nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 28 Aug 2012 @ 4:15pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: The Jury
Thanks for enlightening me. I hadn't read all the articles on Groklaw but when I delved a bit deeper it seems that there has been an element of foul play towards Samsungs legal team.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 28 Aug 2012 @ 4:08pm
Couple of objections...
One objection I have to dropping NC is the unfortunate case we already see in the music industry and with YouTube...
Where an original indie artist will create a work - it gets picked up free by a corporate, who release a movie or song -- then 3 months later the original artist is receiving DMCA takedowns and cease & desist orders for using the work which they actually own!
Furthermore there is the argument that by offering ND-NC you are keeping the possibility of widespread adoption of Creative Commons vs (C)opyright. If more people default to specifying (CC) rather than a (C), Creative Commons actually wins more legitimacy and presents creators with a choice when specifying copyright rather than going with the typical restriction (many creators are still not even aware of CC).
What they seem to advocating is the equivalent of BSD/Apache license for creative works - maybe they should be looking to the GPL and be advocating that the work can be put to commercial use, but that any derivative should release the derivative 'elements' back to the community for remixing.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 28 Aug 2012 @ 3:40pm
The only real solution here is to not use YouTube, use a competitor. I know I am not going to post another video there after getting 2 DMCA notices on my videos.
Providing a quick and easy DMCA mechanism for "rights holders" is one thing, going beyond that to create an automated system so "rights holders" don't even have to do the hard work of actually identifying copyright infringement is way out of line.
My guess is they have this content ID alert setup to go to some generic corporate inbox and the secretary sitting on it is told simply "when you get one of these emails, just click the DMCA button and that's it".
Send Google and these twats a message. Stop using YouTube.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 27 Aug 2012 @ 3:19pm
Re: Re: Re:
"The result will likely be an increase in costs to Android users because of licensing fees to Apple. This will drive many Android consumers over to Apple."
Because Apple devices are sooo much cheaper than any other competitor, and it will only take a few dollars more on Android to tip the balance, right?
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 25 Aug 2012 @ 3:35pm
Geofacism
If the US was a little bit more gracious with their immigration rules and welcomed immigrants who want to legally pay taxes and invest (read: create jobs) in their country, they wouldn't have to worry so much about the odd rich guy fleeing and giving up citizenship.
Me, I'm with John Lennon, I'm looking forward to the day we go back to the old system where you didn't require passports to travel the world freely.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 24 Aug 2012 @ 11:15am
I think to myself, if I were facing a $675k lawsuit over sharing 30 songs, it may as well be $675 billion as I couldn't afford that figure.
So you know what, every day the trial continued, I'd declare to the court I just shared those same 30 songs again on BitTorrent the night before. Bing! $675k bing! another $675k bing! Bing! Bing! I'd just keep doing it.
I'd basically try to find out if the judge is daft enough to keep a running total or make the MAFIAA file separate lawsuits; if so, how high could I rack up the total?!
It would make a complete mockery of the system. I'd keep a running total myself and tell them "Today I owe you guys a bazillion dollars!"
If you're going to be made bankrupt anyway, make it worthwhile!
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 21 Aug 2012 @ 12:48pm
If coffee were like apps...
Sometimes I would buy the coffee and the following things would happen...
- I'd order an espresso, but I wouldn't be able to drink it right away, I'd have to wait 30 minutes whilst the barista proceeded to fill the cup with enough espresso for an extra-large cup. It would be my responsibility to provide the large cup for all the excess coffee. If I didn't have a large enough cup, the barista would throw the espresso away and then wait till I go purchase a larger cup and come back.
- Every now and then a coffee I had ordered would randomly be swiped away from the table I am sitting at. When I inquire as to why my coffee was taken away, I'd be told the barista did not have the rights to sell me that coffee and so I should pick another drink from the menu. I would be warned that any other drink I pick could also be taken away in the same fashion if the barista so felt like it.
- If I purchased a coffee in a ceramic mug for drinking-in, but then needed to leave before I finished, the barista would refuse to give me a paper cup, or allow me to use my own thermos. I'd be told I have to purchase another coffee in the correct coffee-rights-managed holder, which would allow me to enjoy my coffee outside the restaurant.
