But if you *are* an online retail outlet, and you receive an order enquiry from a potential customer you've never heard of before, then that is a very different matter.
When people get done for selling fake Nike clothes, Rolex watches and so on, they are prosecuted for trademark violation, not copyright infringement.
You see other people who sell things that look almost identical to these, but have a different name on them, and the trading standards people are OK with that. As long as nobody thinks they are buying Nike or Rolex or whatever, then there isn't a problem.
Looking specifically at cars, the other problem would be getting regulatary approval for your manufacturing operation from the safety and environmental people, and of course there may be patents on some bits of the car.
Well the requirement to have a separate chairman and CEO came about as a result of whatever your equivalent of the Cadbury Committee report is. I believe it is the Sarbanes Oxeley Act.
The Chairman is responsible for the overall strategy of the company, and the CEO is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of that strategy.
If this is how Microsoft does it, then Bill Gates will say "lets start doing games consoles", and Steve Ballmer will decide to call it the XBox, set the development budget, assign people to the XBox team and so on.
Bill Gates would decide "lets abandon the Mac browser market to Safari and Camimo", and "lets not abandon the Windows browser market to Firefox".
Maybe true, but my stats show them separately. You can tell AOL and other versions of IE apart.
It shows Mozilla and Netscape as two different things. Included in Netscape is v. 6+ which are much the same as Mozilla, and 4- which are completely different.
The reason is because Bill Gates is not stupid. He isn't going to wait until MS has lost their market share before doing something about, he will make sure it never happens.
BTW IE is losing market share to Mozilla, though at the moment, the numbers are pretty small.
Would it be possible to write an extension to Konqueror that displays pretty mouse cursors when you visit certain sites (and by the way displays a load of pop-up ads and phones home with your browsing habits)?
Absolutely, yes.
Would it be possible to presuade clueless computer users to install it.
Again, yes.
I get a lot of viruses in my spam folder, and most of them try to persuade the recipient to run a binary executable. Some even put it in a password protected zip file. It may be a security flaw with Windows/Outlook, but more importantly, it is a security flaw with the person sitting on front of the screen.
I seem to get a very large number of viruses with.pif and.scr attachments. Presumably Outlook must be propagating them.
I also get a lot of them where they are in.zip files, and sometimes password protected.zip files. This may be to confuse mail filters and virus scanners.
Why is that? Microsoft's presence in the ERM market is pretty small. They have Microsoft Money, which is very much the other end of the market, Navision and Great Plains which are OK but not that huge.
Both of them are trademark cases, and while they can be a bit of a nuisance, they aren't anything like as bad as patent cases. It's usually possible to work round a trademark violation - you can change the name. Can cost a bit of money, and is a pain if you have built up brand recognition under the old name, but it can be done.
Patents, on the other hand usually can't be worked around without making your product inferior to the competition.
Artists still make around 1/2 their money from live performances, on average.
Of course, the likes of Britney Spears takes most of the recorded music money, whereas live performances money is spread out among a lot more artists. So for most artists, live performances is where they make most of their money.
There is no "right to bear arms" in the European Declaration of Human Rights. Only a right to life. And bearing arms is not considered to be compatible with that.
If you photocopy a recipe from a book, then that would be copyright infringement. However the idea of mixing various different types of food in a certain way to get a particular end result is not covered by copyright law, it is covered by patent law.
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But if you *are* an online retail outlet, and you receive an order enquiry from a potential customer you've never heard of before, then that is a very different matter.
And remember that of course, Iraqi law didn't recognise american copyrights until a few weeks ago, so these $10 CDrs were completely legal.
When people get done for selling fake Nike clothes, Rolex watches and so on, they are prosecuted for trademark violation, not copyright infringement.
You see other people who sell things that look almost identical to these, but have a different name on them, and the trading standards people are OK with that. As long as nobody thinks they are buying Nike or Rolex or whatever, then there isn't a problem.
Looking specifically at cars, the other problem would be getting regulatary approval for your manufacturing operation from the safety and environmental people, and of course there may be patents on some bits of the car.
I don't think copyright would be an issue though.
Well the requirement to have a separate chairman and CEO came about as a result of whatever your equivalent of the Cadbury Committee report is. I believe it is the Sarbanes Oxeley Act.
