but your ISP has every right to terminate your service for any reason they want.
Totally correct. It is their legal right.
However, it's not a great strategy for them. Good businesses protect their customers, and assume the best. Take safety deposit boxes, rented storage space, and many other examples. They can be used for illicit activities, but such businesses do not go around snooping on their customers. They prefer to keep them.
Hopefully, technology companies will figure this out one day.
It's all relative. I don't always consider myself a standard nerd (don't like MTG time games or anything). However, I can't say it was cool that me and my friends have stayed up all night betting on who would win various episodes of the iron chef.
As for tech-nerd status. Everyone has people that know less and people that know more. I fix a lot of people's tech problems, and they think I'm a jedi at that stuff, but I still have higher ups that I need to go to now and then when I'm in over my head.
I think at the base of the Hierarchy sits two chairman, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, but that's just my two cents...
Yesterday i noticed that SCO stock was down to 14$ today its at 15$. i wounder what would happen if you plotted a function of sco stock prices to their press releases.
That, or the Dow went down yesterday and is up today though about 1pm.
This might be the dumbest post I've seen this year. The analogy is 'free as in freedom vs free as in beer'. It is meant to distinguish the two meanings of free. FSF cares about free as in freedom, they don't care about free as in beer. They want software with rights. They don't care if you do or don't pay cash for it. So they use the example of being given a free beer (say for instance, the simple example of a friend buying your drink, or a bartender saying this ones on the house). If you want to analyze this even further, your recipe statement is apt as well. Just because something cost $0, doesn't mean you have the right to the recipe. That's the FSF's point, M$ occasionally gives stuff away for $0, but it's not free as in your rights.
I imagine this is what Stallman wanted, a chance to prove the GPL in court. And involvement in the case may give him legal room to see 'evidence' without signing non-disclosures.
This makes perfect sense for SCO to do. Their whole claim stands on the GPL being invalid. If you're betting the farm on the case, why would they care if they are held liable for violating the GPL? If it stands up there won't be an SCO left to sue.
SCO is throwing a hail mary. I'm not suprised they are sending as many receivers as possible. (Note I said this makes sense, I didn't use the word ethical or correct)
It's interesting how the story changes. Ballmer would refer to GNU/Linux(especially elements like the use of the shell) as 1980's technology. Now there are making their own.
Maybe users will be able to help themself a little bit...
killall DRM && killall clippy && killall klez
-t
The reason that microsoft is not for this, also serves as proof that they don't lose as much to piracy as they claim they do.
To lose money by theft, you are claiming that that people would by your product if it were not available by the black market. This isn't necessarily the case as the music industry is finding out. I'll download a song like Vehicle by the Ides of March, but if it weren't available I wouldn't go buy their greatest hits.
Instead of using pirated windows, these people will now use free GNU software. Net change to microsoft = nothing.
Love or hate the GPL, if you want to use GPL'd software in your product, you better be ready to abide by it. Just because Forbes doesn't like the motivation of the license, they lay into it. Other license violations (like when Ernie Ball guitar strings inadvertantly violated an MS license) have led to armed federal officers entering the company premises. Personally, I think the FSF is a tad more polite than that. -t
There is a ton of violent media out there, and has been for a while. Up to a certain age, it is the parents' job to censor that. After that point, those who imitate things like postal were missing a few cards in the deck anyway. If it's not a video game, it'll be a movie or something else that sets them off.
This could really cut out the relevance of application support behind an OS. Any application not supported by your current OS could be built in with the app and booted separately almost like a Knoppix CD.
Thinking particularly of games and multimedia, this could really shake things up.
SCO is sending out letters about liability to licensing fees to GNU/Linux users, including RedHat's customers. That should be all the standing they need in court.
I agree with what you're saying. However, if NASA dropped the ban on private industry, I don't think you'd see a rush from private industry. If there was real interest, a corporation would just operate and launch from a small country that could be easily convinced (read paid) to allow private space exploration.
The things that fire me up the most about the RIAA.
Record companies have used Free Speech as a defense for years. Everytime people get upset about the material they put out. Though I think the record companies should show restraint, and consider the messages they send (particularly to youth), I agree with their _legal_ right to free speech. Now they are trying to take away the free speech of software producers. Also notable, they are being stolen from by the generation that they taught not to respect laws and authority. Fine by me, the industry can lie in the bed it has made.
Finally, they keep using this "you're hurting the artist" line. Ask any musician. Better yet, ask a black musician from the motown era who does the most harm to them. The record companies have abused artists for years.
Personally, I am done buying cd's till things change. -t
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Consider supporting the following groups:
Free Software Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
... and read
The Danger of Software Patents
-t
but your ISP has every right to terminate your service for any reason they want.
Totally correct. It is their legal right.
However, it's not a great strategy for them. Good businesses protect their customers, and assume the best. Take safety deposit boxes, rented storage space, and many other examples. They can be used for illicit activities, but such businesses do not go around snooping on their customers. They prefer to keep them.
Hopefully, technology companies will figure this out one day.
