As off-topic as this is, there's a good reason why Americans don't have to learn another language: we have a big country. We don't live in Europe where there's a different language spoken every two hours you drive down a road. We spend our time learning other things... and since we're something of a world superpower, other people learn our language.
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How many anonymous cowards does it take to post 3 comments that agree with themselves?
only one, of course!
Guess we're already seeing the anti-Linux guys at work.
No, it wouldn't. Because producing the app is a lot easier than just hitting return twice and getting the $100 that you would've gotten from selling it in the first place.:P
No, because by stealing someone's essay and using it to get into school, someone else is assumably denied admission. That's the loss-- sure, we might not know who it is, but there's definitely someone out there who's essay was beaten by the stolen one.
On the computer we're not really competing for space on a shared resource anymore; copying a program doesn't mean that you're less likely to buy another. In fact, the try-before-you-buy idea has caught on and made playable demos a standard issue nowadays.
Also, it's NOT like the money is just disappearing! If everyone bought everything on their machine, three things would happen: A) People would have less software, B) People would have less money, and therefore buy less of other goods. We might not have enough, say, to buy that fancy new G400 or a new processor, and then who'd be the one losing money?
It's not so clear cut.
"You must do what you feel is right, of course." -- Old Ben Kenobi
Why not copyright infringement? The same thing you do when you record something off the radio or TV. The price tag of the item has absolutely nothing to do with the crime itself; but why do you see TV and radio stations not mind if you copy their material as long as you don't try and gain profit on it or masquerade as them? Because they're NOT LOSING ANYTHING. The crime of theft is NOT about getting something for nothing; theft is a crime because someone else is losing something material for your own personal gain. If there's absolutely no way I'm going to buy product X made by company Y, explain to me how company Y loses out be me having it on my computer instead of not having it? If I like the software, I might even recommend it at work and get real people to actually buy the software where otherwise they would've gotten nothing.
As a software developer I can honestly say that software developers don't care if you pirate or not. The people who care about that are in the other wing in their large window offices and expensive suits... and they don't know how to program.
Pfft. Austin's tech industry is the strongest in Texas. It also has the best CS school. The so-called youngins I'd refer to would be pre-college students, which would be more in the larger cities, like Dallas and Houston. It's an overgeneralization anyways.
Being in Austin, I'd have to say that it's a really good place for this conference. It's always been a strong technical and *NIX town, and it's *gasp* not on the east or west coast, which means the suits won't be able to find it.
It's actually not that bad over the summer. Now Houston... that's where the heat and humidity combo get you. We'll crank up the a/c for ya and serve up some Tex-Mex. Come on down!
HOUSTON, TX -- Compaq officials rescended their idea of shipping with GNOME and RPM after receiving a threatening letter from the FSF which insisted that they rename their product to GNU/Tru64 to "give credit to the FSF project". Officials were unavailable for comment.
Here, you can breathe for free, or I can charge you $0.05 per breath... and then you can only only use our proprietary air for your own personal breathing-- bottling it up for a gas tank, filling up your tires with it, or using it to inflate a raft is expressly forbidden. For that you must buy our $15,000 air breathing license, and then sign an NDA to not tell anyone that it's really the exact same product.
Between the Department of Justice well... bringing down Justice and the growth of the Everyone But Microsoft movement, it seems that the horn of armageddon has already come for Microsoft. There's simply too much clout behind the opposition for a company of 15,000 people to deal with-- even one with inflated stock prices and bottom lines.
While their death is far from assured, they have already lost the war: an inferior product can stay ahead in the market only as long as no alternatives are realistic. In the operating system business, this means a lack of applications. If you think apps are starting to come now that we're at the 10-15 million user base, just wait until we're at the 100 million point... Where you go to the computer store and see the "Linux games" and "Linux applications" sections in the front, and all of the legacy Windows apps in bargain baskets and huddled off in the corner with the Mac section.
On another note, it'll be nice to have better 3D support under Linux. And it'll be nice to watch the proprietary unices pour their features into the Linux kernel. It'll be even nicer if they keep a decent-sized number of full-time Linux hackers out there in the name of "furthering company interest" in the operating system (read: Support for better 3d acceleration, etc).
No, because someone else already will have. And by the license they'll have contributed their changes back to the tree so that everyone can benefit.
You're assuming that software needs to be developed further at all. If it doesn't, then everyone can freely use it.
Entertainment software is something of a special case. And even then you can always do what ID does, and release the source once the game no longer is profitable.
You're missing the point. RedHat makes money doing nothing but Linux work. It is in their best interest to help free software succeed.
Other companies want to use the software. If it is missing something than they have to hire someone to contribute. Everyone profits because everyone gets to use the software.
Software is not an end. It is a means to an end. And under free software, everyone has the means to achieve any end that they desire. You can use the software to make profits doing something else without actually having to profit on the software itself.
I just don't believe that Virginia has the power to do this.
Yes, they can pass the law, but I don't believe it will be as far-reaching as they would like.
Virginia will only be able to stop spammers that commit their offence (not including the reply-to in this case, if my understanding is correct) in Virginia itself. Virginia can't come to, say, California, and arrest a spammer whose crime happened to have some effect across the border.
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And Compaq? They got a much lower price than IBM because ...
Agreed. And if you click on it then they're funding Slashdot. :-)
As off-topic as this is, there's a good reason why Americans don't have to learn another language: we have a big country. We don't live in Europe where there's a different language spoken every two hours you drive down a road. We spend our time learning other things... and since we're something of a world superpower, other people learn our language.
They must give out free samples to employees
How many anonymous cowards does it take to post 3 comments that agree with themselves?
only one, of course!
Guess we're already seeing the anti-Linux guys at work.
