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Historical Context
The Rise of Youth Culture
In the United States, the period from 1945 to 1963 was termed the "Baby Boom" because of the sharp increase in the number of children born during those years. By 1958, one-third of the country's population was fifteen years old or younger. The years after World War II had also seen an increase in wealth throughout the United States. By the time they became teenagers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, therefore, many of these "Baby Boomers" had plenty of spare cash to spend. Companies competed to attract the dollars of these new consumers. The film, music, television, and fashion industries created products especially for the increasingly influential teen market. Rock 'n' roll became the most popular music on the radio, and movies also reflected this new focus on adolescents. Actors James Dean and Marlon Brando became idols for portraying teenage anti-heroes in Rebel without a Cause (1955) and The Wild One (1954). Paul Newman, whose looks Ponyboy admires as "tough," followed in the footsteps of these actors by playing similarly cool characters in the films The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), and Cool Hand Luke (1967).
Teenagers' increased spending power also gave them a new measure of independence from their parents. Rebellion against adult authority became a notable theme in many teen films. Loud rock 'n' roll...
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Setting is crucial to this story, for it is through their environment, the inner city, that the main characters are defined: they live on the wrong side of the tracks, and their surroundings force them to grow up quickly and to become tough. Hinton modeled the book's setting on her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, although she never refers to the city by name. The novel is most likely set in the mid-1960s, the time period during which it was written, although, again, Hinton makes few explicit references to external historical events that might fix the book in time.
In The Outsiders, the city is dirty, noisy, crowded, and full of danger. With the city's art museums, concert halls, and theaters traditionally off-limits, the only sources of culture available to the poor boys, or "greasers," are the rodeo and the movies. Many of the greasers dream of the freedom and quiet of the country, where people are not labeled and discriminated against because of their appearance. Ponyboy explains, "I wanted to be out of towns and away from excitement. I only wanted to lie on my back under a tree and read a book or draw a picture, and not worry about being jumped." Later in the book, Ponyboy finds himself in the country with Johnny, who is wanted for murder. The two boys undergo a physical and emotional transformation while hiding out in an old church building for five days. For people accustomed to the fast pace of city life, the isolation and quiet of this new...
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Literary Style
Ponyboy narrates the story in retrospect, under the guise of having to write out a theme for English class. This presentation of a story by one of the characters involved is called first-person narrative. A first-person narrative is easily identified by the use of "I" in telling the story. Having one of the characters tell the story can make the story more immediate for readers, because they easily can put themselves in the narrator's place.
A first-person narrator also means a limited perspective, however. Ponyboy can only describe his own thoughts and can only relate events he has witnessed or heard about. This limited perspective lends itself very well to the themes of class conflict that appear throughout the book. At the beginning of the story, Pony can only sympathize with other greasers. A third-person narrator ("he/she said") who knows about all of the characters could tell the reader what Cherry or Randy or even Sodapop was thinking. Instead, Pony has to learn to understand other people's feelings all by himself. This understanding is an important part of his coming of age.
Hinton is a character writer instead of an idea writer. She develops her characters in depth and then lets them create the story. Consequently, the opening of the book is a very detailed introduction to each character. By the end of the book, the reader knows each character in intimate detail. In...
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Literary Techniques
Hinton makes great use of the literary technique of "point of view," that is, the point from which a story is told. Hinton always uses the first-person narrative in which the story is told through the eyes and experiences of a central character; only what he has seen or has been told can be related to the readers. Thus the presence of the author is removed almost entirely from the storytelling. This point of view is, in fact, a brilliant choice by Hinton, given the themes and concerns of her novels. Ponyboy is an engaging and intelligent creation; the reader tends to like him almost immediately for his complete honesty and for his growing self-awareness of the life he leads. His teenage voice captures the speech rhythms of modern youth. Many critics believe that Hinton's ability in this area is unusually masterful. She has a gift for the exact vocabulary (excluding most obscenities, which she does not use) and the syntax of the modern teenager. Thus the novel seems to take on an air of verisimilitude for the reader, even if the situations seem sentimental or cliche at times. Doubtless the true-to-life speech has led to the popularity of The Outsiders among young adults.
The world of romance — in its technical sense as an invocation of the socially remote or past, as a world separate from reality but one that reinterprets reality through well-known stories whose very familiarity allows profound allusions to other matters — is also invoked by Hinton as...
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Literary Qualities
The Outsiders contains a complex symbolic structure within a straightforward plot. Hinton uses symbolism to express class and character differences. For the greasers, long hair represents dignity and independence. Even the legal system recognizes some connection between hair and self-esteem, for as Johnny notes, the first thing a judge does when a greaser appears in court is to order a hair cut. The greasers' hair also symbolizes the group's lower social status: the word "greaser" refers to the way the young men fix their hair. It is a derogatory term, although the greasers have adopted it themselves.
