DRM have two key moral drawbacks: 1) It assumes that the user is criminal 2) It needs to modify the user's terminal to work.
Basically you cannot have DRM without having an electronic big brother resident on your computer.
It is basically the same as having a cop resident in your home, assuming that if you would not have a cop there you would be unable to resist ther temptation of abusing your children.
Just think of the "lightest" DRM possible, that would be a piece of software recording everything that goes through on the off chance that you do something illegal.
It would not actually stop you but just enable the government to punish you adequatelly if you would be found out.
It would be perfectly "user friendly", but you would/should freak out because of the privacy issues.
And you might resent the fact that this "spy" can only be installed on your computer (or player or phone) if the computer has an "approuved" operating system, (since it has to interact with the OS) This not only destroy any pretence of Free/Open Source option, it also implies that ANY alternative operating system needs to "ask for permission" from the DRM manufacturer.
Well in short DRM are made by people that are evil, and think everybody else is too, and it is not about "fair use" and "protecting the artist" but all about monopoly market control.
That is the reason Apple dropped the "Computer" of their name. They want the same profit margin as Nike.
Why do people pay 120 for a pair of shooes that they can get for 29 (made in the same sweat shops in China, Tunisia or Indonesia,....) ?
And the fact that you cannot download "third party software" means that the operator can better control what you are allowed to use, and therefore they will factor this in to "lower the price of acquisition".
In otherword you will probably see the "cool phone" at 600$ if you want to choose your operator, and at 99$ if you use "the right one". Actually anything that is around the price of a similar iPod will get the iPhone to move.
Well the only thing you can do with a bad Apple(tm) is throw it through the Windows(tm);-)
It ain't true, geeks do not really dislike some much non-geek but experience has taught them that typical non-geek are awed by jocks and jocks have a tendency to push the average pack of nobodies to harass geeks. Uber-geeks might have learned that the best defence is offence. And bully really really do not like it when their victims do not feel very willing to be victimized.
So the issue is not "the Linux geek are bad people that do not want to make a nice easy to use Linux for meeeee, so I use Windows that sooo much easier to use (well when it is not very slooow for some strange and unexplained reason".
The issue is that the 99% of sheeps are not willing to push the HW makers to have other options beside Windows as a pre-packaged pre-loaded OS, and they are perfectly happy to pay between 20 and 300$ extra to Microsoft (the extra margin enabled by the lack of competition). And since they are not willing to do this, Linux is "hard" to install (as compared to "it's allready installed).
If there would be a choice RedHat/Novell/Mandriva/Linspire/.... would compete for the Linux Desktop market and spend way more money on a "Super Duper GkNdOeM(e) GUI". (of coure they would have to demand equal access to music and video and CD Ram cards,...)
The ONLY real issue about linux is the legal protectin Microsoft gets and Linux doesn't.
Well it actually does invalidate patents. Patents on any complex system will behave in way to destroy innovation.
When you are designing a complex system (in health care, software, biotech,...) any useful process you design to produce something will trip over a large number of patents. Therefore you will first cull from your innovation pool anything that might give to much of an edge to your competitors. Then you will select between your various innovation the ones that will be the least bothersome to negociate with other "right holders" This will benefit minor innovations that just tweak a little this or that (and therefore will be easy to negociate) And hurt an innovation that would necessitate the inclusion of many patented techniques from other right holders.
There are of course cases where a significant breakthrough can be acheived with a very small modification, unfortunatelly it is quite rare and statistically irrelevant.
Therefore "cosmetic innovations" become the rule not the exception.
Then it does change the global caracter of the company, small innovations will not make a company a "scientist" company since the level of creativity necessary is not quite so large (not that it is anything like easy or trivial, just not stellar), and the potential margins are more dependent on sales, management and marketing than on R&D. And when you have a large company managed by "people's people" and not by "product and technology people" the obvious trend is toward "more people", and beside having a larger organisation enables to have more patents therefore less bothersome competition. So it's MERGER time.
Conclusion we have big large behemoth that are doing very small innovations.
We could just as well nationalise them, the result would be very similar.
So: Patents can be either Bad, Very Bad or Extreemly Bad, and reforming the Patent law is just as likely as reforming the Soviet system for very similar reasons. (well gorby tried, didn't work)
The Free Software Fondation is still under shock but they plan to shortly release their first ever news bulletin where they DO agree with Microsoft.
Do not open or save a Word document, yes!
