Incase you haven't noticed not a lot of money goes to the artist. If artists want more money they just need to switch labels / start their own. Whats that getting a bad deal from indie labels? Well, then what hte records companies are offering artists is the BEST deal.
The only reason the labels offer the BEST deal, is because of their monopoly. They offer the ONLY deal, because they have a chokehold on radio, marketing, distribution, and even touring conduits.
They've worked very hard on making sure that their game is the only game in town. To play ball, you have to sign a contract with such ridiculous clauses as: the record company assumes 10% of all records will be destroyed during shipping and handling, so you get paid based on 90% of gross shipments (held over from Victrola days.) There is nothing fair about the record deals offered to young artists, and most are simply shelved once they're signed without ever seeing the light of day without a fair chance to even be heard.
As a small business owner, I know that often you have to file patents and trademarks defensively.
In other words, it may not be that O'Reilly particularly wants to grab the term and vindictively go after people who use it, but rather that they felt the need to trademark the phrase to protect themselves from someone who may try to do it first and then go after them. My guess is that any name O'Reilly chose would've been trademarked, regardless of how novel it was.
This is probably more a product of our ridiculous trademark/patenting/copyright system than O'Reilly par se.
". . . making server OS's look familiar tempts people to fiddle."
Fiddling is good, and it's how most good engineers I know (including myself) learned the bulk of their knowledge.
A good OS should encourage fiddling, IMHO. Being so scary as to discourage fiddling is a "bad thing."
People just want to know that their inevitable fiddling won't likely break stuff.
The way most record contracts are written today, the artist doesn't see any of the money regardless of where you buy/steal it.
They make their money from touring, promotional items, etc.
Read Steve Albini's article http://www.negativland.com/albini.html on how you can be a musician with a gold record and owe the record company money!
Sorry, but I doubt you play your guitar anywhere nearly as often as most people use their computers, and even if you did, your hands don't rest constantly on the same spots.
The guitarist in my band (the-outside.com) has a white Les Paul, and with only several hours/week over a period of a few years, it discolors. Have you ever seen the state a professional guitarists finish gets after a few years? I guarantee there's discoloration and wear in the spots where their hands rest. They'll tell you it adds to the "feel."
Now imagine that times 10 as somebody logs 20 hours/week at the MacBook with their hands always in the same place. . . .
The problem is, of course, that the 37% who object get their rights trampled on equally with the 63% who are cool with it.
It's not a question of "what I'm willing to sacrifice" for security. It's a much higher standard than that.
Certain American institutions -- notably the Bill of Rights -- were set up to protect the minority from the majority. It's not about protecting the rights of the 67% sheep; they don't need/want it. It's about protecting the rights of the 37%.
Wow. Dragging in those guys is like playing pickup basketball and demanding that Shaq, Kobe, Duncan, Kidd, and Garnett all get on the court against you at the same time.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure the referee (the U.S. Court system,) is competent enough to call the game correctly. . . .
With a bit of care, you can assemble your own specialized distributions on a 128mb compactflash or a live cdr, something I don't see happening with OS X
Of course not; it would be illegal. Being able to freely distribute is NOT a right Apple assigns to its users. Darwin is another matter entirely, however. . . .
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Ads are one of the things that fuels the internet. Without that revenue, a lot of great content would simply disappear.
As a small business owner, I know that often you have to file patents and trademarks defensively.
In other words, it may not be that O'Reilly particularly wants to grab the term and vindictively go after people who use it, but rather that they felt the need to trademark the phrase to protect themselves from someone who may try to do it first and then go after them. My guess is that any name O'Reilly chose would've been trademarked, regardless of how novel it was.
This is probably more a product of our ridiculous trademark/patenting/copyright system than O'Reilly par se.
". . . making server OS's look familiar tempts people to fiddle." Fiddling is good, and it's how most good engineers I know (including myself) learned the bulk of their knowledge. A good OS should encourage fiddling, IMHO. Being so scary as to discourage fiddling is a "bad thing." People just want to know that their inevitable fiddling won't likely break stuff.
The better players, over time, will come out ahead as statistics even themselves out.
Now horse racing and the lottery (EXEMPT from the legislation) are truly taxes on the ignorant. The hypocrisy is overwhelming.
The way most record contracts are written today, the artist doesn't see any of the money regardless of where you buy/steal it. They make their money from touring, promotional items, etc. Read Steve Albini's article http://www.negativland.com/albini.html on how you can be a musician with a gold record and owe the record company money!
Sorry, but I doubt you play your guitar anywhere nearly as often as most people use their computers, and even if you did, your hands don't rest constantly on the same spots.
The guitarist in my band (the-outside.com) has a white Les Paul, and with only several hours/week over a period of a few years, it discolors. Have you ever seen the state a professional guitarists finish gets after a few years? I guarantee there's discoloration and wear in the spots where their hands rest. They'll tell you it adds to the "feel."
Now imagine that times 10 as somebody logs 20 hours/week at the MacBook with their hands always in the same place. . . .
The problem is, of course, that the 37% who object get their rights trampled on equally with the 63% who are cool with it.
It's not a question of "what I'm willing to sacrifice" for security. It's a much higher standard than that.
Certain American institutions -- notably the Bill of Rights -- were set up to protect the minority from the majority. It's not about protecting the rights of the 67% sheep; they don't need/want it. It's about protecting the rights of the 37%.
Believe anything you want. Just don't let your beliefs come between me and research that might one day save my life. . . or yours.
Wow. Dragging in those guys is like playing pickup basketball and demanding that Shaq, Kobe, Duncan, Kidd, and Garnett all get on the court against you at the same time. Unfortunately, I'm not sure the referee (the U.S. Court system,) is competent enough to call the game correctly. . . .