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Jon Maddog Hall on Linux, saving money and ruling the world (ComputerWorld)
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Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 8, 2006 16:10 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]
...as soon as illegal copying will be effectively prohibited. When people can't use their illegal copies of Windows, MS Office, Photoshop Ultimate Extra Expensive Edition & Co any more, then they will turn to free software. And I very much look forward to this day.
And the I will finally be able to implement a website design without having trouble because my gimp can not fully import a file made with the newest Photoshop version...
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 8, 2006 16:20 UTC (Wed) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]
The saddest thing about that is that illegal copying will never be effectively prevented. They've been trying since (at least) the early 80's, and copy protection gets broken quickly.
-Rob
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 8, 2006 18:25 UTC (Wed) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link]
The sad thing is that there's no way whatsoever that illegal copying of software will be effectively stopped without the same actors winning a stranglehold on *data* including uses that are perfectly legal today.I'd welcome a world where it was impractical to pirate Photoshop. But not if the cost of that is a world where it's impossible to use a PVR to timeshift, impractical to make your own music-discs that'll play anywhere. Impossible to legally buy and download music on an open platform (this is already today pretty much the case...) A world where first sale has fallen, copyrigths are (practically) forever. Fair use is a moot point (like it already is for media protected by DRM due to the DMCA) and so on.
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 8, 2006 23:24 UTC (Wed) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]
None of that will be impossible... just illegal. It's going to be a sad world, with more and more central control of what you can do legally, but you'll always be able to get a pirate copy of Photoshop if you know where to look.
-Rob
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 9, 2006 17:54 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
"" None of that will be impossible... just illegal ""
Turning tediuos reading of many pointed urls and replys, short... it is possible!
As posted in a coment of mine, down in this thread, password protected object capabilitys are the "Real Mcoy" turning possible a web-services centered paradigma where users have total control of their machines, but where Adobe could have control of their applications and even distribute freely a demo photoshop, and sell object password protected features to it, on the internet, without fear.
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 9, 2006 18:31 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
Geezz i seem to forgot... law!... here it is http://www.caplet.com/security/futurelaw/index.htm
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 9, 2006 17:31 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
Try Object Capabilitys... which could be a *well fit* for an OS based on a exokernel like the Xen's Nemesis one: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/old-projects/p... ... the point is "you" dont have to start from ground zero!
http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/Orthodox.html
http://discuss.foresight.org/~foresight/CSFactForum.html
http://erights.org/talks/skynet/index.html
http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/pubs/SRL2003-02.pdf
Plenty more in here :
http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/index.html
and worst... if the M$ DRM Palladium based push, of so many talks, is in a way a capability system http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/NGSCB/DRM.html, they are right now researching a new advanced model in a exo/micro kernel style full of protected dominiums(SIP in M$ talk) as in Xen, http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/ , but in a SASOS architecture and with orthogonal persistence possibilitys.
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 10, 2006 9:51 UTC (Fri) by shapr (subscriber, #9077) [Link]
Truly. I tried to advertise Linux to my Counterstrike buddies (I used Wine) on the basis of the cost advantage, but they told me that only the clueless have a legal copy of Windows.
Jon Maddog Hall on Linux, saving money and ruling the world (ComputerWorld)
Posted Mar 8, 2006 16:23 UTC (Wed) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]
Where do you see Linux heading in the next five to 10 years?
World domination.
One of these days we're going to realize that it's not world domination that the FOSS advocates should be talking about, but rather world liberation....