1. Make it impossible to copy media on Windows. 2. Watch nerds shout "Just use Linux instead. Linux!" 3. Watch *AA have all DRM-free operating systems outlawed. 4. (move along, nothing to see here) 5. More profit!
I remember some studies showing children served alcohol in the home are more likely to develop an alcohol problem as grown-ups, here in Sweden. On the other hand, that might be because children not served alcohol in the home are more likely to come from a home where alcohol consumption is unusual or none. Or maybe they just grew more receptors and become addicted more easily.
BTW, the law here says: when you're 18, you can buy beer up to 3,5% and drink anything in your home with a parent. When you're 20, you're free to buy. I wouldn't say the law works.
Without Gates Microsoft runs the risk of becoming a faceless super-corporation focusing on sales rather than developing the tech that could give the company an edge.
I don't know either. Since having an open source Linux isn't forcing companies to open source their (Linux) drivers, why would an open source Windows do that?
It wasn't meant as whining, I was just pushing the same reasoning further. I'll try to be more clear: if selling one song at a time but not just part of it of it is perfectly reasonable, then selling one album but not individual songs is perfectly reasonable. How music should sound or be divided isn't described in the Philips CD spec.
Many people I know hardly ever listens to more than the first two minutes of any song. Being the elitist I am, I understand why when I listen to their music, but it's still perfectly reasonable they should be able to buy just those two minutes at a lower price. I'm not very familiar with iTunes' pricing though, so that may be beside the point.
Providing individual tracks from a CD is just one way to present a musical work. Music in itself is sound, not tracks. There is music recorded today that doesn't conform to the idea that each song is a single musical entity, and splitting these works does more good than bad from an artistical point of view, or at least some artists'.
Anyhow, for the same reasons that providing music in these smaller parts is a good thing (which I believe it is), one could easily argue that even smaller parts of the music should be available for buying. What if I'm only interested in measures two to four of the second bridge? It might sound crazy, but as a musician I sometimes meet this exact problem when transcribing songs from memory. Why should I have to buy the whole song when I just want four seconds of it?
How does producing images that look like child porn without actually abusing children encourage crimes against children?
Do you seriously believe those guys potentially capable of abusing children (and/or paying to watch) are going to "look" at these CG child porn pictures and think to themselves "This is great, no one got harmed! God I hate that bad and evil REAL child porn. This is just a bunch of pixels, that's what makes it so hot!".
Well, the linked article mentioned the report being named Mapping the Mal Web, which is what I searched for on the mcafee.com. Turns out they thought I was looking for Mapping the Mall Web.
Anyway, all I could find was this thing from last spring.
It's only about money. With few or no public security flaws/fixes, your company, product and brand look safe. With many, they look dangerous. It doesn't matter that security often works the other way around.
Debian suggests non-free software that people like yourself might simply use because they don't understand the differences between open source and free software or that they have free alternatives
This sounds like careless users should rather boot gNewSense than Debian. I like your next statement better, about making people aware of their choices. If it's ideological you want more minds, not more boot sectors.
True about the purpose of gNewSense though. It's something some people want and need.
Any reasons are good enough to use any software, in my opinion. Software is just software, while you're the one doing stuff with it. Ethics apply to persons. Software doesn't write you.
I think what he means is less choices now makes more choices tomorrow. And here we've reached the exact point where the hair splits.
Same Stallman, same thread:
"... I can encourage installing Emacs, GCC or
OpenOffice on Windows, but I should not encourage installing non-free
programs on GNU/Linux or BSD, just as I should not encourage
installing Windows." (here)
"Providing a recipe to install a non-free program is very direct and
clear support for its use. Making your free program work with
something non-free if that's already installed is not such a direct
message of support." (here)
Stallman: "Since I consider non-free software to be unethical and antisocial, I
think it would be wrong for me to recommend it to others. Therefore,
if a collection of software contains (or suggests installation of)
some non-free program, I do not recommend it. The systems I recommend
are therefore those that do not contain (or suggest installation of)
non-free software." (from here)
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It actually turns "superuser" into "SUSEr". I am thrilled!
It doesn't matter, it's no longer hosted in Sweden.
