What we needs in Bush's US are some Constitutional Rights Zones, sort of like his Free Speech Zones. You know, places set up by the federal government where we could use our guns, use our property in the way we want to, and make unpopular political speeches with impunity.
Yeah, this was both troll AND flamebait, but it still needed to be said!
Wait a minute. You criticize Redhat for charging for support, but then you claim that "Debian really needs a 'grown up' large company to provide commercial support, that will quiet the fears of managers."
Because Sun hates Linux nearly as much as Microsoft.
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Look, I NEVER said I was good at math!!!
Let's go through it again. 900,000 songs times 3.5 minutes. That's 3,150,000 minutes. Divided by 60 leaves us with 52,500 hours. Divided by 24 hours, leaves us with 2,187.5 days. Divided by 365, we're left with 5.99 years.
Damn, you're right!!! 6 years just seemed too long.
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It's no wonder that I never completed a math class in all the years I went to college. It's closer to 2.5 years, not 6 years. Sorry!
Still, that makes my nearly 6 day play list seem pretty small by comparison.
Have you ever thought about the world outside your little mind?! MP3 is an extremely popular format. It's quite obvious that people prefer portability of large collections versus "good" sounding sound systems which take up entire rooms.
Merely because YOU don't like MP3s is no reason for the format to go away, as nearly everyone else in the world finds it suits their needs.
Keep business and software patents, but put the burden on the patent holder to prove it's valid (i.e., useful, novel and not obvious) in any subsequent trial or hearing.
And if the patent holder loses, it has to pay all of the challenger's legal costs.
Except for Saturn, which is owned by GM, NONE are US manufacturers. The fact that Saturn is owned by GM certainly does not make it "new" in any sense. The rest have corporate tie ins, e.g., Lexus is owned by Toyota. Once again, that hardly makes it new.
I'll say it again, there is NO element of "signed" in libel. If you know of any statute or case that says otherwise, please let me know. If you don't have any such law, then do us a favor and stop ranting about things you know nothing about!
It's all about the status quo. Back in the old days of personal computing companies competed on quality and price (and not necessarily at the same time). But now that we have huge companies such as Microsoft, they want to defend their positions by making it nearly impossible for any new company to gain any ground.
This isn't really new. When was the last time you saw a new automobile manufacturer in the US? It's not because it's hard to make cars. There are tons of places to outsource production. The thing which makes it nearly impossible is selling them. In the US it's illegal in almost most states to sell automobiles without going through dealerships. In other words, it's illegal to sell new cars and trucks directly to consumers.
Because any new automobile manufacturer would be locked out of the current dealerships, he'd either be out of luck or would have to build thousands of dealership across the country. A daunting task for sure.
Now the same type of behavior is taking place in computers. It shouldn't be surprising at all. The downsides of course will be no real innovation and rising prices. But you probably knew that already.
It's not. Libel is a false statement that is printed, published, or broadcast about an individual which tends to bring that person into public ridicule, contempt, hatred or inflicts injury to his or her occupation or business. Merely because it's placed on the internet makes no difference.
The only reason this is a story because those in charge of Slashdot obviously have no legal training whatsoever!
Why do you have a desire to post about things you know NOTHING about?!
There is no element of libel which requires it to be "signed" or in a "reputable publication." Liable can occur via the mail, via the TV, via flyers left on someone's car or from someone yelling out in public. The internet is no different from any of those other means of transmitting information.
You don't seem to get it, maybe you didn't read the second page. The point was not that Microsoft used Sound Forge. The point is that Microsoft used a warezed version of Sound Forge.
It's a big deal because Microsoft, along with the BSA, comes down quite hard on companies where even nominal amounts of illegally licensed software are used. Those companies will now have the same defense that Microsoft currently has: Sometimes mistakes happen.
The right to presumed innocent is merely a legal standard. It's another way of saying that it's the people's buren to prove guilt. There is NOTHING in the Constitution that citizens or the press are to assume that someone is innocent. We're still free to believe anything we want.
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Outsource all the work to India, what else?!
Who said anything about Canada?!
"If the 'monkeys' decide they like what they wrote, that's good enough -- it doesn't have to be Shakespeare."
Your sole standard is whether you "like" what's written?! It appears that truth no longer matters in your bottom-up society.
What we needs in Bush's US are some Constitutional Rights Zones, sort of like his Free Speech Zones. You know, places set up by the federal government where we could use our guns, use our property in the way we want to, and make unpopular political speeches with impunity.
Yeah, this was both troll AND flamebait, but it still needed to be said!
