What, exactly, is "illegal" traffic on a P2P network and how is an ISP supposed to identify it? Believe it or not, using Kazaa or Grokster is not illegal; it is when a user trades copyright-protected content without a license on those networks that the actions become illegal.
For an ISP to block illegal traffic and not interfere with legitimate file-sharing, it would need a complicated and error-prone filter, a suitable implementation of which does not currently exist.
"In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
the scope of this License."
The new Apple fashion: instead of black shadow people in their iPod advertisements, everyone is now covered with solar panels. (This might actually help the batter life, though, so it's not a total loss.)
Debian spoils people. I have been using Debian for several years now and whenever I find myself using a different distribution, I feel somewhat lost. For me, to search for a Slackware package that I want from the ftp site, then to to make sure that I have all of the dependencies, and finally to then download and "installpkg" or "upgradepkg" is way too time-consuming for me. With Debian, one can simply "apt-get install " be done.
This does not even take into account the ease with which Debian users can upgrade their systems. It is entirely possible to run a Debian unstable system for years without reinstalling; I am living proof of this. This kind of simple and reliable upgrade process that Debian users have come to expect is possible with neither Vector nor Slackware -- nor, for that matter, with most of the other distros available today.
This is the whole point of an effective antitrust system (which we certainly do not have) versus what comes close to laissez-faire economics. If there were another platform with an even remotely significant percentage of the user base, no customer in their right mind would swallow Janus; they would gravitate toward the inevitable alternative.
In this real world, however, there is not going to be any other alternative that runs on Windows -- Microsoft can make sure of that. Sadly, in a monopolistic world, our rights diminish every day.
*This* is the reason why we need open standards and, apparently, open source.
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What, exactly, is "illegal" traffic on a P2P network and how is an ISP supposed to identify it? Believe it or not, using Kazaa or Grokster is not illegal; it is when a user trades copyright-protected content without a license on those networks that the actions become illegal.
For an ISP to block illegal traffic and not interfere with legitimate file-sharing, it would need a complicated and error-prone filter, a suitable implementation of which does not currently exist.
Ahem.
From the GPL, version2.
The new Apple fashion: instead of black shadow people in their iPod advertisements, everyone is now covered with solar panels. (This might actually help the batter life, though, so it's not a total loss.)
Debian spoils people. I have been using Debian for several years now and whenever I find myself using a different distribution, I feel somewhat lost. For me, to search for a Slackware package that I want from the ftp site, then to to make sure that I have all of the dependencies, and finally to then download and "installpkg" or "upgradepkg" is way too time-consuming for me. With Debian, one can simply "apt-get install " be done.
This does not even take into account the ease with which Debian users can upgrade their systems. It is entirely possible to run a Debian unstable system for years without reinstalling; I am living proof of this. This kind of simple and reliable upgrade process that Debian users have come to expect is possible with neither Vector nor Slackware -- nor, for that matter, with most of the other distros available today.
Actually, they "run" the Java Virtual Machine just fine, but somewhere in there a shoelace comes untied...
This is the whole point of an effective antitrust system (which we certainly do not have) versus what comes close to laissez-faire economics. If there were another platform with an even remotely significant percentage of the user base, no customer in their right mind would swallow Janus; they would gravitate toward the inevitable alternative. In this real world, however, there is not going to be any other alternative that runs on Windows -- Microsoft can make sure of that. Sadly, in a monopolistic world, our rights diminish every day. *This* is the reason why we need open standards and, apparently, open source.