Umm, the only country in Scandinavia which has any oil in its backyard is Norway. They were pretty well of even before the oil. Besides Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland still are. Even without _any_ oil money. Guess now that you found out we don't have any oil money at all, we'll just implode overnight. Nice.
I've read those comments. But to me it seems the developers of OpenSSH probably were aware that he had a trademark for SSH or one pending. (All the (R)'s they throw around) so it seems to me that he has the moral highground. I honestly don't know either how long one can have a trademark without upholding it. But I believe he wouldn't be upholding the trademark anymore if it wasn't valid. (His lawyers probably could probably have told him the length of time involved) But in case it turns out that the trademark was no longer valid, then I must agree he has no _legal_ recourse available.
Your right, that got my attention too. I didn't look at it favourably either.. but when you come down to it Ylönen created SSH which n+1 people use every day, me included. If he owns the trademark and tries to get other people to respect that in a friendly manner I just can't see how people can still flame that he's greedy or lashing out because his stock price has gone down.
I just don't get it. How can so many people who are most probably highly educated (-> intelligent? I don't think so) get so hostile when a _LEGITIMATE_ trademark owner or one who surely will own it soon if not yet tries in a friendly way to get people not to infringe on his trademark. The trademark which he must defend in order to retain it. Oh well, idiots generally like a flamefest which does nothing creative. Idiocy never ceases to amaze me.
..considering the fact that the US has a population of 280 million or so compared to the world total of 6 billion plus.. giving it less than a 5% share of the whole world population.. Those figures tell you anything?
Umm, just to point out some errors you had in your post. Forestry used to be the largest block of exports until the beginning of the '90s (electronics etc are the largest nowadays) and as for tourism that has never been all that large a source of employment in Finland.
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Funny, I pay 45 euros a month here in Finland for my 8mbit/1mbit ADSL. Nice to know that people still have 512kbit links.. *tease* ;)
"the Scandinavian redistribution republics"
Umm, the only country in Scandinavia which has any oil in its backyard is Norway. They were pretty well of even before the oil. Besides Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland still are. Even without _any_ oil money. Guess now that you found out we don't have any oil money at all, we'll just implode overnight. Nice.
The 30+ year trade embargo can't have anything to do with this now can it?
I've read those comments. But to me it seems the developers of OpenSSH probably were aware that he had a trademark for SSH or one pending. (All the (R)'s they throw around) so it seems to me that he has the moral highground. I honestly don't know either how long one can have a trademark without upholding it. But I believe he wouldn't be upholding the trademark anymore if it wasn't valid. (His lawyers probably could probably have told him the length of time involved) But in case it turns out that the trademark was no longer valid, then I must agree he has no _legal_ recourse available.
Your right, that got my attention too. I didn't look at it favourably either.. but when you come down to it Ylönen created SSH which n+1 people use every day, me included. If he owns the trademark and tries to get other people to respect that in a friendly manner I just can't see how people can still flame that he's greedy or lashing out because his stock price has gone down.
I just don't get it. How can so many people who are most probably highly educated (-> intelligent? I don't think so) get so hostile when a _LEGITIMATE_ trademark owner or one who surely will own it soon if not yet tries in a friendly way to get people not to infringe on his trademark. The trademark which he must defend in order to retain it. Oh well, idiots generally like a flamefest which does nothing creative. Idiocy never ceases to amaze me.
Umm, get real. All the permanent members of the UN have ballistic missiles. Including the French, British, Chinese.. And the US/Russia.
..considering the fact that the US has a population of 280 million or so compared to the world total of 6 billion plus.. giving it less than a 5% share of the whole world population.. Those figures tell you anything?
Umm, just to point out some errors you had in your post. Forestry used to be the largest block of exports until the beginning of the '90s (electronics etc are the largest nowadays) and as for tourism that has never been all that large a source of employment in Finland.