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To: Noumenon
Well, I guess that it's all fun and games until someone rips off YOUR intellectual property. It's nothing to celebrate, IMHO.

I didn't celebrate anything. I'm simply pointing out that putting your faith in anything as being 'uncrackable' makes some people eager to prove you wrong (especially Microsoft with it's long list of detractors), and sets you up for disappointment when they do.

23 posted on 03/02/2007 8:06:45 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: atomicpossum
I didn't celebrate anything. I'm simply pointing out that putting your faith in anything as being 'uncrackable' makes some people eager to prove you wrong (especially Microsoft with it's long list of detractors), and sets you up for disappointment when they do.

you mean like loading keyloggers into Mac video card frame buffers? LOL

28 posted on 03/02/2007 8:11:21 AM PST by Barrett 50BMG
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To: atomicpossum

My comment was meant as a general statement - apologies if it seemed to be aimed at you in particular. The issue of protection of IP is one that seems to be ignored in most of these discussions. Perhaps it's because not that many of us actualy generate what we could call IP of our own - we are for the most part consumers, not creators of IP.

It's not hard to spot the envy and schadenfreud of the non-creators and the something-for-nothing crowd. You have to ask yourself - what have THEY created lately? How many jobs have THEY provided? Dig a little deeper, and what you find is sheer envy of the creators and what Rand characterized as the hatred of the good for being good.


42 posted on 03/02/2007 8:24:16 AM PST by Noumenon (The Koran is the Mein Kampf of a religion that has always aimed to eliminate the others - O. Fallaci)
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