- Every now and then I'd enter the coffee house and I'd be told that there is no coffee available for my nationality... even though there are dozens of other people lined up and getting served. I could get served however if I go outside, then come back in wearing a different shirt or a hat - depending on what other nationalities were wearing that day.
- If I had bought a coffee but decided not to drink it and order water instead, there'd be no way for me to give that coffee to anyone else - literally the cup is registered to my lips only.
- If I brewed coffee at home and invited my friends around for free coffee... sometime during the evening CPAA (Coffee Police Ass. of America) agents accompanied by the FBI would smash down my door and arrest me and my friends drag us all off to a jail whilst the CPAA was allowed to search through my cupboards looking for evidence of coffee making equipment. I'd lose my friends, my job, my home. 10 months later the FBI would drop the case and the courts would rule that I did nothing wrong by sharing my coffee.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 21 Aug 2012 @ 12:07pm
Eff to America!
Given the sheer number of people who believe the myth, as well as based on this level of incompetance and malice; I'd be surprised if they weren't actively trying to set up a sting operation by inviting their own Commander in Chief to join a terrorist cell.
Y'know, him being a muslim, communist, nazi, unamerican, non-american, america-hating, muslim, freedom-hating, stinking liberal.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 20 Aug 2012 @ 1:29pm
I am really, really hoping that the motivation of Google here is that they have waited to be directly attacked; but since no lawsuit has been forthcoming they are now stepping into the fray in the hopes of striking a massive blow against Apple and getting a ceasefire.
I would then hope they take the battle to Microsoft's doorstep and give them a black eye, before getting back to the innovation.
I fear though that they may fall to the dark side... "Take your patent lawsuit! Use it. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!"
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 10 Aug 2012 @ 7:46pm
I may be chewing the wrong end of the stick but shouldn't OSHWA really be called Patent Free Hardware? Open source refers to source-code.
They could consider a name change, lending weight to the fact they're not 'competing' in the same industry therefore no customer confusion (since we must also remember that trademarks' original intention was to protect the consumer, not protect a brand.
In the end, it seems to me that if hardware and software freedom is to really take off, laws need to be changed to adapt to business models which may not primarily be profit driven (but at the same time not a registered charity).
In this case, I can understand the desire to protect the TM for OSI (prevent anyone from taking it and classifying their software as 'open' through an implied association) but the same time the law doesn't provide for the core philosophy behind the mark... its a case of defend it or lose it - even if there's no actual 'product' being sold.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 10 Aug 2012 @ 3:59pm
DMCA - Digital Mafiaa Censorship of America
Maybe Google will give up censoring search results when it gets too much and more all their American .com access requests through their .hk domain like they did with that other authoritarian regime?
Anyway I can foresee...
1. 1st and 2nd search result pages become boiler-plate same websites listed everytime. Innocent search terms by people doing research for non-music, non-movie related topics e.g. "torrents of water" results 1-10 = Simon & Garfunkel official website... Buy Deep Purple album from Warner today etc... causing annoyed users to flock elsewhere or learn to click thru the first couple of pages.
2. Search competitors rising and capitalising on this self-imposed performance degradation.
3. SEO methodology switches to getting your website to appear at the top of page 3...n as the first couple of pages become meaningless.
4. Bit players in search and SEO are going to begin 'craigslisting' by building websites that filter Google search results to get rid of all the first page junk, or curate the salted results to get what you want (Google play whackamole with them).
5. Google search slowly declines... Mafiaa move on too persecuting the next new tech (holovids?) Google finally fix their broken search in an attempt to catch up with the competition that passed them, but loss of goodwill and perception of being 'the search engine only your parents use' will plague them, they never recover.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 8 Aug 2012 @ 1:53pm
Re: Re: Re:
Totally understand your point but mindlessly passing on hearsay via Twitter (the 2012 equivalent of forwarding a circa 1997 'Bill Gates is sharing his wealth' email) has ruined an innocent mans business.
Neither you nor your family deserve death threats, but just holding your hands up and saying all I did is tweet is a little obnoxious to say the least.
Do you think you deserve some award for not pursuing legal action? As though that makes your hands clean? I didn't tweet and I didn't threaten to sue either! Where's my medal?
No you don't deserve death threats, no-one does, but I wouldn't shed a tear if your primary method of income was suddenly, maliciously shut down by a bunch of morons.
