In droping the price of the CDs, the profit margin for the end seller will most likely be reduced. This will put the squeeze on independent record sellers, possibly closing them down and leaving you one option: stores packed with RIAA-backed discs.
You may not care, but for those of us who enjoy music that is not blessed by the RIAA, it could close off the only option that we have.
Of course, the independent sellers should probably get on board with this internet thing and do a little innovation on their distribution model. Somebody here suggested burning high quality mix discs on the fly and printing out custom booklets based on the content (and selling for $4-$5). If the independent labels could be brought on board (and agree to a compensation scheme), they could have something serious on their hands.
If Microsoft patents anything, you would be screaming foul, but Apple patents something ridiculous and we get "Thank god... Maybe Apple now can sue..."
Apple is awesome, but they are still capable of doing stupid things.
What do you want to know? As long as you post to the correct list, people are very nice. Stay away from the developer list with questions, the tolerance for that is apparantly fairly low.
Package management? The ports collection is awesome. Installation is, honestly, very easy. The pkg_add command takes care of everything (at least in my experience).
Compiling _everything_? I can't answer this one. Compiling all your programs (minus the libraries, etc) went very smoothly for me.
As for lacking serious packages...I haven't found anything that I needed that I couldn't get, but that's me. Most of the time, if you're package won't work on OpenBSD, there is some sort of BSD licensed equivalent that works well.
If the package version you want is not available, you can always recompile, but the amount of packages and their different available versions is astoundingly huge.
One of the biggest advantages of OpenBSD? The documentation is beautiful. They really weren't messing around with this. Not only is the documentation abundant, the quality is really nice. There are examples and troubleshooting tips all over the place (in the man pages).
It runs on essentially anything, so grab an old machine and play with it, I think you'll find most things are intuitive.
I believe the MAP (price fixing) issue was addressed in that class action lawsuit a while ago. If you entered your name on the suit you got $12 or something....and 50 cents worth of metalized plastic? At their volume, I'm sure the cost per CD is far less than 50 cents (even including the inserts and cases).
Yeah, I can see that...on the one hand, you have people who had no human rights/no autonomy/were tortured daily. On the other hand, you have software that comes with restrictions on redistribution and no source.
1. Something discussed to death here and found to be counter-productive.
2. Something else discussed to death here and found to be ineffective.
3. Something ignorant. ...and so on 98 more times.
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In droping the price of the CDs, the profit margin for the end seller will most likely be reduced. This will put the squeeze on independent record sellers, possibly closing them down and leaving you one option: stores packed with RIAA-backed discs.
You may not care, but for those of us who enjoy music that is not blessed by the RIAA, it could close off the only option that we have.
Of course, the independent sellers should probably get on board with this internet thing and do a little innovation on their distribution model. Somebody here suggested burning high quality mix discs on the fly and printing out custom booklets based on the content (and selling for $4-$5). If the independent labels could be brought on board (and agree to a compensation scheme), they could have something serious on their hands.
--Mx
If Microsoft patents anything, you would be screaming foul,
but Apple patents something ridiculous and we get "Thank god... Maybe Apple now can sue..."
Apple is awesome, but they are still capable of doing stupid things.
--Mx
What do you want to know? As long as you post to the correct list, people are very nice. Stay away from the developer list with questions, the tolerance for that is apparantly fairly low.
Package management? The ports collection is awesome. Installation is, honestly, very easy. The pkg_add command takes care of everything (at least in my experience).
Compiling _everything_? I can't answer this one. Compiling all your programs (minus the libraries, etc) went very smoothly for me.
As for lacking serious packages...I haven't found anything that I needed that I couldn't get, but that's me. Most of the time, if you're package won't work on OpenBSD, there is some sort of BSD licensed equivalent that works well.
If the package version you want is not available, you can always recompile, but the amount of packages and their different available versions is astoundingly huge.
One of the biggest advantages of OpenBSD? The documentation is beautiful. They really weren't messing around with this. Not only is the documentation abundant, the quality is really nice. There are examples and troubleshooting tips all over the place (in the man pages).
It runs on essentially anything, so grab an old machine and play with it, I think you'll find most things are intuitive.
--Mx
I believe the MAP (price fixing) issue was addressed in that class action lawsuit a while ago. If you entered your name on the suit you got $12 or something. ...and 50 cents worth of metalized plastic? At their volume, I'm sure the cost per CD is far less than 50 cents (even including the inserts and cases).
Please don't generalize an entire nation. There are rude people everywhere (including where you come from).
it's easily possible to get back the money you've invested in it...
by scanning and printing money.
Yeah, I can see that...on the one hand, you have people who had no human rights/no autonomy/were tortured daily. On the other hand, you have software that comes with restrictions on redistribution and no source.
Awesome comparison.
A summary of all points in the article:
...and so on 98 more times.
1. Something discussed to death here and found to be counter-productive.
2. Something else discussed to death here and found to be ineffective.
3. Something ignorant.
Yea, but if you factor in my 0 ports, then your 0.03% is comparably astronomical.