What about the bible? mythological stories? classical theatre plays?
Tyndale was burned at the stake for producing an unauthorized translation of the Bible.
Classical Greek drama was staged both as an "Olympic" styled competition and a central part of an annual religious festival. The ground rules were plain enough.
What if someone had a patent on columns? Chapels?
Wien only the state, the church, and the merchant prince are building and likely are embodied in a single family of limitless wealth, power, pride and vindictiveness, that isn't going to be a problem.
The greatest works of art were created in times no copyright existed
Greater than Dickens and Twain and Conrad in the novel, a genre that is in a very real sense a creation of the copyright era?
any scarcity is purely artificial, and introducing artificial scarcity in an economy basically undermines and damages the economy as a whole. Creating artificial scarcity is more or less the economic equal of wholesale destruction of wealth and property
What is always scarce is talent and production at the highest level.
If writing fantasy for children were easy, than every author would be a C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, or Lemony Snicket.
Geeks never get it. Anything created outside their own culture simply has no value.
there are any number of incentive systems that governments around the world use for various purposes.
Of course there are, but they come at a price.
Have you ever wondered why the West is so amazingly successful as a net exporter of culture?
I'll give you a hint. It isn't because The Voice of America and The Council of Churches defines what can be produced and how it will be financed.
Human beings have produced great art, science, and engineering for millennia in the absence of copyright protection.
There are other forms of protection:
You are directly employed by the church or state.
You work under the protection of a patron, a pope, a king, or a merchant prince, who is known to be dangerous to cross.
You are yourself part of the economic and political elite.
You belong to a guild or other trade assciation which controls entry into your profession and can impose its own rigorous internal discipline.
You can go to court and assert your property rights under the common law.
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What copyright adds is protection for those of lower and middle class origins who want to maintain their intellectual and financial independence. Copyright belongs to the democratic era which marks the emergence of writers like Dickens and Twain.
You can have a desktop linux NOW. Fetch a modern commercial distro or any of the free ones and you'll have an excellent desktop with little issues, if any.
But if a business is doing any photo editing in-house it will be using Photoshop. It's a small step from there to one-stop shopping at Adobe for all your desktop publishing needs.
Because there is a market for non compliant DRM hardware.
If US/European companies won't take it, I bet everything I guest that the right answer will come from China.
OEMS do not ship product to rust in containers on the L.A. docks because they will never clear customs. The Chinese solution is pure fantasy.
Except when the computers on the warship crashed and forced the Navy to tow it back to port. But, you know, other than a catostrophic crash everything is running great
This has become tiresome.
The Yorktown (CG-48) was in 1997 a test-bed for the Navy's Smart Ship program. USS Yorktown (CG-48) Test-beds are driven to failure. In 2004,the year of her retirement, Yorktown was assigned to Strike Group Wasp, a vote of confidence, I would think, in the vessel and in the technology. USS Yorktown Deploys as Part of Expeditionary Strike Group
the "success" of Microsoft is a result of confluence of several factors:
a) IBM's irrational decision to tie its fortunes to Microsoft's on an exclusive basis
C/PM was an option. It arrived too late and cost too much. Microsoft was strongly positioned in language/development tools for the micro: the kind of partnership that is generallyy considered a plus when you want to introduce a new platform.
Microsoft was doing them great disservice by reinventing 20 year-old principles, poorly
The list of companies that tried and failed to bring computing to the masses based on the technology of the late 70's and 80's is a long one. Those aligned with Microsoft tended to find the right formula.
vendor lock in...unethical and morally repugnant manouvers..leading to exclusions of all competitors...a protection racket...creating great obstacles for users and developers should they consider a competing product...This is a text book example of failure of capitalism, the dangers of trusts and cartels
Have you ever wondered why John D. Rockefeller called his company "Standard Oil?"
In the wildcat days, lamp oils were expensive and had a tendency to explode. "The Standard" delivered a uniform product that was reasonably cheap and easy to handle. That was all most folks wanted in the end. The break-up of the company didn't change buying patterns much.
They even have the Canadian army and airforce deployed presumably to keep an enemy airforce or army from flooding over the northern border. Sounds like overkill to me.
Try opening a map. You think just maybe an arena seating 65,000 wouldn't be as a tempting a taget and an easier kill than the twin towers?
running U.S. Navy warships
running medical imaging, monitoring, and other life-critical devices
running train control systems
running nuclear power plants
running ATM networks and other aspects of the banking system
What, exactly, have you proven here? The systems you have named are, by any reasonable standard, performing very, very well.
Everyone knows that coffee is hot, but the coffee suit wins in court, why? Because common sense doesn't win in court.
Everyone knows that coffee is hot, but an accidental spill from a take-out plastic cup shouldn't be sending your customers to the burn ward. This is a predictable and preventable injury.
