Relax, I'm sure the brave Spanish telcoes will be happy to do their part for liberty and justice, bearing the brunt of the lucrative government contracts to implement some kind of enforcement system. You'd be surprised just how willing a telco can be to take one for the team like that, if you just look at it on their terms for a moment.
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Oblig wikipedia link: Top manta
Translation: Google translatifier Oh, and manta does technically mean 'blanket', but sheet is a more accurate translation in cultural terms.
A real shake up of the cultural world is going on. Numbers from the annual report from the Spanish copyright organisation SGAE, show that only live performance, be it theatre or music, continues to show financial and audience growth.
In other words, their artists' profits are increasing faster than theirs. No wonder Spain needed a new tax!
It's worth pointing out, however, that this kind of infringement is a big thing in Spain. In the area I saw, it was so ingrained that they called it 'top manta' (manta == sheet), named after the sheet that the street-sellers of usually pirated music use, so that if the police come along, they can grab the four corners of the sheet, bundle the music into it instantly, and disappear.
Not really. It's still oblique wording that doesn't communicate well what he was he's trying to say. It insinuates that I was attemping to be dishonest or evasive. I found his statement to be unclear and I was hoping he would respond and be blunt and clear about what he meant.
The gist of it is that I was being a needlessly angry bastard as usual, without actually knowing what I was talking about.
I can't imagine that anyone reasonable is actually asking these small Linux distributions to provide the source code for the Linux kernel when it is available for a free download.
The problem is that as Google grows and grows off the back of low-key ads and simplicity, the rest of the industry isn't taking the hint. So Google is pretty much alone in filling this gap in each area of the web.
Don't worry though. If they really start to take over, the bean counters will catch on, and companies might actually start to compete with Google on their terms. I think this might have already happened at Yahoo, but even then most of of that page is taken up by an irrelevant photo.
I've tried Debian, and you do kind of have a point. Debian is probably the closest I've ever come to using a non-Slackware distro for longer than a few days. But when apt-get finished up I got this spine-chilling shiver in my spine at the blasphemous prospect of well-implemented package management, and promptly switched back to Slackware. Maybe I'll give Debian another try.
One and three have been done. Now for me to tell you that I disagree with point two.
The software itself, while functional, lacks any sort of cohesive vision or raison d'etre beyond "hey, what do you want? It's free"
The beauty of Open Source is that software usually doesn't get written unless someone needs it. Everyone knew that FOSS was in desperate need of a professional-style office suite. Maybe you just weren't paying attention. In fact, Firefox comes off far worse in this respect, because browsers have never been a sticking point, whereas the best we had before OOo was KOffice. I don't even know where you get that "hey, what do you want? It's free" part from.
So basically its readership is 'people wimpy enough to get a free paper forced on them'. Reminds me of that time I actually bought a copy of the Big Issue...
There, I've tidied up the syntax, put in some comments, and changed some of the stuff back to reflect all the work done by GNU in creating GCC and the rest of the toolchain.
Grandma: But, how will I open my letters? You: Who cares? OpenOffice didn't mention GNU/Linux in their ad in the Metro. Their free lunch is over! Grandma: But, my letters! You: Don't you get it? I was doing their legwork, getting their product into wide scale use! And now they slap me in the face! Here, let me sit at the keyboard. Grandma: NO! I... You: Move, bitch! They don't give a damn about us in the grassroots! Fuck them! Grandma: Get out! Get out and don't come back. Not ever. You: Oh, you'll pay for this. Your free lunch is over. I visited you when noone else would touch you, and now you slap me in the face? Grandma: Get out! You: Right, that does it. I'm going to go round everyones' houses and remove your phone number from all their address books! Your free lunch is over!
maybe do a quick mock-up themselves, so that we could improve it.
Have just done a quick skim through this page at -1, looking for nofollow tags in the source so as to find links nice and quick. This is all I can find - well designed, but a shitty ad (way too much text).
