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I've had a copyright claim (as a matter fact, a couple) before. One was for a Marvin Gaye song. The man has been dead for thirty six years. Yet, there's BMI, CHA-CHING! Ready to cash in. It's fucking disgusting. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't hate it if we kept the copyright laws the...

What, like it is now? Writer writes a story, goes for years that it doesn't get made into a movie... Signs away his rights to it, and then all of a sudden it gets picked up and made into a blockbuster that the studio will own for 100 years? That's only if they don't decide to renew their...

Yah, Pantheon might be released by now. I realize that this doesn't help my case, but still funny, if sadistic.

Where will Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 source code be available? | Red Hat Connect for Technology Partners So, if you wanted to take the time out and build it yourself, you can. Just don't expect any support. Because the people who have support, have paid for it. I mean, that's what CentOS...

I believe, although I'm not certain, that Red Hat is still a FOSS project. It's the support people are paying for. Not the OS.

Right, and that's exactly why Linux is used for 90% of our servers today.

What's the alternative? To have shitty shows and movies coming out, like we do now? Games? Games have such a low sell through rate after say, a year (hell, a month) that I just wouldn't care. I don't think that anybody in the software industry would give a shit either. The only people that...

Our copyright system is crazy. It's your lifetime plus twenty years. So, If Billie Joe Armstrong of Greenday, at 18, had only written When I Come Around (and no other songs), he was already set for life. And his kids were probably set for most of their lives, too. I ran into a guy who...