Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Jan 2006 18:26 UTC, submitted by glarepate
Taiwan's parliament has voted to end its dependence on Microsoft software, demanding that the government reduce purchases from the software giant by 25 percent this year. The resolution, passed on Friday, is an attempt by the island's law-making body to end the near monopoly Microsoft has with local government offices, a legislative aide said.
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RE[4]: What happened to the choice argument?
by n4cer on Tue 17th Jan 2006 03:00
in reply to "RE[3]: What happened to the choice argument?"
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Necessary legal fees? You have got to be kidding me, right? Sorry, I don't buy it. I bought the damn DVD, I paid a license fee for the DVD technology when I bought the damn DVD.
You didn't pay the license fee when you bought the DVD. You pay the license fee (or rather it's passed on to you from the vendor that paid for it) when you buy a codec, either in the form of a standalone player or a software codec.
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2005-07-08
Necessary legal fees? You have got to be kidding me, right? Sorry, I don't buy it. I bought the damn DVD, I paid a license fee for the DVD technology when I bought the damn DVD, I have *every* single right to play it when, where and how I like. Governments need to grow backbones and stand up to the MPAA and tell them to piss off. As it stands, consumers are getting screwed, because the MPAA is greedy and wants it's cake AND wants to eat it as well, and the current US regime bends over backwards to accommodate them (and also the RIAA). Don't even try and make out that I'm a criminal - my reply will be rather rude and crude.
As to QuickTime, of course Apple won't do it, because it wants to be a monopoly! There are more Linux users in the world than Apple users, and Apple is afraid of losing customers, so it's holding onto every single proprietary piece that it can to leverage itself in the operating system market. No one can deny that Linux is a major operating system these days, so, one would expect things like QuickTime to be ported to a major operating system, no? That sounds quite reasonable to me.
As to mp3s, the fraunhofer institute sat on mp3s for a LONG time, only when it became a popular, established medium did they start demanding license fees. It's what you call an extortionate patent, and it's why software patents should be banned. Totally and utterly banned.
Dave