This is fantastic news. I only wonder why it hasn't been done sooner. In fact, I wonder why two Hubble-like telescopes were not orbited on opposite sides of the earth to focus periodically on the same object. This would provide unprecedented detail of objects as well as accuracy of their distance from the earth.
Still, there is an enourmous need to service systemss, OS's and programs that are becoming out of date. Many users don't want or need to upgrade and would be willing to pay reasonable amounts for assistance with their system. All I'm saying is that there are limitless opportunities for folks with the necessary skills to form a new service sector and then franchise it. Too, this would stimulate a market for older hardware. Just a thought. phil
Is seems that you not only state the obvious but also probably know exactly what a viable business model would look like. Certainly you know what services would be needed to build a successful buisness. The kind of people to gather around you to fill the need. Further, you're probably not alone. A programmer with business savvy? Just a thought.
MicroSoft is taking great pains to close the marketing channel using its market share to bend hardware manufactures to its will baiting them with visions of the sugar plum of security. Potected Media Path P(i)MP is one of the most cynical shams ever foisted on the lambs of consumerism I have ever witnessed. The only way to stop this effot is to provide an attractive alternative and market it. The first step has been accomplished. The second step has yet to be taken in any significant way. A few years ago IBM ran a TV ad for Linux. It was an cute but enemic effort. Naturally, I haven't seen anything since. Why?
This is where OpenSource leadership is sorely lacking. Why haven't entrepreneurs surfaced forming for-profit companies that could service the needs of the OpenSource user base? It's not like the user base doesn't need the support or wouldn't pay reasonable fees for quality services. Further, there is no reason that a company could not service multiple projects feeding the knowledge gained back into the various projects to improve the servicability of each successive release.
There are many great OpenSource products waiting to be properly marketed. What is lacking is imagination and initiative. OpenSource leadership's failure is in not taking steps to make OpenSource a "household" word. That's inexcusable.
It seems like Eric has lost his religion and is caving into the closed source community. Perhaps he has forgotten that OpenSource is a wonderful "alternative" to closed source. Perhaps the fire has gone out.
OpenSource users provide a large and rapidly growing market that desperatly needs to be attended to by hardware manufactures and by software developers, both OpenSource and closed source. This market *will not* shrink in the future. OS software developers should act like it. Plan for it. Act like they understand what's going on. There is profit to be made with OpenSource. A lot of it as RedHat and others are demonstrating.
Rather than whinning about being left behind, OpenSouce advocates should stand up and become leaders, organize and be developing marketing strategies, agressively marketing OpenSouce alternatives and showing hte for-profit community how they can profit from continuing to develope OpenSource approachs to their businesses. Show them in plain dollars and cents language how it is in their best interests to adopt OpenSource methods and use OpenSource software.
Lets face it when it comes to marketing the benefits of using OpenSouce, these folks who claim to be "OpenSouce advocates" have been d*cks, small and downy soft ones at that.
Just how much does OSDL spend on medium advertising whether it be TV, radio or otherwise to extoll the value of using OpenSource? Why don't they?
When was the last time RedHat advertized nationally? Why not?
For that matter, have any of the others who make good quarterly profits marketing OpenSource software spent any significant amounts of national advertizing? No, they haven't.
This, plain and simply, is stupid and ignorant on their parts. Is it greed or lack of insight or both that prevents them from setting adequate funds aside for marketing budgets?
Why do we as users put up with such banality? Shouldn't we as users and even developers expect more and better from those who claim to be advocating for OpenSource and/or profiting because we produce and even use their/our products? What's it going to take to motivate us to jump in their sh*t?
Then too, countries will be better able to monitor/filter content coming from within their boarders. For example, a "...co.us" IP would be a clue as to the origin of the unapproved anarchist content. Our minders would also be better able to track down in-country state defined "law-breakers" or other undesirables and malcontents. All that is needed is to require that each packet have the proper ID packet present (kinda like car a license plate) to make ours lives completely secure. An authortarian's dream, I say.
Here little girl/boy. You too can have your very own PC for litle or nothing down. Make easily affordable payments for a few hundred hours or so and it will be yours to keep.
You'll be excited to know that once your PC is paid for you will not notice any discernable change in the quality of your LeechGo service. This is LeechGo's personal commitment to you as a valued mark... er... customer.
But!!...for just a few pennies a month more you can be effortlessly upgraded to receive uninterrupted a superior service that you as a valued mark...er... customer have every right to expect from LeechGo. LeechGo's custmer service representatives will gladly upgrade your LeechGo account to LeechGoSilver. As a LeechGoSilver account holder all of our new and improved for pay services will be conveniently at your finger tips.
Finally, let me tell you about our LeechGoPlatinum limited modified extended flex pay as you go plan...
Maybe it dawned on MicroSoft that their upgradable protected environment *can* be hacked by criminals who can insert *their* upgrade code into the upgrade ready free space provided by MicroSoft upgraders who are upgrading systems where criminals are hiding their upgrade code from MicroSoft's upgrades. It's all so confusing. Best to avoid Vista altogether.
What I really want is to keep "content providers" and software developer at arms length. I expect them to respect my property and keep their stuff out of my computer. The computer is mine, not theirs. I'll set the "policies" that enable them to send me their deal. If they don't like my policies they can peddle their deal somewhere else.
How is it that the world has been turned on its head? In the begining software developers and content providers begged us to look favorably on their deal. Now if we happen to have their deal on our computers and they don't like it they extort money from us by threatening us with law suits. How did we as consumers allow this to happen to us? Can we afford not to take back our computers?
I peer out over the vista and it slowly dawns on me, I have to.
BitTorrent is small potatos in the infringment inducement game. Think about MicroSoft and some of its ad campaigns over the years. MS is by far the most egregious inducer of infringment behavior. Take for instance MediaPlayer and what the company encourages you to do with copyrighted works. And of course there is the browser cache and all thoes.bmps,.jpgs, and other copyrighted works residing on users computers begging infringers to use them.
Well it's about time gun and car manufacturers are held to the same standard as p2p manufacturers. All manufacturers should be held responsible for the illegal use of their products. Fair is fair, I say!
Please, think of the chiruns! Give me a friggin break.
If p2p companies sit on their hands, they diserve the inevitable outcome.
The most obvious counter to such misinformation and distortion would be a national ad campaign dealing with the bad behavior of the National Association of Attorneys General. Their use of the child porn card is a fig leaf. Alowing the MPAA and RIAA to use them is unforgivable and lets us know who the association is really looking out for.
This is about control. Control of the internet and its exploitation by the MPAA and RIAA. To these parasites the intenet is one big marketing channel and their aim is to gain as much control over this medium as they possibly can to ensure their ability to exploit any who come in contact with them.
The Federal and State government revenue departments are not above preying on internet service providers and users for a revenue stream.
After all they have to think of the chiruns. AFreeMan
I have two problems with patents. First, they abuse prior art attempting to make distinctions where in many if not most cases none exist as all ideas borrow and build on earlier ideas. Second, the big dogs use patents as weapons against the small who have few resources. A fair hearing on the merits rarely occurs as the small are forced to fold prematurly. This strategy seems to foul the idea of fairness leaving society the poorer.
In the "do-not-trust-dept," John Kerry plans to appoint Ms. Jane Fonda as Director of Homeland Securiety after taking office. Ms. Fonda, as part of an efficency in government effort, will outsource most computer positions to China.
United States Patent #6,658,642 was awarded to Megiddo, et al. on December 2, 2003. The Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation of (Armonk, NY). System, method and program product for software development provides that "Software developers intending to participate may provide an intention to submit."
This patent goes a long way to explain IBM's, Novell's and Microsoft's interest in OSS. philtr
System, method and program product for software development which was awarded United States Patent #6,658,642 to Megiddo, et al.,December 2, 2003. The assignee is IBM.
Abstract
A system, method and program product for computer program development. A new computer program to be developed is outlined and the outline organized to identify required modules. Required modules are provided to the system, which categorizes them and posts a list of required modules with corresponding requirements on, for example, a dedicated web site. Module requirements may include module specifications, a corresponding price and a deadline. Software developers intending to participate may provide an intention to submit. If fewer than two developers intend to submit module candidates for one or more required modules, the computer program outline may be reorganized to encourage more participants. For each required module where at least two module candidates are received, the candidates are tested for compliance with corresponding module requirements. A module candidate is selected for each required module for inclusion as a module included in the software package and payment is transferred to developers of the selected module candidates. The selected module, candidates may be included in the computer program and the computer program may be tested.
I'm sure all of you can see where this patent is leading.
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Welcome to 'trusted computing' and a tiered net. Imagine what Bill G and AT&T could do to you it they should ever get in bed together.
Oh, btw. I got a hot stock tip fer ya...
This is fantastic news. I only wonder why it hasn't been done sooner. In fact, I wonder why two Hubble-like telescopes were not orbited on opposite sides of the earth to focus periodically on the same object. This would provide unprecedented detail of objects as well as accuracy of their distance from the earth.
