"Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise"
IF, and this is a big if, that were true ... then:
IBM, Apple, iNTEL, AMD, nVidia, ATI, Yahoo!, Google, and on and on and on
WOULD NOT EXIST!
period!
end of discussion.
It is the nature of innovation to disrupt so-called "status-quo" so as to improve and move society forward.
It's how we learn, adapt, and grow, both personally and as a society. It's something to build on, and opens up new doors and ideas for further improvement and pursuit.
Also, in addition to 'That One Guy's comment, if you'd also read the comments made, you would notice that *nix competency is in HIGH demand.
As far as Microsoft Office (which IS what you were talking about without saying it outright) OpenOffice/LibreOffice can open/save the Office formats, and has a very comparable functionality to Office.
Sharing files is using ANY OS isn't difficult either, as learning to do network troubleshooting in a *nix system gives valuable experience that is easy to transfer to Windoze, and actually gives them more insight to the underlying system and HOW THINGS WORK. Try that with any M$ OS out now. They hide any real functionality behind LAYERS and LAYERS of obfuscation and "you're not allowed to do that" functional blocking.
So.... here's you a shovel ... you wanna keep digging?
"Mr. Carreon also demanded that Paul Alan Levy convey Mr. Carreon's disquiet about this case, and Public Citizen's involvement in it, to Ralph Nader. I am unable to make the preceding sentence any more hilarious, and so will hang my head in shame and move on."
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There, FTFY!
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How deep does the rabbit hole go?
maybe he'll dig his own(and the MAFIAA's) grave faster with it!
On the post: Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise
Wait... WHAT ?!?
IF, and this is a big if, that were true ... then:
IBM, Apple, iNTEL, AMD, nVidia, ATI, Yahoo!, Google, and on and on and on
WOULD NOT EXIST!
period!
end of discussion.
It is the nature of innovation to disrupt so-called "status-quo" so as to improve and move society forward.
It's how we learn, adapt, and grow, both personally and as a society. It's something to build on, and opens up new doors and ideas for further improvement and pursuit.
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As far as Microsoft Office (which IS what you were talking about without saying it outright) OpenOffice/LibreOffice can open/save the Office formats, and has a very comparable functionality to Office.
Sharing files is using ANY OS isn't difficult either, as learning to do network troubleshooting in a *nix system gives valuable experience that is easy to transfer to Windoze, and actually gives them more insight to the underlying system and HOW THINGS WORK. Try that with any M$ OS out now. They hide any real functionality behind LAYERS and LAYERS of obfuscation and "you're not allowed to do that" functional blocking.
So.... here's you a shovel ... you wanna keep digging?
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Re: Dirty Commie!
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Resident Evil - Umbrella Corp. anyone?
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So it should've ended:
[data stream corrupted...]
[no carrier detected]
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'powers-that-buy'
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Wait... what ?!? ROFL! Just WAYYYYY too funny!
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You sir, are absolutely correct! It is just as snotty as you describe.
^_^
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