Not true. If you bid say $7.01 on an item, then find out it's the RARE whatchamacallit, worth $1000, and you up your MAX bid, your ACTUAL bid goes up. This causes even MORE issues if someone bid $5.02 on an item, because you get one MORE bid upping.
I've also seen my max bid go in with ZERO other bids. eBay DOES have issues they do NOT disclose.
Next thing you know they'll be telling us that Microsoft Media Player logs versions of other companies' software that is installed on your computer. Oh wait a minute, they already do that too...
Except that a generic term CAN become un-generic if you use it long enough, and it gets enough recognition. The USPTO says five years. That's how Windows came to be a trademark.
I second this motion!
Lawrence Welk ought to be the #1 download from now on! If the RIAA sues people for this, but yet they try to PROFIT from it, that's the most hypocritical thing I've seen!
Just a point of clarification. It might be a PUBLISHED format, but it is not STANDARDIZED. Bastardized, maybe. Microsoft tweaks TCPA just slightly and it becomes Palladium. Their XML based format is NOT the same as XML!
And if you mod me down - please look at the language. Microsoft continues to make people think that they invent a new format, when they do no such thing.
Not even close to true.
DISNEY. Not WALT Disney, but DISNEY - the corporation. Not sure if it's Disney, inc., or whatever, but you get the idea. Who owns the rights to Lion King? Disney. And every iteration of Mickey, etc.
That sounds EXACTLY LIKE what Microsoft's School Agreement. Under that particular nastygram, all a school had to do was count every PC, including Macintoshes and pay $42 per PC, per year. Why? Even though they already paid for the OS, the Macs could also theoretically run Word and Internet Explorer. So pay up $42 for those Macs, too!
If you own copyright to any Linux Kernel code, sue.
By the way, in a recent interview, Linus claimed that he owns sole copyright to the Kernel. Maybe Linus should sue SCO?
a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications
Your interpretation of this to not mean both is pretty shaky. Try replacing the word "either" with the word "both" in the text. That'd mean that a derived work is 2 separate things. Besides, Section 2 of the GPL is effective even without the definition of "work based on the Program":
either: The one or the other. Not BOTH.
So replacing the word either with the word both is automatically exclusionary. BOTH means BOTH, either means ONE OR THE OTHER. SO, you can easily interpret it to mean ONE OR THE OTHER. That is what either means. A lawyer might have written it, but that is EXACTLY what it says. At the beginning. SO, if you take the word either to mean either the Original Program OR (can I emphasize OR enough here?) the derivative work, all you have to do is release a) the original source, since it can be one OR the other, and a LIST (it says specifically only the list) of the mods.
Search Microsoft copyrighted code and you'll find UC Regents in there - BSD Unix. They've copyrighted BSD code that they co-opted. Try it sometime. You're off base, and just want to prove that you're right, instead of actually looking at what the words mean. Trying to substitute "both" for "either" means that either doesn't mean both, by your definition. Give it up already.
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Not true. If you bid say $7.01 on an item, then find out it's the RARE whatchamacallit, worth $1000, and you up your MAX bid, your ACTUAL bid goes up. This causes even MORE issues if someone bid $5.02 on an item, because you get one MORE bid upping.
I've also seen my max bid go in with ZERO other bids. eBay DOES have issues they do NOT disclose.
Next thing you know they'll be telling us that Microsoft Media Player logs versions of other companies' software that is installed on your computer. Oh wait a minute, they already do that too...
Too bad more time isn't spent on removing bugs from Microsoft products. Now if they'd just spend time fixing BEFORE products are released!
I can see it now - Alabama the latest member of the EU!
"Now Y'all say that there's this here VEE AY TEE - now WHUT sort uv tax is THAYAT?"
hee hee
Remember - Lindows is the ONLY Linux company that has an agreement with SCO!! Don't believe me?
Look it up.
Except that a generic term CAN become un-generic if you use it long enough, and it gets enough recognition. The USPTO says five years. That's how Windows came to be a trademark.
Not only did he offer the reward, he never paid.
In the US, Microsoft has bought up all the lobbyists so that none of them can lobby against them. Cheaper than buying off politicians and also legal.
They made the projectors to fit inside of a Matchbox car!!!
Especially since you spay FEMALE cats, and the cat in question has been identified as a male!
Shouldn't that be APRIL first?
HEY! Who's modding a legit first post as FLAMEBAIT???
The internet is now worldwide, but it originally started as DARPANET - an American military project!
I'm American, but honestly most Americans can't see past the nose on their face!
Somebody mod me back up!
I'm glad to see that people other than Americans are being recognized on the internet. Which originally started as an American military project...
Then apparently Fedora needs to change hats...
I second this motion! Lawrence Welk ought to be the #1 download from now on! If the RIAA sues people for this, but yet they try to PROFIT from it, that's the most hypocritical thing I've seen!
They certainly aren't paying the users that do the filesharing! So how exactly is this fair?
Just a point of clarification. It might be a PUBLISHED format, but it is not STANDARDIZED. Bastardized, maybe. Microsoft tweaks TCPA just slightly and it becomes Palladium. Their XML based format is NOT the same as XML!
And if you mod me down - please look at the language. Microsoft continues to make people think that they invent a new format, when they do no such thing.
gets my vote. Not only does it report your media files, but also any other apps you're running!
/me adjusts tinfoil hat...
Actually they are using a warped XML - not TRUE XML. Just like they did with Palladium - took over someone else's format and warped it.
Come and get me along with the thousands of others!
Just wanted to add my support to the fact that Gator = spyware.
When I read the article - there was a popunder!!!
Yes, they do. Check out the C=One - Jeri Ellsworth has made this. It's basically a 20 MHz C=64, addresses up to a gig of RAM, etc. Pretty cool.
Not even close to true. DISNEY. Not WALT Disney, but DISNEY - the corporation. Not sure if it's Disney, inc., or whatever, but you get the idea. Who owns the rights to Lion King? Disney. And every iteration of Mickey, etc.
That sounds EXACTLY LIKE what Microsoft's School Agreement. Under that particular nastygram, all a school had to do was count every PC, including Macintoshes and pay $42 per PC, per year. Why? Even though they already paid for the OS, the Macs could also theoretically run Word and Internet Explorer. So pay up $42 for those Macs, too!
If you own copyright to any Linux Kernel code, sue.
By the way, in a recent interview, Linus claimed that he owns sole copyright to the Kernel. Maybe Linus should sue SCO?
From Dictionary.com:
either: The one or the other. Not BOTH.
a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications
Your interpretation of this to not mean both is pretty shaky. Try replacing the word "either" with the word "both" in the text. That'd mean that a derived work is 2 separate things. Besides, Section 2 of the GPL is effective even without the definition of "work based on the Program":
either: The one or the other. Not BOTH.
So replacing the word either with the word both is automatically exclusionary. BOTH means BOTH, either means ONE OR THE OTHER. SO, you can easily interpret it to mean ONE OR THE OTHER. That is what either means. A lawyer might have written it, but that is EXACTLY what it says. At the beginning. SO, if you take the word either to mean either the Original Program OR (can I emphasize OR enough here?) the derivative work, all you have to do is release a) the original source, since it can be one OR the other, and a LIST (it says specifically only the list) of the mods.
Search Microsoft copyrighted code and you'll find UC Regents in there - BSD Unix. They've copyrighted BSD code that they co-opted. Try it sometime. You're off base, and just want to prove that you're right, instead of actually looking at what the words mean. Trying to substitute "both" for "either" means that either doesn't mean both, by your definition. Give it up already.