They can either: a) Censor search/news results in China.. b) Not do business in that market (ie. they'd be blocked by the Chinese censors)
Now, some will argue caving into the demands of a repressive, totalitarian government would be "evil".. but denying search service to one billion people, given that Google offers more than the censors would ever allow (they just havn't found and blocked it yet), would be even more "evil", don't you think?
The problem is, there really isn't a "good" way to deal with a repressive society
Umm.. there are a whole bunch of entensions that don't work with the new version right now.. and a cursory glance on the mozilla.org website does not reveal a patch for older browsers.
Does the new Thunderbird have support for multi-part and yEnc-encoded binary newsgroup postings?
I tried Thunderbird a while back, when I switched to Firefox, and was underwhelmed with the functionality... even Outlook Express is better in this regard!
And when the law/govt doesn't work? Piracy is still rampant, so it doesn't look like it is. Who is there for the small, independant developer? The BSA? Not likely.
How is an independant software developer supposed to make a living when there are more people ripping off their product than who are actually buying it?
As long as the EULA states that the software has measures to discourage/prevent piracy (or something to that effect), it's all OK. Granted, he may be shooting himself in the foot given the widespread attitude that you have the right to "try before you buy" with commerical software.. but in a general sense, I see nothing wrong with what he's done.
Too bad he's discontinued the product because of piracy. I could have used software like what he was selling.
You pirate the software, you lose your data. Sounds fair enough to me. The software developer is merely trying to protect his livlihood.
Personally, I'd go for a different approach.. find all personally identifiable information on the computer of the pirate, and send that information to the software developer. Automatically send an e-mail to the pirate saying they have 48 hours to obtain a proper license for the software, or legal action will ensue.
You don't piss off your customers in this way, because people who pirate your software are *NOT* customers.
You'd be surprised how little that's actually used. Case in point: Windows system partition accidentally got installed as f:\ instead of the normal c:\. Some apps (ATI Catalyst drivers come to mind) still insist on installing to the c:\ drive, even though that's now my DVD-burner!
Hell, I figure it might make my system slightly more secure from poorly coded viruses:->
I was wondering how long it would take for this..
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Apple Records and Apple Computer settle a lawsuit with a deal saying Apple Computer can use their name, as long as they don't enter into the music industry.
Apple Computer enters into the music industry, with iPod and iTunes.
I wonder how true that is, given that Apple has already partnered with HP, and Sony. I suspect there might be more to the story than what we've been told..
said the CEO of the company who earlier cried wolf about breaking IE in the wake of the Eolas judgment, prompting the W3C to go to bat for the software giant."
Tell me, do you not believe that if Eolas had won their suit.. that Microsoft and every other browser maker would need to drastically change the way their browsers worked to avoid this patent?
Isn't Microsoft providing a royalty-free license for everyone to use this patent?
It's funny how some people deride Microsoft for not supporting web standards in their IE browser.. and then turn around and applaud Apache when they say they're not going to support IETF standards. I bet they don't even realize they're contradicting themselves..
If P=NP, then we don't have a set of problems that are difficult to solve, but easy to verify. That means we're left with problems that are easy to solve and easy to verify (useless for cryptography, obviously.. ) and problems that are difficult to solve and difficult to verify (potentially more useful.. but proper decryption becomes just as difficult as cracking the code).
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Wow, should be easy to find this scumbag and send him to jail for a long time.. where he (assuming he is the virus writer) belongs.
Is that even available for Windows? From the spamassassin.apache.org website, it doesn't appear to be. And if it does, does it integrate with Outlook?
They can either:
a) Censor search/news results in China..
b) Not do business in that market (ie. they'd be blocked by the Chinese censors)
Now, some will argue caving into the demands of a repressive, totalitarian government would be "evil".. but denying search service to one billion people, given that Google offers more than the censors would ever allow (they just havn't found and blocked it yet), would be even more "evil", don't you think?
The problem is, there really isn't a "good" way to deal with a repressive society
it does support .ogg, in addition to the usual file formats (mp3, .wmv, .asf, .wav) and sports a nifty color screen. .. or is that supposed to be .wma?
