly. It's up to the politicians to do what the majority of their constituency wants (especially when their constituency is supposed to know more about the subject than them), and it seems to me that we are all in the minority on this issue.
Unless, ICANN plays ball, and starts giving out TLD's for alternative orgs this isn't going to be easy to make work. Aren't we supposed to have a say about stuff like this at ICANN?
Perhaps opennic should just start doing this. People would still have to alter their DNS setting to get into these special
Legally, how is mirroring a breach of copyright? If you give credit to the author and make no changes to content that was already available for free and still is, then isn't this fair use?
And now that you've posted, you can't use them at all.
And for a real world example of PNG's use. See some of these sites:
Dredg
Autopilot Off
Or maybe that opt-click or ctrl-click (or whatever it is) to too much trouble. Right, I am a PC/Linux user, but still I know this.
More to the point, the grandparent noted that he came from windows to Linux. Most distributions ship with a theme more similar to the windows theme, so it makes sense that that transition was easier.
Also, I heared that UPnP and rendevous both use the same IETF draft. I believe that Windows XP already auto-detects CUPS printers. At least it does on my network.
My problem with NFS is that it requires all machines on the network to have the same userID->userName mapping. With CIFS, even under Linux, everything is dynamic. I can take my Linux notebook between my company's linux based network and my homes linux based network, and everything just works.
That's assuming that all of these microdrives are ending up on ebay NOW. What about people buying them for themselves, or people with dozens or hundreds of drives but holding them to keep supply low (to keep the price up). IANA Statistician, but I would expect it to be a slightly larger percent, but not more than 2-5%.
Even worse, is the average user trying to get the computer to output to the TV set. Very few people really want to have the family gathered around the computer to watch "The Simpsons". Normally, the computer is in another room, or in a position where running a wire from the TV to the computer would be less that aesthetically pleasing. I know my wife wouldn't have it.
That's a lot of work. If you have a Linux mail server, it's a lot more simple for the end user. Just put this into /etc/procmailrc and all of your executable and zip file attachments are toast:
:0 H :0 B .*\/name=.*\.(bat|chm|exe|com|hlp|hta|jar|js|jse|l nk|mdb|pif|scr|shb|shs|vb|vbe|vbg|vbs|wmz|wsf|wsh| zls|dbx|mht|wab|asf|zip)(")?(\ *|\t*)$ :0 /dev/null
* ^Content-Type: multipart
{
*
{
# LOG="${NL}Possible virus:${NL}Matched Expression = ${MATCH}${NL}"
}
}
I agree. Perhaps it's a combination of the X the free, and the fact that a lot of port sites are using the xfree86 term in their search engine spamming.
CSS? Didn't the film come off of a VHS tape? Macrovision perhaps?
Funny, Mr. High and mighty grammar know-it-all. Just kidding. Thanks for correcting me, I appreciate it.