A few years ago I used to race a lot. One of the things that is common in the different groups of people, cars, and styles is a saying "To each his own". Wether you own a Mustang, Tiburon, Suzuki GSX 1000, Prelude, or Saturn. It doesn't matter. You race.
That is what I see here. If I want to make a peice of software http://www.linuxgod.net/~jd/, or use another peice of software, and modify it. Then that is to my own. If you like it sweet, if you don't, or don't find it useful, don't download it.
If you want to sell software good. But realize your software will be free to those who pirate it. And realize that you will never stop piracy, or your software being freely traded. Realise that you are competing with free software (beer and/and or speech). And realise that just because you made an investment, that you are not entitled to get your return, or make money. You can't force people to buy software, anymore than I can force 1000 people into a 1x1 inch box. If you make a $1m investment, and someone comes out with better software that is open source and free, then too bad. You lost $1m.
Those like me that do believe in different forms of socializm will make our software, and give it, and the source away for free. I have to return to look to so I don't care. If only one person finds it useful, then I'm happy.
If I don't like Windows, then I won't buy it, and Bill Gates doesn't get my $300. Too bad for him.:)
Maybe you should come spend a day with me. A day in the life of a REAL network technician. Naving to deal with worms running rampant across a network because the server running windows reinfects all the workstations that have drives mapped to it. Its a real bitch to have to disconnect a 'server' and run 'virus scans' on it. 20 years ago people would have laughed at you, if your 'server' got infected with something. Now days, thanks to Microsoft, it is common. Once the some 2TB of data has been scanned, and viruses removed, plug it back up, and pray the other machines do not infect Symantec Corporate on the server.:(
You want to talk about Windows stability in reality? Its funny that the only problems I run across with Linux boxen are the result of power outages or hardware damage. But yet... The windows machines are usally some proprietary peice of software that doesn't work worth a damn, or some malware/virus/insert imagination here, thing got on it due to sorry security, and is causing it to reboot itself, or take 15 minutes to boot up.
Don't buy cheap machines from manufacturing companys like Dell, HP, or Compaq. That is, unless you want to spend that money you could have saved cleaning the factory loaded malware off the machine you just bought.
Ive just epxlained %1 of my day. I charge $80 per hour (or node) for Windows, and $250 an hour for servers that run Windows. Anything other than Windows, like Linux, or Mac servers are $40 an hour. Yes, I am biosed, I hate Windows. In fact im posting this on my 6 yr old, heavily upgraded Sawtooth PowerMac wich has an 81 day uptime since the last power failure. Windows makes me rich. Want to talk TCO with ME? I will be more than happy to.
Nobody is forcing you to buy music from major record labels
You are absolutely right. I havn't bought a CD since 1999, and I never will as long as the **AA continues their illegal practices. iTunes doesn't work on Linux, so I don't use it. If I can't share music between my iBook running YellowDog, and my G4 Sawtooth running Tiger, then the music is no good to me and is considered broken. I am not one to pay for broken products. I have bought music online that won't play, so I call the company, and get my money back because they are broken, and contain false advertising. Since off-the-shelf CDs don't work anymore, I go to AllOfMp3.com and buy a few songs from the CD. If they don't have them. I pirate them. Unlike most of the Hypocrites out there I will admit, Yes, I am a software/movie/music pirate. If I could send the artist a few bucks I would. But the label won't be getting a dime from me. Since labels think that suing people is funny, I think them not getting money is funny.
Photoshop 9 will send your Mac's information back to Adobe. I pirated Photoshop 9 so that I could learn it, and produce pictures for my personal use, and use on my non-commercial sites. But making $400 a week, and having bills to pay. I won't spend 2 weeks paycheck on some piece of software for a hobby. That is insane.
Play For Sure only works on Windows, therefore its not a standard, and never will be. If it doesn't work on everything, like my Apples, and Linux boxen, then its not a standard. PDF is a standard, just because Adobe happens to sell software that works with Postscript Document Formats doesn't mean that Adobe's software is a standard. I don't think DRM will ever be a standard. This is mostly becasue of greed, and all the companys like Sony want to do their own thing to fulfill their twisted motives. Sony doesn't want to you use your own devices. Sony wants you to buy the same media again, and again. IANAL. But there are actually laws against those practices believe it or not.