On a broader symbolic scale, Hinton weaves archetypal images and situations into her story. Ponyboy and Johnny, for example, do not simply hide out in the country; they undergo a metamorphosis. Hinton carefully constructs their rites of passage to include the typical stages of this process. First, the boys are exiled: they must hide in the country, away from family and friends. For five days they wait for word from outside, yet during this period they are thinking and growing. They cut their hair, thus breaking a major connection with their past lives and making themselves more open to change. Their transition comes as a test, literally a trial by fire: the boys must decide in a few seconds whether or not to risk their own lives in an attempt to save the children in the burning church. They decide on the noblest course of action, and Johnny sustains...
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Social Concerns
The area of social concerns has always been one of the most important to the fiction of Hinton. Primary among the concerns of her fiction is the role of the modern teenage peer-group, especially as it is realized in gangs. The narrator of The Outsiders, Ponyboy, is cognizant of his role as a gang member throughout the novel. He feels that he belongs to his gang, that he must cooperate with them, and that even if members sometimes disagree, they are still united against common enemies. Most of all, he knows that one must "save face" in front of the gang, fighting in fights and protecting his own. The world of adult authority, with its rights and duties, is almost nonexistent in the novel, except for the role of the police and state agencies (who are seen mainly as troublemakers for members of the gang). Ponyboy's parents are no longer alive, and he is being raised by his two older brothers, who are both members of his gang. This type of intense solidarity coupled with a world view that knows only immediacy and instant gratification might be one of the best portrayals of the teenage mind-set in modern times.
Another concern in the novel is class warfare, realized in a climactic gang fight between the "greasers," Ponyboy's peer-group, and the "Socs," the more wealthy, middle-class set. The warfare takes on the characteristics of a constant feud between the two groups. Individuals are brutally attacked by roving "packs" of teenagers from the opposing group,...
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Compare and Contrast
1967: Romanticized movies of teen rebellion give way to upbeat musicals extolling a life of beach parties, fast cars, and teen relationships.
1990s: One of the most popular genres for teens is the horror movie, in which a group of teens is pitted against a homicidal maniac. The 1996 film Scream becomes one of the top-grossing releases of the year, earning over $100 million in box-office receipts.
1967: The Beatles lead the "British Invasion" of American music as they dominate the pop charts. Their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band uses several experimental recording techniques and influences countless pop and rock artists.
1990s: Popular music has broken down into countless genres, with no one type dominating the market. Rap, "alternative," rhythm and blues, pop, rock, and movie soundtrack albums all reach number one at various times during the decade.
1967: Drop-out rates show a sharp increase, and by the late 1960s over 7.5 million students have left high school before graduating. In 1967, 15 percent of white students are drop-outs, as opposed to almost 30 percent of black students (Hispanic rates were not recorded at this time).
1990s: In 1996, the overall dropout rate remains steady at five percent, or about 500,000 students yearly. Drop-out rates for both black and white...
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Topics for Discussion
1. Dallas Winston is an ambiguous character, romantic and independent, in some ways repugnant. He can be cruel and dangerous, but he loves Johnny, the gentlest boy in the gang. What makes Ponyboy admire Dally? Is Dally redeemed by his love and concern for Johnny? Does his suicide alter the way the reader thinks of him?
2. Discuss the various attitudes towards fighting found in The Outsiders. Which attitudes do you agree with? Which do you disagree with? Is violence ever justified?
3. One criticism of The Outsiders is its less-than-realistic language. Euphemisms such as "Glory!" are used in place of more likely, but more controversial expressions. In other scenes there are blanks where a curse would have been. Why does Hinton do this? Does it detract from the story or make it less believable? Why or why not?
4. What do you imagine Ponyboy doing in ten years? What about Sodapop, Darry, Two-Bit, Curly Shepard, Tim Shepard, Cherry, and Randy?
5. Imagine that you are a "greasey girl." Can you identify with Ponyboy's story? Do his complaints apply to you? Do you have any other problems that he would not be aware of?
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Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Retell the story from the point of view of the Socs. What is the title of this new book? Are the Socs "the insiders," or are they outcasts, too?
2. Write a research paper on presentday gang life. Does the information you find remind you of Ponyboy's gang? Does it remind you of Tim Shepard's gang or the gang from Brumly? Considering that The Outsiders is set in the 1960s, how realistic do you think Hinton's portrayal of gang life is?
3. Write a paper about child abuse. What options are available for young people in Johnny's situation? Are Johnny's reactions and feelings typical of an abused child?
4. Who is your favorite character in this book? Why? Who is your least favorite character? Why? Which character in this book is most like you? Why?
