It is so clear cut that it has never needed to be tested in court. In every case, they have settled outside court as they realise they have no chance whatsoever or winning in court.
There are a couple of cases in Germany that were found in favour of the free software author.
Let me explain how clear cut this is:
If you are accused of copyright infringement, you can say one of three things
1. I didn't copy it 2. I did copy it, but I have your permission 3. I did copy it without permission.
1. Will be a finding of fact, not a legal argument.
3. Means you are immediately found guilty.
2. Requires you to accept that the GPL is valid, and that you complied with its conditions.
Claiming that the GPL is invalid isn't an option you have. If you claim that the GPL is not valid, this means you don't have permission to copy so 3. applies, and you are immediately found guilty.
It may be true that only a small no of europeans visit the US, but it is probably a lot more than the number of americans who visit europe.
Also, it probably doesn't cost that much more to add CDMA support to the phone, and when people compare it with the potential extra cost of getting a whole new handset if they go to the US, they probably think it is worth the extra money.
From what I can see, new models are generally introduced first in Japan, then in Europe and finally in the US. So what is available in Europe now is what you will be seeing in the US in a couple of years time.
Pink slips are an american thing. It will be something different in Norway. In the UK and in Ireland, they are called P45s. In the UK, they are coloured green. I don't know what colour the Irish P45s are.
The code that renders the font on paper and on the screen is copyrighted, and can be licenced under the GPL.
We are not talking about the shapes of the letters here, but things like the hinting code to tell the computer what to do in a low resolution environment.
In the US, fonts are not copyrightable. Only "font software" is copyrightable.
Elsewhere, fonts themselves are copyrightable, but once they are used in a document, the copyright holder of the font has no rights to royalties etc in respect of them.
I am an accountant, and I can confirm that what you say is correct.
There are some companies that donate their entire profits to charity. They are mostly trading subsidiaries of the charity in question, and they pay their profits to the charity as a donation rather than as dividends so that they don't have to pay any tax on their profits.
> As you can see, barely half of India is literate. > Even in urban areas, it's only 78%. Obviously you > don't need an incredibly well-educated general > population to be competitive.
Maybe only half of India's population is literate, but half of India's population is a lot of people. It is more than the combined populations of the USA and pre May 04 European Union.
In help/about or similar, you should have something like
ecklesweb v 2.3 (c) ecklessoft 2005 This program is free software. You may distribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU general public licence as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of this licence, or at your option, any later version.
You should have received a copy of this licence with the program. If not, please write to...
I'm surprised that you still have $1 as paper money. That is about the same value as the old British 10 shilling note which has been out of circulation for a very long time now. The new 50p coin came out to replace that in 1969. The notes would have gone out of circulation sometime after that.
The smallest paper note we have now is £5, which is about $9.50
I use DNS blocklists for the simple reason that they work, and they work with a lot less CPU time than content analysis filters such as SpamAssassin.
I don't use MAPS, but my experience with the ones I do use, such as SPEWS and Spamhaus is that it blocks around 90% of my incoming spam with very few false positives. While they continue to produce these results, I will continue to use these filters to manage my incoming mail.
I use SpamAssassin on the remaining 10% of the spam, and it catches most of the rest of them. I could use it on all of them, but it would take too long to check my email if I did that.
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It is so clear cut that it has never needed to be tested in court. In every case, they have settled outside court as they realise they have no chance whatsoever or winning in court.
There are a couple of cases in Germany that were found in favour of the free software author.
Let me explain how clear cut this is:
If you are accused of copyright infringement, you can say one of three things
1. I didn't copy it
2. I did copy it, but I have your permission
3. I did copy it without permission.
1. Will be a finding of fact, not a legal argument.
3. Means you are immediately found guilty.
2. Requires you to accept that the GPL is valid, and that you complied with its conditions.
Claiming that the GPL is invalid isn't an option you have. If you claim that the GPL is not valid, this means you don't have permission to copy so 3. applies, and you are immediately found guilty.
And in Scotland, though I believe they charge about £10 there.
It may be true that only a small no of europeans visit the US, but it is probably a lot more than the number of americans who visit europe.
Also, it probably doesn't cost that much more to add CDMA support to the phone, and when people compare it with the potential extra cost of getting a whole new handset if they go to the US, they probably think it is worth the extra money.