There is no excuse for driving earbuds to decibel levels which are known to be dangerous.
MS certainly isn't winning over any of the open source community with that move. It really drives the wedge deeper and give more people more reason to not use Windows.
I doubt that "Open Source" is much in the mind of anyone who purchases a Windows PC or the Mac. The hobbyist market for PCs died with BASIC and the 8-bit micro.
As Microsoft became bigger (read : multisector monopoly), consumers liked Microsoft less, and companies liked Microsoft more.
There is no evidence that consumers have turned away from Microsoft in any numbers. Walmart.com's OEM Linux offerings have dwindled to six specimens that not even a Geek could love. Firefox's stats look good on some sites, mediocre on others, but in this market. the action has shifted elsewhere, to media portals like iTunes and Rhapsody.
As a shareware developer, I could care less about kids cracking my software
The world looks a little different when you managing a $90 million dollar Pixar production that will ultimately employ over 400 workers and take five years to complete.
I'd rather they kept plugging away, regardless of losses. If there's one less soldier on your side, it's all the more likely the other side will prevail.
What you need at your side is a buddy you can trust to get the job done.
My point is that there is no consensus on the preceding questions, and therefore it's not at all obvious that AT&T did anything illegal.
There are at least two big problems for the EFF:
"Cases and Controversies." The american federal courts do not not deal in abstractions. You have to persuade a judge that you are the injured party or his legal representative. The bar to ill-defined class actions is set very high. It simply isn't enough to say that you represent "the people."
The EFF further has to prove that AT&T was not acting in good faith in responding to what it believed to have been a lawful request from the government.
This is not a particularly promising line of attack. It would be within his rights for a judge to question why AT&T was being brought into his court and not the NSA.
Windows is now required to watch porn with some codecs which is hurting Linux.
What hurts Linux is the success of DRM'd media rentals and sales. When one click synchronizes your downloads to multiple devices, high-def for your plasma TV, low-def for the backseat of your SUV, the list grows to millions of tracks and titles, perhaps the entire RIAA and MPAA catalog, and the monthly fees remain within budget, no one will give a damn about "freedom."
I'd have a hard time coming up with at least one new song I liked every month and was willing to pay for.
Forget new songs for a moment. Think about the range and depth of recorded music as a whole. There are some in the business who have been around for over one hundred years. QRS
but for the sake of covering their own behinds, they have ignored an entire niche market (xbox hackers). I am curious to find out what percentage of original xbox's have mods made to them
9:15 ET, this thread has 60-odd posts. "The road less-travelled..."
The reality at retail is that buyers are no more likely to hack their X-Box or X-Box 360 than they are their refrigerator or their microwave oven.
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Tyndale was burned at the stake for producing an unauthorized translation of the Bible.
Classical Greek drama was staged both as an "Olympic" styled competition and a central part of an annual religious festival. The ground rules were plain enough.
What if someone had a patent on columns? Chapels?
Wien only the state, the church, and the merchant prince are building and likely are embodied in a single family of limitless wealth, power, pride and vindictiveness, that isn't going to be a problem.
The greatest works of art were created in times no copyright existed
Greater than Dickens and Twain and Conrad in the novel, a genre that is in a very real sense a creation of the copyright era?
What is always scarce is talent and production at the highest level.
If writing fantasy for children were easy, than every author would be a C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, or Lemony Snicket.
Geeks never get it. Anything created outside their own culture simply has no value.
there are any number of incentive systems that governments around the world use for various purposes.
Of course there are, but they come at a price.
Have you ever wondered why the West is so amazingly successful as a net exporter of culture?
I'll give you a hint. It isn't because The Voice of America and The Council of Churches defines what can be produced and how it will be financed.
There are other forms of protection:
You are directly employed by the church or state.
You work under the protection of a patron, a pope, a king, or a merchant prince, who is known to be dangerous to cross.
You are yourself part of the economic and political elite.
You belong to a guild or other trade assciation which controls entry into your profession and can impose its own rigorous internal discipline.
You can go to court and assert your property rights under the common law.
_____ What copyright adds is protection for those of lower and middle class origins who want to maintain their intellectual and financial independence. Copyright belongs to the democratic era which marks the emergence of writers like Dickens and Twain.
Westingthouse built the reactor for the successful Shippingport (Pittsburgh) demonstration project in the mid-fifties. Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)
What you won't have is the 97% of users that have remained loyal to Windows and the Mac. OS Platform Stats (January 2006)
But if a business is doing any photo editing in-house it will be using Photoshop. It's a small step from there to one-stop shopping at Adobe for all your desktop publishing needs.
If US/European companies won't take it, I bet everything I guest that the right answer will come from China.