DSL looks like this, Fedora looks like this, and you think it's politics? Are you kidding? Red Hat is a big company with lots and lots of experts on their payroll. A decision to go with them isn't politics, it's business.
Just like RMS refusing opportunities to 'spread his message' because the people offering him the opportunity don't talk about GNU/Linux and Free Software, very few people will actually hear this interview because they chose not to provide an mp3-encoded version.
Perhaps Richard has come up with some great new ideas or a really compelling argument. Unfortunately, nobody is listening because he's only available in Ogg this time.
Oh, and if you needed any further proof that the people running Groklaw don't live on planet earth, here is what they link to as a Free Ogg player:
Audacity The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
What can I say to that, except for LOL PWNT. Makes that FSF story about letting a friend use your computer becoming illegal sound somehow even more crazy.
or who chooses to wear a robe and a saints hat and call himself the patron saint of free software
You should have left that part out. It's like calling Linus a nudist. You have a really good point, but you've tainted it by including a misinterpretation of a joke, which if deliberate becomes even worse.
Anyone who has been on slashdot very long has heard all the complaints about RMS, by now its just a litany of repitition - nobody has come up with anything new to complain about RMS for long, long time.
So what? The supporting comments are repeated just as much. It's all one long merry go-round.
That doesn't mean he's close minded, it means he's tired of hearing the same well refuted drivel over and over again. Anyone who wants to criticize RMS should take that as a declaration that they need to do better than they have in the past, that same tired old specious arguments aren't worth the effort to type them in.
Or how about:
That doesn't mean he's close minded, it means he's tired oh hearing the same arguments over and over again. Anyone who wants to criticize RMS should take that as a declaration that they should come up with some new ideas, because he doesn't think the old ones are even worth typing in any more.
Like many people who have a good point, you believe in it so strongly that you drowned it out with your personal feelings (sound familiar?).
Now, to the original versions I respond with this: how 'well refuted' can the 'drivel' really be if all these people still believe in it? And as for the 'litany of repitition', well, that's just Slashdot. If you get uncomfortable when the cycle turns its attention back to your pet subject, perhaps you should ask yourself just how secure in your convictions you really are.
I tell everyone, all the time DON'T GO TO THE FUCKING MOVIES, DON'T BUY ANY CD'S, AND DON'T BUY ANY GODDAMN DVD'S, and if *most* of us on/. just did that much DRM would go away.
Beautiful. This post creates a perfect microcosm: you hurt RMS' credibility by trying to defend him saying things like this in the exact same way that he hurts the credibility of Free Software with his stuff.
It's so detached from reality, I'm not sure where to begin. Perhaps with the fact that the cinema has nothing to do with DRM. In fact, even if you did manage to hurt their bottom line via the box office, they'd be quite unlikely to think, "Hey, this must be a protest against DRM, and it's costing us money". They'd be much more likely to think, "My God! Piracy is putting us out of business! Increase the funding for DRM research!".
The same goes for CDs and DVDs, though it's all academic anyway because asking people not to buy CDs is the craziest thing I've heard in weeks, with the idea that Slashdotters make up a significant market force coming in as a close second.
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Relax, I'm sure the brave Spanish telcoes will be happy to do their part for liberty and justice, bearing the brunt of the lucrative government contracts to implement some kind of enforcement system. You'd be surprised just how willing a telco can be to take one for the team like that, if you just look at it on their terms for a moment.
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It's unlikely to ever be implemented though, because their stance on letting people delete their comments would probably apply to editing as well:
Oblig wikipedia link: Top manta
Translation: Google translatifier
Oh, and manta does technically mean 'blanket', but sheet is a more accurate translation in cultural terms.
In other words, their artists' profits are increasing faster than theirs. No wonder Spain needed a new tax!
It's worth pointing out, however, that this kind of infringement is a big thing in Spain. In the area I saw, it was so ingrained that they called it 'top manta' (manta == sheet), named after the sheet that the street-sellers of usually pirated music use, so that if the police come along, they can grab the four corners of the sheet, bundle the music into it instantly, and disappear.
