Is this the same Price Waterhouse Coopers that recently changed their name to Monday and registered introducingmonday.com forgetting to register the.co.uk domain?:D
Although I'm originally from the UK I can't comment on how its trademark laws differ from US ones, however, that's beside the point. Contrary to popular slashdot belief, this is NOT a trademark lawsuit, this is a contract issue. Apple settled out of court back in the early 90's agreeing that in order to be able to use the name Apple they would not enter the music business. They have since broken that contract by entering the music business. It's a clear case of breach of contract and the ball really is in Apple Corps' court.
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The store in question is not the "Apple Music Store" - it's the "iTunes Music Store". It would appear that, under the terms of the agreement, Apple has done everything it could to avoid using the Apple logo - save for the part in the store where it says "Copyright Apple Computer, Inc" - which is more than enough to establish it being different from "Apple Records".
Really? Go to www.apple.com/itunes/store and look at the title of the page: Apple - iTunes - Music Store.
As far as the previous posts about Apple Computer buying out Apple Record - why the hell not? It would ensure that the Beatles music would only be available via the iTMS - not that I am stating this is a "good" or "bad" thing (bad, if they stop selling CD's, good otherwise), and would truly cement Apple into the music business, while removing a pain in the ass.
Last time I checked, you can't buy something unless the owner wants to sell it to you. This isn't about some evil company meddling with Apple computers, this is about Apple computers breaking an agreement they made back in 1991 when they agreed not to go into the music business.
Although egos are most definatly will be getting into the way, if the Open Source community goes forth with some type of driver system, that is easly updateable, searchable, and easy to dealwith, then I would assume, that this would be implimented in any case.
Gentoo's ports system is easy to search, update and deal with, likewise Debian's apt-get etc.. Your question is answered by looking at how package management has evolved. Why would this be any different?
I wouldn't qualify for any extra pay anyway because I was salaried, not hourly.
What does salary have to do with anything? If you work overtime, you get paid overtime. Why the hell do people work overtime if they're not getting paid for it? Is this some strange ass-ramming only USians get? What a terrible system!
Blah blah blah, that's the most worthless 75 words I have ever read. Microsoft has worked itself into a great position to HELP the computer industry and still make a great deal of money. Instead, they pull shady/illegal tricks to force their apparent 'computer supremacy', while dragging REAL innovation down due to their sloppy implementations of real, useful protocols.
I believe this is the point where you go crying home to mommy because nasty faceless corporate entity #1 isn't playing nice.
Hey, if it bothers you that much, why don't you design and implement a wonderful, new protocol and get both the open and closed source communities behind you (not to mention all the big ISPs etc). What, can't do it? Then shut the hell up about it.
The one thing that pisses me off more than dodgy corporate dealings is people sniping from the peanut gallery, moaning about how terrible these dodgy corporate dealings are!
This is corporate IT strategy, not Spider-Man. They're in business to make money, not to create some fantastical email protocol or such like. If they do good along the way then great, if they do bad, well, that brings me back to that whole "business" thing. Sure, they have monopolies in certain areas, which is why they play by slightly different rules, but one of those rules isn't "you must seek the advice of the open source community whenever designing new products".
"First" to 64-bit on the desktop? No, but some random company someone has never heard of ("BOXX TECHNOLOGIES") doesn't really count, and Apple's G5 orders far eclipsed any other 64-bit *desktop* offering from any vendor the first day it was introduced.
Ah, I see. It doesn't really matter which company was actually first (and therefore, by your own logic, innovative), all that matters is which company is bigger. In that case, using your reasoning, I call BS on your entire post and also claim Microsoft invented the GUI, after all, they're bigger than Apple, Xerox etc...
Wow! You mean an online store that's in beta testing isn't as slick and polished, or doesn't offer as many features as one that has been live for around 18 months?
Steam is extremely intrusive: It requires you to authenticate yourself to the game's manufacturer every time you start the game.
wtf? This got modded insightful how? Perhaps in la-la land. In the real world I can happily play HalfLife and the rest without having a net connection.
While I'd been looking forward to Half-Life 2 for quite some time now, am I the only one that thinks Steam represents an unprecedented level of intrusion in my computer activity?
