Does it matter if there are some anti-drm provisions in the Linux kernel license?
Don't ask why not. Ask why.
Why should the linux kernel restrict DRM useage?
How does that help linux users?
This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls -- this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of 'derived work.'
You can interact with the kernel without being GPLed. Just don't take any source-code.
IANAL
Let's say I release a webbrowser under the GPL. If you write your own browser, I have no control over you at all! Even if you use my libraries, released under the LGPL, you can do what you want with your source.
It's only if you modify my program and release it back into the wild that you have to release the source. Surely that's not unreasonable? It's my source, if you take it, I expect something small in return. I could charge you money instead, but I'm altruistic and am telling you to pass on the favor to other young hopefuls like yourself.
Information doesn't want to be free, but I want my information to be free: I don't want you taking it and hiding it.
pharm industry spends billions more dollars on research then they do on marketing
I call bullshit on this one. All the numbers I've seen indicate
that advertising is the biggest expense in producing a new drug. Research done by non-profits not included (obviously).
And we already have different classes of IP, we just need to
enforce them. Software should be protected by copyright,
hardware by patent.
No, Integration would be providing clear standardized APIs so that quicktime et all would work seamlessly under Windows. Not including Windows Media Player(TM) into the OS.
Free trade can only exist where anti-trust laws are enforced. Creating a government monopoly to replace the Microsoft monopoly does not allow free trade.
API specifications are not and should not be protected IP, especially when MS has already been convicted of deliberately and illegally sabotaging their competitors.
Nobody wants source code for windows, it's probably unreadable anyway.
Microsoft uses predatory business practices which damage our economy, and then Gates gives a percentage of that ill-gotten gain to charity. No-one is compaining about the money he gives to worthy causes, just noting that it's a little too late for him to be winning any humanitarian awards.
He's not Evil(TM), but he's not much of a hero, either.
Maybe this makes me look dumb, but I have no idea what you're talking about. I've installed redhat, mandrake, dedian, ubuntu and mepis on this machine, and all the fonts I see look absolutely the same as they do under Microsoft WinXP. I do vaguely recall that when I had a slackware server ten years ago the fonts looked weird. Is that what we're talking about?
Except that OS/2 was IBM, not Microsoft. Microsoft was the reason it died. And Xenix was just a sad excuse for a *nix.
Linux is the first decent unix system I saw for under $1000, which makes it the first unix I ever considered running at home.
And it could have hurt a vendor to give away a decent unix earlier, but it would've helped us end users tremendously, giving us features 15 years ago that are just now available under windows XP. SCO could have created and sold linux, instead of just pretending they did.
I could create a script to do this in php in about ten minutes, so while their solution m be protected by copyright, it's too trivial for a patent.
Countless programs will highlight anything I ask, and most leave the original document unaffected. The only new idea is highlighting an entire category of "numerical values," rather than just numbers. This is a painfully obvious idea, not in need of protection.
Only the fact that it's not particularly useful has prevented this exact tool from being written +--------+ |dozens| of times. +--------+
> it doesn't matter, there are no rules in war.
At the risk of being considered a troll, I should point out that this is an entirely American viewpoint. Other countries do have rules, even during wartime.
In collisions, the Pinto would explode and kill people. It happened several times, as the families that sued demonstrated.
And Ford knew in advance that it would. They knew before a single Pinto left the factory that the gas tank was flawed. They even designed a rubber liner that prevented the explosions, but at $11 a car, they decided not to bother implemmenting it.
You can say I over-reacted, but I'm never buying a Ford.
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Does it matter if there are some anti-drm provisions in the Linux kernel license?
Don't ask why not. Ask why.
Why should the linux kernel restrict DRM useage? How does that help linux users?
Private: not commercial, not government.
And the mantra is "we use P2P legally"
In france, that legal use happens to include sharing music.
This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls -- this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of 'derived work.'
You can interact with the kernel without being GPLed. Just don't take any source-code.IANAL
Who's forcing you to do anything?
