Re: AUGD: Re: Australian Teachers Being Discriminated Against ..
Re: AUGD: Re: Australian Teachers Being Discriminated Against ..
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Re: Australian Teachers Being Discriminated Against ..
- From: Jo Booth <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:03:54 +1200
Some good points, matt...
On 15/08/2006, at 09:51 , email@hidden wrote:
On 14 Aug 2006, at 22:41, Richard Weiss wrote:
Since iTunes came out and Apple got into the music biz I've been
put off. (Funny how you could love a product but dislike a
company.) I never use the iTunes store. I'll find the CD and do
with it what I want, in the format I want, within legal guide lines.
That's fine. Here in the UK we break the law every time we media
shift as encoding a CD onto our computer has always been illegal.
Ditto here in New Zealand, though a review of copyright laws is "in
progress" - generally these reviews result in heavy lobbying by
record companies, for no net consumer benefit, if anything - we end
up worse off.
I'm just illustrating that "within legal guide lines" is
meaningless in terms of a modern state and even moreso when
considering the length and breadth of the Internet.
I don't dislike Apple. They have turned piracy into a legal
business model. If you despise their DRM then you have to put the
dislike where it is due - towards the record companies. I don't
think or a second that Apple insisted on DRM. They have just
successfully negotiated a market.
The addition of adding "Trusted Computing" to the kernel is
disturbing to say the least.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/31/apple_to_add_trusted.html
Why? Do you honestly think it will make a difference to your life?
I think it's another step down the wrong sort of road if the
technology isn't used as it should - giving us choice... It might not
make a difference to my life, illegal as it is to play my CDs on a
computer already, but, in time... Take look at the animated short at
<http://www.lafkon.net/tc/> if you haven't already. Lawerence Lessig
usually has a few words of that general topic as well: <http://
www.lessig.org/blog/>
Why not take it a step further? When Ubuntu gets the bugs out and
the GUI tuned I'd try it, and I'm a photographer not a computer
guy. Maybe a slightly above average mac user. Best.
I'm a geek. I've been using UNIX for longer than I've been using a
Mac. When Apple married the Mac to UNIX, it was like coming home.
Ubuntu is still a pain in the butt. Ugly too.
Heh, I too have been using Linux/Unix for a while, and still take my
linux/ubuntu laptop with Apple sticker to MUG committee meetings.
Windows till '96 then Linux till 2001, then OS 7 and OS X shortly after.
-Jo 'mangee' Booth
WelMac VP / Geek
Jo Booth
Executive Committee Member
Unlimited Potential
http://up.org.nz
+64 21 526684
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