Justice is the most important point here. Microsoft should not benefit from it's illegal conduct.
There are other penalties that could make Microsoft wish it had been broken up.
The basic idea is that Microsoft should not benefit or profit from the proceeds of their illegal acts.
Therefore, one possible solution could be:
1) the equivalent of a jail term
Microsoft should not release any new software or any revision or update to their operating system software in any way for an extended period of time. Occasional patches may be issued so long as they are standalone, issued for no cost, and can fit on a single standard format floppy disk. (1.44) megabytes
The period of time that this prohibition should be in force should at least equal the period of time that they have had profit from their illegal acts (5 to 10 years), if not more. The purpose of this is to inhibit their dominance of the market as it was achieved by illegal acts, and return the conditions as much as possible to what it was when Microsoft committed the illegal acts.
If Windows XP is not released to market, then the penalty can be reduced slightly (3 to 5 years).
There should be a very substantial fine to remove any profits that they have accrued as a result of their illegal activity.
Again, the idea is to remove any profit or gain that resulted from their illegal acts.
2) Another alternate solution is to require that all operating system software releases must meet the approval in advance from a government commission comprised of a large number of industry experts. This includes any software integrated into the operating system, and any software intended to replace the operating system. Maybe three from each state in involved in the law suits, plus three from the Federal Government. With a quorum of 2/3 needed to vote. Again from a 5 or Ten year period.
With each of these, if this means that.NET is put on hold, then tough. It is meant to be a penalty. Similar to if you when to jail for several years.
Of course, criminals routinely protest that the jail sentences are unfair, and that they are mis-understood. This should not inhibit the administration of Justice.
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This is OpenSource. She can still work on it just without pay, and on her own time. This is not good, most certainly, but hey, at least she isn't stricken from contributing.
Which is one of the obvious strengths of the open source system. Although It sort of depends on what her severance package was, etc....
You can spend an awful lot of time working on a project, and find that it drained time away from you looking for a job.
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This makes some sense, given Gulf War syndrome, etc.
You basically do not want to send in occupation forces into an area where you just poisoned the heck out of it. It would be dangerous to your own troops, and the civilian population who you are trying to win to your side.
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There's a scale. "Genius" is at the top, then "outstanding performers" in the fields of business, science and the arts, and so on down.
This is not precisely true.
A good quick intro is here:
which, of course, does not have an easy chart to help sort things out.
And here is the complete list:
Temporary Non-Immigrant Categories
A-1 Diplomatic or consular officers, close relatives *
A-2 Other foreign government officials or employees, close relatives*
A-3 Attendants, servants and personal employees, close relatives*
B-1 Temporary Visitor for Business
B-2 Temporary Visitor for Pleasure
C-1 In Transit*
C-2 In Transit to UN Headquarters *
C-3 In Transit -Foreign government official, family and employees*
D-1 Crewman Visa, shore privileges only while vessel is in port*
D-2 Crewman Visa intending to depart on another vessel*
E-1 Treaty Trader, spouse and children
E-2 Treaty Investor, spouse and children
F-1 Student Visas*
G-1 Principal recognized foreign government representative to an international organization, staff, spouse and children*
G-2 Other recognized foreign government representative to an international organization, staff, close relatives*
G-3 Nonrecognized foreign government representative to an international organization, close relatives*
G-4 International organization officers or employees, close relatives*
G-5 Attendants, servants, or personal employees of G-1, G-2, G-3 and G-4, close relatives*
H-1B Specialty Occupations (professionals)
H-1C Nurses in health professional shortage areas
H-2A Temporary Agricultural worker
H-2B Temporary Non-Agricultural worker
H-3 Trainees *
