Do you still have all of your source files? Yes. Has anything been stolen? No. They're only 1s and 0s. None of those users were going to pay for support anyway. No harm, no foul.
Microsoft did develop a standards-compliant browser: it was called Internet Explorer 5.5 for Macintosh. IT was the best browser of the time (about five years ago) and one of the first to properly support PNG alpha channels, and css features like position:fixed.
The fact that those features never made it into IE for Windows was proof enough for me that Microsoft were quite deliberately releasing broken code.
I work in video games, and ultimately the graphics cards render polygons. There are definitely tools that can down res, but have you ever seen what a 40k poly mesh looks like when you use an auto-down-res to 20k? It gives you a good start, but you still have to remesh it and tweak it by hand.
He said it should be a tool's job, not that it actually is a tool's job today. If downsampling a 40k poly mesh to a 20k poly mesh looks bad, that's because the tools are insufficiently advanced. Given time and development, I see no reason that a computer shouldn't be able to handle this problem any worse than it could jpeg compress a photo into a file 1 tenth of the original size, with little noticeable difference.
Do you know the difference between a pipe and a tube? If you get into any business involving either, I hope you don't repurpose the words everyone else has settled upon.
Sure, a pipe connects stdout from one process to stdin of another, whereas a tube was a simple character output device on the Acorn micros.
But, in principle, yes it's very likely they're calculating value based on the US purchase price of the official software (not including manufacturing costs, warehouse, distribution, retailer's cut etc.)
So after running the psersonal-and-not-for-profit command:
ttf2afm $foo $bar
what you're saying is that, in your opinion, $bar is legally unrelated to $foo and can be manipulated in any form without legal consequence?
Calling it a derivative work is a straw-man: derivative work status allows you to put your own copyright on the new entity, it does not (in itself) allow you to remove the copyright ownership from those portions of the old entity which have been incorporated.
Besides, I hardly think you could say that format shifting of any file type would introduce "a substantial amount of new material" even if every single byte were different, given that (once parsed appropriately) the effect presented to the user is the same, or as close to the same as makes no odds.
Can I ROT13 a novel, and upload it to a web site without fear of legal consequence?
A typeface dscriptor (a.ttf file) may be coprightable ( http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_13.htm [nwalsh.com] ) however that is easily resolved: ttf2afm $foo $bar && afm2ttf $bar $zag.
You really think that format-shifting a file removes the effect of copyright law?
Quick - somebody tell the RIAA that it is legal to share MP3s of copyrighted music, since they aren't the original CD audio files!
Since we are are not charging anything extra for installing the software, it means that we are actually not trading in pirated software I wonder if YouTube's lawyers will use that watertight legal argument in their Viacom case...
If you install Bugzilla on your product's web site, and users think the Bugzilla user interface sucks, then they'll most likely associate that suckiness not with Mozilla but rather with you. That's why it is in your own interest to use a bug-reporting system which has an interface targeted at your end users rather than at yourself.
And it's nothing to do with users being "evolved" or having the mere capability to read instructions - their ability to complete the task is no excuse for making it unnecessarily painful. Your users are doing you a favour in filing reports so that you can get your bugs fixed. Don't put stumbling blocks in their way, or make it any more difficult than it absolutely has to be. If you confuse them you won't get bug reports, and the resulting un-patched bugs will lose you customers.
And I guess Cryptic Deluxe will be under the GPL too, since it will be built over the GPL'd lite version. No, that is not how GPL works. If you release something under GPL it's still your code - you still own the copyright - and you can do what you like with it including using it in non-GPL contexts.
Why you can't have your music on your laptop and your desktop at the same time is a bit of a puzzle IMO
You can - just copy the file from one computer to the other, and play it. iTunes will contact the store to authorise your account, but from then on you can play those files on both computers (up to five computers, in fact).
What? No. Or at least not that I've ever heard, and not according to the O.E.D. either.
The brunt is the initial impact of an attack, not the recipient of it: though you might bear the brunt of a joke, you would never be the brunt of a joke. There's no mention that to be the butt of a joke is in any way an Americanism - although the origin of the term is unknown, there is evidence that it dates back at least as far as when archery was commonplace.
It must be a tough job being such big PS3 fans and being the bud of many passer-by jokes like 'Where is the line for PS4? Is it on the other side?'"
