Copyright and patent laws have gotten out of hand and are favoring the holders of pieces of paper over the general public that those holders benifit off of
Copyright is fine as-is, aside from perhaps the duration of copyrights. If people don't want to pay for the product, then they are free to use alternatives. They are not being oppressed in any way by copyright law.
Software patents and some biotech patents are a problem, but that is outside the scope of this discussion.
Wouldn't you have to be kind of dumb to invest millions of dollars into developing food if you know that people will just duplicate it? If you know that is going to happen, and you still go ahead with it, you are doing so under the assumption that you will still make a profit. If you turn out to be wrong, why should laws be created to protect you from losing your investment?
Ahh, so now innovation falters because freeloaders want to get something for nothing. No thanks, copyright laws with a shorter duration than what we have now is a far better approach for innovation and technological advancement in the long run. Then extract enough money via fines from the criminals who are illegally distributing the intellectual property in question to make up for any losses, and everything works out fine. The only people who lose out are the freeloaders.
If somebody has to shell out millions to develop the food that you are duplicating without providing any sort of compensation? Certainly, and they would be in the right. If you're simply duplicating a meal you've created or purchased without any sort of license attached, then no.
Software companies are not charities and individuals do not have some sort of God-given right to the fruits of their labours.
but getting there in 200 days at an average of 1 hour per day is no shame either
Many of the end-game instances (all of the ones with decent equipment) in WoW require a minimum of 2-4 hours to complete. I'm not sure if this sort of thing is common in most MMORPGs.
Once again, fingers pointed at some conduit when the true culprit still seems to be Microsoft's OS. If I were to click the link in gaim, on a linux machine (assume for the sake of argument, this browser is platform independent and would work on a linux box)?
Probably not, because the typical default access for a linux user is unpriveleged
In this case all the program has to do is request the user's root password. The average user will happily give it away.
You obiously have no idea what a community is. And if you don't want people to use your software, why bother to release it?
If they find it useful, then it's likely others will find it useful. Releasing it does not in any way obligate the developer to listen to the people using it.
The developers are working in their spare time for free. They owe absolutely nothing to the users. Don't like the software? Don't use it.
A user has no place whining if he isn't paying the developer. That's life.
It is unless the user in question is paying the developer. If the user is not paying for development then s/he has no right to expect anything of the developer.
If every ISP blocked outgoing SMTP messages from their users and either 1) forced them to relay mail through their servers or 2) ensured that any user-run mail servers were properly configured with SPF, etc. before allowing them to access outgoing port 25 traffic, it would allow allow much better assurance that the sender was who they said they were.
Sympatico does this and it's fucking obnoxious. I changed ISPs based on this alone.
The only problem with continuing work on Darwin would be that any improvement you make could be taken by Apple into their proprietary kernel.
The source was released under the BSD license wasn't it? Unless I'm mistaken the BSD license is GPL-compatible, so the fork could just be re-licensed under the GPL.
Even the Quake 4 watermark is very VERY playable at 1024X768
Are you managing <=60 FPS? I find any substantial dips below ~60 FPS to be distracting enough to eliminate any pleasure in playing a first person shooter, even if it is technically possible to play the game. I couldn't care less about quality however - the first thing I do after installing/patching a new game is turning every bit of distracting eye candy off.
In other words (by this guy's statement) Linux does not want users.
Linux does not need a large number of users in order to be successful. It's far more trouble than it's worth to accommodate most home PC users out there.
but in all honesty it never ceases to amuse me how some people have the charming naiveness to confidently declare to the world things like "once you learn it, $my_editor is probably the fastest editor to use"
In the case of Vim it is correct, with the possible exception of Teco. Vim lets you get a great deal done with very few key strokes - far fewer than any other editor I can think of.
There's no debate or discussion. Without other players present, in meatspace or cyberspace, you aren't playing a role
But you are playing a role of whatever character you are playing in the game. Actually, if you define an RPG as simply being a game in which you take on a role, then just about every videogame out there is an RPG.
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Software patents and some biotech patents are a problem, but that is outside the scope of this discussion.
If somebody has to shell out millions to develop the food that you are duplicating without providing any sort of compensation? Certainly, and they would be in the right. If you're simply duplicating a meal you've created or purchased without any sort of license attached, then no.
Software companies are not charities and individuals do not have some sort of God-given right to the fruits of their labours.
Please. If it's too expensive then use an alternative piece of software (or better yet, Free software).
Don't try to justify your actions with silly arguments like this.
The only rights an individual has are:
* Those which their society provides for them.
* Those which they can provide for themselves.
The developers are working in their spare time for free. They owe absolutely nothing to the users. Don't like the software? Don't use it.
A user has no place whining if he isn't paying the developer. That's life.
That should be '>='. Sorry.
Use '<' to get your < sign.
The writing quality in console RPGs is almost always substandard. I had to stop playing Xenogears because the character dialog was so painfully bad.