Boing Boing have already removed the image an added an apology to the post.
In the case of other websites, send a DMCA complaint to search engines. They must then either remove the image, or send a counter-notice, or have the search engine stop returning links to the page in searches.
Big media are not going to risk lying in the counter-notification, so they will probably remove the image.
Your only other alternative is to take your photos off anywhere they can be easily copied (i.e. off the net).
It sounds as though having ads on the same page would be a breach, but IANAL.
What about having it on a page of a commercial site that does not have ads on it? There is still a commercial advantage in attracting traffic or links to a site.
Programming talent, yes, but phones require hardware engineering and design talent as well. Do they have that? They have a hardware business, but they do not, AFAIK, make any mobile devices.
The rest of the GP's points seem entirely reasonable.
Linux has the most streamlined desktop GUI these days
Which Linux desktop does that apply to: 1) Gnome 2) KDE 3) XFCE 4) LXDE 5) Openbox...... lots of others.
and what does "streamlined" mean anyway?
I use KDE on Openbox (because I like KDE and Kwin memory and CPU usage is very high).
I prefer it to any other desktop environment I have tried (including Mac), but I have not tried Windows more recent than XP, to say nothing of lots of Linux/Unix window managers and desktop environments.
You have also almost answered the question of what a free market is. To be more specific:
1) New competitors should be free to enter the market - i.e. barriers to entry are limited. 2) Consumers should have a choice of suppliers. 3) No regulation, so prices are set by competition. This requires that there actually IS competition.
The economic theories that say free markets lead to optimum outcomes (i.e. the invisible hand) assume that there is enough competition that no one buyer or seller can influence prices (i.e. if you try to sell at above the market rate no one will buy, if you try to buy at below the market rate no one will sell to you).
The charging connection should not fail because of high CPU temperature. Either the rest of the laptop should be designed to take the CPU running that high and cutting out, or there should be additional cut outs.
How could an OS possibly discolour the screen or crack the case?
If you take your argument to its logical conclusion, PC warranties should be voided if you install any third party software, and certainly if you install or connect it to third party hardware. The game you install might run the CPU to hard and over heat it, or your USB mouse might short out the USB port, etc.
Warranties should be valid unless you have actually done something to damage it.
Just counting the number of native speakers fails to take a lot into account.
1) Which language do you count as native for people who are genuinely bilingual (as I was when I was young?). This is very common in South Asia.
2) There are a huge number of people who speak English fluently as a second language. The article you link to suggests that the total number of English speakers could be 80% greater than the number of Mandarin speakers.
3) English is far more geographically diverse (how many people speak Mandarin in Africa or Eastern Europe?) and its speakers are far more ethically diverse (how many of the Mandarin speakers outside China are ethically Chinese?). This makes English far more useful as a language for international communication. In my experience it is assumed that events with people from many countries will take place in English except for nationalistic reasons.
4) There is a huge, and still growing, infrastructure in place for teaching English, and the number of people who speak English is growing rapidly.
5) English is easier for speakers of other Indo-European languages to learn, and they make up about half the world's population.
I've been using Ubuntu since 2006 and this claim is, frankly, laughable. Go to the shop and buy some shrinkwrap software - chances are it won't work on Ubuntu.
SO new uses need a one minute explanation that almost everything they will need can be installed by clicking on "add programs", or whatever Ubuntu calls it, and they do not need to buy shrink wrapped software.
Now buy yourself a new webcam, printer and scanner; unless you checked beforehand at least one of these is likely not to work
Buy a pile of hardware and some of it will not work with a a Mac. Some might not have drivers for older or newer versions of Windows either.
IN any case it just requires another one minute explanation to tell them that there are websites on which they can check whether hardware works before they buy it.
What power users find easy and what average users find easy are different things. This perception difference is what has holds Linux back
I agree: power users who know Windows really well find it hard to adjust to Linux. Average users find Linux easier but rarely get a change to try it, partly because of bad advice they receive from power users.
It takes fewer clicks to install software on Linux.
No. I want to go to their website and click the fucking download button
That assumes you already know the right website to go to. How many clicks and typing does it take to find the right website, and to find out whether you are downloading real software of malware?
Anything else is unacceptable for a typical user.
Yes, we all know that only hard core geeks use the Iphone app store (which works exactly like a Linux repo, except for the added step of paying).