OEMS do not ship product to rust in containers on the L.A. docks because they will never clear customs. The Chinese solution is pure fantasy.
You aren't the market. Your boss is the market. The home user is the market. Because dad wants the NFL in HD and the kids want Disney.
When I look at the massive scale of deployment, and the stresses under which these systems operate, I do not see many failures.
This has become tiresome.
The Yorktown (CG-48) was in 1997 a test-bed for the Navy's Smart Ship program. USS Yorktown (CG-48) Test-beds are driven to failure. In 2004,the year of her retirement, Yorktown was assigned to Strike Group Wasp, a vote of confidence, I would think, in the vessel and in the technology. USS Yorktown Deploys as Part of Expeditionary Strike Group
a) IBM's irrational decision to tie its fortunes to Microsoft's on an exclusive basis
C/PM was an option. It arrived too late and cost too much.
Microsoft was strongly positioned in language/development tools for the micro: the kind of partnership that is generallyy considered a plus when you want to introduce a new platform.
Microsoft was doing them great disservice by reinventing 20 year-old principles, poorly
The list of companies that tried and failed to bring computing to the masses based on the technology of the late 70's and 80's is a long one. Those aligned with Microsoft tended to find the right formula.
vendor lock in...unethical and morally repugnant manouvers..leading to exclusions of all competitors...a protection racket...creating great obstacles for users and developers should they consider a competing product...This is a text book example of failure of capitalism, the dangers of trusts and cartels
Have you ever wondered why John D. Rockefeller called his company "Standard Oil?"
In the wildcat days, lamp oils were expensive and had a tendency to explode. "The Standard" delivered a uniform product that was reasonably cheap and easy to handle. That was all most folks wanted in the end. The break-up of the company didn't change buying patterns much.
Try opening a map. You think just maybe an arena seating 65,000 wouldn't be as a tempting a taget and an easier kill than the twin towers?
running U.S. Navy warships
running medical imaging, monitoring, and other life-critical devices
running train control systems
running nuclear power plants
running ATM networks and other aspects of the banking system
What, exactly, have you proven here?
The systems you have named are, by any reasonable standard, performing very, very well.
Everyone knows that coffee is hot, but an accidental spill from a take-out plastic cup shouldn't be sending your customers to the burn ward. This is a predictable and preventable injury. There is no excuse for driving earbuds to decibel levels which are known to be dangerous.
I doubt that "Open Source" is much in the mind of anyone who purchases a Windows PC or the Mac. The hobbyist market for PCs died with BASIC and the 8-bit micro.
There is no evidence that consumers have turned away from Microsoft in any numbers.
Walmart.com's OEM Linux offerings have dwindled to six specimens that not even a Geek could love. Firefox's stats look good on some sites, mediocre on others, but in this market. the action has shifted elsewhere, to media portals like iTunes and Rhapsody.
The reality is, you have be a major player in the warez game to attract the DOJ's attention: Deciding Whether to Prosecute an Intellectual Property Case (Revised 2003)
The NET Act (No Electronic Theft) eliminated the profit motive as an element of the offense in 1997. Criminal Intellectual Property Laws
As a shareware developer, I could care less about kids cracking my software
The world looks a little different when you managing a $90 million dollar Pixar production that will ultimately employ over 400 workers and take five years to complete.
Bob is more likely to get hundreds of rewrites based on the NYT and AP wire.
What you need at your side is a buddy you can trust to get the job done.
There are at least two big problems for the EFF:
"Cases and Controversies." The american federal courts do not not deal in abstractions. You have to persuade a judge that you are the injured party or his legal representative. The bar to ill-defined class actions is set very high. It simply isn't enough to say that you represent "the people."
The EFF further has to prove that AT&T was not acting in good faith in responding to what it believed to have been a lawful request from the government.
This is not a particularly promising line of attack. It would be within his rights for a judge to question why AT&T was being brought into his court and not the NSA.
where it is now: the default browser on the Windows platform.
80-95% of users, depending on your target audience.
What hurts Linux is the success of DRM'd media rentals and sales. When one click synchronizes your downloads to multiple devices, high-def for your plasma TV, low-def for the backseat of your SUV, the list grows to millions of tracks and titles, perhaps the entire RIAA and MPAA catalog, and the monthly fees remain within budget, no one will give a damn about "freedom."
Forget new songs for a moment. Think about the range and depth of recorded music as a whole. There are some in the business who have been around for over one hundred years. QRS
9:15 ET, this thread has 60-odd posts. "The road less-travelled..."
The reality at retail is that buyers are no more likely to hack their X-Box or X-Box 360 than they are their refrigerator or their microwave oven.
The typical Congressman represents about 650,000 voters. Congressional Apportionment.
It ix fair to suggest that he has little to fear from a posting to Slashdot.