Comment Re:The real problem (Score 1) 321
This is an informative overview of the windows security model. To bad I blew my mod points for this thread earlier on, with a worthless comment.
Are you saying that, if I make, say, some gadget, and put it on sale in my store, I shouldn't be upset if someone breaks in at night and takes it away because they "didn't think the price is worth the value", and "found other ways to get it"?
How is that anything alike? If we are going to have an intelligent discussion on the subject, then why don't we compare the situations accurately.
A more apt analogy would be if that someone purchased your product (or looked at it in the store), and then opened up a shop selling the same product for cheaper (presumably because he didn't have any R&D cost). I am not necessarily saying that is right or wrong, but if you need to "inflate" the moral dilemma to make your point, well, that says quite a bit about your point already...
Source code != assets.
Well according to the GPL...
The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities. However, it does not include the work's System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but which are not part of the work. For example, Corresponding Source includes interface definition files associated with source files for the work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require, such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those subprograms and other parts of the work.
I'm no FOSSIE pro, but if those assets are needed to actually build and run the program, than it would seem source code does in fact == assets. (DISCLAIMER: I hate GPL and have no idea what I am talking about... this is just my interpretation of the above quote... so please correct me if I am mistaken)
Well according to the UK's Transport Research Laboratory, certain driving abilities are actually improved at low doses. At higher dosages, they did find a negative impact, but practically negligible when compared to alcohol.
So, how long have you been working for Adobe? Flash and SWF are terrible technologies. They're slow, they're buggy, they're insecure. Most of the time when my browser crashes it's because of one of those two technologies.
I wish you could say who the no flash order was from, because they deserve my business. Flash was one of the worst things to ever happen to the web.
I can promise you flash is only as slow and buggy as the flash developer. Unfortunately, there are hordes of the sluggish variety mucking about. Security is a non issue. In fact, flash is one of the easier things to get clearance on in our government contracts. I will however be the first to admit the platform would do much better if the whole thing were given to Apache. The problems with Flash are political, not technical.
Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules. You keep score with money. -- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari
