You're right. In some ways. BUT, they do make an awful lot of money, last year, an increase of 1,400,000,000$! That IS quite an amount, if they say their sales are decreasing, due to pirating.
I would suggest a decrease in the price of cd's, perhaps just a few dollars - I would go buy more cd's that way.
I usually have a pre-set amount of money, I want to use each month on things like cd's. But if they are that expensive, I don't want to buy them, if I can get the music for free. I would instead buy other things, like new hardware. I still have a sense of what is right and wrong, but the price of cd's outweighs that. A decrease in cd pricing, would make that sense stronger, thus, make me use more money on cd's.
-- Spook.sig for Echelon: KGB CIA Bomb Microsoft Linux
Now try making a claim that a reasonable man should be expected to know that a networked computer can be used as part of a distributed DoS attack.
A reasonable man will in this case most likely be someone with a system and a connection usable for this. I don't know that much about it, but I suspect you would not use the ordinary win95/56.6k user for such a thing? Correct me if I am wrong above, please.
I would like you to promote 'The Sync Chat' a little more, so that people could perhaps stop in, and have a talk. The server is on 199.34.53.69 on port 7000, and the primary channels are #syncgeneral and #geeksinspace. Feel free to drop by.
I can agree your point of view, when it comes to what we should focus on, but still, computers are very efficient for, for example, communication. You can, as a farmer, get in contact with family, goverment offices, and other people. You could, ofcourse, use a phone instead...
I believe you have a point there, but still, how much would it help? Wouldn't it just make the linux culture look more like some guys that just don't make enough money themselves? I think any protests should be more peacefull, than some of the protests you have seen against things like animal experiments and such.
Yes, and sue Microsoft for making nasty looking logos...
There are great ways to use this: 'My machine broke down while I was running Windows and a client for the RC5 project. I might have won during the reboot.'
'The default background color of the desktop gave me an epileptic attack'
I would say the exactly opposite. Dont get too excited. M$ is such a big company, this ruling might not matter much, they could buy off the judge anyway, if they wanted to. Stay calm. Ofcourse, party anyway. It is great fun.
The most logic solution to this problem might be, to try and talk to the people making Blue Point Linux, and ask them whether they do distribute the source code. If they don't, it is quite clearly a problem, that someone needs to do something about. And, for all the junk about communist China or whatever: Why should that affect whether or not people should follow the GPL? I don't think it has a paragraf stating "This does not need to be accepted in China." So, why the fuzz?
Why not make a kit for mounting your new computer in a wall? It would be nice for kitchen recipes, and the like. Another kit would be to make arm-chairs with build-in computers. "What's on tv now?" "Don't know, I'll just check the chair."
Does the US give a shit? As far as I know, the US goverment executes people for crime. Isn't that breaking the human rights? I don't think I can mention a country entitled to saying, that they don't break at least one or two of the basic human rights.
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You're right. In some ways. BUT, they do make an awful lot of money, last year, an increase of 1,400,000,000$! That IS quite an amount, if they say their sales are decreasing, due to pirating.
.sig for Echelon:
I would suggest a decrease in the price of cd's, perhaps just a few dollars - I would go buy more cd's that way.
I usually have a pre-set amount of money, I want to use each month on things like cd's. But if they are that expensive, I don't want to buy them, if I can get the music for free. I would instead buy other things, like new hardware. I still have a sense of what is right and wrong, but the price of cd's outweighs that. A decrease in cd pricing, would make that sense stronger, thus, make me use more money on cd's.
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Spook
KGB CIA Bomb Microsoft Linux
Now try making a claim that a reasonable man should be expected to know that a networked computer can be used as part of a distributed DoS attack.
A reasonable man will in this case most likely be someone with a system and a connection usable for this. I don't know that much about it, but I suspect you would not use the ordinary win95/56.6k user for such a thing? Correct me if I am wrong above, please.
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I would like you to promote 'The Sync Chat' a little more, so that people could perhaps stop in, and have a talk.
The server is on 199.34.53.69 on port 7000, and the primary channels are #syncgeneral and #geeksinspace.
Feel free to drop by.
Please ignore all below.
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I can agree your point of view, when it comes to what we should focus on, but still, computers are very efficient for, for example, communication. You can, as a farmer, get in contact with family, goverment offices, and other people. You could, ofcourse, use a phone instead...
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I believe you have a point there, but still, how much would it help? Wouldn't it just make the linux culture look more like some guys that just don't make enough money themselves? I think any protests should be more peacefull, than some of the protests you have seen against things like animal experiments and such.
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Yes, and sue Microsoft for making nasty looking logos...
There are great ways to use this:
'My machine broke down while I was running Windows and a client for the RC5 project. I might have won during the reboot.'
'The default background color of the desktop gave me an epileptic attack'
'I got deaf from listening to M$ error sounds'
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I would say the exactly opposite. Dont get too excited. M$ is such a big company, this ruling might not matter much, they could buy off the judge anyway, if they wanted to. Stay calm.
Ofcourse, party anyway. It is great fun.
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The most logic solution to this problem might be, to try and talk to the people making Blue Point Linux, and ask them whether they do distribute the source code. If they don't, it is quite clearly a problem, that someone needs to do something about.
And, for all the junk about communist China or whatever: Why should that affect whether or not people should follow the GPL? I don't think it has a paragraf stating "This does not need to be accepted in China." So, why the fuzz?
Rune Broberg / Mihtjel
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Why not make a kit for mounting your new computer in a wall? It would be nice for kitchen recipes, and the like.
Another kit would be to make arm-chairs with build-in computers.
"What's on tv now?"
"Don't know, I'll just check the chair."
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Does the US give a shit?
As far as I know, the US goverment executes people for crime. Isn't that breaking the human rights? I don't think I can mention a country entitled to saying, that they don't break at least one or two of the basic human rights.
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Odds that a win95/98 box crashes: 1-1.000.000 - You get a dollar for each million you bet :)
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