I myself in my office have 4.544 mbits down / 1.544 mbits up cable w/static IP. I pay $119.90 a month. It comes from the local cable company which has somewhere around 3,000 broadband subscribers. The service may go down 5 minutes a month. It doesn't go down often. It has to be a very bad storm for it to go out. On a good download fom a kernel.org mirror I can get 560 kbytes a second.
Yes, that is true. If the video isn't encoded in that manner it won't enable the DRM. But the problem is the same one we face with Windows Media Player, iTunes, and other players that support 'services' that use DRM. If X user rips a CD then, that DRM protected cd will use a wmv, wma, or copy protected mp3, that cant be copied. If something happens to the OS, and they loose their license file, or whatever, then they lost their music or videos no matter if they are there or not, they won't be playable. Not only that, but the files are restricted to that player, AND that HDCP device.:(
Another problem we 'could' face is that HDCP could be used to 'disallow' content if it is not DRM'd. That is my primary concern at this point in time. If a home video is made then the user probably couln't share it with their family unless they paid the company they got their camera from for every time they share their video. HDCP can open up all kinds of abuses.
"Protected Video Path" (PVP) support, including HDCP."
Sorry M$, but I will watch what I want to watch, and my customers will watch what they want to watch, and you will not dictate to me what I can and cannot do. I will continue to stick with NON-PVP/NON-HDCP video. If your system is broken, and does not work with NON-PVP video, then we will seek another platform that does work correctly.
Does this really matter? How many people walk into a store and ask if 'x device' runs on Windows? Why are companies paying Microsoft to stick MS's logo on their product? Shouln't Microsoft pay 3Com/USR to stick their Windows logo on on a USR box? I wouln't put some 'Windows' logo on the machines I sold unless Microsoft bought that advertising space on the machines.
In the last 2 days Ive been looking for a sub $50 SATA 3.0GBs controller that will work on a G4 Sawtooth for a 160GB SATA drive. Really don't care if it has a 'windows' logo on it or not. If it doesn't work with what I have, then it is useless to me.
In your referene to video cards, I believe I recall 3DFX doing this a few times untill their drivers went open source. I miss 3DFX. They were a good company with a good solid card.
Ive been using Slackware since 1999. Version 3 or 4. Slackware is not a 'easy' linux to use for most people. Redhat, Debian, and many others tend to 'coat' their distributions with a GUI like gnome or KDE, that starts up with the system. Slackware is more hands on, do it all manually, yourself, type system. The installer is a very similar interface to FreeBSD's. Last time I used FreeBSD was version 2, so bear with me. UPtimes on our Slackware boxen range from 60 days to 4 years, depending on how often a drive or fan goes out. One is still humming away on a Pentium II, and hasn't been restrarted but 3 times since it was bought. Once we had a major software problem, which has only happened once since 2001. It was PDF converter written in PHP, that went haywire, and we had to switch it to RN LVL 1, then init back to 3 to fix it. No reboot needed.
I find their Windows claims to be lies. Windows needs to be rebooted to apply updates in most cases. If they update their machines, then their uptimes are flat out lies.
Its like I always tell people that 'sell' binary software. You are in the wrong business. You have chosen to sell software, and put it in the public's eye. So you CHOOSE to have your software copied. People will do it, because it is what the majority public wants, (RMS) free software. So don't sit there and whine about it like a child that wants his pacifier, because thats what all of the BSAs, and RIAAs sound like.
You are not gauranteed to make a profit from software under the constitution. There is no law that says 'you have the right to sell software and make money from it'. Its like driving a car. You KNOW that your car will wear out after 100k or 300k miles. You CHOOSE to buy the car, nobody forced you to. When you buy a car, you know that its possible to have a wreck, you know its possible the car may get stolen. That is YOUR choice. If you don't like it, then don't buy the car.