So that is why businesses seem happy to use Windows and MS Office? I am very glad to hear that Microsoft allow people to, for example, copy and modify chunks of code from Excel to include in plugins.
Just to clarify the situation, here is a quote from the comments in the Thesis code itself:
This function is mostly copy pasta from WP (wp-includes/media.php), but with minor alteration to play more nicely with our styling
The law treats made up words like Ipod (or images, or whatever) very differently from normal words (like Typhoon). You get more extensive rights with the former - so none cannot sell Microsoft cars or stick a Mercedes logo on your software (without permission from the trademark holder).
Except that, especially in Asia, most buyers know that they are buying a counterfeit: so there is no damage to reputation due to lower quality, and there is no evidence that the buyers would otherwise have bought the original manufacturers goods (which would be a lot ore expensive).
Anyone who expects artists to work without compensation
Firstly, this is much broader than copyright law. Imaginary property also includes trademark law and patents. Secondly, being opposed to current copyright law, does not mean being opposed to copyright law altogether. Having a copyright term of life plus seventy adds very little extra incentive compared to, for example, a fifty year fixed period - but hugely shrinks the public domain. A social optimum copyright law (balancing increasing the public domain with incentives) will, fairly obviously, be somewhere in the twenty year range of so (OK it might be 15 or 30, the last study I saw said 17) Finally, even those who want copyright abolished altogether, compensation to be paid in a different way. People made a living from writing and composing music long before copyright law existed.
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The market for Linux is not mostly made up of newbs who want Windows that isn't Windows, but of power users and people who care about free software.
If you want Linux to get more users (which I am sure the Gnome people do), then you need to make the transition reasonably easy.
Similar enough to Windows by default to make it feel familiar, preferably better, but easy to customise is the way to do.
gvfs-fuse
For what I want to do (mount remote file systems) KIO works better.
If you want to enforce legal rights, then sue.
Boing Boing have already removed the image an added an apology to the post.
In the case of other websites, send a DMCA complaint to search engines. They must then either remove the image, or send a counter-notice, or have the search engine stop returning links to the page in searches.
Big media are not going to risk lying in the counter-notification, so they will probably remove the image.
Your only other alternative is to take your photos off anywhere they can be easily copied (i.e. off the net).
It sounds as though having ads on the same page would be a breach, but IANAL.
What about having it on a page of a commercial site that does not have ads on it? There is still a commercial advantage in attracting traffic or links to a site.
I mean its like that with trademarks is it not? If you aren't actively defending it, you can lose it?
It is like that with trademarks, it is not like that with copyright.
Software companies even deliberately ignore pirating in order to increase their installed base, and crack down later.
Programming talent, yes, but phones require hardware engineering and design talent as well. Do they have that? They have a hardware business, but they do not, AFAIK, make any mobile devices.
The rest of the GP's points seem entirely reasonable.
Even if the codebase officially known as MySQL withers on the vine, there's still at least 2 forks I can think of that are viable.
Viable perhaps, but not exactly widely used.
It is fine to offer it as a service, but to opt people in without consent, or even notice is not fine.
Linux has the most streamlined desktop GUI these days
Which Linux desktop does that apply to: ...... lots of others.
1) Gnome
2) KDE
3) XFCE
4) LXDE
5) Openbox
and what does "streamlined" mean anyway?
I use KDE on Openbox (because I like KDE and Kwin memory and CPU usage is very high).
I prefer it to any other desktop environment I have tried (including Mac), but I have not tried Windows more recent than XP, to say nothing of lots of Linux/Unix window managers and desktop environments.
You have also almost answered the question of what a free market is. To be more specific:
1) New competitors should be free to enter the market - i.e. barriers to entry are limited.
2) Consumers should have a choice of suppliers.
3) No regulation, so prices are set by competition. This requires that there actually IS competition.
The economic theories that say free markets lead to optimum outcomes (i.e. the invisible hand) assume that there is enough competition that no one buyer or seller can influence prices (i.e. if you try to sell at above the market rate no one will buy, if you try to buy at below the market rate no one will sell to you).
The charging connection should not fail because of high CPU temperature. Either the rest of the laptop should be designed to take the CPU running that high and cutting out, or there should be additional cut outs.
How could an OS possibly discolour the screen or crack the case?
If you take your argument to its logical conclusion, PC warranties should be voided if you install any third party software, and certainly if you install or connect it to third party hardware. The game you install might run the CPU to hard and over heat it, or your USB mouse might short out the USB port, etc.
