> Since these people are doing nothing wrong, my conclusion is that you can not determine how to prevent yourself from being sued by Apple when you do something remotely like this.
Easy test:
Copying something of Apple's? (even out of devotion) - possibly get sued.
Building a shrine of products you payed Apple good money for? - Not sued.
You are not prevented from shooting people...you could go out right now and shoot people if you wanted too.
The fact that you would be arrested, sent to jail and possibly even executed, is not a function of the gun itself. It's entirely up to you to decide whether or not you care about the law and the (fairly inevitable) consequences.
Ok, repeat this out loud, and slowly untill you understand:
IT'S OK TO DISTRIBUTE BINARIES CONTAINING MODIFIED GPL SOFTWARE IF YOU PROVIDE THE SOURCE ON REQUEST FOR NO MORE THAN THE COST OF DISTRIBUTION.
http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html Section 3b
The offer to obtain the source has to accompany the binary...and since you can't be bothered even opening it to find out, I don't think you have the right to be claiming license violation.
personaly, I think that if any punk was an attack on Pink Floyd personaly, then they probably never heard anything before DSOTM, and also totaly missed the point of The Wall (Which was, Roger Waters saying, "OMG, we became mainstream corporate rock, and I hate it").
Between The Wall, and The Final Cut, Roger Waters was pretty much trying to give the same "Fuck You", to themselves (and probably Fleetwood Mac too...), and the Government (all Cold War erra governments) that punk was, but just expressed in a different way (and probably without quite so much of the drinking, puking, or saying 'Oi' mentioned in another post).
But then of course, David Gilmour pretty much went "Fuck You, I like being corporate rock, and rich and famous" and hence we have A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and The Division Bell......but, c'est la vie.....
Nothing in the GPL says you have to distribute the software free of cost, only that if you distribute binaries, you have to make the source available for no more than you charge for the binaries, and that you can't apply any extra restrictions (So there's nothing stopping you obtaining a copy for free from someone else who already downloaded it, if they want to give it to you)
at least half of those GC games aren't out in Australia yet.....I'm pretty sure that there's plenty of good games in the US...but over here, it's looking pretty grim at the moment.....
Personally I'm waiting for Animal Crossing and Eternal Darkness before the GC moves closer to the top of my shopping list....
> Everyone will import them from US or Japan, and play games on them, with the modchips that let them do so.
No, I think it much more likely that everyone just will buy PS2s and Game Cubes instead (well, maybe only PS2s, unless some actual games ever appear in stores for the Game Cube)
Because they haven't even attempted to make it look authentic.
However, I'm not sure they meant to. It didn't look to me to be so much of a "switch" ad, as a tutorial with a pleasant face on it....
Though even there it kind of failed...she mentions having to find the right drivers for your hardware, and the fact that she had to reinstall outlook. I find it scary that Microsoft don't see the problem with that.
Except that it arbitarily doesn't work if your computer is a member of a domain....you pay the extra money for Professional, so you can take advantage of the better networking, and you can't use the best feature of XP.
No, not at all, the dinosaurs actually had a very complex belief system, and mumification was often performed for important leaders, so that they could live forever in the afterlife.
Who do you think really built the Pyramids?, humans are far too small and insignificant to pull off a feat of engineering like that...
Unfortunately they died out before they ever got the chance to use them. They must have been rolling in their graves when lowly mamals started using them instead.
PHP's got nothing to do with it, Location: is a standard HTTP header.
You could use PHP, perl, C, a shell script...even postscript if you were feeling perverse enough.
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>just makes you wonder if we'll still be using x86 compatible chips in the year 3029..
Yup, and IPv4, and people will still not buy a PC without a 1.44MB floppy drive, despite the fact that the last floppy disc was finaly destroyed in 2589...
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Shakespeare wouldn't care....he couldn't even spell his own name
> Since these people are doing nothing wrong, my conclusion is that you can not determine how to prevent yourself from being sued by Apple when you do something remotely like this.
Easy test:
Copying something of Apple's? (even out of devotion) - possibly get sued.
Building a shrine of products you payed Apple good money for? - Not sued.
The stupid thing about the Anti-globalisation protests in Australia, is that they're mostly organised by Americans anyway......
So even the Anti-globalisation protests are globalised.
That's not the same thing at all...
You are not prevented from shooting people...you could go out right now and shoot people if you wanted too.
The fact that you would be arrested, sent to jail and possibly even executed, is not a function of the gun itself. It's entirely up to you to decide whether or not you care about the law and the (fairly inevitable) consequences.
