The US launch demand for the PS3 was artificially increased by the eBay scalpers. Once they started taking a bath and returning them, it was altogether fair to say the console was generally available. Not in the quantities on hand in Europe, of course, but definitely enough that people who care can get one.
No problem. I'll need your phone number, of course, and just to be safe your home address, social security number, mother's maiden name and place of employment. Wouldn't want to miss notifying you.
"Without copyright the GPL would be unenforceable. It would also be unnecessary."
Even in the absence of copyright, there's no guaranteed way to get your hands on proprietary source code. Given the quote and this fact, it seems mighty clear to me that the freedom the FSF is interested in enforcing is the freedom to not pay for software.
Feel free to explain how someone who made the investments necessary to create something (be that time, money, materials, ideas, or whatever) can possibly compete against someone who simply takes those fruits and sells them or gives them away? While you're at it, please explain where the incentive to do the creation in the first place then appears.
There were six at the Target in Falls Church last night. I can send one too you if you can sell it locally. I'm sure the three people earning more than $30,000 in the backwater of the DC metro region have already purchased theirs.
Your second example doesn't really count as infringing on mega-market cartels, and your first example is kind of nebulous. Do you have any other information?
So it is entirely about the fact that he may possibly make money from getting stories posted.
Nope, still don't get the hostility, but I'm not one of the Slashdotters who hates people making money. I'll chalk it up to being something I'll never get.
The insults you made were interesting. Little substance, overly personal, contributed nothing to the point, and made the assumption of personal superiority based on decisions made in the consumer market. Very Apple fan.
I just don't get it at all. Is it entirely about the fact that he might make money through some tortured twists of logic? Is that what gets everyone so riled up? Seems like a serious waste of energy to hate the guy for that.
People will do it for free! And it'll be better than the commercial crap everybody hates but downloads anyway, because it'll be done only with pure motivation! All those video blogs of people picking their nose while discussing the latest developments in their crusade against disease-free personal areas will provide our entertainment.
I don't disagree that the GPL speaks for itself. I don't disagree that the GPL promotes freedom. I don't doubt that software covered under the GPL is free. I don't even dispute that the word free applies to the works, the license, and the entire philosophy.
At the same time, the GPL maintains said freedoms through restriction. Preventing covered software from becoming proprietary is restricting a freedom of the user. I agree that it is a necessary restriction, and I take no issue with that in any way. I like the GPL, I just don't agree that GPLed software is unrestricted.
The reason is say it is indisputable is because I am simply using the common definitions of the terms. You can redefine any of them to suit your purpose, but that doesn't actually change their meaning. It's effectively an argument about semantics, but in the context of the free software movement, I feel it's an important one. The goal of the GPL is best served through complete honesty and clarity. Intellectual masturbation, such as redefining terms, may feel good (or even great!), but it isn't productive.
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The US launch demand for the PS3 was artificially increased by the eBay scalpers. Once they started taking a bath and returning them, it was altogether fair to say the console was generally available. Not in the quantities on hand in Europe, of course, but definitely enough that people who care can get one.
No problem. I'll need your phone number, of course, and just to be safe your home address, social security number, mother's maiden name and place of employment. Wouldn't want to miss notifying you.
Understanding the speed limit is one thing. Driving under the speed limit in the left lane during rush hour is altogether a different story.
Check again, bub. Firefox spell checks since 2.0
Hot damn.
I think that's yet another stupid analogy.
Sorry for being flamish, but you asked and I answered honestly.
Dude, that was a 45 year old FBI agent posing as a woman.
"Without copyright the GPL would be unenforceable. It would also be unnecessary."
Even in the absence of copyright, there's no guaranteed way to get your hands on proprietary source code. Given the quote and this fact, it seems mighty clear to me that the freedom the FSF is interested in enforcing is the freedom to not pay for software.
Feel free to explain how someone who made the investments necessary to create something (be that time, money, materials, ideas, or whatever) can possibly compete against someone who simply takes those fruits and sells them or gives them away? While you're at it, please explain where the incentive to do the creation in the first place then appears.
The pirates are mad, and apparently they have mod points.
It is definitely a religious issue for some people.
The PS3 would be way better with HDMI and 1080P compared to XBMC which only plays 720p and very choppy 1080i and no HD content
720p isn't HD? You've destroyed my worldview. And my understanding of ATSC.
There were six at the Target in Falls Church last night. I can send one too you if you can sell it locally. I'm sure the three people earning more than $30,000 in the backwater of the DC metro region have already purchased theirs.
Your second example doesn't really count as infringing on mega-market cartels, and your first example is kind of nebulous. Do you have any other information?
Maybe you could recognize that not every body is the same, and just because you hold an opinion dearly, that doesn't necessarily make it so.
Oh, we're talking past each other, good sir. I joined the conversation to point out that your 'reasoning' is mostly insults.
So it is entirely about the fact that he may possibly make money from getting stories posted.
Nope, still don't get the hostility, but I'm not one of the Slashdotters who hates people making money. I'll chalk it up to being something I'll never get.
So all I had to do was add context not suggested by either the article, or your post, and it all made sense. I can see how that's reasonable.
What Linux zealots modded this up? It has nothing to do with the story, unless you count the tenuous Russian connection.
Linux > Microsoft. Now mod me up, too, sheep.
The insults you made were interesting. Little substance, overly personal, contributed nothing to the point, and made the assumption of personal superiority based on decisions made in the consumer market. Very Apple fan.
Great idea. We definitely want to spread the message that success is failure in the new economy, comrade.
I just don't get it at all. Is it entirely about the fact that he might make money through some tortured twists of logic? Is that what gets everyone so riled up? Seems like a serious waste of energy to hate the guy for that.
People will do it for free! And it'll be better than the commercial crap everybody hates but downloads anyway, because it'll be done only with pure motivation! All those video blogs of people picking their nose while discussing the latest developments in their crusade against disease-free personal areas will provide our entertainment.
I don't disagree that the GPL speaks for itself. I don't disagree that the GPL promotes freedom. I don't doubt that software covered under the GPL is free. I don't even dispute that the word free applies to the works, the license, and the entire philosophy.
At the same time, the GPL maintains said freedoms through restriction. Preventing covered software from becoming proprietary is restricting a freedom of the user. I agree that it is a necessary restriction, and I take no issue with that in any way. I like the GPL, I just don't agree that GPLed software is unrestricted.
The reason is say it is indisputable is because I am simply using the common definitions of the terms. You can redefine any of them to suit your purpose, but that doesn't actually change their meaning. It's effectively an argument about semantics, but in the context of the free software movement, I feel it's an important one. The goal of the GPL is best served through complete honesty and clarity. Intellectual masturbation, such as redefining terms, may feel good (or even great!), but it isn't productive.