Stock value does not pay the salaries and bills. You may be working for stock options, but that's a dumb move in the first place. Stock value is only what ownership of the company is worth to anonymous investors. Your stock could be zero point nada and that doesn't affect whether a company can run or not. The problem comes when you open yourself up to anonymous ownership, the investors may decide the material assets are worth more than the business. Stock value is based on two things:
1) Current earnings, assets, and dividends.
2) Speculation on future earnings, etc.
Venture capital and stock offerings are a loan, expected to be paid back with interest. What happened to our economy is that people forgot that. $18 Million VC or IPO -- we're rich! No, that means you're poor. You just sold your business to someone else and the money has to be put back into the business. It's like selling your house and agreeing that all the money has to go into upkeep on the house. If home repair is your trade, that might be a good business plan, but only if you manage your business properly.
This would have gone over much better if it didn't have that last line. Now, over half of Americans that reads Stallman's message will discount the entire message because of one politically motivated, inflammatory, and false phrase.
does 'lines of code' mean 80 column lines? If so, I can definitely see where any language would beat Java handily, thanks mainly to the hard-coded minimum 16 character naming convention built-into a 100% True Java (TM) bytecode compiler.
okay, so I was wrong. The japanese cult used RSA.
Other than that, the only other cases listed might be:
"A terrorist group that was attacking businesses and state officials used encryption to conceal their messages."
"There is a rumor that the French police have been unable to decrypt the hard disk on a portable belonging to a member of the Spanish/Basque ETA, a terrorist organization"
It was a different god the terrorists were praying to. They didn't have any illusion that what they were doing was good in any sense of the word. They were reveling in hate and stupidity and shaking with their perverse pleasure and personal fear and self-loathing. How do you live with yourself?
The reason something like that doesn't happen (by terrorists) is because our government knows the name of every arab who has ever flown a plane (maybe even every one who has bought a "Flight Simulator" game). I really doubt some petty rogue group of palestinian terrorists could pull this off. Flying a 737 into a building is not an easy task. And why send two planes. And what chance the second pilot could hit the second building specifically. The airlines (and the FAA) have a very big vested interest in wanting everyone to believe it was terrorism. If a plane is hijacked, don't you think it would make the news within an hour?
I knew the minute I saw the trade center collapse on TV that thousands of Americans would be gloating over the deaths of these innocent victims. Not Muslims, not Arabs, not Nazis. Politically brainwashed, anti-religion, corporate media worshipping, non-thinking ordinary Americans. What could make you people hate so mindlessly?
of developing music and software is about the same.
A $1000 computer with a monitor, CDRW and high speed internet connection (and heaps and heaps of GPL software) runs about the same as a guitar, amp, 4 track and mic. The really big difference is that I don't need all the software that would otherwise cost a bundle if it wasn't free to make my music.
It scales about the same too. A top 40 album with a producer, engineer, mixer, full band, studio time, etc. runs about the same as a cvs repository, hosting, several computers, office space, QA, etc.
But lets not get confused about the issues. Just because there are similar institutions (Corporate Media Oligarchy) that are abusing the same laws, doesn't make it the same issue. The reasons for free software and free music are different. The EFF is making the mistake of falling for the other sides propoganda.
In case you forgot, the reason shutting down Napster was wrong was because it was a file transfer mechanism. The NRA is a closer ally to Napster than the EFF. The reason sharing music is okay is because it does not violate copyright. The reason the media conglomerates are opposed to things like Napster is because it takes the power away from them. They haven't lost money yet.
Copying bits is practically free. That is one reason to share them. The GPL was designed to protect copyright holders while allowing them to share their bits. It was about sharing knowledge. It could be extended to cover sheet music, lyrics, and tableture, but not performance.
I agree with a lot of the critique. I also would like free music. I would also like artists to have more control over their own copyrights. Freedom is the answer, not conformity.
By confusing the issues, the EFF is damaging the cause of free software and of freedeom in general.
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only democrat geeks get to vote?
see 1)
The popular vote was for no president. Count the votes. Votes for all the candidates together don't equal half of the eligible American citizens.