5. Read some of the criticism written on The Outsiders. Do any of the critics mention ideas that you overlooked? What points do you agree with and disagree with in particular critics' assessments?
6. Many readers are surprised when they learn that S. E. Hinton is a woman. Why do you think this is so? What does this say about the book's content? What does it say about gender roles and conceptions about male and female behavior in your country?
7. Discuss the way adults are portrayed as a group and as individuals in The Outsiders.
8. Is there any one character in The Outsiders who can be called a villain? Who are some...
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Topics for Further Study
Reflect on the significance of the title—who are the outsiders, and what are they outside of? What does it mean to be an outsider and why has this become a twentieth-century phenomenon? Support your arguments with examples from recent history.
There are two famous novels with similar titles to Hinton's story. Both concern young men, circumstantial murder(s), and existentialism (the philosophy that the individual is solely responsible for his fate). The two novels are Richard Wright's The Outsider and Albert Camus's The Stranger (published in England as The Outsider). Compare Hinton's novel with one of these other "outsider" stories.
Many people deny that social or economic class plays a significant role in American society or government. Using examples from this novel and other teenage books or films (such as The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink through the recent Clueless), argue whether you think this is true or false.
Compare and contrast The Outsiders with another story of gangs, such as Boys in the Hood or West Side Story. Compare specific events, characters, and themes.
Juvenile crime and "youth predators" have become an obsessive political issue over the last decade. Are youth today really more violent than twenty or thirty years ago? Do some research into...
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Literary Precedents
The primary American novel of a youth maturing must be The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884). Huck's attempt to view the values and rules of the adult world lead to his own realizations. But more immediate as a precedent for The Outsiders is J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951). The first-person narrative told by a teenage narrator who is trying to mature and come to terms with himself and the world reminds one of Hinton. The speech rhythms of a teenager were also noted by the critics in this novel. A neglected but sure precedent is also found in West Side Story, This story of teenage rival gangs in New York who cannot find sense in the adult world, who achieve their status within the gang, and who come to a better understanding of each other at the end is similar to Hinton's themes. In addition, the poeticized telling of the story through music and dance in West Side Story brings to mind Hinton's use of literary allusions by Ponyboy in The Outsiders. The novels of Henry James and Joseph Conrad also are precedents in their use of the enveloping technique and a utilization of specialized narrators.
Although some have attempted to compare her style to that of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, this is clearly not the case. While the narrators of many of Hemingway's novels do have a tough, lean prose style in a first-person narration, they are clearly not the literary antecedents to the young, naive narrators who ask the...
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Warner Brothers produced a featurelength version of The Outsiders in 1983. It is rated PG and is available on video. The movie follows the plot of the book closely but leaves out much of Ponyboy's introspection. Still, the movie remains true to the spirit of the book, and it adds nothing that is not in the book. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who also directed Rumble Fish (1983), the film stars C. Thomas Howell as Ponyboy and also features Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, and Diane Lane. Hinton makes a brief appearance in the movie as a nurse.
Hinton has written another book, Rumble Fish, that deals with gangs and people trying to escape gang life. Her second novel, That Was Then, This Is Now, deals with conflicts between friendship and growing away from the old gang. These books, like The Outsiders and Tex, are set in Oklahoma of the late 1960s or early 1970s.
Tex was adapted to the screen in a 1982 production directed by Tim Hunter and starring Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, and Meg Tilly. The film version of That Was Then, This Is Now (1985) was directed by Christopher Cain and stars Emilio Estevez.
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Media Adaptations
The Outsiders was made into a film starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Tom Cruise, and Emilio Estevez. The 1983 Warner Brothers film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was a huge success and remains a popular film.
Fox-TV adapted the novel as a television series in 1990.
The Outsiders was also made into a filmstrip with cassette in 1978 by Current Affairs/Mark Twain Media, and as an audiocassette for Random House, 1993.
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What Do I Read Next?
Hinton's second book, That Was Then, This Is Now, was published in 1971 after she overcame a serious writing block. The story concerns two foster brothers moving in opposite directions: one becomes successful with school and girls while the other falls into drugs and crime.
Hinton's 1975 novel Rumble Fish continues to deal with youths and gangs. In this story, Rusty James struggles to earn a tough reputation.
The 1979 work Tex is Hinton's most seamless novel. The story is set in California, where a traveling father has left his two sons in each other's care. As with her other stories, this one is action-packed.
The classic Catcher in the Rye by J. D Salinger (1951) relates two days in the life of an idealistic boy after his expulsion from school. Holden Caufield's disillusionment with the world is more profound than Ponyboy's, but comparable.
