This new development might break the one of the two truisms, death and taxes. However, in my experience, life has killed everyone when there were no other natural or unnatural causes. Life is fatal. Make your time.
From the article...
>>This feature makes selling GPL'ed software inane because anyone that agrees to the terms of the GPL can also have a copy of the same software with the code - for free.
There are a lot of businesses making some fine money from selling that free software. Redhat, Gentoo, Mandrake, etc.
Erm, are you responding to slashdot via e-mail? I think that only e-mail should be paid for... I'm already paying for my internet access, and I don't want to pay for content especially when I've contributed it:)
There are legal methods which will fail because there is already precedence with SPAM grocery mailers, etc. There are also smart lawyers working (for high dollars) for the spammers who can get cluelesss judges to support the SPAM purveyors.
There are firewall/spam blocker methods that will continue to fail as spammers learn the tricks to route around them. This is the old hacker/security expert game. Build a better lock/block and it will soon be cracked/by-passed. The cycle is repeated ad nauseum.
The only real method of fixing this is to charge for e-mail. Once the spammers have to pay then their rate of return (ROI) will decrease so that it is no longer a viable business model.
Yes, this means we will pay for e-mail. I hate the idea as much as you, but I cannot see a working solution in any other method.
The amount of disposable income has decreased (presumably - I didn't check) due to unemployment and the desire to spend has lessened due to uncertainty in individual economic futures. With this economy, is it unreasonable to presume that sales of music might be down?
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I'm in jail, you insensitive clod.
Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
and shortly after you've died... "what happen?" "someone set up us the bomb!"
This new development might break the one of the two truisms, death and taxes. However, in my experience, life has killed everyone when there were no other natural or unnatural causes. Life is fatal. Make your time.
a new place to put all those extra people. This Earth is already kinda crowded.
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From the article... >>This feature makes selling GPL'ed software inane because anyone that agrees to the terms of the GPL can also have a copy of the same software with the code - for free. There are a lot of businesses making some fine money from selling that free software. Redhat, Gentoo, Mandrake, etc.
Erm, are you responding to slashdot via e-mail? I think that only e-mail should be paid for... I'm already paying for my internet access, and I don't want to pay for content especially when I've contributed it :)
We are approaching this wrongly in so many ways.
There are legal methods which will fail because there is already precedence with SPAM grocery mailers, etc. There are also smart lawyers working (for high dollars) for the spammers who can get cluelesss judges to support the SPAM purveyors.
There are firewall/spam blocker methods that will continue to fail as spammers learn the tricks to route around them. This is the old hacker/security expert game. Build a better lock/block and it will soon be cracked/by-passed. The cycle is repeated ad nauseum.
The only real method of fixing this is to charge for e-mail. Once the spammers have to pay then their rate of return (ROI) will decrease so that it is no longer a viable business model.
Yes, this means we will pay for e-mail. I hate the idea as much as you, but I cannot see a working solution in any other method.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040408. html
From last week even.
The amount of disposable income has decreased (presumably - I didn't check) due to unemployment and the desire to spend has lessened due to uncertainty in individual economic futures. With this economy, is it unreasonable to presume that sales of music might be down?