Except that the system is rigged to make this impossible: patent fees are damn expensive, to make sure everyone defects in what is essentially prisoner's dilemma.
For most people I personally talked with about licenses, the reason is "if there is a fork of my software, I want to be able to use it", with being able to incorporate improvements into their version as close second.
Or rather, it's cherry-picking by quality. Any useful project that is not fundamentally restricted to Mac or Windows will most likely be ported by someone, and packaged for Debian. Fart apps, not so much.
It's also interesting how fast non-GPL licenses decline. We're talking about falling by a factor of 4.2 in less than seven years.
More readable numbers without l33t sTudLy caps are quite an innovation in my book. Nautical numbers had that form only due to their Arabic legacy, but once merchants' accounting went full steam, people realized how much easier working with tabular data is if your number glyphs are aligned.
Well, even when it was just a leap year every 4 years, folks managed to get it wrong, and only in 4AD someone pointed out the error in how the recommendations of mathematicians/astronomers employed by Julius Caesar had been interpreted. Between the reform (45BC) and 4AD leap years happened once per 3 years.
Don't worry, I don't consider Hollywood to be worth a sliver of my time. Including those few Sci-Fi flicks they make: the comparison of Avatar and Pocahontas can tell you much.
Seriously, even cesspools like 4chan are so much above that kind of prolefeed: at least there is some sort of creativity from all participants, unlike Hollywood's politically correct drivel: "content" to "consume".
And you don't need hundreds of millions of dollars to tell a good story: compare recent Sci-Fi movies with Howard Tayler's Schlock Mercenary.
A good part of that money goes into ensuring that developing countries will never be able to produce drugs they need on their own. They get pre-made drugs, counting their worth at a few orders of magnitude above the manufacture cost, with a string attached: in order to receive free drugs, they need to pass laws forbidding domestic manufacture of said drugs, aka "respecting intellectual property".
Also, promoting Monsanto. Or, putting $50M into promoting male genital mutilation in Kenya while civilised people try to stop that barbaric practice.
Your IP still stays the same... As, especially at the beginning, most people don't have a Google account, so they track using IP. It might be less reliable than the account or a cookie, but there's no way they'd skip this possibility. Profit on targetted ads/etc against those with cookies off (~10% of all users) is not something to shake a stick at.
And even more important, you would get the full money, instead of a significant part being lost to crooks running HFT. Every penny earned by them is a penny lost by actual investors.
There are very few cases of copyright theft: when media cartels deny an artist the right to use their own work, even if there is no contract between the artist and the cartel. The rest which you seem to be talking about is copyright infrigement.
This is by the way one of reasons Chrome is so much slower than Firefox (with both being properly configured, with all crap allowed Chrome may have an edge).
Could we get a ban on posting links to content behind a paywall in the summary, please? Not everyone is going to shell out money to a sleazy pro-censorship site like Something Awful to read what the fuss is about.
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Then why did you pick only 0.5 for Windows?
I understand cops trying to ban cameras, but then you can claim it's a gun. There's a damn explicit line in the Constitution about them.
Oh wait, does that damn piece of paper still count?
Except that the system is rigged to make this impossible: patent fees are damn expensive, to make sure everyone defects in what is essentially prisoner's dilemma.
Just use archive.org for that. It may take half a year for new files to show up, though.
Update that link, it doesn't work anymore. Blocked by the MAFIAA.
For most people I personally talked with about licenses, the reason is "if there is a fork of my software, I want to be able to use it", with being able to incorporate improvements into their version as close second.
Or rather, it's cherry-picking by quality. Any useful project that is not fundamentally restricted to Mac or Windows will most likely be ported by someone, and packaged for Debian. Fart apps, not so much.
It's also interesting how fast non-GPL licenses decline. We're talking about falling by a factor of 4.2 in less than seven years.
More readable numbers without l33t sTudLy caps are quite an innovation in my book. Nautical numbers had that form only due to their Arabic legacy, but once merchants' accounting went full steam, people realized how much easier working with tabular data is if your number glyphs are aligned.
Well, even when it was just a leap year every 4 years, folks managed to get it wrong, and only in 4AD someone pointed out the error in how the recommendations of mathematicians/astronomers employed by Julius Caesar had been interpreted. Between the reform (45BC) and 4AD leap years happened once per 3 years.
Ie, the MAFIAA has won on the propaganda front and made Joe Sixpack think copyright infringement is theft. Scary.
This comes from controlling the entertainment for the masses.
Putting copyright back to its original length
ie, 0. I like that!
And do you know how much bank wire transfers cost?
In any civilised country, 0, up to a certain amount.
International recipients (for donations) can't take money orders or checks or cash.
Hard to mail cash (it will be stolen). Checks are as dead as miles or feet.
... and he fulfilled this oath, contrary to his superiors' wishes.
And what's wrong with that? It is abject incompetence, although I'd rather go with "malice".
Bringing into question every other alleged review would shine some light on Rumblefish's actions.
Or tell them that, while you cannot boycott them any more than you already do, their behaviour just earned The Pirate Bay or EFF another donation.
But there is a digital distribution company that is trustworthy! Here; don't forget to donate for their noble work.
Don't worry, I don't consider Hollywood to be worth a sliver of my time. Including those few Sci-Fi flicks they make: the comparison of Avatar and Pocahontas can tell you much.
Seriously, even cesspools like 4chan are so much above that kind of prolefeed: at least there is some sort of creativity from all participants, unlike Hollywood's politically correct drivel: "content" to "consume".
And you don't need hundreds of millions of dollars to tell a good story: compare recent Sci-Fi movies with Howard Tayler's Schlock Mercenary.
Capabilities have increased by a factor of a thousand or more in several areas.
What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
A good part of that money goes into ensuring that developing countries will never be able to produce drugs they need on their own. They get pre-made drugs, counting their worth at a few orders of magnitude above the manufacture cost, with a string attached: in order to receive free drugs, they need to pass laws forbidding domestic manufacture of said drugs, aka "respecting intellectual property".
Also, promoting Monsanto. Or, putting $50M into promoting male genital mutilation in Kenya while civilised people try to stop that barbaric practice.
So Bill Gates' charity is double-edged at best.
Your IP still stays the same... As, especially at the beginning, most people don't have a Google account, so they track using IP. It might be less reliable than the account or a cookie, but there's no way they'd skip this possibility. Profit on targetted ads/etc against those with cookies off (~10% of all users) is not something to shake a stick at.
Too bad, I give it 10-20 years from the moment this stuff hits the shelves until the first leftist country bans real meat.
And even more important, you would get the full money, instead of a significant part being lost to crooks running HFT. Every penny earned by them is a penny lost by actual investors.
There are very few cases of copyright theft: when media cartels deny an artist the right to use their own work, even if there is no contract between the artist and the cartel. The rest which you seem to be talking about is copyright infrigement.
If you use adBlock to get rid of the abusive adds that is great, it is basically making a point that those adds are slowing things down for me.
Note that most of the slowing comes from junk you DON'T see (assuming you have FlashBlock, of course). Removing tracking gives you more speed-wise than removing actual ads.
This is by the way one of reasons Chrome is so much slower than Firefox (with both being properly configured, with all crap allowed Chrome may have an edge).
Could we get a ban on posting links to content behind a paywall in the summary, please? Not everyone is going to shell out money to a sleazy pro-censorship site like Something Awful to read what the fuss is about.