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Comment Say NO to Microsoft Danegeld (Score 1) 809

If Fedora yields on this, I'd go to another distribution. Paying $99 to Microsoft for the "right" to install the OS of my choice on my own hardware is making Microsoft $99 richer off the efforts of the volunteers who brought Linux and Fedora to us, and it makes my Free-gratis OS effectively cost $99, no longer free.

I'd rather go back to the time of compatibility lists and give my money to those companies that support my needs than give it to those Microsoft-bought hardware manufacturers.

Say NO to Microsoft Danegeld

Comment Go Truecrypt!!!!! (Score 5, Informative) 358

From the Opinion:
"But random characters are not files; because the TrueCrypt program displays random characters if there are files and if there is empty space, we simply do not know what, if anything, was hidden based on the facts before us. It is not enough for the Government to argue that the encrypted drives are capable of storing vast amounts of data, some of which may be incriminating. In short, the Government physically possesses the media devices, but it does not know what, if anything, is held on the encrypted drives."

Comment Re:He seems to confuse the purpose of copyright (Score 5, Insightful) 543

Actually, this comes off the royalties paid to Artists. No wonder many of them do not see a cent of royalties because they are still "in the red".
For the record company it is easy to get a better price than what you see here, but the artist will not see it, the record company lives off the arbitrage.

In the end, many successful modern artist go direct to the Internet and bypass this sinkhole.

Comment Re:He seems to confuse the purpose of copyright (Score 2) 543

You are right, at least as the US is involved, Copyright laws have nothing to do with giving credit. (That is the realm of trademark). Nevertheless, the introduction by Europe, specially the french, of so called "moral rights", have introduced "giving credit" into the equation.
Therefore Falkvinge is right when you look at the modern laws of copyright as written in Europe.

Comment Hell No! (Score 1) 683

Hell! No!!!!

What are they thinking about?

If they remove that, then they should have a display with a list and version of all components of Firefox available.

How am I going to figure out what kind of version I have when I arrive at a system I haven't touched before?

This is incredible dumb!

Censorship

Submission + - Swiss proprietary companies block government open (h-online.com)

Pepebuho writes: "orts from Switzerland say that proprietary software companies are complaining about government plans to release open source solutions it has developed on the grounds of cross subsidy. A report from OSOR.EU says the issue emerged early in July as the IT department of the Swiss federal court was planning to release OpenJustitia"
United Kingdom

Submission + - UK to legalise ripping CDs and DVDs (bbc.co.uk)

AmiMoJo writes: "The government is poised to announce the legalisation of ripping media for personal use as it accepts some of the recommendations of the wide-ranging Hargreaves Review of UK copyright law. As well as legalising "format shifting", it also suggested relaxing rules on parody and creating an agency to licence copyrighted content."

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