Approved software will never happen. ISPs use a devine range of platforms from Windows, Netware, IRIX, xBSD, Linux, OS X. There will never be a one software fits all solution.
Nothing goes on our servers unless it is open source. Period.
My servers remove their logs, and create new ones once a week. I care about my customer's privacy. If they arrest me, then so be it. But they will have to face a judge, and get his permission first. But the government has no business meddleing in mine.
How is it 'protected' if it is readable? Just because their system does NOT WORK doesn't mean that another reader is illegal. Maybe Adobe should be the one sued for false advertising.
This is just one more peice of software that won't get supported by computer repair shops. I will as usual point to the company the customer bought the music from, and say "Call them. And ask them why they sold you broken music.".
I think the largest problem these Baby Bells ate going to run into is support. They are going to be over run with support nightmares to the point to where people drop them like a rock. When Bellsouth announced they are going to do this, I, as a computer repair store, and networking consultant / designer, immediately dropped support for them. Me dropping support for Bellsouth affects over 2,000 people here. Most customers are on the local cable company which I gladly support for a smaller fee. Their owner is a net neutrality advocate as well as I. We see eye to eye on almost everything. Almost 500 of those 2,000 customers have moved from Bellsouth since a month ago. Now when someone calls, my statement is "We do not support Teired connections. You will have to contact your internet provider about that.". Then go on to suggest "Insert local cable & DSL company that is neutral".
With influence comes responsability, I pray that I am up to the task, and do it right.
Find a friend in another state that will be in on it. (This is Slashdot, I know its hard.) And print a bunch of fake plastic movie labels and slide them in on the outside of the plastic DVD boxes. Make the labels say stuff like. "Scary Movie 4", and "Big Momma's House". Insert burned DVD with a obscene Anti-MPAA video message on it that encourages piracy. Put a movie label on the DVD, then insert into plastic box. Close box and put clear plastic tape on the outside of the DVD container making it a complete bitch to open them. Insert a binding license agreement on the back of the box that says. "By opening this container, you agree to the licensing terms herein". Licence each DVD box at $800.
Would you rather it be Corporate controlled? This is your idea of free? You would rather have a company tell you what you can and cannot do, than have the government 'not' tell you what you can and cannot do?
A company is not garanteed freedom here in the U.S. People are. And it should remain that way.
So you think freedom is just handed to you? I wonder what the founding fathers of America would say to that? You have to work, and fight to obtain freedom. There will always be oppressors to take it from you. IE: Microsoft Now. And England a few centurys ago.
And when the cure for AIDs, or cancer hits the public and costs $1,000 per bottle? Only the rich can be cured. Lets just forget about the poor, middle class, & blue collar workers. They don't matter. The rich are the only ones that should be cured because they are the only ones that fit your target market, and can afford it.
That would be bad because the pharma companies then will not continue to do R&D for new drugs because they are guaranteed to not make a return on their investment. In fact, they would be obligated to their shareholders to not do R&D for new drugs because they are guaranteed to not make a return on their investment.
And that means I have to pay more for medication. But its good for your business right? And thats all that matters... Your profit.
If no patent on the drug was allowed, then other companies would quickly copy the drug, and then sell it at a lower price than the developer of the drug would be able to.
It seems that movielink requires you have a special system just to get to their site. They have been added to my broken website list. You need a machine running a specific OS, a specific browser, and specific media player, nor can it be burned to DVD. Now explain to me again Hollywood why I would buy something that doesn't work, and is crippled?
I think that ill just go to the Piratebay, and grab my copy of Kong. If Hollywood wants to pick and choose their customers, then I will pick and choose what, how, and where I get my movies.
The more you tighten your grip vadar, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
This sounds just like the DMCA. It is a outright pure restriction on freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. If this were to happen in the United States, no one would say anything, and it would be silenced in the name of national security, or some other right winged, freedom hating Bush initiative.