Or maybe you should find a way to assist the website owner in getting it back up and running, perhaps a small financial contribution? That would speak louder than words and certainly speak louder than a 'misguided' tweet.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 7 Aug 2012 @ 3:28am
Re: Re: Re:
The drivers/compatibility issue with Linux is nothing more than a myth now and has been for a few years. It may have once applied, but I find more often than not Linux finds more drivers than Windows Vista or 7 currently and it's much easier to set up...
This goes for a cheap internal multi-sd card reader (with bluetooth) I bought last year on Amazon. Ubuntu picked it up straight away and it was ready to play with. My Windows partition however, still does not recognise the bluetooth component.
Old PC games? Again, easier running through Wine than trying to make them compatible with Windows 7.
The problems people have with Linux is not that it's harder OS to use, it's that it's a different OS with a different way of working, like swimming vs running. Both get you from A to B but you're using entirely different muscles (by extension: for me, using Windows is like trying to run in water when I should be swimming - but that's just me).
Once you've familiarized yourself with how it works then you find it's surprisingly much more logical and easier to use. Instead of 10 steps to do something, it can be done in 2 steps.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 4 Aug 2012 @ 10:01am
Matt vs Matt
I think there's only one person who really has the unique knowledge, understanding, experience, and character to really call out Matt Gemmell on his rant, and that is Matt Gemmell...
"If you’re not in the mobile apps business to make money, then great - congratulations. This is your bus stop. Off you go. Have a nice life. I, however, am in business to make money." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"You may want to have a look at my software applications Favorites for iPhone (speed-dial, messaging and email with style - $1.99), and Shady for Mac (dim your Mac’s screen more than Mac OS X allows, to soothe tired eyes - free and open source)."
- Matt Gemmell - About Matt
"Shame on you for pricing at $0.99 to chase the kind of customers who, well, think a dollar is anything but a trivial, throwaway amount of money that won’t even remotely get you a reasonable cup of coffee. Get some self-respect. Quit encouraging bad behaviour, and ruining the party for everyone else." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"The vast majority of people are happy to buy your stuff, but only if you’re reasonable about it... We’re not asking to get things for free, but we’re not willing to be fucked.
- Matt Gemmell - About Matt
"It wasn’t piracy due to a high price. Instead, this was the endemic casual piracy of convenience." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"We’ll buy stuff if it’s convenient to do so, and if the price is reasonable. Any sensible business would thus have as its goal 'make our stuff convenient to buy, and price it reasonably.'"
- Matt Gemmell 17/02/2012
"The system is designed for piracy from the ground up. The existence of piracy isn’t a surprise, but rather an inevitability." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"Piracy can never be completely eradicated, because there are always going to be criminals, and there are always going to be brain-addled, hormone crazed teenagers on the internet."
- Matt Gemmell 17/02/2012
"Piracy isn’t some unknowable thing that you can blame on teenagers in China and Russia. Those kids are practitioners of it, sure, but piracy is just a by-product of a broken model." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"There’s always going to be a teenager who places zero value on their own time, and will gladly spend days just to know that, in the end, they fucked you back just a little bit."
- Matt Gemmell 17/02/2012
"The only relevant problem to fix is the root cause, and (conveniently) that’s the only one you can fix.
People pirate Android apps because it’s easy.
It’s easy because the platform was built with an open mentality." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"Pretty much everyone I know has purchased some of your DRM-encrusted media, then stripped the DRM so they can consume their media in the way they want to. Pretty much everyone. They don’t see that as a criminal act, and they never will."
- Matt Gemmell 17/02/2012
"Another piece is community contributions to the OS codebase. On the first point, iOS devices are doing just fine. On the second, a closed OS has only strengthened the brand, cohesion of direction, integration, usability and design standard of the product" - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"I’ve released many pieces of Cocoa and Cocoa Touch source code over the past few years, which have been used in literally hundreds of apps; feel free to have a browse through it."
- Matt Gemmell 17/02/2012
"If you want a platform to be commercially viable for third-party software developers, you have to lock it down. Just like in real life, closing the door and locking it helps make sure that your money remains yours." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"Well, fuck you. There’s always going to be some kid who can find a way around your next big DRM scheme."
