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muzzy:

--- Quote from: Orethrius ---Yes, and God knows people don't download MP3s, either.  I'll continue to use FOSS in absentia of a lawful government, and if you don't care to do the same you know where to stick that EULA.  :p
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I'll skip the previous points made by you and stick to this. I know people are still going to use the software that's out there even if it becomes illegal. However, development will more than likely halt. Are you going to risk your life by writing rogue software? We'll see what you say about that when you get those two million fines. This will basically destroy a lot of free software, maybe the whole free software movement. You'll no longer be free to write any software you want to, which means the core point, freedom, has been eliminated. There's no free software without freedom.


--- Quote from: Orethrius ---
Too bad current disassemblers are such amazing horseshit.  :p
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I don't know where you've gotten this idea about disassemblers, but current disassemblers are amazing stuff. They totally kick ass, and by saying otherwise I can only suspect you've never used one. Or perhaps, you lack the skills to use one, and would rather blame it on the tools.

Aloone_Jonez:
I don't see how they're going to be able to force a ban on a piece of free software that infringes patents. If they did in say Europe and the United States couldn't they just move development to Asia, Africa, or Australia or New Zealand?

muzzy:
Yes, you could move development elsewhere until software patent laws get there as well. However, you'd still lose your freedoms here, and couldn't participate into the development. Let's see how you feel when you can't get your favourite linux software from your package management system anymore.

Aloone_Jonez:
That would be shit.

But how could they prove where the software is actually being developed?

It will never be illegal everywhere, and someone from the UK could easily send some software to someone else in India  in encrypted form then it can be made available for download from the Indian site.

They're having a hard enough time policing pirate software not to mention child pornography. I can't see the law enforcement agencies putting the same resources in to banned software as they do to paedophiles or even pirate software. Not to mention both of these activities are illegal in most countries, I somehow can't see software patents taking over the world. I feel that enforcing software patents would be a nightmare.

Well on second thoughts software patents would make Windows illegal since everything implemented in Windows has already been done before so all Microsoft's patents are void anyway. I'm not worrying about silly software patents anyway I don't think anyone else should be.

anphanax:
I've never seen anything quite like this.

I prayed the machine would somehow magically be fixed, tried something different that just occurred to me at that moment, and VIOLA! Got into SAFE MODE! Did a system restore and everything is working great again.

What I did:
Tried running Safe Mode /w Command Prompt, and held down arrow keys while the drivers were loading. Safe mode wouldn't boot (kept hanging on mups.sys) earlier, so no clue... And @ those interested, yeah, earlier I let the system sit FOREVER. CTRL+ALT+DEL wouldn't work after the mups.sys thing, so it WAS HUNG.

Let this be a lesson to others. If you're going to do something that might be "dangerous" to the system, make sure you have a BACKUP FIRST. Also, re-installing windows isn't always the best solution. If you keep trying, you're bound to get somewhere eventually :).

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