There is nothing sinister about these terms (well there can be if you start using them for state security organs) and they are fairly interchangeable, I certainly wouldn't assume that you were talking about Nazi's if you were talking about "Homeland". It is the actions of an organisation that are associated with its name, so maybe the similarity you see is based on some (the US can not be sensibly compared to Nazi Germany) action or association, as well as the name rather than just the name. As for naming conventions I still think that the UK manages to have the most 'pleasant' sounding ministry names, especially the Home Office, a name that can conjure up interesting mental imagery.
Just because something at one time is subverted by an evil, or even just distasteful group shouldn't mean that its meaning cannot be restored to its original meaning. Saying that the level of nationalism in the US does appear to be a little concerning, but its something that seems more of a US sort of thing anyway. Its a shame when you lose parts of your heritage because some ultra-nationalist group uses it, see the cross of St. George and its use by the NDF and BNP as an example in England.
Not quite true, I have had responses and clarifications on all the questions I have asked of the government, I have had emails indicating that the government will or has taken additional action regarding something that I and others obviously were concerned about (independent midwifery as it happens). I am happy with that, I don't expect to fill out an on-line form and then receive an apology from the home secretary as well as my requested changes to legislation. I would rather prefer that the government listen, but still have the courage to do what is best for the country regardless of the objections. We do elect our MP's so that they can make decisions on our behalf, it is counter productive to second guess them at every juncture, or expect them to do the most popular thing. What they should be doing is taking difficult decisions, representing our interests and ensuring that the country's best interests are met. I'd hate to live in a country where legislation is passed on the basis of what the red tops had on their front pages that week.
I mangled a gear change coming back on a stretch of motorway at about 4am, this was maybe 6 months after passing my test, I'm not entirely sure what I did but it was with a change from 4th to first or 4th to reverse (and yes this was a fairly old car). I must say it was fairly spectacular, the smell of burning clutch, the sparks, the rapid deceleration. But most interestingly when I finally got the car to stop, I found that the clutch was stuck/fused, and I couldn't start the engine at all, 20 minutes later and I had it started, and moving in second gear at about 20Mph, all the way back home @50 Miles (and yes off the motorway.). Next day, I found that everything worked beautifully, and whereas previously the clutch used to slip quite a bit, had regained a decent bite.
Needless to say it didn't pass its next MOT, but then a £250 C Reg Ford Sierra is something you can drive for a year and then replace.
OK seeing what you are describing I've got to agree that it doesn't make sense, to be honest I hadn't considered that any government would be quite so short sighted as to impose hard limits at specific points rather than a sliding scale. On the childcare element, surely the organisations that can provide childcare are regulated and policed? I have seen some poor nurseries, but I have never considered them fly by night!
That ugly, nerdy girl just needs to let her hair down, shake her head, take of her glasses and change her clothes, then it will become clear that she is in fact the most beautiful person there and also has personality.
In your example I don't see why you couldn't go after all three, what you couldn't do though is go after whoever is next in line, lest say the company that resells them AND the company that sells the vehicles, AND the company that sells these vehicles used, AND the end user.
The supply chain as I understand it will have a discrete point where the infringement occurs for the first time, if you had a patent for a rear view mirror that included say a method of shaping and coating plastic for a better reflection (WTF?? - but you see what I mean), you could sue the company shaping the mirror and the (different) company coating the mirror, but not the company that installs the mirror.
As a parent said though, the issue then is that all patent infringing work will be done by small shell companies, well in those instances it should be fairly obvious what is going on and there should be the possibility for judges to use a bit of discretion (i.e. if Wangs mirror shop produced 5 million mirrors, all for Ford, but has no cash for legal expenses (As it is intended as a patent avoidance method) then for Ford).
More interestingly would be what to do about products that are imported from one country to another where patent laws are different, would the importer be responsible?
