Their income from "giving" away the windows license can be recovered by suing the hell out of the shops selling the pirated copies. gets the "source" of the problem and this looks good for MS PR killing 3 birds with 1 stone...
free market doesn't and shouldn't mean exporting your business plan. It got to the stage that the corporation is exporting sensitive information without knowing, or simply to please their shareholders by saving a few bucks.
Most company's think IT is a cost-centre, and they can live without them, their business will run fine if someone else developes it. But the actual softwares contain the whole business flow, the intricacies and the exception rules which makes their business have that edge. Just imagine Coke needs a software system to calculate their magical formula, but outsources it to India!
The car, electronic manufacturers sure enough saved money by setting plants in China, Japan..etc to manufacture parts, thinking they'll never be smart enough to piece the whole thing together... All that's left that I can see is the brand name, I've used chinese branded DVD players that's half the price and more reliable then the US/Japan made ones... yeah right, open up trade, let people into the US, the next thing you'll be complaining is marketing and sales jobs disappearing in the US.
actually,when I was in Sydney, this is regulation. I think it's by law that the slot machines have to payout the right %. It's around 95% in Sydney's slot machines. There's an algorithm which have to go through auditing by the government agencies for it to be posted.
Looks like people are taking this as "free" music rather than open source music. If it's open source, does it mean we can change it and then release it into the public again until it is "fit for the ear?" If it's really open sourced music, then maybe we can turn experimental music to pretty much commercial like music which a lot of people agree upon
I don't entirely agree, what makes open source development special is that the goal of the project doesn't necessarily have to be the public. It can be just 5 guys who really like to turn an X-box into a X-mas tree. It's the freedom to do whatever you want, but collaborating with common interest (even for a few). So number of downloads and rating first in a search engine I don't think is a reason (Just name something really weird, and I'm sure you'll find it in google first anyway). Success in an open source project is when the author got what he wanted, found people who have common interest and keep on building
This is already done, IBM thought it through and dump 1 Billion on it. The only way to make money from open source is services. the reasoning is simple. 1) Open source is free 2) There's no simple customer support for the product (you can't expect a user to go into a newsgroup and dig code) 3) Any company who dares to support open source software and patch them up is going to make money, and it doesn't violate the GPL. The most logical people who will support the product will be the creator of the products, eg big brother bb4.com..etc
I'm going to be flamed for saying dares to support an open source software, as it's just a logical business decision, would you run a business selling products you don't have control of. You'll have to be at least a contributor to the project to know enough about the product to do commercial support
I have some clients which I initially made created programs running VB + MS Access...simple great, however the company expanded and now they're complaining about DB speed. I thought great, this client heard about linux, knows about the cost of M$ solutions (server, license, MS Sql...etc) and tried it out. Basically I'll get blamed for it if it doesn't work... so here I am trying to convert a VB app into a VB client, postgres DB app...so far so good... the reports are running at least 5 times faster, db retrieval is more powerful and without the MS Access DB corruption, easier to automatically backup... and you know what they saved a lot of money instead of using MS Sql/Win solution... win-win situation, they paid less, and I made more $ : )
what you know of a chinese laws is actually incorrect. Chinese copyright laws, or any laws for that matter in China are plentiful and just as strict, if not more strict then other countries. The problem is that the local government doesn't usually apply these laws. Reasons for not applying them are up to your imagination... You can be assured though once applied, the implications could be many.
cost of pirated CDs actually is around HK$15 (US$2) the closer you go to big cities... the price drops the further you go.
The main reason China is going for linux is because it suddenly give China a hope of an equal footing with the software technology the US is using. By promoting linux for over 1.3 Billion people, there's a very good chance China will overtake US in technology.
all in all, I think China just wants to piss US off
that just sounds like free promotion for linux if they are attacking unix on the cost side... Isn't people switching from unix to linux for the very reason? If people have already chosen unix, I'm sure they made up their minds about the scalability/power vs ease of use argument. I'm sure they already have the expert who knows unix who can handle linux if they ever need to switch. + I'm very sure the cost of changing from unix system to windoze would be much more than any of the issues raised.
Why would any marketing people spend money undermining unix, where the more logical and economical alternative is linux, not windoze???
As a consultant in Hong Kong, one obvious consequence I see is that most of the Asian countries are forced to look at alternatives, especially when some have just started in using the PC and not as tied up to the Windows platform. Imagine China, huge population, all ready to start buying their PC, well over 90% got used to pirated software, suddenly discovers that their software is more expensive then their PC Well no fear, China's president's son has already created a JV to create the Red Flag chinese linux distro, so who's not going to listen to the son of a communist country?
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Their income from "giving" away the windows license can be recovered by suing the hell out of the shops selling the pirated copies.
gets the "source" of the problem
and this looks good for MS PR
killing 3 birds with 1 stone...