I think you can safely presume they haven't, if their followers havent. Sheep will generally stop moving (forward) when the shepherd stops.
If you remember the trouble with Killustrator (now Kontour), there are controls over court costs.
how do you know that?
(I mean, what information source)
a K6II 300 will do the same.
But that was a long time ago in computer years
Stock value does not pay the salaries and bills. You may be working for stock options, but that's a dumb move in the first place. Stock value is only what ownership of the company is worth to anonymous investors. Your stock could be zero point nada and that doesn't affect whether a company can run or not. The problem comes when you open yourself up to anonymous ownership, the investors may decide the material assets are worth more than the business. Stock value is based on two things:
1) Current earnings, assets, and dividends.
2) Speculation on future earnings, etc.
Venture capital and stock offerings are a loan, expected to be paid back with interest. What happened to our economy is that people forgot that. $18 Million VC or IPO -- we're rich! No, that means you're poor. You just sold your business to someone else and the money has to be put back into the business. It's like selling your house and agreeing that all the money has to go into upkeep on the house. If home repair is your trade, that might be a good business plan, but only if you manage your business properly.
Isn't that alot like the BSD vanity virus?
This would have gone over much better if it didn't have that last line. Now, over half of Americans that reads Stallman's message will discount the entire message because of one politically motivated, inflammatory, and false phrase.
sh(*3)t nevermind
Support (4 @ $55K x 1.5 for benefits) $ 990,000
4 * 55000 * 1.5 = 330000
goals maybe, but not attributes
does 'lines of code' mean 80 column lines? If so, I can definitely see where any language would beat Java handily, thanks mainly to the hard-coded minimum 16 character naming convention built-into a 100% True Java (TM) bytecode compiler.
okay, so I was wrong. The japanese cult used RSA.
Other than that, the only other cases listed might be:
"A terrorist group that was attacking businesses and state officials used encryption to conceal their messages."
"There is a rumor that the French police have been unable to decrypt the hard disk on a portable belonging to a member of the Spanish/Basque ETA, a terrorist organization"
Hiroshima saved Millions of Japanese lives. Ask a japanese if they hate America because of it.
It was a different god the terrorists were praying to. They didn't have any illusion that what they were doing was good in any sense of the word. They were reveling in hate and stupidity and shaking with their perverse pleasure and personal fear and self-loathing. How do you live with yourself?
there isn't any known case of terrorists using strong encryption.
You'd be surprised how quickly sympathy fades when you don't feel safe behind American goodwill and restraint.
I knew the minute I saw the trade center collapse on TV that thousands of Americans would be gloating over the deaths of these innocent victims. Not Muslims, not Arabs, not Nazis. Politically brainwashed, anti-religion, corporate media worshipping, non-thinking ordinary Americans. What could make you people hate so mindlessly?
It's not just greed
It's the same thing Broadcast/Print/CSS/Napster
Its about control. Who controls the distribution of information.
welcome to my world
A $1000 computer with a monitor, CDRW and high speed internet connection (and heaps and heaps of GPL software) runs about the same as a guitar, amp, 4 track and mic. The really big difference is that I don't need all the software that would otherwise cost a bundle if it wasn't free to make my music.
It scales about the same too. A top 40 album with a producer, engineer, mixer, full band, studio time, etc. runs about the same as a cvs repository, hosting, several computers, office space, QA, etc.
In case you forgot, the reason shutting down Napster was wrong was because it was a file transfer mechanism. The NRA is a closer ally to Napster than the EFF. The reason sharing music is okay is because it does not violate copyright. The reason the media conglomerates are opposed to things like Napster is because it takes the power away from them. They haven't lost money yet.
Copying bits is practically free. That is one reason to share them. The GPL was designed to protect copyright holders while allowing them to share their bits. It was about sharing knowledge. It could be extended to cover sheet music, lyrics, and tableture, but not performance.
I agree with a lot of the critique. I also would like free music. I would also like artists to have more control over their own copyrights. Freedom is the answer, not conformity.
By confusing the issues, the EFF is damaging the cause of free software and of freedeom in general.