Could Microsoft also recommend not to use the Windows(TM) Operating System ? the FSF is ready to offer them a Free (as un beer) DVD with a Free (as in speech) Operation System on it! (well at least somebody told me so;-))
Stallman might be a sort of pope, but he is not selling indugence to M$. Well I guess that if the bill and melinda fondation would offer to give him ALL their money, he would at least think about it.
Of course the way he would be using this money might be even more irritating to the current US rulers thant what he is currently doing, since I suspect that he would still have the same choice of entertainments (playing irish flute in front of a large crowd rather than buying a large mansion in beverley hills:-)).
The real idiot and racist is the Japanese government.
If he would come to any country and credibly offer to setup a 500K$/year business most country would give him a permit.
If he would have done the same in france most probably the FISC (IRS) would have come to have a nice conversation, and he would still be a student there, until he paid his taxes:-).
Anyway I guess he is busy choosing wich is the best MBA to do.
It's interesting and true, it still makes him even more of a "lefty" from the US point of view:-)
Or put in another way I personally think that he was probably a rather honest and well meaning guy with a very dangerous streak in politics: thinking that things can made "simple".
There is always a danger for idealist to become fascist by going the following route: "XYZ is bad", "this group insist on doing XYZ", you explain to them that XYZ is really bad, they do not listen, you explain again, they still do not listen, you feel that it will take all your life and more to convince them, its really frustrating, XYZ is still bad, so lets just kick their sorry ass to kingdom come.
For instance in 95 97% of all married egyptian women had been "circumsised", and it is not changing real fast (although "only" 90% of the educated women are circumsised). So the obvious conclusion is "shoot all the sorry bastards", this would also solve the middle east problems since it would give a large region for the palestinian and the israely do share.
So my "rightful ire" against a despicable practice just made me a monstruous mass murder proposing to kill about 30M people (all the Egyptian males old enough to be able to share the gilt.
In other words a fast track from well meaning liberal to crypto-fascist:-)
Telling to "the public" that earth is flat is "free speech" Telling children that earth is flat is "lying".
Or to drive the point through
Making a video of yourself having intercourse with is protected by free speech under the impression that it could be art, and this is probably good, since the exact limit is very hard to define.
Bonking the cleaning person in front of the children might be seen as educative, but nevertheless is a nono and might get you in jail. Using not to good looking images and diagrams is deemed more adequate for sex-ed.
Of course they are going to hell, where else do you think they will be able to find loose women (or men) and good wine ? And of course all the dead pan humorist, and agnostics thinkers, funky artists and other enemy of orders.
I do not like microsoft, but in this case the "client" is being worse. If they would have any clue and some morals they would use the energy and money they are putting into sueing Microsoft into making a Mapuche version of OpenOffice (or Koffice i'm easy). Suing ANYBODY because they want to learn/implement your language is xenophobic. Of course the "learner" might be wanting to learn your language only in order to con you, and in the case of Microsoft it is certainly in order to get some "public money". After all Chile has made some "open source" noises, and having a "minority language" implementation is certainly a tentative to drive a wedge into the "open source strategy" of the Chilean governement. But nevertheless telling that you have to "ask" to learn your language is just telling that you actually deserve about any bad thing that happen to you (but then all Mapuche Indian are not guilty).
So hopefully somebody will throw this stuff out, and somebody else will do something useful for the tribes.
If he is American "voting" for the Wim Fortuyn list is actually quite "bleading hearth" left wing, after all he was for the liberalisation of drugs, and apparently equal rights for gay people.
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sometimes even one letter might be useful, was -> wast (as in very large) I guess the lemmings took the t away.
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As there is a was source of slow witted lemmings, willing to give money to about anybody provided the recipient demonstrate that it really does not respect it's client at all, the zune will succeed.
Unfortunatelly the Aliens will then decide that we are really bellow the minimal level of inteligence needed to be allowed to keep a planet and we well be all be exiled to the radiocative salt mines of xzzvfksskdsfljk.
There is no relationship, you can be superior and still be kind enough to "reach out and fuck someone":-).
BTW the FA just says that "maybe" Europeans have bigger brains (BTW Einstein had a rather small brain, so he probably found out about relativity by accident) because of intercourse with neanderthalians.
People might infer that a bigger brain makes you smarter, well maybe...
Now sexual intercourse occur under many circumstances, and even "friendly circumstances" are not necessarely linked to similar level of inteligence, actually we are usually attracted to partners that are "different", and therefore provide a larger set of potential caracteristics for the children.