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A few years ago I used to race a lot. One of the things that is common in the different groups of people, cars, and styles is a saying "To each his own". Wether you own a Mustang, Tiburon, Suzuki GSX 1000, Prelude, or Saturn. It doesn't matter. You race.
:)
That is what I see here. If I want to make a peice of software http://www.linuxgod.net/~jd/, or use another peice of software, and modify it. Then that is to my own. If you like it sweet, if you don't, or don't find it useful, don't download it.
If you want to sell software good. But realize your software will be free to those who pirate it. And realize that you will never stop piracy, or your software being freely traded. Realise that you are competing with free software (beer and/and or speech). And realise that just because you made an investment, that you are not entitled to get your return, or make money. You can't force people to buy software, anymore than I can force 1000 people into a 1x1 inch box. If you make a $1m investment, and someone comes out with better software that is open source and free, then too bad. You lost $1m.
Those like me that do believe in different forms of socializm will make our software, and give it, and the source away for free. I have to return to look to so I don't care. If only one person finds it useful, then I'm happy.
If I don't like Windows, then I won't buy it, and Bill Gates doesn't get my $300. Too bad for him.
The computers I sell run Linux on them. I don't sell Windows machines.
Maybe you should come spend a day with me. A day in the life of a REAL network technician. Naving to deal with worms running rampant across a network because the server running windows reinfects all the workstations that have drives mapped to it. Its a real bitch to have to disconnect a 'server' and run 'virus scans' on it. 20 years ago people would have laughed at you, if your 'server' got infected with something. Now days, thanks to Microsoft, it is common. Once the some 2TB of data has been scanned, and viruses removed, plug it back up, and pray the other machines do not infect Symantec Corporate on the server. :(
You want to talk about Windows stability in reality? Its funny that the only problems I run across with Linux boxen are the result of power outages or hardware damage. But yet... The windows machines are usally some proprietary peice of software that doesn't work worth a damn, or some malware/virus/insert imagination here, thing got on it due to sorry security, and is causing it to reboot itself, or take 15 minutes to boot up.
Don't buy cheap machines from manufacturing companys like Dell, HP, or Compaq. That is, unless you want to spend that money you could have saved cleaning the factory loaded malware off the machine you just bought.
Ive just epxlained %1 of my day. I charge $80 per hour (or node) for Windows, and $250 an hour for servers that run Windows. Anything other than Windows, like Linux, or Mac servers are $40 an hour. Yes, I am biosed, I hate Windows. In fact im posting this on my 6 yr old, heavily upgraded Sawtooth PowerMac wich has an 81 day uptime since the last power failure. Windows makes me rich. Want to talk TCO with ME? I will be more than happy to.
Nobody is forcing you to buy music from major record labels
You are absolutely right. I havn't bought a CD since 1999, and I never will as long as the **AA continues their illegal practices. iTunes doesn't work on Linux, so I don't use it. If I can't share music between my iBook running YellowDog, and my G4 Sawtooth running Tiger, then the music is no good to me and is considered broken. I am not one to pay for broken products. I have bought music online that won't play, so I call the company, and get my money back because they are broken, and contain false advertising. Since off-the-shelf CDs don't work anymore, I go to AllOfMp3.com and buy a few songs from the CD. If they don't have them. I pirate them. Unlike most of the Hypocrites out there I will admit, Yes, I am a software/movie/music pirate. If I could send the artist a few bucks I would. But the label won't be getting a dime from me. Since labels think that suing people is funny, I think them not getting money is funny.
Photoshop 9 will send your Mac's information back to Adobe. I pirated Photoshop 9 so that I could learn it, and produce pictures for my personal use, and use on my non-commercial sites. But making $400 a week, and having bills to pay. I won't spend 2 weeks paycheck on some piece of software for a hobby. That is insane.
I can see the chairs flying already.
