That makes no sense, because "meat" has no common taste or texture. A fillet of salmon and a pork steak are nothing alike, neither in taste nor texture.

Yes, but that would need Adobe to implement such a feature, and why would they?

And how does that client know the key hasn't been replaced by someone else's? Yes, the message can be signed. But if you don't have the key, you can't verify the signature either, so that can be faked too.

TLS is fine until you reach the MTA. Then you have no guarantee that the message won't be passed as plain text. And even if TLS is used on each hop (unlikely), you still don't have a real end-to-end secure connection, just a chain of many connections, with middle men who can see all the emails.

The problem with Bitcoin (and blockchain based currencies) is that they don't really deal well with microtransactions. Since each transaction has to be sent and confirmed by a bunch of nodes, they impose a lot of strain on the miners. Eventually we should see rising transaction fees, which will probably kill such systems.

The unemployment rate in my country for my age bracket is 38%. The idea I can "just" move to a new a company is not realistic.

Oh, please. They are there because the taxi drivers lobbied for it, going as far as rioting in the streets, beating the other drivers senseless and cutting off traffic in the financial districts, because during the great depression everyone who had a car was competing with them.

Here's an article from 1934: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17056337/

If they can't ensure the source is valid, they need to specify that in the contract with their provider, so that they can know demand a reimbursement from the costs of this action. Ignorance is not an excuse in many legal wrongs, and copyright infringement is no exception, otherwise all those people writing "NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED" on Youtube wouldn't be liable either.

Good. Let them spend their money reimplementing the wheel, it gives us Free Software developers a leg up. The company I work for has already replaced dozens of SAP installations thanks to community shared code.

If they're not distributing the source, good riddance. Let them pay to build their own proprietary implementations.

No, that's not the point of the GPL. The point of the GPL is to uphold the four software Freedoms, has defined by rms in the Free Software concept.

The GPL may be useful for saving money, but that's just an helpful side effect, not the main purpose.

And you may not need to adopt its principles, but you certainly need to adopt its requirements.

If you distribute any third-party code, you need to do that anyway. It's not the GPL, it's copyright.

Copyright is violence. The GPL is self-defense. There's no double standard, even if they use similar means.

There's plenty of good films being made outside of the hugely inflated machines of Hollywood. For example, Amour, winner of last year's Palme d'Or, had a budget of less than $9 million. Pulp Fiction had an even smaller budget ($8.5M).

Movies take millions of dollars because it all goes into their pockets (it's called Hollywood accounting - look it up). If we cut the government monopoly and forced them to compete, budgets would adjust without hurting quality significantly. Maybe you wouldn't have Avatar, but I'm sure we can live without it.

I earn a living writing copyrighted works (software), and I'm still against copyright. And it has nothing to do with not wanting to "pay a dollar for a song" - I'm more than happy to do so (as long as it doesn't feed the RIAA).