American citizens beware before it is too late... for us others (like me in Europe) lets first bring these issues to public knowledge before our stupid EU me-too copycats start publishing their own big brother undiscussed undigested laws
1. The US is not doing anything about this, as already noted by other re-posts 2. This is not a matter of law circumventing. This is tool, an invention, that happens to circumvent repressive measures in some countries (and mind you -- it may be useful for US citizens sooner than you think).
This is well-known and old talk but strangely rarely mentioned --
The problem is the OEM contracts that (at best) discourage and (at worst) prohibit major pc makers for shipping the OS the customers wants (be it Win, Linux or others, or simple naked pcs).
As along as these contracts are not deemed anti-competitive, people will consider win as part of their pc and will have little incentive to choose.
If this type of attitudes were the norm in the 80's, the soviet union would still be on subjugating its citizens and its neighbours. Well, actualy they area actively trying again.
Until these guys understand they cannot and soulh not control what their people think, they should be considered a represive dictatorhip and be subject to sanction. But in this world of pussies and liar politics, we keep pretending they are a special type of regime. f them
The Parliment explicity noted that it was rejecting the draft mainly because the proposed ammendments (by an EP comitee) were ignored by the commission.
on gmail settings you can optout ads. aditionaly, they are not using your personal info, but the message contents. (Provided they abide by this rule, I see nothing wrong. It can even be usefull).
All these thoughts lead to the
much talked about trend,
imho -- the future is in servers
and pdas/smartphones.
The PC will still be very strong,
but growth will stall.
What makes you assume wine users are breaking any eula? wine is an autonomous api translator, does not depend on win "ip".
I can have a valid copy of office, and be running it wherever I want (be it windows, wine, the toilet, and so on).
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What financial aid?
you b$ admin screws up everywhere.
this is just one more example.
American citizens beware before it is too late...
for us others (like me in Europe) lets first bring these issues to public knowledge before our stupid EU me-too copycats start publishing their own big brother undiscussed undigested laws
1. The US is not doing anything about this, as already noted by other re-posts
2. This is not a matter of law circumventing. This is tool, an invention, that happens to circumvent repressive measures in some countries (and mind you -- it may be useful for US citizens sooner than you think).
This is well-known and old talk but
strangely rarely mentioned --
The problem is the OEM contracts that
(at best) discourage and (at worst)
prohibit major pc makers for shipping
the OS the customers wants (be it Win,
Linux or others, or simple naked pcs).
As along as these contracts are not deemed
anti-competitive, people will consider win
as part of their pc and will have little
incentive to choose.
If it burns on hydrogen it produces
no CO2, but only water (H+O=H2O).
The problem we have today is excess
CO2 productions, not lack of Oxigen.
The simple formula is
Profit = Margin * Volume
You have to have at least one of the terms high
to get a high profit.
the indexing of public pages is clearly not the point here
mod as you want: .net is a stupid name.
If this type of attitudes were the norm in the
80's, the soviet union would still
be on subjugating its citizens and its neighbours.
Well, actualy they area actively trying again.
I have to asl the obvious...
What part of NO do they don't understand?
Until these guys understand they cannot and soulh not control what their people think, they should be considered a represive dictatorhip and be subject to sanction. But in this world of pussies and liar politics, we keep pretending they are a special type of regime. f them
see http://www.co2captureandstorage.info/
afain China is partnering with EU for
the Galileo project. This was one more
infuriating thing for Bu$h&Co.
This is news? This project is at least 2 years old,
codenamed Galileo.
The nerds did not notice?
or rather ... "The future was yesterday!"
The Parliment explicity
noted that it was rejecting the
draft mainly because the proposed
ammendments (by an EP comitee) were
ignored by the commission.
It will be very hard to try the same
rick again.
They note that the dotted lines
in the drawing are not part of the
claim.
That means the man in in the drawing
holding the device is part of claim?
They can start collecting royalties from
each of us?
the fourth is not fool's news...
on gmail settings you can optout ads.
aditionaly, they are not using your
personal info, but the message contents.
(Provided they abide by this rule,
I see nothing wrong. It can even be usefull).
All these thoughts lead to the much talked about trend, imho -- the future is in servers and pdas/smartphones. The PC will still be very strong, but growth will stall.
You are forgetting competitiveness,
creation of value, free competition.
For small companies struggling to stay
in the market and contributing to the
economy, going underground is not an option.
If you want to be in business you will have to pay.
I heard something similar last time in Sicily...
and think it is a shame what heppened today. but
1. The council is formed by elected ministers
2. The new constitutin increases accountability
To vote no would be silly.
Blame your representatives, do not blame the constitution.
There is the European Court of Justice http://europa.eu.int/institutions/court/index_en.h tm
What makes you assume wine users are breaking any eula? wine is an autonomous api translator, does not depend on win "ip". I can have a valid copy of office, and be running it wherever I want (be it windows, wine, the toilet, and so on).
By definition, Wine Is Not an Emulator