At 02:04 PM 10/18/03 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
It takes a broken P2P service to be brought down by a few unkosher binaries. Trust accounting and agoric load levelling don't take Pd hardware.
Nice translation. Main Entry: ag7o7ra Pronunciation: 'a-g&-r& Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -ras or ag7o7rae /-"rE, -"rI/ Etymology: Greek, from ageirein to gather Date: 1589 : a gathering place; especially : the marketplace in ancient Greec
A palladium-plated turd is still a turd at its heart.
A quotable quote.
Look at concentration in scientific publishing. Tell me how Palladium will reduce the monopolist stranglehold, reduce the prices and make scientific information available to the largerst possible audience.
The Elseviers compete with the xxx.lanls. As do journals that charge the author to publish with those that don't. Etc.
A manipulated market is no longer a competitive market. Producers and consumers do not have equivalent leverage. The invisible hand is flipping us the bird. Of course you know that, TCPA troll.
Market manipulation is only done using violence. Only the government or other mafias manipulate markets. The rest (aquisitions, proprietary formats, bundling and giving it away free) is a perhaps more savage ecosystem than you prefer, but that's life.
There is no such thing as a weak DRM.
There is no such thing as DRM for analog content. Only for machine-executable interactive content (eg games). The gamer-publisher vs. cracker war has been going on indefinately, even when it was putting a slug into a pinball machine. Either I do have the raw bits of an
open format and the according transducer to render it into direct monkey-consumables, or not. The rights are volatile, and subject to change. Everything enforcible will be enforced, and a good hardened Palladium makes a great many evils possible.
So? Think of it as free advertising for *nix. And it works, too, many have $witched.
What's your problem with music industry getting out of business? What's your problem with a greatly diminished copyright enforcement, and free sharing of information?
Users don't CHOOSE, you Palladium troll. They didn't knew an open
it bit them in the ass. Their bosses choose, the monopolist choses for
I personally have no problem with intermediaries of any form going extinct. I have moral problems with tossing copyright out, but have learned that the only way to prevent their weakening is a police state. Unless 'trusted' stuff is *required*, people will decide, and they need not decide homogenously. If they decide foolishly, well, that's their choice, evolution never sleeps. As Schneier once wrote, offer a free hamburger for DNA samples and they'll line up around the block. format if them
via default-bundle and lock-in.
Are there no home-Mac users who work for entities that require PC usage?