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"European Parliament Approves Rules Granting Greater Copyright Protection." (from Quicken.com)

"EU Parliament approves draft copyright law to fight high-tech piracy" (Silicon Valley News)

Also, y'all might want to check out Prof. James Boyle's editorial ("Whigs and hackers in cyberspace") in London's Financial Times the other day dealing with the foolishness of re-creating a European version of the American DMCA.

Also, I went to the European Parliament's web site and poked around for some primary documents. Here's a fairly thorough summary of what transpired inside the hallowed halls of the EU Parliament. However, I noticed that the embedded link (supposed to wisk one away to the actual text of the report) seemed to re-direct me to an unrelated discussion about energy in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Has anyone actually found the text the the EU Parliament's Copyright decision?

Sincerely,
Vergil
Vergil Bushnell

If you make under $25,000 per year, you can file your US taxes (both federal and state) for FREE electronically using Quicken on the web http://www.turbotax.com/turbotaxweb/welcome.htm. (Information about the deal is here: http://www.quicken.com/freedom/) Privacy implications at your own risk, of course.

The recent stockholders meeting was a little tense, however, with little old ladies ready to wring Dave Wetherell's neck!

Yeah, but if you look at this graph, you see that they went from $30 to $6 in less than a year and a half. That's a lot smaller drop. The skyrocketing value a month or so after IPO was insane, and probably due more to speculation (gambling), rather than any correlation between stock price and reality.

Seriously, just look at this graph! If the stock prices, along with the firing of employees are any sign, then this is not merely due to "created by acquisitions, and said the move has nothing to do with any troubles at Red Hat."

There are more than 10,000,000 web pages on the internet with an average of 10? links. BT doesn't want to kill the market so they charge .01 $/year per link. this gives them ONE MILLION DOLLARS a year in revenue. Clearly Doctor Evil is behind this. This is .003353% of their yearly revenue. So actually, they'd charge more. .01$/mo.? Only .04024% .05$/mo.? .201% a quarter per link per month? about 1%. Assuming the Internet wouldn't die or revolt. which it would. (disclaimer: all numbers are mostly made up. Actual Size of internet may vary. By a factor of 10.)

I sure wouldn't want to lose $80 billion. That would kind of suck.

I noticed that Slashcode is plugged in ANDN's latest earnings report. On the other hand, Server 51 was not mentioned... they were probably hoping to save that news for another earnings report or press release.

Check out their interday chart, this action is making it dive http://www.q uicken.com/investments/charts/?symbol=BEOS&period= INTRADAY

Check out their interday chart, this action is making it dive

I work for a company that builds .com businesses, and we laugh whenever we hear about Bezos, etc. He typifies the American "get rich quick" Dream which has been exponentiated by the ridiculousness of Yahoo's $400+ stock price. He ran what would have been the greatest e-commerce business model into the ground because he was impatient. Amazon will not be profitable for at least 3-5 for years (and that's generous). That is, unless they reincarnate Sam Walton to run their warehouses, or merge with FedEx or UPS. Watching Bezos strip Amazon's gears gave me more respect for *gasp* Bill Gates and what he was able to do business-wise in a new field with technology back in the day.

Sure, I'm jealous. But he still ain't Man of the Year.

According to quicken as of 11:00am EST MS is only -2 13/16 points down, and slowly rising. This is not surprising to me, since a lot of people believe that MS has the resources to fight/appeal against the ruling. It now goes to the Supreme Court where they are more "business" friendly. MS will survive, the only thing that could really damage them is a break up. I doubt that will happen, and actually don't really want it to. Although I think that MS should separate their OS from their apps, things are changing so drastically, I don't think it will help. I really don't want the government to punish MS too badly. I like the idea of a long fight, because this gives the opportunity for competitors to get back to where they belong. MS will be too scared to attack in full force because of the law suit, and that is where I want them to be. Let MS fight only with quality (hee hee) products, and not with shady deals.

Side note: Another thing that the Net has changed and wasn't mentioned is politics. Just look at Jesse Ventura, who ran his campaign only through the web. And he won!!!

Steven Rostedt

According to quicken It opened at $139. It's only around 144 (did I just say "only"?). So you couldn't make the big money like you could have with RHAT. Unless of course you could have bought the IPO. I know I couldn't so this isn't a big buy for me. I'll wait till it comes down to around 80.

It looks like we are shifting from the dot.com companies to the free/open source companies. ;)

Steven Rostedt

They are very small, and very much struggling.

Imagine trying to compete with microsoft with a $250M market capitalization.

Here is their stock price over the past five years. Struggling? Hell Yes!

...$ 6,364.67 (mil)

looking at Quicken.com's quote.

$46.7/16 per share, at over 137 mil shares outstanding. That and about $1.3 billion in cash, going by Q3 '99 10-Q. I'd say the going price would have to be at least $10 billion, and not $3 billion.

Given that, who is going to come up with that kind of money to buy out Apple??

I think this is just another 'rumor' to stir things up, maybe having the effect of putting some upward pressure on the stock.

If Jobs was only interested in polishing up the Apple in order to sell it off to some big monied corp that was able to back it, then I don't think he would have polished it this well. Now it is going to be too expensive to buy it. If you are going to sell your car, yeah you clean it, get it running decent, etc., but you don't go overhauling the motor, redoing the interior, put new tires and wheels on it, repaint it. You only do that if you are going to keep it.

This is a tax-free, stock-only deal. Also, the $400M price tag also included spinner.com. How much NullSoft got is anybody's guess. But I sure wouldn't mind sitting on a large heap of AOL stock, or any stock, for that matter.

Damn, Iomega hasn't been doing so well since they bought up SyQuest. (And like SyQuest, they have Iomega to blame :)

This is interesting. Funny, they introduced a bunch of new products at the end of 1998, didn't they? Why are they slumping so?