I Representative of Foreign Information Media *
J-1 Exchange Visitor
K-1 Fiancee & Fiance of U.S. Citizen *
K-3 Spouse of U.S. Citizen*
L-1 Intracompany Transferee
M-1 Non-Academic Students *
NATO-1 Principal Permanent Representative to NATO and staff, spouses and children*
NATO-2 Other representative to NATO and staff, spouses and children*
NATO-3 Official clerical staff accompanying NATO representatives, spouses and children*
NATO-4 "Officials" of NATO, spouses and children*
NATO-5 NATO Experts, spouses and children*
NATO-6 NATO Civilians, spouses and children*
NATO-7 Servants of NATO-1 through NATO-6 and their spouses and children*
O-1 Temporary Worker of Extraordinary Ability
O-2 Accompanying O-1
P-1 Athletes and entertainment groups*
P-2 Artists and Entertainers under reciprocal exchange program*
P-3 Culturally Unique Artists and Entertainers *
Q-1 Cultural Exchange visitors* (spouses and children can use the B-2)
Q-2 Irish Peace Process Program Participant*
R-1 Religious Workers*
S-5 Suppliers of information regarding crimes*
S-6 Suppliers of information regarding terrorism*
SK1 Certain retired International Organization or NATO employees
TN Free Trade Professionals
V-1 Spouse of Permanent Resident,With 2nd A Permanent Immigrant Family Category Filed Before December 22, 2000*
Temporary Non-Immigrant Dependent Categories
C-3 Spouse and children of foreign government official in transit*
F-2 Spouse and children of student *
H-4 Spouse and children of alien classified as H-1, H-2, or H-3
J-2 Spouse and children of Exchange Visitor
K-2 Children of Fiancee & Fiance of U.S. Citizen*
K-4 Unmarried Child of Spouse of U.S. Citizen*
L-2 Spouse and children of Intracompany Transferee
M-2 Spouse and children of Non-Academic Students*
N-8 Parent of child classified SK-3 ("SK-3" includes certain special immigrant officers and employees of international organizations.)*
N-9 Child of parent classified N-8 or SK-1, SK-2, or SK-4. ("SK-" categories are certain special immigrant officers and employees of international organizations.)*
O-3 Spouse and children of O-1 or O-2 aliens
P-4 Spouse and children of P-1, P-2 or P-3
Q-3 Spouse and child of Q-2*
R-2 Spouse and child of Religious Workers*
S-7 Family member of S-5 or S-6*
SK2 Spouse of SK1 retired international organization or NATO employees
SK3 Certain unmarried sons or daughters of an international organization or NATO employee
SK4 Certain surviving spouses of deceased international organization or NATO employees
TD Spouse and child of Free Trade Professionals
V-2 Unmarried Child of a V-1 Applicant*
EB 1st Employment based- 1st Preference Priority Workers: People of Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding
Professors and Researchers, and Multi-national Managers and Executives
EB 2nd Employment based - 2nd Preference Members of the Professions Holding Advanced Degrees or Persons ofExceptional Ability (Includes National Interest Waiver)
EB 3rd Employment based - 3rd Preference Skilled workers, Professionals and Other Workers
EB 4th Employment Based-4th Preference Certain Special Immigrants *
EB5th Employment Based -5th Preference Employment Creation Investors
IR Spouses, and Children unmarried and under the age of 21, of U.S. Citizens; Parents of U.S. Citizens, said Citizens age 21 or older
1st Unmarried Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens
2nd A Spouses, and children unmarried and under the age of 21, of Permanent Residents
2nd B Unmarried Sons and Daughters, age 21 or older , of Permanent Residents
3rd Married Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens
4th Brothers and Sisters of U.S. Citizens, said Citizens age 21 or older
LB Spouses and Children of Legalization Beneficiaries*
That about covers it.
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Well, even the competitors 'merican version of Robot Wars is going to be in for a shock if they see this thing. I happen to see it over the week end (through an intoxicated haze), and it was basically a slug fest throwing out the wimpiest competitor each time, instead of the trial like they have in the British version. With that wacko wrestler guy as the announcer raving on about total destruction. The Bots seemed to abe a generation or two behind the current Battlebots
Son of Wyachi is designed for sheer destruction, and sort of just dares folks to come in an attack. Looks like they'll need something like cast concrete armor to be effective against it
The american version of Robot Wars feels like they are trying to add the flavor of the WWF to it. And they are screwing up. Hype verses content. Where have I heard this before?
