Your assuming that the companies are more or less identical and use the same products in the same environment and want to target the same cost cutting, profit making inovations.
Even if company A and C want the sameish functionality, company A still wins.
1: The solution isn't going to be exactly what C wants, so Company A still ahead.
2: The feature would never have been developed, so company A wins.
3: Company A has been stearing development, so would be further ahead in the implementation, and possibly have less support requirements, Company A is still behind.
How to make money on 'free' software. Charge for support. (You want me to tell you how to use the software, then pay me). Charge to become a member of the stearing group. (you want development to go this way then pay me). Charge for features, and non critical bug fixes. (you want that, then pay me)
I think support should be by Open FAQ's, you have to pay to get someone to look at your problem, but as soon as the solutions posted everyone can view it.
Companies break the law all the time, and I mean all the time.
How good is health and sagety in your workplace, ever been asked to use some equipment without the correct, training, protection, lighting, seating arangements?
Ever heard of people being dismissed wrongly, or been encouraged to talk negativly, or about confidentail information about an employee behind there back.
'Copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work lasts for the life of the author and 70 years from the end of the year in which he/she died.'
and
'Copyright in a published edition expires 25 years from the end of the year in which the edition was first published.'
Don't publish, get 70years + life, publish get 25 years?
Well, I suppose you don't want people making copies of your school diary! (not that I would care)
All copyright should be max of 25years min well nothing in a perfect world, if you can't milk it in that time, well let give someone else the opotunity.
"A campaign is under way to protect music copyrights due to expire on 50-year-old records by Elvis Presley and other rock legends.
The UK music industry has begun the fight over a legal loophole on royalty payments.
Starting on 1 January 2005, copies of songs can be issued in Europe 50 years after their release without the need for payments to copyright owners.
It could affect records by Chuck Berry, James Brown - and by 2013, The Beatles.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is spearheading the campaign.
Landmark rock 'n' roll recordings such as Presley's That's All Right and Shake, Rattle and Roll by Bill Haley and his Comets come out of copyright in Europe in January.
Prized catalogue
Over the next few years major hits by acts such as Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Bo Diddley and Fats Domino will also come into the public domain.
The Beatles' catalogue would begin to become freely available from 1 January 2013, with their first single Love Me Do. The band's entire repertoire - the most prized catalogue in rock music - would follow over the next eight years.
Recordings by other key British acts such as Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Tommy Steele and Lonnie Donegan are also at the centre of the campaign.
The Beatles The Beatles' first single comes into the public domain in 2013 Once out of copyright, the BPI fears such potentially lucrative recordings could be exploited without recompense to the performers or the copyright holders.
Unlike Europe, copyright protection exists in the US for 95 years after the recording was made. Australia and Brazil have 70-year terms, and India 60 years. Composers and writers also enjoy 70 years' protection.
Peter Jamieson, the BPI's executive chairman, said less favourable copyright terms could put the UK's record industry at a commercial disadvantage to the US.
He said it was unfair to performers and investors to fail to get a return for a "free-for-all" in Europe - often within the artist's lifetime.
Record labels argue that their ability to invest in new talent often depends on money generated by their back catalogue.
The BPI is leading about 20 recording bodies including the Association of Independent Music (Aim) in lobbying the government over its concerns."
According to me....
Love, Love me do, there's a hole in me shoe, and you ain't nothing but a hound dog, just a crying all the time.
A large number of musical recordings from such people as The Beatles and Elvis Presley have become part of the National, European and World Wide culture. Most everybody in the west knows the songs, young musicians practice them with desires of making it great, and you can hear people singing the songs in pubs, bars, restaurants and homes on any night, up and down the country.
Despite all this I could still be breaking copyright if I had extended my opening sentence. It has come to something when a piece of material more than 50 years old, that everyone can knows and can probably do a simple reproduction of, either by whistling, humming, strumming or singing, can be owned, not by the original artist, but by the music distribution companies.
Don't act like a small child in the playground. Let the music go, let it be free, give it to the people, let them feel the music.
My friend was cautioned for 'comming equipted', My friend is poor, drunk, and thinks that Marks and Spenser throwing £1000 of food a week into landfill isn't a good idea.
