Your comment made me think, possibly for the first time since this [web lifestyle] all started, of the potential of a violent backlash against decentralization of power.
It is the standard in this community to assume that the revolution will continue forward, terminating in a new open, cyber culture, where buyers, sellers, thinkers and doers can freely exchange their wares without middlemen.
I just shuddered wondering if their aren't those powerful enough to fight trend this and, perhaps, succeed.
I think MS will settle before being broken up, and instead will *attempt* to radically re-invent themselves, with Bill Gates, the supposed visionary, driving the (mostly for show) radical changes.
Unfortunately for them, Bill Gates is a creature from another generation and the "new" MS will not be able to execute this strategy, and will continue to come out with failed initatives, such as COM+, DNA, CE, Active Desktop-X-Movie, Chromeffects, etc that flop.
If you remove Windows and Office from the equation, via, let's say a revolution in OS's (linux/internet) or apps (internet/asp's, etc) MS has no real fall back products of great signifigance.
I predict after several more failed initiatives, under the new post-settlement MS, in a few years MS will be *bought* by AT+T or someone who needs some marginal web sites and services.
Well, let me state it this way. Everything in the DNA itself, wether you want to call it code, or content or acids, or potential protein creators, would be open.
A process to extract it, optimize it, manipulate it in the lab, analyze it, create it, destroy it, etc, would be propreitary.
I think this has gotten semantically tripped up by the word "code".
It seems to me that DNA patents sould work like the Quake source code in reverse, ie:
The content (the codified data) in DNA is free and open, unlike the "content" (maps, textures) in Quake which is proprietary.
The algorithms and processess for manipulating DNA will be propreitary (closed), unlike the algorithms for manipulating the Quake content, which are (nowadays) GPL'd via the Open Source.
I don't mean to insinuate anything... okay, yes I do, but what *is* Xerox anymore?
Their aren't doing well financially, and everything they do to shake the "we're just the copier company" image seems to fail.
I think they are starting to show their growing irrelevance by desparately suing the sucessfull companies they see around them.
It's like someone with a chip on their shoulder. They can't stand to see Palm with success because it reminds them of how they blew their opportunity to be the largest corporatation on earth (ie. the terrible handling of PARC tech)
These last few years, while they are still are large company, are just going to be filled with these kind of deperation law suits.
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I hope R. was just asleep at the wheel and not deliberately trying to stir us up with such banality as this idiot's ignorant assertions.
What's next? Posting that we are all going to die, because some guy sent in a note saying he was abducted by the aliens and they told him so.
The sad part is, he will probably never admit that he erred in posting this lameness.
It is the standard in this community to assume that the revolution will continue forward, terminating in a new open, cyber culture, where buyers, sellers, thinkers and doers can freely exchange their wares without middlemen.
I just shuddered wondering if their aren't those powerful enough to fight trend this and, perhaps, succeed.
Unfortunately for them, Bill Gates is a creature from another generation and the "new" MS will not be able to execute this strategy, and will continue to come out with failed initatives, such as COM+, DNA, CE, Active Desktop-X-Movie, Chromeffects, etc that flop.
If you remove Windows and Office from the equation, via, let's say a revolution in OS's (linux/internet) or apps (internet/asp's, etc) MS has no real fall back products of great signifigance.
I predict after several more failed initiatives, under the new post-settlement MS, in a few years MS will be *bought* by AT+T or someone who needs some marginal web sites and services.
A process to extract it, optimize it, manipulate it in the lab, analyze it, create it, destroy it, etc, would be propreitary.
I think this has gotten semantically tripped up by the word "code".
The content (the codified data) in DNA is free and open, unlike the "content" (maps, textures) in Quake which is proprietary.
The algorithms and processess for manipulating DNA will be propreitary (closed), unlike the algorithms for manipulating the Quake content, which are (nowadays) GPL'd via the Open Source.
Their aren't doing well financially, and everything they do to shake the "we're just the copier company" image seems to fail.
I think they are starting to show their growing irrelevance by desparately suing the sucessfull companies they see around them.
It's like someone with a chip on their shoulder. They can't stand to see Palm with success because it reminds them of how they blew their opportunity to be the largest corporatation on earth (ie. the terrible handling of PARC tech)
These last few years, while they are still are large company, are just going to be filled with these kind of deperation law suits.