Yeah! Because, you know, artists shouldn't have the rights to control distribution of their own works! Fuck them! They should make stuff, and everyone else should be able just take it, because...well, because (alsoidon'tlikepayingformusic).
Personally, I think they should go after people who brag about their thousands of downloaded albums and MP3s on forums, and how they never spend a penny. There are enough of them, and it would be hard for them to wriggle out of, because those posts would be written evidence.
I wonder what Slashdot would think about it, considering the RIAA would have both evidence and worthy targets?
Postings on the Baton Rouge LUG mailing list, it checks out (4 year old + wife) and at one point he says that Cox cable are bad for being against sharing (i.e. blocking port 80).
I'm convinced. If he'd like to come out and deny that's him then I'll stop spreading it around.
You forgot the question mark there, but it's clear you were making a statement rather than asking a question anyway. You might as well have said that it's everyone's job to do just what Bill Gates wants them to.
Um...no. If someone asked "could you fix my computer please?" a reasonable person wouldn't see that as an invitation to completely change the operating system for them. Imagine (car analogy coming up) taking your car to a mechanic, and instead of fixing the exhaust they've resprayed it, changed the engine and given you new seats. You'd be pissed.
What the user wants is a browser, email, text editor and spreadsheet that work.
And all users want that, because twitter says so.
What a lot of users want is MSN Messenger. The current most functional MSN client for Unix-alikes is aMSN (IMHO), and it's terrible. The fonts look out of place, it's a Tk program so it looks like shit and it doesn't support things like winks. They might want to use their webcam, which aMSN can do...if Linux supports it. They bought some songs off iTunes or Napster or something, they want to listen to...WHOOPS, they can't (no, saying how DRM is evil and the RIAA are fuckers isn't going to make someone any less pissed when you tell them they can't listen to their tunes). Oh, want to play some games? Well, if they work with Cedega (a big if) then sure. And those Works documents they had (lots of people use Works...)? Well, screw ever getting those back.
See? Linux isn't a panacea. YES, if you want basic web browsing and email, with maybe an ounce of word processing, Linux (or BSD for that matter) will do perfectly fine...but then, so will Windows really. Hell, for that, Windows 98 would suffice. Not much point in switching someone over just because you think Linux is better.
The software market more resembles a nightmare world where McDonald's took over the entire food supply with government help.
Government help? Jesus wept. Are the Jews or the Illuminati involved as well? How about the UN? Can't have a good conspiracy theory without those guys.
Second, I'd be more than happy if my waiter told me something like, "We got some beautiful fish today, you really should try it." Most of us like a helpful waiter.
Fair enough. Nothing wrong with a recommendation, so long as you're not saying "non-free software is evil, use Linux or you're going to hell to have your wallet raped by Bill Gates" (or it's equivalent in the silly lamb/waiter analogy).
How would you feel, if your mechanic "fixed" your car with a factory replacement fully knowing the part was defective by design?
"Defective by design". Yes, twitter. God you kill me sometimes.
My overall take on laptop batteries is that they are a giant rip off. If you look back through my posting history, like all of the rest of my "fans" do, you will see that I've always reccomended standard cell sizes.
We can't look back through your posting history further than about last week, because we're not subscribers.
Anyway, so IBM ships faulty shit - your reaction is "well, that stuff is always faulty whoever makes it". Microsoft (sorry, M$) ships faulty shit - your reaction is "OMFG M$ SUXX0RZ THEY DON'T CARE". Not that anyone's come to expect anything more from you.
You start off with some batshit insane "one of the largest companies in the world will die because of Vista" shite, and move on to something so unfunny it makes me want to shoot myself.
Yes twitter. File permissions (which the dialog boxes you cited are about) are DRM and must be crushed. And Microsoft do love to call people "stupid little shits" over the phone. And it's not the user's fault that they downloaded and installed porn dialers cos they wanted to see some T&A.