A novel by Pulitzer-Prize winner Paul Zindel 1969's The Pigman is about two sophomores who are outsiders in their own community. John and Lorraine pass the time by pulling pranks. It is during one of these pranks that they meet the "pigman" and are led to betray the friendship they have created.
For a real change of pace, a story...
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For Further Reference
Commire, Anne, ed. Something about the Author. Vol. 19. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. Contains biographical information as well as some critical analysis of Hinton's work.
De Montreville, Doris, and Elizabeth D. Crawford, eds. Fourth Book of Junior Authors. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1978. Contains an analysis of Hinton's career up to 1978 and lists awards received.
Hinton, S. E. "Face to Face with a Teen- Age Novelist." Seventeen (October 1967): 133. Hinton talks about herself and her writing. Parts of this article are reprinted in Commire.
Teen-Agers Are for Real." New York Times Book Review (August 27, 1967): 26-29. More Hinton on Hinton and on young adult literature.
Klrkpatrick, D. L., ed. Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. New York: St. Martin's, 1978. An overview of Hinton's writing career to 1978, with analysis of her themes and characters.
Locher, Frances Carol, ed. Contemporary Authors. Vols. 81-84. Detroit: Gale Research, 1979. A brief overview of Hinton's work.
Robin, Lisa. "The Young and the Restless." In Media and Methods (May/June 1982): 28, 45. Focuses on Tex. Includes a teacher's guide to The Outsiders, Tex, Rumble Fish, and That Was Then, This Is Now that offers many useful discussion questions.
Senick, Gerard J., ed. Children's Literature Review. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978. Contains...
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Bibliography and Further Reading
May Hill Arbuthnot, in her Children's Reading in the Home, Scott, Foresman, 1969, pp. 174-75.
Aidan Chambers, review of The Outsiders, Children's Book News, Vol. 5, No. 6, November-December, 1970, p. 280.
Jay Daly, in his Presenting S. E. Hinton, Twayne Publishers, 1987.
Thomas Fleming, a review of The Outsiders, in the New York Times Book Review, Part H, May 7, 1967, pp. 10, 12.
Lillian V. Gerhardt, a review of The Outsiders, in the School Library Journal, Vol. 13, No. 9, May, 1967, pp. 64-65.
Alethea K. Helbig and Agnes Regan Perkins, "The Outsiders," in their Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 - Recent Books of Recognized Merit, Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 495-96.
Nat Hentoff, a review of The Outsiders, in the Atlantic Monthly, December, 1967, pp. 401-402.
Susan Eloise Hinton, "Teen Agers Are for Real," New York Times Book Review, August, 1967, pp. 26-29.
William Jay Jacobs, "Reading the Unreached," Teachers College Record, Vol. 69, No. 2, November, 1967, pp. 201-202.
Michele Landsberg, "Growing Up," in her Reading for the Love of It: Best Books for Young Readers, Prentice Hall Press, 1987, pp. 201-28.
Michael Malone, "Tough Puppies," in the Nation, Vol. 242, No. 9,...
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Bibliography (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Daly, Jay. Presenting S. E. Hinton. Boston: Twayne, 1989.
Donelson, Kenneth L., and Alleen Pace Nilsen. Literature for Today's Young Adults. 3d ed. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1989.
Mills, Randall K. "The Novels of S. E. Hinton: Springboard to Personal Growth for Adolescents." Adolescence 22 (Fall, 1987): 641-646.
Stanek, Lou Willett. A Teacher's Guide to the Paperback Editions of the Novels of S. E. Hinton. New York: Dell, 1975.
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That seems written by someone advocating for Microsoft software patent trolling as long as they can be payed off under "fair and reasonable" terms.
I absolutely reject the allegation that I'm "advocating" for that. All I did in my posting on Microsoft's use of patents is explain that there are two things a company can do if it wants to benefit from its patents, and what they do is the more cooperative approach than that taken by Apple in the HTC case or IBM in the TurboHercules case (or Google with respect to its search engine patents, to which it doesn't grant anyone a license).
I made it very clear in that posting that I'm against software patents. No software patents, no royalties. But it's an important distinction to make whether patents are used as a revenue source or for exclusionary purposes. In fact, a lot of the uncertainty surrounding Oracle vs. Google is that Oracle hasn't said in public what it seeks to achieve. In Microsoft's case it's always been clear that they want royalties on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
Ideally, companies wouldn't do anything with those patents, but that's not realistic given that shareholders do expect them to derive value from their assets. If we want them to do nothing with those patents, we have to get rid of those patents.
His only real point with regard to OIN seems to be that the system components list would need a refresh.
Another misconception about my positions.