The Chairman is responsible for the overall strategy of the company, and the CEO is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of that strategy.
If this is how Microsoft does it, then Bill Gates will say "lets start doing games consoles", and Steve Ballmer will decide to call it the XBox, set the development budget, assign people to the XBox team and so on.
Bill Gates would decide "lets abandon the Mac browser market to Safari and Camimo", and "lets not abandon the Windows browser market to Firefox".
Maybe true, but my stats show them separately. You can tell AOL and other versions of IE apart.
It shows Mozilla and Netscape as two different things. Included in Netscape is v. 6+ which are much the same as Mozilla, and 4- which are completely different.
Depending on where you look, ie's market share is between about 89% and 95%. Apparently smaller for business than home users.
For my site, the figures are
ie - 47.9%
Mozilla - 20.25%
Netscape - 11.39%
Konqueror - 2.92%
Opera - 2.28%
AOL - 2.09%
Links / Lynx - 0.59%
The reason is because Bill Gates is not stupid. He isn't going to wait until MS has lost their market share before doing something about, he will make sure it never happens.
BTW IE is losing market share to Mozilla, though at the moment, the numbers are pretty small.
Would it be possible to write an extension to Konqueror that displays pretty mouse cursors when you visit certain sites (and by the way displays a load of pop-up ads and phones home with your browsing habits)?
Absolutely, yes.
Would it be possible to presuade clueless computer users to install it.
Again, yes.
I get a lot of viruses in my spam folder, and most of them try to persuade the recipient to run a binary executable. Some even put it in a password protected zip file. It may be a security flaw with Windows/Outlook, but more importantly, it is a security flaw with the person sitting on front of the screen.
28 is probably what you get when you average the slashdot readers with the AOL users.
And remember, the people who take their computer for repair are probably worse than average.
In other words, it will make drive-by downloading illegal - if it wasn't already illegal.
In the UK, it is illegal under the Computer Misuse Act, and I'm sure there is an American equivalent of this.
France was opposed to the US invasion of Iraq, and since then, they have been declared "unamerican".
I seem to get a very large number of viruses with .pif and .scr attachments. Presumably Outlook must be propagating them.
.zip files, and sometimes password protected .zip files. This may be to confuse mail filters and virus scanners.
I also get a lot of them where they are in
Just as long as you don't all start slashdotting ed2k://|file|startup.com.avi|735004672|C04A007D22E AF24585CC52D9E9718196|/
It may not be a legal copy.
Why is that? Microsoft's presence in the ERM market is pretty small. They have Microsoft Money, which is very much the other end of the market, Navision and Great Plains which are OK but not that huge.
True, that one as well.
Both of them are trademark cases, and while they can be a bit of a nuisance, they aren't anything like as bad as patent cases. It's usually possible to work round a trademark violation - you can change the name. Can cost a bit of money, and is a pain if you have built up brand recognition under the old name, but it can be done.
Patents, on the other hand usually can't be worked around without making your product inferior to the competition.
To be fair, I don't think Microsoft generally sue people over stupid things, with the possible exception of Lindows/Linspire.
My inbox gets infested with worms, and I use Kontact/KMail.
It doesn't do me much harm other than the fact that I have to wait for around 30 of the things to download every day and run though spam assassin.
But that's bad enough.
Artists still make around 1/2 their money from live performances, on average.
Of course, the likes of Britney Spears takes most of the recorded music money, whereas live performances money is spread out among a lot more artists. So for most artists, live performances is where they make most of their money.
Try searching for UK sites about "Tony Martin" in your favourite search engine.
He was a farmer, so was permitted to have a gun to shoot animals, but he wasn't allowed to use it to defend himself against a burglar.
There is no "right to bear arms" in the European Declaration of Human Rights. Only a right to life. And bearing arms is not considered to be compatible with that.
It is also rape according to the sexual offences act. A drunk woman is unable to give their consent to sex.
Or go to PLF for the really naughty stuff like p2p programs.
If you photocopy a recipe from a book, then that would be copyright infringement. However the idea of mixing various different types of food in a certain way to get a particular end result is not covered by copyright law, it is covered by patent law.
They can only copyright information they created themselves, and if they did create it themselves, they already have copyright without doing anything.
Of course, there are public interest exemptions.
Probably not, because daylight does affect your tiredness levels.