I don't see how this concerns my point at all. I don't deny that it is the author's prerogative to respond however he wants, but public shaming or other abusive action right from the onset is almost always wrong.

That is, in my opinion everyone should follow the SFLC's example. If the friendly approach doesn't work, *then* you can start a campaign, and the infringing party deserves everything they get.

It worries me that this case has already been brought to the open.

In the previous post there were comments about contacting companies in private first and see if the problem could be solved, so that no undue negative publicity would be generated.

If this turns out to have been a false alarm, it won't reflect well on the GPL nor its proponents, and might even make more businesses wary of GPL code.

It would be interesting to see an account of the GPL violations that have been handled discreetly out of the public eye, if only to show that not everyone will be publicly shamed and vilified for breaking the licence, if they just remain cooperative.

Wine will still work even with address zero not memory-mappable. Only some applications will need it; Mostly DOS applications and others that use old APIs which might presume its availability.

I doubt setting mmap_min_addr to nonzero is going to cause problems for most people, and even if it does, in those cases the person probably will know how to configure it themselves and take the necessary precautions.

Imagine the flight simulators!

You just gave me the best laugh I've had in a while.

Thank you.

I've had this patch for quite a long while, actually. It's been available as a Developer Preview from ADC for a month or so already. (requires free registration to download)

No excuse for Apple for not rolling it out to the masses sooner, though.

People have always sought out new, interesting things based on stimuli from their surroundings.
I think the ubiquity of the Internet has merely caused a decline in the importance of advertising. In the past, it was perhaps more important, but the Internet has made people more interconnected than ever before. It's easier to seek out like-minded people and find out their interests.

To put it simply, I believe the input of your "friends" is the dominant stimulus nowadays. This naturally encourages file sharing. The word of a friend alone may not be enough to cause you to spend money on something, but the threshold to download is much lower.

This kind of behaviour has the potential to expose you to a much greater amount of entertainment, as it's not limited by what the labels choose to advertise. Of course, it won't always lead to a sale, and many people will become freeloaders, but that is unavoidable.

I believe the only way to combat illegal downloading as a source of entertainment is to provide a legal solution that is both as easy to use as your favourite torrent tracker *and* price it so that the majority of people pay it for the sheer desire to be a law-abiding citizen.

As a personal anecdote, most of my books, games and DVDs I bought exactly because I had access to the material on the Internet. This includes many imports that would never be locally advertised.
The only exceptions are my PS3 games (minus a few shared PSN games). Even those I bought either after trying them myself or because I couldn't stand my friends going on about how awesome they were.