Sun has been... Pushing the open source community around? Eh? They have given the OS community as much as all the other companies counted together and it just hasn't given them any money back.
I have a friend who registers domains in the hundreds (yeah, yeah, I know how/. feels about that.) and those included a local (ending in our country code) domain of a *very* popular site you have likely all visited lately. The large company owning that site practically sent him a message "Will you sell it for 2000 euros or will we try this in court?"
He naturally sold it, knowing he would have no chance were it ever taken to court but apparently the company just wanted to get things done quickly.
Now, he also owns the local domain of a certain large social network mostly out of curiosity to see what they would do. He really knows that did anyone bother to take it to court he would lose and doesn't really need that money (he earns rather well from his websites) but well, I guess everyone has a hobby of some sort.
Not only this but concider just how many bad jokes would be in/. if there were more computer related thingies with the same name.
I mean, remember how long message chains there were about the "All trees grow at 70 degrees" even though anyone who thought about it 5 seconds knew it most likely wasn't 70 celsius (or centigrades or whatever) and certainly wasn't 70 Kelvin.)? Well, imagine that kind of message chains every time there are news about the web browser or e-mail client.
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Sun has been... Pushing the open source community around? Eh? They have given the OS community as much as all the other companies counted together and it just hasn't given them any money back.
I have a friend who registers domains in the hundreds (yeah, yeah, I know how /. feels about that.) and those included a local (ending in our country code) domain of a *very* popular site you have likely all visited lately. The large company owning that site practically sent him a message "Will you sell it for 2000 euros or will we try this in court?"
He naturally sold it, knowing he would have no chance were it ever taken to court but apparently the company just wanted to get things done quickly.
Now, he also owns the local domain of a certain large social network mostly out of curiosity to see what they would do. He really knows that did anyone bother to take it to court he would lose and doesn't really need that money (he earns rather well from his websites) but well, I guess everyone has a hobby of some sort.
Not only this but concider just how many bad jokes would be in /. if there were more computer related thingies with the same name.
I mean, remember how long message chains there were about the "All trees grow at 70 degrees" even though anyone who thought about it 5 seconds knew it most likely wasn't 70 celsius (or centigrades or whatever) and certainly wasn't 70 Kelvin.)? Well, imagine that kind of message chains every time there are news about the web browser or e-mail client.
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