- Matt Gemmell 17/02/2012
"I’m guessing it’s largely related to the service-oriented consumer culture that we inhabit, with the overarching obsequious and counterproductive “the customer is always right” principle embedded in its side like a festering splinter." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"First you fuck us with exorbitant pricing. Then you fuck us with inconvenience by not making your content universally available when we want it. Then you fuck us by treating every paying customer like a criminal."
- Matt Gemmell 17/02/2012
"Existence of some viable open source models doesn’t change the reality for the vast majority of developers. We don’t have a rich daddy like Mozilla. We don’t have an operating system for which we can use a paid-support model. We just want to make apps, then sell enough copies of them so that we can make some more." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"...You’re ... being incredibly short-sighted, greedy and stupid. I’m not going to argue with that, because you really are."
- Matt Gemmell 17/02/2012
"Lock it down... Open is an ideal, like true democracy, that’s warm and comforting but also impossible in a practical sense. It’s self-limiting. You’re spending today to pay for tomorrow, and we all know how that usually turns out... Capitalism wins, and it’ll drown you in the process if you stand in the way." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"Give us convenient content at a reasonable price, and we’ll buy it. Sell the stuff without DRM, for a few dollars. Make it available to everyone, worldwide, at the same time. Then take the massive, unending pile of money, forever."
- Matt Gemmell 17/02/2012
Let me make this perfectly clear: piracy is your own fault. - Matt Gemmell, Feb 17th 2012
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Take away the very things they love -- namely our freedoms, our Western lifestyles, our culture and our media.
On the post: Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued PadMapper For Adding
and it's corollary - The more you sue, the more your business model will improve.
On the post: Apple/Samsung Jurors Admit They Finished Quickly By Ignoring Prior Art & Other Key Factors
Re: Re: Re: Re: The Jury
On the post: Should Creative Commons Drop Its NonCommercial & NoDerivatives License Options?
Couple of objections...
Where an original indie artist will create a work - it gets picked up free by a corporate, who release a movie or song -- then 3 months later the original artist is receiving DMCA takedowns and cease & desist orders for using the work which they actually own!
Furthermore there is the argument that by offering ND-NC you are keeping the possibility of widespread adoption of Creative Commons vs (C)opyright. If more people default to specifying (CC) rather than a (C), Creative Commons actually wins more legitimacy and presents creators with a choice when specifying copyright rather than going with the typical restriction (many creators are still not even aware of CC).
What they seem to advocating is the equivalent of BSD/Apache license for creative works - maybe they should be looking to the GPL and be advocating that the work can be put to commercial use, but that any derivative should release the derivative 'elements' back to the community for remixing.
On the post: Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician
Providing a quick and easy DMCA mechanism for "rights holders" is one thing, going beyond that to create an automated system so "rights holders" don't even have to do the hard work of actually identifying copyright infringement is way out of line.
My guess is they have this content ID alert setup to go to some generic corporate inbox and the secretary sitting on it is told simply "when you get one of these emails, just click the DMCA button and that's it".
Send Google and these twats a message. Stop using YouTube.
On the post: Apple/Samsung Jurors Admit They Finished Quickly By Ignoring Prior Art & Other Key Factors
Re: Re: The Jury
Why couldn't they do their research? Why did they present evidence late? They just seemed a tad naive the whole way through this process.
Arguably, there's one thing that Samsung wasn't able to copy... Apple's persuasive lawyers
On the post: Apple/Samsung Jurors Admit They Finished Quickly By Ignoring Prior Art & Other Key Factors
Re: Re: Re:
Because Apple devices are sooo much cheaper than any other competitor, and it will only take a few dollars more on Android to tip the balance, right?
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
:)
On the post: Facebook's Lower Stock Price Means Saverin Doubled Tax Bill By Leaving The Country
Geofacism
Me, I'm with John Lennon, I'm looking forward to the day we go back to the old system where you didn't require passports to travel the world freely.
On the post: District Court: $675,000 For Non-commercially Sharing 30 Songs Is Perfectly Reasonable
So you know what, every day the trial continued, I'd declare to the court I just shared those same 30 songs again on BitTorrent the night before. Bing! $675k bing! another $675k bing! Bing! Bing! I'd just keep doing it.
