They don't see it like that. Neither does Sweden. Some countries just don't agree with IP. The RIAA are gonna have to get over that; I've seen polls that say Sweden is 80% in favour of Pirate Bay. They seem to think that the same tired approach to bullying through prohibitive trade agreements will work again and again.
You would be surprised by the number of developers that I know that developed their apps using MySQL and then had to pay for the comercial license many months later because they didn't read the fine print. Lets just say that if they had known beforehand they would have charged a little more for their applications;-)
How could you fail to notice the fact that anything using GPL stuff has to be under the GPL? It's the entire point of the licence. What did they think it did? Stay home and bake cookies?
Well, theres nothing wrong with the Eurocrats as such. I'm all for a free market and increased freedom of movement. There are some benfits of the European Community.
What I'm not for is handing more political power to a governmental institution where the only democratic house (the European Parliment) is powerless before the appointed houses. The European Parliment _can_ vote on what is effectively EU law, but only on law the unelected houses decide to make (it cannot propose its own law), and generally what happens is that the other houses only allow the European Parliament to express itself when they want to make something look democratic. Most often, the Council of Ministers and the Commission exert power over this vote by effectively saying "vote against this, and we will make life very difficult for you by using our veto against you on other issues."
We badly need reform of the European Union governmental system not distruction of the eurozone. The current system seems almost designed for abuse, which is really strange considering it was almost entirely designed by appointed parties from governments that couldn't possibly have ulterior motives.
No one claimed these to be definitive statistics, they were just remarking on their experience of a trend. For what it's worth, my experiences of the UK and US are the same.
I'm saying that test subjects should not be selected simply because they are poor, and far away from the consumers simply because the company thinks they can get away with it.
It would be better to select people for whom contributions to medical science are an option, rather than a decision already made for them by their circumstances.
If this is the case (which I don't believe it is) then i will disable all images. They're generally just eye candy anyway, and any site that uses them for navigation with leaving an ALT caption doesn't deserve my attention.
"Their love of profits make them test life-saving drugs on people instead of doing the decent thing and going out of business (giving their drugs to noone). If only they knew that their profits are what make people sick in the world."
Fool. The issue at hand here is that these people are poor and vulnerable. Testing drugs on them is abusive. Maybe you failed to pick up the point that this is exploitation, and without the dehabilitating poverty, these Indians would never consider being part of the research program.
The moral here, as I saw very well illustrated in another/. post:
"If you don't give a fuck when it's not your ass on the line, don't except anyone else to give a fuck when it is"
The lesson here:
You're a selfish fuck, who doesn't give a damn about anyone except yourself.
Other people don't like to use computers the same way you do. You're worse than the idiot 11 year olds I deal with every day that INSIST that Playstation is better than Nintendo. I like Debian. Other people might like Ubuntu, or Fedora, or Suse, or Slackware.
There are hundreds of Unix distributions, yet they're always one fucking idiot claiming his way to be the one true way. Moron.
I use only private trackers, and I'm not sure how my stats compare with yours, but generally, Azureus comes clear top with around 50% of all connections coming from them. Then, BitComet and its derivatives, why place as about 30% of the total. Generally, next comes the Mainline/Bittornado/ABC and the other python clients.
I seriously doubt they'll be losing 60% of their share. Most people on the private trackers are among the more knowledgable of the bt crowd. Most of them will have used more than one client (hell, most people I've spoken too have used all the main ones).
If a tracker blocks a couple of clents, people will just switch. It's not that hard to do. It's unlikely that many people will switch to BitLord either, its probably gonna be uTorrent for the Windows people and Az for Unix people.
* Public Domain Bylaws - These would be a set of rules that determine if and when a certain IP becomes Public Domain, and enforces that status to prevent a company from cashing in on a Public Domain item in the future. Basically, if MS stops supporting an OS like it has with Win95/98 and soon ME then by the rules in the Bylaws that software would become Public Domain and MS cannot enforce any copyright protection on those products. Adding a provision that requires all Public Domain software to become Open Source would be wonderful.
You really couldn't enforce the GPL on everything ever created. You have to allow people the freedom to use and maintain closed-source software. You can't just rewrite the laws to favour us. We have to rewrite the laws to be fair, and to favour no one artificially (currently, I consider closed-source companies to have a significant advantage through the law).
Clearly you misunderstand the concept of Open Source and Free Software.
The point of having source code available is not that the individual is able to personally check it all and alter it. That was never the intention. Having source code available allows peer review, and this is what leads to improved Operating Systems and computer programs.
The bizaar model of development simply ensures that the code is checked and contributed by a far larger developer base than would ever be possible with a closed program (for more infomation, see Linus's Law; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus's_law). Why do you think it is that Free kernels and Operating Systems like Linux and *BSD have far greater performance? Because the sheer number of people looking through the source code means that eventually someone sees the problem and fixes it.
Hmmmm, I would've thought that most of the people interested in harddrive reviews would be small businesses, home website owners etc, and I assume that most of these guys are using some form of Unix. Incorrect?
I don't think my point was extreme. What I said was designed to highlight the fact that the original poster implied that a good use for patents was for giving monopolies on developments that save lives; which I disagree with.
"If I discovered the cure to aging and all things that ail humans, you'd better believe I'd make money off it." Thankfully, not everyone thinks the same (read: Edward Jenner, who released the smallpox vaccine for free).
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He is referring to the closed source libraries. OSX is not completely free.
Russia is the home of piracy.
They don't see it like that. Neither does Sweden. Some countries just don't agree with IP. The RIAA are gonna have to get over that; I've seen polls that say Sweden is 80% in favour of Pirate Bay. They seem to think that the same tired approach to bullying through prohibitive trade agreements will work again and again.