Will we even be able to stop the bastards at the bathroom door?
Since my eyes are going bad anyway, I really can't see the benefit of buying into this new crap.
Still, there is an enourmous need to service systemss, OS's and programs that are becoming out of date. Many users don't want or need to upgrade and would be willing to pay reasonable amounts for assistance with their system. All I'm saying is that there are limitless opportunities for folks with the necessary skills to form a new service sector and then franchise it. Too, this would stimulate a market for older hardware. Just a thought. phil
Is seems that you not only state the obvious but also probably know exactly what a viable business model would look like. Certainly you know what services would be needed to build a successful buisness. The kind of people to gather around you to fill the need. Further, you're probably not alone. A programmer with business savvy? Just a thought.
The great penguin in the sky will get you for this!
MicroSoft is taking great pains to close the marketing channel using its market share to bend hardware manufactures to its will baiting them with visions of the sugar plum of security. Potected Media Path P(i)MP is one of the most cynical shams ever foisted on the lambs of consumerism I have ever witnessed. The only way to stop this effot is to provide an attractive alternative and market it. The first step has been accomplished. The second step has yet to be taken in any significant way. A few years ago IBM ran a TV ad for Linux. It was an cute but enemic effort. Naturally, I haven't seen anything since. Why?
This is where OpenSource leadership is sorely lacking. Why haven't entrepreneurs surfaced forming for-profit companies that could service the needs of the OpenSource user base? It's not like the user base doesn't need the support or wouldn't pay reasonable fees for quality services. Further, there is no reason that a company could not service multiple projects feeding the knowledge gained back into the various projects to improve the servicability of each successive release.
There are many great OpenSource products waiting to be properly marketed. What is lacking is imagination and initiative. OpenSource leadership's failure is in not taking steps to make OpenSource a "household" word. That's inexcusable.
It seems like Eric has lost his religion and is caving into the closed source community. Perhaps he has forgotten that OpenSource is a wonderful "alternative" to closed source. Perhaps the fire has gone out.
OpenSource users provide a large and rapidly growing market that desperatly needs to be attended to by hardware manufactures and by software developers, both OpenSource and closed source. This market *will not* shrink in the future. OS software developers should act like it. Plan for it. Act like they understand what's going on. There is profit to be made with OpenSource. A lot of it as RedHat and others are demonstrating.
Rather than whinning about being left behind, OpenSouce advocates should stand up and become leaders, organize and be developing marketing strategies, agressively marketing OpenSouce alternatives and showing hte for-profit community how they can profit from continuing to develope OpenSource approachs to their businesses. Show them in plain dollars and cents language how it is in their best interests to adopt OpenSource methods and use OpenSource software.
Lets face it when it comes to marketing the benefits of using OpenSouce, these folks who claim to be "OpenSouce advocates" have been d*cks, small and downy soft ones at that.
Just how much does OSDL spend on medium advertising whether it be TV, radio or otherwise to extoll the value of using OpenSource? Why don't they?
When was the last time RedHat advertized nationally? Why not?
For that matter, have any of the others who make good quarterly profits marketing OpenSource software spent any significant amounts of national advertizing? No, they haven't.
This, plain and simply, is stupid and ignorant on their parts. Is it greed or lack of insight or both that prevents them from setting adequate funds aside for marketing budgets?
Why do we as users put up with such banality? Shouldn't we as users and even developers expect more and better from those who claim to be advocating for OpenSource and/or profiting because we produce and even use their/our products? What's it going to take to motivate us to jump in their sh*t?
Then too, countries will be better able to monitor/filter content coming from within their boarders. For example, a "...co.us" IP would be a clue as to the origin of the unapproved anarchist content. Our minders would also be better able to track down in-country state defined "law-breakers" or other undesirables and malcontents. All that is needed is to require that each packet have the proper ID packet present (kinda like car a license plate) to make ours lives completely secure. An authortarian's dream, I say.
What a marketing dream.
Here little girl/boy. You too can have your very own PC for litle or nothing down. Make easily affordable payments for a few hundred hours or so and it will be yours to keep.
You'll be excited to know that once your PC is paid for you will not notice any discernable change in the quality of your LeechGo service. This is LeechGo's personal commitment to you as a valued mark... er... customer.
But!!...for just a few pennies a month more you can be effortlessly upgraded to receive uninterrupted a superior service that you as a valued mark...er... customer have every right to expect from LeechGo. LeechGo's custmer service representatives will gladly upgrade your LeechGo account to LeechGoSilver. As a LeechGoSilver account holder all of our new and improved for pay services will be conveniently at your finger tips.
