Sorry, you're wrong, and the grandparent is correct. Monopolies are not illegal. However, when a company becomes a monopoly (as decided by the courts), that company has further restrictions placed upon it that other companies don't have. As long as the monopolistic company abides by these new restrictions, then it is not doing anything illegal.
You just proved my point: "His release of the code does not necessarily mean that he will get anything back". He said that he donated 300 lines and he got 15 million in return. That is technically not true. He did not receive the 15 million lines in exchange for the 300.
I have personally contributed about 300 lines of code to Debian, for free. In return, I have received all 15 million lines of code contained in Debian
No, you have not. Those 15 million lines of code were always yours for the taking. Your donation of 300 lines has not given you anything at all, except maybe a warm, fuzzy feeling.
The Taliban are (were) bad people. The Cubans aren't. There are other countries with regimes much more oppressive than Castro's, but Americans can visit them.
All hell will break loose when Castro dies. The U.S. should take steps now to ease the transition, rather than pretend the Bay of Pigs was recent history.
When MS pulls up stakes and EOLs a product, you don't really have any choice but to pay for an upgrade. When RH EOL's something, you have lots of good options.
Do you really think that matters? The most significant cost of an upgrade is not the software license, but the man-hours and new hardware that are needed. If a company bought 10,000 Windows 98 boxes in 1998, those machines could run without any real upgrades for 5 years, and still get support and the occasionaly free security patch. If those were Red Hat 5.0 (or whatever) boxes, they would have been SOL in a couple years. Upgrading to a more recent version of Red Hat would have been expensive, time-consuming, and risky.
so, by that logic, all P2P is legal. I'm not getting any commercial by sharing files out, nor are the people that I download from. What's the diff in having 3 friends that swap movies off HBO or 3 Billion friends swapping some AC/DC albums?
There's a huge difference, and because people like you don't realize that, the MPAA feels the need to educate children in copyright laws.
When I "share" my taped movie with a friend, I am giving him my only copy of it. While he has the tape, I don't have it, therefore it is legal.
When I "share" an MP3 with another firned, I am not giving him my only copy of the song. I am making a new copy and giving that to him. Maybe you don't realize it, but this is a huge difference! In fact, this difference is the basis for copyright law - the control over distribution of copies of creative works.
Frankly, I'm amazed at how many people on Slashdot are still ignorant of how copyright law works.
I'm a... 24-year-old male I HATE the... responsability that comes with a... job.
Why am I not surprised?
Dude, how can you hate the responsibility of a job?!?!? You're acting like a 12-year-old. Be glad you have a job in this economy, especially as a web designer. If I hear from any more wankers like you, I'm going to start thinking that offshore outsourcing isn't such a bad idea.
Do you really expect the end user to care about different definitions of "free"? There is only one definition that count: do I have to pay money to get it? If the answer is no, it's free, and therefore there should be no reason why it isn't there already.
9. Well, this is slightly technical. Typing 'xhost +' on something attached to the server and then 'DISPLAY="host:port" program' has always worked just fine
Obviously, you have no idea what the average computer user is like, if you think this is "easy".
It's not enough to make an RPM for your app, you sometimes need to make an RPM for each version of each Linux distro. Rare is the RPM made for Red Hat 7.1 that also works on Red Hat 9.0. IMHO, this is one of the top reasons why I think Linux is not ready for the casual desktop.
Then you believe that all votes are a waste unless you get something from the politicians who are in office.
No, I believe the opposite. You said that a vote is wasted if it isn't a vote for the winner. I asked you what difference it makes if you vote for the winner vs. the loser.
unless you vote for the winner, you have wasted your vote
Can you please tell me what benefit you get from voting for the winner? If I vote for Bush this Novemeber, and he wins, what extra thing will Bush do for me that he won't do for people who voted for Kerry?
anti-abortion, etc, are all issues stemming from *religious* beliefs
I'll admit that many anti-abortionist are Christian fundamentalists (more or less), but I don't agree with this statement. Many anti-abortionists just think that abortion should be a crime, at least after some point in the pregnancy. I consider myself pro-choice, but I think partial-birth abortions are horrible and should be banned. If you don't know by the 2nd trimester that you want an abortion, then that's just too bad.
Mod the parent up! I'm sick of tired of people who think that software development jobs are part of the "IT industry". That's like saying that a neurosurgeon is part of the health industry and then comparing him to a night-shift male nurse who cleans bedpans.
Some people have suggested setting the referrer option in their web browser to either not send a referrer header or to forge one. I have a better idea.
We need a new option for the "a href" tag that specifies what referrer to use. For instance:
(Ignore the semicolon in the </a> tag - I don't know why Slashdot added it). This link will tell the browser what to specify in the "REFERER" header when it requests the page. This will allow people to keep the referrer option enabled and still have links like this one work.