You would be surprised by the number of developers that I know that developed their apps using MySQL and then had to pay for the comercial license many months later because they didn't read the fine print. Lets just say that if they had known beforehand they would have charged a little more for their applications ;-)
How could you fail to notice the fact that anything using GPL stuff has to be under the GPL? It's the entire point of the licence. What did they think it did? Stay home and bake cookies?
"At least people in Europe have the guts to say "we won't tolerate that crap!".".
Yeah, at least in Europe, we have the guts to say, "this may be democracy, but you have no right to speak".
Well, theres nothing wrong with the Eurocrats as such. I'm all for a free market and increased freedom of movement. There are some benfits of the European Community.
What I'm not for is handing more political power to a governmental institution where the only democratic house (the European Parliment) is powerless before the appointed houses. The European Parliment _can_ vote on what is effectively EU law, but only on law the unelected houses decide to make (it cannot propose its own law), and generally what happens is that the other houses only allow the European Parliament to express itself when they want to make something look democratic. Most often, the Council of Ministers and the Commission exert power over this vote by effectively saying "vote against this, and we will make life very difficult for you by using our veto against you on other issues."
We badly need reform of the European Union governmental system not distruction of the eurozone. The current system seems almost designed for abuse, which is really strange considering it was almost entirely designed by appointed parties from governments that couldn't possibly have ulterior motives.
No one claimed these to be definitive statistics, they were just remarking on their experience of a trend. For what it's worth, my experiences of the UK and US are the same.
"It works with everything."
But does it run on linux?
Thank god in America already allows free copying of previous slashdot articles.
I'm saying that test subjects should not be selected simply because they are poor, and far away from the consumers simply because the company thinks they can get away with it.
It would be better to select people for whom contributions to medical science are an option, rather than a decision already made for them by their circumstances.
Would've been less funny if you'd refered to him by his correct name. I found "Jimmy Whales" hilarious.
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If this is the case (which I don't believe it is) then i will disable all images. They're generally just eye candy anyway, and any site that uses them for navigation with leaving an ALT caption doesn't deserve my attention.
"Their love of profits make them test life-saving drugs on people instead of doing the decent thing and going out of business (giving their drugs to noone). If only they knew that their profits are what make people sick in the world."
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Fool. The issue at hand here is that these people are poor and vulnerable. Testing drugs on them is abusive. Maybe you failed to pick up the point that this is exploitation, and without the dehabilitating poverty, these Indians would never consider being part of the research program.
The moral here, as I saw very well illustrated in another
"If you don't give a fuck when it's not your ass on the line, don't except anyone else to give a fuck when it is"
The lesson here:
You're a selfish fuck, who doesn't give a damn about anyone except yourself.
It's probably less effort to pirate the 700mb iso than it is to get dell to send you the goddamn disk.
Clearly, you have never dealt with the hellhole that is the Windows Registry.
It is when you don't have the correct discs. Read the comment properly.
Grow up.
Other people don't like to use computers the same way you do. You're worse than the idiot 11 year olds I deal with every day that INSIST that Playstation is better than Nintendo. I like Debian. Other people might like Ubuntu, or Fedora, or Suse, or Slackware.
There are hundreds of Unix distributions, yet they're always one fucking idiot claiming his way to be the one true way. Moron.
Too late.
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http://www.european-patent-office.org/index.en.ph
Emacs is not a "Linux editor" by any means. I think you mean "GNU editors".
;)
Emacs is not a "Linux editor" by any means. I think you mean "GNU/Linux Editor"
I use only private trackers, and I'm not sure how my stats compare with yours, but generally, Azureus comes clear top with around 50% of all connections coming from them. Then, BitComet and its derivatives, why place as about 30% of the total. Generally, next comes the Mainline/Bittornado/ABC and the other python clients. I seriously doubt they'll be losing 60% of their share. Most people on the private trackers are among the more knowledgable of the bt crowd. Most of them will have used more than one client (hell, most people I've spoken too have used all the main ones). If a tracker blocks a couple of clents, people will just switch. It's not that hard to do. It's unlikely that many people will switch to BitLord either, its probably gonna be uTorrent for the Windows people and Az for Unix people.
You really couldn't enforce the GPL on everything ever created. You have to allow people the freedom to use and maintain closed-source software. You can't just rewrite the laws to favour us. We have to rewrite the laws to be fair, and to favour no one artificially (currently, I consider closed-source companies to have a significant advantage through the law).
The point of having source code available is not that the individual is able to personally check it all and alter it. That was never the intention. Having source code available allows peer review, and this is what leads to improved Operating Systems and computer programs.
The bizaar model of development simply ensures that the code is checked and contributed by a far larger developer base than would ever be possible with a closed program (for more infomation, see Linus's Law; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus's_law). Why do you think it is that Free kernels and Operating Systems like Linux and *BSD have far greater performance? Because the sheer number of people looking through the source code means that eventually someone sees the problem and fixes it.
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
Hmmmm, I would've thought that most of the people interested in harddrive reviews would be small businesses, home website owners etc, and I assume that most of these guys are using some form of Unix. Incorrect?
Everyone has values, its just that sometimes they're not the same as yours.
I bet even Richard Stallman has watched porn at one time or another.
Here in the United Kingdom, we pay 40%.
I don't think my point was extreme. What I said was designed to highlight the fact that the original poster implied that a good use for patents was for giving monopolies on developments that save lives; which I disagree with.
"If I discovered the cure to aging and all things that ail humans, you'd better believe I'd make money off it." Thankfully, not everyone thinks the same (read: Edward Jenner, who released the smallpox vaccine for free).