That is pure FUD. Have you even seen the NDA Microsoft makes you sign to view the code? No? I thought so..
Simply put: What this guy says is NOT going to happen.
I'm leaning towards FUD, just by his tone in the article..
All I get is a "this account has been suspended" message when I go to that URL.
Umm.. there are a whole bunch of entensions that don't work with the new version right now.. and a cursory glance on the mozilla.org website does not reveal a patch for older browsers.
Wow. I just reported the bug.. turns out that they've known about this flaw (first reported to bugzilla) in November of 2000! Yikes!
So much for open source being more flexible, etc. etc.
Does the new Thunderbird have support for multi-part and yEnc-encoded binary newsgroup postings?
I tried Thunderbird a while back, when I switched to Firefox, and was underwhelmed with the functionality... even Outlook Express is better in this regard!
And when the law/govt doesn't work? Piracy is still rampant, so it doesn't look like it is.
Who is there for the small, independant developer? The BSA? Not likely.
How is an independant software developer supposed to make a living when there are more people ripping off their product than who are actually buying it?
As long as the EULA states that the software has measures to discourage/prevent piracy (or something to that effect), it's all OK. Granted, he may be shooting himself in the foot given the widespread attitude that you have the right to "try before you buy" with commerical software.. but in a general sense, I see nothing wrong with what he's done.
Too bad he's discontinued the product because of piracy. I could have used software like what he was selling.
You pirate the software, you lose your data. Sounds fair enough to me. The software developer is merely trying to protect his livlihood.
Personally, I'd go for a different approach.. find all personally identifiable information on the computer of the pirate, and send that information to the software developer. Automatically send an e-mail to the pirate saying they have 48 hours to obtain a proper license for the software, or legal action will ensue.
You don't piss off your customers in this way, because people who pirate your software are *NOT* customers.
You'd be surprised how little that's actually used. Case in point: Windows system partition accidentally got installed as f:\ instead of the normal c:\. Some apps (ATI Catalyst drivers come to mind) still insist on installing to the c:\ drive, even though that's now my DVD-burner!
:->
Hell, I figure it might make my system slightly more secure from poorly coded viruses
Apple Records and Apple Computer settle a lawsuit with a deal saying Apple Computer can use their name, as long as they don't enter into the music industry.
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Apple Computer enters into the music industry, with iPod and iTunes.
Apple Records sues.
No brainer.
[Jedi mind-trick a-la Obi Wan]
These aren't the films we're looking for
[/jedi mind trick]
Nah, that's Space Balls 2 :->
MORE photos of Leia in the metal bikini!!
I'm not sure how objective this site is (I'll suspect it's not..), but after reading it, the spinning in Moore's film is blatently obvious.
Not to say that Moore doesn't have a point (in some ways, he does.. ), but this film really is a manipulative piece of propoganda.
I wonder how true that is, given that Apple has already partnered with HP, and Sony. I suspect there might be more to the story than what we've been told..
Why was Real unable to license the FairPlay technology from Apple? Did Apple simply refuse, or were their terms unworkable?
said the CEO of the company who earlier cried wolf about breaking IE in the wake of the Eolas judgment, prompting the W3C to go to bat for the software giant."
Tell me, do you not believe that if Eolas had won their suit.. that Microsoft and every other browser maker would need to drastically change the way their browsers worked to avoid this patent?
See question 19
Perhaps YOU should get a clue about what we're talking about.
Try this for starters.
Isn't Microsoft providing a royalty-free license for everyone to use this patent?
It's funny how some people deride Microsoft for not supporting web standards in their IE browser.. and then turn around and applaud Apache when they say they're not going to support IETF standards. I bet they don't even realize they're contradicting themselves..
If P=NP, then we don't have a set of problems that are difficult to solve, but easy to verify. That means we're left with problems that are easy to solve and easy to verify (useless for cryptography, obviously.. ) and problems that are difficult to solve and difficult to verify (potentially more useful.. but proper decryption becomes just as difficult as cracking the code).