"I am no fan of Microsoft myself, but I am curious as to why you choose to use Microsoft's throw away email account service, hotmail.com, and then proceeded to write three paragraphs about why they are such a bad company to a Sun Solaris forum."
I have had a hotmail account since before Microsoft bought them. And I was not always against the company, only after I found out they were killing people. I have a Gmail account for mail I actually care about, I just let hotmail collect the junk. To be honest, I never even check it. And to answer everyone else, If you don't like what I said and feel it doesn't belong here then I can understand that I don't need to post anymore except about "official" stuff. However, Why would all of you assume that there must be some political or religious motivation behind wanting to protect human life? I don't understand that. If there is a man eater shark off the coast what do the local officials do? They hunt it down and kill it in the interest of protecting human life. Every state in the United States, as well as the Federal Government has laws against killing. That hardly sounds like a crazy, out of left corner political or religious agenda. You don't need to be of any particular religious or political party to be against things like slavery, racism, the death penalty or genocide. But again, I can understand if this is not the right place to bring these things up. Others here don't take preserving human as seriously as I do. Ok, I don't need to bring it up again. But then, the whole GPL freedom stuff is a lot more religious and political then not wanting to be murdered. In some countries they have made GPL code public domain because the idea of it conflicts with local laws. Isn't that political? All the arguing about passing on freedoms and all that, isn't that religious? Ok, I get it. Enough is enough. However the part about the codecs is still valid. Customers have a basic right to have access to the information contained within a medium that they legally purchase. MS started giving away trial copies of MS Office 2007. Two days later people figured out how to break the locks. Now in the normal software world, what these guys did was wrong. However, the copies of the software were legally obtained and regardless of what was in the license, it was perfectly legal for people to break the locks on the trialware to gain access to the complete program. If I buy a DVD, then I have a right to access the information on that DVD and I can use whatever means are nessecary to gain access to that information. Patent law is set up for the public good, not to prevent customers from legally accessing legally acquired media. The courts have already said as much in prior case law as well as in the civil codes of dozens of other countries. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