He was caught with a carrier bag of bananas, presumably the 'equipment' was the bag.
Cigarettes will fuck me up, no matter what I do. so selling cigarettes is like selling cyonide sweets, not normal sweets that may make you fat if you eat too many.
Guns were designed to kill things, so I suppose they shouldn't really sue the manufactures for making guns, they should sue the government for letting them.
Media-players should be designed to play media, not prevent you from playing media.
Well, in the UK at least. Some idiots paid far too much for the 3G licenses.
The company 3 (3 pay, or £ PAY if you hold down shift) already provides 3G services, well if you can call them services.
The services are limited to a few crapy news clips, marketed music (e.g. music clips arn't, there just adverts), porn that you can't access etc...
All thease services cost a fortune, £3 for a few seconds of low-res porn, I can get better for free and then transfer it onto my phone. £0.50, for a poor rendition of some clasical music (which is out of copyright, so they make ~=100% profit).
3G prommised so much, location based services, fast internet access, office-home connectivity. Because they need to make sooooo much money back it's compleatly locked in , it's just an expensive, piss-poor tax on the public.
DON'T BUY IT, stick with WiFI, gprs and gps, which give provide great services at a low cost.
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Anyone know when, if, there will be a Linux / Mac whatever version. They could have paied monkey boy for the year they were late to do a port and ship the binaries on the release disk.
That's probably about a extra 10% to the market, or mabe upto 20% if you look at the minimum specs.
Mac and Linux have less games so they get more bang for the advertising buck, so they could possibly end up shipping 25% to Linux and Mac.
anything -> Radium/mercury, now give Radium and mercury a soul(anyone), and blame(fault) them for the damage they cause to people.
All I'm saying is that if you substitute his argument by replacing people with anything else in the universe then it just sounds like a pile of religious crap.
I can usually listen to two people at the same time. Ever seen a mother tapping here child, because the child is trying to distrupt her while she's having a conversation with someone else.
Oh, do you know where I can get a good/reasonable free reader, that runs under windows or cygwin?
When I move the cursor over a like the pointer changes, flickers, flashes or whatever. The creat blinks, to draw it out from the rest of the text.
I'm not saying piss people off with gareish, flashing sighs, and pop-over adds, I'm saying asthetics is important in trying to lead users into the parts of a web site you want them to visit. This applys equally to experinced and novice users of the site.
Usability isn't just about the big things, the small almost unnoticable things have just as larger part to play. It's possible that just adding or removing one word could make the world of difference to the usability of a web page, people looking at and using your product over someone elses.
Asthetics is an important part of usability, and can be worked out techinically with no need for 'graphics design'
If something looks tactile then the user is going to try an use it.
If something looks 'gareish' then the user is going to avoid looking at it.
If something is large, then it's going to draw the users attention.
If something flashes (like a TV) then the users brain is going to think that it is a possible danger (a panther just about to pounce) and the user will look at it.
Calming sympathetic colours or voilent clashing colours set off moods in the brain, this will then make the user tend toward one form of operation.
If you make good green and red bad then people tend to pick more extream values than if there was no colouring. (try it).
etc.... Colour is just as much a part of usability as making sure the letters read left to right for english readers.
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Oh, I forgot to say, sometimes helping a competetor out help drive a market which means you both make more money.
ok, that's bollocks.
Your assuming that the companies are more or less identical and use the same products in the same environment and want to target the same cost cutting, profit making inovations.
Even if company A and C want the sameish functionality, company A still wins.
1: The solution isn't going to be exactly what C wants, so Company A still ahead.
2: The feature would never have been developed, so company A wins.
3: Company A has been stearing development, so would be further ahead in the implementation, and possibly have less support requirements, Company A is still behind.
Well, I havn't seen many good apps that get to version 1 and then stagnate.
Maybe someone would pay you to do some more development because they like the
app?
And unless the help is blinding, your always going to need support, 'I tried to install it on my pokamon but it didn't work'.
How to make money on 'free' software.
Charge for support.
(You want me to tell you how to use the software, then pay me).
Charge to become a member of the stearing group. (you want development to go this way then pay me).
Charge for features, and non critical bug fixes. (you want that, then pay me)
I think support should be by Open FAQ's, you have to pay to get someone to look at your problem, but as soon as the solutions posted everyone can view it.
Companies break the law all the time, and I mean all the time.
How good is health and sagety in your workplace, ever been asked to use some equipment without the correct, training, protection, lighting, seating arangements?
Ever heard of people being dismissed wrongly, or been encouraged to talk negativly, or about confidentail information about an employee behind there back.
'Copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work lasts for the life of the author and 70 years from the end of the year in which he/she died.'
and
'Copyright in a published edition expires 25 years from the end of the year in which the edition was first published.'
Don't publish, get 70years + life, publish get 25 years?
Well, I suppose you don't want people making copies of your school diary! (not that I would care)
All copyright should be max of 25years min well nothing in a perfect world, if you can't milk it in that time, well let give someone else the opotunity.
1: download encrypted data.
2: create ISO so all you friends have the same encrepted data.
3: Write Crack
4:Protif (or goto jail)
What a waste, someone could have put that box to good use.
It's people like you 'the consumer' that drive this world down.
Next time, before shooting a box think of some poor hobo who could be using it as his home.
Wow, 200k. That's like a pention and the medical treetment costs that you'll have to pay trying to stop you dieing from 'xyz' age releated desiese.
Well, the RIAA and MPAA will probably cripple blu-ray, and then stop producing DVD's, forcing a switch.
12CM disks haven't been patented yet.
Nope- Apple as always.
I've never seen Linux advertised in any Linux games!
The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) are currently lobying to increase the length of music copyright in europe from 50 years to 75 years.
According to the BBC.....
"A campaign is under way to protect music copyrights due to expire on 50-year-old records by Elvis Presley and other rock legends.
The UK music industry has begun the fight over a legal loophole on royalty payments.
Starting on 1 January 2005, copies of songs can be issued in Europe 50 years after their release without the need for payments to copyright owners.
It could affect records by Chuck Berry, James Brown - and by 2013, The Beatles.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is spearheading the campaign.
Landmark rock 'n' roll recordings such as Presley's That's All Right and Shake, Rattle and Roll by Bill Haley and his Comets come out of copyright in Europe in January.
Prized catalogue
Over the next few years major hits by acts such as Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Bo Diddley and Fats Domino will also come into the public domain.
The Beatles' catalogue would begin to become freely available from 1 January 2013, with their first single Love Me Do. The band's entire repertoire - the most prized catalogue in rock music - would follow over the next eight years.
Recordings by other key British acts such as Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Tommy Steele and Lonnie Donegan are also at the centre of the campaign.
The Beatles
The Beatles' first single comes into the public domain in 2013
Once out of copyright, the BPI fears such potentially lucrative recordings could be exploited without recompense to the performers or the copyright holders.
Unlike Europe, copyright protection exists in the US for 95 years after the recording was made. Australia and Brazil have 70-year terms, and India 60 years. Composers and writers also enjoy 70 years' protection.
Peter Jamieson, the BPI's executive chairman, said less favourable copyright terms could put the UK's record industry at a commercial disadvantage to the US.
He said it was unfair to performers and investors to fail to get a return for a "free-for-all" in Europe - often within the artist's lifetime.
Record labels argue that their ability to invest in new talent often depends on money generated by their back catalogue.
The BPI is leading about 20 recording bodies including the Association of Independent Music (Aim) in lobbying the government over its concerns."
According to me....
Love, Love me do, there's a hole in me shoe, and you ain't nothing but a hound dog, just a crying all the time.
A large number of musical recordings from such people as The Beatles and Elvis Presley have become part of the National, European and World Wide culture. Most everybody in the west knows the songs, young musicians practice them with desires of making it great, and you can hear people singing the songs in pubs, bars, restaurants and homes on any night, up and down the country.
Despite all this I could still be breaking copyright if I had extended my opening sentence. It has come to something when a piece of material more than 50 years old, that everyone can knows and can probably do a simple reproduction of, either by whistling, humming, strumming or singing, can be owned, not by the original artist, but by the music distribution companies.
Don't act like a small child in the playground. Let the music go, let it be free, give it to the people, let them feel the music.
Some are intended for games: because there's not enugh things to kill.
Some are designed for hunting: killing.
Some are designed for war: like, that's not killing.
