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Comment Re:Sorry man, but not everyone agrees with you (Score 1) 1098

by bloodymad on Saturday January 25, 2014 @10:11AM (#46066049) Attached to: FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback'

Stallman is in effect saying that developers *shouldn’t* have the freedom to decide how other people can use their code.

Not at all, he just says that their decision is detrimental in the greater view of things. He knows they have every right to do bad (in his point of view) decisions. But he also has the right to tell them that he thinks their decisions are bad.

Comment Re:Read between the lines (Score 1) 301

by bloodymad on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @08:38AM (#39709031) Attached to: Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store

Why would it be a "win" for the government to have to spend a lot of money?

Submission + - iD and Valve violating GPL

Submitted by frooge on Saturday August 04, 2007 @09:54PM

frooge writes: With the recent release of iD's catalog on Steam, it appears DOSBox is being used to run the old DOS games for greater compatibility. According to a post on the Halflife2.net forums, however, this distribution does not contain a copy of the GPL license that DOSBox is distributed under, which violates the license. According to the DOSBox developers, they were not notified that it was being used for this release.

Submission + - Surveillance cameras coming to New York (cnn.com)

Submitted by yapplejax on Friday August 03, 2007 @03:57PM

yapplejax writes: New York City seeks funding for multi-million dollar surveilance system in Lower Manhattan.
Steven Swain from the London Metropolitan Police states "I don't know of a single incident where CCTV has actually been used to spot, apprehend or detain offenders in the act". The statement is countered by New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, stating the unprovable "We don't know acts that may have been planned that — because of the surveillance and deterrence systems that are in place — did not go forward."
And as the story also states, does a terrorist who is about to embark on a suicide mission really care if he gets caught on camera?
Do you have any expectation of privacy in a public area? Do you care if you are being filmed by a network of cameras while you walk around a major city? What if it was your home town?

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