Play For Sure only works on Windows, therefore its not a standard, and never will be. If it doesn't work on everything, like my Apples, and Linux boxen, then its not a standard. PDF is a standard, just because Adobe happens to sell software that works with Postscript Document Formats doesn't mean that Adobe's software is a standard. I don't think DRM will ever be a standard. This is mostly becasue of greed, and all the companys like Sony want to do their own thing to fulfill their twisted motives. Sony doesn't want to you use your own devices. Sony wants you to buy the same media again, and again. IANAL. But there are actually laws against those practices believe it or not.
I myself in my office have 4.544 mbits down / 1.544 mbits up cable w/static IP. I pay $119.90 a month. It comes from the local cable company which has somewhere around 3,000 broadband subscribers. The service may go down 5 minutes a month. It doesn't go down often. It has to be a very bad storm for it to go out. On a good download fom a kernel.org mirror I can get 560 kbytes a second.
Yes, that is true. If the video isn't encoded in that manner it won't enable the DRM. But the problem is the same one we face with Windows Media Player, iTunes, and other players that support 'services' that use DRM. If X user rips a CD then, that DRM protected cd will use a wmv, wma, or copy protected mp3, that cant be copied. If something happens to the OS, and they loose their license file, or whatever, then they lost their music or videos no matter if they are there or not, they won't be playable. Not only that, but the files are restricted to that player, AND that HDCP device. :(
Another problem we 'could' face is that HDCP could be used to 'disallow' content if it is not DRM'd. That is my primary concern at this point in time. If a home video is made then the user probably couln't share it with their family unless they paid the company they got their camera from for every time they share their video. HDCP can open up all kinds of abuses.
"Protected Video Path" (PVP) support, including HDCP."
Sorry M$, but I will watch what I want to watch, and my customers will watch what they want to watch, and you will not dictate to me what I can and cannot do. I will continue to stick with NON-PVP/NON-HDCP video. If your system is broken, and does not work with NON-PVP video, then we will seek another platform that does work correctly.
Does this really matter? How many people walk into a store and ask if 'x device' runs on Windows? Why are companies paying Microsoft to stick MS's logo on their product? Shouln't Microsoft pay 3Com/USR to stick their Windows logo on on a USR box? I wouln't put some 'Windows' logo on the machines I sold unless Microsoft bought that advertising space on the machines.
In the last 2 days Ive been looking for a sub $50 SATA 3.0GBs controller that will work on a G4 Sawtooth for a 160GB SATA drive. Really don't care if it has a 'windows' logo on it or not. If it doesn't work with what I have, then it is useless to me.
In your referene to video cards, I believe I recall 3DFX doing this a few times untill their drivers went open source. I miss 3DFX. They were a good company with a good solid card.
Ive been using Slackware since 1999. Version 3 or 4. Slackware is not a 'easy' linux to use for most people. Redhat, Debian, and many others tend to 'coat' their distributions with a GUI like gnome or KDE, that starts up with the system. Slackware is more hands on, do it all manually, yourself, type system. The installer is a very similar interface to FreeBSD's. Last time I used FreeBSD was version 2, so bear with me. UPtimes on our Slackware boxen range from 60 days to 4 years, depending on how often a drive or fan goes out. One is still humming away on a Pentium II, and hasn't been restrarted but 3 times since it was bought. Once we had a major software problem, which has only happened once since 2001. It was PDF converter written in PHP, that went haywire, and we had to switch it to RN LVL 1, then init back to 3 to fix it. No reboot needed.
I find their Windows claims to be lies. Windows needs to be rebooted to apply updates in most cases. If they update their machines, then their uptimes are flat out lies.
Its like I always tell people that 'sell' binary software. You are in the wrong business. You have chosen to sell software, and put it in the public's eye. So you CHOOSE to have your software copied. People will do it, because it is what the majority public wants, (RMS) free software. So don't sit there and whine about it like a child that wants his pacifier, because thats what all of the BSAs, and RIAAs sound like.
You are not gauranteed to make a profit from software under the constitution. There is no law that says 'you have the right to sell software and make money from it'. Its like driving a car. You KNOW that your car will wear out after 100k or 300k miles. You CHOOSE to buy the car, nobody forced you to. When you buy a car, you know that its possible to have a wreck, you know its possible the car may get stolen. That is YOUR choice. If you don't like it, then don't buy the car.