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Although this goes back to the ancient paranoia of big government of any kind. although originally this was ancient Rome.
There is a large community of people who are always going to oppose things like this just for this specific reason.
Think of what MS could do with this sort of Government Standard, for example.
It all does come down to a matter of trust. and sadly, the number of people and organizations that we normally can trust implicity with this sort of thing are tragically few.
Until then, this sort of thing is probably a bad idea. Just because of the problem of trust, and the few bad apples.
I was up way too late last night, so this is not going to be all that coherant. not that what I say is all that often.
This is just a reflection on the root cause of the obvious success that Linux continues to have, as evidenced by this story.
Somehow I think that the personality of the main visionary behind a piece of software does occasionally express itself in the software in certain subtle ways.
In The case of Linux vs MS, where people want to contribute their energies to some degree, where people give things to the project. This vs MS where alot of people do not want to contribute and where resources are boughtr, paid for, and taken.
Alot of this has to do with the social agreements regarding what is right and normal and just behavior for capitalism, big business, etc. It's what "everyone does". But this seems to be changing with the model of contribution and community help.
This community help model requires more healthy and alive community to work well, while the typical capitalist model can work in a perverse way with criminal types who steal resources. In fact, it can be difficult to avoid.
We eventually come to the point where we have the successes that we have today.
and we can say, with some logic, that the two operating systems and the companies, etc reflect the main personalites involved. Linux is much more community oriented, while MS is more imperial (or something), in its own way.
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Well, mr. talk show host, I was talking to a friend who was testing this new version of Windows, and boy is it a dog"
[insert reasons that the talk show host can agree with]
just enough to poison the well. simple reasons for regular folks, like the whole Passport fiasco.
heck telling them the plain truth about the copy protection stuff and registration stuff will do the job.
now mind you, I would never do something like this, but you can't even make a copy for your kids machine, or for your wife. You got to buy a whole nother copy! I paid my money. I should be able to do what I want with it!
That should be good enough to do the job.
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the most basic part of this is trying to prosecute someone for doing something that was legal in his own country.
The USA does not own or run Russia. So why are we trying to enforce our laws there?
How about making Russia a full fledged member of the USA so that the US can really make them obey USA laws. Sorry, there is that small detail on democracy. They might take over the USA that way.
What else is the US going to go after?
y'know, Adobe should PAY for Dmitri's
defense. It is only fair.
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I thought they were going to try to recruit the martians to try to take over the earth.
or maybe re-engineer the probe to disrupt the satellite pron distribution, blackmailing the techies who run the world. (somehow that idea has potential as an episode.)
There's a building sentiment that DMCA is horrible and should be repealed or reworked.
only so long as the RIAA, the MPAA, and other related orgasnizations do not take this as an opportunity to turn the screws event tighter.Gotta watch the bastards.
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I wonder if an IDS or firewall can be configured to protect against such leeching
or sabotage the results. Given these tidbits from the papers:
As expected and by design, incorrect solu-tions do not generate responses from the web server.
Our technique does not receive a positive acknowledgement that a solution is invalid because an invalid solution is dropped by TCP. Consequently, there is a possibility of false negatives, cases in which a correct solution is not returned
... because this technique exploits the TCP checksum, it circumvents the function the checksum provides. The TCP checksum catches errors that are not caught in the checks provided by the transport layer, such as errors in intermediate routers and the end points
The actual number of TCP checksum failures depends on the communication path, message data, and other factors.
Of course, it is very nice that they note:
parasitic computing represents
an advanced but ethically challenging alternative for cluster computing, as it uses resources
without the consent of the computer's owner.
