"Everyone should respect the copyright of the GPL. By the way, the RIAA is evil for going after copyright infringers."
There is no paradox or hypocrisy. The GPL enforces the open sharing of the fruits of labour through copyright, the RIAA make a living prosecuting sharing through copyright. One tool, two uses. I can use the same hammer to build a house or tear one down. Guess which use the framers of the American Constitution had in mind.
The rest of your ad hominem, question-begging, strawn man diatribe was as convincing.
" STOP ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADING MUSIC YOU HAVEN'T PAID FOR!
STOP ILLEGALLY COPYING VIDEOS YOU HAVEN'T PAID FOR! (vcr)
STOP ILLEGALLY READING BOOKS YOU HAVEN'T PAID FOR! (library)
STOP ILLEGALLY PLAYING MUSIC IN YOUR BUSINESS YOU HAVEN'T PAID ROYALTIES FOR! (restaurants and cabs)
This is the world the RIAA is fighting for and frankly, in the big society picture, it's better their tiny minority go broke and starve than everyone live in the closed, regulated civil space they demand to support a failing business model.
We've been lobbying against this stuff for years, for that very reason, it infects our stuff,....
Well, in this case it worked. I read a couple of days ago the whole issue is moot, Monsanto is pulling GM seed from the Canadian market because our primary markets - Japan and the UK - won't accept wheat or wheat products from countries which allow its use. There's no easy way to tell if the product is GM, organic or contaminated afterwards.
Kneecapping also ~works~, but few consider it a valid business practice and they're not held in high regard. FUD, as wielded by SCO, is comprised of lies, threats and intimidation. If that's a currently valid business practice then new laws are required.
Googol is a mathematical concept. What next, sueing over use of the term 'root'? The artificial sweetner company for 'Equal'? If nothing else this clearly shows the madness and irrationality which has become of IP fights.
And yet you look at the employment rates within the UK and the rest of Europe (3% vs 12% approx)....
Apples and oranges, unless I missed the part where half the UK was recently repatriated after decades of Communist rule and mismanagement. On second thought....
I don't disagree this was the ultimate affect, but was this the intention going in? Not likely, Reagan was being way oversold on the threat posed by the Soviets by his security advisors. It's even said that as the wall was coming down they told him it was a trick. Post-collapse analysis of the intelligance of the time read like a fantasy.
It's entirely possible, to my mind likely, that Reagan intended to build what he said he intended to build and won the Cold War by unintended effect. He still deserves credit, but to do down in history as a master strategist?
Live performances are flawed because the auditorium will not have been built 2 days prior based on the latest theories of sound propagation and is, therefore, obsolete.
Audiophiles in general prefer the acoustics of the classical oblong-box performance spaces of the 19th century over modern venues, but please don't let that knowledge colour your uniformed stance. It wouldn't be a Slashdot anti-audiophile rant any other way.
Maybe 128 kbps mp3 can sound bad (although that depends a lot on the kind of music), but that's an aging codec anyway.
Possibly, but plenty here claimed the encoding process was inaudible when these ancient codecs walked the earth too. How do you know that five or ten years down the road these contemporary, super-duper codecs won'T be held in the same disregard? Listening is a learning process too.
That's absolutely correct. They would not be able to take the decade's long labour of others, extend it, package it for $10K and lock the next gen of developers out. You make that sound like a bad thing.
Microsoft cares very much because a very important factor in the rapid penetration of Windows was piracy. Online registration didn't appear until relatively recently. If these pirates, better known as hundreds of milions South East Asias, come to terms with running Linux as their daily OS it could be catastrophic for Microsoft's long-term future.
Same with Linux. A user must member or the "wheel" group to allow use of "su". Many distros have this off by default. Somehow though I'm sure the Win-cheerleaders here will, beyond all logic and visual evidence, still consider this equivalent to grandma's default XP install.
The related question is: "What makes your think corporate WANs are any cleaner?" Mine certainly isn't, I've seen an untouched, unpatched box behind the firewall go bad inside a weekend.
Who modded this insightful? It's nothing like that at all. Now, if you said it's like logging out of your user account, logging in as root, navigating to the user home directory, finding the attachment and intentionally executing it maybe, but it's nothing granny could do. And she launches Windows exploits just fine, thank you.
1. The Gimp requires no configuration on any Linux box I've ever used. 2. Time spent donloading? As opposed to driving to Best Buy with $800? 3. If you actually read the article instead you'll see this port to an unintended OS costs $30 or $50 depending on format.