In the interim, Jon has promoted two of the programmers to full-time employees, at standard American programming salaries, rather than risk losing them to the marketplace.
Is there any technical reason why we can't have a device that can strip out the broadcast flag as it's been transmitted from one device to another? They have things like that for Macrovision.
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Sorry, you're wrong, and the grandparent is correct. Monopolies are not illegal. However, when a company becomes a monopoly (as decided by the courts), that company has further restrictions placed upon it that other companies don't have. As long as the monopolistic company abides by these new restrictions, then it is not doing anything illegal.
You just proved my point: "His release of the code does not necessarily mean that he will get anything back". He said that he donated 300 lines and he got 15 million in return. That is technically not true. He did not receive the 15 million lines in exchange for the 300.
No, you have not. Those 15 million lines of code were always yours for the taking. Your donation of 300 lines has not given you anything at all, except maybe a warm, fuzzy feeling.
All hell will break loose when Castro dies. The U.S. should take steps now to ease the transition, rather than pretend the Bay of Pigs was recent history.
Do you really think that matters? The most significant cost of an upgrade is not the software license, but the man-hours and new hardware that are needed. If a company bought 10,000 Windows 98 boxes in 1998, those machines could run without any real upgrades for 5 years, and still get support and the occasionaly free security patch. If those were Red Hat 5.0 (or whatever) boxes, they would have been SOL in a couple years. Upgrading to a more recent version of Red Hat would have been expensive, time-consuming, and risky.
There's a huge difference, and because people like you don't realize that, the MPAA feels the need to educate children in copyright laws.
When I "share" my taped movie with a friend, I am giving him my only copy of it. While he has the tape, I don't have it, therefore it is legal.
When I "share" an MP3 with another firned, I am not giving him my only copy of the song. I am making a new copy and giving that to him. Maybe you don't realize it, but this is a huge difference! In fact, this difference is the basis for copyright law - the control over distribution of copies of creative works.
Frankly, I'm amazed at how many people on Slashdot are still ignorant of how copyright law works.
I HATE the
Why am I not surprised?
Dude, how can you hate the responsibility of a job?!?!? You're acting like a 12-year-old. Be glad you have a job in this economy, especially as a web designer. If I hear from any more wankers like you, I'm going to start thinking that offshore outsourcing isn't such a bad idea.
Do you really expect the end user to care about different definitions of "free"? There is only one definition that count: do I have to pay money to get it? If the answer is no, it's free, and therefore there should be no reason why it isn't there already.
Obviously, you have no idea what the average computer user is like, if you think this is "easy".
It's not enough to make an RPM for your app, you sometimes need to make an RPM for each version of each Linux distro. Rare is the RPM made for Red Hat 7.1 that also works on Red Hat 9.0. IMHO, this is one of the top reasons why I think Linux is not ready for the casual desktop.
This is why I hate people from Texas.
No, I believe the opposite. You said that a vote is wasted if it isn't a vote for the winner. I asked you what difference it makes if you vote for the winner vs. the loser.
Can you please tell me what benefit you get from voting for the winner? If I vote for Bush this Novemeber, and he wins, what extra thing will Bush do for me that he won't do for people who voted for Kerry?
I'll admit that many anti-abortionist are Christian fundamentalists (more or less), but I don't agree with this statement. Many anti-abortionists just think that abortion should be a crime, at least after some point in the pregnancy. I consider myself pro-choice, but I think partial-birth abortions are horrible and should be banned. If you don't know by the 2nd trimester that you want an abortion, then that's just too bad.
Mod the parent up! I'm sick of tired of people who think that software development jobs are part of the "IT industry". That's like saying that a neurosurgeon is part of the health industry and then comparing him to a night-shift male nurse who cleans bedpans.
And after you spend three years and thousands of dollar to get your degree, EA will still not hire you.
Hmm... Look like this guy beat me to it. I really wish Mozilla would add support for this, even if it isn't standard.
We need a new option for the "a href" tag that specifies what referrer to use. For instance:
(Ignore the semicolon in the </a> tag - I don't know why Slashdot added it). This link will tell the browser what to specify in the "REFERER" header when it requests the page. This will allow people to keep the referrer option enabled and still have links like this one work.
And the HMO includes things that no other DVR offers, at any price. Therefore, it's not a valid comparison.
Bluetooth's range is only a couple yards.
Why don't you use S/MIME? That's built into Mozilla and Outlook, and it works great.
Fortunately, people like you are in a very small minority. I, for one, prefer my air to be breatheable.
In the interim, Jon has promoted two of the programmers to full-time employees, at standard American programming salaries, rather than risk losing them to the marketplace.
Is there any technical reason why we can't have a device that can strip out the broadcast flag as it's been transmitted from one device to another? They have things like that for Macrovision.
The DirecTV models of TiVo can record two channels at once. Also, you can connect any TiVo to your broadband connection.