One of the major problems is that the US has been working to strip the power to acquit from juries. For as long as english law set foot in this country til very recently a jury could acquit for any reason. If they felt the law was stupid or the plantifs claims were asinine, they could simply acquit, and this has been held up several times by the supreme court. This is also what brought down such things as prohibition as no jury would convict so the police stopped bothering to arrest.
Unfortunately it was also ruled that judges don't have to tell juries this and in fact can tell them the exact opposite, that the case has to be decided only on the facts in front of them. Some judges have even taken to jailing juries who acquit in ways they don't like.
I was thinking of offering a new service called music commentary. The idea is that's an mp3 file containing commentary about a particular song and pointing out things to look for in a song. Since it's intended to be played with the song, it would be the same length of the song it was about. The distribution methond my company would use is P2P as to save on my companies bandwidth. In order to know which song goes with which I would call the file such things as: "Metalica - Enter Sandman Comment.mp3
I would then set up a paypal account and anyone who enjoys could send me money. The cool thing about this is anyone could get into this business.
Most legal scholars now believe that the constitutional protections listed in the bill of rights were never intended for the people but for the states and corporations.
I'm actually only half joking.
I would pretty much say that the laws talk about distributing music without having the right to do so, not the downloading of it. While you can make an educated guess in most cases if it pirated or not, in many cases you can not.
The question is does the FSF have a legal fund for when a true challenge of the GPL comes forth? Some have speculated that the FSF have been over the years putting away money into such a fund while avoiding any of the small violation cases in order to save for the day when the entire GPL system was taken to court. If so, would the spend the fund for this case?
If not, will they start a fundraising campaign for the purpose of protecting the GNU/Linux system?
I think the only hope is if someone could get an injunction against SCO collecting license money for Linux or any other copyrights til a court rules on the subject.
It's so refreshing to here a CEO admit that their company is a complete failure. Now they are relying on the US government to help prop up their failed business model. Luckily IBM is gong to also be relying on the US government to protect it's successful business model.
You can't just post fictional FUD, you need to build a case that SCO's current profit model as an illusion that will evaporate once the court rules they hav no case. People should understand that buying SCO stock is a really risky bet which will most likely fail.
nope, under US law contracts with minors are not binding. So if they install the software, which they are allowed to do, all contracts with the software company are void.
Either way I'm not registering with the NY times, I don't want to bother with another login just to read a newspaper. It would be nice if slashdot would just ignore them and give it's business somewhere else.
Is it a good idea for them to be using client software? By doing so, you are giving hackers a large amount of bitcode to play with and find exploitations with.
It seems to me that it would make a lot more sense to use SSL over HTTP as this has been highly tested for security all over the internet for years. Any program that they develope will be very green and unpredictable.
Howard Dean has also made extensive use of such things as Meetup.com where Dean supporters from all around are meeting in their local area. On top of that he has Yahoo Groups for many areas of each state. Compare this with Bill Bradley where all one got was email invitations to campaign for him in New Hampshire, the difference is big.
Higher taxes don't mean more services. Higher taxes just means more corruption in the government. I'd wouldn't mind giving taxes if so many people weren't getting rich off of them and so few people being helped. In Mass, when budget cuts come, do you think the 300K fat cats lose their budgets? No, it's the disabled.
People should be reading and understanding EULA. I've actually tried to sit down and explain one to somebody who was installing software, the pain. The problem is they make them so long that it can almost be assumed that no one will read them.
I was once told by a lawyer that anything after the first page of a contract can be a lot hader to make stick as you can argue that their wouldn't be much of an expectation it would be read. I have no idea if that's true, but I wonder how well EULA can hold up in court, especially when you have people under the age of 18 installing the software in many families.
I'd don't recall ever saying what RMS or anyone else has for a goal for GNU or Linux nor do I recall saying that Open Office or KOffice has yet pushed out Gnumeric.
I just said that GNU and Linux developers would do good to innovate rather then job copy as I believe brings more people in and helps create a buzz about a systems.
Both are important, that's why I like seeing the different software available for Linux. I just hope that Linux software makers try to work towards their software working together as much as possible. I'd hate for things to end up with Open Office being the one true office suite for Linux as MS Office ended up for Windows.
I feel that Gunumeric has innovated, and that's why I'm happy to see it getting press.
If you want a laissez faire software marktet then we can do laissez faire. First thing is to get rid of the DMCA, and copyright and patent protections on software. Next take all the legal teeth out of EULAs. Now we have a chance at a laissez faire software markter.
Remember, things such as copyright are artificial government restrictions on what a company can and can't do.
One of the things that have attracted me to Linux and GNU software in general have been interesting software such as Gnumeric. I hope the new office packages such as Open Office and K Office don't push out this type of software.
If Linux and GNU are going to get big, they have to innovate and write better software, not just emulate what the big guys are doing.
I want an office where I can use whatever software I want for each function, not what others decide to be in a suite.
I think they had a 1 series of browsers, it was the one with the thropping N. Netscape 2 introduced something much more like the current N animation. I liked Netscape 1 because it had horizontal scroll bars unlike the Netcom web browser I had been using.