(at least this is the excuse middle aged balding college professors have to seduces airheaded cheeleaders in their teens)
This is quite annoying, First you cannot insult anybody by telling them that they are neanthertals anymore. And second, it seems that being smart is not a survival factor.
I guess I'll go out and hit my head with a hammer a couple of time.
Humm, maybe that is what did the neanthertals in ? they couldn't believe how their stoopid cousins where able to manage, and they tried to be as stupid as an experiment, and missed.
Hum so I'll wait for the hammer, after all with a little bit of luck I have just the right level of stupidity to survive:-)
He probably understand it very well, what this agreement will give him is an opportunity to try is out.
If nobody sues Novell for misusing the GPL they can pretend that it is not really a licence but just a kind of "opinion, goal, feel good thing" nothing serious. If somebody sues Novell and looses, they win If somebody sues Novell and wins, they can say to the GPL is anti business and very evil, it is making this fine American company (Novell) go banqrupt...
The best definition of software patents that you can use to forbid them is: A temporary monopoly on the application of an idea in any field.
Forbiding it would free up all the money lost in patent offices. If would free most IP lawyers to do something actually usefull
It would force the health care and bio tech industry to actually do some research and invent something instead of organizing cushy oligopolies. It would free up the IT industry.
Actually there would be NO downside.
The large corporations are using the 19th century urban legend of the poor independent inventor that becomes rich on the force of his (eventually hers) invention to actually keep a legal framework that enables them to steal the work of real inventors.
In conclusion, you are right defining "pure software patents" is hard, but since it is difficult to directly suppress the whole patent system, makeing a broad definition of "software patent" is a good start.
So if it can be implemented with a computer, it is a software patent.
I might be burning for eternity, but you are living as a slave fearful of the "greatest bully". I might get used to burning, I do not plan to get used to be a slave.
Speakfor yourself, zealot. I speak only for the Truth.
Dear AC, Speaking for the truth is easy to state harder to demonstrate
Example: I have no belief in God. Yet, oddly, most people I meet consider me to be one of the nicest persons they've ever met It is odd indeed, for so far from beig a nice person, you are a doomed no-believer. The problem is that it is not only your own soul that you are damming, you are bringing the anger of God onto every person you meet. This is whay all decent countries have the death penalty for atheism.
Without the option of being a "doomed no-believer" no true believer can exist.
And believing that the Anger of God will come to people that meet "bad people" is confusing god's will and "community leader's will", because the "community leader" have an interest in "keeping everybody in line", because they are intrisincly weak, wherease God if he (she, it) exist is absolutelly powerful, if he would want total obedience, he would not need humans to enforce it, he would just "make it so".
So, if it's deeds, I'm going to whatever 'good' version of the afterlife there is... But your refusal to offer gratitude to the Creator, or even to acknowledge Him as your Father is an extremely evil deed. Hence you are doomed to be swallowed in the lake of fire.
The possibility to refuse gratitude is what makes the difference between sincere gratitude and "exchange of goods", if my father gives me a house, he gets my gratitude (because i'm a nice guy BTW not protestant) but only the fact that I could be a ungrateful SOB is making his action an action of true generosity. When somebody gives me ahouse an "insist on getting something in return" s/he is either a real estate sales person, or expects some form of prostitution from me (well in my personal situation the former is more likely:-)).
... but that's not enough if I'm in a church-mandated government; I also have to go through the rediculous rituals, the lame on-your-knees begging for salvation. God demands obedience, nothing more nothing less. Obviously even denying His existence is not obedience. Refusing to participate in those rituals He has prescribed for us is also not obedience. I'm sorry you think obedience to God is "lame," but this kind of attitude just shows why you need to be removed from the community.
If the strongest kid in the playground demands that all the other kids obey him, he is a bully.
If God is allseeing, allknowing, allpowerful and still demands total obedience this would make god a bully, being a bully is not a crime on the same level as mass murder, but still quite incompatible with being "good".
Therefore by claiming that God is expecting full not to be discussed obedience from all people, you are insulting him and commiting apostasy, therefore your only hope of salvation is that god does not exist, wich of course makes the fact of being saved a tad pointless.
Live and let live...
Not only is that an inconvenience, it's an infringement on my rights What rights? You have no rights other than those God grants you and since you refuse to acknowledge your Creator you have no rights at all. Only those fake "rights" which your secular government thinks it can give, but you will find them to be hollow at the end of days!