That's where I stopped reading your Informative post.
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There is no paradox or hypocrisy. The GPL enforces the open sharing of the fruits of labour through copyright, the RIAA make a living prosecuting sharing through copyright. One tool, two uses. I can use the same hammer to build a house or tear one down. Guess which use the framers of the American Constitution had in mind.
The rest of your ad hominem, question-begging, strawn man diatribe was as convincing.
STOP ILLEGALLY COPYING VIDEOS YOU HAVEN'T PAID FOR! (vcr)
STOP ILLEGALLY READING BOOKS YOU HAVEN'T PAID FOR! (library)
STOP ILLEGALLY PLAYING MUSIC IN YOUR BUSINESS YOU HAVEN'T PAID ROYALTIES FOR! (restaurants and cabs)
This is the world the RIAA is fighting for and frankly, in the big society picture, it's better their tiny minority go broke and starve than everyone live in the closed, regulated civil space they demand to support a failing business model.
Sending money to a foreign company? Not all governments are American. Hell, I'll venture most aren't.
One minor quibble. Microsoft doesn't create standards, they impose them.
Well, in this case it worked. I read a couple of days ago the whole issue is moot, Monsanto is pulling GM seed from the Canadian market because our primary markets - Japan and the UK - won't accept wheat or wheat products from countries which allow its use. There's no easy way to tell if the product is GM, organic or contaminated afterwards.
Kneecapping also ~works~, but few consider it a valid business practice and they're not held in high regard. FUD, as wielded by SCO, is comprised of lies, threats and intimidation. If that's a currently valid business practice then new laws are required.
Googol is a mathematical concept. What next, sueing over use of the term 'root'? The artificial sweetner company for 'Equal'? If nothing else this clearly shows the madness and irrationality which has become of IP fights.
Apples and oranges, unless I missed the part where half the UK was recently repatriated after decades of Communist rule and mismanagement. On second thought....
It's entirely possible, to my mind likely, that Reagan intended to build what he said he intended to build and won the Cold War by unintended effect. He still deserves credit, but to do down in history as a master strategist?
Too bad the money spent on it wasn't imaginary.
Audiophiles in general prefer the acoustics of the classical oblong-box performance spaces of the 19th century over modern venues, but please don't let that knowledge colour your uniformed stance. It wouldn't be a Slashdot anti-audiophile rant any other way.
Possibly, but plenty here claimed the encoding process was inaudible when these ancient codecs walked the earth too. How do you know that five or ten years down the road these contemporary, super-duper codecs won'T be held in the same disregard? Listening is a learning process too.
That's absolutely correct. They would not be able to take the decade's long labour of others, extend it, package it for $10K and lock the next gen of developers out. You make that sound like a bad thing.
I was thinking the same thing last night watching the UT2004 installer copying all these OGG files to my drive. Oh wait....
Microsoft cares very much because a very important factor in the rapid penetration of Windows was piracy. Online registration didn't appear until relatively recently. If these pirates, better known as hundreds of milions South East Asias, come to terms with running Linux as their daily OS it could be catastrophic for Microsoft's long-term future.
Same with Linux. A user must member or the "wheel" group to allow use of "su". Many distros have this off by default. Somehow though I'm sure the Win-cheerleaders here will, beyond all logic and visual evidence, still consider this equivalent to grandma's default XP install.
The related question is: "What makes your think corporate WANs are any cleaner?" Mine certainly isn't, I've seen an untouched, unpatched box behind the firewall go bad inside a weekend.
Spyware blew that theory to ratshit a long time ago.
Isn't "su" effectively logging in as root?
Who modded this insightful? It's nothing like that at all. Now, if you said it's like logging out of your user account, logging in as root, navigating to the user home directory, finding the attachment and intentionally executing it maybe, but it's nothing granny could do. And she launches Windows exploits just fine, thank you.
petty.... zealots.... axe to grind.... credibility be damned.... sophomoric.... vindictive.... irrelevant... immature.
but I fear you'd miss the irony again. Or was that too "pejorative"? Look again and see who the strident, vindictive posters really were today.
You really have no concept of irony, do you? Compare your post to the original story for a textbook example.
Will that be Visa or Mastercard, Mr. Gates?
It's certainly a 'more-similar' naming scheme than Internet Explorer and Outlook Express.
That's where I stopped reading your Informative post.