People do work together for the common good. But only in certain fields. Some people feel the call to advance human knowledge, and do it because it's what they want, not because they're in it for the money. The same is true for Open Source. The problem is, it's nobody's dream to clean toilets, and there are plenty of such jobs that need to be done in order for society to function.
Falling man grasping at straws? They're desperate, but hardly toothless. Think of a wounded lion; oh sure, it'll die, but it'll probably tear up a lot of people before it does.
they estimate that 2000 jobs (25% of combined workforce) will be cut
But, but, what about all those poor middlemen that I saved by buying DRM-crippled CDs? Do you mean the labels really don't give a damn about them at all?
Indeed, but radioactive spiders and super powers are forgivable stuff. Stupid stuff (like the Eigenvalue thing, which particularly bugged me) is what really riles the nerds. As Orson Scott Card said, you can ask your audience to believe the impossible, but not the improbable. Writing your own rules are fine, as long as you're up front about it, but doing silly things without an apparent reason will tick some) people off.
First of all, most GPL infringers are using the material they take for commercial gain. People who share music and such aren't. You can try and claim that yes, they are benefitting, but in my mind, there's a world of difference between the mood-enhancing effects of entertainment and making a profit.
Secondly, the spirit of the GPL and the spirit of media copyright are entirely different. People that violate the GPL are trying to not share, while those that violte media copyright are trying to share. In the eyes of the law, they may be identical, but morality (especially in the US!) doesn't seem to have much to do with law. Someone who believes that information should be free would believe that violating the GPL is bad, since you're trying to restrict information, while violating media copyright is not, since you're trying to share it.
That said, why should personal copyright infringement be worse than jaywalking? Is protecting corporate profits more important than protecting human life? Because copyright exists to protect profit, while jaywalking laws exists to protect people.
Regardless of efficiency, Java is a good way to make a program work across a variety of platforms, which is especially helpful in this situation, when you're asking a bunch of people with heterogeneous machines to run your program for you.
Perhaps what we need is some sort of system that if a work has not been used commercially for x period of time, it should be deemed to have no commercial viability and be released to
Great, so then we'd have Disney releasing crappy straight to video movies every week to make sure none of their characters accidentally slips out of their hands...
Pluto doesn't really have a moon. Charon is so close in size, and their orbits are so intertwined, that I believe they're technically considered "co-planets", or something along those lines.
Jeeeeez.... Is this one liner getting old "It's theft" and whatnot. Can't we just whip up a bot that instantly replies with "No it's not" and is automatically modded up to +5 insightful, and cut the Karma whoring (No offense to kwandar)?
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People do work together for the common good. But only in certain fields. Some people feel the call to advance human knowledge, and do it because it's what they want, not because they're in it for the money. The same is true for Open Source. The problem is, it's nobody's dream to clean toilets, and there are plenty of such jobs that need to be done in order for society to function.
What the hell are you talking about? Wtf is an Ormon?
Draal McBride, controller of the great SCO FUD Machine?
Falling man grasping at straws? They're desperate, but hardly toothless. Think of a wounded lion; oh sure, it'll die, but it'll probably tear up a lot of people before it does.
Because the current owners are keeping enough stock to make sure that's impossible. Perhaps for just such a reason.
But, but, what about all those poor middlemen that I saved by buying DRM-crippled CDs? Do you mean the labels really don't give a damn about them at all?
No news for Nerds?
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Indeed, but radioactive spiders and super powers are forgivable stuff. Stupid stuff (like the Eigenvalue thing, which particularly bugged me) is what really riles the nerds. As Orson Scott Card said, you can ask your audience to believe the impossible, but not the improbable. Writing your own rules are fine, as long as you're up front about it, but doing silly things without an apparent reason will tick some) people off.
Seriously though, that makes him what, 50 and 2?
This argument has got to go. Seriously.
First of all, most GPL infringers are using the material they take for commercial gain. People who share music and such aren't. You can try and claim that yes, they are benefitting, but in my mind, there's a world of difference between the mood-enhancing effects of entertainment and making a profit.
Secondly, the spirit of the GPL and the spirit of media copyright are entirely different. People that violate the GPL are trying to not share, while those that violte media copyright are trying to share. In the eyes of the law, they may be identical, but morality (especially in the US!) doesn't seem to have much to do with law. Someone who believes that information should be free would believe that violating the GPL is bad, since you're trying to restrict information, while violating media copyright is not, since you're trying to share it.
That said, why should personal copyright infringement be worse than jaywalking? Is protecting corporate profits more important than protecting human life? Because copyright exists to protect profit, while jaywalking laws exists to protect people.
Jeez, I can see that many WAPs looking out the door here at #26. Must be a sharp dropoff around there in the list, neh?
Regardless of efficiency, Java is a good way to make a program work across a variety of platforms, which is especially helpful in this situation, when you're asking a bunch of people with heterogeneous machines to run your program for you.
Great, so then we'd have Disney releasing crappy straight to video movies every week to make sure none of their characters accidentally slips out of their hands...
Pluto doesn't really have a moon. Charon is so close in size, and their orbits are so intertwined, that I believe they're technically considered "co-planets", or something along those lines.
..Darl McBride. Separated at birth?
Wait...
And they'll be serving them up with their patented One-Click Countersuit tool.
Perhaps, but would any of those things get you on /.?
Jeeeeez.... Is this one liner getting old "It's theft" and whatnot. Can't we just whip up a bot that instantly replies with "No it's not" and is automatically modded up to +5 insightful, and cut the Karma whoring (No offense to kwandar)?
Plenty of crimes (Drug dealing, fraud, plain 'ol theft) make sense. That doesn't mean they're morally acceptable.
As long as RedHat and SuSe? Sure, they might not have a stranglehold on the market like they do now, but they'd likely turn a profit.
They can if the tool you use to open them is ridiculously poorly designed and permits buffer overflow (i.e. IE).
...if the code was open from the start, how long would this flaw have lasted?