Warranties should be valid unless you have actually done something to damage it.
Just counting the number of native speakers fails to take a lot into account.
1) Which language do you count as native for people who are genuinely bilingual (as I was when I was young?). This is very common in South Asia.
2) There are a huge number of people who speak English fluently as a second language. The article you link to suggests that the total number of English speakers could be 80% greater than the number of Mandarin speakers.
3) English is far more geographically diverse (how many people speak Mandarin in Africa or Eastern Europe?) and its speakers are far more ethically diverse (how many of the Mandarin speakers outside China are ethically Chinese?). This makes English far more useful as a language for international communication. In my experience it is assumed that events with people from many countries will take place in English except for nationalistic reasons.
4) There is a huge, and still growing, infrastructure in place for teaching English, and the number of people who speak English is growing rapidly.
5) English is easier for speakers of other Indo-European languages to learn, and they make up about half the world's population.
6) Learning to write English is much easier.
I've been using Ubuntu since 2006 and this claim is, frankly, laughable. Go to the shop and buy some shrinkwrap software - chances are it won't work on Ubuntu.
SO new uses need a one minute explanation that almost everything they will need can be installed by clicking on "add programs", or whatever Ubuntu calls it, and they do not need to buy shrink wrapped software.
Now buy yourself a new webcam, printer and scanner; unless you checked beforehand at least one of these is likely not to work
Buy a pile of hardware and some of it will not work with a a Mac. Some might not have drivers for older or newer versions of Windows either.
IN any case it just requires another one minute explanation to tell them that there are websites on which they can check whether hardware works before they buy it.
What power users find easy and what average users find easy are different things. This perception difference is what has holds Linux back
I agree: power users who know Windows really well find it hard to adjust to Linux. Average users find Linux easier but rarely get a change to try it, partly because of bad advice they receive from power users.
I like Ubuntu and I look forward to the day that it truly hits the mainstream but it is not, in any way, easier to use than Windows.
Of course a Windows geek who has spent years learning Windows finds it easier to use. Most people are not geeks at all, and they find Linux easier.
Number of clicks matter.
It takes fewer clicks to install software on Linux.
No. I want to go to their website and click the fucking download button
That assumes you already know the right website to go to. How many clicks and typing does it take to find the right website, and to find out whether you are downloading real software of malware?
Anything else is unacceptable for a typical user.
Yes, we all know that only hard core geeks use the Iphone app store (which works exactly like a Linux repo, except for the added step of paying).
Read what the WP people claim: the PHP needs to be GPL, the HTML and CSS does hot.
You do not have to provide source code when you "propagate", only when you "convey"
You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions
How is dropping a text file in the same folder as wordpress creating something that is "part of WP"?
The "text file" contains PHP, including modified versions of code copied from Wordpress itself.
So that is why businesses seem happy to use Windows and MS Office? I am very glad to hear that Microsoft allow people to, for example, copy and modify chunks of code from Excel to include in plugins.
Just to clarify the situation, here is a quote from the comments in the Thesis code itself:
This function is mostly copy pasta from WP (wp-includes/media.php), but with minor alteration to play more nicely with our styling
The law treats made up words like Ipod (or images, or whatever) very differently from normal words (like Typhoon). You get more extensive rights with the former - so none cannot sell Microsoft cars or stick a Mercedes logo on your software (without permission from the trademark holder).
Except that, especially in Asia, most buyers know that they are buying a counterfeit: so there is no damage to reputation due to lower quality, and there is no evidence that the buyers would otherwise have bought the original manufacturers goods (which would be a lot ore expensive).
Anyone who expects artists to work without compensation
Firstly, this is much broader than copyright law. Imaginary property also includes trademark law and patents.
Secondly, being opposed to current copyright law, does not mean being opposed to copyright law altogether. Having a copyright term of life plus seventy adds very little extra incentive compared to, for example, a fifty year fixed period - but hugely shrinks the public domain. A social optimum copyright law (balancing increasing the public domain with incentives) will, fairly obviously, be somewhere in the twenty year range of so (OK it might be 15 or 30, the last study I saw said 17)
Finally, even those who want copyright abolished altogether, compensation to be paid in a different way. People made a living from writing and composing music long before copyright law existed.
You do realise that the BBC was forced to use DRM in order to reduce "unfair" competition to commercial media?
The Economist has a subscription web site.
The iPad has a web browser.
How does that not meet your requirements?