From what I can see, new models are generally introduced first in Japan, then in Europe and finally in the US. So what is available in Europe now is what you will be seeing in the US in a couple of years time.
So that people can still use their phones when they go to countries which have CDMA - mainly the US. And the US is a popular holiday destination.
Perhaps american phones are different, but pretty much all phones here, except the very cheapest will support both GSM and CDMA.
My GSM service can roam on CDMA networks, provided I have a tri-band handset, which I do.
But then it is O2 - a UK network, not one of the american networks.
Having said that, we have T-Mobile over here, and they are also able to roam on CDMA networks.
Detrimental to who?
If the Chinese make 1bn copies of MS Office without Bill's permission, who suffers?
Is it Microsoft? Or is it OpenOffice.org?
In the civilised or otherwise UK, I've never heard of this happening.
The police get shot when dealing with murderers etc.
> I also see a pink slip on your horizon.
Pink slips are an american thing. It will be something different in Norway. In the UK and in Ireland, they are called P45s. In the UK, they are coloured green. I don't know what colour the Irish P45s are.
The only thing that is copyrightable is the computer program that draws the font on the screen/paper.
If you run this program and use the output of it to create a postscript document, then distributing the postscript document is not infringment.
The code that renders the font on paper and on the screen is copyrighted, and can be licenced under the GPL.
We are not talking about the shapes of the letters here, but things like the hinting code to tell the computer what to do in a low resolution environment.
In the US, fonts are not copyrightable. Only "font software" is copyrightable.
Elsewhere, fonts themselves are copyrightable, but once they are used in a document, the copyright holder of the font has no rights to royalties etc in respect of them.
The people could say no to you using the road, but without any police or courts to enforce it, it might not get them anywhere.
I am an accountant, and I can confirm that what you say is correct.
There are some companies that donate their entire profits to charity. They are mostly trading subsidiaries of the charity in question, and they pay their profits to the charity as a donation rather than as dividends so that they don't have to pay any tax on their profits.
But then, Lotus is Yellow, and that seems to work fine.
> As you can see, barely half of India is literate.
> Even in urban areas, it's only 78%. Obviously you
> don't need an incredibly well-educated general
> population to be competitive.
Maybe only half of India's population is literate, but half of India's population is a lot of people. It is more than the combined populations of the USA and pre May 04 European Union.
VOIP will help P2P because VOIP programs such as Skype support conference calls.
You have a conference call where everyone listens into some song being played and they make their own recording of it.
In help/about or similar, you should have something like
...
ecklesweb v 2.3
(c) ecklessoft 2005
This program is free software. You may distribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU general public licence as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of this licence, or at your option, any later version.
You should have received a copy of this licence with the program. If not, please write to
When you purchase a laptop, the Windows installation media states specifically "not for resale" comma, but that is totally unenforceable.
I'm surprised that you still have $1 as paper money. That is about the same value as the old British 10 shilling note which has been out of circulation for a very long time now. The new 50p coin came out to replace that in 1969. The notes would have gone out of circulation sometime after that.
The smallest paper note we have now is £5, which is about $9.50
I suggest you read some of RMS's writings.
There is nothing in the GPL or most other free software licences that requires you to make your software available for free on an ftp site.
It is perfectly OK to sell it and make money from selling it.
What you can't do is prevent the people you sell it to from making it available on an ftp site if they choose to do this.
It's not the first thing they've released under an opensource or free software licence.
Their MSI thing is a free software project hosted on sourceforge, and their services for unix contains a lot of free software from the GNU system.
And how much enery would you actually save?
As I see it, the most I would save is 11Wh of electricity per day from not having my light switched on for one hour more than usual.
Hydro Electric charges me about 7p per kWh, so that is a total saving of 28p per year.
I use DNS blocklists for the simple reason that they work, and they work with a lot less CPU time than content analysis filters such as SpamAssassin.
I don't use MAPS, but my experience with the ones I do use, such as SPEWS and Spamhaus is that it blocks around 90% of my incoming spam with very few false positives. While they continue to produce these results, I will continue to use these filters to manage my incoming mail.
I use SpamAssassin on the remaining 10% of the spam, and it catches most of the rest of them. I could use it on all of them, but it would take too long to check my email if I did that.
You say this model is very different to every other business model.
Let me give you an example of a business model this is similar to: A property developer.
You spend lots of money building an office block. Once you have finished, you can rent it out, and earn lots of money every month from your work.