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Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 8, 2006 18:25 UTC (Wed) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)In reply to: Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight... by rknop
Parent article: Jon Maddog Hall on Linux, saving money and ruling the world (ComputerWorld)
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.
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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