You might as well be moaning that "jews control the banks, and blacks are coming to take my shit"
It's business that controls everything, big business. It's ignorant suits with an MBA, not people that have worked 8-10 years on a law degree, that you should be afraid of.
But the suits have been VERY effective at convincing dipshits like you that lawyers and doctors, and other highly educated people are to blame.
You are incorrect, and the majority of Courts in the USA do NOT find EULA's to be legally enforceable. Only the 7th and 8th circuit court of appeals. see:
Calling it a liscense is really misleading because it causes this confusion.
The GPL is a distribution contract, which says in effect, you may distribute program X, given some provisions, which include (among others) credit to the original authors, and that the source code to the program be made available to anyone you distribute the program to.
This is very different from a EULA, which allows you to USE a product under certain conditions, (which often include, illegally, a waiving of legal rights to sue)
The two are as different as night and day. The GPL being a distribution liscence has the full force of contract and copyright law behind it. Note that the GPL places no burden on end users what so ever. Only distributers have to abide by anything.
The doctrine of liscensing music and programs to End Users derives from the very shaky argument that installing a program or listening to music is distribution. Copyright holders SELL copies of their work, not liscence them to end users.
Slashdot have developed a large population of Anti-GPL, Pro-Big Business trolls in the last couple of years.
The whole idea of a missing link is a sham. It's a straw man put up by creationists. Because of the way evolution works you won't ever find a completely smooth transition from one form to another, you observe a puntuated equilibrium in the fossil record.
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Stagnant water causes methane producing bacteria to grow at the bottom of the lake, thus producing large amounts of methane.
It's business that controls everything, big business. It's ignorant suits with an MBA, not people that have worked 8-10 years on a law degree, that you should be afraid of.
But the suits have been VERY effective at convincing dipshits like you that lawyers and doctors, and other highly educated people are to blame.
But the experiment was done at low pressure, which would minimize that effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EULA
You are incorrect, and the majority of Courts in the USA do NOT find EULA's to be legally enforceable. Only the 7th and 8th circuit court of appeals. see:
The GPL is a distribution contract, which says in effect, you may distribute program X, given some provisions, which include (among others) credit to the original authors, and that the source code to the program be made available to anyone you distribute the program to.
This is very different from a EULA, which allows you to USE a product under certain conditions, (which often include, illegally, a waiving of legal rights to sue)
The two are as different as night and day. The GPL being a distribution liscence has the full force of contract and copyright law behind it. Note that the GPL places no burden on end users what so ever. Only distributers have to abide by anything.
The doctrine of liscensing music and programs to End Users derives from the very shaky argument that installing a program or listening to music is distribution. Copyright holders SELL copies of their work, not liscence them to end users.
Slashdot have developed a large population of Anti-GPL, Pro-Big Business trolls in the last couple of years.
When do we get Blu-Ray Burners in G5 Powermacs? 50GB Superdrive Baby!
Admittedly, the VA for Cowboy Bebop were extraordinarily acceptable.
The Genesis had a M68K main processor and a Z80 devoted to sound, the SNES had a custom 68K variant, and a Yamaha Synthesizer.
You are a sad sad creature with a profoundly limited understanding of the world around you.
Umm, Since they're extinct wouldn't that mean that the shire was successfully scoured. The hobbits being extinct and all.
The whole idea of a missing link is a sham. It's a straw man put up by creationists. Because of the way evolution works you won't ever find a completely smooth transition from one form to another, you observe a puntuated equilibrium in the fossil record.