When you make just enough not to get subsidies from the government, the cost can be a huge chunk of your salary. Erm, Since for up up to wages of something like 50/60k there are still tax credits available, and since it is on a sliding scale, oh and since childcare costs don't increase as you earn more I fail to see how that could be true.
If you are suggesting that someone on £10k should not receive a tax credit to assist with childcare or that someone on 60k should, then you need to look at the whole situation.
For example, if I am earning £10k a year, and childcare costs £800 a month then there is no point in me going to work, so then not only am I a burden on society but your child care costs increase (fewer people can afford it = less take up = higher fees). If I am earning 25K a year, I don't need as much support if any, but if I don't get any then I may well decide that going to work is not worth it, after all working full time and only getting (realistically) 12k for a 25k job is if not pointless then at least demoralising, especially as the childcare costs are related directly to employment. If I earn 50k a year, then paying for child care is no longer a huge chunk of my pay, and there is no social benefit of me receiving additional support, not to mention that every time I have looked at a position above about 45k it has included private healthcare (which I always turn down), childcare and other benefits (some of which are truly bizarre).
After all the idea of benefits is not cash to voters its to ensure that basic services are available, a certain minimum acceptable level of subsistence exists and that people who can work are able to, and to generally do as much good for society and the economy at the least cost to the public purse. (this is why we should be building extra public housing, investing in rather than bailing out utilities and transport companies and not taking on any more PFI type schemes but I digress).
As for the thing about child care and area I think its variable, before I moved house I lived in an extremely affluent area, the area had a large number of childcare providers (more expensive then where I am now but not by too much), they were of all types, from traditional, through Steiner and Montessori.
My son went to one up until he started school, and frankly it was excellent, now I have moved to a bigger properly in an 'up and coming' area of the same city, interestingly there is a huge amount more in the way of social and community support, but much less in the way of choice. There is childcare, but it is about ensuring that the kids are looked after well enough that the parents can work, not about development or education, there is more and cheaper childcare but it is not of the same standard. Oh and of course there isn't enough of it, and of course a single parent has priority, the idea is to get people back to work and for house holds to have a decent income, not that a family with two earners can take those extra holidays in the Algarve.
That does depend heavily on where you are and what sort of support you get, looking at our local area its between £153 and £220 per week for full time day nurseries, (so anyone under 5 at which point there is school) , somewhere between you can claim 70% of child care costs (up to £135) back from the government in the way of child tax credit, and that is on top of the tax benefits you get if you have kids in the first place, so as long as you are earning at least the minimum wage and working full time (so getting about £12000 with other benefits as well as you are not earning a lot) you are fine, if you are earning a normal full time wage in a skilled job of some type, it would do even less damage (I am assuming a decent wage at £20-25k). It gets harder over the age of five, as schools here seem to charge between £8-12 per hour for after school clubs (so assume 3 hours a day at £10, 5 days a week) £150 a week, and I am not sure if you can claim that back.
Yeah they are fairly unobtrusive and presumably go some way to pay for the bandwidth I consume whilst I am here,so it doesn't bother me.
And anyway, didn't you know that using adblock is both morally wrong, ethically wrong, a copyright violation, stealing and terrorism (in some areas). So there.
(there may be some sarcasm in this post, if you cant find it try looking at the text after the 137th character)
...are used exclusively by the same person...
So its per machine *and* per concurrent seat *and* named individual licensed? Reading that I would assume that if I buy one copy of AutoDesk and have two part time architects use it on the same machine (At different times of course) that I am violating the license.
I hope I am totally wrong, and I doubt that anyone will shy from pointing that out in the most direct fashion.