Aren't there some things that would be better left untouched?
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Although I noticed this bit:
The Army's now going to something called Army Knowledge Online, and they're centralizing the funding for computers, networking and MIS management. They're not necessarily centralizing the operation, I think that'll be the next step. They're trying to come up with an AOL-like model for the Army, for computing.
Where you have many governments trying to impose their laws around the world, it seems that the only way webmasters and site-owners can protect themselves is to adopt elaborate license agreements like seen here. Part of this is includes:
3.17 You warrant that your access to this site is not a violation of local laws and regulations in force at the location where
you are accessing these Web Sites, and You agree to hold harmless these Web Sites, CyberKnowledge, and CyberKnowledge Staff
and/or Authorized Agents for any actions by you that may be a violation of such local laws and regulations.
3.18 You warrant that your access to these Web Sites is not a violation of local laws and regulations of the Country, province,
state, county, city, town, or any other type of government jurisdiction of which you are a citizen and/or whose laws you are
subject to; and You agree to hold harmless these Web Sites, CyberKnowledge, and CyberKnowledge Staff and/or Authorized Agents for
any actions by you that may be a violation of such local laws and regulations.
4.05 You agree that you shall indemnify and hold harmless these Web Sites, the Web Site Owner, and CyberKnowledge Staff and/or
Authorized Agents from any claims that your Contributions infringes a third party's copyright or contains inaccurate, defamatory, libelous,
or unlawful material.
All of which throws the responsibilities back on the original author.
It sounds from the evolution that they got away from from the original product line, and lost their way. They go heavy into the themed kits, until now they have super complicated stuff.
When the best play is when you exercise your imagination. They took it from a toy for all ages to a smaller market, a toy for adults who play with blocks and other stuff. a smaller market.
I figure that MS has enough bucks to promote their own monoploy
That said, MS always has the weirdest logic with their product names. For example, Windows CE = wince
The fact that I.E. as commonly pronounced, sounds like a scream of agony doesn't help. On the other hand, Koffice looks like you could say it "cough-ice", but that doesn't really work. And Konqueror is a decent name.
The Power of/. can squash a web server hosting vanalla HTML...
which is why they are doing it before the end of the summer. If they waited until the middle of september, there would be an awful lot of schools that would have their own bandwidth issues with all the students try to watch it on their own individual boxes.
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The only reason this company is doing it is because they can pay the Russians the equivalent of minimum wage. ($1000/month/160 hours = $6.25/hour if they only work 40 hours/week!). There's nothign admirable about this company.
I know of a number of educational software houses that do the same thing, subcontract to developers in the Ukraine.
On the other hand, The more they are addicted to the American Life Style, the more trouble they will make for big corporations and governments where they live.
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Well it seems that Linux will continue to make progress while MS continues with FUDware.
Especially since the Financial field uses alot of very custom made stuff, it is not like thay are just going to go with Access.
The hidden advantadge is that people with access to money will now have first hand experience with Linux, and this will expose any lies in the marketing spin that is out there.
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The problem is that HP will have to lay off about 16,000 more people. I wonder how many of these will be part of the Linux project.
What are the odds that HP will do something idiotic and get rid of Linux instead of pulling it into its heart and soul?
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Radio Free Nation had a quick story on this about lunch time.
Since they are a political site, they may be more appropriate for this sort of discussion.
They may even welcome an article if you put something up that is well thought out and coherantly argued.
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There are other penalties that could make Microsoft wish it had been broken up.
The basic idea is that Microsoft should not benefit or profit from the proceeds of their illegal acts.
Therefore, one possible solution could be:
1) the equivalent of a jail term
- Microsoft should not release any new software or any revision or update to their operating system software in any way for an extended period of time. Occasional patches may be issued so long as they are standalone, issued for no cost, and can fit on a single standard format floppy disk. (1.44) megabytes
- The period of time that this prohibition should be in force should at least equal the period of time that they have had profit from their illegal acts (5 to 10 years), if not more. The purpose of this is to inhibit their dominance of the market as it was achieved by illegal acts, and return the conditions as much as possible to what it was when Microsoft committed the illegal acts.
