Free in a sense that you can do things... not in a sense that it doesn't cost anything!
Even with windows, the cost isn't just the software... You have to add to it, the cost of the hardware, the manpower to intall and configure it.
When i think about it... M$ software is very expensive! Specially if you need to do more then the simple crap that is the default or near default things...
Just tell him that the computer is of your father... and he is a lawyer... and so is OFF LIMITS to anyone even you...
Did he bring a portable to test the connection?
Nope? Tough luck chummer... you will have to come back again... with either a court order to allow access to the computer or a portable to try the connection.
It isn't illegal to reverse engeneering anything... regardless of what the EULAS say...
It is just that it can be HARD to fight with a 15Tons Gorilla like M$... in court... (which nowadays is impossible as the US Attorney found out the hard way)...
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You know life is beautifull... after you ruin it...
Not that simple... The stupid US laws don't accept prior art from ourside US for one thing... and for another... is any evidence that is found by a judge/jury as not valid is "for ever" forbiden to be reevaluated due to new aditional information.
Sum to that the normal ignorance of judges/juries of any kind of tecnical things and you have what you get today... a system that doen't work and is moving to a stop...
European laws and methodologies are unfortunatly going in the same direction... with the only diference is the way laws are applied on Europe, which tends to make the whole process much slower and smooth... but on the other hand, makes it last much longer also...
Why should one buy a more expensive Palladium compatible computer if they can buy a cheaper non-Palladium one?
Why would a company restrict the content they provide and thrus limiting their consumers with a tecnology that will divide the world and conquer nothing?
You only have to stick with crap 80ish code because the software is closed source and the company that built it has vanished in thin air...
If it was open source... all you needed to do was a recompile in a new platform and possibly making some twicks for it to work in it... BUT you could do it... if needed.
Not really... you can always retype all you are reading... and that isn't a violation of copyright... Because you are just exercising your right as a member of the "public at large"...
Labor costs, creative and logical labor costs a lot!...
And India isn't a long term real solution, unless you are a major software house that can aford to have dependencies and software development branchs all over the world...
Yes... but you will pay the price later on... normally several years later, when you realize you are missing business points because you aren't flexible enought to compensate for the concurrency...
And to be able to do that you must have a mixed infrastructure... which by all means, is normally the best one!
Cheers...
P.S.- Enterprise class operations rely on performance not on "tecnical administration problems"...
Even that proibition isn't required, because when you by a book, you are entitled to the rights of that book only in a book form format...
You have the right to copy it to any other form format for "personnal use only" as that is granted by the copyright law (or something like it, somewhere in the world).
Anyway... nothing of that is relevant as it only applies to a mudball place called US...
The important stuff is with the WIPO and the Berna Treaty... the rest is irrelevant because it is LOCAL and local laws don't cut anymore...
The "All rights reserved" is a statement that should be read as "All the legally atributed rights are reserved without exception if they are boundable."
That frase shouldn't be read as "All bases belong to us"...
Cheers...
P.S.- And you aren't in trouble... you are making a critical article regarding it's copyright notice...
When one looks at a program and "SEES" a feature he isn't doing any kind of reverse engeneering...
Dismantling the code, copying the graphic UI, reusing the algoritms perceived from reverse engeneering is the problem...
And anyway, the anti-reverse-engeneering clausules aren't bindable anyway, because if they where, you would only had one OS, one Word Processor, one WorkSheet Processor, and so one...
Reverse engeneering is a requirement for be in the software market, live with that or change business to fried chiken and hot dogs... because you have no place in software industry at all...
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With the inability of philipse to protect the CD media from the "clones"...
I just stoped to buy CD's because i can't be sure if the CD i'm buying is playable on my computer or not with CD Audio quality.
The stores place crypled CD's in the same racks as the Audio CD's and there aren't VISIBLE labels to warn punters of the diference.
They are selling cat for rabbit!
RIAA = CD Fraud Products
Free in a sense that you can do things... not in a sense that it doesn't cost anything!
Even with windows, the cost isn't just the software... You have to add to it, the cost of the hardware, the manpower to intall and configure it.
When i think about it... M$ software is very expensive! Specially if you need to do more then the simple crap that is the default or near default things...
Note to self... re-check grammer...
Just tell him that the computer is of your father... and he is a lawyer... and so is OFF LIMITS to anyone even you...
Did he bring a portable to test the connection?
Nope? Tough luck chummer... you will have to come back again... with either a court order to allow access to the computer or a portable to try the connection.
Aren't lawyers handy in some cases?
