

Derp. UK, wtf are u smoking over there? I thought we were supposed to be sane continent.
Don’t be worse than Russia. Please fix.


Derp. UK, wtf are u smoking over there? I thought we were supposed to be sane continent.


Murica is doing typical murica things.


It seems you misunderstand the goal of goverment.
This is your opinion of what you want governments to be, not what they actually are.
I am sorry your country doesn’t try or even claim to be social.
What is the point of not researching and having bigger budget, if it can’t buy thing that did not get created?
What a lot of negatives and hypotheticals. All solved by getting a return on investment and having that money to do more things with, including research.
So in the end money will be spent on research anyway.
And then on goverment level there is no such thing as copyright or patent.
I’d like to introduce you to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) which is an intergovernmental organisation that does precisely what you say doesn’t exist.
And what next? It can’t stop any goverment from ignoring copyright or patent.


In Russia gosduma is mixed member proportional. 50% parties, 50% districts.


Propotional representation? As in party lists? How much country needs it to be marked?


I’m saying it is necessary to achieve the aims of the GPL.
Which would make GPL toothless, but that’s fine because it would no longer be necessary.


Copyright for software is a joke. Software is only copyrightable thing, where mandatory copy is not enforced.


Patent documents are rarely useful because they’re kept as general and opaque as possible to cover as many innovations as possible.
I think this is a problem that can be fixed inside of patent system. Make it so by the end of patent life there is “how to build production line of this” manual.


if another country immediately fakes the product and prevents the government from collecting back the taxes it spent on the research
It seems you misunderstand the goal of goverment. Goverment doesn’t care if budget goes down, when quality of life goes up. What is the point of not researching and having bigger budget, if it can’t buy thing that did not get created?
And then on goverment level there is no such thing as copyright or patent. On goverment level laws are not some external condition, but something that changed regularly.
plus a competitor can’t just “take all of that work and investment”, they will need to put in money to create their own product,
Not true. One major issue is that many competitors literally copy the product exactly. Fake products wreck the original company
They STILL need to put in money to create their own product. You know, they can’t magic production lines into existance.


Oh no, this is so… good idea. Yarr! Pirate Party approves.


There are decades of articles on c++ optimizations, that say “use empty() instead of size()”, which is same as here.


Public transport


Then same can be said about JPEG LS and JPEG XL. Most browsers don’t implement that.


There is Lossless JPEG since 1993.


Both og JPEG and JXL support lossless compression.


Vote pirate party.


“based on”


building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google’s version of WebKit
To be fair it is based on KHTML. One of projects KDE can spend that extra money on and resurrect.


IceCat.
This invokes some unpleasant aSSociations.