And the rest of the answer (from TFFAQ, of course):
What the royalty-free license does is ensure that a license is available from Microsoft under whatever rights it may have in the published documentation and/or protocols on the list.
Why would it have any rights to those protocols or documentation? And if they felt they had no ownership claims to some of them, why would they include those on the list?
Microsoft is certainly a huge, powerful organization, but there is no way in hell they can prove they have IP rights to protocols that existed long before the company did.
In other news, these guys in the article keep saying "appears to be," i.e., they could very well be spewing forth some FUD of their own.
The most out-of-shape military force on Earth. Their base of operations is their parents' basements. Their rations consist entirely of pizza and Bawls. Their uniform is jeans and a shirt with either the word "w00t!" (for grunts) or the phrase "i read your e-mail" (for officers). Their recruitment literature looks like this:
HungLo2099: d000dz!!!!11!1!! u could 500000 pwn amerkians!!!1!!!!!
Z3r0k3wl: kewl!!1! wehre do w3 sign up?
HungLo69: OMG america iz teh suck!!1!!1 OMGWTFLOLOLOLOL!!!!!1!!1!111!!11!oneone!1
HungLo2099: d00dz!! u also get free pizza and a t-shirt!!!!1!!!11!
Z3r0k3wl: w00t!
HungLo69: pwnage11!11!
An entire sentence is devoted to the plot and characters. The rest is rambling about how funny it was, and some irrelevant nonsense about the South Park movie. So Taco liked the movie. Thanks for sharing.
On a side note, Taco must be pissed off at his wife. Why else would he give her a Slashdotting?;P
Probably not. What's worse is that nobody will ever really sue these organizations, not in America, not in Oz, not in Candyland, or anywhere else. People considering doing so would just end up feeling overwhelmed and intimidated by the size of the cartels, and just forget about it.
Either that, or any judge and/or jury would be bought by the **AA, ensuring the plaintiff's failure and subsequent economic ruin (lawyers, countersuit, et cetera).
The only thing we can really do to them is stop buying their shit, no matter how interesting a movie looks, or how much you like one of their bands. They will never stop this bullshit until it becomes financially impossible for them to continue.
Too bad the lawmakers never will. It's only a matter of time before the bill is rewritten in such a way that forces ISPs to use "expensive technology" to block kiddie porn.
It's also unfortunate that the same logic hasn't been applied elsewhere.
While this is a very geek-friendly format for recipes, most of us with any interest at all in cooking have already learned how to read and follow "normal" recipes, and those with no interest in cooking aren't likely to start just because of an interesting format.
The article doesn't say anything about launching the volunteers into space, just that volunteers are needed for the projects. More than likely it will be for manual labor-type jobs, like cleaning up afterwards.
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And the rest of the answer (from TFFAQ, of course):
What the royalty-free license does is ensure that a license is available from Microsoft under whatever rights it may have in the published documentation and/or protocols on the list.
Why would it have any rights to those protocols or documentation? And if they felt they had no ownership claims to some of them, why would they include those on the list?
Microsoft is certainly a huge, powerful organization, but there is no way in hell they can prove they have IP rights to protocols that existed long before the company did.
In other news, these guys in the article keep saying "appears to be," i.e., they could very well be spewing forth some FUD of their own.
The most out-of-shape military force on Earth. Their base of operations is their parents' basements. Their rations consist entirely of pizza and Bawls. Their uniform is jeans and a shirt with either the word "w00t!" (for grunts) or the phrase "i read your e-mail" (for officers). Their recruitment literature looks like this:
HungLo2099: d000dz!!!!11!1!! u could 500000 pwn amerkians!!!1!!!!!
Z3r0k3wl: kewl!!1! wehre do w3 sign up?
HungLo69: OMG america iz teh suck!!1!!1 OMGWTFLOLOLOLOL!!!!!1!!1!111!!11!oneone!1
HungLo2099: d00dz!! u also get free pizza and a t-shirt!!!!1!!!11!
Z3r0k3wl: w00t!
HungLo69: pwnage11!11!
Trust me, I've seen it.
An entire sentence is devoted to the plot and characters. The rest is rambling about how funny it was, and some irrelevant nonsense about the South Park movie. So Taco liked the movie. Thanks for sharing.
;P
On a side note, Taco must be pissed off at his wife. Why else would he give her a Slashdotting?
And you could break box office records by keeping the movie open at theaters for however long it takes (approx. 300,000 years).
I answer (d).
This is the MPAA we're talking about here, not people with their heads out of their asses.
Will these morons ever quit?
Probably not. What's worse is that nobody will ever really sue these organizations, not in America, not in Oz, not in Candyland, or anywhere else. People considering doing so would just end up feeling overwhelmed and intimidated by the size of the cartels, and just forget about it.
Either that, or any judge and/or jury would be bought by the **AA, ensuring the plaintiff's failure and subsequent economic ruin (lawyers, countersuit, et cetera).
The only thing we can really do to them is stop buying their shit, no matter how interesting a movie looks, or how much you like one of their bands. They will never stop this bullshit until it becomes financially impossible for them to continue.
Too bad the lawmakers never will. It's only a matter of time before the bill is rewritten in such a way that forces ISPs to use "expensive technology" to block kiddie porn.
It's also unfortunate that the same logic hasn't been applied elsewhere.
Now we can eat something other than pizza!
While this is a very geek-friendly format for recipes, most of us with any interest at all in cooking have already learned how to read and follow "normal" recipes, and those with no interest in cooking aren't likely to start just because of an interesting format.
The article doesn't say anything about launching the volunteers into space, just that volunteers are needed for the projects. More than likely it will be for manual labor-type jobs, like cleaning up afterwards.
2000 years ago Jesus was a carpenter; now He builds robots. There is hope for geeks yet. :p