- If Windows XP is not released to market, then the penalty can be reduced slightly (3 to 5 years).
- There should be a very substantial fine to remove any profits that they have accrued as a result of their illegal activity.
Again, the idea is to remove any profit or gain that resulted from their illegal acts.2) Another alternate solution is to require that all operating system software releases must meet the approval in advance from a government commission comprised of a large number of industry experts. This includes any software integrated into the operating system, and any software intended to replace the operating system. Maybe three from each state in involved in the law suits, plus three from the Federal Government. With a quorum of 2/3 needed to vote. Again from a 5 or Ten year period.
With each of these, if this means that .NET is put on hold, then tough. It is meant to be a penalty. Similar to if you when to jail for several years.
Of course, criminals routinely protest that the jail sentences are unfair, and that they are mis-understood. This should not inhibit the administration of Justice.
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Which is one of the obvious strengths of the open source system. Although It sort of depends on what her severance package was, etc....
You can spend an awful lot of time working on a project, and find that it drained time away from you looking for a job.
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You basically do not want to send in occupation forces into an area where you just poisoned the heck out of it. It would be dangerous to your own troops, and the civilian population who you are trying to win to your side.
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This is not precisely true. A good quick intro is here:
http://www.immigrationlawusa.com/visa.php3
which is not complete, but gives you an idea. You can also see the
US State Department Visa page
which, of course, does not have an easy chart to help sort things out.
And here is the complete list:
Temporary Non-Immigrant Categories
A-1 Diplomatic or consular officers, close relatives *
A-2 Other foreign government officials or employees, close relatives*
A-3 Attendants, servants and personal employees, close relatives*
B-1 Temporary Visitor for Business
B-2 Temporary Visitor for Pleasure
C-1 In Transit*
C-2 In Transit to UN Headquarters *
C-3 In Transit -Foreign government official, family and employees*
D-1 Crewman Visa, shore privileges only while vessel is in port*
D-2 Crewman Visa intending to depart on another vessel*
E-1 Treaty Trader, spouse and children
E-2 Treaty Investor, spouse and children
F-1 Student Visas*
G-1 Principal recognized foreign government representative to an international organization, staff, spouse and children*
G-2 Other recognized foreign government representative to an international organization, staff, close relatives*
G-3 Nonrecognized foreign government representative to an international organization, close relatives*
G-4 International organization officers or employees, close relatives*
G-5 Attendants, servants, or personal employees of G-1, G-2, G-3 and G-4, close relatives*
H-1B Specialty Occupations (professionals)
H-1C Nurses in health professional shortage areas
H-2A Temporary Agricultural worker
H-2B Temporary Non-Agricultural worker
H-3 Trainees *
I Representative of Foreign Information Media *
J-1 Exchange Visitor
K-1 Fiancee & Fiance of U.S. Citizen *
K-3 Spouse of U.S. Citizen*
L-1 Intracompany Transferee
M-1 Non-Academic Students *
NATO-1 Principal Permanent Representative to NATO and staff, spouses and children*
NATO-2 Other representative to NATO and staff, spouses and children*
NATO-3 Official clerical staff accompanying NATO representatives, spouses and children*
NATO-4 "Officials" of NATO, spouses and children*
NATO-5 NATO Experts, spouses and children*
NATO-6 NATO Civilians, spouses and children*
NATO-7 Servants of NATO-1 through NATO-6 and their spouses and children*
O-1 Temporary Worker of Extraordinary Ability
O-2 Accompanying O-1
P-1 Athletes and entertainment groups*
P-2 Artists and Entertainers under reciprocal exchange program*
P-3 Culturally Unique Artists and Entertainers *
Q-1 Cultural Exchange visitors* (spouses and children can use the B-2)
Q-2 Irish Peace Process Program Participant*
R-1 Religious Workers*
S-5 Suppliers of information regarding crimes*
