It's for when you go on holiday, and you want to get cover for medical care if you are ill while on holiday, if someone robs you of your passport and things like that.
You would normally only buy it for out of the country travel.
We have had VAT on downloads in the EU for a few years now. It as a percentage of sales price depending on which country you live in, ranging from 15% to 25%.
As piratebay downloads are priced at €0.00, the VAT on that is €0.00 regardless of the rate used. You already paid VAT on the hard drive / blank DVD when you bought it.
You get those restrictions if you buy your phone from your phone company. However you don't have to buy it from them. I bought my Windows Mobile powered iPaq phone from HP, and there were absolutely no carrier restrictions on it.
Or, instead of the fake 404 you get at the moment if you try to visit a blacklisted site, you get a page saying the site you are trying to visit has been blacklisted by the IWF.
In Britain, you can pay off the balance at minimum amount each month under the old terms if you don't agree, but you won't be able to spend any more on the card.
Clicking on the "I Agree" button is a sort of signature, and good enough for the courts. Contracts don't need signatures, they just need evidence that both people agreed to it, and a signature is good evidence.
This plan wouldn't work because the software house didn't know that he had done it, so couldn't possibly agree to it. Getting them to sign it would show that they did know about it and therefore could and did agree to it.
What about the copy of exim they use to receive email? That presents an interface to the outside world. Should exim be released under the AGPL rather than the GPL? I don't think it should, because it would place too much of a burden on users of the software without any real benefit to the open source and free software communities.
Personally when I installed my server, I ticked the box for an smtp server and let it get on with it. I don't even know which one I got. Anyone who is interested in modifying smtp servers can find the source code for the servers used by Debian / Red Hat / SuSE etc very easily.
If, instead of a generic smtp server, it was a webmail system that rivalled Yahoo, Hotmail or GMail, then I may well expect to see it licenced under the AGPL.
It doesn't allow you to bring in materials from both licences, because the materials you bring in aren't dual licenced and hence can't be combined together.
Dual licencing allows other people from both camps to use your materials, so it is a good idea for that reason.
Stallman understands that in some cases, a strict copyleft licence isn't appropriate. He approved the LGPL licence for that reason, and in the case of ogg vorbis, he agrees that the BSD licence is the most appropriate.
I don't think Affero is appropriate in every case. Would it be reasonable to expect Slashdot to distribute the source code for every singe program they run on their webserver? Certainly, I can see a case for requiring distribution of the source code for Slashcode, maybe, but not all the other stuff that comes as part of a standard GNU/Linux distribution.
I'm not so sure. Spamvertised companies on the whole don't seem to survive very long. Sometimes this is because what they are selling is illegal, so they disappear with the money and create another identity before the authorities catch up with them, but mainly, I suspect they think there must be lots of money to be made out of spam, so pay the spam gangs lots of money to send spam out on their behalf.
Even if you were one of the few people who wanted to buy whatever they were selling, what is the chance that they follow up on your message rather than one of the thousands of other messages they get selling the same thing?
Last time your windows computer went down with a virus, I had to install a virus scanner for KMail, not because your viruses were in any way likely to infect my computer, but because there so many of the dammed things in my inbox that I needed something to filter them out so I could find my real mail amongst them.
And your infected Windows computer is the reason why my uninfectable Linux computer gets bombarded with so many ads for fake pills etc.
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But for the price of several of those, you could get a netbook, which is much more powerful.
And of course there are other phones that only support WML, probably not so many now as there used to be.
But this is a self-selected sample of people who have already adopted the "internet".
You don't have to buy it.
It's for when you go on holiday, and you want to get cover for medical care if you are ill while on holiday, if someone robs you of your passport and things like that.
You would normally only buy it for out of the country travel.
In Britain, we pay 5% insurance premium tax on auto insurance, and most other types of insurance. Travel insurance gets a 17.5% insurance premium tax.
Surely the property tax / non-domestic rates or whatever covers that?