Assuming yo are correct the situation would end up being something like this;
Currently the US is in a bit of a financial mess, taxes need to be raised and spending cut to deal with it, the dollar needs to be stabilised and inflationary pressures reduced. To do these things will harm the economy and increase the real cost of living *and* the tax burden, so you do that for 4 years, US finances look OK again but the voters will hate it. So after 4/8 years of hard work and belt tightening they will vote for the 'other' lot, because they would like to slacken their belts and pay less tax. So basically if the Democrats came in and repaired the damage done to the US economy and government budget, then they will be seen as a party of high taxation and economic downturn, the Republicans will point this out and promise to fix it, they will use the gains achieved and then squander the long term benefits for short term popularity and in another 4/8 years you will need someone to come in and do the unpopular fixing again. I wish I had a job where I could *always* blame the last incumbent, or even the last incumbent I didn't like, for the issues I have to face, and get away with it.
I should say that the words Democrat and Republican can be used interchangeably in the above, if I were allowed to I wouldn't vote for either, two party states, especially those where a politically motivated and elected individual has the power of veto don't provide real choice, nor do they promote long term policy or policies that are unpopular.
You can do most of that now, My PDA's run Linux (familiar), My routers run Linux (Open Embedded), my 'stereo' runs Linux (Debian) my computers run Linux (Debian again) and my media centre runs Linux (Debian yet again). Its a really nice set up. NFS all round so file access, streaming media and internet radio (now using deezer) is possible anywhere. Best of all is that the PDA's are effectively universal remote controls, Wake on LAN means I can turn on and off any device from literally anywhere in the world (which can be fun if I want to confuse the missus or the kids). The next step is for me to get a stable VPN working properly so that I can have even more remote access (I currently use SSH via my mobile, or via my PDA + mobile). Connectivity is wired for anything non portable, WiFi for the portable kit (although one of the PDA's is blue tooth only) Mobile, generally 3G, when I am on the road (via blue tooth so no cables or having to actually look at my phone). So all I need now is a Linux phone (which I will get when my current phone breaks) to complete the set. It is interesting and extremely useful, some bizarre possibilities also become available, like using a PDA as a baby monitor, or using a web cam in our office to check if I left a document on the desk (and then grabbing a soft copy from home and printing it where ever I happen to be.
I wouldn't consider it appropriate to voluntarily place anything from a 1-2 year old baby top a 5 year old child into childcare for the periods I am at work, assuming my partner worked at the same time, that would be from 0800 until 1830-1900 ish I would certainly have no problem with a a few three hour sessions, any more and you are leaving it to someone else to bring up your children. Its not just for the child's benefit either, I have 4 kids, and I missed so much time with the first one that I decided I would not repeat that mistake, so I set up my own company and make time. You don't realise until you have done both, just how much you miss out on if you don't spend a decent amount of time with your children, plus, my relationship with my first son is totally different and less complete than with my other children, to him daddy was someone he never saw except at night when he was going to bed, oh and my partner was at home the entire time, so the issue of appropriate childcare doesn't come into it.
Sure first and foremost you ned to provide for your family, but after that you need to make sure you are there for them too.
Nothing, unless a) you work different hours from another (one works days the other nights, even if its only part of the time)* or b) you have young children and leave them in childcare, there is nothing inherently wrong with that technically, but it isn't very nice for the parents nor the children.
HA, I hadn't noticed that, I assumed that they were claiming defamation, since the UK laws regarding defamation appear to be fairly rigid, not to mention that you are unlikely to get any legal assistance if you are sued for it and the penalties are huge. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the UK is the court of choice when it comes to defamation litigation.
The idea that someone can not reproduce evidence to support a study, especially when in many cases both the gathering of the previous evidence and the later study are publicly funded is ludicrous.
But then so is so much else that in the cold light of day makes no sense, (copyright of certain seeds, with DRM type traits to enforce re-purchase for example, and its impact on the availability and the legality of heritage seed stocks for one, patenting gene sequences (even if they are novel genetic sequences where sequence's product can be identified) as another) and much of it is for the perceived economic benefit, with no way of testing whether it is a benefit at all.
