We have the EUCD which does pretty much the same thing as the DMCA. Perhaps region free players aren't covered as they aren't a copy protection system.
Or perhaps the fact that some Region 5 countries are now in the EU which is mostly Region 2 means that interstate trade issues take priority.
ActiveX lets a website look at what is on your computer and change things.
Usually that isn't a good idea, but for WindowsUpdate, it is kinda necessary.
On Mandrake, I have to use a separate program to do updates to my system. I don't really have a problem with the idea that Windows is like that as well.
You need to think about the supply and demand curves.
As the price of renting a building increases, less people will be willing to rent one.
As the income received from renting a building decreases, less people will be willing to rent one out.
So in a free market you end up with an equilibrium price where the number of people wanting to pay to rent a building and the number of landowners willing to take money to rent a building out are the same. This price is called the market price.
If you introduce a tax, such as a property tax, a sales tax, or a purchase tax, this will disturb the equilibrium. If the tenant has to pay it, it increases the cost of renting the building, so they will be less willing to rent it. If the landlord has to pay it, it will reduce the income they receive, so they will be less willing to rent it out.
In practice, both will usually end up paying part of it. How much will depend on the steepness of the supply/demand curves. If they are already in a long term contract when the tax is introduced / withdrawn / changed, then the changes may not take place straight away.
Here in England, I rent my house, and I have to pay property taxes (we call it Council Tax) on it. The amount I pay is exactly the same as if I owned it.
While you don't own the software itself, you own a licence to use the software, and it is ownership of that licence that brings economic benefit to your company.
It is the same as if you lease a car, or a building, or any other asset.
I check the bbc website on my phone at lunch time using Pocket IE, and it doesn't cost me a huge amount of money.
There is a mozilla based browser available It is way to slow and unstable at the moment, but websites are more likely to work in it. When it improves, I will switch to it.
But these drugs have already been developed, and have been in use for thousands of years.
Patenting these drugs is not going to incentivise Indian scientists from thousands of years ago to invent more of them.
Of course, if someone were to come up with a new and non-obvious treatment based on one of these drugs, they could patent that, but not the original drug it was based on.
These are things that have *already* been invented, and were invented without the need for patents, or perhaps even because the lack of patents meant that these people could build existing knowledge without having to get someone else's permission, and without having to pay a lawyer to get it through the courts.
Most of the time, the US believes that the free market, free of government interference is the best way forward, and I totally agree. Even, or especially where the development of knowledge and ideas is concerned.
And in any case, if I want to visit IBM, I may well be more interested in my local office, so I might choose to visit ibm.co.uk to see what is available in my country.
Well certainly you do sometimes here in the news, maybe once every 3 years or so, that someone was run down by an ambulance. It certainly isn't very common, but it does sometimes happen.
The loss arising from allowing ambulances to speed is that they ocassionally run people over when they are speeding to an emergency. However, as long as the loss of life from this is less than the additional lives saved by getting to the emergency quickly, then that is considered a suitable trade off.
As far as I'm aware, the Vatican is the only european country that recognises Taiwan. For those of you who haven't heard of it, it is a small city state in the middle of Rome where the Pope lives.
Yes, you will be able to get the results of the research.
You can get copies of the claims in privately held patents as well, but that doesn't give you the legal right to use the information in them until such time as the patent expires.
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We have the EUCD which does pretty much the same thing as the DMCA. Perhaps region free players aren't covered as they aren't a copy protection system.
Or perhaps the fact that some Region 5 countries are now in the EU which is mostly Region 2 means that interstate trade issues take priority.
ActiveX lets a website look at what is on your computer and change things.
Usually that isn't a good idea, but for WindowsUpdate, it is kinda necessary.
On Mandrake, I have to use a separate program to do updates to my system. I don't really have a problem with the idea that Windows is like that as well.
You don't own the GPL itself, just like you don't own the Microsoft EULA, but you own your rights to use the software under the GPL.
However, if you didn't pay anything for it, then the taxable value would be $0.
If you paid money for a support contract from Red Hat, that might be worth something though.
It's not quite as simple as that.
You need to think about the supply and demand curves.
As the price of renting a building increases, less people will be willing to rent one.
