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Wired has an article which responds to the view of John Deere and General Motors on what the people who buy their vehicles actually own, which was expressed during comments on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):
John Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors. Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”
It’s John Deere’s tractor, folks. You’re just driving it.
Several manufacturers recently submitted similar comments to the Copyright Office under an inquiry into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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General Motors told the Copyright Office that proponents of copyright reform mistakenly “conflate ownership of a vehicle with ownership of the underlying computer software in a vehicle.” But I’d bet most Americans make the same conflation—and Joe Sixpack might be surprised to learn GM owns a giant chunk of the Chevy sitting in his driveway
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @09:08PM
When violence and force is used to select leaders, >90% of the time those capable of the most violence and force rise to the top.
And when they do, most of them continue to stick around long past their welcome- after all they have the most violence and force, and have beaten all others.
No surprise the popular implementation plan for Communism and other violent revolutions usually result in Dictatorships.
From what I see in the American Revolution was more of a secession than a revolution most of those at the top in the USA (yes I know it wasn't the USA back then but you know what I mean ;) ) still stayed in power in the USA, it's just they stopped reporting/paying to the British. Whereas the French and Chinese revolutions they got rid of a lot of those at the top in their countries - and got dictatorships for their efforts.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday April 24 2015, @09:31PM
It's the words, isn't it? The M -word and the C-word? Makes it impossible to stay on topic and have a discussion. Oh well. You know what else Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels advocated? A Central Bank! (right there in the https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ [marxists.org] Communist Manifesto)