… this is the sort of thing that really, really riles people from other countries about the apparent utterly self-centred and profit-at-all-costs behaviour of Americans. American laws do not apply globally, despite the fact that many Americans apperntly think they do, and American government and big business would like to apply their law even where it doesn’t apply.Īpparently, and ironically, American big business seems to think that American laws only apply globally in order to profit American big business, and American big business seems to believe that no technology could possibly originate in any place other than America.Īmerican big business seems to believe that America’s own laws do not apply to American big business interests if it happens that some profit may go overseas: I am an American, and we will post about the laws that apply to me just as you post according to the laws that apply to you.Īmericans seriously need to realise that America is not the be all and end all. I love this site, but when people show intense anger towards Americans (ie “shitville America”) just simply for the fact that our laws are different and somebody from here (America) happens to post about those laws.ĭo you not post from where you are at?……. Sorry, I know much of this was off topic, but this is really getting old. Yes, some of our laws suck, but it seems that by many we are looked upon at a level lower then china or north korea where where the governments allow their own people to be exploited by massive coorporations to an extreme that almost borders on slavery. When I hear “Shitville, USA”, to me that shows an incredible disdain for a country that you most likely have never been to or experienced. I am really getting fed up with the anti American vibe on this site. I don’t think all Hispanics are stupid when I hear one say something stupid, or Germans, or French or whomever. I am American and I swear, one idiot from America makes a dumb comment and the rest of the world thinks we are all like that. Not to mention Scramjet engines, refrigeration.etc.
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Moldflow software – Between 19 Colin Austin developed software that allowed computer simulation of the injection moulding process. The Bionic Ear- the cochlear implant was invented by a team led by Professor Graeme Clark at The University of Melbourne
Xerox Photocopying – the technology behind xerography was developed at The University of Sydney.Įlectronic Pacemaker – the heart pacemaker was developed at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital in 1926īlack Box Flight Recorder – this famous device was invented in 1958 by Dr David Warren at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne. Ever heard of a little piece of software called Samba – initially developed by Andrew Tridgell at the Australian National University in 1992 Please try to open your mind to the fact that there is a big wide world beyond US borders.Īs for what MY country has added to computing and technical science, a few examples should suffice for the sake of argument. If it ain’t legit, then it must be pirated, no?Īnd 99% of “good” software and hardware originates from America does it? You’re delusional. I’d have thought that was pretty obvious from the title of your post! “Call me when everything is legit on Linux” Just because you live in the EU, doesn’t make you exempt from the DVD stuff, it just makes you exempt from the mp3 stuff.
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Last point, to the best of my knowledge there is no option, legal or otherwise to play HD content on linux, and due to insane DRM requirements that the movie industry is putting on all HD playback, I doubt we will ever see anything legal in that department.
If you live in america, or a country with strong trade relations with america, there is only one option for DVD playback on linux, and that is LDVD. There are other options which are legal however, such as ffmpeg, or vlc.ĭeCSS is legal in a few places (like sweden), but it illegal in most countries, not because of how it cracks encryption, but because of the implicit agreement you agree to when you buy a commercial DVD. It is a redistribution of dlls copied from commercial programs, violating several liscence restrictions. If you use the package w32codecs on your system, you are violating a liscence agreement, I don’t care where you live. 1) Software patents (and thus the requirement to purchase licences for those patents) aren’t recognised in large parts of the world
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