The patent isn't necessarily for the whole product. There will be different patents on different parts of the product. And much like the software patents we sometimes look at, they will be written in unintelligible lawyer-speak.
In the US, what you say is true, because US farming is very inefficient. It is less true in Europe, and certainly not true at all in other parts of the world.
That has changed now with the new money laundering regulations. Now they are required to report such things to the National Criminal Intelligence Service.
A two minute international call from the UK to the US costs less than that. You can get 2p per minute if you shop around, which is about $0.07. I would have thought long distance within the US would be less than that.
It says that the GPL is "a subversive bit of lawyering that turns property law on its head by prohibiting the users of open-source software from charging money for it".
That, as anyone who is familiar with the GPL, and with RMS's views, is completely wrong. You can charge money for it, many people do, and RMS thinks this is a good thing.
There is plenty wrong with him denying people the use of their email facilities.
Even forgetting that, there is plenty wrong with what he is selling. Vicodin is a Class A drug in the UK and presumably similar elsewhere, so selling that gets you a life sentence.
A burger flipper in McDonalds may well earn more than a street level crack dealer, but McDonalds will sack you if they find out you are on drugs. You won't be sacked as a dealer for being on drugs.
For people on drugs, the only option they really have is a job sucking other people into it.
It isn't a DMCA violation if they own the copyright. They can give people permission to copy the music onto their ipod, and they can tell people how they would prefer them to do it.
Openoffice.org and WordPerfect Office have had pdf support for long enough. They are only catching up with competition. I don't think that is anti-competitive.
Netscape opened the code in around 1996 when they still had just under 50% of the market. It wasn't until 2004 with the release of Mozilla Firefox that they finally had something that could challenge Internet Explorer.
If they had something in 1998 that wasn't quite so good as Firefox, but better than Netscape 4, then maybe Microsoft wouldn't have so completely taken over the market.
I mostly agree with you. A couple of things though.
There is no need to have kiosks selling ram cards. Your book would have internet access, or at least a bluetooth connection to your mobile phone so you could buy them online from an itunes style interface.
Secondly, it isn't a case of getting the finance to launch it. You have to persuade the book publishers that it is a good idea and that it wouldn't lead to rampant so called "piracy" that would destroy their business. At least one of them, Warner Publishing, is the same as a large record company, and I'm sure you know what they are like.
Think of a bank producing bank statements, as long as all the pages for one customer come out the same machine, it doesn't matter that the statement for another customer is sitting on the out tray at the other side of the room.
Since Chip & Pin was introduced. The French have had it for about 10 years now, the British for about a year.
When you buy something in a shop, you put the card in a machine, enter the PIN number, and if the machine says the number is right, it takes your money and you take your goods.
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The patent isn't necessarily for the whole product. There will be different patents on different parts of the product. And much like the software patents we sometimes look at, they will be written in unintelligible lawyer-speak.
It has already been done for AIDS drugs. Look at South Africa, the country with the largest AIDS population in the world.
Ford Focus a small car?
Try the Ford Ka. Or the Smart Car. They are small cars.
Expand biofuel to include wood, and people have been using it for thousands of years without any other source of energy to grow the trees.
In the US, what you say is true, because US farming is very inefficient. It is less true in Europe, and certainly not true at all in other parts of the world.
I don't have mod points at the moment, otherwise I would moderate this as insightful rather than funny.
It is certainly very very true.
That has changed now with the new money laundering regulations. Now they are required to report such things to the National Criminal Intelligence Service.
As much as $.10?
A two minute international call from the UK to the US costs less than that. You can get 2p per minute if you shop around, which is about $0.07. I would have thought long distance within the US would be less than that.
It says that the GPL is "a subversive bit of lawyering that turns property law on its head by prohibiting the users of open-source software from charging money for it".
That, as anyone who is familiar with the GPL, and with RMS's views, is completely wrong. You can charge money for it, many people do, and RMS thinks this is a good thing.
What do you mean not doing anything wrong?
There is plenty wrong with him denying people the use of their email facilities.
Even forgetting that, there is plenty wrong with what he is selling. Vicodin is a Class A drug in the UK and presumably similar elsewhere, so selling that gets you a life sentence.
A burger flipper in McDonalds may well earn more than a street level crack dealer, but McDonalds will sack you if they find out you are on drugs. You won't be sacked as a dealer for being on drugs.
For people on drugs, the only option they really have is a job sucking other people into it.
I understand it as an attempt at least at translating our "In Soviet Russia" joke.
That may be so, but most of the population struggle even with the documented features of their device, nevermind applying cracks to them.
Translated from Italian to English
"In fascist Italy, the notebook publishes you."
It isn't a DMCA violation if they own the copyright. They can give people permission to copy the music onto their ipod, and they can tell people how they would prefer them to do it.
Openoffice.org and WordPerfect Office have had pdf support for long enough. They are only catching up with competition. I don't think that is anti-competitive.
I don't agree. Most artists don't do it for the money, they do it for love.
Art that is done for money is generally crap.
Yes it was a major mistake.
Netscape opened the code in around 1996 when they still had just under 50% of the market. It wasn't until 2004 with the release of Mozilla Firefox that they finally had something that could challenge Internet Explorer.
If they had something in 1998 that wasn't quite so good as Firefox, but better than Netscape 4, then maybe Microsoft wouldn't have so completely taken over the market.
I mostly agree with you. A couple of things though.
There is no need to have kiosks selling ram cards. Your book would have internet access, or at least a bluetooth connection to your mobile phone so you could buy them online from an itunes style interface.
Secondly, it isn't a case of getting the finance to launch it. You have to persuade the book publishers that it is a good idea and that it wouldn't lead to rampant so called "piracy" that would destroy their business. At least one of them, Warner Publishing, is the same as a large record company, and I'm sure you know what they are like.
Do you need to combine them?
Think of a bank producing bank statements, as long as all the pages for one customer come out the same machine, it doesn't matter that the statement for another customer is sitting on the out tray at the other side of the room.
I am posting this on 64 a bit Mandriva system. 1GB is more than I need to do what I'm doing here, and I'm not even touching swap.
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Tasks: 135 total, 1 running, 134 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
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Head hunters do exist. Mainly at the top end of the job market - at boardroom level and just below.
In england, it would be theft of electricity, which unlike copyright infringement, is recognised as a real form of theft.
I'm sure somewhere in Micheal's minutes, it says they run Red Hat. Linspire is not designed or marketed as a server OS.
Since Chip & Pin was introduced. The French have had it for about 10 years now, the British for about a year.
When you buy something in a shop, you put the card in a machine, enter the PIN number, and if the machine says the number is right, it takes your money and you take your goods.