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Father of DVD Gets Bitter Reward
Ant writes "MSNBC has a
Newsweek article on Warren Lieberfarb, the father of DVD, transformed the movie business. And yet his reward was he was fired."
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Hey, the church wanted to oust Galileo for his views on the soliocentric universe. Being smart sucks.
Trent Polack
www.polycat.net
they moved his job to India.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Do you suppose he's that "cubicledrone" guy who was tearing up the career-related articles here yesterday with endless tales of being fired from job after job for his blatant superiority?
Warning! Warning! Socialist rant.
So, employees run the show and business?
Now I've read the article, this man is far from "father of DVD". He would be better represented as "DVD pimp". Usual folie de randeur of /. editors, move on.
...to Hollywood, Warren!
In mid-December, Lieberfarb was fired with $10 million severance. A friend at Time Warner describes him as "a tragic figure," adding, "It's very sad."
Oh yeah. How ever will he get along with only $10 million.
(/sarcasm)
MORTAR COMBAT!
... and sue him for infringement!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
And if we cant bring him justice then send him copies of your pr0n to keep him busy.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
pleading for Steve Case and Richard Parsons to give you your stock value back seems like begging to your poker buddies after they clean you out.
No, no, no. Please, don't compare the stock market to gambling.
Sure, they may seem the same, but there's a very important difference:
gambling is illegal in most places.
He's his dyslexic brother
I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path
Just how many DVD's can you buy from 10 mln...
Privacy is terrorism.
And that doesn't make him a tool, it makes him "employed"
Not anymore.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
In the case of bill gates it could be argued that it would be justice.
And, while tweaking mr. Gates may be fun its not germane to this case. Mr. Lieberfarb, managed to achieve quite abit of good for time warner, recieved recompense, things didnt go quite as he felt they should, and then he made a grab for power and was smacked down. If he had of been in the court of a european monarchy instead of corporate america he would likely have been beheaded for treason. Instead he recieves 10 million in severance and is told to bother time warner no more.
If that isn't progress I don't know what is
...he was ejected.
Whoever designed level 61 in Frozen Bubble is a sadistic bastard.
If only he'd played Ultima 4...
Reminds me about a true story in post-WW2 Italy. Seems that a regular guy won the lottery and was now rich. The newspaper reporters all went to his apartment building to interview him. They asked him "what are you going to do with all that money?" Before he could answer, another man stepped in front of him and said: "He's a member of our local communist party, and he's going to give it to the Party!". To which the lottery winner hastilly interjected "oh no, I'm not a communist any more!"
Actually, Galileo found that the universe didn't revolve around the Pope.
That was heresy. Off with his head!
Derek
let me fill in the blank.. 1:get job 2:get fired 3:profit!!!
insert witty comment here
" He didn't invent the technology. More important, he saw its potential to transform the industry."
Right there, in black and white. Inventing the technology wasn't important; oh no, it's *hyping* the technology that's the real milestone here! Without the hype, the DVD technology might still exist but we could've missed out on all those billions - and then what use would the technology be?
The article writer should give up the pen and see if he can't get a job as fluffer for hollywood executive types. Surely he's got to be pretty damned good as swallowing cock by now.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire.
In which case he can burn in hell ;-)
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
While the I.T. talent in India cannot be denied, they have reached saturation point for outsourced work. Anyone jumping on the gravytrain now is being sold a lie.
The greedy corporations who rush to dump their loyal staff so they can post profits of 110 mill rather than 95 mill, deserve to get Dheli belly when it all goes tits up.
> Mixing Greek and Latin is often viewed as bad form.
I gather you don't know much about English...