Work out better for everyone in the long run? I am not so sure. If this thing drags out for a long period of time, then Linux is stuck in a kind of legal limbo for as long as the lawsuit lasts. Many businesses will shy away from using a product the legality of which is yet to be determined in court.
Wouldn't it be better for Linux and its adoption by the corporate market for this thing to be resolved quickly. I believe that the suit would eventually be won by IBM, but in the meantime SCO would be holding the Linux-using business world hostage with their threats of lawsuits. SCO is full of it, but there are a lot of people out there that aren't too bright and might just by it.
I had no idea that Microsoft was prepared to completely rewrite their entire operating system from scratch. But since it says that they have instituted a group to clean up their code, that must be the case.
Perhaps setting up a service such as this that is paid by tuition fees spread out upon all students is a way of paying off the RIAA so they won't sue them, or their students. The idea is not so much that the students will use this service, which provides paid-for content, as that what the university pays will, in some fashion, "cover" what the students download without paying for from services that share non-paid-for music.
I think that its pretty obvious that this plan isn't going to work unless the university takes measures to curtail music piracy as well as provide a paid-for music service. The most obvious thing that they could do would be to limit bandwidth to the Internet, but that would not stop people from sharing music and would cause a lot of problems besides (such as limiting the students' "legitimate" uses of bandwidth). Students could still pass files back and forth over the local network, or, if worse came to worse, on recordable optical media.
The only way I can see this really working is if they start taking draconian measures, such as hunting down students who pirate music and then apply stringent penalties to them. I think, considering how widespread piracy is among college students, that the university's administration would find it unmanageable.
They don't. Stakes are far to dangerous to have around at M$. They didn't remove the mirrors from all the bathrooms and install blackout curtains on all the windows for nothing.
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Assuming that it is true that 70% of all web content goes unread, that does not mean that it was not worthwhile to post it. Someone somewhere may find that the said content, that is considered not to be read, is just what they needed. There are many niches out there that need to be filled.
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Work out better for everyone in the long run? I am not so sure. If this thing drags out for a long period of time, then Linux is stuck in a kind of legal limbo for as long as the lawsuit lasts. Many businesses will shy away from using a product the legality of which is yet to be determined in court.
"We don't need the play-by-play for this anymore than we needed it for the OJ Simpson trial..."
Especially when they don't link to SCO's website every time so it gets slashdotted every time.
it only makes SCO a more valuable acquisition for IBM. Buy 'em and be done with it.
then win with propaganda. This is exactly the line of thought that Microsoft is following here.
A minor going to jail for downloading music? That could only happen within a fifty-mile radius of RIAA headquarters.
And let M$ turn our hard-bought code into a closed instrument of monopoly? No way! It must be GPLed.
Obviously RMS has nothing to do with it, then.
I assume that the robot dog would operate the sliderule. Right?
Wouldn't it be better for Linux and its adoption by the corporate market for this thing to be resolved quickly. I believe that the suit would eventually be won by IBM, but in the meantime SCO would be holding the Linux-using business world hostage with their threats of lawsuits. SCO is full of it, but there are a lot of people out there that aren't too bright and might just by it.
No, Amazon.com has already done that. What haven't they patented?
I had no idea that Microsoft was prepared to completely rewrite their entire operating system from scratch. But since it says that they have instituted a group to clean up their code, that must be the case.
Perhaps setting up a service such as this that is paid by tuition fees spread out upon all students is a way of paying off the RIAA so they won't sue them, or their students. The idea is not so much that the students will use this service, which provides paid-for content, as that what the university pays will, in some fashion, "cover" what the students download without paying for from services that share non-paid-for music.
I think that its pretty obvious that this plan isn't going to work unless the university takes measures to curtail music piracy as well as provide a paid-for music service. The most obvious thing that they could do would be to limit bandwidth to the Internet, but that would not stop people from sharing music and would cause a lot of problems besides (such as limiting the students' "legitimate" uses of bandwidth). Students could still pass files back and forth over the local network, or, if worse came to worse, on recordable optical media.
The only way I can see this really working is if they start taking draconian measures, such as hunting down students who pirate music and then apply stringent penalties to them. I think, considering how widespread piracy is among college students, that the university's administration would find it unmanageable.
They don't. Stakes are far to dangerous to have around at M$. They didn't remove the mirrors from all the bathrooms and install blackout curtains on all the windows for nothing.
Assuming that it is true that 70% of all web content goes unread, that does not mean that it was not worthwhile to post it. Someone somewhere may find that the said content, that is considered not to be read, is just what they needed. There are many niches out there that need to be filled.
Millionaire teenagers? They exist, although the millions usually belong to daddy or mommy.
I can just see it:
Whose dupe of the Unix-haters handbook story did it best?
(1) Taco.
(2) timothy
(3) michael
(4) CowboyNeal will dupe YOU!
The end of all things must be very near, very near indeed. Isn't there some prophecy somewhere that says something about this?