If you don't want to give your code away for free, don't take other people's code for free. I really get sick of people whining about how they want free code so they can sell it to other people.
dude, I use windows2000 and windowsXP, and I remember WFWG3.11
Sure, applications can support cooler options, and pre-emptive multi-tasking allows for more system stability, but that's just cool-for-geeks stuff. In terms of actual user experience, there's no improvement in response time. Even though my computer hardware is 56 times faster than it was back then.
And I still have to spend the same amount of money on computer hardware, to keep my experience from degrading.
So you're saying that one company should be able to profit off of the hard work and invention of another - and on top of that, so that they compete against the other company?
Yes, yes they should.
That's capitalism, right there. If you don't want people to copy your ideas, don't put them out in public where people can see them. That's what trade secrets are for. If you can't use it without revealing what it is, then it wasn't non-obvious enough, now was it?
Just because you invented the one-click, does not mean you should be the only one allowed to sell stuff online. Ditto the "look-n-feel" of windows, which by "rights" belongs to xerox, anyway. Monopolies are not in the best interest of society, and patents exist only as a mechanism for benefitting society. Ergo, software patents should be dropped as inherently useless.
but, Microsoft knew about the security hole before blaster actually existed, and chose to ignore it. So they're not victims, they're a criminally negligent manufacturer.
Do you realize how much damage was done to how many people because of this guy?
about fifty cents worth of damage. Come on, blaster was out there already, everyone who was stupid enough to leave their computer unpatched got it, with or without this kid's help.
Philip K. Dick's wife should retain the right to make money from his work, for 50 years from time of creation. Disney should've been forced to give up Mickey mouse long ago. They already made their money off that mouse, it's time for him to be public domain and let other artists make him funny again.
Copyright was created to benefit society, not Disney corp.
Agreed, code that is not published should not be protected by copyright.
Closed code for commercial software is already protected as a Trade Secret, you could not release it without breaking the law anyway.
Why is it then also granted copyright?
Copyright is granted as a reward for making your work publically available. Closed source programs should not qualify.
That's what I said. The EULA is not legally binding because federal law overrides their stupid made-up rules trhat no-one gets a chance to read. EULAs are redundant and useless, which TFA says while trying to pretend it's saying the opposite.
Maybe, but his story matches my own, and now I know I'm not unique. So now I know that the MPAA is full of shit when they claim every d/l as a monetary loss.
But that's his point. The numbers are off, when you round it to 6million, it becomes a mathematical impossibility, yet some countries will label you a nazi for claiming it was closer to 5million than 6.
Israel has only existed since the 1960's, and has been steadily expanding ever since. On many maps, Palistine ceased to exist in 1997, and I think that is a fair assessment. The people of "Palistine" are born and live within Israel, under Israelie law. Citizenship in Israel depends only on race/religion, so that non-Jewish families that have lived there for hundreds of years will never be allowed to vote. THat explains the hatred, it's no mystery
Perhaps we should give Texas back to Mexico, since we killed all the mexicans living there and "stole" it. Or perhaps you should realize that war has nothing to do with right and wrong.
No one gives a flying fuck about the people Stalin killed, yet everybody is kissing the jews' asses,
It's unfortunate that this viewpoint so unpopular that normal people won't even discuss it, because at first glance, it not an unreasonable conclusion. As a child, I wondered why the holocaust was played up more than other, bigger mass-murders, and no one would talk about it.
So, let's glance again. Hitler killed 70% of an entire race. Sure, he killed more Soviets than Jews, but soviet culture was not in danger of ceasing to exist. Genocide is not killing a lot of people: Genocide is killing an entire culture/race of people, no matter how big or small that is.
and the jews know that, so everytime you cricitize one, you'll be labeled an antisemite. This is how the jews are escaping with murder in Gaza and Cis-Jordania.
But Israel does not represent all Jews, or the Jewish culture. Israel is just another violent theocracy among many others. I would point to American Jews as an example of how Judaism can be a non-violent religion. And I blame America for shaping current-day Israel into a violent nation.
I think you misunderstand how oil companies make money. You see, when gas prices are low, that's a bad thing for those with oil company stock. The UN was allowing Iraq to sell more oil than they had in many years, causing oil prices to drop. WHen the USA invaded, that oil supply was cut off, raising prices enormously. THe people of America suffered, but the business owners of America are demonstrably profiting.
I don't claim that we invaded Iraq to control the oil, but I do recognize that Bush's friends have made a whole lot of money off this war.
I can afford to go to movies, but it's not worth the time or money. Therefore I don't. I can afford to buy DVD's, but it's not worth $16 for a potential dud, so again, I don't.
I do have a friend who downloads ripped movies, and I watch those. If they're good enough, I buy the DVD. Sometimes I'll go 4-6 months without seeing a movie, because nothing falls into the "free" or "already know they're good" categories.
The MPAA gets more of my money when there are more good movies available via kazaa. I can't believe I'm completely exceptional.
