Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! 650
superapecommando writes "There's a fantastic little story in the Guardian today that says a US lobby group is trying to get the US government to consider open source as the equivalent to piracy. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), an umbrella group for American publishing, software, film, television and music associations, has asked the US Trade Representative (USTR) to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and India for its 'Special 301 watchlist' because they encourage the use of open source software. A Special 301, according to Guardian's Bobbie Johnson is: 'a report that examines the "adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights" around the planet — effectively the list of countries that the US government considers enemies of capitalism. It often gets wheeled out as a form of trading pressure — often around pharmaceuticals and counterfeited goods — to try and force governments to change their behaviors.'"
if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Then the world would be a better place. Although, I kinda like the idea of being a pirate. I've always wanted to sail the open seas, plundering vessels, going ashore and plundering the village's wenches. AARRGGG.
Re:If you use open source, you're a pirate... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If you use open source, you're a pirate... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, ignoring the quacks with influence is just ducking the issue.
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
that's a good way to run afowl of the law.
Re:Seriously flawed logic (Score:5, Funny)
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
AARRGGG.
Dude... "arg"? What kind of pirate says "arg"? Everyone knows it's "ARRRRR!" Other valid alternatives include: YARRRR, YUHARRR, or other variations therefore. A trailing G should only be used in cases of pain or discomfort. For example: "AAARG, I've been run through by ye blade!", or "ARRRG, I think that wench had ye crotch rot".
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Dude... "arg"? What kind of pirate says "arg"?
A pirate who just had a cutlass jammed through his chest.
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Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:3, Funny)
Remember though, its "rape, pillage, and burn" and not "pillage, burn, and rape".
Re:Aaaarrrrggg (Score:5, Funny)
spanish_main( int arrrrrgc, char *arrrrrgv[] )
Re:now they fight FOSS (Score:3, Funny)
Looks like something screwy happened and turned all your number values into their ASCII characters.
I really doubt you're only the 78th person to have said that.
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can I sue the IIPA for defamation? (Score:3, Funny)
Pirates are communists? (Score:5, Funny)
I am getting confused here. I thought pirates shuttled old men and their boy toys to Alderaan? But now you are saying we are like Che Guevara?
Either way, our chances of getting laid any time soon just sky-rocketed. We are now officially "bad boys". Rebel with a compile.
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
The other good news is that being a pirate allows you to do your part in combating global warming, since, as this graph [venganza.org] clearly shows, an increase in the number of pirates will decrease average global temperature.
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Dude... "arg"? What kind of pirate says "arg"?
obviously a C-faring pirate!
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:2, Funny)
What an afowl yolk.
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
So you're saying the OP was run through while writing his post? Then he wouldn't have bothered to type "AARRRGH", he would have just said it!
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
That's a very mallardramatic thing to say.
Translation: Freedom is the Enemy (Score:3, Funny)
I wish i could open source some of these people's skulls with an axe.
Re:Aaaarrrrggg (Score:3, Funny)
spanish_main( int arrrrrgc, char *arrrrrgv[] )
That's funny shit right there.
Yeah, he forgot spanish_main()'s return type!
Re:If you use open source, you're a pirate... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Dude... "arg"? What kind of pirate says "arg"?
A pirate who just had a cutlass jammed through his chest. .
Your complete lack of perspective on a pirate's pain threshold identifies you clearly as a ninja sympathizer.
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:3, Funny)
The other good news is that being a pirate allows you to do your part in combating global warming, since, as this graph [venganza.org] clearly shows, an increase in the number of pirates will decrease average global temperature.
Hmm, I was worried about this with "Global Warming" happening at the same time as all the Somali Pirates, but it's working out now. They've changed the term to "Climate Change" and it's been a lovely, cool Summer here in Melbourne. None of this 45 Celcius junk they were having before these pirates got going. May his noodly appendages continue to move in their mysterious ways.
Re:If you use open source, you're a pirate... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps he was dictating?
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:3, Funny)
After I searched the web, I crawled back into my nest and slept.
I was hoping that I would hatch an idea that would take wing and solve this problem.
But I just ended up with egg on my face.
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Prophetic troll post from years gone by (Score:0, Funny)
Linux is illegal! You are breaking the law, and hurting yourself and your family with your ILLEGAL SOFTWARE. Your ip has been noted and is being forwarded to the SPA with a reccomendation that they investigate your CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. Please destroy all your unpatriotic linux software before the government finally cracks down on you people and you all end up as lampshades or soap.
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:5, Funny)
Make an eggsample of them?
Re:I thought open source was communism? (Score:3, Funny)
OSS != communism
No, OSS is the Open Sound System, which is the standard way sound interface for UNIX-like operating systems. Not sure why you think that's relevant though...
Re:Should be named... (Score:4, Funny)
Here is what that haven of piracy Canada has to say about it when they were put on the list: "Canada does not recognize the Special 301 process due to its lacking of reliable and objective analysis, and we have raised this issue regularly with the U.S. in our bilateral discussions." Even our mild mannered neighborino to the North told them to go suck an egg.
Well, actually, the first draft of the response went like this:
CHORUS OF MOUNTIES AND ESKIMOS: FUUUUCK-ALUKALUKA YOOOOUU-HOO!
The editor of the document, however, was a Presbyterian second-son of the Empire, and translated it back into Ontarian for publication.
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:3, Funny)
finally, this is on topic, sort of (Score:5, Funny)
Boobies!
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:3, Funny)
No, pluck them.... then stuff them
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... (Score:3, Funny)
The only sure thing is that somewhere, a village is missing its idiot.
Nothing a hammer couldn't fix.
When all you have is a hammer, all the idiots start to look like nails.
Re:The IIPA is genuinely scary though. (Score:3, Funny)
I'd rather use Linux than what Microsoft secreted.