As has been pointed out before, there is plenty of room for diversity and personalization - and distribution-specific wackiness, even - but a simple set of agreed standards would solve most of these problems. If the major distributions follow a standard, open and reasonable set of installation standards - oh, say the LSB - then commerical and noncommercial software makers lives will be made easier. I am impressed with the variety of places various rpms want to put those files (/usr/lib,/usr/local, etc, etc, etc). Each user can still place tarballs where they want to, and minor distributions can continue to follow any old wild idea that comes in their head. Vive la difference!
I would think that there are enough engineers in the audience to remind us that nothing is impossible, just currently unfeasable. And while this maynot be perfect, and have some privacy drawbacks, it may also be a way in the future to avoid having local jurisdictions (e.g., France) stop "objectionable" material to the whole world.
Since presumably they consider all participants as "music thieves" or potential thieves, I wonder if they will make a detailed anaylsis of their server logs and use that information for their purposes? Obviously, many participants will be using spoofing and similar techniques.
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As has been pointed out before, there is plenty of room for diversity and personalization - and distribution-specific wackiness, even - but a simple set of agreed standards would solve most of these problems. If the major distributions follow a standard, open and reasonable set of installation standards - oh, say the LSB - then commerical and noncommercial software makers lives will be made easier. I am impressed with the variety of places various rpms want to put those files (/usr/lib, /usr/local, etc, etc, etc). Each user can still place tarballs where they want to, and minor distributions can continue to follow any old wild idea that comes in their head. Vive la difference!
I would think that there are enough engineers in the audience to remind us that nothing is impossible, just currently unfeasable. And while this maynot be perfect, and have some privacy drawbacks, it may also be a way in the future to avoid having local jurisdictions (e.g., France) stop "objectionable" material to the whole world.
Since presumably they consider all participants as "music thieves" or potential thieves, I wonder if they will make a detailed anaylsis of their server logs and use that information for their purposes? Obviously, many participants will be using spoofing and similar techniques.