ROFL
It isn't illegal to reverse engeneering anything... regardless of what the EULAS say... It is just that it can be HARD to fight with a 15Tons Gorilla like M$... in court... (which nowadays is impossible as the US Attorney found out the hard way)... --- You know life is beautifull... after you ruin it...
With Open Office... one or two years ago...
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Nothing here to see... move along... move along...
Not that simple... The stupid US laws don't accept prior art from ourside US for one thing... and for another... is any evidence that is found by a judge/jury as not valid is "for ever" forbiden to be reevaluated due to new aditional information.
Sum to that the normal ignorance of judges/juries of any kind of tecnical things and you have what you get today... a system that doen't work and is moving to a stop...
European laws and methodologies are unfortunatly going in the same direction... with the only diference is the way laws are applied on Europe, which tends to make the whole process much slower and smooth... but on the other hand, makes it last much longer also...
Cheers...
I'm sure that they have enought market share to have a special deal with M$... something that Joe "IT" Smith computer shop can't do... Cheers...
Why should one buy a more expensive Palladium compatible computer if they can buy a cheaper non-Palladium one?
Why would a company restrict the content they provide and thrus limiting their consumers with a tecnology that will divide the world and conquer nothing?
Cheers...
You only have to stick with crap 80ish code because the software is closed source and the company that built it has vanished in thin air...
If it was open source... all you needed to do was a recompile in a new platform and possibly making some twicks for it to work in it... BUT you could do it... if needed.
Cheers...
Of course...
And i will start to place in my invoice an item called "invoice payment/receivals system" and all my clients will have to pay it!
Good luck... if you keep any custommer... hmmm... slave...
Except when you will be accused of hacking by the russians...
Cheers...
A nice example of the biased US Law...
That isn't civil disobidience, because only 2600 group where indicted to comply with the court rule... news.com wasn't defendent in the case...
Cheers...
Not really... you can always retype all you are reading... and that isn't a violation of copyright... Because you are just exercising your right as a member of the "public at large"...
Cheers...
"very good idea" So it isn't patentable... Good luck... P.S.- come with some sketches and some implementation theory and then... you can patent...
Yes... very solid... i'm thinking of building a cooking device with some...
Cheers...
Trade secret falls into the commercial law. Patents fall into the Intelectual Property law. Cheers...
Labor costs, creative and logical labor costs a lot!...
And India isn't a long term real solution, unless you are a major software house that can aford to have dependencies and software development branchs all over the world...
Cheers...
Yes... but you will pay the price later on... normally several years later, when you realize you are missing business points because you aren't flexible enought to compensate for the concurrency... And to be able to do that you must have a mixed infrastructure... which by all means, is normally the best one! Cheers... P.S.- Enterprise class operations rely on performance not on "tecnical administration problems"...
It just won't work...
For it to work, WorldCom will demand to the courts that the rule be enforceable as it is his right.
For that, the court will supply the offending URLs list.
The next day, the offending sites will be available again with diferent URLs... and the whole process will start over...
It will be impossible and would only create chaos in the courts when they surelly have more important cases to judge...
Cheers...
When will everyone understand that apart from the UN, nobody has jurisdition on the internet?
Cheers...
Even that proibition isn't required, because when you by a book, you are entitled to the rights of that book only in a book form format...
You have the right to copy it to any other form format for "personnal use only" as that is granted by the copyright law (or something like it, somewhere in the world).
Anyway... nothing of that is relevant as it only applies to a mudball place called US...
The important stuff is with the WIPO and the Berna Treaty... the rest is irrelevant because it is LOCAL and local laws don't cut anymore...
Cheers...
The "All rights reserved" is a statement that should be read as "All the legally atributed rights are reserved without exception if they are boundable."
That frase shouldn't be read as "All bases belong to us"...
Cheers...
P.S.- And you aren't in trouble... you are making a critical article regarding it's copyright notice...
When one looks at a program and "SEES" a feature he isn't doing any kind of reverse engeneering...
Dismantling the code, copying the graphic UI, reusing the algoritms perceived from reverse engeneering is the problem...
And anyway, the anti-reverse-engeneering clausules aren't bindable anyway, because if they where, you would only had one OS, one Word Processor, one WorkSheet Processor, and so one...
Reverse engeneering is a requirement for be in the software market, live with that or change business to fried chiken and hot dogs... because you have no place in software industry at all...
Cheers...
Not really... the "off-the-shelf" software just need to progress...
Mind that there isn't a warrantie that the market is to stay stable and equal all time long...
You can't stop the wheel of time (but you beg jordan to stop it... before another thick dead tree)