Ok, repeat this out loud, and slowly untill you understand:
IT'S OK TO DISTRIBUTE BINARIES CONTAINING MODIFIED GPL SOFTWARE IF YOU PROVIDE THE SOURCE ON REQUEST FOR NO MORE THAN THE COST OF DISTRIBUTION.
http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html Section 3b
The offer to obtain the source has to accompany the binary...and since you can't be bothered even opening it to find out, I don't think you have the right to be claiming license violation.
If you're not here to click on the links....then why are you here?
Please don't tell me it's for the intelligent conversation, and the informed comments....
Hmmm, I wonder if DSE here in Australia will do it too?....
And the price is pretty good too.....
what's to stop them sending 1000 4Mb emails?
personaly, I think that if any punk was an attack on Pink Floyd personaly, then they probably never heard anything before DSOTM, and also totaly missed the point of The Wall (Which was, Roger Waters saying, "OMG, we became mainstream corporate rock, and I hate it").
Between The Wall, and The Final Cut, Roger Waters was pretty much trying to give the same "Fuck You", to themselves (and probably Fleetwood Mac too...), and the Government (all Cold War erra governments) that punk was, but just expressed in a different way (and probably without quite so much of the drinking, puking, or saying 'Oi' mentioned in another post).
But then of course, David Gilmour pretty much went "Fuck You, I like being corporate rock, and rich and famous" and hence we have A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and The Division Bell......but, c'est la vie.....
Fuck You.
;)
That's the purpose of punk
The 'You' being either conservative british government, or Fleetwood Mac, depending on who you ask....
> Starting their rise to fame on the power of bootlegs passing between fans, but slamming Napster once they were famous.
Those that believed that Metallica had lost credibility, believed it long before (like 10 years before) napster....
Those that didn't, couldn't give a shit....
Number 2 is pretty much right though...
Nothing in the GPL says you have to distribute the software free of cost, only that if you distribute binaries, you have to make the source available for no more than you charge for the binaries, and that you can't apply any extra restrictions (So there's nothing stopping you obtaining a copy for free from someone else who already downloaded it, if they want to give it to you)
at least half of those GC games aren't out in Australia yet.....I'm pretty sure that there's plenty of good games in the US...but over here, it's looking pretty grim at the moment.....
Personally I'm waiting for Animal Crossing and Eternal Darkness before the GC moves closer to the top of my shopping list....
Actually, I think it just shows that up till now, it's not really been that much of a required feature...
But now that we have more and more normal desktop users at least considering Linux, it's become more pressing.
I think you'll find that from deciding to do the work, to actually finishing did not take very long at all, in the scheme of things....
> Everyone will import them from US or Japan, and play games on them, with the modchips that let them do so.
No, I think it much more likely that everyone just will buy PS2s and Game Cubes instead (well, maybe only PS2s, unless some actual games ever appear in stores for the Game Cube)
Actually, if you play some custom games on battle.net, you'll find all sorts of weird hacks....all done with the supplied tools from Blizzard.
Everything from RPGs to Monopoly..including many, many arenas, commando wars, tower defence..even capture the flag
Because they haven't even attempted to make it look authentic.
However, I'm not sure they meant to. It didn't look to me to be so much of a "switch" ad, as a tutorial with a pleasant face on it....
Though even there it kind of failed...she mentions having to find the right drivers for your hardware, and the fact that she had to reinstall outlook.
I find it scary that Microsoft don't see the problem with that.
Except that it arbitarily doesn't work if your computer is a member of a domain....you pay the extra money for Professional, so you can take advantage of the better networking, and you can't use the best feature of XP.
No, not at all, the dinosaurs actually had a very complex belief system, and mumification was often performed for important leaders, so that they could live forever in the afterlife.
Who do you think really built the Pyramids?, humans are far too small and insignificant to pull off a feat of engineering like that...
Unfortunately they died out before they ever got the chance to use them.
They must have been rolling in their graves when lowly mamals started using them instead.
hmmm...so you've met a lot of "females" online that say they're lesbian, and others seem rather a lot like males to you...
and you believe them?
You're either very gullible, or very....
no wait, you're gullible...
"Score 5, Troll" - only on Slashdot.
;)
Looks like you suceeded
The testers they're after would be on site salaried staff....
;)
you'd want to hope they could tell
Sony do not sell at a loss, and Nintendo never did either, untill the Game Cube
Sega started that with the Saturn, and then the Dreamcast.
Looks like they left the console buisness.
PHP's got nothing to do with it, Location: is a standard HTTP header.
You could use PHP, perl, C, a shell script...even postscript if you were feeling perverse enough.
>just makes you wonder if we'll still be using x86 compatible chips in the year 3029..
Yup, and IPv4, and people will still not buy a PC without a 1.44MB floppy drive, despite the fact that the last floppy disc was finaly destroyed in 2589...