Cid, CC, I REALLY think you are taking that quote WAY too seriously. He hasn’t been comparing it to the Holocaust. Not much CAN compare to it, most people can agree with that. He was simply taking a quote that fit the situation. I honestly don’t see what the problem is.
His point still stands: If you don’t do anything about it whenit’s happening to other people, it’s going to happen to you and you’re going to have one hell of a time stopping it.
Although, at least Cid is making his points though.
Personally, I don’t think it’ll be much of a problem right now. Eventually it might become a big inconvenience, though.
I think I can simplify the quote and make it not involve the holocaust. If you don’t care because some problem doesn’t affect you now that eventually could, then you have no right to complain if/when it does.
Cid: I said IE, and browsers at large, might not have a reliable way of showing flash movies in the future. Even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about how the plugins are done, it still affects you as an end user.
Why? Because with no plugins, it means you can’t go to www.newgrounds.com and click on a flash cartoon and watch it in your browser. You have to download it and then look at it in a different app, such as WMP or some other nice media program that can handle Flash files. It isn’t exactly the end of the world, except for all websites that happens to use Flash.
And I wanna know what’s the fuzz with that quote is. It wasn’t a comparison between Holocaust and E-Patents, it was merely an example of what apathy can lead to, not an accusation of the large companies being Nazi-whores.
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And now, according to one of the rules of the Internet known as Godwin’s law, this thread will degrade to the point of a lockdown since I mentioned the word “Nazi”. So I’ll just shut up from now on.
On a similar note, the only thing anyone should be allowed to compare the Holocaust is mass Genocide and death camps. And that hasn’t happened since… well… the event in question.
And Wert, if that were to happen, I’d bet my computer that someone would create something that is basically a ‘plugin’ but slightly different enough to bypass the patent, which would still achieve the same ends.
Nevertheless, there is also a widely-recognized codicil that any intentional invocation of Godwin’s Law for its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
That does kind of suck, cause why would I want to pay more money than I already am for games(which isn’t much mind you :P)? Games are already too expensive… a multiplayer tax is just ridiculous.
Originally posted by Cybercompost Since when were blogs considered actual news sources?
Uh, since the Internet began appealing to people because it offered a much wider range of information than most mainstream “news” sources. Blogs don’t do the reporting themselves, but many blogs are tremendously useful as collections of news articles from various places.
Wert: You seem to be afraid of the extremes. Yes, software patents are bad, but they aren’t the world-ending thing you make them out to be. Thanks to the Internet, ways of getting around patents can be devised and spread almost instantly. New programs and lines of code are constantly being created. Patent holders are fighting a hopeless battle; they cannot stop the people their screwing from getting themselves unscrewed.
I may be a paranoid geek, but atleast I stay informed. =P
And yeah, E-patent holders are fighting an uphill battle. Most patents are invalid due to prior art (Didn’t Quake have Multiplayer features, and didn’t that come out like, 1995?) but that still doesn’t mean that they aren’t a very valid threat to you and your company.
Developers feel it the most; Doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect everyone in the long run.
Yeah, I’ll be fucking pissed when I can’t buy that extra big mac because the extra expenses that have accumulated from that patent over the past 12 games I bought is an entire $3.
Well, while I don’t expect this to be a big deal either (for the reasons mentioned above) I AM grateful that people are keeping an eye out for things that MIGHT affect us. Even if this doesn’t turn into a menace, it helps keep us on our toes for when something that does comes along.
I’ll just point at my huge collection of warez and cough now.