Oh, good. You're actually arguing that there isn't much to worry about.
Indeed, LOOK at SCO. A pathethic loud-mouth that really isn't accomplishing anything against open source.
It wasn't that SCO was incompetent. It was that there is no real attack point. SCO's continued dancing proved that. No one else will have the foot-hold required either.
To repeat for the umpteenth time, copyright is not restricted to games, music and movies (the stuff you want to priate). It applies to many, many areas of protecting an individuals investment of time, money and personal talent so that they may be rewarded for *HAVING* invested such.
"I don't know about you but I certainly don't think Rowling deserves to be the richest British woman simply because she wrote a children's book. That says to me that there's something wrong with the system, that she can live in comfort for the next 50 years while people like Tesla died in poverty."
Boo hoo. Your opinions of just who should be rewarded for what are of no relevance.
One, count 'em, one counter-example destroys your argument.
"The software does not exist before it is paid for."
So you believe ALL software should be in-house, custom? So no home user should have any applications that do what is desired (because the app can't exist before the home user contracts the designer)?
So someone who spends two or three years writing a novel or creating a great screenplay should simply sit back and say "Oh, well" when the first copy of the book/movie hits the streets and it is ripped-off with no further profits going to the author?
Bullshit. Copyright isn't only applicable to software.
"The lawsuit was filed in October 2001 and went to trial on February 9th. The case went to the jury on the afternoon of March 2, after sixteen days of testimony and proceedings.
The jury found that the patent was valid, that the defendants infringed ODMC's '213 patent, and induced others to infringe. The jury awarded ODMC damages of $15,000,000 for past infringement up to the period ending December 2003.
The jury also found, by clear and convincing evidence, that Ingram's, Lightning's and Amazon's infringement was willful. The court could increase the damage up to $45,000,000, plus interest and award ODMC its attorney fees. Additionally, ODMC has asked the court to issue an injunction to prevent future infringement."
Yeah, bad, bad guys. Went to trial and everything. Note the *willful* part.
No doubt. I actually heard someone complain that we would destroy the "environment" of the astroids if we mined them. Some folks have no brains.
Aside: Greenpeace recently had a ship of theirs confined to docks because they neglected to get their own environ inspections and certs. Seems good for others, but.......
Bullshit. The planetary properties of Earth. We know for a fact that Earth's conditions fit the definition of being compatible with the emergence and existence of life.
You're conflating the probability of finding another planet with different conditions necessary (although, statistically the odds are good) with the absolute of knowing a set of conditions.
??? That's a presumptive statement predicated on your personal assumption of what *common* means.
Since we already know of 100+ stars with planets (indirectly), there's no reason to presume that none of these have planets in a reasonable position and with a reasonable size. Even if one of them fits, that's a pretty good definition of common.
And that's my personal assumption of what *common* means.
What will it take to get people to use them?
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(1) Cost of catastrophe: $1,000,000.
(2) Chance of catastrophe: 5%
(3) Cost of setting up parallel system, including hardware, software licenses, system administration: $250,000.
If (1) times (2) is less than (3), then it's actually better not to spend the money on (3).
Completely true, IF you ignore the fact that a newspaper's mission statement is to produce a paper each and every day, and IF you ignore the cost in terms of client good will.
According to my wife (a publicist), the paper has as of now, for the first time, failed to produce a printing in 150 years!
In fact, I've done it to someone who lived in the U.S. and threatened me on a forum. Simply provided directions to a local store (I live in the country) and the clerk's name who would call me when he arrived. Waited and waited.
First step might, just might, be to drop the condescending crap like "Your average linux-using developer thinks that everyone else is as smart as he is".
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"What hiring practices does Linux have?"
Straw. Companies have lax hiring and NO external review of code. Linex can be looked at.
"...go through a certain amount..."
Bull. I worked on the Marine facility in K.C. No background check at all.
"...government is going to hire a panel of people to check..."
They don't with closed source projects. What's your point?
"...defeats the whole idea of using Open Source..."
Uhh, no. The whole point of OS is that you don't * lose * the code when the company goes belly up. You have the code in you hot little hands.
Oh, good. You're actually arguing that there isn't much to worry about.
Indeed, LOOK at SCO. A pathethic loud-mouth that really isn't accomplishing anything against open source.
It wasn't that SCO was incompetent. It was that there is no real attack point. SCO's continued dancing proved that. No one else will have the foot-hold required either.
It just doesn't exist.
To repeat for the umpteenth time, copyright is not restricted to games, music and movies (the stuff you want to priate). It applies to many, many areas of protecting an individuals investment of time, money and personal talent so that they may be rewarded for *HAVING* invested such.
Destroy the protection, destroy the incentive.
"I don't know about you but I certainly don't think Rowling deserves to be the richest British woman simply because she wrote a children's book. That says to me that there's something wrong with the system, that she can live in comfort for the next 50 years while people like Tesla died in poverty."
