And so they give us DRMed subscription based music which would go against the morals and not suit either. Itunes does the morals thing too so why would they move to linux if linux users dont want to buy music that doesn't do what it ought to?
Yes, i downloaded it, i didn't like it and i can't get most codecs to work with it.
What use is a program that runs on linux but doesn't work properly?
The media revolution is upon us. Execs have ripped off the artist for too long and a new business model that can be sustained is needed. Donations and advertising will be it.
I'm very much with that view myseld. i'm currently setting up a site for independent artists to put on their music and get revenue through adclicks and donations instead of murdering their art.
Their realplayer for windows is practically spyware. How many legitimate programs can get away with passing advertising messages, embedding adverts, popping up annoying content etc. and not get called adware.
How many companies can do this and then charge for `premium` functionality?
Real's days are at an end. They support very few portable music players, and what happens when noone wants to let real support their player? What happens to all your DRMed music then? And what happens when their ads get more invasive and more annoying?
See if we got a petition together and got enough people to do it and to ignore any mention of microsoft, it would happen. Adverts alone won't do the trick, they need the populace behind them
We're doing fine at keeping skilled doctors etc. in, working the NHS etc., the problem is the non-workers. I was waiting at a bus stand a few months back and i started talking to this guy there. He told me he was a South African and that he was only here to get his family transported over so his son could have an operation free on the NHS. I don't exactly call that a good reason to be over here, given that the goverment are already EXTREMELY generous to immigrants, what with giving them a house and car for free, more than pensioners or disabled people get.
It seems a reasonably fair system. Canada seems to be keen to embrace skilled professionals, an area perhaps where other countries are lacking. One of the key things to see is that the UK (where i am) seems to let just about everybody through, so you take the bad with the good. In the US of course, only the cream of the professional crop make it, and some of them don't. If you don't know people there, you're screwed. With the canadian system as described it seems they manage to get the good without the bad.
Well i'm not in the US, i'm in the UK, although the same logic applies... That said, we haven't exactly done a grand job of keeping anyone out anyway...
The argument is to whether this matters given that it isn't costing us to have use of the sun. Yes, it's inefficient, but it's a damnsight easier than waiting 10 million years (when we have an estimated 10 years of fossil fuels left)...
Quite simply i'd jump at the chance to get away from this Godforsaken hellhole, and an incentive like this is going to do so much to encourage me.
The question, however, is what is then going to happen to the immigration laws. Presumably they are going to have to do something to prevent just anyone jumping in and claiming. Will this preclude the majority of people? Will they lower the immigration requirements? Who can say?
...but there are other ways to deal with it. One of my key bones with the GPL is that it doesn't do enough to protect small developers and pretty much makes it easy for corporate giants to walk all over them due to their increased advertising and branding power. An example is Mandriva's Embeddix, a rebranded LRP (Linux Router Project). The problem here is that the LRP shut down because of this, they got fed up of mandriva doing no work and stealing their code and so they stopped developing it, thus the F/OSS community loses out in the end.
The GPL is bulletproof at some things, and a flimsy sheet of paper in other
It's still a bigger guy crushing a little guy, which is always bad. If it were google suing you without microsoft getting in the way (hypothetically), i'm sure it would still be objectionable...
By it's current usage of the `licenced` field, it would appear to indicate DRM given that all these `licenced` files are DRMed WMAs. I can't say if that will change, not being a limewire developer, but it seems a reasonable expectation that this is the way it will continue. We don't have to worry, however, redhat has already said that if this does happen, it will fork the source of limewire (as it is free/libre).
No. you're forgetting that a lot of free/libre software is not free/beer. It's not just free/libre that takes customers away, it's free/beer software too. As for your comment that free/beer is a bad thing, you can't possibly suggest that it's a bad thing that people are donating their time to these projects. Yes, people have to make a living, but that doesn't mean people should be stopped from doing things for free. Steve Ballmer tried to pull the `my family has to eat` routine too, and it isn't working. Free/beer software is done not to wreck other people but to help people who don't want to shell out for expensive software. End of the day, if your product isn't sufficiently better than a free/beer one then it isn't worth paying for. You pay for software because it's better, and if it isn't then you make it better so that people will buy it. If you don't like the way things work, go over to communist china.
This can be the case, but it can go the other way, whereby they accept it as the norm and won't like linux because it doesn't have odd quirks like this.
It isn't going to solve the world's dependence on oil overnight, but it's perhaps a step forward.
The next problem will be a shortage of arable land due to land used to produce the vegetables that are then going to become diesel. This could solve one problem and lead straight into another
It's how unix got going, it's how hacking started out, it's undoubtably how linux and BSD got off the ground and are currently so mature.
In my perl book, it has a wonderful little section about how early adopters of the internet used it to exchange scripts for administration etc., this is how the system works. People feel good about donating their time, they possibly enjoy programming as a hobby anyway. Regardless, there is no pressure like in a work situation, the quality of your work is higher.
Let's remove all favourable references to microsoft off slashdot then.
It's just so absurd, they walk around, flash some cash and get what they want done. This all after the whole european antitrust thing... I find it shocking they CAN have this removed. I wonder this isn't classed as attempted monopolisation, they are, after all trying to lock out other competitors from publicity.
Yes, this is exactly what we're fighting against. People have a perceived value, if it costs a lot its quality, if its free its crap.