Your faith is weak if you need the extra incentive to get some rights in order to believe. Are you sure you really believe ?
"while there are some who worship Him to keep themselves free from His Wrath, this is the worship of slaves;"Saying 205 of Iman Ali as reported in the NAHJUL BALAGHA
It is the One Acceptable Way, because if the "state supported religions" are "false" then forcing them onto the citizens is an abomination. If they are "true" forcing them onto the citizens supresses the difference between trully religious people and cowards that are just afraid of the cops.
For example currently the worst place to be a good muslim (exept for converts) is in Saudi, since if you are born there of muslim parents NOT being a muslim is forbiden, so if you are a sincere believer and want to share your belief with others it is impossible, since there is no option to dissent everybody "seems" to share your belief, but their true feelings are more or less unknown.
So unless one believe that a religion that one does not need to believe in, but only to obey like a robot is "good" separation of religion and of any organization that can use force to support religion is an absolute necessity.
And people that want to put religion in the government are weak in their own faith, and this is what makes them want to "have to" be religious.
M. Simony: Apparently took a night watch job baby sitting an old lamp (no not the recent version of lamp) based computer (thus they did not need to power it down at night, and since lamps are most likely to burn out when you turn them on or off...
And not only wrote a large part of the early versions of word, he also organized the teams so that it would work
And left microsoft
so no he is not the first, but it's still cool
(now if bill and steve could also take a rocket ticket, prefereably for proxima centauris, or even better the magelanian clouds, we would have a couple of quiter centuries....)
Well Steve Jobs at some point in his life thought that by being "frutivorious" (eating only fruits (and no it's not suposed to be kinky)) he would not need to ever wash again. Until somebody (the third older guy, not woskniak look it up it'll be educative) told him that it didn't quite work.
Apparently somebody told something similar to RMS.
So you have to choose, if the smell bothers you you have to listen to neither. If not you might have an opportunity to listen to both and make your own opinion.
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DRM have two key moral drawbacks:
1) It assumes that the user is criminal
2) It needs to modify the user's terminal to work.
Basically you cannot have DRM without having an electronic big brother resident on your computer.
It is basically the same as having a cop resident in your home, assuming that if you would not have a cop there you would be unable to resist ther temptation of abusing your children.
Just think of the "lightest" DRM possible, that would be a piece of software recording everything that goes through on the off chance that you do something illegal.
It would not actually stop you but just enable the government to punish you adequatelly if you would be found out.
It would be perfectly "user friendly", but you would/should freak out because of the privacy issues.
And you might resent the fact that this "spy" can only be installed on your computer (or player or phone) if the computer has an "approuved" operating system, (since it has to interact with the OS)
This not only destroy any pretence of Free/Open Source option, it also implies that ANY alternative operating system needs to "ask for permission" from the DRM manufacturer.
Well in short DRM are made by people that are evil, and think everybody else is too, and it is not about "fair use" and "protecting the artist" but all about monopoly market control.
That is the reason Apple dropped the "Computer" of their name.
....) ?
;-)
They want the same profit margin as Nike.
Why do people pay 120 for a pair of shooes that they can get for 29 (made in the same sweat shops in China, Tunisia or Indonesia,
And the fact that you cannot download "third party software" means that the operator can better control what you are allowed to use, and therefore they will factor this in to "lower the price of acquisition".
In otherword you will probably see the "cool phone" at 600$ if you want to choose your operator, and at 99$ if you use "the right one".
Actually anything that is around the price of a similar iPod will get the iPhone to move.
Well the only thing you can do with a bad Apple(tm) is throw it through the Windows(tm)
It ain't true, geeks do not really dislike some much non-geek but experience has taught them that typical non-geek are awed by jocks and jocks have a tendency to push the average pack of nobodies to harass geeks.
...)
Uber-geeks might have learned that the best defence is offence.
And bully really really do not like it when their victims do not feel very willing to be victimized.
So the issue is not "the Linux geek are bad people that do not want to make a nice easy to use Linux for meeeee, so I use Windows that sooo much easier to use (well when it is not very slooow for some strange and unexplained reason".
The issue is that the 99% of sheeps are not willing to push the HW makers to have other options beside Windows as a pre-packaged pre-loaded OS, and they are perfectly happy to pay between 20 and 300$ extra to Microsoft (the extra margin enabled by the lack of competition).
