Posted by Ty Clifford »
2 Comments »Is this junk happening again?
I was not happy at all with Microsoft contributing to the Linux world at all. Considering all they do in the background is attack it, and patent what isn’t theirs. It’s kind of ironic how it all takes place on a day-to-day basis with Microsoft.
Monday:
Get together (a meeting), discuss strategies of what is going to happen that week.
Tuesday:
Contribute a little to the open source world, hell even launch a new one for no-apparent reason at all. Also go around twisting other people’s arm into believing they created sudo and get a patent for that (and I honestly have no idea why they did that considering UAC is worst control program I’ve ever seen that is meant for an entire OS). Then complain about other patents that are ill.
Wednesday:
Sucker companies into paying, or contracting them into using Linux itself. Now you see why I didn’t want them working with Linux?
Thursday:
Go around silently attacking GNU/Linux.
Then repeat..
Sometimes I often wander if the GPL is a curse. It’s nice to know that you have the ability to work on someone else’s program and even use it in your project. At even which point sell that program, providing you give the source with it—that seems fair right? What about when someone works on it, then claims the entire thing to be theirs and has the ability to patent it? (I suppose the karma attacks via MS Office)
Yes, I’m talking about Microsoft contributing to Linux, then turning around and claiming certain parts of it, trying to monopolise it. The GPL needs to be improved in a manner that disallows companies to do this, or people in the patent office need to grow a brain. It’s almost as stupid as Facebook patenting a “news feed.” Is it just me or didn’t this already exist? I guess it isn’t stealing someone’s ideas even if this idea is being used by over 200M people already.
Don’t get me wrong at all, I love the open source world.. but not when people try to ruin it. The majority of the tools I use are open source, and very well supported. Some programs I use are paid and open source, or paid and closed source.
Why must this happen?
Posted by Ty Clifford »
1 Comment »For some time now I’ve been watching and reading the stories on copyright holders that have become upset at people who pirate their materials, and governments that have been taking privacy and piracy to a new level.
For the people you have been taking to court and sued for linking programs, distributing programs, etc, what crime is in that? If you ask me (which I don’t care if you do or not, this is my website I’ll say it regardless), I say that the people who help distribute programs are the ones who help the programs gain popularity. Especially for music artists.
Music artists and governments say they are losing money because people pirate their material? Are you kidding me? Half of P2Prs would’ve never heard of half the artists they have on their hard drives if it wasn’t provided free to begin with. Most of the people I know say that if they download something for free, and they like it, they will buy it to show their support – If they don’t like it, they trash it and don’t buy it.
With the governments wanting to take control of users activities on the Internet just goes to show that they didn’t use our money the right way to begin with (the first time) – So now they’re just pissed and taking people to court to gain what they thought they lost.
Music industries are also mad because they are facing having to live like the majority of people. Making less than $100,000 a year. Because they don’t make $5,000,000 and only make $3,000,000, they decide to take a few people to court and gain what money they have greed over.
Why don’t I ever see citizens taking the media holders to court? Why aren’t ISPs being sued for allowing P2Prs? Seriously, if The Pirate Bay is trying to be put in jail, why isn’t AOL, Comcast, Verizon, BT, Telstra, etc being taken to court? Why isn’t GM, Ford, etc not being taken to court for not making automated seat-belts that force themselves on the driver? Why isn’t Google being hassled & courted for indexing torrent sites? It’s the same damn thing!
I remember before this whole “Lets Kill the Pirates!” season, I used to see tons of people in the stores purchasing TV Shows, Music, Movies, etc. Now? Not so much as I used to. They raised the prices in some areas that I know of that drove some people away from buying at the store. I’m not surprised either.
Privacy
Oh, my opinions don’t stop there.
With the governments wanting to be able to record all communications with people/between people (like they probably haven’t already), that just makes me think:
What would they say if WE wanted access to their computer? What if we wanted to see who they were texting behind to their friends? Or what person they were viewing on a social networking website?
I’m sure you can guess.