S-6 Suppliers of information regarding terrorism*
SK1 Certain retired International Organization or NATO employees
TN Free Trade Professionals
V-1 Spouse of Permanent Resident,With 2nd A Permanent Immigrant Family Category Filed Before December 22, 2000*
Temporary Non-Immigrant Dependent Categories
C-3 Spouse and children of foreign government official in transit*
F-2 Spouse and children of student *
H-4 Spouse and children of alien classified as H-1, H-2, or H-3
J-2 Spouse and children of Exchange Visitor
K-2 Children of Fiancee & Fiance of U.S. Citizen*
K-4 Unmarried Child of Spouse of U.S. Citizen*
L-2 Spouse and children of Intracompany Transferee
M-2 Spouse and children of Non-Academic Students*
N-8 Parent of child classified SK-3 ("SK-3" includes certain special immigrant officers and employees of international organizations.)*
N-9 Child of parent classified N-8 or SK-1, SK-2, or SK-4. ("SK-" categories are certain special immigrant officers and employees of international organizations.)*
O-3 Spouse and children of O-1 or O-2 aliens
P-4 Spouse and children of P-1, P-2 or P-3
Q-3 Spouse and child of Q-2*
R-2 Spouse and child of Religious Workers*
S-7 Family member of S-5 or S-6*
SK2 Spouse of SK1 retired international organization or NATO employees
SK3 Certain unmarried sons or daughters of an international organization or NATO employee
SK4 Certain surviving spouses of deceased international organization or NATO employees
TD Spouse and child of Free Trade Professionals
V-2 Unmarried Child of a V-1 Applicant*
Permanent Immigrant Categories-Employment Categories
EB 1st Employment based- 1st Preference Priority Workers: People of Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding
Professors and Researchers, and Multi-national Managers and Executives
EB 2nd Employment based - 2nd Preference Members of the Professions Holding Advanced Degrees or Persons ofExceptional Ability (Includes National Interest Waiver)
EB 3rd Employment based - 3rd Preference Skilled workers, Professionals and Other Workers
EB 4th Employment Based-4th Preference Certain Special Immigrants *
EB5th Employment Based -5th Preference Employment Creation Investors
IR Spouses, and Children unmarried and under the age of 21, of U.S. Citizens; Parents of U.S. Citizens, said Citizens age 21 or older
1st Unmarried Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens
2nd A Spouses, and children unmarried and under the age of 21, of Permanent Residents
2nd B Unmarried Sons and Daughters, age 21 or older , of Permanent Residents
3rd Married Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens
4th Brothers and Sisters of U.S. Citizens, said Citizens age 21 or older
LB Spouses and Children of Legalization Beneficiaries*
That about covers it.
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Son of Wyachi is designed for sheer destruction, and sort of just dares folks to come in an attack. Looks like they'll need something like cast concrete armor to be effective against it
The american version of Robot Wars feels like they are trying to add the flavor of the WWF to it. And they are screwing up. Hype verses content. Where have I heard this before?
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True enough.
Although this goes back to the ancient paranoia of big government of any kind. although originally this was ancient Rome.
There is a large community of people who are always going to oppose things like this just for this specific reason.
Think of what MS could do with this sort of Government Standard, for example.
It all does come down to a matter of trust. and sadly, the number of people and organizations that we normally can trust implicity with this sort of thing are tragically few.
Until then, this sort of thing is probably a bad idea. Just because of the problem of trust, and the few bad apples.
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This is just a reflection on the root cause of the obvious success that Linux continues to have, as evidenced by this story.
Somehow I think that the personality of the main visionary behind a piece of software does occasionally express itself in the software in certain subtle ways.
In The case of Linux vs MS, where people want to contribute their energies to some degree, where people give things to the project. This vs MS where alot of people do not want to contribute and where resources are boughtr, paid for, and taken.
