Thanks for recognizing what was bugging me about Joy. The guy has done amazing things with computers, now he is scared of the next big technological innovations. Has anyone pointed out that his forebears, innovators of industrial era, all saw the computer as the bringer of doom to the human race? It's called "recognizing one's own obsoloescence," and it's not new. Joy doesn't know jack about how to innovate in a biotech/biomechanical/nanotech world, so he feels his own mortality, foresees the day when he is no longer "big smart guy." Ergo he generalizes his feeling of dread to the entire species. Whoopdedoo. The universe is dangerous. We don't know what we're doing. Newsflash.
I would suggest we examine the forces that feed those demands for ASP support from ISP's customers -- It's Frontpage driving it, isn't it? There needs to be a suite of web page dev tools that assume PHP3 or JSP or servlets or even mod_perl stuff on the back end that have the ease of use of a consumer product. That development effort would be much more productive than trying to support ASP.
The essential thing of it is, you cannot own an idea, and merely defining laws which claim ownership don't change this fact. Look at software piracy for proof. In fact, asserting legal ownership over information merely provokes others to prove that they can access the information equally, patent notwithstanding. Witness software piracy, or DSS hacking. Let 'em keep adding weight to the whole IP system, it'll just collapse sooner.
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Thanks for recognizing what was bugging me about Joy. The guy has done amazing things with computers, now he is scared of the next big technological innovations. Has anyone pointed out that his forebears, innovators of industrial era, all saw the computer as the bringer of doom to the human race? It's called "recognizing one's own obsoloescence," and it's not new. Joy doesn't know jack about how to innovate in a biotech/biomechanical/nanotech world, so he feels his own mortality, foresees the day when he is no longer "big smart guy." Ergo he generalizes his feeling of dread to the entire species. Whoopdedoo. The universe is dangerous. We don't know what we're doing. Newsflash.
I would suggest we examine the forces that feed those demands for ASP support from ISP's customers -- It's Frontpage driving it, isn't it? There needs to be a suite of web page dev tools that assume PHP3 or JSP or servlets or even mod_perl stuff on the back end that have the ease of use of a consumer product. That development effort would be much more productive than trying to support ASP.
The essential thing of it is, you cannot own an idea, and merely defining laws which claim ownership don't change this fact. Look at software piracy for proof. In fact, asserting legal ownership over information merely provokes others to prove that they can access the information equally, patent notwithstanding. Witness software piracy, or DSS hacking. Let 'em keep adding weight to the whole IP system, it'll just collapse sooner.
Signed,
One with ordinary skill in the art.