If somebody wants to sell their software for 50 USD then it is their right.
Of course.
It is NOT your right to share that software.
I disagree.
Software isn't a material good; it lies more in the realm of concepts. If you thought up a great joke, and someone paid you to tell it to them, would you expect them not to repeat it?
Software is information, like speech. You can't restrict people giving it to eachother.
Note that I'm not saying we should ignore the current bad laws willy-nilly and do whatever we like; obviously that would result in anarchy. What people SHOULD do is NEVER buy or use proprietary software, only using software which allows you your deserved rights on its own. It should not be necessary for licenses to grant you rights that you deserve in all cases, but until the law is changed (or rather reverted) we must use such measures to have the freedom to change or improve our own software.
If you're sufficiently interested in this topic I suggest you take the time to read the essay Misinterpreting Copyright which makes the points I'm trying to better than I could.
Illegal Copyright Infringement it may be, but if the laws are wrong it's our civic duty to try and change them.
So... If I'm a developer and I sell my product for $50 it's perfectly appropriate for the one purchaser of my product to "share" it with the rest of the world. Everyone else gets it for free?
Yes. This is why selling software is a STUPID business model. Selling support for software makes much more sense.
First of all, even using the term "Piracy" is buying into the corporation's propaganda campaign and spreading unconscious assumptions. The proper term is "Sharing."
Second of all, there is nothing immoral about this behavior, and until recently nothing illegal, which is as it should be, especially in the US.
Part of the point of the US system is that all rights not specifically taken away from the public remain with them. Under the copyright system as originally (and best) envisaged, the right to share is NOT taken away.
Any views to the contrary are the result of corporate lobbying and insidious propaganda campaigns. Copyright exists only to encourage artists to produce works, not to make everyone who ever uses it have to pay them.
The solution to "piracy" is to stop viewing it as a crime. Software isn't a manufactured good to be sold per unit. It's perfectly easy to make money by offering support and customization under contracts with monthly fees or the like.
That's close to the truth actually, in that you can substitute any key combination for any key combo in KDE -- or any mouse gesture, for that matter, which I think is the #1 undermarketed feature in KDE.
The point is that "Lego" is no more correct than "Legos" for the plural. Everyone correcting it to Lego is just as wrong, and while we're going to be wrong anyway we may as well use accepted english usage and go with Legos.
The strength of OSS is that the more different projects, and the more users, the better, because the core programs and libraries that everybody uses have their bugs fixed, features added, and generalizations taken care of even faster.
It's not fragmentation, because all the work of the different distros migrates upstream and benefits the entire community.
And it's been made clear many a time that having a choice of OS's specialized to your needs makes for a more satisfying experience than a "one-size-fits-all" OS that tries to be all things for all people and ends up being mediocre at all of them.
Hmm...leaving your "more mature forum that slashdot" to indulge in some puerile first-post attempts, eh?;-) Just goes to show it happens to the best of us.
Normally, the solution is that version 3 is named libfoo.so.3, version 4 is named libfoo.so.4, and libfoo.so is a symlink to the latest version. Anything that depends on a specific version is linked to that version.
if an application is being really stupid about trying to link to the wrong version, changing the symlink can fix it.
I noticed that they took down the parts of their website which desperately listed distros that were still shipping them, now that the list is only unmaintained distros.
The XFree86 website doesn't really reflect these issues either; if they are still working, nobody cares.
Actually, anyone who learned english as a second language and thus actually understands different types of words usually doesn't have a problem with "your" vs. "you're" (and especially "well" vs. "good" which the majority of native speakers screw up.)
Mistaking your and you're usually indicates a native speaker who never learned proper grammar.
Holy shit, are you max barry?
I just finished jennifer government. GREAT book. and the only antidote I have to my economics class, which pushes all the maxims John Nike would hold dear as inarguable truth.
damn, I just went completely fanboy...how embarrassing.
CNN is not more major than sluggy freelance. They're just visited by different groups of people.
That is to say -- I've been online as much as you, and have been to CNN perhaps 3 times total, NYT not at all, vs. sluggy every single day for three years now.
Slashdot Mirror
So...no.