If this is to make any sense, then IT workers will benefit by eventually selling shoes..
free market doesn't and shouldn't mean exporting your business plan. It got to the stage that the corporation is exporting sensitive information without knowing, or simply to please their shareholders by saving a few bucks.
Most company's think IT is a cost-centre, and they can live without them, their business will run fine if someone else developes it. But the actual softwares contain the whole business flow, the intricacies and the exception rules which makes their business have that edge. Just imagine Coke needs a software system to calculate their magical formula, but outsources it to India!
The car, electronic manufacturers sure enough saved money by setting plants in China, Japan..etc to manufacture parts, thinking they'll never be smart enough to piece the whole thing together... All that's left that I can see is the brand name, I've used chinese branded DVD players that's half the price and more reliable then the US/Japan made ones... yeah right, open up trade, let people into the US, the next thing you'll be complaining is marketing and sales jobs disappearing in the US.
actually,when I was in Sydney, this is regulation. I think it's by law that the slot machines have to payout the right %. It's around 95% in Sydney's slot machines. There's an algorithm which have to go through auditing by the government agencies for it to be posted.
Looks like people are taking this as "free" music rather than open source music. If it's open source, does it mean we can change it and then release it into the public again until it is "fit for the ear?"
If it's really open sourced music, then maybe we can turn experimental music to pretty much commercial like music which a lot of people agree upon
I don't entirely agree, what makes open source development special is that the goal of the project doesn't necessarily have to be the public. It can be just 5 guys who really like to turn an X-box into a X-mas tree. It's the freedom to do whatever you want, but collaborating with common interest (even for a few).
So number of downloads and rating first in a search engine I don't think is a reason (Just name something really weird, and I'm sure you'll find it in google first anyway).
Success in an open source project is when the author got what he wanted, found people who have common interest and keep on building
This is already done, IBM thought it through and dump 1 Billion on it. The only way to make money from open source is services.
the reasoning is simple.
1) Open source is free
2) There's no simple customer support for the product (you can't expect a user to go into a newsgroup and dig code)
3) Any company who dares to support open source software and patch them up is going to make money, and it doesn't violate the GPL.
The most logical people who will support the product will be the creator of the products, eg big brother bb4.com..etc
I'm going to be flamed for saying dares to support an open source software, as it's just a logical business decision, would you run a business selling products you don't have control of. You'll have to be at least a contributor to the project to know enough about the product to do commercial support
I have some clients which I initially made created programs running VB + MS Access...simple great, however the company expanded and now they're complaining about DB speed. I thought great, this client heard about linux, knows about the cost of M$ solutions (server, license, MS Sql ...etc) and tried it out. Basically I'll get blamed for it if it doesn't work... so here I am trying to convert a VB app into a VB client, postgres DB app...so far so good... the reports are running at least 5 times faster, db retrieval is more powerful and without the MS Access DB corruption, easier to automatically backup... and you know what they saved a lot of money instead of using MS Sql/Win solution... win-win situation, they paid less, and I made more $ : )
what you know of a chinese laws is actually incorrect. Chinese copyright laws, or any laws for that matter in China are plentiful and just as strict, if not more strict then other countries. The problem is that the local government doesn't usually apply these laws. Reasons for not applying them are up to your imagination... You can be assured though once applied, the implications could be many.
cost of pirated CDs actually is around HK$15 (US$2) the closer you go to big cities... the price drops the further you go.
The main reason China is going for linux is because it suddenly give China a hope of an equal footing with the software technology the US is using. By promoting linux for over 1.3 Billion people, there's a very good chance China will overtake US in technology.
all in all, I think China just wants to piss US off
that just sounds like free promotion for linux if they are attacking unix on the cost side...
Isn't people switching from unix to linux for the very reason?
If people have already chosen unix, I'm sure they made up their minds about the scalability/power vs ease of use argument. I'm sure they already have the expert who knows unix who can handle linux if they ever need to switch.
+ I'm very sure the cost of changing from unix system to windoze would be much more than any of the issues raised.
Why would any marketing people spend money undermining unix, where the more logical and economical alternative is linux, not windoze???
As a consultant in Hong Kong, one obvious consequence I see is that most of the Asian countries are forced to look at alternatives, especially when some have just started in using the PC and not as tied up to the Windows platform. Imagine China, huge population, all ready to start buying their PC, well over 90% got used to pirated software, suddenly discovers that their software is more expensive then their PC
Well no fear, China's president's son has already created a JV to create the Red Flag chinese linux distro, so who's not going to listen to the son of a communist country?
Doesn't say if the 5th move is going to be mated by black or white.... guess it'll be easier if it's black mate in 5