Alot of this has to do with the social agreements regarding what is right and normal and just behavior for capitalism, big business, etc. It's what "everyone does". But this seems to be changing with the model of contribution and community help.
This community help model requires more healthy and alive community to work well, while the typical capitalist model can work in a perverse way with criminal types who steal resources. In fact, it can be difficult to avoid.
We eventually come to the point where we have the successes that we have today.
and we can say, with some logic, that the two operating systems and the companies, etc reflect the main personalites involved. Linux is much more community oriented, while MS is more imperial (or something), in its own way.
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Well, mr. talk show host, I was talking to a friend who was testing this new version of Windows, and boy is it a dog"
[insert reasons that the talk show host can agree with]
just enough to poison the well. simple reasons for regular folks, like the whole Passport fiasco.
heck telling them the plain truth about the copy protection stuff and registration stuff will do the job.
now mind you, I would never do something like this, but you can't even make a copy for your kids machine, or for your wife. You got to buy a whole nother copy! I paid my money. I should be able to do what I want with it!
That should be good enough to do the job.
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and this leads to the question of what responsibilities do you have to your neighbors (as a country).
Could you apply your laws to the actions of individuals in the other country?
Could you say where the line is to be drawn, and when is it proper to intervene, if ever?
And then you can discuss the individual situations in Yougoslavia, an area of the world the gave us the word 'Balkanization'
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The USA does not own or run Russia. So why are we trying to enforce our laws there?
How about making Russia a full fledged member of the USA so that the US can really make them obey USA laws. Sorry, there is that small detail on democracy. They might take over the USA that way.
What else is the US going to go after?
y'know, Adobe should PAY for Dmitri's defense. It is only fair.
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or maybe re-engineer the probe to disrupt the satellite pron distribution, blackmailing the techies who run the world. (somehow that idea has potential as an episode.)
you get the idea.
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I figure they probably what to keep as much diversity as possible going. So IBM makes sense in a way.
But what about Intel? I'm not up to speed on their involvement.
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only so long as the RIAA, the MPAA, and other related orgasnizations do not take this as an opportunity to turn the screws event tighter.Gotta watch the bastards.
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for example, take a look at Media Whores Online
As they describe themselves: "The site that set out to bring the media to their knees - but found they were already there"
They stomp on everyone's toes.
good stuff
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or sabotage the results. Given these tidbits from the papers:
Of course, it is very nice that they note:parasitic computing represents an advanced but ethically challenging alternative for cluster computing, as it uses resources without the consent of the computer's owner.
Aren't there some things that would be better left untouched?
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Maybe national security will trump corporate interests after all.
or will folks get discounts on their weapon purchases?
[smile]
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When the best play is when you exercise your imagination. They took it from a toy for all ages to a smaller market, a toy for adults who play with blocks and other stuff. a smaller market.
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Get enough so that it doesn't matter. [smile]
Internet Explorer 6.0 is out
I figure that MS has enough bucks to promote their own monoploy
That said, MS always has the weirdest logic with their product names. For example, Windows CE = wince
The fact that I.E. as commonly pronounced, sounds like a scream of agony doesn't help. On the other hand, Koffice looks like you could say it "cough-ice", but that doesn't really work. And Konqueror is a decent name.
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which is why they are doing it before the end of the summer. If they waited until the middle of september, there would be an awful lot of schools that would have their own bandwidth issues with all the students try to watch it on their own individual boxes.
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I know of a number of educational software houses that do the same thing, subcontract to developers in the Ukraine.
On the other hand, The more they are addicted to the American Life Style, the more trouble they will make for big corporations and governments where they live.
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Especially since the Financial field uses alot of very custom made stuff, it is not like thay are just going to go with Access.
The hidden advantadge is that people with access to money will now have first hand experience with Linux, and this will expose any lies in the marketing spin that is out there.
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