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Originally posted by DanL View PostOn what grounds? It's easier just to build your own mesa (not that I enable S3TC in my builds because I live in America and that would be illegal...).
In some countries it is illegal to be gay, in some countries it is illegal for women to drive, some countries saying certain things is illegal.
Just because something is illegal, doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.
Do what you feel is right as long as it does not harm anyone.
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(not that I enable S3TC in my builds because I live in America and that would be illegal...)Originally posted by uid313 View PostSo just because it might illegal, you don't do it?
However, I'm sure that's not the case here... :-)
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Originally posted by asdxFuck software patents. Why don't you guys living in the US vote against that fucking shit? Don't you folks have a say with things like that?
The whole world has to suffer because of the idiotic laws in USA.
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Originally posted by asdxFuck software patents. Why don't you guys living in the US vote against that fucking shit? Don't you folks have a say with things like that?
The whole world has to suffer because of the idiotic laws in USA.
In fact, I can't think of any elected official who has ever uttered the words "software patents". If they did, they'd probably be against them, but since everyone in office "plays dumb" about all that technolergy-stuff, it's simply not discussed. They ignore them because it's an inconvenient issue. Even if we elected other people, they wouldn't be able to get elected by campaigning to get rid of software patents. Too many people would either say "oh no, don't do that, Microsoft would go bankrupt!" or they would say "huh? what's software? why are you worrying about that meaningless shit instead of giving me a bigger paycheck?"
That's really what it comes down to these days for most people: they will vote for whoever promises to give them a bigger paycheck, more job security, or a job in the first place. Obviously there's no correlation between politicians promising bigger paychecks (less taxes) and politicians promising to obliterate software patents, so it'll never happen.Last edited by allquixotic; 27 June 2012, 07:21 AM.
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Originally posted by asdxFuck software patents. Why don't you guys living in the US vote against that fucking shit? Don't you folks have a say with things like that?
The whole world has to suffer because of the idiotic laws in USA.
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Originally posted by asdxWhat I never understood is why developments like Mesa doesn't happen outside of the US, like in some countries in Europe where US laws doesn't apply.
Wouldn't that make sense? Wouldn't that prevent Mesa developers from being sued over the ST3C patents if they decide to incorporate ST3C by default in Mesa?
Also the distros that distribute compiled binary code, their situation is even more grim because it's much more likely that a for-profit company (whether or not they sell the distro for money) would be sued for patent infringement by distributing S3TC codecs etc.
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Originally posted by asdxFuck software patents. Why don't you guys living in the US vote against that fucking shit? Don't you folks have a say with things like that?
The whole world has to suffer because of the idiotic laws in USA.
Which is to say, theoretically, we can tell our governments what to do. But realistically this issue is backed by huge amounts of money and you and I don't have enough to compete with that.
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