No, but why would you want the copyright? So you can relicense it under another license? There's no point, since either BSD or public domain is liberal enough that you can do that anyway without holding the copyright. So you can stop others making derivative works? But the license lets them anyway. There's no point keeping your copyright if you're not going to exercise any of your rights under it - and BSD allows just about everything you have a right to prevent under copyright.
I don't want to report a bug - that way I'd have to pick a new five applications every time I did the test. I want to see when they start just working.
Whenever people say this, I pick up my five test java applications. Three are programs I like and use, the other two are picked more-or-less randomly from freshmeat.
None of them work under such stacks. Not one.
They are good projects, but until you can pick up a random java application and expect it to work, you can't really say there's a free java available. Right now there is less support for java programs on a completely free platform than there is for windows executables.
The real justification for that war is far too complex for the average person, never mind a 5-second sound bite.
Then it's not a justification.
I don't think the explanation would fit in a few Slashdot posts either, even assuming you are smart enough to follow it. I'll give you a few hints though. It has to do with very long-term world strategy and stability. It has to do with much more than oil or terrorism.
The US wants to destabilize the world in the long term so it gets welcomed when it invades and takes over everywhere else?
Just think how few flights there have been though. It may be fifty years since people went into space, but I suspect there have still been less trips than in the first year of train travel.
I didn't feel it was. Good as it was, there was something of the original that was missing. I pick it up again far less often. I'll keep an eye open for Umihara Kawase though.
That's not really true. If I want electricity, I have no choice. If I want hot water, I have no choice in either case as to which corporation I must give money to.
Which is why natural monopolies like that should be state-owned.
You said earlier in your post that you'd put off buying a graphics card to buy music,
I think I put it off past the point where it would have been old enough that I'd want to buy a new one anyway.
but you've only got a finite amount of money to make purchases with, and eventually it's going to come down to another CD that you would have purchased, but won't because you can't justify spending more.
I don't think it would. My music purchases aren't at all regular - I may buy a bunch of albums in a week, or none at all for months. I don't think I spend any kind of fixed amount on music - it could go on computer bits, films, books, just about anything. So I don't think there's any question of one band's gain being another's loss.
So what you get is an indie band that benefits, while another (potentially mass-marketed RIAA-backed) band will not get a sale. This is the reason for the RIAA's attack on P2P: they are losing control on people's exposure to music, and they can no longer dictate who will be listened to.
I think the internet is doing this anyway. People don't need to actually listen to the band - it's enough that you can find hundreds of reviews, people talking about it on their blogs, tell your friends over IM. I don't think stopping P2P would stop it.
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You are a market, just one that VIA owns. I suspect no-one will try and compete with them for the same reason no-one really competes with VIA on low-end motherboard chipsets - once technology is out of the equation VIA can make them cheaper than anyone else.
Unless... few P2P defenders want to admit that they really have no interest in paying for music that they could otherwise get for free.
Quite a lot of it, they don't. Say I download 100 albums and buy 3 of them. That's still a net gain for the record industry, because had I not been able to download anything, that money would have gone on a graphics card instead.
Look, I despise the RIAA as much as the next guy, but if you're downloading the music of a small band, you're not supporting them. No one will notice that and think "hey this is the next great band" except for maybe the hated RIAA's lawyers if they see a spike in P2P traffic.
Maybe not directly. But they will tell friends, raise the band's last.fm visibility (which is how I discovered Lacuna Coil, so that's almost certainly one more customer from rampant piracy), and some of them will buy the songs. Maybe only a small proportion, but a few percent of lots of pirate downloads is still more than 100% of no sales.
Don't ever forget that the boom in CD sales with Napster in 1998-2000 corresponded to the dotcom bubble!
Huh? So successes of websites lead to more CD sales?
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No, but why would you want the copyright? So you can relicense it under another license? There's no point, since either BSD or public domain is liberal enough that you can do that anyway without holding the copyright. So you can stop others making derivative works? But the license lets them anyway. There's no point keeping your copyright if you're not going to exercise any of your rights under it - and BSD allows just about everything you have a right to prevent under copyright.
