I'm talking to YOU, the guy who worked for Internic back in the hippie days and now works for NetSol getting that phat biweekly paycheck!
I don't fault you for selling out and cashing in, but I sure would enjoy hearing about your experiences!
(Or has it *been* an experience?) I wonder. Maybe you just sold out, and all my fairytale romantic notions of the net need to fade away along with all the other delusions.
"With a free domain name system you have no way to pay for the equipment, and the mass usage that would be attributed to such a system.",
are you thinking "distributed", "parallel", and "voluntary?"
The system does not need to be centralized. Nothing about the internet or any other government needs to be centralized, despite the fact that certain aspects of both do tend to be.
So if there is protection for parody, and an adverse attorney knows this yet threatens legal action, has he opened his client to action by doing so? Perhaps they have exposed the achilles heel that will be their undoing. Could this be the one, seemingly tiny, error in their judgement that finally costs them the farm? Make it so!
I'm convinced that more people are using voice recognition. Is there anyone, native-speaker-of-English or not, whe mistakes "are" with "our", or "loose" with "lose"? Or is it that freshman English isn't the barrier it used to be?
Exactly, there aren't 275 million people doing exactly this. Therefore, civil disobedience is risky. There are too many people obeying the rules. Making too much noise about it.
so this is supposed to encourage the best and brightest to work for them? So they can pack up and leave the US when MS files a suit?
No, the bigger they are the more they fill the docket in their federal district. If you did that, you would be come less popular with the local judge who handles all your frivolous suits. Eventually you will bog down, and won't be able to sue anyone, no matter how much money you have. (There is only so much time, and only so much the government will allow you to take advantage of). Even if you are Bill Gates. Billionaires are not always everybody's best friend. It's not that there are people who can't be bought, it's that there are people to whom he is not giving any (or enough) of his money. I am one of these people.:-)
But, Microsoft is hiring. Maybe work there, and change policy... The old guard is retiring soon anyway.
RE:we don't need mom and pop writing even worse ones.
We need to preserve inividual freedom as the primary national ideal! Just because one specific case of a person enjoying their freedom can be perverted by the legal system does NOT MAKE IT WRONG!!!
If legitimate activity were not able to hide behind the veil of secrecy which is the FOUNDATION of personal freedom/privacy, the world would be different.
This may come as a shock, but there are people who would like to preserve this status quo.
It isn't easu for Americans to get work in certain other countries, either! This is not strictly an American weakness. The fact is, many of our cities are crowded and polluted. Most people who immigrate do not go to Utah or Nebraska (sparsely populated). They want to go to New York, or Dallas, where it's already very crowded... Nobody is going to offer me a job and a permanent visa in Holland, and if they did, I would have as many problems trying to emigrate to there, as you are having trying to come here. So don't blame America! The immigration policies are a logical, (yet desperate) response to population growth due largely to the very liberal immigration policies of the past. We are not xenophobic people, but resources are not getting more abundant.
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It goes beyond "putting the Solaris fonts on Xfree", because we don't have DPS. DPS is
one great thing to like about Sun.
"that bunch of stuff
I load on my Solaris box so I can have a compiler for free,"
Please amend that to read "so I can have a compiler that works." "Free(beer)" is often irrelevant in Corporate America.
I'm talking to YOU, the guy who worked for Internic back in the hippie days and now works for NetSol getting that phat biweekly paycheck!
I don't fault you for selling out and cashing in, but I sure would enjoy hearing about your experiences!
(Or has it *been* an experience?) I wonder. Maybe you just sold out, and all my fairytale romantic notions of the net need to fade away along with all the other delusions.
When you say:
"With a free domain name system you have no way to pay for the equipment, and the mass
usage that would be attributed to such a system.",
are you thinking "distributed", "parallel", and "voluntary?"
The system does not need to be centralized. Nothing about the internet or any other government needs to be centralized, despite the fact that certain aspects of both do tend to be.
What makes you so sure these penniless kids
would be "BUYING" anything except beer?
I never bought a CD my first 3 years of college,
and that was because I didn't have enough DOUGH,
not because I had other ways to get music.
MP3 is another way for people to get music.