I have commented on the OIN several times. Most recently, I explained that its inability to prevent Oracle from suing Google is a huge failure. The definition of the system components list doesn't just need a "refresh". They do refresh it from time to time. The problem is that it's put together in a totally intransparent process and there aren't any objective criteria. It's arbitrary. I had made four alternative suggestions for how to address that problem.
I mentioned other issues related to OIN's intransparency on other occasions, such as the lack of clarity concerning what the rights and obligations of an "associate member" are (Canonical became the first one).
In my first posting on OIN, I pointed out various issues, including intransparency and arbitrariness as well as the fact that there's no indication it has ever really strengthened the position of a company under attack. With companies like Amazon, HTC, Salesforce, TomTom etc. paying Microsoft royalties on patents which (at least some of which) read on Linux, it's pretty clear the OIN can't do what it's supposed to do, so the question is what it's actually about.
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Posted Aug 27, 2010 14:46 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]
Your rants against OIN and other initiatives that try to help free software against software patents are not constructive. No, they aren't perfect and no they aren't the full solution (abolition of software patents is). But the tone of your attacks is so strong that you come over as being against them. Especially compared to your praise of Microsofts handling of software patents, which actually is a real attack on Free Software.
Your blog comes over as a anti-IBM/Red Hat/Google, pro-Microsoft, attack on any person/initiative that tries to advance free software against patent aggression. Even if you claim that is just a misconception.
Posted Aug 27, 2010 14:59 UTC (Fri) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link]
You are advocating for destructive usage of software patents
We seem to have a definition problem here. In my opinion, destructive usage means that functionality is removed from a product or a company shut out of a market. I'm against destructive use by that definition. What's your definition? Apparently one that includes the simple commercialization. Then you don't want to face business realities. If the government gives companies those monopolies called patents, it's obvious they're going to do something with them.
I wonder what your constructive and pragmatic suggestion is. What's wrong with pointing out the much lesser problem? Do you have anything better to propose that can work in light of business and legal realities?
And again, I don't "advocate" that kind of use of patents; I point out what the lesser problem is. That's another definition problem you have.
Apart from that, you keep making the same points I have dismantled, such as claiming I "advocate" that kind of thing, although I addressed that fallacy earlier today.
Concerning the denial you want, I've said that if I ever have to announce anything, I will; since I haven't announced anything, people can draw their conclusions. That's the only answer I've always given in those contexts and I won't depart from it simply for no reason. None of my reasoning for any of the positions I have is a Microsoft kind of position.
OIN and other initiatives that try to help free software against software patents
This is still unspecific in terms of "other initiatives". Would you list them?
I think there are reasons to have serious doubt that the OIN is really about "help[ing] free software against software patents" if you look at its inability to prevent Oracle from suing Gogle and the fact that major players like Amazon, HTC, Salesforce and TomTom pay Microsoft patent royalties. Since OIN doesn't do what it's supposed to do, and since the way it defines the scope of its license agreement (which would be one thing if it were just "their" license but it's also the scope of the cross-license between all licenses, including Oracle and Google) is utterly unfair and unreasonable, the question is appropriate what they're up to. In my opinion, OIN is probably mostly about giving its six owner companies strategic advantages over their FOSS competitors. So it discriminates within FOSS, contrary to helping FOSS.
When looking at the patent-mongering track record of most of OIN's owners (including the biggest patent bully of all, IBM), it's really hard to imagine that they would help anyone, FOSS or whatever, against patents...
Posted Aug 27, 2010 17:11 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]
Your arguments against OIN seem based on transparency of the organisation and the intentions of the companies that fund it.
If transparency is so important, why won't you say who is currently funding your work?
Posted Aug 27, 2010 17:23 UTC (Fri) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link]
We just disagree that you are pointing out a "lesser problem". The end result is destruction of Free Software projects.
I challenged you to make a constructive suggestion for what else should be done, and you don't.
Saying that patents should be used in truly destructive way because collecting royalties has the same "end result" is like telling the tax authority it should kill you because the end result is that your freedom from taxes goes away.
Again, what are you able to propose under the circumstances?
The problem is that free software can't be truly free as long as there are software patents. GNU/Linux isn't "free" in strict free software term if you ask Amazon, HTC, Salesforce and TomTom, and who knows how many others.
In the posting to which you replied, I explained this and you still don't seem to understand. Not after one explanation, not after two, so why try a third time?
You either don't really read or you just want to attack baselessly. Either way is unacceptable if we want to discuss the issues.
You're plain wrong that it's all just about transparency and intentions. The Linux System definition thing is a problem that goes way beyond transparency and intentions. It's an utterly unfair, asymmetrical contract.
You just add to my impression of you not being constructive and reasonable since you come back once again to something I addressed before.
