Linux is used on your router, your car, your camera, your "cloud" services, 50% of your phones. The other 50% of your phones run another POSIX OS, OSX.
What's left for Windows?
Most of the PC/Laptop market. Second and third place for PC/Laptop is Linux/OSX(POSIX)).
One hopes that as Chromebooks and Ipads are the norm in schools, the next generation can finally stop seeing that ancient dos prompt and C:\.
If you do not modify the source of GPL software, then you can use without restriction or cost.
The only real GPL requirements come when modify the software and use the modified software. And practically, the requirements are practically only enforced when you distribute the modified software or sell something with the modified software.
This is actually much less restrictive than the software license of Microsoft, since you mentioned WIndows.
Imagine if you modify the source code for Windows, then wanted to distribute the modified software... Well first, you would need to get the software from Microsoft, which is likely only available in very rare circumstances. Derivatives of the software would be under Microsoft's copyright, and could not be distributed without Microsofts explicit permission.
The easy way to preserve old content is to restore the public domain, and limit the current infinitely extended copyright.
Currently, most every audio and video recording ever made is copyrighted and extended every few decades to protect the interests of a few large companies.
As a side effect, preserving old media is often illegal without permission/licensing (which may be impossible), even if the media is abandoned.
If there was a reasonable limit on copyright duration, then preservation occurs naturally by the public.
In the current model, public preservation is strictly prohibited and prevented with DMCA and similar, and old media may just disappear.
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"3/14 is the third day in the fourteenth month".
Why would you assume the European notation or little endian order?
Note that European notation is inconsistent as well. (Otherwise you would have 59:59:23 14-03-2011, for little endian order, or 95:95:32 41-30-1102 for real little endian)
This is slashdot, so perhaps the international scientific notation should be assumed.
In the US, the constitutional purpose of patents, is to promote the advancement of science and art, not giving a "fair chance to profit".
Most all ideas behind software patents would be developed whether or not there was a way to patent them. Software patents are primarily used as weapons or threats against other companies.
Or can you give an example of: "Without software patents, xxx would never have been developed".
In reality, software patents give an artificial monopoly on an idea with an inventive duration (time before someone else would think of it) of 0-1 year. They company holding such an idea will naturally invent less, as it can profit and litigate from old ideas for 20 years.
20 year patent and 95 year copyright monopolies interfere with competition/capitalism, as monopolies in general do. But these monopolies are government backed.
In 1557 the British Crown chartered the Stationers' Company and gave the company a publishing monopoly in order to stem the flow of seditious and heretical books.
This publishing monopoly lasted for more than 150 years.
After revolution, publishing monopolies were first abolished then limited to 14 years with the Statute of Anne. The founding USA adopted the 14 year rule.
However, due to pressure from large companies in the US, the monopoly has been continually extended, and is now 95-120 years.
The media associations relationship to the Internet is very similar to the Stationers relationship to the printing press.
"www." - All letters have a single syllable...Except W. It has 3. "www." is 10 syllables instead of 2 for "web.", or 0 for "". Why do we need a web domain prefix? "\r\n" - Why were DOS newlines required in the HTTP headers? All those useless \r bytes transmitted for no reason.
lotus symphony is not open source. And as the source is not available, there is no proof that it is a open office variant. Somebody prove me wrong. Yes, this is good for ODF, but symphony is not yet open source.
If the newspapers can claim that an 11 word phrase is copyrighted, then a person should be able to claim that a statement is copyrighted, and the newspapers would be prevented from making direct quotes.
--- a future newspaper article ---... With these events, we should be reminded of the words of John F. Kennedy: (paraphase*) "[Do not ask what services your government can provide for you. Instead ask your government how you can help.]".
* The original quote is owned by the Kennedy family,
> No, the value of the "cat" is the value in keeping the exclusive right to distribute the music.... > Damages aren't for the song itself, but the destruction of that right.
Such perceive damages must be measured with real-world losses. Losses measured in money, or Losses (from the constitutional copyright perspective) measured in loss of new art or innovation.
If you were to argue on principle alone, then note that the "exclusive right" (as defined by the US constitution) is not defined in reference to profits. The temporary exclusive copyright was created to encourage art, science and innovation.
> However, once people have a choice between "obtain music for money" and "obtain same music for free", very few will choose the pay option.