And since they are not willing to do this, Linux is "hard" to install (as compared to "it's allready installed).
If there would be a choice RedHat/Novell/Mandriva/Linspire/.... would compete for the Linux Desktop market and spend way more money on a "Super Duper GkNdOeM(e) GUI".
(of coure they would have to demand equal access to music and video and CD Ram cards,
The ONLY real issue about linux is the legal protectin Microsoft gets and Linux doesn't.
Cheers
[ps]
Well it actually does invalidate patents.
...) any useful process you design to produce something will trip over a large number of patents.
Patents on any complex system will behave in way to destroy innovation.
When you are designing a complex system (in health care, software, biotech,
Therefore you will first cull from your innovation pool anything that might give to much of an edge to your competitors.
Then you will select between your various innovation the ones that will be the least bothersome to negociate with other "right holders"
This will benefit minor innovations that just tweak a little this or that (and therefore will be easy to negociate)
And hurt an innovation that would necessitate the inclusion of many patented techniques from other right holders.
There are of course cases where a significant breakthrough can be acheived with a very small modification, unfortunatelly it is quite rare and statistically irrelevant.
Therefore "cosmetic innovations" become the rule not the exception.
Then it does change the global caracter of the company, small innovations will not make a company a "scientist" company since the level of creativity necessary is not quite so large (not that it is anything like easy or trivial, just not stellar), and the potential margins are more dependent on sales, management and marketing than on R&D.
And when you have a large company managed by "people's people" and not by "product and technology people" the obvious trend is toward "more people", and beside having a larger organisation enables to have more patents therefore less bothersome competition.
So it's MERGER time.
Conclusion we have big large behemoth that are doing very small innovations.
We could just as well nationalise them, the result would be very similar.
So: Patents can be either Bad, Very Bad or Extreemly Bad, and reforming the Patent law is just as likely as reforming the Soviet system for very similar reasons.
(well gorby tried, didn't work)
The Free Software Fondation is still under shock but they plan to shortly release their first ever news bulletin where they DO agree with Microsoft.
;-))
Do not open or save a Word document, yes!
Could Microsoft also recommend not to use the Windows(TM) Operating System ? the FSF is ready to offer them a Free (as un beer) DVD with a Free (as in speech) Operation System on it! (well at least somebody told me so
Stallman might be a sort of pope, but he is not selling indugence to M$.
:-)).
Well I guess that if the bill and melinda fondation would offer to give him ALL their money, he would at least think about it.
Of course the way he would be using this money might be even more irritating to the current US rulers thant what he is currently doing,
since I suspect that he would still have the same choice of entertainments (playing irish flute in front of a large crowd rather than buying a large mansion in beverley hills
The real idiot and racist is the Japanese government.
:-).
If he would come to any country and credibly offer to setup a 500K$/year business most country would give him a permit.
If he would have done the same in france most probably the FISC (IRS) would have come to have a nice conversation, and he would still be a student there, until he paid his taxes
Anyway I guess he is busy choosing wich is the best MBA to do.
It's interesting and true, it still makes him even more of a "lefty" from the US point of view :-)
:-)
Or put in another way I personally think that he was probably a rather honest and well meaning guy with a very dangerous streak in politics: thinking that things can made "simple".
There is always a danger for idealist to become fascist by going the following route: "XYZ is bad", "this group insist on doing XYZ", you explain to them that XYZ is really bad, they do not listen, you explain again, they still do not listen, you feel that it will take all your life and more to convince them, its really frustrating, XYZ is still bad, so lets just kick their sorry ass to kingdom come.
For instance in 95 97% of all married egyptian women had been "circumsised", and it is not changing real fast (although "only" 90% of the educated women are circumsised).
So the obvious conclusion is "shoot all the sorry bastards", this would also solve the middle east problems since it would give a large region for the palestinian and the israely do share.
So my "rightful ire" against a despicable practice just made me a monstruous mass murder proposing to kill about 30M people (all the Egyptian males old enough to be able to share the gilt.
In other words a fast track from well meaning liberal to crypto-fascist
Telling to "the public" that earth is flat is "free speech"
Telling children that earth is flat is "lying".
Or to drive the point through
Making a video of yourself having intercourse with is protected by free speech under the impression that it could be art, and this is probably good, since the exact limit is very hard to define.
Bonking the cleaning person in front of the children might be seen as educative, but nevertheless is a nono and might get you in jail. Using not to good looking images and diagrams is deemed more adequate for sex-ed.