Now, she uses her computer to play games on PBS, which are helping her math and language. She especially likes Cyberchase. Because we use mostly free software,
Hang on, to do that surely she would have to use the Flash plugin, which you have derided on many many occasions as "non-free junk" which you personally abstain from?
This might be a bit ad hominem, but you're hardly in a place to be commenting on people only giving opinions and generalisations to support their conclusions.
My personal view on it is that the FSF is trying to take a software license and use it as part of its political campaign against DRM, which is simply wrong for the reasons you outlined. As it is, I think the BSD license is probably the way to go.
That is their eventual conclusion. If you read down to the end, they say that without the three clauses they are against, v3 has only marginal benefit over v2.
In case you don't want to read the whole text, they think that GPLv3 is bad because:
The FSF has an implicit trust from developers, users and distributors.
The use of GPLv3 as a tool against DRM co-opts the work of thousands of people for the FSF's political ends, which they consider a violation of said trust (they do consider DRM a bad thing, they just don't want to be pulled into the FSF's war against it).
The additional restrictions clause will be a licensing headache for distributors and may cause splintering among the community depending on what restrictions are included.
The patents clause would make corporations even hosting GPLv3 programs on their website untenable, and might stop needed financial and programming contributions from the corporate world.
Those three reasons even individually are reason enough to reject GPLv3, and if those clauses are taken out of GPLv3 then it's only a marginal improvement over v2 which simply isn't worth the headache. They also feel that because the FSF will be converting all of its projects over to v3, this will lead to Balkanisation inside the FLOSS community.
twitter, you only say that because you like to talk about wallet-rapings and such all the time. Saying your point of view is the only morally justifiable one doesn't justify it one iota.
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Being able to study it, perhaps?
Yeah! Because, you know, artists shouldn't have the rights to control distribution of their own works! Fuck them! They should make stuff, and everyone else should be able just take it, because...well, because (alsoidon'tlikepayingformusic).
Jesus fucking wept.
Um...no.
A recipe for Twinkies, in music, would be more like sheet music. Or a description of how to hum the song, or something like that.
MP3s are more like taking the actual Twinkies. Now P2Ping Twinkies...there's a thought.
Personally, I think they should go after people who brag about their thousands of downloaded albums and MP3s on forums, and how they never spend a penny. There are enough of them, and it would be hard for them to wriggle out of, because those posts would be written evidence.
I wonder what Slashdot would think about it, considering the RIAA would have both evidence and worthy targets?
Postings on the Baton Rouge LUG mailing list, it checks out (4 year old + wife) and at one point he says that Cox cable are bad for being against sharing (i.e. blocking port 80).
I'm convinced. If he'd like to come out and deny that's him then I'll stop spreading it around.
twitter already posted the above comment, and was modded down for it. He has reposted it verbatim to try and get some karma.
Windows NT WAS designed to be attached to a network, and came with networking support from the first version. Quit with the FUD.
You'd still be drinking lattes. And listening to Enya. On a custom engraved iPod. While reading Michael Moore books.
And they'd be expensive lattes.
(Shall I stop with the stereotypes now?)
Over their lattes at Starbucks, of course. Likely while listening to Enya.
You forgot the question mark there, but it's clear you were making a statement rather than asking a question anyway. You might as well have said that it's everyone's job to do just what Bill Gates wants them to.
Um...no. If someone asked "could you fix my computer please?" a reasonable person wouldn't see that as an invitation to completely change the operating system for them. Imagine (car analogy coming up) taking your car to a mechanic, and instead of fixing the exhaust they've resprayed it, changed the engine and given you new seats. You'd be pissed.
What the user wants is a browser, email, text editor and spreadsheet that work.
And all users want that, because twitter says so.