Now is this a difference between the English and American languages, or can TFA not spell? On this side of the pond we'd talk about the butt of the joke.
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What on earth is the point of making a backup, if DRM subsequently prevents you from restoring it?
Do you still have all of your source files? Yes. Has anything been stolen? No. They're only 1s and 0s. None of those users were going to pay for support anyway. No harm, no foul.
Right?
Microsoft did develop a standards-compliant browser: it was called Internet Explorer 5.5 for Macintosh. IT was the best browser of the time (about five years ago) and one of the first to properly support PNG alpha channels, and css features like position:fixed.
The fact that those features never made it into IE for Windows was proof enough for me that Microsoft were quite deliberately releasing broken code.
One might almost say, it sounds like Tetley's bitter.
Usually, that sort of consistency is a great advantage.
Well, that's a Spiderman-like device then, surely?
He said it should be a tool's job, not that it actually is a tool's job today. If downsampling a 40k poly mesh to a 20k poly mesh looks bad, that's because the tools are insufficiently advanced. Given time and development, I see no reason that a computer shouldn't be able to handle this problem any worse than it could jpeg compress a photo into a file 1 tenth of the original size, with little noticeable difference.
Sure, a pipe connects stdout from one process to stdin of another, whereas a tube was a simple character output device on the Acorn micros.
They also drive teh inerwebs.
I can't help it, it's so beautiful...
BLLLLEEEUUUGGHHH!!
does $100 windows x 5k copies count?
You're a factor of 1000 out.
But, in principle, yes it's very likely they're calculating value based on the US purchase price of the official software (not including manufacturing costs, warehouse, distribution, retailer's cut etc.)
I is not in ur datacenter, 2 power ur servers.
Fly, my little business, be free!
Don't worry - Red Mars got there years beforehand.
what you're saying is that, in your opinion, $bar is legally unrelated to $foo and can be manipulated in any form without legal consequence?
Calling it a derivative work is a straw-man: derivative work status allows you to put your own copyright on the new entity, it does not (in itself) allow you to remove the copyright ownership from those portions of the old entity which have been incorporated.
Besides, I hardly think you could say that format shifting of any file type would introduce "a substantial amount of new material" even if every single byte were different, given that (once parsed appropriately) the effect presented to the user is the same, or as close to the same as makes no odds.
Can I ROT13 a novel, and upload it to a web site without fear of legal consequence?
You really think that format-shifting a file removes the effect of copyright law?
Quick - somebody tell the RIAA that it is legal to share MP3s of copyrighted music, since they aren't the original CD audio files!
The point is only that end-users see it.
If you install Bugzilla on your product's web site, and users think the Bugzilla user interface sucks, then they'll most likely associate that suckiness not with Mozilla but rather with you. That's why it is in your own interest to use a bug-reporting system which has an interface targeted at your end users rather than at yourself.
And it's nothing to do with users being "evolved" or having the mere capability to read instructions - their ability to complete the task is no excuse for making it unnecessarily painful. Your users are doing you a favour in filing reports so that you can get your bugs fixed. Don't put stumbling blocks in their way, or make it any more difficult than it absolutely has to be. If you confuse them you won't get bug reports, and the resulting un-patched bugs will lose you customers.
Ahem. The normal userbase of a bug tracking program is not composed of coders and engineers?
Who is it discovers bugs and submits reports in the first place? Magic leprechauns?
I'm Steve Ballmer's Uncle and so is my wife.
Why you can't have your music on your laptop and your desktop at the same time is a bit of a puzzle IMO
You can - just copy the file from one computer to the other, and play it. iTunes will contact the store to authorise your account, but from then on you can play those files on both computers (up to five computers, in fact).
or sometimes, when we speak english, we say brunt
What? No. Or at least not that I've ever heard, and not according to the O.E.D. either.
The brunt is the initial impact of an attack, not the recipient of it: though you might bear the brunt of a joke, you would never be the brunt of a joke. There's no mention that to be the butt of a joke is in any way an Americanism - although the origin of the term is unknown, there is evidence that it dates back at least as far as when archery was commonplace.
It must be a tough job being such big PS3 fans and being the bud of many passer-by jokes like 'Where is the line for PS4? Is it on the other side?'"
Now is this a difference between the English and American languages, or can TFA not spell? On this side of the pond we'd talk about the butt of the joke.
(and then have a cup of tea).