IANAL, but IFAICS It's an option for the recipient of the software, you can comply with the terms of Version X or if you prefer, a later version. When you are distributing the software you would be in a position to choose which is more suitable. It is *not* a case of the copyright holder (usually the developer) or the FSF being able to turn around in 5 years time and tell you that your distribution of the software is longer legal, unless you somehow fork the code and have it re-licensed, or if you have included code that is compatible with the earlier license (and the earlier license is compatible with) that adds some extra stipulation that you disagree with.
As much as the anti-GPL / anti-oss crowd would like you to believe the GPL isn't an instrument that will force you to do something that you haven't agreed to, more-over if you don't like the GPL ignore it, after all however you look at it, it is a license that gives you more rights with regard to the software you have not less, if you don't like the GPL then use the software and be bound under normal copyright law with regards to anything else (i.e. don't distribute.
Ah, OK misread your previous post, and yeah there are a good proportion of people who seem to 'need' the latest and greatest kit, whether it is a case of wanting to appearing affluent or important or simply a desire to buy the 'best' I don't know
Its interesting what you are saying about the Hardware vs Software sales. There really doesn't seem to be the focus on Software sales that you would expect if it is more profitable.
I don't think apple should have to take any special precautions to prevent their updates doing damage to a phone that has been modified in this manner, it is up to the owner of the device what they want to do with it and clearly once you make significant changes to the phone you cannot expect it to work in the same way as if you hadn't. What would be unreasonable and malicious would be for apple to intentionally include an update or element of an update that is there purely to brick the phone, that would be malicious.
iPhone owners should be entitled to do whatever they want to their device but they cannot expect Apple to support those changes, or even take them into account in their future operations. As for the whole "They clearly state that the iphone will only work on their network." I am still unconvinced that this was the right way to go (but then I don't run a multi-billion dollar company.
Slashdot Mirror
Is that a web 3.0 site or is it web 95?
Homeland == Heimatland
Fatherland == Vaterland
Motherland == Mutterland
There is nothing sinister about these terms (well there can be if you start using them for state security organs) and they are fairly interchangeable, I certainly wouldn't assume that you were talking about Nazi's if you were talking about "Homeland". It is the actions of an organisation that are associated with its name, so maybe the similarity you see is based on some (the US can not be sensibly compared to Nazi Germany) action or association, as well as the name rather than just the name. As for naming conventions I still think that the UK manages to have the most 'pleasant' sounding ministry names, especially the Home Office, a name that can conjure up interesting mental imagery.
Just because something at one time is subverted by an evil, or even just distasteful group shouldn't mean that its meaning cannot be restored to its original meaning. Saying that the level of nationalism in the US does appear to be a little concerning, but its something that seems more of a US sort of thing anyway. Its a shame when you lose parts of your heritage because some ultra-nationalist group uses it, see the cross of St. George and its use by the NDF and BNP as an example in England.
Not quite true, I have had responses and clarifications on all the questions I have asked of the government, I have had emails indicating that the government will or has taken additional action regarding something that I and others obviously were concerned about (independent midwifery as it happens). I am happy with that, I don't expect to fill out an on-line form and then receive an apology from the home secretary as well as my requested changes to legislation. I would rather prefer that the government listen, but still have the courage to do what is best for the country regardless of the objections. We do elect our MP's so that they can make decisions on our behalf, it is counter productive to second guess them at every juncture, or expect them to do the most popular thing. What they should be doing is taking difficult decisions, representing our interests and ensuring that the country's best interests are met. I'd hate to live in a country where legislation is passed on the basis of what the red tops had on their front pages that week.
You seem to be doing OK to me, maybe standards *are* declining.
I mangled a gear change coming back on a stretch of motorway at about 4am, this was maybe 6 months after passing my test, I'm not entirely sure what I did but it was with a change from 4th to first or 4th to reverse (and yes this was a fairly old car). I must say it was fairly spectacular, the smell of burning clutch, the sparks, the rapid deceleration. But most interestingly when I finally got the car to stop, I found that the clutch was stuck/fused, and I couldn't start the engine at all, 20 minutes later and I had it started, and moving in second gear at about 20Mph, all the way back home @50 Miles (and yes off the motorway.). Next day, I found that everything worked beautifully, and whereas previously the clutch used to slip quite a bit, had regained a decent bite.