What a lot of users want is MSN Messenger. The current most functional MSN client for Unix-alikes is aMSN (IMHO), and it's terrible. The fonts look out of place, it's a Tk program so it looks like shit and it doesn't support things like winks. They might want to use their webcam, which aMSN can do...if Linux supports it. They bought some songs off iTunes or Napster or something, they want to listen to...WHOOPS, they can't (no, saying how DRM is evil and the RIAA are fuckers isn't going to make someone any less pissed when you tell them they can't listen to their tunes). Oh, want to play some games? Well, if they work with Cedega (a big if) then sure. And those Works documents they had (lots of people use Works...)? Well, screw ever getting those back.
See? Linux isn't a panacea. YES, if you want basic web browsing and email, with maybe an ounce of word processing, Linux (or BSD for that matter) will do perfectly fine...but then, so will Windows really. Hell, for that, Windows 98 would suffice. Not much point in switching someone over just because you think Linux is better.
The software market more resembles a nightmare world where McDonald's took over the entire food supply with government help.
Government help? Jesus wept. Are the Jews or the Illuminati involved as well? How about the UN? Can't have a good conspiracy theory without those guys.
Second, I'd be more than happy if my waiter told me something like, "We got some beautiful fish today, you really should try it." Most of us like a helpful waiter.
Fair enough. Nothing wrong with a recommendation, so long as you're not saying "non-free software is evil, use Linux or you're going to hell to have your wallet raped by Bill Gates" (or it's equivalent in the silly lamb/waiter analogy).
How would you feel, if your mechanic "fixed" your car with a factory replacement fully knowing the part was defective by design?
"Defective by design". Yes, twitter. God you kill me sometimes.
My overall take on laptop batteries is that they are a giant rip off. If you look back through my posting history, like all of the rest of my "fans" do, you will see that I've always reccomended standard cell sizes.
We can't look back through your posting history further than about last week, because we're not subscribers.
Anyway, so IBM ships faulty shit - your reaction is "well, that stuff is always faulty whoever makes it". Microsoft (sorry, M$) ships faulty shit - your reaction is "OMFG M$ SUXX0RZ THEY DON'T CARE". Not that anyone's come to expect anything more from you.
He does.
You start off with some batshit insane "one of the largest companies in the world will die because of Vista" shite, and move on to something so unfunny it makes me want to shoot myself.
Please, shut up.
Blame the user is a Microsoft game.
The very fact that "RTFM" is a well known phrase from informal Linux support channels suggests otherwise.
If it's an obvious troll, delete it. Otherwise let it stay.
You need maximal freedom of speech for proper discourse.
Yes twitter. File permissions (which the dialog boxes you cited are about) are DRM and must be crushed. And Microsoft do love to call people "stupid little shits" over the phone. And it's not the user's fault that they downloaded and installed porn dialers cos they wanted to see some T&A.
Forgot your meds today twitter?
Now, she uses her computer to play games on PBS, which are helping her math and language. She especially likes Cyberchase. Because we use mostly free software,
Hang on, to do that surely she would have to use the Flash plugin, which you have derided on many many occasions as "non-free junk" which you personally abstain from?
This might be a bit ad hominem, but you're hardly in a place to be commenting on people only giving opinions and generalisations to support their conclusions.
Well said.
My personal view on it is that the FSF is trying to take a software license and use it as part of its political campaign against DRM, which is simply wrong for the reasons you outlined. As it is, I think the BSD license is probably the way to go.
Interestingly enough, your summary contains almost all of the information in the article itself, and that's dissapointing
That, twitter, is because it's a summary of the article, and I don't feel the need to inject my own take on things into it.
That is their eventual conclusion. If you read down to the end, they say that without the three clauses they are against, v3 has only marginal benefit over v2.
What does Excel have that others don't? VBA.
Next, please.
twitter, you only say that because you like to talk about wallet-rapings and such all the time. Saying your point of view is the only morally justifiable one doesn't justify it one iota.
I run Debian and have been thinking about moving to AMD 64.
What does you using Debian have to do with anything in the rest of your post? Were you just trying to name drop to look good?