1. Make it impossible to copy media on Windows.
2. Watch nerds shout "Just use Linux instead. Linux!"
3. Watch *AA have all DRM-free operating systems outlawed.
4. (move along, nothing to see here)
5. More profit!
With commas:
And sometimes, implementation lags documentation by quite some time, like with OOXML.
I remember some studies showing children served alcohol in the home are more likely to develop an alcohol problem as grown-ups, here in Sweden. On the other hand, that might be because children not served alcohol in the home are more likely to come from a home where alcohol consumption is unusual or none. Or maybe they just grew more receptors and become addicted more easily.
BTW, the law here says: when you're 18, you can buy beer up to 3,5% and drink anything in your home with a parent. When you're 20, you're free to buy. I wouldn't say the law works.
And not only that, they've also vowed to redo it!
Huh?
I don't know either. Since having an open source Linux isn't forcing companies to open source their (Linux) drivers, why would an open source Windows do that?
It wasn't meant as whining, I was just pushing the same reasoning further. I'll try to be more clear: if selling one song at a time but not just part of it of it is perfectly reasonable, then selling one album but not individual songs is perfectly reasonable. How music should sound or be divided isn't described in the Philips CD spec.
Many people I know hardly ever listens to more than the first two minutes of any song. Being the elitist I am, I understand why when I listen to their music, but it's still perfectly reasonable they should be able to buy just those two minutes at a lower price. I'm not very familiar with iTunes' pricing though, so that may be beside the point.
Providing individual tracks from a CD is just one way to present a musical work. Music in itself is sound, not tracks. There is music recorded today that doesn't conform to the idea that each song is a single musical entity, and splitting these works does more good than bad from an artistical point of view, or at least some artists'.
Anyhow, for the same reasons that providing music in these smaller parts is a good thing (which I believe it is), one could easily argue that even smaller parts of the music should be available for buying. What if I'm only interested in measures two to four of the second bridge? It might sound crazy, but as a musician I sometimes meet this exact problem when transcribing songs from memory. Why should I have to buy the whole song when I just want four seconds of it?
I probably wasn't clear enough. Those that aren't potential abusers or potentially would pay to watch abuse have very little to do with my point.
Well, the linked article mentioned the report being named Mapping the Mal Web, which is what I searched for on the mcafee.com. Turns out they thought I was looking for Mapping the Mall Web.
Anyway, all I could find was this thing from last spring.
It's only about money. With few or no public security flaws/fixes, your company, product and brand look safe. With many, they look dangerous. It doesn't matter that security often works the other way around.
Debian suggests non-free software that people like yourself might simply use because they don't understand the differences between open source and free software or that they have free alternatives
This sounds like careless users should rather boot gNewSense than Debian. I like your next statement better, about making people aware of their choices. If it's ideological you want more minds, not more boot sectors.
True about the purpose of gNewSense though. It's something some people want and need.
Any reasons are good enough to use any software, in my opinion. Software is just software, while you're the one doing stuff with it. Ethics apply to persons. Software doesn't write you.
But if it's only the trademark issue, why not gNewFox?
I think what he means is less choices now makes more choices tomorrow. And here we've reached the exact point where the hair splits. Same Stallman, same thread:
"... I can encourage installing Emacs, GCC or OpenOffice on Windows, but I should not encourage installing non-free programs on GNU/Linux or BSD, just as I should not encourage installing Windows." (here)
"Providing a recipe to install a non-free program is very direct and clear support for its use. Making your free program work with something non-free if that's already installed is not such a direct message of support." (here)
It's true.
Stallman: "Since I consider non-free software to be unethical and antisocial, I think it would be wrong for me to recommend it to others. Therefore, if a collection of software contains (or suggests installation of) some non-free program, I do not recommend it. The systems I recommend are therefore those that do not contain (or suggest installation of) non-free software." (from here)
Anything goes; there is currently no world record in this category.
...it's many.
"Google Gears Beta is available for Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac, and Linux"
And I for one welcome our new joke-repeating overlords.
...!
1. Simplicity: [_] Ed [X] Pencil
2. Less bloat: [_] Ed [X] Pencil
3. More users: [_] Ed [X] Pencil