Some of us enjoy programming for fun and hack onto projects and improve them, this is the tack people should be taking. If you market it as professionals with some spare time doing this for fun, and show how this results in more reliable code, that could be the way to turn the tide, until this happens, expensive software will continue to be regarded as better. You'd think people would learn after windows crashes 8 times in a week...
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And so they give us DRMed subscription based music which would go against the morals and not suit either. Itunes does the morals thing too so why would they move to linux if linux users dont want to buy music that doesn't do what it ought to?
What use is a program that runs on linux but doesn't work properly?
The media revolution is upon us. Execs have ripped off the artist for too long and a new business model that can be sustained is needed. Donations and advertising will be it.
I'm very much with that view myseld. i'm currently setting up a site for independent artists to put on their music and get revenue through adclicks and donations instead of murdering their art.
The DRM would be used to ensure it could not be recorded, even if it is something simple like macrovision-style (So easily cracked)
How many companies can do this and then charge for `premium` functionality?
Real's days are at an end. They support very few portable music players, and what happens when noone wants to let real support their player? What happens to all your DRMed music then? And what happens when their ads get more invasive and more annoying?
DRM has no kernel support in linux, and one assumes they're using DRM. An estimate of 3 days 'til it's cracked?
The catch being that all 8 will only add up to 10ghz or so. Power usage will be quite low and you could get away with heatsink-only though
They use the POWER instruction set, so PPC linux will run on it, and who could say fairer than shoving 4 of these babies together on a board?
Downside would be waiting until 2008. Dual core is out next year and quad core in 2006, however.
Now who'd like a beowulf cluster of these? ;)
See if we got a petition together and got enough people to do it and to ignore any mention of microsoft, it would happen. Adverts alone won't do the trick, they need the populace behind them
Both proved good for you, now we're rolling. What about that nestle coffee beer thing though? Is that going to cure cancer or perhaps even cause it?
We're doing fine at keeping skilled doctors etc. in, working the NHS etc., the problem is the non-workers. I was waiting at a bus stand a few months back and i started talking to this guy there. He told me he was a South African and that he was only here to get his family transported over so his son could have an operation free on the NHS. I don't exactly call that a good reason to be over here, given that the goverment are already EXTREMELY generous to immigrants, what with giving them a house and car for free, more than pensioners or disabled people get.
It seems a reasonably fair system. Canada seems to be keen to embrace skilled professionals, an area perhaps where other countries are lacking. One of the key things to see is that the UK (where i am) seems to let just about everybody through, so you take the bad with the good. In the US of course, only the cream of the professional crop make it, and some of them don't. If you don't know people there, you're screwed. With the canadian system as described it seems they manage to get the good without the bad.
Well i'm not in the US, i'm in the UK, although the same logic applies... That said, we haven't exactly done a grand job of keeping anyone out anyway...
The argument is to whether this matters given that it isn't costing us to have use of the sun. Yes, it's inefficient, but it's a damnsight easier than waiting 10 million years (when we have an estimated 10 years of fossil fuels left)...
The question, however, is what is then going to happen to the immigration laws. Presumably they are going to have to do something to prevent just anyone jumping in and claiming. Will this preclude the majority of people? Will they lower the immigration requirements? Who can say?
The GPL is bulletproof at some things, and a flimsy sheet of paper in other
It's still a bigger guy crushing a little guy, which is always bad. If it were google suing you without microsoft getting in the way (hypothetically), i'm sure it would still be objectionable...
By it's current usage of the `licenced` field, it would appear to indicate DRM given that all these `licenced` files are DRMed WMAs. I can't say if that will change, not being a limewire developer, but it seems a reasonable expectation that this is the way it will continue. We don't have to worry, however, redhat has already said that if this does happen, it will fork the source of limewire (as it is free/libre).
No. you're forgetting that a lot of free/libre software is not free/beer. It's not just free/libre that takes customers away, it's free/beer software too. As for your comment that free/beer is a bad thing, you can't possibly suggest that it's a bad thing that people are donating their time to these projects. Yes, people have to make a living, but that doesn't mean people should be stopped from doing things for free. Steve Ballmer tried to pull the `my family has to eat` routine too, and it isn't working. Free/beer software is done not to wreck other people but to help people who don't want to shell out for expensive software. End of the day, if your product isn't sufficiently better than a free/beer one then it isn't worth paying for. You pay for software because it's better, and if it isn't then you make it better so that people will buy it. If you don't like the way things work, go over to communist china.
This can be the case, but it can go the other way, whereby they accept it as the norm and won't like linux because it doesn't have odd quirks like this.
The next problem will be a shortage of arable land due to land used to produce the vegetables that are then going to become diesel. This could solve one problem and lead straight into another
By enforcing DRM you necessarily lock out benefits like sampling etc.
In my perl book, it has a wonderful little section about how early adopters of the internet used it to exchange scripts for administration etc., this is how the system works. People feel good about donating their time, they possibly enjoy programming as a hobby anyway. Regardless, there is no pressure like in a work situation, the quality of your work is higher.
Taping off a CD or at concerts, i'd assume...
It's just so absurd, they walk around, flash some cash and get what they want done. This all after the whole european antitrust thing... I find it shocking they CAN have this removed. I wonder this isn't classed as attempted monopolisation, they are, after all trying to lock out other competitors from publicity.
Some of us enjoy programming for fun and hack onto projects and improve them, this is the tack people should be taking. If you market it as professionals with some spare time doing this for fun, and show how this results in more reliable code, that could be the way to turn the tide, until this happens, expensive software will continue to be regarded as better. You'd think people would learn after windows crashes 8 times in a week...