If you can't figure out how to find this guy's contact info in less than 3 mouse clicks and under 10 seconds, I'm not sure we need nor want you to talk to him.
just because you have some stupid bone to pick with Microsoft, so much so that you happily choose to cut your nose off to spite your face, does NOT mean that the rest of the Slashdot community agrees with you, jagoff.
Often you'll hear AskSlashdork questions posed with an explicit anti-microsoft sentiment. However, in many cases, thoughtful, reasoned analysis shows that the poster's desire to find some illusory benefit with a non-MS solution actually costs time and money, reduces interoperability, increases support costs, lowers employee productivity, and just doesn't make sense.
Pull your head out of your ass, newbie. Your fervent anti-MS stance will turn you into a modern day dinosaur. Good luck with that bonehead.
Even funnier -- I missed it and your girlfriend was sucking my head off. That bitch loves to polish my knob. I think she does it just for the special sauce, though.
Sounds like you are rationalizing something here. Stealing music is stealing music. Trying to justify it because some record labels do bad things is quite transparent.
Your mom told you two wrongs don't make a right. Were you listening?
As a user, this has no impact on you. You can pick the version you want to use for your own needs.
As an author, you can choose to include this "any later version" phrase or not. Choice. That's a good thing. No need to get lawyers involved. If you, as an author, don't trust FSF, don't include the phrase. When GPL v3 comes out, if you like it, relicense your code under GPL v1, v2, and v3. Simple.
paid links don't show up as the first search result on Google. All sponsored links are in a column on the right. You must be thinking of a different search engine.
it's perfectly legal for me to make a copy of a CD and lend it out to friends
You are out of your fucking mind. If you are truly convinced of this, feel free to report yourself to RIAA.
Is it also perfectly legal for you to make a copy of Microsoft Office and lend it out to friends? The word is illegal. You are making an unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material. End of story. The only lawful reproductions involve fair use; i.e., archival/backup purposes, limited use for academic purposes, etc. Your interpretation of fair use doesn't hold water.
RIAA does not consider what you are doing to be legal, in any way. In their considered legal opinion, you bought a CD, not a song that you can shapeshift into any format you choose. As an analogy, if you go to Barnes and Nobel, you buy a book; not a book, a PDF, an HTML version that you can access anywhere in the world, a Postscript version, etc. Copyright law protects the copyright holder from unauthorized reproduction of his/her work. You, by ripping to mp3s, are reproducing the work. Not for archival purposes either. Sure it's convenient for you, but copyright law isn't about what's convenient for you. It's about reproduction without the publisher's consent. In this case, they do not grant their consent.
just plain asinine. They don't deserve any shelter on this one. Just plain greedy, perverting the open source ideal just to put a few bucks in their pocket, and to exercise some control over something that really isn't rocket science since it's been done already.
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What let that stop you? It doesn't stop anyone else. Voting is noise.
If you can't figure out how to find this guy's contact info in less than 3 mouse clicks and under 10 seconds, I'm not sure we need nor want you to talk to him.
will contain any provisions for making archival, backup copies of music.
The new logo is now online. Quite stunning.
if you keep doing that, you'll go blind. At least I'll be able to play Quake.
RTFA
Often you'll hear AskSlashdork questions posed with an explicit anti-microsoft sentiment. However, in many cases, thoughtful, reasoned analysis shows that the poster's desire to find some illusory benefit with a non-MS solution actually costs time and money, reduces interoperability, increases support costs, lowers employee productivity, and just doesn't make sense.
Pull your head out of your ass, newbie. Your fervent anti-MS stance will turn you into a modern day dinosaur. Good luck with that bonehead.
STFU. RTFA. HAND. EOM.
dude, how much pr0n do you download? 100Mbit isn't fast enough for you?
I just covered my cock with aluminum foil. The reception would come and go.
Even funnier -- I missed it and your girlfriend was sucking my head off. That bitch loves to polish my knob. I think she does it just for the special sauce, though.
California - the shining example of how a modern hippie culture can totally fuck up something as simple and old as electric power.
get in my belly!
Snoozer.
they killed John K.
Your mom told you two wrongs don't make a right. Were you listening?
As a user, this has no impact on you. You can pick the version you want to use for your own needs.
As an author, you can choose to include this "any later version" phrase or not. Choice. That's a good thing. No need to get lawyers involved. If you, as an author, don't trust FSF, don't include the phrase. When GPL v3 comes out, if you like it, relicense your code under GPL v1, v2, and v3. Simple.
shouldn't that be GNU/dot?
He's too busy letting the guys at Google tea bag him to read your reply.
paid links don't show up as the first search result on Google. All sponsored links are in a column on the right. You must be thinking of a different search engine.
why does this page look so weird?? I hit refresh 3 times, same thing.
You are out of your fucking mind. If you are truly convinced of this, feel free to report yourself to RIAA.
Is it also perfectly legal for you to make a copy of Microsoft Office and lend it out to friends? The word is illegal. You are making an unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material. End of story. The only lawful reproductions involve fair use; i.e., archival/backup purposes, limited use for academic purposes, etc. Your interpretation of fair use doesn't hold water.
(24-8)/3 = 5.3 hours
sweet. So I can completely fuck off for 2.7 hours a day and you'll be ok with it? sweet.
RIAA does not consider what you are doing to be legal, in any way. In their considered legal opinion, you bought a CD, not a song that you can shapeshift into any format you choose. As an analogy, if you go to Barnes and Nobel, you buy a book; not a book, a PDF, an HTML version that you can access anywhere in the world, a Postscript version, etc. Copyright law protects the copyright holder from unauthorized reproduction of his/her work. You, by ripping to mp3s, are reproducing the work. Not for archival purposes either. Sure it's convenient for you, but copyright law isn't about what's convenient for you. It's about reproduction without the publisher's consent. In this case, they do not grant their consent.
just plain asinine. They don't deserve any shelter on this one. Just plain greedy, perverting the open source ideal just to put a few bucks in their pocket, and to exercise some control over something that really isn't rocket science since it's been done already.