Yes, I use KDE, and setting up printers has become easier over the years, but it can still be a pain. Not all printers have great drivers. Some printers are useful as paperweights and not much else.
emerge the GIMP print and foomatic stuff. Multiple drivers for almost every printer in existance. All the common stuff, at least.
Personally, I don’t see a big issue in Debian’s definitions for stability. The problem is in the very structure of binary distributions. It’s just too inflexible.
No that is incorrect.
Really? If I but a music CD or movie DVD, I can copy it?
I don’t have a problem with people selling software as long as the license is moral and does not restrict the rights of the user.
Not really. There’s at least 5 different operating systems fully capable of competing with Windoze. Mac OS X is by far the best (user-friendly-wise; morally, it is only partially okay). KDE is also much easier to use than Windoze and there are plenty of KDE-derived operating systems including Mandrake and SuSE (and others that offer it optionally, such as Gentoo and Debian). Windoze is actually only 3rd on the list of easy-to-use desktop environments.
Copying software, just like any other information, hurts or deprives nobody of anything. When it comes to information, sharing/copying is inevitable and a right. Music and movies are included in this. They may not be as big an issue, however, since people can break/ignore the unjust laws regulating them. It is technically impossible to obtain the original source code for a program distributed solely as compiled binaries.
Yep, it’s called “fair use”. Of course, the recent Digital Millenium Copyright Act passed by Bill Clinton made it illegal to possess anything that can be used to bypass copy-protection, but this unjust law is also unenforcable: It makes it illegal for DVD players to be morally licensed AND makes everyday magic markers illegal to possess.
The same thing that’s wrong with copyright laws in general-- it restricts a person’s right to modify and share it.
If I write a book or software, that does not automatically mean someone else a has a right to copy it.
By nature, everyone who then has your book has a right to copy it. There is nothing that either you or they can do to prevent it. Once they read your book, there is a (somewhat distorted, possibly, but perhaps not) copy of it in their memory. Copying to another medium is no different than if they were to recite it from memory to people.
Before copy protection you could copy your software, to make a back up copy incase the media went bad.
I wish this were true, but I don’t find any evidence for him giving up or giving less or his wife having any influence.
I wasn’t at the conference so I don’t know but I don’t see how you can get pro-choice from merely the phrase “rights-based.”
Only in a screwed up legal system like the US…
What if the workman just announced he’s big on “choice” and “population control”?