Finally, let me tell you about our LeechGoPlatinum limited modified extended flex pay as you go plan...
Maybe it dawned on MicroSoft that their upgradable protected environment *can* be hacked by criminals who can insert *their* upgrade code into the upgrade ready free space provided by MicroSoft upgraders who are upgrading systems where criminals are hiding their upgrade code from MicroSoft's upgrades. It's all so confusing. Best to avoid Vista altogether.
Who wouldda thunk freedom was infectious?
What I really want is to keep "content providers" and software developer at arms length. I expect them to respect my property and keep their stuff out of my computer. The computer is mine, not theirs. I'll set the "policies" that enable them to send me their deal. If they don't like my policies they can peddle their deal somewhere else.
How is it that the world has been turned on its head? In the begining software developers and content providers begged us to look favorably on their deal. Now if we happen to have their deal on our computers and they don't like it they extort money from us by threatening us with law suits. How did we as consumers allow this to happen to us? Can we afford not to take back our computers?
I peer out over the vista and it slowly dawns on me, I have to.
BitTorrent is small potatos in the infringment inducement game. Think about MicroSoft and some of its ad campaigns over the years. MS is by far the most egregious inducer of infringment behavior. Take for instance MediaPlayer and what the company encourages you to do with copyrighted works. And of course there is the browser cache and all thoes .bmps, .jpgs, and other copyrighted works residing on users computers begging infringers to use them.
Hell, that works for me!!! Heheh...
Well it's about time gun and car manufacturers are held to the same standard as p2p manufacturers. All manufacturers should be held responsible for the illegal use of their products. Fair is fair, I say!
Please, think of the chiruns! Give me a friggin break.
If p2p companies sit on their hands, they diserve the inevitable outcome.
The most obvious counter to such misinformation and distortion would be a national ad campaign dealing with the bad behavior of the National Association of Attorneys General. Their use of the child porn card is a fig leaf. Alowing the MPAA and RIAA to use them is unforgivable and lets us know who the association is really looking out for.
This is about control. Control of the internet and its exploitation by the MPAA and RIAA. To these parasites the intenet is one big marketing channel and their aim is to gain as much control over this medium as they possibly can to ensure their ability to exploit any who come in contact with them.
The Federal and State government revenue departments are not above preying on internet service providers and users for a revenue stream.
After all they have to think of the chiruns. AFreeMan
I have two problems with patents. First, they abuse prior art attempting to make distinctions where in many if not most cases none exist as all ideas borrow and build on earlier ideas. Second, the big dogs use patents as weapons against the small who have few resources. A fair hearing on the merits rarely occurs as the small are forced to fold prematurly. This strategy seems to foul the idea of fairness leaving society the poorer.
Look for Congress to mandate that *all* hardware meet minimal standards, i.e. support DRM et. al. The gate is slowly closing and you'll soon be daid.
In the "do-not-trust-dept," John Kerry plans to appoint Ms. Jane Fonda as Director of Homeland Securiety after taking office. Ms. Fonda, as part of an efficency in government effort, will outsource most computer positions to China.
...by none other than IBM.
United States Patent #6,658,642 was awarded to Megiddo, et al. on December 2, 2003. The Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation of (Armonk, NY).
System, method and program product for software development provides that "Software developers intending to participate may provide an intention to submit."
This patent goes a long way to explain IBM's, Novell's and Microsoft's interest in OSS. philtr
System, method and program product for software development
Hope this helps. philtr
System, method and program product for software development which was awarded United States Patent #6,658,642 to Megiddo, et al.,December 2, 2003. The assignee is IBM.
Abstract
A system, method and program product for computer program development. A new computer program to be developed is outlined and the outline organized to identify required modules. Required modules are provided to the system, which categorizes them and posts a list of required modules with corresponding requirements on, for example, a dedicated web site. Module requirements may include module specifications, a corresponding price and a deadline. Software developers intending to participate may provide an intention to submit. If fewer than two developers intend to submit module candidates for one or more required modules, the computer program outline may be reorganized to encourage more participants. For each required module where at least two module candidates are received, the candidates are tested for compliance with corresponding module requirements. A module candidate is selected for each required module for inclusion as a module included in the software package and payment is transferred to developers of the selected module candidates. The selected module, candidates may be included in the computer program and the computer program may be tested.
I'm sure all of you can see where this patent is leading.
philtr