If I tell 20 people who actually listen to me to go kill the President of the United States, then I'm not guilty of anything. After all, I have freedom of speech, right? I can say anything I want, right?
Hate Crimes in Canada are not in place to prevent people from saying hateful things. They are in place to prevent people from hiding behind freedom of speech when they are actually attempting to incite violence against a particular group of people (particularly minorities).
I agreed with you at first, but then realized you are trying to get something for nothing. Why would someone give you a development environment for free, so that you can turn around and sell the software derived from it? This rarely happens. Not in Windows and not in Linux.
Trolltech is offering pretty much the same terms as every other similar product. Borland, for example, had free C compilers available, but you were disallowed from using them for commercial products.
So you have three choices: 1) Pay for the commerical license so you can sell your software commercially, 2) Don't pay, and then give your software away, or 3) Don't pay, and then try to sell support for your software like Red Hat.
The Daily Show is an equal opportunity mocker, its just that in the last 8 years, Bush has been providing the most opportunities.
You will note that the Daily Show has mocked democrats in the past, currently mocks Democrats on occasion, and I'm pretty sure it will mock them a whole lot more if they win the presidency.:)
The proof is obvious to the courts. The courts believe, and probably rightly, that the vast majority of users of the Limewire software are using it to illegally distribute or download copyrighted material. According to their last ruling, for a software like this to be considered OK there must be overwhelming legal use of the software. That is, like most products, it should be used legally like 60% of the time (I'm pulling numbers out of a hat). As such, the software is considered illegal, and any promoters of that software (i.e. Limewire), ought to be sued for promoting an illegal act.
Think of it this way, what percentage of Xerox copies are made legally? I'd say, considering business use, at least 90% of the time. What percentage of fridges are used legally? Again, probably 95% of the time. What about cars? A high percentage again. And finally, consider guns? What percentage of all the guns made are involved in a crime? Fairly low on a percentage basis.
So, what percentage of the time do you think Limewire is used illegally?
Doesn't this sound related to net neutrality?? We are paying for a specific kind of internet usage. The only difference is now the government is doing it, instead of the telcos.
Better and even easier to use than Ubuntu, run PCLinuxOS (http://www.pclinuxos.com). It comes as a LiveCD so you can check it out without even installing it to the harddrive. Then if you like it, you can just hit an "Install PCLinuxOS" button on the LiveCD desktop and it will install directly from the LiveCD! It has an excellent hardware detection program so that stuff inside your computer works fromt he get-go, and it comes with pretty much all the software a typical home user would need pre-installed and ready to go.
I was on a quest to find a Linux Distro that could be used by a person with limited computing skills. I wanted something that after running the original install CD, had all the hardware and major pieces of software installed and configured correctly. I was tired of having to install my video card drivers or Sun's JRE.
I tried Debian and Ubuntu and a couple other distro's, and then discovered PCLinuxOS. This, my friends, is the friendliest distribution out there. Installation was a breeze. All the software you might need is pre-installed. Its packages are up-to-date and there is still a dev team working on the project. Additionally, it has a LiveCD, so you can try it out on your own computer without screwing up your current install. If you like it, you can install the OS directly from the running LiveCD! Pretty slick.
You knew that after all this time there had to be at least one distro thats getting it right, and PCLinuxOS is it. http://www.pclinuxos.com/
I don't have a problem with my ISP charging me for the bandwidth I use. And if they want to break their users down into multiple packages (i.e. ultra-lite, lite, high-speed, and ultra) then thats fine.
Just don't you dare try to setup subscriptions based on the types of internet services I consume. i.e. block all bittorrent downloads unless I pay for a bittorrent package, or try to charge me a different price for downloading HD videos than for web browsing. Thats where I get very concerned.
Currently we have a single branch. Some of the kernels in this branch are considered unstable, simply because they still require testing. However, at some point, they are considered 'stable enough' to be released as a stable version of the kernl. Hence, you end up with, for example, 2.6.13-rc1 and a stable 2.6.12. People interested in kernel development will grab 2.6.13-rc1 to mess around with it, while most everyone else is grabbing 2.6.12.
As has been mentioned, however, the problem is that this stable version of the kernel, 2.6.12, still contains bugs. Whats more, many of these bugs have been introduced to the kernel through new features in recent versions of the kernel. This is a problem for some end-users, as while an upgrade may fix some bugs, it also introduces new ones.
Here's my suggestion. Continue with the unstable/stable system as we have now, but with one addition. When a bugfix is discovered for a bug found in a particular stable version of the kernel, update that stable version of the kernel.
By example:
According to kernel.org, the latest stable version of the kernel is 2.6.16.14. If while working on 2.6.17 we discover a bugfix for something in 2.6.16.14, we should go back, fix the bug, and release 2.6.16.15. If we also discover a bugfix for something in 2.6.15.7 (the last patch in the 2.6.15 branch), we should fix that too and release 2.6.15.8.
What this means is that if a user does not require new functionality available in recent versions of the kernel, they can stick with a slightly older version of the kernel and still get all the bugfixes. They don't have to potentially break something new just to get a fix for an older bug.
Of course, the only problem with all this is that its significantly more work, but perhaps its worth it.
