Maybe FOSS should create a better alternative implementation rather than reverse engineering and riding on the coat tails of people who did the actual work?
I think there's a slight difference between reverse engineering to provide driver support where none existed before for *paid for* hardware and reverse engineering to produce a *competing product* to *bypass the original product's license* so as to destroy that product's market.
I think quite a few of us would rather set off our entire nuclear arsenal (and possibly take all of the rest of you with us) than compete in the "who does slave labor best" world economy.
You forgot good luck not being murdered for being American.
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Due to Intel's market position, doing such a thing could be seen as attempting to create a monopoly in desktop processors by dumping their product on the market below cost until the competition (AMD) is dead.
They were never getting a wage, they were and still are salaried. Minimum wage is somewhere around $5.50 an hour IIRC. These guys aren't working by the hour so they can agree to whatever yearly pay they want especially since they aren't going to complain about it given their stock ownership.
It's good for the corporations because they can hire fewer (unskilled) developers for a shorter period of time to modify FOSS rather than provide REAL employment to REAL developers. Yeah, it's good for someone. Too bad that, as usual, what's good for the corporations isn't good for us.
I think it's highly disturbing that he's going to jail for 9 years over a 2 week old law in a state he doesn't even live in. What kind of message is this sending? States can drag outsiders into their courts because they passed a law 2 seconds ago making you a criminal?
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and god only knows what kind of licensed stuff in it?
If MS thinks the patent is bullshit, why not fight it?
Did he even write the drivers?...
Maybe he thinks OSS should come up with their own implementations and compete with something other than "We're free!"
Maybe FOSS should create a better alternative implementation rather than reverse engineering and riding on the coat tails of people who did the actual work?
I think there's a slight difference between reverse engineering to provide driver support where none existed before for *paid for* hardware and reverse engineering to produce a *competing product* to *bypass the original product's license* so as to destroy that product's market.
At the time of its creation, that was the opinion of the Department of Defense too.
I think quite a few of us would rather set off our entire nuclear arsenal (and possibly take all of the rest of you with us) than compete in the "who does slave labor best" world economy.
It helps when certain countries are lying about the condition of their economies and their deficits.
American ingenuity worked before our government destroyed our sovereignty by selling us out to globalization.
You forgot good luck not being murdered for being American.
Due to Intel's market position, doing such a thing could be seen as attempting to create a monopoly in desktop processors by dumping their product on the market below cost until the competition (AMD) is dead.
Then out of the entire software industry Microsoft is the greatest contributor to society EVER.
They were never getting a wage, they were and still are salaried. Minimum wage is somewhere around $5.50 an hour IIRC. These guys aren't working by the hour so they can agree to whatever yearly pay they want especially since they aren't going to complain about it given their stock ownership.
Possession of perfectly legal two dollar bills is a sure sign you also possess a bomb vest!
wtf? Being harassed at 11pm with phone calls from Linux geeks isn't extreme? What fucking world do you live in?
It's good for the corporations because they can hire fewer (unskilled) developers for a shorter period of time to modify FOSS rather than provide REAL employment to REAL developers. Yeah, it's good for someone. Too bad that, as usual, what's good for the corporations isn't good for us.
I think it's highly disturbing that he's going to jail for 9 years over a 2 week old law in a state he doesn't even live in. What kind of message is this sending? States can drag outsiders into their courts because they passed a law 2 seconds ago making you a criminal?
Maybe it's time that Microsoft start working on that.
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Being the latest released version doesn't mean it's not a couple years old. CS2 should be available pretty soon too.
I don't understand the logic of saying that gravity as a force does not exist and then telling us where the force we call gravity comes from.
This is usually because the manufacturer has gone into bankruptcy protection or ceases to exist.
GOTOs are fine as long as you don't have dozens of them all over the same function/procedure turning it into a speghetti mess.
Is it even possible of defy Google's TOS when you don't agree to it before they index you?