I'd basically try to find out if the judge is daft enough to keep a running total or make the MAFIAA file separate lawsuits; if so, how high could I rack up the total?!
It would make a complete mockery of the system. I'd keep a running total myself and tell them "Today I owe you guys a bazillion dollars!"
If you're going to be made bankrupt anyway, make it worthwhile!
On the post: Oxford Professor Says Mankind Is Ethically Obligated To Create Genetically Engineered Babies
Let's do it...
On the post: Apps Are Not Coffee
If coffee were like apps...
- I'd order an espresso, but I wouldn't be able to drink it right away, I'd have to wait 30 minutes whilst the barista proceeded to fill the cup with enough espresso for an extra-large cup. It would be my responsibility to provide the large cup for all the excess coffee. If I didn't have a large enough cup, the barista would throw the espresso away and then wait till I go purchase a larger cup and come back.
- Every now and then a coffee I had ordered would randomly be swiped away from the table I am sitting at. When I inquire as to why my coffee was taken away, I'd be told the barista did not have the rights to sell me that coffee and so I should pick another drink from the menu. I would be warned that any other drink I pick could also be taken away in the same fashion if the barista so felt like it.
- If I purchased a coffee in a ceramic mug for drinking-in, but then needed to leave before I finished, the barista would refuse to give me a paper cup, or allow me to use my own thermos. I'd be told I have to purchase another coffee in the correct coffee-rights-managed holder, which would allow me to enjoy my coffee outside the restaurant.
- Every now and then I'd enter the coffee house and I'd be told that there is no coffee available for my nationality... even though there are dozens of other people lined up and getting served. I could get served however if I go outside, then come back in wearing a different shirt or a hat - depending on what other nationalities were wearing that day.
- If I had bought a coffee but decided not to drink it and order water instead, there'd be no way for me to give that coffee to anyone else - literally the cup is registered to my lips only.
- If I brewed coffee at home and invited my friends around for free coffee... sometime during the evening CPAA (Coffee Police Ass. of America) agents accompanied by the FBI would smash down my door and arrest me and my friends drag us all off to a jail whilst the CPAA was allowed to search through my cupboards looking for evidence of coffee making equipment. I'd lose my friends, my job, my home. 10 months later the FBI would drop the case and the courts would rule that I did nothing wrong by sharing my coffee.
On the post: FBI-Created 'Terrorist Plot' Fails To Produce A Single Terrorist -- But Does Plenty Of Damage To Individual Liberties
Eff to America!
Y'know, him being a muslim, communist, nazi, unamerican, non-american, america-hating, muslim, freedom-hating, stinking liberal.
On the post: Google Launches Patent Attack On Apple In A Disappointing First For The Company
I would then hope they take the battle to Microsoft's doorstep and give them a black eye, before getting back to the innovation.
I fear though that they may fall to the dark side... "Take your patent lawsuit! Use it. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!"
On the post: Two Open Source Communities Battle It Out Over Trademarks
They could consider a name change, lending weight to the fact they're not 'competing' in the same industry therefore no customer confusion (since we must also remember that trademarks' original intention was to protect the consumer, not protect a brand.
In the end, it seems to me that if hardware and software freedom is to really take off, laws need to be changed to adapt to business models which may not primarily be profit driven (but at the same time not a registered charity).
In this case, I can understand the desire to protect the TM for OSI (prevent anyone from taking it and classifying their software as 'open' through an implied association) but the same time the law doesn't provide for the core philosophy behind the mark... its a case of defend it or lose it - even if there's no actual 'product' being sold.
On the post: Google Caves To Hollywood Pressure: Will Now Punish Sites That Get Lots Of 'Valid' DMCA Notices
DMCA - Digital Mafiaa Censorship of America
Anyway I can foresee...
1. 1st and 2nd search result pages become boiler-plate same websites listed everytime. Innocent search terms by people doing research for non-music, non-movie related topics e.g. "torrents of water" results 1-10 = Simon & Garfunkel official website... Buy Deep Purple album from Warner today etc... causing annoyed users to flock elsewhere or learn to click thru the first couple of pages.
2. Search competitors rising and capitalising on this self-imposed performance degradation.
3. SEO methodology switches to getting your website to appear at the top of page 3...n as the first couple of pages become meaningless.
