Somehow the group attitude here is that it's wrong for SCO to take licensed Linux code and use it in their own products, since it's protected under the GPL. Well, the way Windows works and it's GUI is protected under U.S. copyright law, yet you think it's unreasonable for people to criticize these coders who blatantly copy Windows. Anyone here can explain this phenomena to me?
Well, I think it's perfectly understandable that the Chinese government block these SMS messages. It allows them to control their own country, instead of having to deal with rumor-spreading rabble rousers. Also, 120 million people hearing about this via SMS is small compared to the overall population of China, which is somewhere a little above one billion. That's a similar percentage to the 20-some million in the states who have heard about the penis length crisis.
I'd rather have cheap products that sometimes don't work on 10 year old players (and protects rights for a creator of art) than expensive ones that can be pirated but work on all players.
This could be a very expensive and useless technology. The proposal for it and the quote by the professor who apparently invented it are reflective of the brick's function as more of a "black box", as in an airplane, rather than a useful tool. If the brick says the buildings about to fall, what can the owners do? The excuse that it helps firefighters is totally ridiculous, firefighters aren't going to have time to jack in to a network plug when they're trying to save lives. The other touted use it to sense vibrations. I don't know about you, but I know when there's an earthquake and when there's not, I don't need a brick to tell me.
In short, useless waste of money marketing FUD. Per norm for slashdot stories.
Slashdot Mirror
I do the same job day in and day out, and I keep getting paid...I don't see a connection.
I've had enough of paying twenty bucks for a CD so some lazy kid doesn't have to get a job.
A full 24 of the last 42 Slashdot stories have something to do with SCO and their "robbery" of Linux code and ideas. Yet, you support the "robbery" of Windows ideas.
Somehow the group attitude here is that it's wrong for SCO to take licensed Linux code and use it in their own products, since it's protected under the GPL. Well, the way Windows works and it's GUI is protected under U.S. copyright law, yet you think it's unreasonable for people to criticize these coders who blatantly copy Windows. Anyone here can explain this phenomena to me?
What is this world coming to? Microsoft has to open up it's source code so anyone can copy it, but yet we prosecute and punish art copiers.
Well, I think it's perfectly understandable that the Chinese government block these SMS messages. It allows them to control their own country, instead of having to deal with rumor-spreading rabble rousers. Also, 120 million people hearing about this via SMS is small compared to the overall population of China, which is somewhere a little above one billion. That's a similar percentage to the 20-some million in the states who have heard about the penis length crisis.
I'd rather have cheap products that sometimes don't work on 10 year old players (and protects rights for a creator of art) than expensive ones that can be pirated but work on all players.
I can also view Linux source code without signing an NDA. It's open source, after all.
This could be a very expensive and useless technology. The proposal for it and the quote by the professor who apparently invented it are reflective of the brick's function as more of a "black box", as in an airplane, rather than a useful tool. If the brick says the buildings about to fall, what can the owners do? The excuse that it helps firefighters is totally ridiculous, firefighters aren't going to have time to jack in to a network plug when they're trying to save lives. The other touted use it to sense vibrations. I don't know about you, but I know when there's an earthquake and when there's not, I don't need a brick to tell me.
In short, useless waste of money marketing FUD. Per norm for slashdot stories.