Some are designed to protect the user from attack: by threatening to kill the other person.
Come on, guns were designed to kill.
My friend was cautioned for 'comming equipted',
My friend is poor, drunk, and thinks that Marks and Spenser throwing £1000 of food a week into landfill isn't a good idea.
He was caught with a carrier bag of bananas, presumably the 'equipment' was the bag.
Cigarettes will fuck me up, no matter what I do. so selling cigarettes is like selling cyonide sweets, not normal sweets that may make you fat if you eat too many.
Guns were designed to kill things, so I suppose they shouldn't really sue the manufactures for making guns, they should sue the government for letting them.
Media-players should be designed to play media, not prevent you from playing media.
just play neo pets, where there's more than one piece of pussy to chooooose from.
Well, in the UK at least.
Some idiots
paid far too much for the 3G licenses.
The company 3 (3 pay, or £ PAY if you hold down shift) already provides 3G services, well if you can call them services.
The services are limited to a few crapy news clips, marketed music (e.g. music clips arn't, there just adverts), porn that you can't access etc...
All thease services cost a fortune, £3 for a few seconds of low-res porn, I can get better for free and then transfer it onto my phone. £0.50, for a poor rendition of some clasical music (which is out of copyright, so they make ~=100% profit).
3G prommised so much, location based services, fast internet access, office-home connectivity. Because they need to make sooooo much money back it's compleatly locked in , it's just an expensive, piss-poor tax on the public.
DON'T BUY IT, stick with WiFI, gprs and gps, which give provide great services at a low cost.
Anyone know when, if, there will be a Linux / Mac whatever version.
They could have paied monkey boy for the year they were late to do a port and ship the binaries on the release disk.
That's probably about a extra 10% to the market, or mabe upto 20% if you look at the minimum specs.
Mac and Linux have less games so they get more bang for the advertising buck, so they could possibly end up shipping 25% to Linux and Mac.
Jesus H Christ -> Oh My God. (Religious freek)
/mercury, now give Radium and mercury a soul(anyone), and blame(fault) them for the damage they cause to people.
Is anything anyone's fault or decision anymore?
anything -> Radium
All I'm saying is that if you substitute his argument by replacing people with anything else in the universe then it just sounds like a pile of religious crap.
I can usually listen to two people at the same time.
Ever seen a mother tapping here child, because the child is trying to distrupt her while she's having a conversation with someone else.
Oh, do you know where I can get a good/reasonable free reader, that runs under windows or cygwin?
Ok,
flashing examples, the very basic:
When I move the cursor over a like the pointer changes, flickers, flashes or whatever. The creat blinks, to draw it out from the rest of the text.
I'm not saying piss people off with gareish, flashing sighs, and pop-over adds, I'm saying asthetics is important in trying to lead users into the parts of a web site you want them to visit. This applys equally to experinced and novice users of the site.
Usability isn't just about the big things, the small almost unnoticable things have just as larger part to play. It's possible that just adding or removing one word could make the world of difference to the usability of a web page, people looking at and using your product over someone elses.
Lets say I move over the file,a voice says 'RIAA love Pirates.mp3' followed by a short pause, then the file being played, problem?
Let's say it just plays the file, and doesn't tell you what it is unless you ask (a bit like the TV or radio).
I can listen to music and talk to someone at the same time, and I'm sure a blind person, can manage that far better than I can.
'may know the author' wake up, read the OSS. You don't have to know the author, when you can be the author.
Ever wandered what x,y,z option done, ever thought about looking at the code and finding out?
Ok, read my followup post. The guys a monkey.
Asthetics is an important part of usability, and can be worked out techinically with no need for 'graphics design'
If something looks tactile then the user is going to try an use it.
If something looks 'gareish' then the user is going to avoid looking at it.
If something is large, then it's going to draw the users attention.
If something flashes (like a TV) then the users brain is going to think that it is a possible danger (a panther just about to pounce) and the user will look at it.
Calming sympathetic colours or voilent clashing colours set off moods in the brain, this will then make the user tend toward one form of operation.
If you make good green and red bad then people tend to pick more extream values than if there was no colouring. (try it).
etc.... Colour is just as much a part of usability as making sure the letters read left to right for english readers.