If there is a choice between:
1. Legitimate unencumbered music for sale at reasonable price, online at a well known location. and
2. Unauthorized copies for free (or for sale cheap) on hard to find, disappearing, unreliable online sites.
Most people choose (1). Those that choose (2) would likely not purchase on (1) even if (2) was not available.
It is very difficult to sell a song with no exposure. Very few will buy a song or CD that they have never heard. In the past, people got exposure via the radio, or by word of mouth (along with a tape copy of the song). The world is different now. Trying to fight the internet, to keep all cats in all bags, is foolish, uneffective, and expensive (both with the cost of such investigation, and with the costs of privacy rights needed to sacrifice to allow such a global personal investigation). Rather than holding on to the pre-internet business model, new business models must form that work with the nature of the internet.
The "cat was out of the bag" when the music was published.
Of course, assuming your statement is correct, there is still a problem. The "value" of keeping the cat off the Internet may be a a negative number, at least based on profit. Sales may decrease as limited public exposure to the song is reduced. I am sure there is a line that can be crossed where distribution surpasses the "free sample" effect, but I doubt that a casual user would come close to it.
If the government ever really wants to address Microsoft as a monopoly, they should realize that the underlying monopolies are granted by the government. The 95 year software publishing monopoly is granted by the government. The 20 year software design/algorithm monopoly is granted by the government. If these monopolies were reduced to reasonable terms, the tight control given to these large companies by these monopolies would be lessened.
Historically, what happened when the publishing monopoly of the Stationers was killed, 300 years ago (decreasing the monopoly duration from infinity to 14 years)? Did people stop writing books?
Open source exists mainly because a 100 year copyright for software binaries is very limiting for innovation and limiting for users.
It is possible that Sun (or Microsoft...), could use a timed open source license with conditions like:
- copyright is self limited to 2-5 years. - copyrighted software either comes with source, or it given to the library of congress (or similar). - after the limited copyright period, the source is made available under an open-source/creative-commons licence.
It would be nice if copyright law was reformed for software, but until then, open source licences are the work-around.
angels have been singing from the top of pins for much longer.
The FSM enjoys to be worshiped and enjoys choirs for some reason. I'm not exactly sure why the angels didn't work out. We don't have the "Angel Bible", so we don't really know when FSM decided to create angels/devils.
when the copyright publishing monopoly is 10-20 years, innovation is possibly increased due to the extra incentive.
when the copyright publishing monopoly is 80-1000 years, innovation and creation by extension is suppressed, information collection and exploitation increases. With such a infinite term, the publics trust and respect in such a copyright system approaches zero. With such a infinite term, the owners will tend to be long-living companies with government influence. And of course with such a tyranny, any trust is further eroded.
The victim from a 100 year or so copyright is the public.
"Pirates" can not be blamed for the failure of media companies to adapt to and profit from the Internet. DRM was an attempt to put the Internet back in the bottle.
People expect to be able to download stuff at a reasonable cost, (and some amount of information people expect for free). People expect to to their play and copy purchased media without barriers. College students will "copy tapes", as they have no spare book or beer money to spare. if you use legal threats or take money from them, this will not increase sales, or create new fans.
The story has not changed since the days of Naptser and mp3.com. People would buy DRM-free media over the Internet for a reasonable cost.
But if MAFIAA refuses to sell unencumbered media, it is hard to buy it.
People do not want to go back to CD's and people do not want to go forward with DRM.
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Linux is used on your router, your car, your camera, your "cloud" services, 50% of your phones.
The other 50% of your phones run another POSIX OS, OSX.
What's left for Windows?
Most of the PC/Laptop market.
Second and third place for PC/Laptop is Linux/OSX(POSIX)).
One hopes that as Chromebooks and Ipads are the norm in schools, the next generation can finally stop seeing that ancient dos prompt and C:\.
Or perhaps, Microsoft will buy Canonical....
Agreed that current AI is not "I". But 50 years or never?
Why?
Is your assumption that AI or self awareness can only be written by a million humans at keyboards? (not adaptive algorithms)
Or that the resources (memory, computation) for intelligence or awareness can not fit on computers for the next 50 years? How much is enough?
Or that the computation architecture for the the next 50 years is not adequate to implement intelligence or awareness?
Or that technology just moves that slow? (we still don't have flying cars...)
Or that the human brain is a unique (magic) machine, that cannot be reproduced because it was created by magic.