Let's say I release a webbrowser under the GPL. If you write your own browser, I have no control over you at all! Even if you use my libraries, released under the LGPL, you can do what you want with your source.
It's only if you modify my program and release it back into the wild that you have to release the source. Surely that's not unreasonable? It's my source, if you take it, I expect something small in return. I could charge you money instead, but I'm altruistic and am telling you to pass on the favor to other young hopefuls like yourself.
Information doesn't want to be free, but I want my information to be free: I don't want you taking it and hiding it.
I call bullshit on this one. All the numbers I've seen indicate that advertising is the biggest expense in producing a new drug. Research done by non-profits not included (obviously).
And we already have different classes of IP, we just need to enforce them. Software should be protected by copyright, hardware by patent.
Ah yes, because there were no windows viruses before linux.
No, Integration would be providing clear standardized APIs so that quicktime et all would work seamlessly under Windows. Not including Windows Media Player(TM) into the OS.
Free trade can only exist where anti-trust laws are enforced. Creating a government monopoly to replace the Microsoft monopoly does not allow free trade.
API specifications are not and should not be protected IP, especially when MS has already been convicted of deliberately and illegally sabotaging their competitors.
Nobody wants source code for windows, it's probably unreadable anyway.
He's not Evil(TM), but he's not much of a hero, either.
they've incorporated a spam-sorting algorythm into outlook, they've got cell-phone tracking software, and facial recognition software. The bow thing looks interesting though.
I'm not saying the blogosphere is the most useless thing on the net, because I really favor slashdot.
I will say that at least we slashdotters don't think we're "journalists."
Except that you must reboot several times to get all the patches from SP1 all the way to SP2. It's not a one step process that you can walk away from.
Sorry, sorry cheap shot, I know. Still funny, dammit.
Maybe this makes me look dumb, but I have no idea what you're talking about. I've installed redhat, mandrake, dedian, ubuntu and mepis on this machine, and all the fonts I see look absolutely the same as they do under Microsoft WinXP. I do vaguely recall that when I had a slackware server ten years ago the fonts looked weird. Is that what we're talking about?
Except that OS/2 was IBM, not Microsoft. Microsoft was the reason it died. And Xenix was just a sad excuse for a *nix.
Linux is the first decent unix system I saw for under $1000, which makes it the first unix I ever considered running at home.
And it could have hurt a vendor to give away a decent unix earlier, but it would've helped us end users tremendously, giving us features 15 years ago that are just now available under windows XP. SCO could have created and sold linux, instead of just pretending they did.
To beg a question is to ask a question to answer itself. (Please, please, question, give me your answer!)
Like a little kid saying, "Do you like this, say yes?"
Begging, so that you'll know what you're supposed to say.
I could create a script to do this in php in about ten minutes, so while their solution m be protected by copyright, it's too trivial for a patent.
Countless programs will highlight anything I ask, and most leave the original document unaffected. The only new idea is highlighting an entire category of "numerical values," rather than just numbers. This is a painfully obvious idea, not in need of protection.
Only the fact that it's not particularly useful has prevented this exact tool from being written
+--------+
|dozens| of times.
+--------+
Well, is it a blue laser?
But OS/X will have fully supported x86 for at least a year before longhorn even comes out.
Now I can run Xeyes and still get my beloved BOSD!!
I believe there are recorded cases of prisoners dying from nicotine withdrawal.
Man, self-fulfiling prophecy sucks sometimes.
Now, I keep getting rated interesting, yeah. +5 interesting.
> it doesn't matter, there are no rules in war.
At the risk of being considered a troll, I should point out that this is an entirely American viewpoint. Other countries do have rules, even during wartime.
It's to your benefit, and the benefit of all society really, to talk to your neighbours before you call the cops over something non-threatening.
Therefore, it's the ethical thing to do.
And Ford knew in advance that it would. They knew before a single Pinto left the factory that the gas tank was flawed. They even designed a rubber liner that prevented the explosions, but at $11 a car, they decided not to bother implemmenting it.
You can say I over-reacted, but I'm never buying a Ford.