some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to Technology@lemmy.world · 1 year agoMicrosoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open webwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareVanth@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoFair use once it’s posted on the web? Thank you very much for the framework to pirate anything and everything.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agofun fact, windows is posted on the web: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoMicrosoft would prefer that you pirate Windows rather than use Linux, as it further entrenches their dominance in the market. They mainly make their money off of business licenses anyway, similar to Adobe and Autodesk. There’s a reason massgravel’s scripts are hosted on Microsoft’s GitHub platform and hasn’t been taken down.
minus-squareGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIf that’s the case, then why not release a free home version??
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThey already have a free version of Windows. Just don’t activate it.
minus-squareWalnutLum@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoMy one dark hope is AI will be enough of an impetus for somebody to update DMCA
minus-squareafraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWhen is the last time a crisis resulted in a better solution for the general public?
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIf that gets updated, then it will favor big corporations.
minus-squarecrusa187@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoOnly because our “representatives” let them write the law entirely. Imagine if Congress wasn’t filled to the brim with 80 year old fundraisers…
Fair use once it’s posted on the web? Thank you very much for the framework to pirate anything and everything.
fun fact, windows is posted on the web: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Microsoft would prefer that you pirate Windows rather than use Linux, as it further entrenches their dominance in the market.
They mainly make their money off of business licenses anyway, similar to Adobe and Autodesk.
There’s a reason massgravel’s scripts are hosted on Microsoft’s GitHub platform and hasn’t been taken down.
If that’s the case, then why not release a free home version??
They already have a free version of Windows. Just don’t activate it.
My one dark hope is AI will be enough of an impetus for somebody to update DMCA
When is the last time a crisis resulted in a better solution for the general public?
If that gets updated, then it will favor big corporations.
Only because our “representatives” let them write the law entirely. Imagine if Congress wasn’t filled to the brim with 80 year old fundraisers…