Without patent protection, a lot of software won't enter the market because copycats who haven't done any R&D to create an innovative product will have the same access/edge as people who created the product.
If this assumption were true, then wine should be able to run every piece of software published for MS Windows = Win7 flawlessly by now.
DavidHumus notes: Maybe the bigger question is why is CEO pay so entirely disconnected from company performance?
In other words: There is also the possibility that not employing that bigshot VP would mean the company performs better and those burger flippers would make more money.
I'm not going to waste my time with a GPL library that I can't use.
So why is it that you can't use these GPL libraries?
You have five corrections but you only count four?
He's probably from the Spanish inquisition.
>Actually, [...] churches [...] don't satisfy the "yleishyödyllisyys" (general benefit for society) requirement [...]
A keen observation.
You are completely disingenuous. As a practical matter, it will not be simple to "sideload" 3rd party software on a Steambox. It will practically impossible for another store to compete on this platform.
Nonsense: SteamBox is a computer with Debian + Steam + some specific drivers and some tweaking. Everything that is available for Debian can be directly installed on SteamOS.
If the mission failed, would they admit it, or release some photos anyway? (Could they get away with it?)
No, because ESA helps during the whole mission.
AMD/ATI has never attempted to even approach NVidia's commitment to make hardware run well with Linux.
Ah, that's why AMD publishes specifications and supports the community implementing free drivers.
Concerning impact factors, they seem a little indirect.
Actually, it's worse, journal rank is unscientific and counter productive. Unfortunately, the bean counters seem to love it.
The whole anti-GMO "movement" is funded in large part by the organic food industry. Finding themselves unable to win the race for consumer's hard-earned money by being better than their competition, the organic food industry is trying to win by tripping the other runners.
No: it has been found that the yield of GMO crops is not better then that of classical crops. Unfortunately, the original article is behind a pay wall.
The information is the journal is fixed and static.
That depends on the journal, e.g. this journal Source Code for Biology and Medicine offers the option to comment on articles, just like all the other Biomed central journals, or the PLoS journals.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