Forget no DST or permanent DST.
The easy reference should be midnight and noon.
Midnight should roughly be halfway between sunset and sunrise.
Noon should roughly be halfway between sunrise and sunset.
For PDT (DST in CA, US), right now, midday and midnight are at 12, which is why permanent DST make sense on the west coast.
https://help.vivaldi.com/artic...
It builds on open source, but not it is is not.
I suppose one could make an open source browser from their released modified source, replacing the proprietary UI code.
But why bother. Why not just start with upstream chromium?
If their changes are great, why can't they be upstreamed to chromium?
Opera, like many companies, does not understand how to work with open source.
webasm is great for advertisers, and media companies.
not so much for users...
If you do not modify the source of GPL software, then you can use without restriction or cost.
The only real GPL requirements come when modify the software and use the modified software. And practically, the requirements are practically only enforced when you distribute the modified software or sell something with the modified software.
This is actually much less restrictive than the software license of Microsoft, since you mentioned WIndows.
Imagine if you modify the source code for Windows, then wanted to distribute the modified software...
Well first, you would need to get the software from Microsoft, which is likely only available in very rare circumstances.
Derivatives of the software would be under Microsoft's copyright, and could not be distributed without Microsofts explicit permission.
AC3 patents expired on March 20, 2017
For Mpeg2,
OS news says 2018.
http://mobile.osnews.com/story...
But DVD's were sold in the US in 1995(1996 with CSS), so for patents after on mpeg2, DVD is prior art. So 2016 or 2018.
The easy way to preserve old content is to restore the public domain, and limit the current infinitely extended copyright.
Currently, most every audio and video recording ever made is copyrighted and extended every few decades to protect the interests of a few large companies.
As a side effect, preserving old media is often illegal without permission/licensing (which may be impossible), even if the media is abandoned.
If there was a reasonable limit on copyright duration, then preservation occurs naturally by the public.
In the current model, public preservation is strictly prohibited and prevented with DMCA and similar, and old media may just disappear.
"3/14 is the third day in the fourteenth month".
Why would you assume the European notation or little endian order?
Note that European notation is inconsistent as well.
(Otherwise you would have 59:59:23 14-03-2011, for little endian order, or 95:95:32 41-30-1102 for real little endian)
This is slashdot, so perhaps the international scientific notation should be assumed.
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
I live in the U.S., and only use this form.
03-14 (MM-DD) is not middle-endian, BTW.
In the US, the constitutional purpose of patents, is to promote the advancement of science and art, not giving a "fair chance to profit".
Most all ideas behind software patents would be developed whether or not there was a way to patent them.
Software patents are primarily used as weapons or threats against other companies.
Or can you give an example of: "Without software patents, xxx would never have been developed".
In reality, software patents give an artificial monopoly on an idea with an inventive duration (time before someone else would think of it) of 0-1 year. They company holding such an idea will naturally invent less, as it can profit and litigate from old ideas for 20 years.
20 year patent and 95 year copyright monopolies interfere with competition/capitalism, as monopolies in general do. But these monopolies are government backed.
In 1557 the British Crown chartered the Stationers' Company and gave the company a publishing monopoly in order to stem the flow of seditious and heretical books.
This publishing monopoly lasted for more than 150 years.
After revolution, publishing monopolies were first abolished then limited to 14 years with the Statute of Anne.
The founding USA adopted the 14 year rule.
However, due to pressure from large companies in the US, the monopoly has been continually extended, and is now 95-120 years.
The media associations relationship to the Internet is very similar to the Stationers relationship to the printing press.
The Apple TV draws 25-35 watts and Ubuntu can run on it.
Who cares about two slashes.
My complaints would be:
"www." - All letters have a single syllable...Except W. It has 3. "www." is 10 syllables instead of 2 for "web.", or 0 for "". Why do we need a web domain prefix?
"\r\n" - Why were DOS newlines required in the HTTP headers? All those useless \r bytes transmitted for no reason.
lotus symphony is not open source.
And as the source is not available, there is no proof that it is a open office variant.
Somebody prove me wrong.
Yes, this is good for ODF, but symphony is not yet open source.
The original OS died from license suicide. Kolibrios continues the original OS under an open license.
If the newspapers can claim that an 11 word phrase is copyrighted, then a person should be able to claim that a statement is copyrighted,
and the newspapers would be prevented from making direct quotes.