No, it wouldn't. Because producing the app is a lot easier than just hitting return twice and getting the $100 that you would've gotten from selling it in the first place. :P
You mean like listening to the radio, watching television, seeing an inspiring painting, or reading a book in the library?
And Bill Gates would give all of his money back. :)
No, because by stealing someone's essay and using it to get into school, someone else is assumably denied admission. That's the loss-- sure, we might not know who it is, but there's definitely someone out there who's essay was beaten by the stolen one.
On the computer we're not really competing for space on a shared resource anymore; copying a program doesn't mean that you're less likely to buy another. In fact, the try-before-you-buy idea has caught on and made playable demos a standard issue nowadays.
Also, it's NOT like the money is just disappearing! If everyone bought everything on their machine, three things would happen: A) People would have less software, B) People would have less money, and therefore buy less of other goods. We might not have enough, say, to buy that fancy new G400 or a new processor, and then who'd be the one losing money?
It's not so clear cut.
"You must do what you feel is right, of course." -- Old Ben Kenobi
Why not copyright infringement? The same thing you do when you record something off the radio or TV. The price tag of the item has absolutely nothing to do with the crime itself; but why do you see TV and radio stations not mind if you copy their material as long as you don't try and gain profit on it or masquerade as them? Because they're NOT LOSING ANYTHING. The crime of theft is NOT about getting something for nothing; theft is a crime because someone else is losing something material for your own personal gain. If there's absolutely no way I'm going to buy product X made by company Y, explain to me how company Y loses out be me having it on my computer instead of not having it? If I like the software, I might even recommend it at work and get real people to actually buy the software where otherwise they would've gotten nothing.
As a software developer I can honestly say that software developers don't care if you pirate or not. The people who care about that are in the other wing in their large window offices and expensive suits... and they don't know how to program.
Pfft. Austin's tech industry is the strongest in Texas. It also has the best CS school. The so-called youngins I'd refer to would be pre-college students, which would be more in the larger cities, like Dallas and Houston. It's an overgeneralization anyways.
They might even give you a dollar if you do it on Guadalupe :)
Just wear a mask and don't give your name.
Austin's great!
Being in Austin, I'd have to say that it's a really good place for this conference. It's always been a strong technical and *NIX town, and it's *gasp* not on the east or west coast, which means the suits won't be able to find it.
It's actually not that bad over the summer. Now Houston... that's where the heat and humidity combo get you. We'll crank up the a/c for ya and serve up some Tex-Mex. Come on down!
4) Make the code buggy, bloated, and unstable so that people will use Linux instead.
Oh wait... too late.
Unless it runs Windows, of course. And then we have yet another meaning to Blue Screen of Death.
I can see it now:
:)
HOUSTON, TX -- Compaq officials rescended their idea of shipping with GNOME and RPM after receiving a threatening letter from the FSF which insisted that they rename their product to GNU/Tru64 to "give credit to the FSF project". Officials were unavailable for comment.
Hmm... maybe not
Well, lets give YOU an option then.
Here, you can breathe for free, or I can charge you $0.05 per breath... and then you can only only use our proprietary air for your own personal breathing-- bottling it up for a gas tank, filling up your tires with it, or using it to inflate a raft is expressly forbidden. For that you must buy our $15,000 air breathing license, and then sign an NDA to not tell anyone that it's really the exact same product.
Between the Department of Justice well... bringing down Justice and the growth of the Everyone But Microsoft movement, it seems that the horn of armageddon has already come for Microsoft. There's simply too much clout behind the opposition for a company of 15,000 people to deal with-- even one with inflated stock prices and bottom lines.
While their death is far from assured, they have already lost the war: an inferior product can stay ahead in the market only as long as no alternatives are realistic. In the operating system business, this means a lack of applications. If you think apps are starting to come now that we're at the 10-15 million user base, just wait until we're at the 100 million point... Where you go to the computer store and see the "Linux games" and "Linux applications" sections in the front, and all of the legacy Windows apps in bargain baskets and huddled off in the corner with the Mac section.
On another note, it'll be nice to have better 3D support under Linux. And it'll be nice to watch the proprietary unices pour their features into the Linux kernel. It'll be even nicer if they keep a decent-sized number of full-time Linux hackers out there in the name of "furthering company interest" in the operating system (read: Support for better 3d acceleration, etc).
The future is bright indeed.
Keep hacking.
Most of this can be explaned as the use of MP3s for pretty much all of the sounds in the game. They're very processor-intensive little buggers.
If this company has produced a worthless product for kicks and giggles than yes, they get nothing.
But in my world, one I like to call reality, people make software to solve problems.
No, because someone else already will have. And by the license they'll have contributed their changes back to the tree so that everyone can benefit.
You're assuming that software needs to be developed further at all. If it doesn't, then everyone can freely use it.
Entertainment software is something of a special case. And even then you can always do what ID does, and release the source once the game no longer is profitable.
You're missing the point. RedHat makes money doing nothing but Linux work. It is in their best interest to help free software succeed.
Other companies want to use the software. If it is missing something than they have to hire someone to contribute. Everyone profits because everyone gets to use the software.
Software is not an end. It is a means to an end. And under free software, everyone has the means to achieve any end that they desire. You can use the software to make profits doing something else without actually having to profit on the software itself.
Lets see...
www.labs.redhat.com
I just don't believe that Virginia has the power to do this.
Yes, they can pass the law, but I don't believe it will be as far-reaching as they would like.
Virginia will only be able to stop spammers that commit their offence (not including the reply-to in this case, if my understanding is correct) in Virginia itself. Virginia can't come to, say, California, and arrest a spammer whose crime happened to have some effect across the border.
It should be a national law.