Of course they are going to hell, where else do you think they will be able to find loose women (or men) and good wine ?
And of course all the dead pan humorist, and agnostics thinkers, funky artists and other enemy of orders.
I do not like microsoft, but in this case the "client" is being worse.
If they would have any clue and some morals they would use the energy and money they are putting into sueing Microsoft into making a Mapuche version of OpenOffice (or Koffice i'm easy).
Suing ANYBODY because they want to learn/implement your language is xenophobic.
Of course the "learner" might be wanting to learn your language only in order to con you, and in the case of Microsoft it is certainly in order to get some "public money".
After all Chile has made some "open source" noises, and having a "minority language" implementation is certainly a tentative to drive a wedge into the "open source strategy" of the Chilean governement.
But nevertheless telling that you have to "ask" to learn your language is just telling that you actually deserve about any bad thing that happen to you (but then all Mapuche Indian are not guilty).
So hopefully somebody will throw this stuff out, and somebody else will do something useful for the tribes.
If he is American "voting" for the Wim Fortuyn list is actually quite "bleading hearth" left wing, after all he was for the liberalisation of drugs, and apparently equal rights for gay people.
sometimes even one letter might be useful, was -> wast (as in very large)
I guess the lemmings took the t away.
As there is a was source of slow witted lemmings, willing to give money to about anybody provided the recipient demonstrate that it really does not respect it's client at all, the zune will succeed.
Unfortunatelly the Aliens will then decide that we are really bellow the minimal level of inteligence needed to be allowed to keep a planet and we well be all be exiled to the radiocative salt mines of xzzvfksskdsfljk.
(hem at least a reliable source told me so)
There is no relationship, you can be superior and still be kind enough to "reach out and fuck someone" :-).
BTW the FA just says that "maybe" Europeans have bigger brains (BTW Einstein had a rather small brain, so he probably found out about relativity by accident) because of intercourse with neanderthalians.
People might infer that a bigger brain makes you smarter, well maybe...
Now sexual intercourse occur under many circumstances, and even "friendly circumstances" are not necessarely linked to similar level of inteligence, actually we are usually attracted to partners that are "different", and therefore provide a larger set of potential caracteristics for the children.
(at least this is the excuse middle aged balding college professors have to seduces airheaded cheeleaders in their teens)
This is quite annoying,
:-)
First you cannot insult anybody by telling them that they are neanthertals anymore.
And second, it seems that being smart is not a survival factor.
I guess I'll go out and hit my head with a hammer a couple of time.
Humm, maybe that is what did the neanthertals in ? they couldn't believe how their stoopid cousins where able to manage, and they tried to be as stupid as an experiment, and missed.
Hum so I'll wait for the hammer, after all with a little bit of luck I have just the right level of stupidity to survive
You are not paranoid enough, the democrats needed to win this time so that the republican can offload all the blame onto them and win in 2008.
No it will be Soze now for Keyser Soze, after all the usual suspects acted ?.
He probably understand it very well, what this agreement will give him is an opportunity to try is out.
:-)
If nobody sues Novell for misusing the GPL they can pretend that it is not really a licence but just a kind of "opinion, goal, feel good thing" nothing serious.
If somebody sues Novell and looses, they win
If somebody sues Novell and wins, they can say to the GPL is anti business and very evil, it is making this fine American company (Novell) go banqrupt...
So they also win.
Well I just finished downloading kubuntu
The best definition of software patents that you can use to forbid them is:
A temporary monopoly on the application of an idea in any field.
Forbiding it would free up all the money lost in patent offices.
If would free most IP lawyers to do something actually usefull
It would force the health care and bio tech industry to actually do some research and invent something instead of organizing cushy oligopolies.
It would free up the IT industry.
Actually there would be NO downside.
The large corporations are using the 19th century urban legend of the poor independent inventor that becomes rich on the force of his (eventually hers) invention to actually keep a legal framework that enables them to steal the work of real inventors.
In conclusion, you are right defining "pure software patents" is hard, but since it is difficult to directly suppress the whole patent system, makeing a broad definition of "software patent" is a good start.
So if it can be implemented with a computer, it is a software patent.
I might be burning for eternity, but you are living as a slave fearful of the "greatest bully".
I might get used to burning, I do not plan to get used to be a slave.
Speakfor yourself, zealot. ...
:-)).
