> Fair use is the same doctrine that allows a school to play a movie for educational purposes without acquiring a license for the public performance of that movie.
This is a pretty bad example, since fair use has been ruled to NOT allow this.
It is a bad example, but not for that reason. Instead, it's a bad example because Federal copyright law has a specific carve out for school educational purposes:
(1) performance or display of a work by instructors or pupils in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction, unless, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, the performance, or the display of individual images, is given by means of a copy that was not lawfully made under this title, and that the person responsible for the performance knew or had reason to believe was not lawfully made;"
That is why it is not a good comparison with the broader Fair Use Four Factors test (defined in section 107: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107) because it doesn't need to even get to that analysis, it is exempted from copyright.
There have been several recreations of Emacs in Common Lisp over the years, including Hemlock, CEDAR, and Climacs. They never catch on, because they’re not compatible enough with the existing base of emacs lisp software. This also applies to Scheme, although it did get closer to compatibility once or twice.
This is also closely tied to why emacs hasn’t been made much more parallelized - fundamentally, the design of emacs is too close to “a giant ball of global state”, mirroring an early Lisp Machine. It’s a high hill to design around, and it will violate basic assumptions made by most medium-plus interesting elisp code.
Do not let this dissuade you from trying! It would be a great if difficult accomplishment!
It turns out that most fast food burgers are made from heavily processed meat that includes various preservatives and whatnot that make it noticeably less healthy than plain hamburger, unfortunately.
But it’s $24/month, isn’t it? Double that if they invited the kids, in-laws, or neighbors but they don’t use it regularly because those people don’t use Slack for business — which is the whole point of the loss-leader approach: get people used to using slack, get them in the app, and then get them to bring it into larger environments where corporate rates make sense.
This new policy degrades the value of slack significantly for a bunch of long-term, low-volume users. It will cause a few people to move to a paid plan, maybe, and it will certainly cause many to leave slack. The last part will make slack less sticky, less familiar, less generally used, and will save them some amount on storage, maybe? Have you priced out storage recently? I’d bet the cost difference for storage of short text snippets between 90-day rolling and 10k messages is:
- Smaller than the variance of MTBF of different batches of disks
- Smaller than the variance on overhead in block/page size for their underlying storage system
- Smaller than the variance of employee number for their 90th percentile large customers
In other words, they’re adding annoyance and losing users for peanuts.
This copy is hosted in (one of) the old homedir of Karl Ramm, who passed away not so long ago. I believe that he would be tickled and mildly but pleasantly surprised to find the link on HN.
To whomever posted it: thank you for reminding me of an old friend.
“TikTok is unique...” might be true, but then why is TikTok not the only company targeted by this royal edict?
When 17 year olds can “own Twitter” and Facebook just budgets 9 figures for data collection compliance fines, are you sure there’s a bright line distinction in the world that’s not “let’s all agree we’re not the terrible/hated/untrustworthy other”? Is the problem that another sovereign country could coerce a company to provide a service that Facebook provides for money?
FWIW, a common thing to do with a chromebook that has gone out of update service is to install either a non-Google ChromeOS like Cloudready, or just install Linux directly. Both approaches are usually easy and effective.
It doesn’t stop working at all. It stops getting free OS updates, presumably because there are many dozens of hardware configuration to manage, and having fallen into that trap once with Android devices, they didn’t want to immediately jump into the same pit a second time.
> It doesn’t stop working at all. It stops getting free OS updates
No security updates on a browser (a program designed entirely for pulling and running/rendering arbitrary code and data from untrusted sources) is a death sentence.
> having fallen into that trap once with Android devices
Google doesn't maintain any Android devices except its own.
I don’t know what things are like in other parts of the world, but the US market has shown a preference for renting large-library access over buying individual works. There are exceptions, when the costs got skewed too far and the perception grows that the “large library” is actually a small library plus a lot of dross (see Cable TV), but even then it took decades of Worst-in-the-nation service issues, billing ‘hijinks’, and predatory pricing to convince Americans to start cutting the cord.