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If I tell 20 people who actually listen to me to go kill the President of the United States, then I'm not guilty of anything. After all, I have freedom of speech, right? I can say anything I want, right? Hate Crimes in Canada are not in place to prevent people from saying hateful things. They are in place to prevent people from hiding behind freedom of speech when they are actually attempting to incite violence against a particular group of people (particularly minorities).
I agreed with you at first, but then realized you are trying to get something for nothing. Why would someone give you a development environment for free, so that you can turn around and sell the software derived from it? This rarely happens. Not in Windows and not in Linux. Trolltech is offering pretty much the same terms as every other similar product. Borland, for example, had free C compilers available, but you were disallowed from using them for commercial products. So you have three choices: 1) Pay for the commerical license so you can sell your software commercially, 2) Don't pay, and then give your software away, or 3) Don't pay, and then try to sell support for your software like Red Hat.
The Daily Show is an equal opportunity mocker, its just that in the last 8 years, Bush has been providing the most opportunities.
:)
You will note that the Daily Show has mocked democrats in the past, currently mocks Democrats on occasion, and I'm pretty sure it will mock them a whole lot more if they win the presidency.
The proof is obvious to the courts. The courts believe, and probably rightly, that the vast majority of users of the Limewire software are using it to illegally distribute or download copyrighted material. According to their last ruling, for a software like this to be considered OK there must be overwhelming legal use of the software. That is, like most products, it should be used legally like 60% of the time (I'm pulling numbers out of a hat). As such, the software is considered illegal, and any promoters of that software (i.e. Limewire), ought to be sued for promoting an illegal act. Think of it this way, what percentage of Xerox copies are made legally? I'd say, considering business use, at least 90% of the time. What percentage of fridges are used legally? Again, probably 95% of the time. What about cars? A high percentage again. And finally, consider guns? What percentage of all the guns made are involved in a crime? Fairly low on a percentage basis. So, what percentage of the time do you think Limewire is used illegally?
The US doesn't want to eliminate their OWN tariff's, just everyone elses.
Doesn't this sound related to net neutrality?? We are paying for a specific kind of internet usage. The only difference is now the government is doing it, instead of the telcos.
Better and even easier to use than Ubuntu, run PCLinuxOS (http://www.pclinuxos.com). It comes as a LiveCD so you can check it out without even installing it to the harddrive. Then if you like it, you can just hit an "Install PCLinuxOS" button on the LiveCD desktop and it will install directly from the LiveCD! It has an excellent hardware detection program so that stuff inside your computer works fromt he get-go, and it comes with pretty much all the software a typical home user would need pre-installed and ready to go.
I was on a quest to find a Linux Distro that could be used by a person with limited computing skills. I wanted something that after running the original install CD, had all the hardware and major pieces of software installed and configured correctly. I was tired of having to install my video card drivers or Sun's JRE. I tried Debian and Ubuntu and a couple other distro's, and then discovered PCLinuxOS. This, my friends, is the friendliest distribution out there. Installation was a breeze. All the software you might need is pre-installed. Its packages are up-to-date and there is still a dev team working on the project. Additionally, it has a LiveCD, so you can try it out on your own computer without screwing up your current install. If you like it, you can install the OS directly from the running LiveCD! Pretty slick. You knew that after all this time there had to be at least one distro thats getting it right, and PCLinuxOS is it. http://www.pclinuxos.com/
I don't have a problem with my ISP charging me for the bandwidth I use. And if they want to break their users down into multiple packages (i.e. ultra-lite, lite, high-speed, and ultra) then thats fine. Just don't you dare try to setup subscriptions based on the types of internet services I consume. i.e. block all bittorrent downloads unless I pay for a bittorrent package, or try to charge me a different price for downloading HD videos than for web browsing. Thats where I get very concerned.
Currently we have a single branch. Some of the kernels in this branch are considered unstable, simply because they still require testing. However, at some point, they are considered 'stable enough' to be released as a stable version of the kernl. Hence, you end up with, for example, 2.6.13-rc1 and a stable 2.6.12. People interested in kernel development will grab 2.6.13-rc1 to mess around with it, while most everyone else is grabbing 2.6.12. As has been mentioned, however, the problem is that this stable version of the kernel, 2.6.12, still contains bugs. Whats more, many of these bugs have been introduced to the kernel through new features in recent versions of the kernel. This is a problem for some end-users, as while an upgrade may fix some bugs, it also introduces new ones. Here's my suggestion. Continue with the unstable/stable system as we have now, but with one addition. When a bugfix is discovered for a bug found in a particular stable version of the kernel, update that stable version of the kernel. By example: According to kernel.org, the latest stable version of the kernel is 2.6.16.14. If while working on 2.6.17 we discover a bugfix for something in 2.6.16.14, we should go back, fix the bug, and release 2.6.16.15. If we also discover a bugfix for something in 2.6.15.7 (the last patch in the 2.6.15 branch), we should fix that too and release 2.6.15.8. What this means is that if a user does not require new functionality available in recent versions of the kernel, they can stick with a slightly older version of the kernel and still get all the bugfixes. They don't have to potentially break something new just to get a fix for an older bug. Of course, the only problem with all this is that its significantly more work, but perhaps its worth it.