It costs a lot of money to run a profitable business. Building a business on OSS reduces development costs, but it can also reduce the number of customers. Some potential customers do self-support. And the barrier to entry is much lower (remember the reduced development costs?), so more companies can provide the same service.
how can your immature musings on any particular subject become _YOUR_ IP ?
Easy.
Copyrighted material is intellectual property. In the U.S. at least, any document is copyrighted when it is created. Thus, anyone's musings, immature or otherwise, on any subject are the creator's IP. It may have little, if any, value. It is nonetheless the IP of the creator.
If this becomes widespread, if one has a bad credit history and cannot get a good job then one is likely to keep that bad credit history because one cannot get a good job.
The Matrix (at least the first one) is largely a retelling of Star Wars (not that Star Wars is really original):
Neo = Luke
Morpheus = Obi Wan
Matrix = The Empire
Agent Smith = Darth Vader
Zion = Rebel base
Young savant is tutored by older, more experienced person to fight evil and save the world...
It's not as if any of the folks in question (Torvalds, FSF, EFF, whatever) have any sort of actual authority to force the adoption of any particular licensing scheme.
Linus can stop adoption of GPL v3 as he's written part of Linux. A piece of software's author (owner) controls how it's licensed.
The FSF certainly can (and according to RMS will) force the adoption of GPL v3 on all of the code controlled by the FSF. That's a reasonably significant part of the code in a Linux distro.
I'm well aware of the fanatics that are out there. From the couple of things I've read in this topic attributed to Jani, he sounds like he's one of those fanatics.
Having principles is good, having well founded principles is better. Zend is not the Israeli government. Zend didn't drop that bomb. This is just an overly emotional reaction...
I agree with you regarding no link, but disagree regarding the appropriateness for Slashdot. If he really wrote that stuff and it explains why he left then it's entirely appropriate.
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It costs a lot of money to run a profitable business. Building a business on OSS reduces development costs, but it can also reduce the number of customers. Some potential customers do self-support. And the barrier to entry is much lower (remember the reduced development costs?), so more companies can provide the same service.
What Microsoft seems to be saying is "Use our security or use another OS."
Harm? What harm?
The guy was blowing off steam. TSA made things LESS secure by allowing themselves to be distracted.
I don't believe that's correct. He doesn't want companies to have control of software, however that is not anti-corporation.
... that used Sagan as a codename for a project, was sued over it. Won! And still changed the project name to BHA ("Butt-Head Astronomer")...
Easy.
Copyrighted material is intellectual property. In the U.S. at least, any document is copyrighted when it is created. Thus, anyone's musings, immature or otherwise, on any subject are the creator's IP. It may have little, if any, value. It is nonetheless the IP of the creator.
It's a legal way of accomplishing their true goal, to permit cheating by their fellow students.
I'd love to, that's why I asked for the specific statue to be cited - which you didn't do.
The scientists bet on whether it would ignite the atmosphere and scorch the Earth. Sounds like the same kind of thing to me.
It won't hurt minimum wage workers - employers won't bother don't credit checks on them...
Really? Care to cite the specific statute that protects people from economic discrimination?
It becomes self-fulfilling prophesy...
Presenting yourself as someone you aren't to a criminal is hardly the same as presenting yourself to another in order to steal information.
Her goal was admirable, but her tactics to achieve that goal were clearly unethical.
A program isn't patented - it's copyrighted. A process is patented...
It may be legal, that doesn't make it acceptable (i.e. right).
Ain't nothing random about it. People are matching a certain profile and they're being searched as a result.
The Matrix (at least the first one) is largely a retelling of Star Wars (not that Star Wars is really original): Neo = Luke Morpheus = Obi Wan Matrix = The Empire Agent Smith = Darth Vader Zion = Rebel base Young savant is tutored by older, more experienced person to fight evil and save the world...
I subscribe to that reflector: this happened MONTHS ago and yet it's getting public notice NOW?
I never fretted about YouTube's business model. How they make money is their problem...
Linus can stop adoption of GPL v3 as he's written part of Linux. A piece of software's author (owner) controls how it's licensed.
The FSF certainly can (and according to RMS will) force the adoption of GPL v3 on all of the code controlled by the FSF. That's a reasonably significant part of the code in a Linux distro.
I'm sure the irony of this statement escapes you...
I'm well aware of the fanatics that are out there. From the couple of things I've read in this topic attributed to Jani, he sounds like he's one of those fanatics.
Having principles is good, having well founded principles is better. Zend is not the Israeli government. Zend didn't drop that bomb. This is just an overly emotional reaction...
I agree with you regarding no link, but disagree regarding the appropriateness for Slashdot. If he really wrote that stuff and it explains why he left then it's entirely appropriate.