Probably. What personal information (apart from your email address) has Steam taken? What personal details did you have to give up to install Steam? Answer: Nothing!
I have to go now, I think Doom3 is stealing my credit card numbers...
CD's: 2,987,453
Songs: 38,231,416
In other words, even if that is 10,5 million unique songs (or at least unique versions, remixes, remasterings etc. will count towards this number), it is not even a third of CDDBs database.
When was the last time you got a single result from a cddb or freedb query? I "mp3ified" a whole bunch of albums recently and it wasn't unusual for the number of duplicate albums to be in double figures.
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All of that is true, however it's largely unrelated - the rise of the public internet happened largely in the last decade, not 30 years ago.
Is this the same Price Waterhouse Coopers that recently changed their name to Monday and registered introducingmonday.com forgetting to register the .co.uk domain? :D
The guest account is disabled by default.
Annoying slashdot URL munging. Here's a proper link
They will now. Better rename it to msdos.sys ;)
Hostile takeover? Apple Corps is owned by Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison.
Although I'm originally from the UK I can't comment on how its trademark laws differ from US ones, however, that's beside the point. Contrary to popular slashdot belief, this is NOT a trademark lawsuit, this is a contract issue. Apple settled out of court back in the early 90's agreeing that in order to be able to use the name Apple they would not enter the music business. They have since broken that contract by entering the music business. It's a clear case of breach of contract and the ball really is in Apple Corps' court.
Really? Go to www.apple.com/itunes/store and look at the title of the page: Apple - iTunes - Music Store.
As far as the previous posts about Apple Computer buying out Apple Record - why the hell not? It would ensure that the Beatles music would only be available via the iTMS - not that I am stating this is a "good" or "bad" thing (bad, if they stop selling CD's, good otherwise), and would truly cement Apple into the music business, while removing a pain in the ass.
Last time I checked, you can't buy something unless the owner wants to sell it to you. This isn't about some evil company meddling with Apple computers, this is about Apple computers breaking an agreement they made back in 1991 when they agreed not to go into the music business.
Gentoo's ports system is easy to search, update and deal with, likewise Debian's apt-get etc.. Your question is answered by looking at how package management has evolved. Why would this be any different?
Just as soon as KDE and Gnome merge, and XP gets Final Cut Pro - never gonna happen.. too many egos in the way.
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lord knows some of them need wringing...
What does salary have to do with anything? If you work overtime, you get paid overtime. Why the hell do people work overtime if they're not getting paid for it? Is this some strange ass-ramming only USians get? What a terrible system!
Even Microsoft Bob? *shudder* ;)
I believe this is the point where you go crying home to mommy because nasty faceless corporate entity #1 isn't playing nice.
The one thing that pisses me off more than dodgy corporate dealings is people sniping from the peanut gallery, moaning about how terrible these dodgy corporate dealings are!
This is corporate IT strategy, not Spider-Man. They're in business to make money, not to create some fantastical email protocol or such like. If they do good along the way then great, if they do bad, well, that brings me back to that whole "business" thing. Sure, they have monopolies in certain areas, which is why they play by slightly different rules, but one of those rules isn't "you must seek the advice of the open source community whenever designing new products".
Why should they? They're a business, not a charity organisation.
Ah, I see. It doesn't really matter which company was actually first (and therefore, by your own logic, innovative), all that matters is which company is bigger. In that case, using your reasoning, I call BS on your entire post and also claim Microsoft invented the GUI, after all, they're bigger than Apple, Xerox etc...
Yes, they have had 18 months, however, this is their BETA.
Wow! You mean an online store that's in beta testing isn't as slick and polished, or doesn't offer as many features as one that has been live for around 18 months?
wtf? This got modded insightful how?
Perhaps in la-la land. In the real world I can happily play HalfLife and the rest without having a net connection.
Probably. What personal information (apart from your email address) has Steam taken? What personal details did you have to give up to install Steam? Answer: Nothing!
I have to go now, I think Doom3 is stealing my credit card numbers...
When was the last time you got a single result from a cddb or freedb query? I "mp3ified" a whole bunch of albums recently and it wasn't unusual for the number of duplicate albums to be in double figures.