I can understand not being able to find some group that recorded some obscure song way back when but how can you say you could locate say, Sean "Puffy" Combs or some other well know artist. That sounds fishy to me.
Why is an almost 2 year old story about a dead fly just now making it to the front page. When I read the article I thought it was mildly amusing but when I realized how old it was I thought whats the point...
If this isn't all a well thought out plan by Microsoft to poison the open source movement by contamination. You know the source is going to be leaked eventually, Then how do you defend against an IP claim if your code happens to be similiar to MS's on some project. How do you prove you never saw the code someplace on the net.
From what I understand about it here's the difference.
If it's under the BSD license then you can use the code (with copyrights intact) in your software and sell it without owing anyone anything. The only way anyone would know it's there is to have access to the source code but it's not required that you give anyone access to it. I belive that Microsoft has done this in the past, but if the code is covered by the GPL then you can't just absorb the code into your project without re-releasing the code (entire project?) back to the community.
I've wondered about this myself. How come no one is up in arms about Lindows. I scoured the website for a mention of how to obtain the source but can't find it anywhere. Is it included when you buy the product because if it's not then isn't that a violation of the GPL. I'm sure it's all on the up and up since theres no uproar over it.
Yes, case law should be cheap and available but It's not for either of these companies to provide. They take public info and put it all together and make it searchable. They should be paid. Now if someone wants to do the same thing and make it free thats great and we're all better off for it.
I've been waiting for a suit like this to happen. I've never been able to fathom why a license agreement will state in black and white that if you don't agree then return the product. But if you try this no one will give you your money back. In the case of Windows Refund Day, it blew my mind with the vendors saying Microsoft would have to refund the money and Microsoft saying that you had to deal with the vendors. If they won't live up to the agreement why should the users have to. I hope the judge in this case blasts the EULA process to pieces.
Is that Microsoft does these things (and I do believe it was on purpose) and thinks everyone else is to stupid to realize whats going on. Granted the masses won't know but it doesn't take a genius to figure it out.
Why is everyone concentrating on P2P as the problem. As I see it, Kazaa provides nothing more than a tool, no more wicked than http or ftp or for that matter the internet itself. No one's running around saying that we have to shutdown the internet because someone might use it to transfer copyrighted materials. What these users choose to share is their business. If they happen to be sharing copyrighted materials then go after them. On a side note, have you ever watched the commercials for broadband. It goes something like "Download movies and music faster than ever before". Seems like the ISPs benefit from P2P
But where will these "nascar loving,
reality tv watching, wrestling, Jerry Springer fans" work. With no manufacturing base left in the US what jobs will they do. And no jobs mean no money and no money means no taxes being paid by the "nascar loving,reality tv watching, wrestling, Jerry Springer fans". What then!
Since I work in the IT field of the textile industry here in the good ol' USA I've seen the effects of this giant sucking of jobs. In a few years there will be NO manufacturing base in the US and we'll all either be in the service area or unemployed. Funny thing about using outsourced labor to make products cheaper though, When people have no jobs it really doesn't matter how cheap it is. The American public wants everything to be of better quality and cost less. You just can't have it both ways.
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Get her into Ultima Online. Plenty of stuff to do there besides PVP or PVM. There are even acceptable free shards these days http://abcuo.com/home/
I can understand not being able to find some group that recorded some obscure song way back when but how can you say you could locate say, Sean "Puffy" Combs or some other well know artist. That sounds fishy to me.
It's hard to tell with all the port 135 scan I still get from the US. People PLEASE patch your servers.
My worst Linux annoyance is SCO. Someone please make them STFU.
Why is an almost 2 year old story about a dead fly just now making it to the front page. When I read the article I thought it was mildly amusing but when I realized how old it was I thought whats the point...
If this isn't all a well thought out plan by Microsoft to poison the open source movement by contamination. You know the source is going to be leaked eventually, Then how do you defend against an IP claim if your code happens to be similiar to MS's on some project. How do you prove you never saw the code someplace on the net.
From what I understand about it here's the difference. If it's under the BSD license then you can use the code (with copyrights intact) in your software and sell it without owing anyone anything. The only way anyone would know it's there is to have access to the source code but it's not required that you give anyone access to it. I belive that Microsoft has done this in the past, but if the code is covered by the GPL then you can't just absorb the code into your project without re-releasing the code (entire project?) back to the community.
I've wondered about this myself. How come no one is up in arms about Lindows. I scoured the website for a mention of how to obtain the source but can't find it anywhere. Is it included when you buy the product because if it's not then isn't that a violation of the GPL. I'm sure it's all on the up and up since theres no uproar over it.
Yes, case law should be cheap and available but It's not for either of these companies to provide. They take public info and put it all together and make it searchable. They should be paid. Now if someone wants to do the same thing and make it free thats great and we're all better off for it.
I've been waiting for a suit like this to happen. I've never been able to fathom why a license agreement will state in black and white that if you don't agree then return the product. But if you try this no one will give you your money back. In the case of Windows Refund Day, it blew my mind with the vendors saying Microsoft would have to refund the money and Microsoft saying that you had to deal with the vendors. If they won't live up to the agreement why should the users have to. I hope the judge in this case blasts the EULA process to pieces.
Thats all I want to know.
Is that Microsoft does these things (and I do believe it was on purpose) and thinks everyone else is to stupid to realize whats going on. Granted the masses won't know but it doesn't take a genius to figure it out.
Why is everyone concentrating on P2P as the problem. As I see it, Kazaa provides nothing more than a tool, no more wicked than http or ftp or for that matter the internet itself. No one's running around saying that we have to shutdown the internet because someone might use it to transfer copyrighted materials. What these users choose to share is their business. If they happen to be sharing copyrighted materials then go after them. On a side note, have you ever watched the commercials for broadband. It goes something like "Download movies and music faster than ever before". Seems like the ISPs benefit from P2P
But where will these "nascar loving, reality tv watching, wrestling, Jerry Springer fans" work. With no manufacturing base left in the US what jobs will they do. And no jobs mean no money and no money means no taxes being paid by the "nascar loving,reality tv watching, wrestling, Jerry Springer fans". What then!
Since I work in the IT field of the textile industry here in the good ol' USA I've seen the effects of this giant sucking of jobs. In a few years there will be NO manufacturing base in the US and we'll all either be in the service area or unemployed. Funny thing about using outsourced labor to make products cheaper though, When people have no jobs it really doesn't matter how cheap it is. The American public wants everything to be of better quality and cost less. You just can't have it both ways.
Why not just change the name to something NOT PCI then the lawyers can go away