Well, 18 sounds like an odd number. Let us set copyright limits to 20 years (renewable every 20 years until max 20 years past creator's death if creator/owner is a person, no renewals allowed for businesses). Considering the costs involved in coming up with patentable products, I'd rather keep with what I originally said.
I concur with your reasoning of why things won't change (or at least why not for the better), but there are also the copyright Conventions that the major nations (with, IIRC, the exception of China) have signed. Changing domestic IP laws isn't as difficult than changing IP laws for the industrialized world as a whole.
Perhaps another reason to move towards One World Government (secretly run by people like ourselves, of course).
Not only are they fighting themselves to rid themselves of traditional weapons of mass destruction, they are also working towards eliminating IP weapons of mass destruction.
*sigh* If only it were true... Save me a lot of time and trouble.
All IP law needs a complete reworking. Patents should be limited to no more than 5 years (with perhaps 5 more with a renewal - only one allowed), and at the most, copyrights should last no more than 40 years past creator's death (or if corporate owned, 40 years from creation).
Now all we need to do is figure out how to keep the brain cells replicating as quickly as they die. We won't need weak HOO-MAN bodies anymore (except the brain)!
I think he means like toolbars in MS Office and such apps, where you can move the toolbars themselves to different locations in the toolbar dock or just make them float freely.
Chances are, you'll have to build it yourself. Check out http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/build. html for instructions, and then don't forget to make your build available for others!
BTW, to the person who modded the parent comment down, you're a dumbass. That wasn't offtopic.
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This has been discussed elsewhere (here on Slashdot, I believe, or maybe at Groklaw), that a contract != license.
Oh, yes, here it is: The GPL is a License, Not a Contract, Which is Why the Sky Isn't Falling.
pwned.
Well, 18 sounds like an odd number. Let us set copyright limits to 20 years (renewable every 20 years until max 20 years past creator's death if creator/owner is a person, no renewals allowed for businesses). Considering the costs involved in coming up with patentable products, I'd rather keep with what I originally said.
I concur with your reasoning of why things won't change (or at least why not for the better), but there are also the copyright Conventions that the major nations (with, IIRC, the exception of China) have signed. Changing domestic IP laws isn't as difficult than changing IP laws for the industrialized world as a whole.
Perhaps another reason to move towards One World Government (secretly run by people like ourselves, of course).
Not only are they fighting themselves to rid themselves of traditional weapons of mass destruction, they are also working towards eliminating IP weapons of mass destruction.
*sigh* If only it were true... Save me a lot of time and trouble.
All IP law needs a complete reworking. Patents should be limited to no more than 5 years (with perhaps 5 more with a renewal - only one allowed), and at the most, copyrights should last no more than 40 years past creator's death (or if corporate owned, 40 years from creation).
And so on...
As in, Brain2Brain!
If I get one of these, I'll figure out how to run BitTorrent on it. Then I can download anime fansubs with a mere thought!
Now all we need to do is figure out how to keep the brain cells replicating as quickly as they die. We won't need weak HOO-MAN bodies anymore (except the brain)!
I think he means like toolbars in MS Office and such apps, where you can move the toolbars themselves to different locations in the toolbar dock or just make them float freely.
Chances are, you'll have to build it yourself. Check out http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/build. html for instructions, and then don't forget to make your build available for others!
BTW, to the person who modded the parent comment down, you're a dumbass. That wasn't offtopic.
Why would a mail client need ActiveX support? You're thinking of Firebird, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/
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Not to put it down or anything, but Mozilla too suffers from much bloat. Though that isn't AOL's fault this time... :p
Hopefully with Firebird and Thunderbird, though, a lot of that bloat will get shaved off, and at the same time make Mozilla much nicer for end users.