We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs
I think we all should buy a hell of a lot of games... just to show that linux is a damn good marketplace for games... this would hopefully lead to more developers releasing for linux which would take away the last argument for windows...
this assumes that every illegal copy equals one lost sale, this counts open source usage as piracy, it counts reuse of old licenses (from discarded PCs) as piracy, and the BSA benefits from overestimating the necessity, because more piracy means they can do more lobbying, demand more compensation from pirates, demand more effort being put on prosecution etc. just look at who the BSA is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Software_Alliance#Members
STOP REPORTING THE NUMBERS THAT THEY PULL OUT OF THEIR ASSES LIKE THEY WERE DEFINITE FACTS!
I really should keep a copy of this comment so I can copy-paste it next year...
okay maybe I want to be smart ass now, but why do you refer to copyright-violations as "war-like acts committed by private parties that engage in acts of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea." a.k.a. "piracy"?;-)
if you started the project and worked on it on your worktime AFTER they hired you, then I think you didn't have the right to put the project under the GPL in the first place.
if you started the project and released it under the GPL BEFORE they hired you, well then I think you can release the code, because legally you did nothing but work on an open source project (like they told you to! so they can't demand the salary back because you "worked on your own stuff instead of doing work for them" or so) whose license FORCES you to release the code... they can't force you to violate the license-terms of the project, even if you are the guy who has the right to change the license - doing this was not part of your contract (right?).
IF your contract includes that you sign the whole project over to them, then you can't do anything, because in that case, they can revoke the license - but not retroactive! you can start over the work (on your free time) on an old version of the code and release anything that you do on your free time from that point. you can go back to the last version before they officially revoked the license.
again, IANAL, but I think this is the way the legal system sees it...
or to phrase this in a more technical way:
person X releases a project P under the GPL
Y hires a set of people Z to work on P. they develop P'
the contract between Y and Z basically says that the people in Z sign their ip rights to the code they developed on their worktime over to Y (I think this is the point where they think you signed ALL rights to the project over?)
but because of the license, Y must release P' to X
I don't think this circumstance changes, just because X \in Z...
to rephrase this: we like H.264 because it forces Mozilla to break compatibility with Linux or with HTML5, so using H.264 harms either Linux or Firefox
there you have it AGAIN - all the "we support FOSS" blah blah was just empty lies... behind the smile they were planning to stab "their friends" in the back. surprised?
So Microsoft uses its patents against a Linux (Android is a Linux). Didn't the Open Inventions Network (Google, HP, Sun, IBM,...) promise to sue every company X doing this based on EVERY SINGLE patent they own and that are violated by X?
I do it like this: select some text, hotkey to search it
Meta+G = Google
Meta+W = Wikipedia
Meta+Y = YouTube ...
The hotkey runs a BASH script that queries klipper via D-BUS to get the highlighted text and constructs the parameters for firefox, depending on the parameters, which are set up in the hotkeys
I'll write a native program soon (and give it to the desktop-environment guys), that will support all search-extensions, not just some predefined ones...
afaik Muhammad had a 9 year old wife (I don't know for sure, I just heared that)... so having him in a Bear Suit MAY be a reference to Pedobear and I if you put the head of a religion in SUCH a context, you have to expect extreme reactions...
Movie-studios only seem to try to lure you into shitty movies nowadays.
They use hype instead of quality and you are supposed to go to the theater on the first weekend - BEFORE the word has spread that the movie is total bullshit and it's out of theaters after 2 weeks...
It looks like Crytek (and esp. EA!) are trying the same thing with games. a demo would harm that strategy... if your game is good, then a demo will increase your sales. No demo = you're trying to push hyped bullshit on us!
I understand small businesses who want patents to protect their work from stronger competitors. on the other hand the very general patents that the big businesses hold, make it a legal minefield to even start a small business. Also the duration of the patents... 20 years is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR too much - even 10 years is like a century in the Software business...
Slashdot Mirror
you see? that got modded "funny" instead of "sarcastic"... the software totally doesn't work...
When Microsoft badmouths a rival product, then you know it must be really good...
Google should make an ad out of this, really
"Would Microsoft badmouth Google Docs, if it wasn't really great?"
Package Repository, Anyone?
Oh yeah? So when is Photoshop for Linux coming?