-t
It's all relative. I don't always consider myself a standard nerd (don't like MTG time games or anything). However, I can't say it was cool that me and my friends have stayed up all night betting on who would win various episodes of the iron chef.
As for tech-nerd status. Everyone has people that know less and people that know more. I fix a lot of people's tech problems, and they think I'm a jedi at that stuff, but I still have higher ups that I need to go to now and then when I'm in over my head.
I think at the base of the Hierarchy sits two chairman, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, but that's just my two cents...
-t
Yesterday i noticed that SCO stock was down to 14$ today its at 15$. i wounder what would happen if you plotted a function of sco stock prices to their press releases.
That, or the Dow went down yesterday and is up today though about 1pm.
-t
...software that runs network computers called "servers"
Finally, an article that challenges me technically.
-t
where in the post did i use the word right or wrong? i just explained what was meant by 'free as in beer'
RTFP where p is for post
This might be the dumbest post I've seen this year. The analogy is 'free as in freedom vs free as in beer'. It is meant to distinguish the two meanings of free. FSF cares about free as in freedom, they don't care about free as in beer. They want software with rights. They don't care if you do or don't pay cash for it. So they use the example of being given a free beer (say for instance, the simple example of a friend buying your drink, or a bartender saying this ones on the house). If you want to analyze this even further, your recipe statement is apt as well. Just because something cost $0, doesn't mean you have the right to the recipe. That's the FSF's point, M$ occasionally gives stuff away for $0, but it's not free as in your rights.
Read up before you post.
-t
Now to invent a cell phone that can give wedgies...
-t
I think multimedia support and device drivers are at the top of the list. The UI's are pretty good. Distro installs are getting pretty good.
-t
now and then, lawyers are expected to show evidence to witnesses who are testifying about said evidence...
I imagine this is what Stallman wanted, a chance to prove the GPL in court. And involvement in the case may give him legal room to see 'evidence' without signing non-disclosures.
-t
Once you go black, you never go back.
-t
Fox:"25% of viewer thought the headlines were true"
Groening:"oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that."
-t
This makes perfect sense for SCO to do. Their whole claim stands on the GPL being invalid. If you're betting the farm on the case, why would they care if they are held liable for violating the GPL? If it stands up there won't be an SCO left to sue.
SCO is throwing a hail mary. I'm not suprised they are sending as many receivers as possible. (Note I said this makes sense, I didn't use the word ethical or correct)
-t
It's interesting how the story changes. Ballmer would refer to GNU/Linux(especially elements like the use of the shell) as 1980's technology. Now there are making their own.
Maybe users will be able to help themself a little bit...
killall DRM && killall clippy && killall klez
-t
The reason that microsoft is not for this, also serves as proof that they don't lose as much to piracy as they claim they do.
To lose money by theft, you are claiming that that people would by your product if it were not available by the black market. This isn't necessarily the case as the music industry is finding out. I'll download a song like Vehicle by the Ides of March, but if it weren't available I wouldn't go buy their greatest hits.
Instead of using pirated windows, these people will now use free GNU software. Net change to microsoft = nothing.
-t
Anybody ever hear what happened to the fork. DragonFly or something?...
-t
18" tall?
-t
Love or hate the GPL, if you want to use GPL'd software in your product, you better be ready to abide by it. Just because Forbes doesn't like the motivation of the license, they lay into it. Other license violations (like when Ernie Ball guitar strings inadvertantly violated an MS license) have led to armed federal officers entering the company premises. Personally, I think the FSF is a tad more polite than that.
-t
There is a ton of violent media out there, and has been for a while. Up to a certain age, it is the parents' job to censor that. After that point, those who imitate things like postal were missing a few cards in the deck anyway. If it's not a video game, it'll be a movie or something else that sets them off.
-t
This could really cut out the relevance of application support behind an OS. Any application not supported by your current OS could be built in with the app and booted separately almost like a Knoppix CD.
Thinking particularly of games and multimedia, this could really shake things up.
-t
Place all
$HOROSCOPE" in bed"
jokes as a reply to this.
Thanks for your cooperation on this matter.
-t
SCO is sending out letters about liability to licensing fees to GNU/Linux users, including RedHat's customers. That should be all the standing they need in court.
-t
I agree with what you're saying. However, if NASA dropped the ban on private industry, I don't think you'd see a rush from private industry. If there was real interest, a corporation would just operate and launch from a small country that could be easily convinced (read paid) to allow private space exploration.
-t
The things that fire me up the most about the RIAA.
Record companies have used Free Speech as a defense for years. Everytime people get upset about the material they put out. Though I think the record companies should show restraint, and consider the messages they send (particularly to youth), I agree with their _legal_ right to free speech. Now they are trying to take away the free speech of software producers. Also notable, they are being stolen from by the generation that they taught not to respect laws and authority. Fine by me, the industry can lie in the bed it has made.
Finally, they keep using this "you're hurting the artist" line. Ask any musician. Better yet, ask a black musician from the motown era who does the most harm to them. The record companies have abused artists for years.
Personally, I am done buying cd's till things change.
-t