Except that there is no such thing as a picture of an easily identifiable object, especially not if you don't want to block non-English speakers. People will come up with many different words for the same thing, people will misspell it, people will not know the English word for it, and people will just not know what it is.
Right, the reason nobody is listening to him about security matters is that he's batshit insane, and is going on about logging off when you are not using your home machine, possibly to protect yourself from ninjas breaking into your house and stealing your files.
Or maybe, as people grow older, they lose the urge to listen to new music. Maybe it becomes easier to just listen to the same music over and over, never having to make the effort to learn about new artists and new styles. Maybe music from a period when you were younger just speaks to your nostalgia for a time that felt easier and simpler, when viewed through the rose-tinted glasses of selective memory.
Wow, that's the most brain-washed open-source zealot response I've seen in a while. Do you even understand the "free as in beer" line at all? Apparently not.
If it really, really, really bothers you that Lua doesn't have enough restrictions on distribution, you are quite free to download a copy, stick a GPL license on it, and use that. How about that?
Maybe you should consider what the earlier example code pointed out: You don't need to be root or Administrator or anything to mess up a user's home directory. The OS files are replaceable, your own are not, and those are not protected. Furthermore, most things a piece of malware wants to do, it can do without anything more than normal user access.
Plus, there are any number of ways on OS X for a piece of malware to elevate itself to admin access once running under a user's account.
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And which exact part of the demand is "fraudulent"?
Perhaps you should wait until Sony actually does this outside of your mind, too, before starting the posturing.
What does "fradulent demand" even mean?
Except that there is no such thing as a picture of an easily identifiable object, especially not if you don't want to block non-English speakers. People will come up with many different words for the same thing, people will misspell it, people will not know the English word for it, and people will just not know what it is.
So? That's a derivative work, not the work in question. That is still available just as it was before.
Yes. Obviously, many people have thought that. People much, much smarter than you.
And you know what?
It's not the explanation for global warming.
Right, the reason nobody is listening to him about security matters is that he's batshit insane, and is going on about logging off when you are not using your home machine, possibly to protect yourself from ninjas breaking into your house and stealing your files.
Somehow I suspect they won't accept payment in USD either. Doesn't mean you don't have to pay taxes on income you get as USD.
Or maybe nerds don't know shit about design and colour choices, and will always go with their default sexually-nonthreatening blue no matter what.
Good old blue, the default choice of sexually insecure nerds everywhere! Blue is safe.
Yeah, it's certainly not that you underestimated the stupidity of YOURSELF or anything.
Or maybe, as people grow older, they lose the urge to listen to new music. Maybe it becomes easier to just listen to the same music over and over, never having to make the effort to learn about new artists and new styles. Maybe music from a period when you were younger just speaks to your nostalgia for a time that felt easier and simpler, when viewed through the rose-tinted glasses of selective memory.
Wow, that's the most brain-washed open-source zealot response I've seen in a while. Do you even understand the "free as in beer" line at all? Apparently not.
If it really, really, really bothers you that Lua doesn't have enough restrictions on distribution, you are quite free to download a copy, stick a GPL license on it, and use that. How about that?
Yeah, you tell all those Windows 98 users! Goddamn idiots!
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!
Maybe you should consider what the earlier example code pointed out: You don't need to be root or Administrator or anything to mess up a user's home directory. The OS files are replaceable, your own are not, and those are not protected. Furthermore, most things a piece of malware wants to do, it can do without anything more than normal user access.
Plus, there are any number of ways on OS X for a piece of malware to elevate itself to admin access once running under a user's account.
Yeah, and one of the listed pros will still be true! Totally worth it!
Here's your porch, here's your chair, and here's your lawn. Now repeat after me, "DAMN KIDS! GET OFFA MY LAWN!"
In case you hadn't noticed, the point being made by the article is that you and your kids need to die.
Because it reduces the amount of open-source in the world
Which piece of open-source software has disappeared?
But when they have a choice of GPL or proprietary
Right, so why would they choose a GPL project in the first place?
And please explain how somebody taking some freely available code, changing it, and not releasing it diminishes the "freedom" of anyone at all.
They are free to take Public Domain code, modify it, and license it under the GPL. That has nothing whatsoever to do with the argument at hand.
And? If the company does not want to release the source for feature X, do you think they would have added it to a GPL'd program in the first place?
Hah hah hah hah, funny man!
You can't "take it up and make it propietary". The original source is still there, and still freely available. Nothing can ever change that.