It's pretty easy to see the parallels between copyright infringent (the sharing of proprietary apps against the wishes of the original IP holder) and violating the GNU (the sharing of source code against the original wishes of the IP holder).
Well, yes. Violating the GPL is copyright infringement. It's not just similar, it's legally identical.
You're right, the term "theft" shouldn't be used here.
This is why I can't take these discussions seriously. It's because it has nothing to do with freedom, because everyone's rights aren't supported, and everything to do with the GNU political movement.
Could you give a concise definition of what you mean by "rights"?
From a freedom standpoint, the GPL does clearly involve a tradeoff between guaranteeing user freedom and weakening developer freedom. But it seems reasonable, given that the current legal situation allows (and defaults) to the opposite, where user/consumer rights are very limited. It's an attempt to maximize the overall freedom within the current legal system.
Vehicle height: less than or equal to 13 feet
Vehicle length: less than or equal to 23 feet from main landing gear to tip of tail
Landing gear footprint must fit onto CAFE Scales (See CFTC floor plan, below)
Gross weight: less than or equal to 6500 pounds on main landing gear and less than or equal to 2000 lb on nose or tail wheel
Wingspan (as projected onto a level surface), if less than or equal to 44 feet, must be capable of being
shortened to less than or equal to 44 feet by wing-folding or tip removal that can be easily accomplished in
20 minutes or less by no more than 4 adult persons of average size and strength. This
is necessary to fit typical tie-downs, hangar rows and the width of the CAFE Flight Test
Center's hangar. Any small additional projected span of winglets, tip tanks or other wing
tip device, as vertically projected onto a level surface, will be included as wingspan.
--sabre86
Or would you prefer to come meet me in Chicago for coffee? Would be glad to give you a ride in my Tesla Roadster over to the office for a tour.
Sounds good. Would next week work? I'll be up for an AIAA conference. I would love to just see a Tesla Roadster.
--sabre86
But where, exactly, would the batteries that can push 60 kilowatts go? I don't think they would fit in the trunk of a Mazda Miata with this magical imaginary computer.
Or more importantly, batteries that can push 60 kW for any period of time. I think that with enough cells, which you can make about as small as you want, you might get the power, but you definitely won't have the energy to run it for anytime whatsoever. The energy density is nowhere near good enough. But, Sticking with the Miata example, there's easily enough power under the hood to drive both the car and the computer, particularly with a high output option like the BPT. You just need a generator, like the 53 kW version in the Volt. For an automotive sized and powered vehicle, using year 2000 level power and materials technology, you could easily add such a computer and all it's benefits. That means effective, mobile, car sized autonomous fighting vehicles (since this is a DARPA project, I'm considering the military applications first) are extremely easy if you have this kind of computer, and motorcycle/Terminator sized units are probably possible, just using gas burning engines -- no advanced technology except the computer.
I apologize that wasn't clear from the original post.
--sabre86
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.