--- a future newspaper article --- ...
With these events, we should be reminded of the words of John F. Kennedy: (paraphase*) "[Do not ask what services your government can provide for you. Instead ask your government how you can help.]".
* The original quote is owned by the Kennedy family,
> No, the value of the "cat" is the value in keeping the exclusive right to distribute the music. ...
> Damages aren't for the song itself, but the destruction of that right.
Such perceive damages must be measured with real-world losses.
Losses measured in money,
or Losses (from the constitutional copyright perspective) measured in loss of new art or innovation.
If you were to argue on principle alone, then note that the "exclusive right" (as defined by the US constitution) is not defined in reference to profits. The temporary exclusive copyright was created to encourage art, science and innovation.
> However, once people have a choice between "obtain music for money" and "obtain same music for free", very few will choose the pay option.
If there is a choice between:
1. Legitimate unencumbered music for sale at reasonable price, online at a well known location.
and
2. Unauthorized copies for free (or for sale cheap) on hard to find, disappearing, unreliable online sites.
Most people choose (1). Those that choose (2) would likely not purchase on (1) even if (2) was not available.
It is very difficult to sell a song with no exposure. Very few will buy a song or CD that they have never heard. In the past, people got exposure via the radio, or by word of mouth (along with a tape copy of the song).
The world is different now. Trying to fight the internet, to keep all cats in all bags, is foolish, uneffective, and expensive (both with the cost of such investigation, and with the costs of privacy rights needed to sacrifice to allow such a global personal investigation). Rather than holding on to the pre-internet business model, new business models must form that work with the nature of the internet.
The songs are not secret information.
The "cat was out of the bag" when the music was published.
Of course, assuming your statement is correct, there is still a problem.
The "value" of keeping the cat off the Internet may be a a negative number, at least based on profit. Sales may decrease as limited public exposure to the song is reduced. I am sure there is a line that can be crossed where distribution surpasses the "free sample" effect, but I doubt that a casual user would come close to it.
I think Sony should name their humanoid robot in development "PlayMusic".
If the government ever really wants to address Microsoft as a monopoly, they should realize that the underlying monopolies are granted by the government. The 95 year software publishing monopoly is granted by the government. The 20 year software design/algorithm monopoly is granted by the government. If these monopolies were reduced to reasonable terms, the tight control given to these large companies by these monopolies would be lessened.
Historically, what happened when the publishing monopoly of the Stationers was killed, 300 years ago (decreasing the monopoly duration from infinity to 14 years)? Did people stop writing books?
Open source exists mainly because a 100 year copyright for software binaries is very limiting for innovation and limiting for users.
...), could use a timed open source license with conditions like:
It is possible that Sun (or Microsoft
- copyright is self limited to 2-5 years.
- copyrighted software either comes with source, or it given to the library of congress (or similar).
- after the limited copyright period, the source is made available under an open-source/creative-commons licence.
It would be nice if copyright law was reformed for software, but until then, open source licences are the work-around.
angels have been singing from the top of pins for much longer.
The FSM enjoys to be worshiped and enjoys choirs for some reason. I'm not exactly sure why the angels didn't work out. We don't have the "Angel Bible", so we don't really know when FSM decided to create angels/devils.
when the copyright publishing monopoly is 10-20 years, innovation is possibly increased due to the extra incentive.
when the copyright publishing monopoly is 80-1000 years, innovation and creation by extension is suppressed, information collection and exploitation increases. With such a infinite term, the publics trust and respect in such a copyright system approaches zero. With such a infinite term, the owners will tend to be long-living companies with government influence. And of course with such a tyranny, any trust is further eroded.
The victim from a 100 year or so copyright is the public.
"Pirates" can not be blamed for the failure of media companies to adapt to and profit from the Internet.
DRM was an attempt to put the Internet back in the bottle.
People expect to be able to download stuff at a reasonable cost, (and some amount of information people expect for free).
People expect to to their play and copy purchased media without barriers.
College students will "copy tapes", as they have no spare book or beer money to spare. if you use legal threats or take money from them, this will not increase sales, or create new fans.
The story has not changed since the days of Naptser and mp3.com. People would buy DRM-free media over the Internet for a reasonable cost.
But if MAFIAA refuses to sell unencumbered media, it is hard to buy it.
People do not want to go back to CD's and people do not want to go forward with DRM.