Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Fairly Useful Info

The war between open source, and commercial software rages on as hot as ever, without a clear view of who will come out on top. These companies are deploying buggy beta versions like unarmed soldiers hoping to find a weapon on the corpses of their fallen comrades. It's a technological bloodbath, and the consumer is caught in the crossfire. Does someone know the answer?  Nothing seems to be 100% standard as of yet, since some browsers fail to support certain features, but why? Someone must hold the key to these questions! Well, it's "The Almighty Dollar", kids.




After much careful consideration, and searching, I discovered that a lot of "Information Authority" on the world wide web is complete and utter bullshit. Over the last few months, I've made extensive examinations of web development techniques, and other Internet related issues, and I've seen nothing but tons of people arguing about what the accepted variations of code are, and what browsers are compliant with which standards. Each company is pushing it's standards to match it's software. A lot of the copyright laws are also influenced by the projected movement of revenue. I think that makes sense, when you are talking about millions of dollars, and a complete work, but I think it's crap when some chubby kid in Indiana gets sued for having people come to his Youtube account to watch a movie trailer.

When asking the officials of an internet media company what the exact terms of "Fair Use" were, I was told, "Heh...Well, there's this wiki here." It basically says that you're safe unless someone finds a reason to go after you. The exact limits of "Fair Use" always seem to retain a murky, ominous tone. Anyone who has ever been in an entertainment contract can see this is wrought with loopholes to protect large corporations. As I read them, I couldn't help but internally voice Jeremy Irons, or Tim Curry, but I think I'd rather it be Scarlett Johansson though.

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