... but that's not enough if I'm in a church-mandated government; I also have to go through the rediculous rituals, the lame on-your-knees begging for salvation.
I speak only for the Truth.
Dear AC, Speaking for the truth is easy to state harder to demonstrate
Example: I have no belief in God. Yet, oddly, most people I meet consider me to be one of the nicest persons they've ever met
It is odd indeed, for so far from beig a nice person, you are a doomed no-believer. The problem is that it is not only your own soul that you are damming, you are bringing the anger of God onto every person you meet. This is whay all decent countries have the death penalty for atheism.
Without the option of being a "doomed no-believer" no true believer can exist. And believing that the Anger of God will come to people that meet "bad people" is confusing god's will and "community leader's will", because the "community leader" have an interest in "keeping everybody in line", because they are intrisincly weak, wherease God if he (she, it) exist is absolutelly powerful, if he would want total obedience, he would not need humans to enforce it, he would just "make it so".
So, if it's deeds, I'm going to whatever 'good' version of the afterlife there is
But your refusal to offer gratitude to the Creator, or even to acknowledge Him as your Father is an extremely evil deed. Hence you are doomed to be swallowed in the lake of fire.
The possibility to refuse gratitude is what makes the difference between sincere gratitude and "exchange of goods", if my father gives me a house, he gets my gratitude (because i'm a nice guy BTW not protestant) but only the fact that I could be a ungrateful SOB is making his action an action of true generosity. When somebody gives me ahouse an "insist on getting something in return" s/he is either a real estate sales person, or expects some form of prostitution from me (well in my personal situation the former is more likely
God demands obedience, nothing more nothing less. Obviously even denying His existence is not obedience. Refusing to participate in those rituals He has prescribed for us is also not obedience. I'm sorry you think obedience to God is "lame," but this kind of attitude just shows why you need to be removed from the community.
If the strongest kid in the playground demands that all the other kids obey him, he is a bully. If God is allseeing, allknowing, allpowerful and still demands total obedience this would make god a bully, being a bully is not a crime on the same level as mass murder, but still quite incompatible with being "good".
Therefore by claiming that God is expecting full not to be discussed obedience from all people, you are insulting him and commiting apostasy, therefore your only hope of salvation is that god does not exist, wich of course makes the fact of being saved a tad pointless.
Live and let live...
Not only is that an inconvenience, it's an infringement on my rights
What rights? You have no rights other than those God grants you and since you refuse to acknowledge your Creator you have no rights at all. Only those fake "rights" which your secular government thinks it can give, but you will find them to be hollow at the end of days!
Your faith is weak if you need the extra incentive to get some rights in order to believe. Are you sure you really believe ?
"while there are some who worship Him to keep themselves free from His Wrath, this is the worship of slaves;"Saying 205 of Iman Ali as reported in the NAHJUL BALAGHA
It is the One Acceptable Way, because if the "state supported religions" are "false" then forcing them onto the citizens is an abomination.
If they are "true" forcing them onto the citizens supresses the difference between trully religious people and cowards that are just afraid of the cops.
For example currently the worst place to be a good muslim (exept for converts) is in Saudi, since if you are born there of muslim parents NOT being a muslim is forbiden, so if you are a sincere believer and want to share your belief with others it is impossible, since there is no option to dissent everybody "seems" to share your belief, but their true feelings are more or less unknown.
So unless one believe that a religion that one does not need to believe in, but only to obey like a robot is "good" separation of religion and of any organization that can use force to support religion is an absolute necessity.
And people that want to put religion in the government are weak in their own faith, and this is what makes them want to "have to" be religious.
M. Simony:
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Apparently took a night watch job baby sitting an old lamp (no not the recent version of lamp) based computer (thus they did not need to power it down at night, and since lamps are most likely to burn out when you turn them on or off...
And not only wrote a large part of the early versions of word, he also organized the teams so that it would work
And left microsoft
so no he is not the first, but it's still cool
(now if bill and steve could also take a rocket ticket, prefereably for proxima centauris, or even better the magelanian clouds, we would have a couple of quiter centuries
Well Steve Jobs at some point in his life thought that by being "frutivorious" (eating only fruits (and no it's not suposed to be kinky)) he would not need to ever wash again.
Until somebody (the third older guy, not woskniak look it up it'll be educative) told him that it didn't quite work.
Apparently somebody told something similar to RMS.
So you have to choose, if the smell bothers you you have to listen to neither.
If not you might have an opportunity to listen to both and make your own opinion.