I would pay extra for the ability to use the games I own on linux, but I've read somewhere here that this won't cost extra. Valve FTW!
Game-Availability would lead to more mainstream acceptance and this would create the demand...
I think we all should buy a hell of a lot of games... just to show that linux is a damn good marketplace for games... this would hopefully lead to more developers releasing for linux which would take away the last argument for windows...
Every time the BullShit Alliance releases it's completely made up numbers they are not questioned by article-authors AT ALL.
just read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Software_Alliance#BSA_annual_software_piracy_study!
their "calculation" goes like this:
piracy = number of PCs * estimated software necessity per PC - sold software
this assumes that every illegal copy equals one lost sale, this counts open source usage as piracy, it counts reuse of old licenses (from discarded PCs) as piracy, and the BSA benefits from overestimating the necessity, because more piracy means they can do more lobbying, demand more compensation from pirates, demand more effort being put on prosecution etc. just look at who the BSA is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Software_Alliance#Members
STOP REPORTING THE NUMBERS THAT THEY PULL OUT OF THEIR ASSES LIKE THEY WERE DEFINITE FACTS!
I really should keep a copy of this comment so I can copy-paste it next year...
okay maybe I want to be smart ass now, but why do you refer to copyright-violations as "war-like acts committed by private parties that engage in acts of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea." a.k.a. "piracy"? ;-)
look at how the BSA "calculates" their numbers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Software_Alliance#BSA_annual_software_piracy_study using open sources will not stop them from claiming piracy was on the rise, because in their "calculations" the use of open source software IS piracy!
again, IANAL, but I think this is the way the legal system sees it...
or to phrase this in a more technical way:
person X releases a project P under the GPL
Y hires a set of people Z to work on P. they develop P'
the contract between Y and Z basically says that the people in Z sign their ip rights to the code they developed on their worktime over to Y (I think this is the point where they think you signed ALL rights to the project over?)
but because of the license, Y must release P' to X
I don't think this circumstance changes, just because X \in Z...
"our peaceful methods and goals"
yeah, right!
I think this just means that you can't resell your software-licenses AS LONG as you didn't buy a physical storage device...
You're hired!
This really should be number 1, because you can't count how much is wrong about this...
I haven't seen
for quite some time...
isn't it?
What I'm missing is
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/fap/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc_big.jpg this was really published by NASA a couple of years ago... on April 1st...
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/29/html5-video.aspx
to rephrase this: we like H.264 because it forces Mozilla to break compatibility with Linux or with HTML5, so using H.264 harms either Linux or Firefox
there you have it AGAIN - all the "we support FOSS" blah blah was just empty lies... behind the smile they were planning to stab "their friends" in the back. surprised?
So Microsoft uses its patents against a Linux (Android is a Linux). Didn't the Open Inventions Network (Google, HP, Sun, IBM, ...) promise to sue every company X doing this based on EVERY SINGLE patent they own and that are violated by X?
finally iPhone owners have a reason to suck on their phone... :o)
I do it like this: select some text, hotkey to search it
...
Meta+G = Google
Meta+W = Wikipedia
Meta+Y = YouTube
The hotkey runs a BASH script that queries klipper via D-BUS to get the highlighted text and constructs the parameters for firefox, depending on the parameters, which are set up in the hotkeys
I'll write a native program soon (and give it to the desktop-environment guys), that will support all search-extensions, not just some predefined ones...
afaik Muhammad had a 9 year old wife (I don't know for sure, I just heared that)... so having him in a Bear Suit MAY be a reference to Pedobear and I if you put the head of a religion in SUCH a context, you have to expect extreme reactions...
kthxbye
Movie-studios only seem to try to lure you into shitty movies nowadays. They use hype instead of quality and you are supposed to go to the theater on the first weekend - BEFORE the word has spread that the movie is total bullshit and it's out of theaters after 2 weeks...
It looks like Crytek (and esp. EA!) are trying the same thing with games. a demo would harm that strategy... if your game is good, then a demo will increase your sales. No demo = you're trying to push hyped bullshit on us!
I understand small businesses who want patents to protect their work from stronger competitors. on the other hand the very general patents that the big businesses hold, make it a legal minefield to even start a small business. Also the duration of the patents... 20 years is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR too much - even 10 years is like a century in the Software business...