I hope so too. Maybe if apple and google finally pull out, the EU will be forced to innovate again. I'm sick of only having two shades of poo to pick from.
EU regulations make it a nightmare to innovate there. While millions of people cheer on "sticking it to big tech," they don't notice how the EU has become a barren wasteland of technological innovation for the past two decades.
The only way to force the EU to innovate is for US tech to pull out entirely, thus disabling vast swaths of technological infrastructure and product the EU relies on and takes for granted. The absence of this technology will force the EU to recognize its importance, and thus the importance of crafting a regulatory environment that enables such benefits to come about.
Without the fundamental recognition of the value of technology - and without this recognition happening at the level of the citizenry - the EU will continue to technologically stagnate while passing more and more regulations designed to rent-seek from the US.
If both google and apple pull out, who will be your monopolist? And what makes you think that they won't also get hammered with legislation?
And even if we assumed that this would be the case, maybe suffering under a "real monopoly" is _exactly_ what the EU needs to push them out of their local maxima. I hope they continue to hammer the ever living shit out of every company that abuses its position to exploit people and deny them their rights. Abusing copyright to prevent people from fixing their own property? Screw every single one of them.
> They include GPS location, location obtained from nearby cell towers, the issuing country of your SIM card, the region you set in settings, the country that nearby WiFi networks broadcast for regulatory purposes[1], and (indirectly, through the billing address) the issuing country of the credit or debit card that you use in the App Store.
GDPR applies if your an EU citizen even if _none_ of these is true. I hope the EU emends their markets law so that it grants every EU citizen the right to _easily_ install whatever he or she wants. That would put an end to this nonsense.
A collection of facts is not and can not be copyrightable, especially when it was mechanically derived/collected (no human creativity). So, no, it is absolutely not "Equifax's IP".
Not on an individual basis. If you collected a large number of them and someone copied them from you, then you could have a database right claim, which is sort of similar to copyright, but much less powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
For me, it's like GP said: Absolutely no unauthorized network traffic unless strictly required for the purpose of the software (e.g. curl). No security updates, crash reporting, telemetry unless you prompt the user and show the user exactly what will be sent (similar to how syncthing does it).
Anything less is voyeurism.*
* extreme language I know, but it's precisely how I feel about these acts.
This. Mozilla is a giant dead tree in the middle of the forest depriving any saplings from the sunlight needed for them to take its place. If the corporation can't exist without Google funding, then it's effectively a department of Google and should be killed off so that other _independent_ orgs take its place.
Exactly. Mozilla CEO salaries might require the Google deal but development of Firefox or alternative browsers does not. Mozilla Corporation was a mistake and I look forward to a time where the leading open browser is developed as a public good again instead of as a product used to sell ads.
This argument doesn't make sense to me unless you're talking about the training material. If that is not the case, then how does this argument relate to the license Meta attempts to force on downloaders of LLaMa weights?
