Well, I guess parking and speeding tickets should be based on how much money you have, too. That's how some countries do it, but do you really want to get fined $30,000 for parking at a hydrant?
Of course you wouldn't want that, that's the whole point.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Now tell where does option "a" (what Ubuntu are doing) require any handholding?
DRM is simply encryption, and encryption isn't bad.
False, encryption restricts access to information, DRM restricts (or at least tries to) what can be done with information after they have access to it. DRM often uses encryption, but if it were just encryption we wouldn't have another name for it.
Still that's Big Money. I don't see anything special about foundations that prevents people to play all kinds of economic/political games with it. Same thing as with corporations: look closely at who controls it, look even closer what exactly they do, don't look at what the shield says.
Since when are high profit margins good for the economy? High profit margins imply lack of competition and ineficiency. There is also the little problem of shifting around money vs. producing usefull things...
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MP3 remains the top choice because everything reads it, this is not true for .docs by any measure.
The display?!
Now tell where does option "a" (what Ubuntu are doing) require any handholding?
Why don't you go down the list of 19th century workers and farmers who died in poverty while your at it?
Still that's Big Money. I don't see anything special about foundations that prevents people to play all kinds of economic/political games with it. Same thing as with corporations: look closely at who controls it, look even closer what exactly they do, don't look at what the shield says.
Other have mentioned good examples, I'll add Xara LX to the list.
I can see it possibly beeing sensitive information about you or I, but Theo is known to develop OpenBSD...
So your problem is actualy with labs?
For the purposes of this patent I see no difference between a desktop computer and an in-front-of-tv computer.
What's you problem with Clam?!
But that is what the whole thing is about.
People who are involved in child porn think a lot about children...
Since when are high profit margins good for the economy? High profit margins imply lack of competition and ineficiency. There is also the little problem of shifting around money vs. producing usefull things...