Boo hoo. Your opinions of just who should be rewarded for what are of no relevance.
"...builds on the characters established in that series..."
"the particular expression which is the Harry Potter series"
What part of that connection are you failing to understand?
"(note counterexample of Linux distros)"
One, count 'em, one counter-example destroys your argument.
"The software does not exist before it is paid for."
So you believe ALL software should be in-house, custom? So no home user should have any applications that do what is desired (because the app can't exist before the home user contracts the designer)?
More bull.
Uh, no.
"Genuine" or "copy" the source or binary would have no problems that weren't in the "original".
That's what copyright protects against, lazy assh*les using your work to make money for themselves without working.
"I don't believe in copyright, any of it."
Really?
So someone who spends two or three years writing a novel or creating a great screenplay should simply sit back and say "Oh, well" when the first copy of the book/movie hits the streets and it is ripped-off with no further profits going to the author?
Bullshit. Copyright isn't only applicable to software.
Myopia at it's worst.
Didn't Lucas lose the inertia on his "epic" some thirty/forty years ago when he didn't invest in doing the follow-ups in a remotely timely fashion?
..."c"restrictions from the current physics knowledge notwithstanding"
Uhhhh.
If by this you mean they will break the light speed barrior, you're guessing.
If by theis you mean they COULD travel, it will STILL take 20,000 years to visit many places.
*Exactly* how do you conclude they would have already been here. The galaxy is a BIG place.
Uh, no. Maybe you're confusing RADIO with ELECTRO-MAGNETIC. The first is a subset of the second.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
repeat as needed (Slashdot doesn't like repetition)
Ummm, no.
You might pay attention to the commas: "...the sale, advertisement, possession for commercial purposes and use of..."
Commercial purposes and use of. Meaning possession for commercial purposes and use in commercial purposes are illegal.
Elsewise the language would have simply stopped at "possession".
"Rather than trying to use some revolutionary alloy"
Ever consider that happened long enough ago that there weren't any "revolutionary alloys" available?
P.S. Dvorak doesn't improve speed. That's a fallacy. Navy did a study, no improvement (even with newly trained typists).
"The lawsuit was filed in October 2001 and went to trial on February 9th. The case went to the jury on the afternoon of March 2, after sixteen days of testimony and proceedings. The jury found that the patent was valid, that the defendants infringed ODMC's '213 patent, and induced others to infringe. The jury awarded ODMC damages of $15,000,000 for past infringement up to the period ending December 2003. The jury also found, by clear and convincing evidence, that Ingram's, Lightning's and Amazon's infringement was willful. The court could increase the damage up to $45,000,000, plus interest and award ODMC its attorney fees. Additionally, ODMC has asked the court to issue an injunction to prevent future infringement."
Yeah, bad, bad guys. Went to trial and everything. Note the *willful* part.
No doubt. I actually heard someone complain that we would destroy the "environment" of the astroids if we mined them. Some folks have no brains.
Aside: Greenpeace recently had a ship of theirs confined to docks because they neglected to get their own environ inspections and certs. Seems good for others, but.......
"...we are unable to state definitively..."
Bullshit. The planetary properties of Earth. We know for a fact that Earth's conditions fit the definition of being compatible with the emergence and existence of life.
You're conflating the probability of finding another planet with different conditions necessary (although, statistically the odds are good) with the absolute of knowing a set of conditions.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Science does not make any statement whatsoever about a god or gods.
Science simply does not care about the supernatural.
"Liquid water, OTOH, is not."
??? That's a presumptive statement predicated on your personal assumption of what *common* means.
Since we already know of 100+ stars with planets (indirectly), there's no reason to presume that none of these have planets in a reasonable position and with a reasonable size. Even if one of them fits, that's a pretty good definition of common.
And that's my personal assumption of what *common* means.
A reason.
Look, just for the screw of it doesn't suffice.
(1) Cost of catastrophe: $1,000,000.
(2) Chance of catastrophe: 5%
(3) Cost of setting up parallel system, including hardware, software licenses, system administration: $250,000.
If (1) times (2) is less than (3), then it's actually better not to spend the money on (3).
Completely true, IF you ignore the fact that a newspaper's mission statement is to produce a paper each and every day, and IF you ignore the cost in terms of client good will.
According to my wife (a publicist), the paper has as of now, for the first time, failed to produce a printing in 150 years!
Friggin' accountants.
Hard? Not at all.
In fact, I've done it to someone who lived in the U.S. and threatened me on a forum. Simply provided directions to a local store (I live in the country) and the clerk's name who would call me when he arrived. Waited and waited.
Yeah, yeah. Technology is bad because all people aren't good. Luddite.
First step might, just might, be to drop the condescending crap like "Your average linux-using developer thinks that everyone else is as smart as he is".
Everyone else is as smart as he is.