4. Bit players in search and SEO are going to begin 'craigslisting' by building websites that filter Google search results to get rid of all the first page junk, or curate the salted results to get what you want (Google play whackamole with them).
5. Google search slowly declines... Mafiaa move on too persecuting the next new tech (holovids?) Google finally fix their broken search in an attempt to catch up with the competition that passed them, but loss of goodwill and perception of being 'the search engine only your parents use' will plague them, they never recover.
On the post: Legit Ebook Lending Site Taken Down By An Angry Twitmob Of Writers [UPDATED]
Re: Re: Re:
Neither you nor your family deserve death threats, but just holding your hands up and saying all I did is tweet is a little obnoxious to say the least.
Do you think you deserve some award for not pursuing legal action? As though that makes your hands clean? I didn't tweet and I didn't threaten to sue either! Where's my medal?
No you don't deserve death threats, no-one does, but I wouldn't shed a tear if your primary method of income was suddenly, maliciously shut down by a bunch of morons.
Or maybe you should find a way to assist the website owner in getting it back up and running, perhaps a small financial contribution? That would speak louder than words and certainly speak louder than a 'misguided' tweet.
On the post: Legit Ebook Lending Site Taken Down By An Angry Twitmob Of Writers [UPDATED]
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: Game Developers Concerned About A Potentially Closed Windows 8
Re: Re: Re:
This goes for a cheap internal multi-sd card reader (with bluetooth) I bought last year on Amazon. Ubuntu picked it up straight away and it was ready to play with. My Windows partition however, still does not recognise the bluetooth component.
Old PC games? Again, easier running through Wine than trying to make them compatible with Windows 7.
The problems people have with Linux is not that it's harder OS to use, it's that it's a different OS with a different way of working, like swimming vs running. Both get you from A to B but you're using entirely different muscles (by extension: for me, using Windows is like trying to run in water when I should be swimming - but that's just me).
Once you've familiarized yourself with how it works then you find it's surprisingly much more logical and easier to use. Instead of 10 steps to do something, it can be done in 2 steps.
On the post: App Developer: Android OS Built For Piracy And Consumer Choice Sucks
Matt vs Matt
"If you’re not in the mobile apps business to make money, then great - congratulations. This is your bus stop. Off you go. Have a nice life. I, however, am in business to make money." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"Shame on you for pricing at $0.99 to chase the kind of customers who, well, think a dollar is anything but a trivial, throwaway amount of money that won’t even remotely get you a reasonable cup of coffee. Get some self-respect. Quit encouraging bad behaviour, and ruining the party for everyone else." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"It wasn’t piracy due to a high price. Instead, this was the endemic casual piracy of convenience." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"The system is designed for piracy from the ground up. The existence of piracy isn’t a surprise, but rather an inevitability." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"Piracy isn’t some unknowable thing that you can blame on teenagers in China and Russia. Those kids are practitioners of it, sure, but piracy is just a by-product of a broken model." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"The only relevant problem to fix is the root cause, and (conveniently) that’s the only one you can fix.
People pirate Android apps because it’s easy.
It’s easy because the platform was built with an open mentality." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"Another piece is community contributions to the OS codebase. On the first point, iOS devices are doing just fine. On the second, a closed OS has only strengthened the brand, cohesion of direction, integration, usability and design standard of the product" - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"If you want a platform to be commercially viable for third-party software developers, you have to lock it down. Just like in real life, closing the door and locking it helps make sure that your money remains yours." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"I’m guessing it’s largely related to the service-oriented consumer culture that we inhabit, with the overarching obsequious and counterproductive “the customer is always right” principle embedded in its side like a festering splinter." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"Existence of some viable open source models doesn’t change the reality for the vast majority of developers. We don’t have a rich daddy like Mozilla. We don’t have an operating system for which we can use a paid-support model. We just want to make apps, then sell enough copies of them so that we can make some more." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
"Lock it down... Open is an ideal, like true democracy, that’s warm and comforting but also impossible in a practical sense. It’s self-limiting. You’re spending today to pay for tomorrow, and we all know how that usually turns out... Capitalism wins, and it’ll drown you in the process if you stand in the way." - Matt Gemmell 23/07/2012
Let me make this perfectly clear: piracy is your own fault. - Matt Gemmell, Feb 17th 2012
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