... and you won't be as bothered by this move. Legal bills can quickly pile up, so better to nip the problem in the bud.
The more money the school has, ironically, the quicker they will capitulate to all sorts of things. I've seen one of the exalted Ivy League schools give in to a completely frivolous lawsuit to save money. No principle, morals or ethics at work in the legal department.
Truth be told, I have more respect for the MPAA in this case. At least they take a stand completely consistent with their philosophy.
As for the Corel example, what I think factors into their valuation is the quality of management. You have a CEO who is under the cloud of an insider trading investigation, and whose flamboyant (to put it mildly) lifestyle and wife make it difficult for people to take him seriously. There are now a handful of class action lawsuits stemming from the CEO's positive statements about earnings prior to an earnings warning in December. Little credibility at the top. Coupled with the occasional tendency to pursue one holy grail after another, it's no wonder that Wall Street isn't thrilled with Corel.
Mark my words, the Ponzi scheme (named after Charles Ponzi, a swindler in the 20s who robbed from Peter to give to Paul - ie one investor to another - slightly different from a pyramid scam in that it isn't necessarily hierarchical) will be renamed the Amazon scheme soon enough.
My only fear is that this eventual return to market sanity will precipitate a major crash. Most other industries are reasonably valued, having suffered from a hidden bear market as all the money has gone into tech. But a mass rush from tech may not necessarily go back into value companies (ie those with profits).
Keep your eyes open folks, and hope that your online broker's servers are up for the stampede, when (not if) it comes.
That's all. He has no responsibility to OSS or anyone else's ideals about intellectual property. As much as the law permits, he has to answer to his stockholders. The law requires it, not just business sense.
The real problem is with the patent office. Human DNA sequences, one click ordering, etc. These are patents that can only result when technically ignorant people are making the decisions. When our patent office is staffed by those who are easily befuddled by lawyers. If not Bezos, with his large war chest, it would have been someone else.
As for Amazon itself, I personally think it's the largest Ponzi scheme in history. After it crashes (and probably takes a chunk of the market with it), we'll be renaming the Ponzi scheme after it. For those advocating boycotting Amazon, you'd be more effective buying from them - they lose money with each new customer.
What I'd also like to see is credit reporting agencies/any financial institution be required to present you data about yourself on demand, and at NO charge (they usually charge about 8 bucks in some states).
I agree with the gripe about the mass media, but they're off the mark on many things, not just Y2K.
As for your CTO, tell him to screw off. In this industry (and for the foreseeable future) the MAN needs us far more than we need the MAN. I surprises me to no end how much crap workers will tolerate from management. Just call your favorite headhunter and walk - as someone else pointed out, even wannabe script kiddies who write VB can get good paying jobs.
As for me, I stayed home with the wife. Part of my job is sysadmin (small company, the greenest of developers - me - gets the admin stuff to do) and the subject of being around at midnight never even came up. It helps that the CTO is technically savvy - a key criteria for any place I'd ever work at.
Instead of writing whining letters, the author should be working on his resume. Life's too short.
The company I work for is also trying to get a domain name transferred from one of our acquisition's previous owners. It was 7 weeks ago that we submitted the notarized paperwork, and they have yet to process it.
They won't even tell us whether they received the paperwork and that it was in "good order." We're lucky in that we have a redirect on the original server to one of our's, but this is a less than ideal solution for a revenue generating website in the long term.
I myself have had problems simply changing my whois record - there's a bit of a logistical catch-22 if your email address has expired.
I do agree with a previous poster who says that if your business plan depends on the domain name, you're probably in trouble anyway. Nevertheless, NSI is not doing the job they were supposed to. I accept that there has to be a single controlling point, but there should probably be several points of access. Businesses in particular would be more than happy to pay $100 per year for the names if they could actually get service.
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... and you won't be as bothered by this move. Legal bills can quickly pile up, so better to nip the problem in the bud.
The more money the school has, ironically, the quicker they will capitulate to all sorts of things. I've seen one of the exalted Ivy League schools give in to a completely frivolous lawsuit to save money. No principle, morals or ethics at work in the legal department.
Truth be told, I have more respect for the MPAA in this case. At least they take a stand completely consistent with their philosophy.
As for the Corel example, what I think factors into their valuation is the quality of management. You have a CEO who is under the cloud of an insider trading investigation, and whose flamboyant (to put it mildly) lifestyle and wife make it difficult for people to take him seriously. There are now a handful of class action lawsuits stemming from the CEO's positive statements about earnings prior to an earnings warning in December. Little credibility at the top. Coupled with the occasional tendency to pursue one holy grail after another, it's no wonder that Wall Street isn't thrilled with Corel.
Mark my words, the Ponzi scheme (named after Charles Ponzi, a swindler in the 20s who robbed from Peter to give to Paul - ie one investor to another - slightly different from a pyramid scam in that it isn't necessarily hierarchical) will be renamed the Amazon scheme soon enough.
My only fear is that this eventual return to market sanity will precipitate a major crash. Most other industries are reasonably valued, having suffered from a hidden bear market as all the money has gone into tech. But a mass rush from tech may not necessarily go back into value companies (ie those with profits).
Keep your eyes open folks, and hope that your online broker's servers are up for the stampede, when (not if) it comes.
GdI
That's all. He has no responsibility to OSS or anyone else's ideals about intellectual property. As much as the law permits, he has to answer to his stockholders. The law requires it, not just business sense.
The real problem is with the patent office. Human DNA sequences, one click ordering, etc. These are patents that can only result when technically ignorant people are making the decisions. When our patent office is staffed by those who are easily befuddled by lawyers. If not Bezos, with his large war chest, it would have been someone else.
As for Amazon itself, I personally think it's the largest Ponzi scheme in history. After it crashes (and probably takes a chunk of the market with it), we'll be renaming the Ponzi scheme after it. For those advocating boycotting Amazon, you'd be more effective buying from them - they lose money with each new customer.
What I'd also like to see is credit reporting agencies/any financial institution be required to present you data about yourself on demand, and at NO charge (they usually charge about 8 bucks in some states).
I agree with the gripe about the mass media, but they're off the mark on many things, not just Y2K.
As for your CTO, tell him to screw off. In this industry (and for the foreseeable future) the MAN needs us far more than we need the MAN. I surprises me to no end how much crap workers will tolerate from management. Just call your favorite headhunter and walk - as someone else pointed out, even wannabe script kiddies who write VB can get good paying jobs.
As for me, I stayed home with the wife. Part of my job is sysadmin (small company, the greenest of developers - me - gets the admin stuff to do) and the subject of being around at midnight never even came up. It helps that the CTO is technically savvy - a key criteria for any place I'd ever work at.
Instead of writing whining letters, the author should be working on his resume. Life's too short.
The company I work for is also trying to get a domain name transferred from one of our acquisition's previous owners. It was 7 weeks ago that we submitted the notarized paperwork, and they have yet to process it.
They won't even tell us whether they received the paperwork and that it was in "good order." We're lucky in that we have a redirect on the original server to one of our's, but this is a less than ideal solution for a revenue generating website in the long term.
I myself have had problems simply changing my whois record - there's a bit of a logistical catch-22 if your email address has expired.
I do agree with a previous poster who says that if your business plan depends on the domain name, you're probably in trouble anyway. Nevertheless, NSI is not doing the job they were supposed to. I accept that there has to be a single controlling point, but there should probably be several points of access. Businesses in particular would be more than happy to pay $100 per year for the names if they could actually get service.