Do you have any provisos for me to use your product in Y? I was recently comparing it to Z and Z had restrictions that the Z manufacturer could tell me how to use the product if I bought it.
Isn't Fair Use defined as "I paid for x, I own x"? Copyright is a restriction of Fair Use, not the other way around.
The reason it is greater value than copyright is, without societies recognising ownership and possession, copyright would be unable to be affected. It is more correct to say copyright can't exist without Fair Use.
In recent times, corporations have tried to reverse this, and come up with the idea that we are "leasing" a product for personal use. {insert your own damn car analogy} I should be able to loan a book, cd, etc to a friend. As a side note: I shouldn't be able to reproduce an identical copy for them unless explicitly allowed by the creator/s regardless of how easy it is. (Sheesh, now we are getting into the messy bit...)
Would you disagree that there are those that sincerely believe we should pay to read them? Baby Boomers and those preceding got that information is power, but they associated it with gold, the need to control and pay per use. Why can't information be associated with a credit system, rather than a debit system like most (all?) economies? I think this is what the OP was arguing with his references to oxygen and German/Russian currencies. If the poorest of the poor is already rich, then the only inequalities in societies would be a result of the inequalities of equals. (apologies W. Churchill)
If the library of Alexandria had been spread around a little more, we may still have a lot of those texts with us today. How many more texts that may or may not be of value to future generations will be lost because we continue to restrict access and availabilities?
Isn't that a little arbitrary? Gconf was very similar to the registry when I tried to mangle it. KDE doesn't seem to have an order of OK/Cancel buttons. I've never experienced the spacial finder or any OSX.
On some level, this bloke is right. We can afford to lose Gnome, Beagle et al using Mono. I'm happy for it to exist, as long as it is not in the kernel.
But surely someone as clever as Miguel can extrapolate Microsoft's previous behaviour to the near future and see that it has a high probability to only be a bad thing? That is one reason I keep going back to KDE. Another is the ease of accessing options, and KDE4...
Hmmm... The problem is with prioritising, and with paying at both ends for publisher and and user.
If parents pay for their children to go to school, the government subsidises the school, then why should the school be able to charge the teacher for speaking in the classroom?
There are plenty of libraries so it's not like the parents can't teach the children, and teachers are welcome to teach in the park down the road. But if they want the resources of the school, they have to pay to teach.
Of course, if the teacher went to AT&T, then they only need pay X. If the teacher was from $localcommunitycollege then they should pay 2X.
I'd dissagree only on the package management system. When I was using Mandarake urpmi still lead to rpm hell (slower than Redhat though.) Ubuntu has got into dependency hell, but it was easier to get out of too, so I've stuck with Ubuntu. On other factors of usability (day to day stuff), Suse and Mandriva still are watching Ubuntu approach the finish line polishing their trophy. Okay, maybe a little exaggeration, but their config tools are better. If there was a debian base fork of either of those, I'd probably go back. Heck, I'll probably go back anyway eventually. (My itch for a new distro is starting.)
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Do you have any provisos for me to use your product in Y? I was recently comparing it to Z and Z had restrictions that the Z manufacturer could tell me how to use the product if I bought it.
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How does your sympathy counter ShieldW0lf's argument?
or just stop fantasizing...
Thats on a need to know basis...
Isn't Fair Use defined as "I paid for x, I own x"? Copyright is a restriction of Fair Use, not the other way around.
The reason it is greater value than copyright is, without societies recognising ownership and possession, copyright would be unable to be affected. It is more correct to say copyright can't exist without Fair Use.
In recent times, corporations have tried to reverse this, and come up with the idea that we are "leasing" a product for personal use. {insert your own damn car analogy} I should be able to loan a book, cd, etc to a friend. As a side note: I shouldn't be able to reproduce an identical copy for them unless explicitly allowed by the creator/s regardless of how easy it is. (Sheesh, now we are getting into the messy bit...)
Would you disagree that there are those that sincerely believe we should pay to read them? Baby Boomers and those preceding got that information is power, but they associated it with gold, the need to control and pay per use. Why can't information be associated with a credit system, rather than a debit system like most (all?) economies? I think this is what the OP was arguing with his references to oxygen and German/Russian currencies. If the poorest of the poor is already rich, then the only inequalities in societies would be a result of the inequalities of equals. (apologies W. Churchill)
If the library of Alexandria had been spread around a little more, we may still have a lot of those texts with us today. How many more texts that may or may not be of value to future generations will be lost because we continue to restrict access and availabilities?
so, are you twitter or is twitter you?
Brave and stupid are often hard to separate...
Isn't that a little arbitrary? Gconf was very similar to the registry when I tried to mangle it. KDE doesn't seem to have an order of OK/Cancel buttons. I've never experienced the spacial finder or any OSX.
I think it may be the Bold and the Beautiful I got that impression from...
Not from my perspective... Is it just an opinion, or can you verify your assertion in an unbias manner?
On some level, this bloke is right. We can afford to lose Gnome, Beagle et al using Mono. I'm happy for it to exist, as long as it is not in the kernel.
But surely someone as clever as Miguel can extrapolate Microsoft's previous behaviour to the near future and see that it has a high probability to only be a bad thing? That is one reason I keep going back to KDE. Another is the ease of accessing options, and KDE4...
You are obviously trolling; they use windows
you've met my brother then...
viva la revolution?
Hmmm... The problem is with prioritising, and with paying at both ends for publisher and and user.
If parents pay for their children to go to school, the government subsidises the school, then why should the school be able to charge the teacher for speaking in the classroom?
There are plenty of libraries so it's not like the parents can't teach the children, and teachers are welcome to teach in the park down the road. But if they want the resources of the school, they have to pay to teach.
Of course, if the teacher went to AT&T, then they only need pay X. If the teacher was from $localcommunitycollege then they should pay 2X.
And we Aussies want to know about Yet Another Politician because...? I can't find anything funny about him.
Surely we are going to be changing soon to a new dating system? Maybe after WWIII, which by most foretellers is overdue.
I'd dissagree only on the package management system. When I was using Mandarake urpmi still lead to rpm hell (slower than Redhat though.) Ubuntu has got into dependency hell, but it was easier to get out of too, so I've stuck with Ubuntu. On other factors of usability (day to day stuff), Suse and Mandriva still are watching Ubuntu approach the finish line polishing their trophy. Okay, maybe a little exaggeration, but their config tools are better. If there was a debian base fork of either of those, I'd probably go back. Heck, I'll probably go back anyway eventually. (My itch for a new distro is starting.)
sounds like an underwater tour... I'm sure they are around...
I am conviced you do not know what a root is.