People not involved in the process of making and
marketing music don't give a RATS ASS how the
noise hits their eardrums.
Where is the follow-up. C'mon we're used to
things happening FAST.
So if there is protection for parody, and
an adverse attorney knows this yet threatens
legal action, has he opened his client to
action by doing so? Perhaps they have exposed
the achilles heel that will be their undoing.
Could this be the one, seemingly tiny, error
in their judgement that finally costs them the
farm? Make it so!
I'm convinced that more people are using
voice recognition.
Is there anyone, native-speaker-of-English or not,
whe mistakes "are" with "our", or "loose" with "lose"?
Or is it that freshman English isn't the barrier
it used to be?
People need to live, ok?
right. But I was calling foul to the
argument that RH is "ANTI-proprietary"
That's Debian's role.
RH has bundled more proprietary stuff
with their distro than anybody. Not that's
a bad thing, just not deserving of "anti-proprietary" appellations.
Exactly, there aren't 275 million people doing
exactly this. Therefore, civil disobedience is
risky. There are too many people obeying the rules. Making too much noise about it.
It's the widespread obedience of them.
By making this broad claim, has he laid claim :-)
to anyone's patents? Can Cisco file a civil
action against Al now? Can a VP be impeached
This is the kind of thing where we should
demand a (front page, not Op-Ed) retraction.
That would make quite a statement.
As far as I can see, Red Hat has always been a Pro Linux anti-proprietary type of company.
Hmph. Never saw source code for the Red Baron browser. Would sure like to see more openness in Applixware, for instance.
Do you mean, submit the information to anybody
who threatens to sue you? Or only if
subpoenaed?
Up to and including "Death Penalty for Treason"
Where do you live that waiters get $7/hr?
They get $2.13 here in Texas.
so this is supposed to encourage the best and
:-)
brightest to work for them? So they can
pack up and leave the US when MS files a suit?
No, the bigger they are the more they fill the
docket in their federal district. If you did that, you would be come less popular with the
local judge who handles all your frivolous suits.
Eventually you will bog down, and won't be able
to sue anyone, no matter how much money you have.
(There is only so much time, and only so much the
government will allow you to take advantage of).
Even if you are Bill Gates.
Billionaires are not always everybody's best friend. It's not that there are people who can't be bought, it's that there are people to whom
he is not giving any (or enough) of his money.
I am one of these people.
But, Microsoft is hiring. Maybe work there, and
change policy... The old guard is retiring soon
anyway.
RE:we don't need mom and pop writing even worse ones.
We need to preserve inividual freedom as the
primary national ideal! Just because one specific
case of a person enjoying their freedom can be
perverted by the legal system does NOT MAKE IT WRONG!!!
hat's one of the most enouraging things i've
ever heard. thank god for non-brainwashed non-
americans.
but... but... it's the rest of us that suffer...
they attack the whole scene... not to try to blame it on the brazilians...
You are an idiot Ogemaniac.
The fact of "only" 10,000 murders (sheesh)
is more from guns NOT being used, than due
to them "being used for other things bescides killing."
NO.
Take my check, via certified us mail, or do without MY money.
If legitimate activity were not able to hide behind the veil of secrecy which is the
FOUNDATION of personal freedom/privacy, the
world would be different.
This may come as a shock, but there are people who
would like to preserve this status quo.
"That's extremely low" (base, ugly, moronic)
"has no material effect" (on anything, it's folly)
Journalists, and the way they make everything
say what they want it to, or think it means.
sheesh. furrfu.
It isn't easu for Americans to get work in
certain other countries, either! This is not
strictly an American weakness. The fact is,
many of our cities are crowded and polluted.
Most people who immigrate do not go to Utah or
Nebraska (sparsely populated). They want to
go to New York, or Dallas, where it's already
very crowded...
Nobody is going to offer me a job and a permanent
visa in Holland, and if they did, I would have
as many problems trying to emigrate to there, as
you are having trying to come here.
So don't blame America! The immigration policies
are a logical, (yet desperate) response to population growth due largely to the very liberal
immigration policies of the past. We are not xenophobic people, but resources are not getting
more abundant.