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Piracy hurts creators in developing countries

G Obonye — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:38:17 AM -0500

Piracy is an evil practice in it's all forms and those involved in it must identify themselves as dirty criminals.It harms creativity of the artist and tempers breakthrough. I am motswana willing to learn seswati and enjoying Shongwe's gospel.I do need a way of linking with Him more especially through e-mail.

So much for IBM’s commitment to open source

Richard Schwartz — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:58:07 AM -0500

I suppose some may think that the phrase "open source" should be reserved only for code that is available for free and code that is developed by a community process. I don't see it that way. "Open source" means only that the source is included with the product, available to anyone who wants to look at it or modify it -- so long as they comply with the license terms attached to it.

Many people do look at and modify the source to the standard IBM templates, and some of the changes that people make and post do seem to make it back into IBM's official version. It's pretty certain that that will happen with the blog template.

I agree that the official IBM release document only says that the code was removed from the blog template because it was open source, but that's obviously just an unfortunately terse statement. They ship Domino on Linux, and to do that they have to build it with open source tools and to link it with lots of open source code, so clearly IBM doesn't have a problem with releasing a product just because it incorporates open source components. Steve himself posted an explanation of why some features were removed from the blog template, including a mention of the open source license issues. It's in a response thread on vowe.net, here { Link }

-rich

So much for IBM’s commitment to open source

Tom Giovanetti — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:55:40 PM -0500

Richard,

I'd like to see you clarify what you said. The Lotus Notes and Domino templates were not developed through open source development to my knowledge, though the code may be open. There IS a difference between code being open and open source development. I've been using Lotus Notes for 13 years, and I'm pretty sure that the templates that come through Notes and Domino distribution are proprietary.

Regardless, the IBM document explaining the changes to Steve's templates state simply and repetitively that the reason the bits of code were removed was because they were open source.

To be clear, my point here is not to criticize IBM or Steve for doing this. And I'm not opposed to open source, either. I'm opposed to the ideological open source radicals constantly trumpeting about how IBM is so devoted to open source development, when the truth is that IBM is simply doing the logical thing that any company should do in this area: Use it when it's appropriate, but stick with proprietary software development when the end-product is going to contain enough value to leverage into profits.

So much for IBM’s commitment to open source

brent phillips — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:31:52 AM -0500

Excellent points. Seems risky for them, in fact, to keep such a superficial relationship with the open source community. Digging into the annual report sheds some interesting (additional) light on what you are already addressing above...I share some of this on my own blog here:

{ Link }

So much for IBM’s commitment to open source

Richard Schwartz — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:55:36 PM -0500

All of the code in the template is still open source. All of the standard application templates that ship with Notes and Domino are open source, and they have been ever since the product first shipped 17 years ago.

The thing is, not all open source code is equal when it comes to licensing. I'm not certain about this, but I believe that the reason (or a major part of the reason) that some of the 3rd-party open source code that Steve had used in his template had to be removed was that it was covered by a license that IBM couldn't comply with. I.e., which would have required IBM to make the entire Notes and Domino product open source. IBM is not alone amongst major computer firms in avoiding using any open source code that is covered by certain types of licenses. My employer reviews every software release, and every bit of open source code that is used has have its license checked and approved.

Response to EFF on IPI’s movie piracy study

enigma_foundry — Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:12:49 PM -0500

This is really really stupid. First, last time I checked Apple was an American company.

Second, the strong IP crowd usually coome down in favor of laws like the DMCA. Such laws take away our hard won freedoms.

It is the responsibility of corporations to adapt their business plans to the freedoms found in the societies in which they exist, not to try to adapt a society's freedom's to their business plans.

Piracy hurts creators in developing countries

walter phatimani mabasa — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:48:29 AM -0500

Piracy really hurts creators, particularly the artists. They are the one who are being eploited to their work.it's is a pity to find that most artists are poorer but in turn, their music is being played everywhere. Serious legal action must be taken against the pirates!

WIPO committee approves recommendation of the Broadcast Treaty to full WIPO assembly

James Love — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:37:15 AM -0500

You might check with the US delegation on that last point.

Piracy hurts creators in developing countries

Mhangani Tinyiko Samson — Fri, 8 Sep 2006 06:45:32 AM -0500

Piracy is prohited nationally and internationally, so all those people who really continue piracy must all arrested becouse they bring our world down and remain unprogresive...

Oh, those irascible young Eurosocialists at the Free Software Foundation Europe

Tom Giovanetti — Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:44:25 AM -0500

Read Adam Smith. Countries develop by participating in international markets, and the way you participate in international markets is to find some comparative advantage that you can sell or export.