Gee, I've been a lot of things, but never an insightful troll before!!!
Wait a minute. You criticize Redhat for charging for support, but then you claim that "Debian really needs a 'grown up' large company to provide commercial support, that will quiet the fears of managers."
Am I missing something?!
Because Sun hates Linux nearly as much as Microsoft.
Look, I NEVER said I was good at math!!!
Let's go through it again. 900,000 songs times 3.5 minutes. That's 3,150,000 minutes. Divided by 60 leaves us with 52,500 hours. Divided by 24 hours, leaves us with 2,187.5 days. Divided by 365, we're left with 5.99 years.
Damn, you're right!!! 6 years just seemed too long.
It's no wonder that I never completed a math class in all the years I went to college. It's closer to 2.5 years, not 6 years. Sorry!
Still, that makes my nearly 6 day play list seem pretty small by comparison.
At 3.5 minutes per song, I figure he's got nearly 2.5 years worth of music!
I agree with you, I think he's bullshitting. Heck, it's nearly 6 years worth of music (at 3.5 minutes per song)! There is just NO way!
Have you ever thought about the world outside your little mind?! MP3 is an extremely popular format. It's quite obvious that people prefer portability of large collections versus "good" sounding sound systems which take up entire rooms.
Merely because YOU don't like MP3s is no reason for the format to go away, as nearly everyone else in the world finds it suits their needs.
I never said it was a "logical" patent reform, merely a "simple" one.
Keep business and software patents, but put the burden on the patent holder to prove it's valid (i.e., useful, novel and not obvious) in any subsequent trial or hearing.
And if the patent holder loses, it has to pay all of the challenger's legal costs.
The first rule of Capitalism: Without competition, there is no Capitalism.
Except for Saturn, which is owned by GM, NONE are US manufacturers. The fact that Saturn is owned by GM certainly does not make it "new" in any sense. The rest have corporate tie ins, e.g., Lexus is owned by Toyota. Once again, that hardly makes it new.
Think BEFORE posting please!
I'll say it again, there is NO element of "signed" in libel. If you know of any statute or case that says otherwise, please let me know. If you don't have any such law, then do us a favor and stop ranting about things you know nothing about!
It's all about the status quo. Back in the old days of personal computing companies competed on quality and price (and not necessarily at the same time). But now that we have huge companies such as Microsoft, they want to defend their positions by making it nearly impossible for any new company to gain any ground.
This isn't really new. When was the last time you saw a new automobile manufacturer in the US? It's not because it's hard to make cars. There are tons of places to outsource production. The thing which makes it nearly impossible is selling them. In the US it's illegal in almost most states to sell automobiles without going through dealerships. In other words, it's illegal to sell new cars and trucks directly to consumers.
Because any new automobile manufacturer would be locked out of the current dealerships, he'd either be out of luck or would have to build thousands of dealership across the country. A daunting task for sure.
Now the same type of behavior is taking place in computers. It shouldn't be surprising at all. The downsides of course will be no real innovation and rising prices. But you probably knew that already.
It's not. Libel is a false statement that is printed, published, or broadcast about an individual which tends to bring that person into public ridicule, contempt, hatred or inflicts injury to his or her occupation or business. Merely because it's placed on the internet makes no difference.
The only reason this is a story because those in charge of Slashdot obviously have no legal training whatsoever!
Why do you have a desire to post about things you know NOTHING about?!
There is no element of libel which requires it to be "signed" or in a "reputable publication." Liable can occur via the mail, via the TV, via flyers left on someone's car or from someone yelling out in public. The internet is no different from any of those other means of transmitting information.
Why do you have the desire to post about things you know NOTHING about?!
It was a CIVIL action, not a criminal action so there was no prosecutor. You have no civil right to representation even in Canada.
The reason he was not represented by counsel was because he failed to appear. In other words a default was entered against him.
Microsoft and the BSA presumes violations before any proof is found, why should I presume any differently?
You don't seem to get it, maybe you didn't read the second page. The point was not that Microsoft used Sound Forge. The point is that Microsoft used a warezed version of Sound Forge.
It's a big deal because Microsoft, along with the BSA, comes down quite hard on companies where even nominal amounts of illegally licensed software are used. Those companies will now have the same defense that Microsoft currently has: Sometimes mistakes happen.
The right to presumed innocent is merely a legal standard. It's another way of saying that it's the people's buren to prove guilt. There is NOTHING in the Constitution that citizens or the press are to assume that someone is innocent. We're still free to believe anything we want.