I haven't seen any indication that you really want answers and solutions. You repeat over and over misrepresentations of what I say, you don't accept when something is answered, and in the Red Hat context you don't even accept evidence that is beyond reasonable doubt. On the patent royalties matter all you have to offer an ideology and that ideology is incompatible with certain business, legal and political realities of our times. Since you don't run this system, it means your positions are utopian, a word that originally means "there's no place for them" at least in this world.
Posted Aug 27, 2010 18:45 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]
And no, you didn't address the very basic question about who is funding you currently.
To be totally transparent here is who is funding my day job currently: http://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2009/01/29/what-are-yo...
Posted Aug 27, 2010 18:59 UTC (Fri) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link]
Thanks for finally pointing out your affiliation with Red Hat. Nevertheless my answer was the right one.
The formation of Free Software friendly patent pools. [...] Those who fund them create a free market around the software assets that matter to them.
So far there isn't even one credible example of those pools having helped a company against which patents were asserted. The OIN's proponents suggest that the OIN helped TomTom. The press release on TomTom's settlement with Microsoft, however, made it clear that TomTom ended up paying royalties to Microsoft plus made a commitment to modify its code to work around certain patents. So it's pretty clear that TomTom lost. Everyone else whom Microsoft has taken to court has also ended up that way (an announcement according to which those companies pay), most recently Salesforce.
So your proposed solution is a failure. Such a failure that companies like Amazon and HTC just paid right away instead of even trying to do anything together with the OIN, and that Oracle can sue Google although both are OIN licensees and in formal (but currently pretty useless) terms have a cross-license in place with each other via the OIN.
I also don't see that your proposal works against Apple trying to force HTC to drop multitouch, or against IBM's anticompetitive intimidation of TurboHercules.
Unfortunately, patent royalties are inevitable as long as there are patents, and are the fundamentally lesser problem than exclusionary use. If you want to make free software ideology the law, convince lawmakers that it's a good model. Lawmakers just have to look at how little acceptance the GPLv3 has to see that it's not what the industry at large wants as a business model. Red Hat does well, but it didn't create Linux. That's a business model that doesn't work for true innovators. You can't build an entire economy the Red Hat way because then everybody would just be waiting for someone else to innovate to jump on the bandwagon.
In my view, software patents are not needed to enable software innovation. However, the industry largely wants them, and those in the industry who are against them don't make any serious effort to abolish them, which suggests that the problem isn't a pressing one. Consequently, lawmakers don't abolish software patents, and "infringers" (as much as I hate the term in connection with patents) should be glad if they get a good license deal rather than being shut out of a market or being forced to cripple a product the way Apple tries to impose it on HTC...
Posted Aug 27, 2010 23:02 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]
However, the industry largely wants them, and those in the industry who are against them don't make any serious effort to abolish them, which suggests that the problem isn't a pressing one.
Are you suggesting that all those small and medium-sized companies who stepped up and stated their opposition to software patents aren't sufficiently representative of the industry? The economic majority?
The lack of funding for the anti-software-patent cause
Posted Aug 28, 2010 6:10 UTC (Sat) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link]
As much as I regret it because I'm against software patents and would prefer to see a lot of support for our cause, I have to answer your question with a clear Yes.
The "Economic Majority" website you linked to is actually a striking example. Let me quote from its current content: So far, 1,948 companies, with a minimum of 31,503 employees and annual turnover of 3,258,244,082 EUR [...]
So that's between EUR 3.2 billion and EUR 3.3 billion. Come on: IBM has revenues of close to $100 billion, so even if you just looked at IBM's European subsidiaries and then convert to EUR, it would dwarf that number; then Microsoft is around $60 billion, and so on.
Even if limiting it only to European companies, SAP alone has revenues north of EUR 10 billion.
But the website claims to represent an economic majority...
This is just one example to demonstrate the lack of support for the cause. There's actually something even more important to look at: do companies put their money where their mouth is?
If software patents were such a pressing problem for small and medium-sized companies, they would want to spend some money to address the problem politically and get rid of those patents. But there's never been any substantial funding. My NoSoftwarePatents campaign was more successful at fundraising than the entire FFII, which at the time had an annual budget in the EUR 100K range (just as a ballpark figure). That lack of resources is then visible because it means that they can't make a consistent effort with quality people. Politicians don't ask for a lobby entity's budget, but if they see that a cause is supported by people who for the largest part don't have any significant professional track record related to the issue, it reflects negatively on the cause.
More importantly even than professional expertise, the thing is that in those patent policy discussions large companies write letters to politicians about how many jobs are at stake and depend on strong intellectual property rights. Politicians aren't programmers (except maybe 1 in 1,000), so they look at it from an economic policy point of view, and ultimately they'll trust -- in most cases -- those who represent substantial economic weight.
