...... Dude, you're replying to a post about *data liberation*. Go read it again. Lock-in is a powerful way of protecting your margins

Maybe the Hulu management needs to tighten their grip.

4) Once most books are no longer printed, it remains an open question whether it will make censorship of ideas easier or harder.

The internet has been the greatest force for information dissemination since the printed press. Logically moving to electronic versions of books should increase rather than decrease propagation.

It's only "exclusive" in the sense that google is the defendant. Any other company is quite free to go through the whole process again ie scan, get sued & make their own settlement. Anyway as I recall google is making these books available to other companies.

Actually if anyone has bought into the world economy, it's south korea. And they know very well you can't make it happen without peace (with everyone who can fight back).

That's a problem with health care now, isn't it? We're not dealing with many of the factors that affect health.

In other news, Miguel de Icaza said that he believes botnet support is a good idea. Linux should support malware because Microsoft is going to win anyway, so linux would better be prepared if it doesn't want to be locked out of the future markets, and presented a beta version of the software. Members of the Mono project are participating in the standarization.

https://launchpad.net/~fta/+archive/ppa

Just add the fta repository & install "firefox-3.5". They even link to a mozilla daily build repository if that's your thing.

If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

A lot of things are illegal only if you're a monopoply. For example the only reason Apple gets away with bundling, FUD, price jacking etc is because they don't have the market distorting power that MS does. Distorting the market is what is illegal -- using a monopoly in one area to kill competition in another area. Apple won't get an automatic monopoly in browsers by bundling.

Also the linux version doesn't have sandboxing

Unlike the Mac version. I'm sure they'd appreciate hints on how to use SELinux/AppArmor.

It's amazing how close that is to my setup. I just wanted to add a small bit: it's better to use mouse scroll instead of click on the left/right of the screen. That way both edges can go either way.

That's like saying google's rankings are advertising. Besides I'm sure fans will know about Amazon's cut & they'll just google for the band's site.

Digital books can't be defaced. The reason it's a requirement is it's one of the best ways to fix it in memory. It's hard to explain, but ebooks don't allow you to get a feel for a book. When searching through a real book, you easily flip through it knowing the section you want is a few pages from this image, about halfway down this page. Lacking this, markup becomes the best option.

Sacred document: GPL

Amen to that

Kidnappers should not be jailed...
Extortionists should not be fined..

whoosh, i know, i get it. It's ok to kill someone who's trying to kill you. We punish harmful behavior, that's the whole point to civilization.