On Sun, January 28, 2007 7:55 am, M. Fioretti said:
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 07:11:31 AM -0800, Charles R. Buchanan (charles@daphatbell.com) wrote:
Using that analogy, then why doesn't the "consortium" that adopts TCP/IP protocols charge for every use of the internet?
because *that "consortium"* decided NOT to do so, and release everything with a different license. Simple.
every cd I buy, I rip it to my hard drive. I think that is my right to do that.
I haven't seen anybody on this list stating that such an activity should be illegal (while it _is_ illegal in maaany countries, starting from many of the important Western ones, which doesn't explicitly allow format shifting: but is this Suse's fault?)
Guess I will be playing them with something other than SuSe. <sigh>
You have realized that it is absolutely NOT Suse's fault if you and lots of others have this problem, haven't you?
Ciao, Marco
Aren't we defensive this morning? :-) No where did I say it was SuSe fault. I think you need to go read what I said again. Maybe something was lost in the translation. I still stand by my thoughts and the analogy is still the same. You can "hide" behind the "different license" stand. (in other words legal mumble jumbo) Like I said, where there is money to be made, there are lawyers. Sometimes it's funny to see who gets there first, the lawyers or the tax man! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org