Such fine trolling does deserve an answer.
1 - Slashdot on copyright infringement: Copying isn't theft. People should be free to share stuff.
2 - Slashdot on GPL infringement: GPL infringement is a bad thing, it deprives people of the right to share stuff.

There is, here in /., a popular sentiment against the current state of copyright law in the US.
Copyleft licenses are built on the same idea, to fix the problems [that their authors believe] copyright causes on the spread of knowledge.

More censorship and surveillance in the US might force the "free" internet out of US control.
That is not necessarily a bad thing for people outside the US.
Yesterday I was explaining to a coworker how DNS censorship in the US was not such a bad thing, but it might result in better DNS for everybody, by bringing attention to the risks of US centric infrastructure.

That's a dumb comparison.
Dreamweaver is a lot of tools into one.
Most HTML people I know use it as a nice text editor.
I have also seen fresh from school designers use it as a WYSIWYG editor, with awful results.

I don't mean that it's impossible to use Dreamweaver effectively as a WYSIWYG editor, only that it's not its main strenght in practice.

That 's why so many people say that you can replace it by a text editor, because so many pros use it as a text editor.

In other news, UTF-8 has not gained acceptance in US-centric websites.
It's not that hard: "La niña", "El niño"

What baffles me the most is that "the music industry" is a supranational entity.
It's not "the US music industry association", or "the Irish music industry cartel", or something like that.
There is a supranational entity, named "the music industry", and it is both big and concrete enough to sue a country that doesn't play for 'its' interests.
That is a lost battle, that there is a cartel that, in our heads, represents the whole "music industry" of the world, and speaks for all the people related to music.
What they do with that power is also important, of course, but the fact that they detent it is an issue itself.

That's right. Most people who hate PHP don't know enough of it. That's why I hate it. I could never learn how a well built application should look like in PHP.
That's why _I_ wouldn't buy anything made in PHP, it's too hard to tell good from bad, for non experts.
If you are an expert in PHP , it's OK to use it, I wouldn't pay you to do it, because it's too hard to tell if you are really an expert, and it's too hard to get another expert if you change projects.

Without the cow, there would be no beef to sell, thus the cattle is just as important as the consumers. Thus they are BOTH customers.

I don't follow your reasoning.
You seem to not trust you elected representatives. Then, you want a set of companies to play a discrediting campaign against them, and that is supposed to bring some kind of justice?

Remember that they are people you voted for, they are supposed to represent your needs better than a random company, you should even defend them, not want them to be the target of abuse.

If they are not the people that should be elected, just vote others, it's not that hard.

Good one. Whooosh to the other repliers!!
Anyhow, I don't see why some people think the Chinese can't do whatever they please, regarding patents and stuff.
Patents are an industrial decision, countries are soverreign and can treat them as they please, and better serves their interest.
Of course, if they sign treaties and fail to honour them, there might be consequences, but it's just a strategic decision they make, maybe it's worth not to honour them.

They represent the interest of shareholders.
The interest of shareholders is profit.

They would be in FPMITA prison if they failed to take action toward maximizing profit. Of course, you can't send someone to jail based on failure, but you can based on their actions.