cschwarm

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by cschwarm 16y ago
Ever tried to sell something to a committee? I don't mean this to be disrespectful but it's not as simple as it sounds. Especially, if the committee is clueless (or in disagreement) about the usual questions: What do you want? What do you n
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by cschwarm 16y ago
A custom clothier has years of experience (and sometimes even a special school of though) what and how to measure. IRL, you get people who miss their measurement unit (cm or inches seem to be complicated). Or they misunderstand instructions
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> The last thing I could imagine the Free Software Foundation wanting is a demonstration that it is impossible to construct proprietary software that runs on Linux. Not yet, maybe. Since he started his movement, Richard Stallman made it
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by cschwarm 16y ago
According to Naughton's analysis [1], your case 2 applies, and there's also the consideration that the whole constitutes an expression, and is therefore copyrightable. It's worth reading the original instead of the above linkbait. [1] http
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> But I've noticed, over the years, that Stallman's most paranoid fears tend to come partially true. I've noticed the same about Nostradamus' predictions. Oh, and Jules Verne's fiction. ;) Irony aside, counting how many vaguely describe
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by cschwarm 16y ago
To be honest, it's a little bit embarassing to see such a... well, how would you call it? Flamewar, maybe. I've been active in a irrelevant project of GNOME (ie. marketing), and my initial opininon still seems to hold: It's not about the de
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Correct. I didn't say it's better. But it's possible to solve the other use case. 3D-foot-scanners are already out there for shoemakers, so taking measurements could become easier in the future.
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Cool! A German retail site offers something in the same direction: http://www.mirapodo.de/groessen-kompass I've been working on a similar concept for dress shoes. http://sizeadvisors.com/
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> I've never had a good sense of why people are so desperate for Linux to take Windows' desktop market share. Why? Linux is a platform, and therefore depends on network effects: The more people use it as a desktop, the more software (ap
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by cschwarm 16y ago
I didn't change its meaning; I just pointed out what people feel. Yes, that stuff is not the FSF site, just like tax raises are not mentioned during election. But Stallman is clear enought during interviews (emphasis by me): * “The free sof
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Then, you're misunderstanding the word "immoral". To quote Steven Pinker from "The blank slate" (p.269): "People feel that that moral rules are universal. Injunctions against murder and rape, for example, are not matters of taste or fashion
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by cschwarm 16y ago
When someone calls rape immoral, does he want to say that rape is a matter of personal preferences, or does he want to say that there should be a law against rape, and every violation should be punished? When Stallman calls "non-free" softw
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by cschwarm 16y ago
I personally think, the user/developer distinction is misleading. I agree with Stallman that Open Source is about different goals and values: * Open Source supporters say "Some software should be..." * Free Software supporters say "All soft
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Nope: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Your assumption that three meters is "reasonable" is just a personal opinion: Buses don't drive everywhere, and if your house happens to be on a bus route, you know that and you can react appropriately. Also, their passengers are unlikely t
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Well, there are some different questions: First, do they have a right to use a camera mounted in a height above the normal eye level? Why should people be required to adjust the height of their fences to protect themselves from Google's vie
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by cschwarm 16y ago
To put things into perspective: Google has a 97% market share for search here in Germany, IIRC. Don't know the other numbers, but they are probably quite high for online video, too. Also, I'd say, people here don't have the blind faith, U.S
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> Now here is the question: when I copy your song, am I depriving you of anything? Yes, because there's a chance -- say, 5% -- that you would have bought it. So, you're depriving me of wealth and money. Buying music, software or any oth
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Interesting observation, but it has nothing to do with the question of moral behavior. There're also plenty of examples of businesses trying to buy as cheap as possible while at the same time trying to sell as expensive as possible. That ju
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Slave owners universally don't want to be slaves, thus it's immoral. Buyers and sellers of proprietary software don't have no problem buying and selling proprietary software from others, thus it's NOT immoral.
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> we have evolved to produce offspring sooner and faster in response to harsh conditions. One could also understand the article the other way around: We have evolved to reproduce in response to natural conditions, and one result is wome
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by cschwarm 16y ago
IIRC, the following article by Pamela Jones of Groklaw discusses the issue: http://lwn.net/Articles/61292/
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Yeah, totally unbelievable , isn't it? For they give away their stuff with no strings attached! Oh, wait...
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by cschwarm 16y ago
It's a chilling strategy because the costs of not using a GPL software is always less than a legal fight. Also, you do have rather established legal definitions of 'collective' and 'derivative works'. See, for example, Laurence Rosen: "Op
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by cschwarm 16y ago
You mean in court? Of course, not! That's the point of a chilling strategy, you know?
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> Among these, that if we wish to produce any derivative works (under the GPL's definition of "derivative"), we must also release these under the GPL. This is not quite correct, in my opinion. Copyright only applies to your work, and wo
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by cschwarm 16y ago
In Germany, we have had public radio and tv stations for decades, funded by a tax-like mechanism for people owing tv and radio recievers. Since they are public instituions, political influence is obvious. Contrary to jerf's assertions, howe
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by cschwarm 16y ago
Sorry, but that does not make sense to me. A discipline either establishes common criteria to distinguish good stuff from bad stuff or it doesn't. And these should not be arbitrary otherwise the judgment remains subjective and therefore wor
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> ...unless you can demonstrate that a requirement to share has equivalent ethical validity to a requirement not to share. You assume these have no equivalent ethical validity. But you fail to provide a rationale for your assumption. So
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by cschwarm 16y ago
> It's a morally difficult question... Hardly, in my opinion. Just use the rather common approach of the Golden Rule: 'Treat others like you want to be treated'. If you want others to keep their promises to you, you should keep your pro

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