As the income received from renting a building decreases, less people will be willing to rent one out.
So in a free market you end up with an equilibrium price where the number of people wanting to pay to rent a building and the number of landowners willing to take money to rent a building out are the same. This price is called the market price.
If you introduce a tax, such as a property tax, a sales tax, or a purchase tax, this will disturb the equilibrium. If the tenant has to pay it, it increases the cost of renting the building, so they will be less willing to rent it. If the landlord has to pay it, it will reduce the income they receive, so they will be less willing to rent it out.
In practice, both will usually end up paying part of it. How much will depend on the steepness of the supply/demand curves. If they are already in a long term contract when the tax is introduced / withdrawn / changed, then the changes may not take place straight away.
Here in England, I rent my house, and I have to pay property taxes (we call it Council Tax) on it. The amount I pay is exactly the same as if I owned it.
While you don't own the software itself, you own a licence to use the software, and it is ownership of that licence that brings economic benefit to your company.
It is the same as if you lease a car, or a building, or any other asset.
It certainly matters for competition laws in Norway. They can and will stop foreign companies dominating the market.
Any webmail service would require registration to retrieve the information it displays - the email sent to you.
And if you are deaf/blind, email is pretty much the only way you can communicate.
Well computers are a lot faster now than they were then, so the trade off between stability and performance will be a lot different now.
Depends where abouts in the world you are.
I check the bbc website on my phone at lunch time using Pocket IE, and it doesn't cost me a huge amount of money.
There is a mozilla based browser available It is way to slow and unstable at the moment, but websites are more likely to work in it. When it improves, I will switch to it.
But these drugs have already been developed, and have been in use for thousands of years.
Patenting these drugs is not going to incentivise Indian scientists from thousands of years ago to invent more of them.
Of course, if someone were to come up with a new and non-obvious treatment based on one of these drugs, they could patent that, but not the original drug it was based on.
These are things that have *already* been invented, and were invented without the need for patents, or perhaps even because the lack of patents meant that these people could build existing knowledge without having to get someone else's permission, and without having to pay a lawyer to get it through the courts.
Most of the time, the US believes that the free market, free of government interference is the best way forward, and I totally agree. Even, or especially where the development of knowledge and ideas is concerned.
On my Windows computer, Firefox is reported as the highest memory using program, using 109MB(!?).
Symantec is using 1.4MB.
Norton Antivirus is pretty crappy, but the more expensive Symantec Antivirus never annoys me, and doesn't noticeably slow down my computer.
I've not yet had a virus for it to detect, mainly because my email comes into a computer running Mandrake, so I've no idea how good it is at that.
That is what .com is for.
And in any case, if I want to visit IBM, I may well be more interested in my local office, so I might choose to visit ibm.co.uk to see what is available in my country.
And who persuaded DeWomen? It is called pester power in the trade.
It's based on outsourcing manufacturing to China, which is much cheaper than making them in Denmark.
Yes there is. However the maximum penalty is a fine of £5,000, so in this case, it isn't really worth worrying about.
No. Unlike the GPL, you don't have to release your own code as free software, but you must still respect the rights of the code you are copying.
Not really, because it wasn't for the purpose of accessing your copyrighted materials, such as your word documents.
It would be more along the lines of the Computer Misuse Act or whatever the equivalent is where you are.
Well certainly you do sometimes here in the news, maybe once every 3 years or so, that someone was run down by an ambulance. It certainly isn't very common, but it does sometimes happen.
The loss arising from allowing ambulances to speed is that they ocassionally run people over when they are speeding to an emergency. However, as long as the loss of life from this is less than the additional lives saved by getting to the emergency quickly, then that is considered a suitable trade off.
It isn't operating in a free market if there are government imposed barriers to entry into this market in the form of patents.
Patents are lots of things, free market isn't one of them.
As far as I'm aware, the Vatican is the only european country that recognises Taiwan. For those of you who haven't heard of it, it is a small city state in the middle of Rome where the Pope lives.
Yes, you will be able to get the results of the research.
You can get copies of the claims in privately held patents as well, but that doesn't give you the legal right to use the information in them until such time as the patent expires.