Needless to say it didn't pass its next MOT, but then a £250 C Reg Ford Sierra is something you can drive for a year and then replace.
I get hundreds a month on one of my machines, this Debian *Sid* lark, its really quite unstable where packages are concerned. ;)
OK seeing what you are describing I've got to agree that it doesn't make sense, to be honest I hadn't considered that any government would be quite so short sighted as to impose hard limits at specific points rather than a sliding scale. On the childcare element, surely the organisations that can provide childcare are regulated and policed? I have seen some poor nurseries, but I have never considered them fly by night!
That ugly, nerdy girl just needs to let her hair down, shake her head, take of her glasses and change her clothes, then it will become clear that she is in fact the most beautiful person there and also has personality.
Its true, I saw it in some movies.
I just bought a 250Gb Drive for £25, £0.25/Gb - Mental, and to think that I thought a 4Gb drive was ridiculous size wise and really was price wise.
Cue the 4Gb? When I was a lad we had an abacus with one bead, it cost a years wages and we were happy...... comments
Is that for simultaneous biological weapon production and uranium enrichment? I'll take one.
In your example I don't see why you couldn't go after all three, what you couldn't do though is go after whoever is next in line, lest say the company that resells them AND the company that sells the vehicles, AND the company that sells these vehicles used, AND the end user.
The supply chain as I understand it will have a discrete point where the infringement occurs for the first time, if you had a patent for a rear view mirror that included say a method of shaping and coating plastic for a better reflection (WTF?? - but you see what I mean), you could sue the company shaping the mirror and the (different) company coating the mirror, but not the company that installs the mirror.
As a parent said though, the issue then is that all patent infringing work will be done by small shell companies, well in those instances it should be fairly obvious what is going on and there should be the possibility for judges to use a bit of discretion (i.e. if Wangs mirror shop produced 5 million mirrors, all for Ford, but has no cash for legal expenses (As it is intended as a patent avoidance method) then for Ford).
More interestingly would be what to do about products that are imported from one country to another where patent laws are different, would the importer be responsible?
If you are suggesting that someone on £10k should not receive a tax credit to assist with childcare or that someone on 60k should, then you need to look at the whole situation.
For example, if I am earning £10k a year, and childcare costs £800 a month then there is no point in me going to work, so then not only am I a burden on society but your child care costs increase (fewer people can afford it = less take up = higher fees). If I am earning 25K a year, I don't need as much support if any, but if I don't get any then I may well decide that going to work is not worth it, after all working full time and only getting (realistically) 12k for a 25k job is if not pointless then at least demoralising, especially as the childcare costs are related directly to employment.
If I earn 50k a year, then paying for child care is no longer a huge chunk of my pay, and there is no social benefit of me receiving additional support, not to mention that every time I have looked at a position above about 45k it has included private healthcare (which I always turn down), childcare and other benefits (some of which are truly bizarre).
After all the idea of benefits is not cash to voters its to ensure that basic services are available, a certain minimum acceptable level of subsistence exists and that people who can work are able to, and to generally do as much good for society and the economy at the least cost to the public purse. (this is why we should be building extra public housing, investing in rather than bailing out utilities and transport companies and not taking on any more PFI type schemes but I digress).
As for the thing about child care and area I think its variable, before I moved house I lived in an extremely affluent area, the area had a large number of childcare providers (more expensive then where I am now but not by too much), they were of all types, from traditional, through Steiner and Montessori.