And the on-line store will pay some property tax on their warehouse, but probably not as much as a chain of retail stores.
We have had VAT on downloads in the EU for a few years now. It as a percentage of sales price depending on which country you live in, ranging from 15% to 25%.
As piratebay downloads are priced at €0.00, the VAT on that is €0.00 regardless of the rate used. You already paid VAT on the hard drive / blank DVD when you bought it.
Activesync polls half hourly, and waits for 30 mins to see if it gets a response from the server.
RIM's offering requires special facilities to be installed on your cellphone network.
And can I run this on my MacBook without using Parallels or Boot Camp?
Or VMWare Fusion/Virtual Box etc before you mention them.
You get those restrictions if you buy your phone from your phone company. However you don't have to buy it from them. I bought my Windows Mobile powered iPaq phone from HP, and there were absolutely no carrier restrictions on it.
So he's thinking about developers, developers developers, developers, developers?
To what extent does a phone have to be "open"? You can call Nokias and T-Mobile customers from your iPhone without any problems.
Or, instead of the fake 404 you get at the moment if you try to visit a blacklisted site, you get a page saying the site you are trying to visit has been blacklisted by the IWF.
In Britain, you can pay off the balance at minimum amount each month under the old terms if you don't agree, but you won't be able to spend any more on the card.
Clicking on the "I Agree" button is a sort of signature, and good enough for the courts. Contracts don't need signatures, they just need evidence that both people agreed to it, and a signature is good evidence.
This plan wouldn't work because the software house didn't know that he had done it, so couldn't possibly agree to it. Getting them to sign it would show that they did know about it and therefore could and did agree to it.
Sharereactor did back in the days when it was still around.
I think it is mainly to keep up the myth that you can beat the house, which is what encourages most people to go there.
It is the term for sound recordings - currently 50 years, and it is proposed that it should be extended to 95 years.
What about the copy of exim they use to receive email? That presents an interface to the outside world. Should exim be released under the AGPL rather than the GPL? I don't think it should, because it would place too much of a burden on users of the software without any real benefit to the open source and free software communities.
Personally when I installed my server, I ticked the box for an smtp server and let it get on with it. I don't even know which one I got. Anyone who is interested in modifying smtp servers can find the source code for the servers used by Debian / Red Hat / SuSE etc very easily.
If, instead of a generic smtp server, it was a webmail system that rivalled Yahoo, Hotmail or GMail, then I may well expect to see it licenced under the AGPL.
It doesn't allow you to bring in materials from both licences, because the materials you bring in aren't dual licenced and hence can't be combined together.
Dual licencing allows other people from both camps to use your materials, so it is a good idea for that reason.
But now we in Europe are being asked to agree to a copyright term extension as part of a participation treaty with the US.
Stallman understands that in some cases, a strict copyleft licence isn't appropriate. He approved the LGPL licence for that reason, and in the case of ogg vorbis, he agrees that the BSD licence is the most appropriate.
I don't think Affero is appropriate in every case. Would it be reasonable to expect Slashdot to distribute the source code for every singe program they run on their webserver? Certainly, I can see a case for requiring distribution of the source code for Slashcode, maybe, but not all the other stuff that comes as part of a standard GNU/Linux distribution.
I'm not so sure. Spamvertised companies on the whole don't seem to survive very long. Sometimes this is because what they are selling is illegal, so they disappear with the money and create another identity before the authorities catch up with them, but mainly, I suspect they think there must be lots of money to be made out of spam, so pay the spam gangs lots of money to send spam out on their behalf.
Even if you were one of the few people who wanted to buy whatever they were selling, what is the chance that they follow up on your message rather than one of the thousands of other messages they get selling the same thing?
Last time your windows computer went down with a virus, I had to install a virus scanner for KMail, not because your viruses were in any way likely to infect my computer, but because there so many of the dammed things in my inbox that I needed something to filter them out so I could find my real mail amongst them.
And your infected Windows computer is the reason why my uninfectable Linux computer gets bombarded with so many ads for fake pills etc.