Countries do not export services, for the most part. So countries need to develop things they can sell and export, not simply services for internal consumption.

The point is, a domestic software industry would be a superior thing to develop, because it can be sold and exported.

Piracy hurts creators in developing countries

MHANGANI TINYIKO SAMSON — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:56:14 PM -0500

I think Pirating artist's CD's and DVD's is not good and it dos'nt really shows sens of huminity, becouse at the end of the day artist dont benefit any thing in terms of profit and any souce that will really help them in future.

Oh, those irascible young Eurosocialists at the Free Software Foundation Europe

me — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 06:39:26 PM -0500

So kenya's software industry might voluntarily not make money, but its service industry will? Whats the worry?

Who do you think is the most important person in this guy’s life?

Tom Giovanetti — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:22:25 AM -0500

Claude,

Thanks for the tips, but I've been blogging since February 20, 2003. Also, you imply that I am being dishonest about the comment sent to the blog from "Bill Gates," and you seem to think that somehow because this site has an RSS feed that you've caught me in something. But you don't know how this blog works. All comments to this blog are held in a draft, unpublished mode until I decide to allow them to be published. If I delete or hold a comment, it doesn't go out on RSS.

The comments policy for this blog is public and easily available.

I simply deleted the "Bill Gates" submission without publishing it, as I do most such comments. I am soveriegn over what comments become public on this blog, and which do not. But I'm a beneficent dictator, which is how YOUR comments got posted.

Finally, I don't believe that correcting a bad link requires an update notice in the same way that modifying, changing or adding content does. That's fixing an error. There's nothing misleading about that.

WIPO PCDA on the Development Agenda is over

Simon Qobo — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:06:47 AM -0500

It is incorrect to say that Brazil and Argentina were obstructionist...infact all of the Group of Friends of Development were not interested in the Chair's paper. I would also like to underscore that the Chair also admitted that he had difficulties in integrating the Group of Friends of Development's views in his proposal, as a consequence his paper was imbalanced hence we did not accept it as a basis for negotiations. The best thing that he would have done, would be to withdraw his proposal and go back to the drawing board to come up with a better proposal and he was relunctant to do that.

Therefore, I again it is incorrect to say that other members of the Group were interested in that kind of compromise.

Who do you think is the most important person in this guy’s life?

Claude Almansi — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:05:09 AM -0500

Mr Giovanetti,

About your attempt at sarcasm in "I'm sure your correction and "Bill Gates'" corrections to the exact same blog entry within a few minutes of each other was just a coincidence." (reply 2):

Your blog has at least two RSS feeds, you know:

{ Link } for the posts and

{ Link } for the comments.

The former allows others to follow what you publish in almost real time, you know. See { Link }

Other useful indications for blogging beginners in Mr Greve's { Link }

Who do you think is the most important person in this guy’s life?

shaitan — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:47:25 PM -0500

Mr. Giovanetti, for a free man the most important person is someone called "freedom"

for you is maybe money and wasting your time like this ;)

re: Who do you think is the most important person in this guy’s life?

Thomas A Giovanetti — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:21:28 PM -0500

Georg,

I appreciate the correction, and I already corrected the link earlier today when someone named "Bill Gates" pointed out exactly the same thing.

Of course, I usually don't allow the posting of comments by people using dishonest or misleading identification, so I didn't post "Bill Gates" correction, but I am posting yours. I'm sure your correction and "Bill Gates'" corrections to the exact same blog entry within a few minutes of each other was just a coincidence.

Unless, of course, the real Bill Gates is a good friend of yours and wanted to make sure you were given full credit for your photos.

Who do you think is the most important person in this guy’s life?

Georg Greve — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:07:47 PM -0500

Hi Tom,

do you miss me so much between meetings that you need to look for pictures? I have to say I find that slightly creepy. Anyhow, that blog you're linking to is not mine, see { Link }

Problem of content backup

late in the game — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:36:19 AM -0500

I have only one thing to say about the pocket dish. If Dish Network locks up the transparent capablity for other manufacturers to build a device to extract the video for playback when away from home, then it is like using monopoly power. I'm certain a lot of their users have no other option (cable not available, other providers satellite doesn't work or have the channels they want).

Now, I'm all for NO govt intervention in a businesses mode of operation if there is no fraud, but maybe we can scare them into submission.

Just a silly thought from an even sillier guy..

viva la' usenet (err.. revolution)