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Comment You didn't read it, eh? (Score 1) 650

by kingttx on Monday March 01, 2010 @08:01PM (#31324418) Attached to: Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate!

I'd suggest reading the damned pdf file someone linked below and, you know, understand it.

No, no, lemme place it right in front of your nose. After ranting and raving about piracy, CD/DVD burning (eh???), and whatnot, here is their recommended action for 2010:

Priority Actions Requested in 2010: IIPA requests that the government of Indonesia take the following actions, which would result in the most significant near term commercial benefits to the copyright industries:
Market Access and Related Issues
Rescind March 2009 MenPAN circular letter endorsing the use and adoption of open source software which threatens to create additional trade barriers and deny fair and equitable market access to software companies.

The circular letter endorses FOSS, it doesn't mandate it. Yet, IIPA wishes Indonesia to recant? Why? What logic, besides outright greed, connects suggesting gov't entities use FOSS with denying fair and equitable market access?

Want more? Look on page 3 of that pdf under the title "Government Procurement Preference Denies U.S. Software Companies a Level Playing Field", and read this little tidbit about 20 times to get it into your head:
"Rather than fostering a system that will allow users to benefit from the best solution available in the market, irrespective of the development model, it encourages a mindset that does not give due consideration to the value to intellectual creations. As such, it fails to build respect for intellectual property rights and also limits the ability of government or public-sector customers (e.g., State-owned enterprise) to choose the best solutions to meet the needs of their organizations and the Indonesian people."

1. How does encouraging the use of FOSS "not give due consideration to the value to intellectual creations"????
2. How the hell does anyone dump any logic and come to the conclusion, "As such, it fails to build respect for intellectual property rights..."???
3. Keep in the front of your mind this is to the USTR, not some article. This is a plea to enact action between the USTR and Indonesia, not some blog entry. Therefore, stating, in public effing record, that Indonesia is wrong, wrong, wrong for encouraging the use of FOSS (regardless that its use is not mandated) begins to show the true feelings behind this IIPA travesty.

Others have said it better, this is IIPA et. al. crying, "You aren't using our software! That's not fair!!!"

Still think "bias" is the right term? Come on!

Submission + - Unusual physics engine game ported to Linux (blogspot.com)

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christian.einfeldt

on Thursday July 16, 2009 @11:37PM

christian.einfeldt writes: "Halloween has come early for Linux-loving gamers in the form of the scary Penumbra game trilogy, which has just recently been ported natively to GNU-Linux by the manufacturer, Frictional Games. The Penumbra games, named Overture, Black Plague, and Requiem, respectively, are first person survival horror and physics puzzle games which challenge the player to survive in a mine in Greenland which has been taken over by a monstrous infection/demon/cthulhu-esque thing. The graphics, sounds, and plot are all admirable in a scary sort of way. The protagonist is an ordinary human with no particular powers at all, who fumbles around in the dark mine fighting zombified dogs or fleeing from infected humans. But the game is remarkable for its physics engine — rather than just bump and acquire, the player must use the mouse to physically turn knobs and open doors; and the player can grab and throw pretty much anything in the environment. The physics engine drives objects to fly and fall exactly as one would expect. The porting of a game with such a deft physics engine natively to Linux might be one of the most noteworthy events for GNU-Linux gamers since the 'World of Goo' Linux port."

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