"The American public needs to understand, we're talking about rape and murder here. We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience. We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges."- Senator Lindsay Graham(R)
...an Iraqi woman in her 70s had been harnessed and ridden like a donkey at Abu Ghraib and another coalition detention centre after being arrested last July. http://www.awakenedwoman.com/abu_ghraib.htm
The nightmarish images showed American soldiers at Abu Ghraib Prison forcing Iraqis to masturbate. American soldiers sexually assaulting Iraqis with chemical light sticks. American soldiers laughing over dead Iraqis whose bodies had been abused and mutilated http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4989422/site/newsweek/
The White House's top lawyer warned more than two years ago that U.S. officials could be prosecuted for "war crimes" as a result of new and unorthodox measures used by the Bush administration in the war on terrorism http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4999734/site/newsweek/
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fa ct
...the practice shown in that photo is an arcane torture method known only to veterans of the interrogation trade. "Was that something that [an MP] dreamed up by herself? Think again," says Darius Rejali, an expert on the use of torture by democracies. "That's a standard torture. It's called 'the Vietnam.' But it's not common knowledge. Ordinary American soldiers did this, but someone taught them." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4989422/site/newsweek/
Most of the prisoners, however--by the fall there were several thousand, including women and teen-agers--were civilians, many of whom had been picked up in random military sweeps and at highway checkpoints. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fa ct
...Army translator having sex with a boy at the prison. He said the boy was between 15 and 18 years old. Someone hung sheets to block the view, but Hilas said he heard the boy's screams and climbed a door to get a better look. Hilas said he watched the assault and told investigators that it was documented by a female soldier taking pictures. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5030097/
Just remember, some parents rape and kill their children.
America might be the biggest fish in the sea, but that does not give us moral authority. And I'm afraid that nursing home is bth closer and more horrible than most imagine.
I don't know of the US using electric shocks, severe beatings while hung from the ceiling, tongues being ripped out, or rape rooms such as the Saddam regime has been documented to have done....
Read the accounts from congress about the pictures that were not released to TV. They completely removed a prisoners head with point-blank shotgun fire, they put a horse saddle on a 75-year-old woman and forced her to give them pony-back rides...
Umm.. ok.
There's a cult that believes that women are demon-spawn and ought to be raped and killed before the age of 6. Yet society has never felt the urge to act against this group because they've not actually followed through with a single murder. Effectiveness is more important than evilness.
Numbers do matter, because hey, they're the measure of actual harm done by an idealogy. And suppression of non harmful speech is not suppression of eviless, rather the opposite.
Nazis killed a lot of people; therefore nazis are very bad. Terrorists are bad, but they're ineffective, so I don't fear them.
It's a waste of finite resources going after criminals that don't matter, and it's a double waste when you unnecesarily crush people's freedoms and cause them to hate you, as we are doing right now.
You want to get rid of the GPL? get rid of copyrights.
Personally, I'd like to see copyrights and patents in all fields reduced to 10 years from creation.
That would mean in a decade you could sell a version of linux without releasing the source. It would also meana I could reuse all my windows3.11 programs without breaking the law.
Such "copyleft" is only enforceable under copyright laws. A GPL program can only make demands on you because you used their code and are subject to their copyright restrictions. If there were no copyright restrictions, the GPL would have no teeth.
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GPL = something for something.
dude, I use windows2000 and windowsXP, and I remember WFWG3.11
Sure, applications can support cooler options, and pre-emptive multi-tasking allows for more system stability, but that's just cool-for-geeks stuff. In terms of actual user experience, there's no improvement in response time. Even though my computer hardware is 56 times faster than it was back then.
And I still have to spend the same amount of money on computer hardware, to keep my experience from degrading.
Yes, yes they should.
That's capitalism, right there. If you don't want people to copy your ideas, don't put them out in public where people can see them. That's what trade secrets are for. If you can't use it without revealing what it is, then it wasn't non-obvious enough, now was it?
Just because you invented the one-click, does not mean you should be the only one allowed to sell stuff online. Ditto the "look-n-feel" of windows, which by "rights" belongs to xerox, anyway. Monopolies are not in the best interest of society, and patents exist only as a mechanism for benefitting society. Ergo, software patents should be dropped as inherently useless.
IBM released some (old) patents for free. Sun released some patents only for use under solaris.
That's a pretty big difference, IMHO.
but, Microsoft knew about the security hole before blaster actually existed, and chose to ignore it. So they're not victims, they're a criminally negligent manufacturer.
Do you realize how much damage was done to how many people because of this guy?
about fifty cents worth of damage. Come on, blaster was out there already, everyone who was stupid enough to leave their computer unpatched got it, with or without this kid's help.
Copyright was created to benefit society, not Disney corp.
Closed code for commercial software is already protected as a Trade Secret, you could not release it without breaking the law anyway. Why is it then also granted copyright?
Copyright is granted as a reward for making your work publically available. Closed source programs should not qualify.