It's in mono.
Of course. It is NOT your right to share that software.
I disagree.
Software isn't a material good; it lies more in the realm of concepts. If you thought up a great joke, and someone paid you to tell it to them, would you expect them not to repeat it?
Software is information, like speech. You can't restrict people giving it to eachother.
Note that I'm not saying we should ignore the current bad laws willy-nilly and do whatever we like; obviously that would result in anarchy. What people SHOULD do is NEVER buy or use proprietary software, only using software which allows you your deserved rights on its own. It should not be necessary for licenses to grant you rights that you deserve in all cases, but until the law is changed (or rather reverted) we must use such measures to have the freedom to change or improve our own software.
Illegal Copyright Infringement it may be, but if the laws are wrong it's our civic duty to try and change them.
Yes. This is why selling software is a STUPID business model. Selling support for software makes much more sense.
Second of all, there is nothing immoral about this behavior, and until recently nothing illegal, which is as it should be, especially in the US.
Part of the point of the US system is that all rights not specifically taken away from the public remain with them. Under the copyright system as originally (and best) envisaged, the right to share is NOT taken away.
Any views to the contrary are the result of corporate lobbying and insidious propaganda campaigns. Copyright exists only to encourage artists to produce works, not to make everyone who ever uses it have to pay them.
The solution to "piracy" is to stop viewing it as a crime. Software isn't a manufactured good to be sold per unit. It's perfectly easy to make money by offering support and customization under contracts with monthly fees or the like.
That's close to the truth actually, in that you can substitute any key combination for any key combo in KDE -- or any mouse gesture, for that matter, which I think is the #1 undermarketed feature in KDE.
If you look at KDE changelogs, you see "fixed from apple" in there fairly often. Safari work is going upstream.
That probably is in violation of their Interface Guidelines, however, but, you know, they're guidelines, not actual rules.
The point is that "Lego" is no more correct than "Legos" for the plural. Everyone correcting it to Lego is just as wrong, and while we're going to be wrong anyway we may as well use accepted english usage and go with Legos.
His ADSL line isn't feeling it, it's linked through a Coral distributed cache. Read away. ;-)
Another example of the strengths of many distros for many needs. ;-) A one or even 5-distro world wouldn't be able to have such cool projects.
http://www.lindows.com
The strength of OSS is that the more different projects, and the more users, the better, because the core programs and libraries that everybody uses have their bugs fixed, features added, and generalizations taken care of even faster.
It's not fragmentation, because all the work of the different distros migrates upstream and benefits the entire community.
And it's been made clear many a time that having a choice of OS's specialized to your needs makes for a more satisfying experience than a "one-size-fits-all" OS that tries to be all things for all people and ends up being mediocre at all of them.
Congratulations on the release.
There go Dr. Sitti's nefarious plans of patenting water-involved activities and suing the world.
Normally, the solution is that version 3 is named libfoo.so.3, version 4 is named libfoo.so.4, and libfoo.so is a symlink to the latest version. Anything that depends on a specific version is linked to that version. if an application is being really stupid about trying to link to the wrong version, changing the symlink can fix it.
Methinks you've missed the news. ;-)
And copy and paste in any modern wm is much superior to the windows world.
The XFree86 website doesn't really reflect these issues either; if they are still working, nobody cares.
There is still activity on the mailing list
Mistaking your and you're usually indicates a native speaker who never learned proper grammar.
Uh, IE also starts with mozilla in the agent-string. It's the standard.
IE 6.0 on WinXP looks like
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Holy shit, are you max barry? I just finished jennifer government. GREAT book. and the only antidote I have to my economics class, which pushes all the maxims John Nike would hold dear as inarguable truth. damn, I just went completely fanboy...how embarrassing.
CNN is not more major than sluggy freelance. They're just visited by different groups of people. That is to say -- I've been online as much as you, and have been to CNN perhaps 3 times total, NYT not at all, vs. sluggy every single day for three years now.
KDE's universal mouse gestures, kioslaves, and kparts are just too danged cool for me to use gnome. ;-)
Not that this is an article about openoffice, but I haven't found a powerpoint, excel, or text document it can't open yet.