this either talks of lack of foresight or about complete lack of business acumen. Corel did not start its Linux work too lonng back and now they are wanting to sell it off. Why did they start it? the market has not changed so significantly in this time. The percentages for Linux based stuff has increased if at all - and now Corel suddenly sees the "light" and figures its not the end of the tunnel but an approaching train. duh!
agreed completely. This was far more important for the community than the denial of service attacks. Delta nd Ford both took a very bold and major step. HP supplies the machines for Ford of course. I blv the internet access for the Ford machines will still need to be purchased, at a minimal amount of $5 a month. And Ford is not thrusting the machines down its employees gullet either. The employees can choose not to take the machines...and I guess they can choose not to take the Internet access either. For Delta, I blv the cost is a little higher - a $12 per month and the machines do not have all the paraphenalia as the machines given out by Ford do...
well, my money says quite the same thing. no different.
it is also true, that portraying a helplessness against corporations will never help and will never set the wrong doings right.
Protests are required. People need to be able to say no. The problem happens when the politicians are in cahoots with the corpoarations. all corporations have lobbies powerful enough.
Corporatism / Capitalism. that is what perhaps caused. yeah, you know that. Violence is not nice, whatever cuases it though. But, then the other way of putting it is - there are reasons to be non violent and there are things which can be sorted out only with violence. perhaps.
I do not see how much value WTO, the Other trade talks, the infamed Uruguay round of talks or GATT contribute to the betterment of the world economy.
This is a topic taught in colleges and universities in Economics courses. Something that basic. Since the modern day western economies are dominated by multi national corporations, the nations are run (for all practical purposes) by them. The car industry in the US almsot killed public transportation, we all know. Similarly, these biggies ensure that IMF grants are given to the third world only to fund ventures where the raw materials are provided by the same MNCs. or the same MNCs are vendors. that is nothing new.
The point remains that till the time these corporations dominate and the common people do not really have a voice, this will go on. The other extreme, of course, is communism and something not really desireable.
It was nice to see people in the US stand up against the BS given out by Corporation dominated WTO, for once. I do not see any reason why corporations should dominate my life. If I live in a different country, I would not like to be forced to eat what WTO wants me to eat.
Yesterday, there was this debate on in CSPAN about the 'corporatism'. and a WTO representative actually condoned the food trade laws by saying that no one forces you to eat the growth hormone induced meat or genetically engineered food. You can go and eat organic stuff. That was one of the most ridiculous statements that I have heard recently. Sounds almost like - eat cake if you cant get bread.
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this either talks of lack of foresight or about complete lack of business acumen. Corel did not start its Linux work too lonng back and now they are wanting to sell it off. Why did they start it? the market has not changed so significantly in this time. The percentages for Linux based stuff has increased if at all - and now Corel suddenly sees the "light" and figures its not the end of the tunnel but an approaching train. duh!
agreed completely. This was far more important for the community than the denial of service attacks. Delta nd Ford both took a very bold and major step. HP supplies the machines for Ford of course. I blv the internet access for the Ford machines will still need to be purchased, at a minimal amount of $5 a month. And Ford is not thrusting the machines down its employees gullet either. The employees can choose not to take the machines. ..and I guess they can choose not to take the Internet access either. For Delta, I blv the cost is a little higher - a $12 per month and the machines do not have all the paraphenalia as the machines given out by Ford do...
it is also true, that portraying a helplessness against corporations will never help and will never set the wrong doings right.
Protests are required. People need to be able to say no. The problem happens when the politicians are in cahoots with the corpoarations. all corporations have lobbies powerful enough.
Yet, there is hope.
I do not see how much value WTO, the Other trade talks, the infamed Uruguay round of talks or GATT contribute to the betterment of the world economy.
This is a topic taught in colleges and universities in Economics courses. Something that basic. Since the modern day western economies are dominated by multi national corporations, the nations are run (for all practical purposes) by them. The car industry in the US almsot killed public transportation, we all know. Similarly, these biggies ensure that IMF grants are given to the third world only to fund ventures where the raw materials are provided by the same MNCs. or the same MNCs are vendors. that is nothing new.
The point remains that till the time these corporations dominate and the common people do not really have a voice, this will go on. The other extreme, of course, is communism and something not really desireable.
It was nice to see people in the US stand up against the BS given out by Corporation dominated WTO, for once. I do not see any reason why corporations should dominate my life. If I live in a different country, I would not like to be forced to eat what WTO wants me to eat.
Yesterday, there was this debate on in CSPAN about the 'corporatism'. and a WTO representative actually condoned the food trade laws by saying that no one forces you to eat the growth hormone induced meat or genetically engineered food. You can go and eat organic stuff. That was one of the most ridiculous statements that I have heard recently. Sounds almost like - eat cake if you cant get bread.