As for Netscape 4, they tried to make it this big software package and renamed it Communicator. They basically tossed all their name brand recognition out the window, which was sad because that was all they really had going for them. And the the other software, it's biggest effect was to make the zip file too awkward to download.
I think they should have kept the model of giving away the best browser possible and then selling the larger software package in the store.
They jumped from 2.0 to 6.0 for word on windows. I think they claimed that they were combining word on Windows and DOS, so they got to use the higher DOS numbers for numbering.
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Unfortunately it was also ruled that judges don't have to tell juries this and in fact can tell them the exact opposite, that the case has to be decided only on the facts in front of them. Some judges have even taken to jailing juries who acquit in ways they don't like.
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I would like to see a trusted source set up a linux defense fund. Not being a trusted source, I can't do it.
I would then set up a paypal account and anyone who enjoys could send me money. The cool thing about this is anyone could get into this business.
Most legal scholars now believe that the constitutional protections listed in the bill of rights were never intended for the people but for the states and corporations. I'm actually only half joking.
I would pretty much say that the laws talk about distributing music without having the right to do so, not the downloading of it. While you can make an educated guess in most cases if it pirated or not, in many cases you can not.
The question is does the FSF have a legal fund for when a true challenge of the GPL comes forth? Some have speculated that the FSF have been over the years putting away money into such a fund while avoiding any of the small violation cases in order to save for the day when the entire GPL system was taken to court. If so, would the spend the fund for this case? If not, will they start a fundraising campaign for the purpose of protecting the GNU/Linux system?
I think the only hope is if someone could get an injunction against SCO collecting license money for Linux or any other copyrights til a court rules on the subject.
Hopefully the lawyers will be smart enough to charge SCO on per copy of letter basis and not just once for writing it.
It's so refreshing to here a CEO admit that their company is a complete failure. Now they are relying on the US government to help prop up their failed business model. Luckily IBM is gong to also be relying on the US government to protect it's successful business model.
You can't just post fictional FUD, you need to build a case that SCO's current profit model as an illusion that will evaporate once the court rules they hav no case. People should understand that buying SCO stock is a really risky bet which will most likely fail.
nope, under US law contracts with minors are not binding. So if they install the software, which they are allowed to do, all contracts with the software company are void.
Click-through EULA are especially not binding when you have a 5 year old do it for you!
Either way I'm not registering with the NY times, I don't want to bother with another login just to read a newspaper. It would be nice if slashdot would just ignore them and give it's business somewhere else.
Is it a good idea for them to be using client software? By doing so, you are giving hackers a large amount of bitcode to play with and find exploitations with. It seems to me that it would make a lot more sense to use SSL over HTTP as this has been highly tested for security all over the internet for years. Any program that they develope will be very green and unpredictable.
Howard Dean has also made extensive use of such things as Meetup.com where Dean supporters from all around are meeting in their local area. On top of that he has Yahoo Groups for many areas of each state. Compare this with Bill Bradley where all one got was email invitations to campaign for him in New Hampshire, the difference is big.
Higher taxes don't mean more services. Higher taxes just means more corruption in the government. I'd wouldn't mind giving taxes if so many people weren't getting rich off of them and so few people being helped. In Mass, when budget cuts come, do you think the 300K fat cats lose their budgets? No, it's the disabled.
People should be reading and understanding EULA. I've actually tried to sit down and explain one to somebody who was installing software, the pain. The problem is they make them so long that it can almost be assumed that no one will read them. I was once told by a lawyer that anything after the first page of a contract can be a lot hader to make stick as you can argue that their wouldn't be much of an expectation it would be read. I have no idea if that's true, but I wonder how well EULA can hold up in court, especially when you have people under the age of 18 installing the software in many families.
What we haven't seen yet in court is how much gator is allowed to sneak it's spamware onto people's machines.
I'd don't recall ever saying what RMS or anyone else has for a goal for GNU or Linux nor do I recall saying that Open Office or KOffice has yet pushed out Gnumeric. I just said that GNU and Linux developers would do good to innovate rather then job copy as I believe brings more people in and helps create a buzz about a systems.
I feel that Gunumeric has innovated, and that's why I'm happy to see it getting press.
If you want a laissez faire software marktet then we can do laissez faire. First thing is to get rid of the DMCA, and copyright and patent protections on software. Next take all the legal teeth out of EULAs. Now we have a chance at a laissez faire software markter. Remember, things such as copyright are artificial government restrictions on what a company can and can't do.
If Linux and GNU are going to get big, they have to innovate and write better software, not just emulate what the big guys are doing.
I want an office where I can use whatever software I want for each function, not what others decide to be in a suite.
I think they had a 1 series of browsers, it was the one with the thropping N. Netscape 2 introduced something much more like the current N animation. I liked Netscape 1 because it had horizontal scroll bars unlike the Netcom web browser I had been using. As for Netscape 4, they tried to make it this big software package and renamed it Communicator. They basically tossed all their name brand recognition out the window, which was sad because that was all they really had going for them. And the the other software, it's biggest effect was to make the zip file too awkward to download. I think they should have kept the model of giving away the best browser possible and then selling the larger software package in the store.
They jumped from 2.0 to 6.0 for word on windows. I think they claimed that they were combining word on Windows and DOS, so they got to use the higher DOS numbers for numbering.
will I be going to airports, No!