spacelizard

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by spacelizard 11y ago
The use case I am thinking of now seems to be more appropriate for apps like GitLab where sharing URLs from within the app might be useful, for example sending someone a link to a file like this: https://d85snt1c8mqgrfxcd2o1.blah
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by spacelizard 11y ago
I just installed Sandstorm yesterday and I like what I see so far -- hope I get some time to submit some pull requests. It's looking like a great option for smaller companies that want to stick to free (libre) software. One feature tha
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by spacelizard 11y ago
Another company offering SaaS products is not a plus by itself either. The idea of "pay us so you don't have to push upstream fixes" is just another spin on the usual marketing agenda for cloud-based companies. Either way whe
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by spacelizard 12y ago
Then the users need to be educated about those things too. Don't you think it's a bit odd that the premise is to "trick" users into using Firefox by luring them in with promises of Netflix support? What's the point
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by spacelizard 12y ago
You could argue that most of the works available on Netflix are pretty superfluous, but this isn't really a reason to dismiss the reasons not to use DRM. For one, the issue extends to much more media than just video. Ebook DRM is way m
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by spacelizard 12y ago
There is no simple answer. The only thing I can suggest is to just stop using Netflix until someone cracks it, or they decide to stop using DRM. This isn't your fault, it's Netflix and Hollywood's fault, their use of DRM is b
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by spacelizard 12y ago
That's even more of a reason to boycott them and keep using Firefox.
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by spacelizard 12y ago
>did people leave Netflix because of Silverlight? They did, actually. If not by their own doing then by the fact that Netflix is just not available on certain devices and operating systems. As long as Netflix is a DRM platform, this tren
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by spacelizard 12y ago
I wouldn't switch to another browser just because Mozilla doesn't implement DRM. In fact that strikes me as completely the wrong reason to switch to another browser. Continuing to use Mozilla and boycotting services that use DRM i
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by spacelizard 12y ago
It's alarming to me just how many supposedly "secure" websites follow such awful practices, such as: - Using HTTPS only for the login or purchase page, and sending the user to plain-old HTTP for everything else - And to make
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by spacelizard 13y ago
That doesn't work if you're RDPing from another Win8 machine, the local OS swallows the keybind. What you actually need to press is Alt + Home or Alt + Delete (good luck figuring that out without doing a web search). I'm actu
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by spacelizard 13y ago
You've responded to one of the problems that was described and conveniently ignored the rest.
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by spacelizard 13y ago
>The majority of people never have those problems. I disagree completely. The majority of people I know who use Steam have a huge library of games that have never been played because they bought most of them as an impulse purchase when t
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by spacelizard 13y ago
Well of course it's not true when you re-frame the argument into a strawman like that. A large percentage of proprietary programs are also blatant copies or ripoffs of something else. The issue that we're trying to get to is that
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by spacelizard 13y ago
I disagree, Nintendo has never distributed a PC- or browser-based version of this game. Also, it's debatable whether or not profiting from a thirty-year-old game is adding social value. Nintendo seems to fashion themselves after Disne
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by spacelizard 13y ago
It's not "just a government issue," by saying this you complete sidestep from the real issue which is privacy in general. The government is really not the only party that anyone should be worried about spying on them. I perso
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by spacelizard 13y ago
>the web wouldn't exist then This statement is ridiculous. The web was not originally designed to be an application platform, it moved that way because business pushed it in that direction. I know the vast majority of sites I visit
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by spacelizard 13y ago
They don't bother because all their users have been convinced not to care, perhaps by proprietary software marketing efforts. The free software movement seeks to educate people on why they should care, and why it's valuable for co
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by spacelizard 13y ago
The "potential progress" was already there. It's just been held up by proprietary companies every step of the way. In the case of games, nearly every single game company refuses to provide their games as free (libre) game sof
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by spacelizard 13y ago
Actually the last few iterations of VS and Office skinning have gotten added into MFC and can be enabled pretty easily for any app. The Ribbon UI is also fully available in MFC and VS. Just no one uses any of this stuff for obvious reasons.
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by spacelizard 13y ago
DRM doesn't "increase the rights" of copyright holders, it just intentionally goes out of its way to stifle everyone else. The fact that it's called "Digital Rights Management" is a bit of doublespeak, which is
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by spacelizard 13y ago
I don't think that is a reasonable distinction. Anyone who has a copy to the source code can pretty easily compile it. The "means of production" in the analogy you're drawing is the compiler, and the source code is the i
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by spacelizard 13y ago
I'm not sure what it is you're trying to say. I can produce a binary of OS X or Windows right now by ripping the iso and then hitting ctrl-C and crtl-V, but their license makes it illegal for me to hack it or to redistribute it. A
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by spacelizard 13y ago
Anyone with capital has SOME level of control, the point of capitalism is it allows the distribution of power to fluctuate. Compare to proprietary licensing where the developer has near complete control and the users have nothing and will l
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by spacelizard 13y ago
I don't believe the proprietary model is fundamentally capitalist. Copyright is a monopoly that depends on law to manipulate people into giving up ownership. Even if your analogy did hold up, everyone already DOES own their own compute
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by spacelizard 13y ago
That analogy doesn't make any sense because computer software is not produced in factories. Plus, the idea of copyleft is that software shouldn't have owners, period.
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by spacelizard 13y ago
No, copyleft is fairly neutral and just seeks to mitigate some of the damage done by copyright. Copyright is what has the serious political agenda, not copyleft.
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by spacelizard 13y ago
That is a terrible, cherry-picked example. One man's personal failure at finding a good business model is not representative of the entire philosophy.
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by spacelizard 13y ago
As someone who's tried to explain this issue several times to laypeople, there's not much else that can be done. It really just does not resonate with anyone who isn't in the field and doesn't understand what software re
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by spacelizard 13y ago
> the FSF is absolutist and views their particular politics as inseparable from the goals I often see this kind of hyperbole and it seems very meaningless to me. Their particular strategy has remained pretty consistent and has managed to

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