I had a long debate with the FFII's founder and its current president on Facebook a few months ago about the state of the movement and particularly the question of economic weight and the related political clout. In that discussion, I also told them to be realistic about those numbers. They may be very proud of the support they got, but it doesn't impress politicians at all.
I told them that they never even raised EUR 200,000 in one year to the best of my knowledge. Then they argued that small and medium-sized companies just aren't political. I said that if there's a pressing problem, they will get political. I gave them an example that in my opinion shows how ridiculously little support there is for the anti-software-patent cause: there used to be a lobby group for leading European soccer clubs, called G14 (initially 14, later 18 members). I cooperated with that one because I advised and represented their biggest member (Real Madrid) at the time. The G14 had an annual budget at the time of about 2 million euros. Each of its member clubs had revenues between EUR 50 million and EUR 350 million at the time; there are lots of medium-sized IT companies in that revenue range. Lots. So 18 clubs of that size decided to spend ten to twenty times as much on a Brussels (EU capital) lobbying entity as the entirety of European IT small and medium-sized businesses on the fight against software patents. This shows that the G14 addressed a pressing problem; the FFII and my former campaign apparently didn't.
Posted Sep 6, 2010 15:24 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]
I'm not sure that this is a "lack of support for the cause". That's a bunch of companies who stuck their necks out and said that they think software patents are a bad thing. Sure, it's very likely that a large number of companies either won't stick their necks out because it would make them look bad in front of their patrons at Microsoft and SAP - you don't want to "jeopardise" that business relationship, do you? - or because they "only sell solutions" (that is, products and customisations).
If software patents were such a pressing problem for small and medium-sized companies, they would want to spend some money to address the problem politically and get rid of those patents.
Maybe the bulk of the revenue sits in companies that aren't affected directly - those people who sell "solutions" - who in the case of patent litigation will just say that they had no idea about such matters and hope that the aggressor will let them off, perhaps even offering them a nice line of business involving the aggressor's products. In fact, looking at various lists of the biggest IT companies in, say, Norway (noting that numbers 2 and 3 in that list have now merged), there are a lot of companies at the top that are probably weighted towards a net consumption of technologies rather than a net production of technologies. It's important to look at local markets than the global picture because otherwise we'd all be doing the bidding of Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell and BP because "they create most value".
Yes, sickening isn't it? Some guy who heads up a company employing lots of people (politician hears "reducing the welfare burden" in his/her head) who help that company to make money (politician hears "producing taxable income") can effectively have a thousand-person vote just because of his/her job title, whereas a bunch of individuals (perhaps working for the very same company) writing letters are brushed off as the uninformed and unwashed masses. It's worth reminding those with political aspirations that it is as much their job to avoid being held to ransom by organisations who demand greater influence whilst issuing a veiled threat of "jobs being lost" as it is to encourage an environment where jobs can be maintained or created.
Then they argued that small and medium-sized companies just aren't political. I said that if there's a pressing problem, they will get political.
Well, I've already given some reasons why companies might not be political. You can also add the situation where a company that is not merely providing "solutions" would choose to sit out any political activity, for such reasons as avoiding confrontation with politically motivated opponents, sitting on the fence because of the attitudes of investors (those people who insist, contrary to the evidence, that patents make companies more valuable), or just having too much else to do building a small company offering their own products and services.
I gave them an example that in my opinion shows how ridiculously little support there is for the anti-software-patent cause: there used to be a lobby group for leading European soccer clubs, called G14 (initially 14, later 18 members).
That's apparently little financially motivated support.
I cooperated with that one because I advised and represented their biggest member (Real Madrid) at the time. The G14 had an annual budget at the time of about 2 million euros. Each of its member clubs had revenues between EUR 50 million and EUR 350 million at the time; there are lots of medium-sized IT companies in that revenue range. Lots. So 18 clubs of that size decided to spend ten to twenty times as much on a Brussels (EU capital) lobbying entity as the entirety of European IT small and medium-sized businesses on the fight against software patents. This shows that the G14 addressed a pressing problem; the FFII and my former campaign apparently didn't.
No, it merely shows that a group of organisations could be persuaded to spend money in order to further their own agenda, whereas many IT companies cannot be persuaded that doing the same thing would be in their best interests. That's not to say that the problem isn't acute for some parties and could spread to others; it means that everyone else just doesn't see it and doesn't care until it's their problem (at which point everybody else may well be indifferent to the problem).
Saying that a lack of money floating around lobbying venues points to the absence of a problem is like saying that humanity doesn't have energy/water/food/resource problems because no-one is spending big money either highlighting or remedying those problems. If plenty of people are doing just fine making money from the current situation, why would they want to bring any attention to a future situation where they don't make that kind of money? Indeed, they'll gladly outspend anyone trying to do just that.
