If you want to nitpick I'd rather say that until their OtherOS enabling firmware gets replaced, they are still computers at the moment Sony pushes the new update.
Far better is to use the threat of a quitting and making your boss spend resources replacing you as leverage to improve your position.
Of course, this depends on actually having such leverage in the first place.
If your strategic position is too weak for you to get anything, then suck it up and keep your nose to the grind stone. Your boss would likely know damn well how easily he could replace you and he will in turn use that as leverage against you to milk as much code as possible out of you for the least cost.
Getting everyone on one standard that submarine patenteers can then pounce on is not in everyone's best interests.
The way things are going, competition is good. No one standard should be one to rule them all...and in the darkness bind them once the opportunity is ripe to launch a patent nuke.
If I was an artist, I would love to be perpetually paid.
If I was a recording label, I would love to shaft my artists and get away with it.
If I was a customer, I would love to get it for free.
All three have in common that they are greedy human bastards.
Also, you forget that the record labels didn't hold up their end of the bargain, most likely because they were big and tough and able to say "What are you going to do about it?". They had financial muscles and used them, just like every other nation throughout history used the might of its army to either get its way, or let lack of might cause them to yield to whoever had a bigger army.
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Repeat after me.
You can sue anyone you want to and they will probably cough up settlement money just to make you go away.
Stallman is for free as in speech, not beer.
Though it's true that often times its easier to milk profits out of a market if you keep others from competing with you.
Interestingly enough Sony's main claim to California jurisdiction is the "choice of venue" clause in their PSN ToS.
If you want to nitpick I'd rather say that until their OtherOS enabling firmware gets replaced, they are still computers at the moment Sony pushes the new update.
If a burglar finds my hide-a-key because I left it somewhere obvious that does NOT give them the right to break into my house.
If hackers could sue pirates for provoking Sony into revoking OtherOS I might agree with him.
Far better is to use the threat of a quitting and making your boss spend resources replacing you as leverage to improve your position.
Of course, this depends on actually having such leverage in the first place.
If your strategic position is too weak for you to get anything, then suck it up and keep your nose to the grind stone. Your boss would likely know damn well how easily he could replace you and he will in turn use that as leverage against you to milk as much code as possible out of you for the least cost.
Funny thing about sinking ships. The captain has a right to do it, but woe to any of the crew he takes down with him.
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/SonyvHotz-19.pdf
Geohot's fighting back.
Getting everyone on one standard that submarine patenteers can then pounce on is not in everyone's best interests.
The way things are going, competition is good. No one standard should be one to rule them all...and in the darkness bind them once the opportunity is ripe to launch a patent nuke.
Suing your own customers was a big mistake. I'm not even going to replace my PS2 when it craps out on me.
The US has sovereignty over twitter, but not foreign users.
Simple.
Sony is rich and merciless. Geohot, unless he survives a trial, will get stomped by Goliath.
I've already notified both of them of the opportunity to get in touch with each other.
All three of which take place AFTER you've already bought it.
People are selfish.
News at 11.
I wouldn't mind thought police IF and ONLY IF it were possible to trust anyone that would hire them.
We did.
They're called Navajo Codetalkers.
Are you advocating survival of the fittest?
It may be a logical fallacy, but often times in practical use it makes a damn good heuristic.
The question is, is h.264 good enough to fork over a shitload of royalties for?
Didn't have to wait too long.
Sony is suing for a restraining order:
http://kotaku.com/5731200/sony-fires-back-at-playstation-3-hackers
Nope, everyone's just a self interested human being that doesn't give a rat's ass about interests that conflict with their own.
If I was an artist, I would love to be perpetually paid.
If I was a recording label, I would love to shaft my artists and get away with it.
If I was a customer, I would love to get it for free.
All three have in common that they are greedy human bastards.
Also, you forget that the record labels didn't hold up their end of the bargain, most likely because they were big and tough and able to say "What are you going to do about it?". They had financial muscles and used them, just like every other nation throughout history used the might of its army to either get its way, or let lack of might cause them to yield to whoever had a bigger army.
Nope, it depends on who pays the accountants to be creative.