There was a time before Microsoft and there will be a time after Microsoft.
If you laugh at that, please go read the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
I think that the issue here is not "microsoft" versus "linux", but instead "software patents" versus "innovation" (yes, you read it right, *versus* innovation).
A while ago I proofread a few pages of an old zoology book for the Gutenberg proofreading network (URL:www.pgdp.net). Copyright as it is prevents recent material from becoming available unless the authors expressly permit it, but I assure you for some topics a free more-than-100-year-old book is really not to be sneezed at. And compressed, the text will take at most a few hundred kbytes.
You're confusing encryption with DRM (I've seen it done before).
In your example of the financial report, just encrypt it and make sure
only the appropriate officers in your company get the keys. Done. No DRM necessary.
Your further sentences smell like FUD to me: "... secure fileservers with special permissions, etc. These are cumbersome and expensive..."
Think of this simple analogy: encryption is if the front door of your house has a lock, and you alone have the key.
DRM is if the door of your cell has a lock, and I alone have the key.
What I would really like to know, is if there are any Real Artists (TM) now
reading slashdot, if you could please state how much of your royalties you get
from allofmp3.com and how much from, say, itunes? (I hope for you that you
get royalties for your music).
Maybe if/when the OpenGraphics (now OpenHardware) plan comes off the ground finally: http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=Open- Graphics
They'll need a lot of money to start production though, and who is going to pay substantial money for a video card that they know will
not be top of the commercial range? (OK, I probably would)
If I sued you, would you know exactly how to phrase your response (preferably in dutch) so that it would be interpreted as a polite refusal to acknowledge jurisdiction of the dutch court? Would you immediately buy a plane ticket and come over here, with your new lawyers specialized in international law, to argue the case personally?
Or would you just (try to) ignore the court case (and maybe fail, just like Spamhaus apparently did, because of a lack of understanding of the precise way in which blue mud has to be rubbed into the navel of a U.S. judge)?
I thought Jeroen Bosch was dutch (Bosch as in 's-Hertogenbosch?) Anyway in his time I'm sure it was all the same country anyway. And in a few hundred years it will all be the same continental shelf:-/
:-) sorry I couldn't resist the temptation to undermine a basic assumption. Translation (you probably got it already): "Now you assume that the answer was given in english!"
Thanks, that was VERY enlightening (to a naïve european).
Is this actually allowed on national TV in the USA?
The mind boggles..
BTW I don't understand why parent comment was downmodded to 0, I found it quite funny.
"...either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."
But, the linux kernel has a modified GPLv2 that is "pinned down" to GPLv2:
"This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.
"
So in this (special) case the GP is right.
I wonder if there is much more software that says specifically GPLv2 (and not any later version)?
Your American law system gets more complicated by the day.. most responses I read here are of the form "I can't actually see anything wrong with this law, but if Orrin Hatch sponsors it, it must be evil"
Well.. tighten your tinfoil hats..
What if the law is actually a genuine attempt to mitigate the effects of the current U.S. patent mess, but it is especially sponsored by sen. Hatch so that it *will* be shot down *anyway*?:-)
(do I get extra karma points for paranoid thinking now?)
PS. If it's a good law I hope it passes, and I'm not even American, so go figure.
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'nuff said.
http://magnatune.com/ (AFAIK)
There was a time before Microsoft and there will be a time after Microsoft.
If you laugh at that, please go read the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
I think that the issue here is not "microsoft" versus "linux", but instead
"software patents" versus "innovation" (yes, you read it right, *versus* innovation).
He/she means van de Graaff generator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generat or
We had one in school; every school that teaches physics should have one IMHO.
A while ago I proofread a few pages of an old zoology book for the Gutenberg proofreading network (URL:www.pgdp.net). Copyright as it is prevents recent material from becoming available unless the authors expressly permit it, but I assure you for some topics a free more-than-100-year-old book is really not to be sneezed at. And compressed, the text will take at most a few hundred kbytes.
thanx!
You're confusing encryption with DRM (I've seen it done before).
In your example of the financial report, just encrypt it and make sure only the appropriate officers in your company get the keys. Done. No DRM necessary.
Your further sentences smell like FUD to me: "... secure fileservers with special permissions, etc. These are cumbersome and expensive..."
Think of this simple analogy: encryption is if the front door of your house has a lock, and you alone have the key. DRM is if the door of your cell has a lock, and I alone have the key.
What I would really like to know, is if there are any Real Artists (TM) now reading slashdot, if you could please state how much of your royalties you get from allofmp3.com and how much from, say, itunes? (I hope for you that you get royalties for your music).
Maybe if/when the OpenGraphics (now OpenHardware) plan comes off the ground finally: http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=Open- Graphics
They'll need a lot of money to start production though, and who is going to pay substantial money for a video card that they know will not be top of the commercial range? (OK, I probably would)
I think you're quintessentially right, but the film was really not THAT good.
So, do you know the relevant dutch laws?
If I sued you, would you know exactly how to phrase your response (preferably in dutch) so that it would be
interpreted as a polite refusal to acknowledge jurisdiction of the dutch court? Would you immediately
buy a plane ticket and come over here, with your new lawyers specialized in international law, to argue the case personally?
Or would you just (try to) ignore the court case (and maybe fail, just like Spamhaus apparently did, because of a lack of understanding
of the precise way in which blue mud has to be rubbed into the navel of a U.S. judge)?
If the organisms are like the Descolada virus in Orson Scott Card's books, what message are we trying to send?
apt-cache show gnome-fifth-toe ?
I thought Jeroen Bosch was dutch (Bosch as in 's-Hertogenbosch?) :-/
Anyway in his time I'm sure it was all the same country anyway.
And in a few hundred years it will all be the same continental shelf
:-)
sorry I couldn't resist the temptation to undermine a basic assumption.
Translation (you probably got it already):
"Now you assume that the answer was given in english!"
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I'm not sure if you meant-that.
Thanks, that was VERY enlightening (to a naïve european).
Is this actually allowed on national TV in the USA?
The mind boggles.. BTW I don't understand why parent comment was downmodded to 0, I found it quite funny.
But, the linux kernel has a modified GPLv2 that is "pinned down" to GPLv2:
So in this (special) case the GP is right.
I wonder if there is much more software that says specifically GPLv2 (and not any later version)?
I thought that Taransey was in Scotland, not Outer Space.. oh well.. shows what I know about geography ;-)
Your American law system gets more complicated by the day..
:-)
most responses I read here are of the form "I can't actually see anything wrong with this law, but if Orrin Hatch sponsors it, it must be evil"
Well.. tighten your tinfoil hats..
What if the law is actually a genuine attempt to mitigate the effects of the current U.S. patent mess,
but it is especially sponsored by sen. Hatch so that it *will* be shot down *anyway*?
(do I get extra karma points for paranoid thinking now?)
PS. If it's a good law I hope it passes, and I'm not even American, so go figure.
.. because it's only 2 lines, but exactly explains the whole point of this court case, clearly, without the FUD. thanks!
It's backdated to december 2005 IIRC
GAMESS-UK (gave me an actual physical bellyache when I saw the source code :-))
Now *that's* a typical example of the "arrogant elite hacker" attitude! Well done! Bravo! :-)