On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 18:06 -0700, Michael M. Moore wrote:
> MJang wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:10 -0700, Michael M. Moore wrote:
> >
> >
> > But in any case, the current position is in support of capitalism, right
> > or wrong.
>
> I disagree. The current position is in support of corp
MJang wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:10 -0700, Michael M. Moore wrote:
>
> Dear Michael,
>
> I appreciate the education w/r/t copyright history. More after an
> excerpt:
>
>> The U.S. is party to the [1] Berne Convention and was the most
>> aggressive lobbyist for [2] TRIPS, which stipulate
> So I suppose if the US changed its position one more time, that would be
> flip-flopping
>
> But in any case, the current position is in support of capitalism, right
> or wrong.
>
> In addition, any change to copyright laws would also change the effect
> of the GPL, as it is also a copyrig
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:10 -0700, Michael M. Moore wrote:
Dear Michael,
I appreciate the education w/r/t copyright history. More after an
excerpt:
> The U.S. is party to the [1] Berne Convention and was the most
> aggressive lobbyist for [2] TRIPS, which stipulates that copyright terms
> mus
Michael Robinson wrote:
> Copyrighting something beyond the
> lifetime of it's author and/or the owning company is also
> ludicrous. The trouble is, the current copyright regime in
> the U.S. and around the world creates permanent monopolies.
>
If memory serves, Walt Disney Productions was a
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:11 -0700, m0gely wrote:
> Michael Robinson wrote:
> >>> The government could step in...
> >
> > I've heard this argument before and I'm not buying it. The government
> > which recognizes copyright could step in and retroactively change the
> > rules.
>
> You don't buy
MJang wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 01:49 -0700, Michael Robinson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:26 -0700, m0gely wrote:
>>> Michael Robinson wrote:
>>>
Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all
versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions,
>>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> Copyright is not supposed to protect a company from competition forever.
> Microsoft is a monopoly because noone is allowed to work from any of
> it's old OS'es. Efforts to replicate functionality and achieve driver
> compatability are t
Michael Robinson wrote:
>>> The government could step in...
>
> I've heard this argument before and I'm not buying it. The government
> which recognizes copyright could step in and retroactively change the
> rules.
You don't buy it? What planet are you from? Wanna know a big reason why
nvidia
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 01:49 -0700, Michael Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:26 -0700, m0gely wrote:
> > Michael Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all
> > > versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions,
> > > Windows 2
Except then software companies could only charge their consumers *once*
rather then charging them over and over again for the various upgrades.
If win98 was open-sourced then people would be more likely to keep their
older computer around and use the open-source updates to keep their
system run
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:26 -0700, m0gely wrote:
> Michael Robinson wrote:
>
> > Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all
> > versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions,
> > Windows 2000, and Windows Millenium.
>
> Windows 2000 (NT5) has over a year of
Michael Robinson wrote:
> Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all
> versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions,
> Windows 2000, and Windows Millenium.
Windows 2000 (NT5) has over a year of support left, hardly abandoned. An
OS is made up of many techn
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> A bit of an aside, when I bought a usb sound card from usbgear.com
> it was advertised as being Windows 98SE compatible. It wasn't. I
> was told tough when I brought this up and it was suggested that I
> should complain to Microsoft. I
A bit of an aside, when I bought a usb sound card from usbgear.com
it was advertised as being Windows 98SE compatible. It wasn't. I
was told tough when I brought this up and it was suggested that I
should complain to Microsoft. If Windows 98SE were open source,
there'd probably be an open sou
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:31 PM, donkyhotay wrote:
> This is an issue with no real clear answer and has very vocal supporters
> on both sides. Although on a *nix mailing list (like this one) you are
> more likely to get opinions leaning towards 'freedom of knowledge is
> good' you have to be care
This is an issue with no real clear answer and has very vocal supporters
on both sides. Although on a *nix mailing list (like this one) you are
more likely to get opinions leaning towards 'freedom of knowledge is
good' you have to be careful as it can turn into a political issue.
Personally I a
I recently decided to download a copy of Full Throttle that runs
on ScummVM from a pirate site. It seems that to get software
for ScummVM you are pretty much stuck downloading it from pirate
sites because anything written for Linux would run on Linux
directly and either a) be open source or b)
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