That's what I said. The EULA is not legally binding because federal law overrides their stupid made-up rules trhat no-one gets a chance to read. EULAs are redundant and useless, which TFA says while trying to pretend it's saying the opposite.
Maybe, but his story matches my own, and now I know I'm not unique. So now I know that the MPAA is full of shit when they claim every d/l as a monetary loss.
But that's his point. The numbers are off, when you round it to 6million, it becomes a mathematical impossibility, yet some countries will label you a nazi for claiming it was closer to 5million than 6.
Israel has only existed since the 1960's, and has been steadily expanding ever since. On many maps, Palistine ceased to exist in 1997, and I think that is a fair assessment. The people of "Palistine" are born and live within Israel, under Israelie law. Citizenship in Israel depends only on race/religion, so that non-Jewish families that have lived there for hundreds of years will never be allowed to vote. THat explains the hatred, it's no mystery
Yup, RMB is perfectly consistant in windows. Except when options are missing from a context.
Perhaps we should give Texas back to Mexico, since we killed all the mexicans living there and "stole" it. Or perhaps you should realize that war has nothing to do with right and wrong.
It's unfortunate that this viewpoint so unpopular that normal people won't even discuss it, because at first glance, it not an unreasonable conclusion. As a child, I wondered why the holocaust was played up more than other, bigger mass-murders, and no one would talk about it.
So, let's glance again. Hitler killed 70% of an entire race. Sure, he killed more Soviets than Jews, but soviet culture was not in danger of ceasing to exist. Genocide is not killing a lot of people: Genocide is killing an entire culture/race of people, no matter how big or small that is.
and the jews know that, so everytime you cricitize one, you'll be labeled an antisemite. This is how the jews are escaping with murder in Gaza and Cis-Jordania.
But Israel does not represent all Jews, or the Jewish culture. Israel is just another violent theocracy among many others. I would point to American Jews as an example of how Judaism can be a non-violent religion. And I blame America for shaping current-day Israel into a violent nation.
I don't claim that we invaded Iraq to control the oil, but I do recognize that Bush's friends have made a whole lot of money off this war.
I do have a friend who downloads ripped movies, and I watch those. If they're good enough, I buy the DVD. Sometimes I'll go 4-6 months without seeing a movie, because nothing falls into the "free" or "already know they're good" categories.
The MPAA gets more of my money when there are more good movies available via kazaa. I can't believe I'm completely exceptional.
"The American public needs to understand, we're talking about rape and murder here. We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience. We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges." - Senator Lindsay Graham(R)
http://www.awakenedwoman.com/abu_ghraib.htm
The nightmarish images showed American soldiers at Abu Ghraib Prison forcing Iraqis to masturbate. American soldiers sexually assaulting Iraqis with chemical light sticks. American soldiers laughing over dead Iraqis whose bodies had been abused and mutilated/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4989422/site/newsweek
The White House's top lawyer warned more than two years ago that U.S. officials could be prosecuted for "war crimes" as a result of new and unorthodox measures used by the Bush administration in the war on terrorism/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4999734/site/newsweek
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,a ct
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_f
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4989422/site/newsweek
Most of the prisoners, however--by the fall there were several thousand, including women and teen-agers--were civilians, many of whom had been picked up in random military sweeps and at highway checkpoints.a ct
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_f
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5030097/
America might be the biggest fish in the sea, but that does not give us moral authority. And I'm afraid that nursing home is bth closer and more horrible than most imagine.
Read the accounts from congress about the pictures that were not released to TV. They completely removed a prisoners head with point-blank shotgun fire, they put a horse saddle on a 75-year-old woman and forced her to give them pony-back rides...
It was torture alright
There's a cult that believes that women are demon-spawn and ought to be raped and killed before the age of 6. Yet society has never felt the urge to act against this group because they've not actually followed through with a single murder. Effectiveness is more important than evilness.
Numbers do matter, because hey, they're the measure of actual harm done by an idealogy. And suppression of non harmful speech is not suppression of eviless, rather the opposite.
Nazis killed a lot of people; therefore nazis are very bad. Terrorists are bad, but they're ineffective, so I don't fear them.
It's a waste of finite resources going after criminals that don't matter, and it's a double waste when you unnecesarily crush people's freedoms and cause them to hate you, as we are doing right now.
I mean, we did some pretty horrific things in WWII ourselves, we're just lucky we had someone truly evil to compare ourselves against.
But no, racist wasn't appropriate. I should've called you naive instead.
But that wouldn't have made you mad enough.
Personally, I'd like to see copyrights and patents in all fields reduced to 10 years from creation. That would mean in a decade you could sell a version of linux without releasing the source. It would also meana I could reuse all my windows3.11 programs without breaking the law.
Such "copyleft" is only enforceable under copyright laws. A GPL program can only make demands on you because you used their code and are subject to their copyright restrictions. If there were no copyright restrictions, the GPL would have no teeth.
I'm about the cheapest part of my classroom setup
every CD I own can be played without WMP, too. No thanks to microsoft for including unnecesary software.