My son went to one up until he started school, and frankly it was excellent, now I have moved to a bigger properly in an 'up and coming' area of the same city, interestingly there is a huge amount more in the way of social and community support, but much less in the way of choice. There is childcare, but it is about ensuring that the kids are looked after well enough that the parents can work, not about development or education, there is more and cheaper childcare but it is not of the same standard. Oh and of course there isn't enough of it, and of course a single parent has priority, the idea is to get people back to work and for house holds to have a decent income, not that a family with two earners can take those extra holidays in the Algarve.
That does depend heavily on where you are and what sort of support you get, looking at our local area its between £153 and £220 per week for full time day nurseries, (so anyone under 5 at which point there is school) , somewhere between you can claim 70% of child care costs (up to £135) back from the government in the way of child tax credit, and that is on top of the tax benefits you get if you have kids in the first place, so as long as you are earning at least the minimum wage and working full time (so getting about £12000 with other benefits as well as you are not earning a lot) you are fine, if you are earning a normal full time wage in a skilled job of some type, it would do even less damage (I am assuming a decent wage at £20-25k). It gets harder over the age of five, as schools here seem to charge between £8-12 per hour for after school clubs (so assume 3 hours a day at £10, 5 days a week) £150 a week, and I am not sure if you can claim that back.
Still I wouldn't like to do it.
Yeah they are fairly unobtrusive and presumably go some way to pay for the bandwidth I consume whilst I am here,so it doesn't bother me.
And anyway, didn't you know that using adblock is both morally wrong, ethically wrong, a copyright violation, stealing and terrorism (in some areas). So there.
(there may be some sarcasm in this post, if you cant find it try looking at the text after the 137th character)
...are used exclusively by the same person... So its per machine *and* per concurrent seat *and* named individual licensed? Reading that I would assume that if I buy one copy of AutoDesk and have two part time architects use it on the same machine (At different times of course) that I am violating the license.I hope I am totally wrong, and I doubt that anyone will shy from pointing that out in the most direct fashion.
Assuming yo are correct the situation would end up being something like this;
Currently the US is in a bit of a financial mess, taxes need to be raised and spending cut to deal with it, the dollar needs to be stabilised and inflationary pressures reduced. To do these things will harm the economy and increase the real cost of living *and* the tax burden, so you do that for 4 years, US finances look OK again but the voters will hate it. So after 4/8 years of hard work and belt tightening they will vote for the 'other' lot, because they would like to slacken their belts and pay less tax. So basically if the Democrats came in and repaired the damage done to the US economy and government budget, then they will be seen as a party of high taxation and economic downturn, the Republicans will point this out and promise to fix it, they will use the gains achieved and then squander the long term benefits for short term popularity and in another 4/8 years you will need someone to come in and do the unpopular fixing again. I wish I had a job where I could *always* blame the last incumbent, or even the last incumbent I didn't like, for the issues I have to face, and get away with it.
I should say that the words Democrat and Republican can be used interchangeably in the above, if I were allowed to I wouldn't vote for either, two party states, especially those where a politically motivated and elected individual has the power of veto don't provide real choice, nor do they promote long term policy or policies that are unpopular.
You can do most of that now, My PDA's run Linux (familiar), My routers run Linux (Open Embedded), my 'stereo' runs Linux (Debian) my computers run Linux (Debian again) and my media centre runs Linux (Debian yet again). Its a really nice set up. NFS all round so file access, streaming media and internet radio (now using deezer) is possible anywhere. Best of all is that the PDA's are effectively universal remote controls, Wake on LAN means I can turn on and off any device from literally anywhere in the world (which can be fun if I want to confuse the missus or the kids). The next step is for me to get a stable VPN working properly so that I can have even more remote access (I currently use SSH via my mobile, or via my PDA + mobile). Connectivity is wired for anything non portable, WiFi for the portable kit (although one of the PDA's is blue tooth only) Mobile, generally 3G, when I am on the road (via blue tooth so no cables or having to actually look at my phone). So all I need now is a Linux phone (which I will get when my current phone breaks) to complete the set. It is interesting and extremely useful, some bizarre possibilities also become available, like using a PDA as a baby monitor, or using a web cam in our office to check if I left a document on the desk (and then grabbing a soft copy from home and printing it where ever I happen to be.
