The RIAA tends to go after the "whales," who are sharing hundreds or thousands of songs.
I have never, ever heard anything that validates this claim. Do you happen to have a link? Yes distribution is an issue, but there is absolutely nothing I have heard of that suggests the RIAA makes a distinction based on volume.
Apparently, I didn't really make my point. I was trying to say that communication in person is almost always better and more valuable than online communication. For instance, it is harder to take an online class than it is to show up in person, people who telecommute to work are often passed up for promotion because they have a disconnect from daily operations, problems taken to the weekly LUG are often solved quicker than those that I need to solve by myself (3-4 people searching the net with me is a bit faster).
ever tape a song off the radio? seriously, I see a lot people posting with this idea of theft but how many of you have grown up mixing tapes and giving them to your friends or copying a song off the radio as a child?
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I'm "wait-and-see", I'm "if-you-don't-like-it-use-windows(or something else)-instead", but I have absolutely no intention of making an outing out of that position. Personally, I'm a pragmatic OSS user and I absolutely hate it when contentions like this come up, but at the same time I think RMS is extremely smart, often seeing directions in the industry nobody else does. The FSF is an interesting group all together, their agendas are quite different than those of the rest of the industry and that will always cause tension in some areas, but I think most everyone involved will ultimately just want to get back to work and the FSF has a vested interest in making that possible.
Your problem is with Ubuntu not marketing their product as well as you would like them to. Linux.com has absolutely no responsibility for marketing Ubuntu for them. Linux.com is not about fairness or usability, it's all about "hey, look what's going on in the world of Linux distributions". Linux.com exists for a reason, they give evaluations, but they should never become so biased that they simply plug one distribution.
And nobody except you, your brother, and bill gates; gives a sh*t about what he uses for a desktop.
I think there's a big difference between why one goes to LUG vs. hitting the Internet. The difference might the same as preferring to go to work rather than telecommuting, or taking a class at college vs online classes. Some things are just a lot better in person, and if you have the time it's definitely worth it to show up.
I live in a small town (10,000) with very rural surroundings, the group I go to consists of about 10 people that show up at any given meeting. It's a small group, but of a high quality, we usually pass around ideas for projects, things we're doing at work etc. For me, it's kinda like having a computer club after getting out of school, I think windows users are missing out.
That's funny, but the line about a too "high signal", that was either completely intentional BS or more likely a line from someone that really has no f*cking clue what the hell they are talking about, so they grasp at anything they've heard might happen to a connection.
Not that there is a big difference between a high signal and well absolutely no signal.
The people in charge of marketing at burger king should have been fired years ago. When they came up with that stupid king, someone should have been shot.
The original post linked to a FAQ, this one links to a podcast interview of Jeremy Allison. The first one shouldn't have made it through, this one is better, welcome to the world of the firehouse - a story that only links to a FAQ is not a story.
I think if you actually locked the door (or have some sort of "Force Field" surrounding the area) you could not be sued.
You don't remember any stories about burglars breaking into houses, slipping on skateboards and suing, cause I do (might be legend too though), funny thing is I don't think there was even a reduction in damages.
After recently purchasing a $85 blender that bit the dust on a box of frozen strawberries, this is just the kind of advertising I appreciate right now.
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That line is absolute drivel and you know it.
Where has Linux failed on the desktop? It really shows a lack of thought.
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I have never, ever heard anything that validates this claim. Do you happen to have a link? Yes distribution is an issue, but there is absolutely nothing I have heard of that suggests the RIAA makes a distinction based on volume.
the title of the article is flamebait, of course people are going to respond to it.
Apparently, I didn't really make my point. I was trying to say that communication in person is almost always better and more valuable than online communication. For instance, it is harder to take an online class than it is to show up in person, people who telecommute to work are often passed up for promotion because they have a disconnect from daily operations, problems taken to the weekly LUG are often solved quicker than those that I need to solve by myself (3-4 people searching the net with me is a bit faster).
ever tape a song off the radio? seriously, I see a lot people posting with this idea of theft but how many of you have grown up mixing tapes and giving them to your friends or copying a song off the radio as a child?
I'm "wait-and-see", I'm "if-you-don't-like-it-use-windows(or something else)-instead", but I have absolutely no intention of making an outing out of that position. Personally, I'm a pragmatic OSS user and I absolutely hate it when contentions like this come up, but at the same time I think RMS is extremely smart, often seeing directions in the industry nobody else does. The FSF is an interesting group all together, their agendas are quite different than those of the rest of the industry and that will always cause tension in some areas, but I think most everyone involved will ultimately just want to get back to work and the FSF has a vested interest in making that possible.
Your problem is with Ubuntu not marketing their product as well as you would like them to. Linux.com has absolutely no responsibility for marketing Ubuntu for them. Linux.com is not about fairness or usability, it's all about "hey, look what's going on in the world of Linux distributions". Linux.com exists for a reason, they give evaluations, but they should never become so biased that they simply plug one distribution.
And nobody except you, your brother, and bill gates; gives a sh*t about what he uses for a desktop.
I think there's a big difference between why one goes to LUG vs. hitting the Internet. The difference might the same as preferring to go to work rather than telecommuting, or taking a class at college vs online classes. Some things are just a lot better in person, and if you have the time it's definitely worth it to show up.
I live in a small town (10,000) with very rural surroundings, the group I go to consists of about 10 people that show up at any given meeting. It's a small group, but of a high quality, we usually pass around ideas for projects, things we're doing at work etc. For me, it's kinda like having a computer club after getting out of school, I think windows users are missing out.
Why should Linux.com favor Ubuntu, as opposed to Fedora or Open Suse or even one of the commercial versions of Linux?
That's funny, but the line about a too "high signal", that was either completely intentional BS or more likely a line from someone that really has no f*cking clue what the hell they are talking about, so they grasp at anything they've heard might happen to a connection.
Not that there is a big difference between a high signal and well absolutely no signal.
... and still conceptually link it to star wars.
The people in charge of marketing at burger king should have been fired years ago. When they came up with that stupid king, someone should have been shot.
The original post linked to a FAQ, this one links to a podcast interview of Jeremy Allison. The first one shouldn't have made it through, this one is better, welcome to the world of the firehouse - a story that only links to a FAQ is not a story.
put the fish in a database.
This is a myth. Some systems are actually designed to be used rather than just shoved out the door.
You don't remember any stories about burglars breaking into houses, slipping on skateboards and suing, cause I do (might be legend too though), funny thing is I don't think there was even a reduction in damages.
It's called consulting and it's actually worth much more than actually solving problems.
After recently purchasing a $85 blender that bit the dust on a box of frozen strawberries, this is just the kind of advertising I appreciate right now.
Exactly, I personally hope everyone that gets entangled with Microsoft finds a way out of it - just like I did.
No shit, this whole thing is goofy, it's like returning home made videos to the video store and then being pissed off when someone watches them.
You seem to believe in perpetual energy, about the only way I can reconcile that is by reminding myself that revolutionary discoveries do happen.