I don't want to report a bug - that way I'd have to pick a new five applications every time I did the test. I want to see when they start just working.
If you look back in the thread, you'll see mac zealots are already getting elitist about their new processors.
If you wanted to be the least restrictive you'd put it in the public domain. I really don't see the point of the BSD license in most cases.
*Looks at the sparcstation on his right, a way through emerging something.*
Umm, why?
None of them work under such stacks. Not one.
They are good projects, but until you can pick up a random java application and expect it to work, you can't really say there's a free java available. Right now there is less support for java programs on a completely free platform than there is for windows executables.
That's because arrogant yanks seem to think .com should belong to them. Sigh.
He meant GNU/Linux, most of which will be automatically available under GPL3 once it is published.
You don't know who will be doing best. Long term, having a gold standard hurts both nations.
Then it's not a justification.
I don't think the explanation would fit in a few Slashdot posts either, even assuming you are smart enough to follow it. I'll give you a few hints though. It has to do with very long-term world strategy and stability. It has to do with much more than oil or terrorism.
The US wants to destabilize the world in the long term so it gets welcomed when it invades and takes over everywhere else?
And you think your parents didn't think of your music the same way?
Just think how few flights there have been though. It may be fifty years since people went into space, but I suspect there have still been less trips than in the first year of train travel.
If you're so used to death that a mere 7 people doesn't max out your emotional response, it's you who's one fscked up puppy.
I didn't feel it was. Good as it was, there was something of the original that was missing. I pick it up again far less often. I'll keep an eye open for Umihara Kawase though.
Every platform game since has been basically a poorer imitation. It's just good fun.
Not on its own, of course. But was it a factor? I think so. Things like that may be small, but they add up.
Planned in advance is fine. It would be useful for cooking a meal to be ready for when one arrives home from work.
It was brought down by embargoing, banning them from sporting events, etc. - the precise opposite of what we're doing with China here.
Which is why natural monopolies like that should be state-owned.
I think I put it off past the point where it would have been old enough that I'd want to buy a new one anyway.
but you've only got a finite amount of money to make purchases with, and eventually it's going to come down to another CD that you would have purchased, but won't because you can't justify spending more.
I don't think it would. My music purchases aren't at all regular - I may buy a bunch of albums in a week, or none at all for months. I don't think I spend any kind of fixed amount on music - it could go on computer bits, films, books, just about anything. So I don't think there's any question of one band's gain being another's loss.
So what you get is an indie band that benefits, while another (potentially mass-marketed RIAA-backed) band will not get a sale. This is the reason for the RIAA's attack on P2P: they are losing control on people's exposure to music, and they can no longer dictate who will be listened to.
I think the internet is doing this anyway. People don't need to actually listen to the band - it's enough that you can find hundreds of reviews, people talking about it on their blogs, tell your friends over IM. I don't think stopping P2P would stop it.
Agreed 100% until you break the law.
You are a market, just one that VIA owns. I suspect no-one will try and compete with them for the same reason no-one really competes with VIA on low-end motherboard chipsets - once technology is out of the equation VIA can make them cheaper than anyone else.
Quite a lot of it, they don't. Say I download 100 albums and buy 3 of them. That's still a net gain for the record industry, because had I not been able to download anything, that money would have gone on a graphics card instead.
Look, I despise the RIAA as much as the next guy, but if you're downloading the music of a small band, you're not supporting them. No one will notice that and think "hey this is the next great band" except for maybe the hated RIAA's lawyers if they see a spike in P2P traffic.
Maybe not directly. But they will tell friends, raise the band's last.fm visibility (which is how I discovered Lacuna Coil, so that's almost certainly one more customer from rampant piracy), and some of them will buy the songs. Maybe only a small proportion, but a few percent of lots of pirate downloads is still more than 100% of no sales.
Don't ever forget that the boom in CD sales with Napster in 1998-2000 corresponded to the dotcom bubble!
Huh? So successes of websites lead to more CD sales?
and look up the word "gratuitous"
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