I wouldn't consider it appropriate to voluntarily place anything from a 1-2 year old baby top a 5 year old child into childcare for the periods I am at work, assuming my partner worked at the same time, that would be from 0800 until 1830-1900 ish I would certainly have no problem with a a few three hour sessions, any more and you are leaving it to someone else to bring up your children. Its not just for the child's benefit either, I have 4 kids, and I missed so much time with the first one that I decided I would not repeat that mistake, so I set up my own company and make time. You don't realise until you have done both, just how much you miss out on if you don't spend a decent amount of time with your children, plus, my relationship with my first son is totally different and less complete than with my other children, to him daddy was someone he never saw except at night when he was going to bed, oh and my partner was at home the entire time, so the issue of appropriate childcare doesn't come into it.
Sure first and foremost you ned to provide for your family, but after that you need to make sure you are there for them too.
Nothing, unless a) you work different hours from another (one works days the other nights, even if its only part of the time)* or b) you have young children and leave them in childcare, there is nothing inherently wrong with that technically, but it isn't very nice for the parents nor the children.
*This could be a benefit as well though
HA, I hadn't noticed that, I assumed that they were claiming defamation, since the UK laws regarding defamation appear to be fairly rigid, not to mention that you are unlikely to get any legal assistance if you are sued for it and the penalties are huge. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the UK is the court of choice when it comes to defamation litigation.
The idea that someone can not reproduce evidence to support a study, especially when in many cases both the gathering of the previous evidence and the later study are publicly funded is ludicrous.
But then so is so much else that in the cold light of day makes no sense, (copyright of certain seeds, with DRM type traits to enforce re-purchase for example, and its impact on the availability and the legality of heritage seed stocks for one, patenting gene sequences (even if they are novel genetic sequences where sequence's product can be identified) as another) and much of it is for the perceived economic benefit, with no way of testing whether it is a benefit at all.
I didn't suggest otherwise.
IANAL, but IFAICS It's an option for the recipient of the software, you can comply with the terms of Version X or if you prefer, a later version. When you are distributing the software you would be in a position to choose which is more suitable. It is *not* a case of the copyright holder (usually the developer) or the FSF being able to turn around in 5 years time and tell you that your distribution of the software is longer legal, unless you somehow fork the code and have it re-licensed, or if you have included code that is compatible with the earlier license (and the earlier license is compatible with) that adds some extra stipulation that you disagree with.
As much as the anti-GPL / anti-oss crowd would like you to believe the GPL isn't an instrument that will force you to do something that you haven't agreed to, more-over if you don't like the GPL ignore it, after all however you look at it, it is a license that gives you more rights with regard to the software you have not less, if you don't like the GPL then use the software and be bound under normal copyright law with regards to anything else (i.e. don't distribute.
Ah, OK misread your previous post, and yeah there are a good proportion of people who seem to 'need' the latest and greatest kit, whether it is a case of wanting to appearing affluent or important or simply a desire to buy the 'best' I don't know
Its interesting what you are saying about the Hardware vs Software sales. There really doesn't seem to be the focus on Software sales that you would expect if it is more profitable.
I almost agree,
I don't think apple should have to take any special precautions to prevent their updates doing damage to a phone that has been modified in this manner, it is up to the owner of the device what they want to do with it and clearly once you make significant changes to the phone you cannot expect it to work in the same way as if you hadn't. What would be unreasonable and malicious would be for apple to intentionally include an update or element of an update that is there purely to brick the phone, that would be malicious.
iPhone owners should be entitled to do whatever they want to their device but they cannot expect Apple to support those changes, or even take them into account in their future operations. As for the whole "They clearly state that the iphone will only work on their network." I am still unconvinced that this was the right way to go (but then I don't run a multi-billion dollar company.