How do you think they got so rich? It wasn't by haemorrhaging millions of dollars per day and not noticing.
That idea is fucking awesome. The kind that makes me think "Screw this PHP bullshit! I want to make one of those!".
The problem is that as Google grows and grows off the back of low-key ads and simplicity, the rest of the industry isn't taking the hint. So Google is pretty much alone in filling this gap in each area of the web.
Don't worry though. If they really start to take over, the bean counters will catch on, and companies might actually start to compete with Google on their terms. I think this might have already happened at Yahoo, but even then most of of that page is taken up by an irrelevant photo.
I've tried Debian, and you do kind of have a point. Debian is probably the closest I've ever come to using a non-Slackware distro for longer than a few days. But when apt-get finished up I got this spine-chilling shiver in my spine at the blasphemous prospect of well-implemented package management, and promptly switched back to Slackware. Maybe I'll give Debian another try.
Slackware 8 was released in July 2001, so there's a minimum timescale for you. Smartass.
The beauty of Open Source is that software usually doesn't get written unless someone needs it. Everyone knew that FOSS was in desperate need of a professional-style office suite. Maybe you just weren't paying attention. In fact, Firefox comes off far worse in this respect, because browsers have never been a sticking point, whereas the best we had before OOo was KOffice. I don't even know where you get that "hey, what do you want? It's free" part from.
You know, if you'd used OOP for this post, you could have just set 'built three years ago' as a property of your house, instead of restating it.
So basically its readership is 'people wimpy enough to get a free paper forced on them'. Reminds me of that time I actually bought a copy of the Big Issue...
* List written in Wikipedia syntax
* Author forgot to choose Plain Old Text
* Post now a barely readable block of mess
DSL looks like this, Fedora looks like this, and you think it's politics? Are you kidding? Red Hat is a big company with lots and lots of experts on their payroll. A decision to go with them isn't politics, it's business.
As far as I know OpenOffice draws all of its interface by itself, whereas presumably Office uses the stuff in the Windows kernel.
Just like RMS refusing opportunities to 'spread his message' because the people offering him the opportunity don't talk about GNU/Linux and Free Software, very few people will actually hear this interview because they chose not to provide an mp3-encoded version.
Perhaps Richard has come up with some great new ideas or a really compelling argument. Unfortunately, nobody is listening because he's only available in Ogg this time.
Oh, and if you needed any further proof that the people running Groklaw don't live on planet earth, here is what they link to as a Free Ogg player:
What can I say to that, except for LOL PWNT.
Makes that FSF story about letting a friend use your computer becoming illegal sound somehow even more crazy.
So what? The supporting comments are repeated just as much. It's all one long merry go-round.
Or how about:
Like many people who have a good point, you believe in it so strongly that you drowned it out with your personal feelings (sound familiar?).
Now, to the original versions I respond with this: how 'well refuted' can the 'drivel' really be if all these people still believe in it? And as for the 'litany of repitition', well, that's just Slashdot. If you get uncomfortable when the cycle turns its attention back to your pet subject, perhaps you should ask yourself just how secure in your convictions you really are.
Beautiful. This post creates a perfect microcosm: you hurt RMS' credibility by trying to defend him saying things like this in the exact same way that he hurts the credibility of Free Software with his stuff.
It's so detached from reality, I'm not sure where to begin. Perhaps with the fact that the cinema has nothing to do with DRM. In fact, even if you did manage to hurt their bottom line via the box office, they'd be quite unlikely to think, "Hey, this must be a protest against DRM, and it's costing us money". They'd be much more likely to think, "My God! Piracy is putting us out of business! Increase the funding for DRM research!".
The same goes for CDs and DVDs, though it's all academic anyway because asking people not to buy CDs is the craziest thing I've heard in weeks, with the idea that Slashdotters make up a significant market force coming in as a close second.