I agree that terms like "economic majority" are risky because people just add up the revenue column and compare the numbers to the behemoths of global business, which should never be a form of policy guidance for anyone in public office. Really, the damaging effects of software patents are possibly more similar to the eradication of crucial species in ecosystems which seem unimportant ("I can't see what it does - no-one will miss it!") until the rest of the ecosystem collapses. Perhaps the "economic majority" is founded upon the freedom to innovate without the threat of patents, but we won't know the extent of the value created by having that freedom until someone manages to eradicate it.
But it doesn't surprise me that people can't be persuaded to buy into such causes. If they did, we'd already have effective and functional governments and societies that dare to confront the big issues rather than burying them under a mountain of trivia and self-interest.
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by Lela Gilbert
The sights, sounds and scents of Jerusalem are kaleidoscopic and ever changing. When I first arrived in Israel in 2006, I realized that it would take a lifetime to see and appreciate the endless array of cityscapes, holy sites, museums, gardens, archeological digs and – most wonderful of all – the colorful people that surrounded me.
I suppose that's why I wasn't all that impressed at the sight of some ugly, spray-painted graffiti a friend pointed out to me in Bethlehem. "It's Arabic," she explained. "And it means, 'First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday.'"
"And that means…what?"
"It's a jihadi slogan. It means, more accurately, 'On Saturday we kill the Jews; on Sunday we kill the Christians.'"
That was outrageous. But like a lot of new things, it was soon eclipsed by other discoveries. In fact, I forgot about it altogether till I attended IDC's Herzliya Conference in 2009 – an annual policy and strategy gathering. That year, I wandered into a panel discussion about something I'd never heard of – "The Forgotten Refugees."
I was bewildered watching panelists and participants, who were speaking with great emotion about Jews – often themselves and their families – who fled Muslim lands between 1948 and 1970. What were they talking about?
Short version: after seeing their friends and loved ones imprisoned, tortured and sometimes killed, 850,000 Jews left behind their homes and millennia of history with nothing but the shirts on their backs. Many are now in Israel.
But it wasn't until I actually began to research the story of those "Forgotten Refugees" that I began to understand the slogan: "On Saturday we kill the Jews." Why? Because with virtually no Jews left to persecute in those Muslim countries, "On Sunday we kill the Christians."
A few examples:
In 1948 there were about 135,000 Jews in Iraq. Today less than 10 Jews remain.
Since 2003, more than half of Iraq's Christian population of 800,000 has fled. One horrific church bombing October 31, 2010, killing 58, made the news. But there was much more. As international human rights lawyer Nina Shea testified in a Congressional hearing:
"…In August 2004…five churches were bombed in Baghdad and Mosul. On a single day in July 2009, seven churches were bombed in Baghdad…The Archbishop of Mosul, was kidnapped and killed in early 2008. A bus convoy of Christian students were violently assaulted. Christians…have been raped, tortured, kidnapped, beheaded, and evicted from their homes…"
In 1948, there were some 100,000 Jews in Egypt. Today there are less than 50.
Since late 2010, Egypt's Coptic Christian community – 8,000,000 strong – has been under assault – tens of thousands have fled.
In recent months, the Christians have been blamed for the demise of the Muslim Brotherhood's regime.
In the span of just three days, between August 14 and 16, 38 Churches were destroyed; 23 were vandalized. Fifty-eight Coptic homes were burned and looted. Eighty-five Copt-owned shops, 16 pharmacies and 3 hotels were demolished. Six Christians were killed; seven Copts were kidnapped.
In 1948, there were around 30,000 Jews in Syria. Today less than a dozen remain.
Now hundreds of thousands of Syrian Christians have fled; others are bleeding and dying, often targeted by Al Qaeda-affiliated rebels who demand that they convert to Islam or die.
And elsewhere? Just this past Saturday, a massacre in a Nairobi mall took the lives of 68 people. Their al-Shabab killers ordered all Muslims to safely leave the scene; they shot the rest.
On Sunday, more than 80 Pakistani Christians were killed in a church bombing.
Jewish friends, neighbors and colleagues are shocked but not entirely surprised by such stories. They are rather puzzled, however, by what appears to be a lack of anxiety, action or advocacy on the part of Western Christians.
"Yes, it's horrific," we seem to be saying, "But what can we do?"
If we Sunday people are indeed concerned about the survival of our ancient communities in the Middle East, we may want to heed the advice of the Saturday people:
Pray as if everything depends on God. And act as if everything depends on you.
An Adjunct Fellow at Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, Lela Gilbert is the author of Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner (Encounter, 2012) and co-author of Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians (Thomas Nelson, 2013).
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