Approved software will never happen. ISPs use a devine range of platforms from Windows, Netware, IRIX, xBSD, Linux, OS X. There will never be a one software fits all solution.
Nothing goes on our servers unless it is open source. Period.
My servers remove their logs, and create new ones once a week. I care about my customer's privacy. If they arrest me, then so be it. But they will have to face a judge, and get his permission first. But the government has no business meddleing in mine.
How is it 'protected' if it is readable? Just because their system does NOT WORK doesn't mean that another reader is illegal. Maybe Adobe should be the one sued for false advertising.
This is just one more peice of software that won't get supported by computer repair shops. I will as usual point to the company the customer bought the music from, and say "Call them. And ask them why they sold you broken music.".
I think the largest problem these Baby Bells ate going to run into is support. They are going to be over run with support nightmares to the point to where people drop them like a rock. When Bellsouth announced they are going to do this, I, as a computer repair store, and networking consultant / designer, immediately dropped support for them. Me dropping support for Bellsouth affects over 2,000 people here. Most customers are on the local cable company which I gladly support for a smaller fee. Their owner is a net neutrality advocate as well as I. We see eye to eye on almost everything. Almost 500 of those 2,000 customers have moved from Bellsouth since a month ago. Now when someone calls, my statement is "We do not support Teired connections. You will have to contact your internet provider about that.". Then go on to suggest "Insert local cable & DSL company that is neutral".
With influence comes responsability, I pray that I am up to the task, and do it right.
Find a friend in another state that will be in on it. (This is Slashdot, I know its hard.) And print a bunch of fake plastic movie labels and slide them in on the outside of the plastic DVD boxes. Make the labels say stuff like. "Scary Movie 4", and "Big Momma's House". Insert burned DVD with a obscene Anti-MPAA video message on it that encourages piracy. Put a movie label on the DVD, then insert into plastic box. Close box and put clear plastic tape on the outside of the DVD container making it a complete bitch to open them. Insert a binding license agreement on the back of the box that says. "By opening this container, you agree to the licensing terms herein". Licence each DVD box at $800.
Ship.
???
Profit !!!
Would you rather it be Corporate controlled? This is your idea of free? You would rather have a company tell you what you can and cannot do, than have the government 'not' tell you what you can and cannot do?
A company is not garanteed freedom here in the U.S. People are. And it should remain that way.
So you think freedom is just handed to you? I wonder what the founding fathers of America would say to that? You have to work, and fight to obtain freedom. There will always be oppressors to take it from you. IE: Microsoft Now. And England a few centurys ago.
And when the cure for AIDs, or cancer hits the public and costs $1,000 per bottle? Only the rich can be cured. Lets just forget about the poor, middle class, & blue collar workers. They don't matter. The rich are the only ones that should be cured because they are the only ones that fit your target market, and can afford it.
That would be bad because the pharma companies then will not continue to do R&D for new drugs because they are guaranteed to not make a return on their investment. In fact, they would be obligated to their shareholders to not do R&D for new drugs because they are guaranteed to not make a return on their investment.
And that means I have to pay more for medication. But its good for your business right? And thats all that matters... Your profit.
If no patent on the drug was allowed, then other companies would quickly copy the drug, and then sell it at a lower price than the developer of the drug would be able to.
And this would be bad how?
It seems that movielink requires you have a special system just to get to their site. They have been added to my broken website list. You need a machine running a specific OS, a specific browser, and specific media player, nor can it be burned to DVD. Now explain to me again Hollywood why I would buy something that doesn't work, and is crippled?
I think that ill just go to the Piratebay, and grab my copy of Kong. If Hollywood wants to pick and choose their customers, then I will pick and choose what, how, and where I get my movies.
The more you tighten your grip vadar, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
This sounds just like the DMCA. It is a outright pure restriction on freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. If this were to happen in the United States, no one would say anything, and it would be silenced in the name of national security, or some other right winged, freedom hating Bush initiative.