Remember the big mean doj did to them after they were found guilty? Nothing because good old pro capitalistic republicans were out to protect poor little old Microsoft. I am sure campaign contributions to Bush were a huge part as well. Hell Cheney broke many laws and is never going to be prosecuted. Just business as usual in Washington.
IT already has in my mind. Its not a democracy when you have only 2 parties bought and paid for and the majority of Americans do not even bother to vote. Then the fundies chose the corporate sponsored candidates and we have someone like Bush.
Want to vote 3rd party? More than likely you will help tip the election for someone who holds your opposite viewpoint. Eg - Voting for Nader helps Bush. Voting liberatarian helps democrats.
The poor in China have these great manufactoring jobs because Mexicans and Latin Americans were viewed upon as too expensive because of $.33 an hour vs $.11 cents in China.
The middle class already can afford a pc. However I do admit the Chinese are very frugal and save rather than spend their hard earned money. Its fustrating many economists.
Housing prices are still not going down much. At least here in California they may have lost only 5% of their value. Many are buying foreclosed homes because they are cheaper but with how auctions work they are not much cheaper. I feel the housing market bubble is here to stay as consumers who paid large amounts of money for a home want to keep it that high price no matter what and its their god given right. At least this is how it is on the west coast and I am dissapointed its not tumlbing to at least 2004 levels when they were half of what they are now.
What if you live in an area where the average house is over 400k? I live in California and my inlaws live in Virgina.
The inlaws in Virgina own property they rent in California and even after selling the property and getting 120k in cash its still not enough for a down payment for a 3 bedroom home??
Anyway I figured this is how business works and its how many retailers work. If I am responsible for others people money then I am more valuable as I can tell someone how to make it and where to cut off loses.
Currently I work for a crappy minimum wage job now at a retailer I will not mention by name here to get by while I go to school. When I worked in big business I had to make a business case for any decision.... ok my boss did after I recommend a solution.
Now at minimum wage my hours are being cut because I do not sell enough insurance protection plans when I sell electronics. Basically I am viewed by productivity charts provided by SAP as not making the company enough money. I knew 19 year old came in and is being promoted to my boss with no experience in just a month. Why? He brought in more money.
So it seems the responsibility to bring money is now at the blue collar level and not white anymore from what your telling me? Good god just fire all the suites then.:-)
I wish I could agree but IT techs cost money and businesses spend as much as $10k a year per seat for support!
If your paying someone 40k a year that is 1/5th of their salary. Ouch.
Where does this money go?
Most goes to servers and administrators as well as techs to repair problems. Can you name any techs who know Linux, OSX, and Windows who are willing to work for only 30k a year with several years experience? Infact you would have to double or even tripple the amount of techs and administrators to handle the tickets.
You can find an MCSE A+ tech for dirt cheap at the price listed above who knows windows inside and out to fix desktops. Also if everyone uses the same hardware and same version of Windows then the problems are all teh same so the techs know what to do. That means I can hire less of them and save money as newer problems take longer to troubleshoot.
Maybe I can use Ubuntu on all systems with vmware images of XP but now I have to maintain to profiles. One for linux that I have to hire a unix administrator for and my current MCSE admin for the active directory for the images.
Things need to just work and if the CFO's and CEO's pet projects do not work or they can not log on then your pretty much fired. They want to just work. A worker without a computer costs hundreds of dollars a day with lost productivity.
Inflation was over 17% when Carter was in Office. Reagan had to do something about this fast before the second great depression would have started.
So reagan increased money and borrowed (yes its bad when overdone) and the democrats kept getting in his way as he requested funds to be cut from government programs.
Teh S&L issues would have been worse if the interest rates were higher.
Also do not confuse federal fund interest rates that banks use with what they charge customers. Yes they went up to control inflation but when you have an oversupply of money aka inflation then it needs to be cut by charging more for it. This brought stabilization. But the government tried to take too much too quickly and that brought interest rates up again.
I am an accounting major who was once an MIS major and has a background in IT.
What I have seen is that those who make money or save the company money are the most valued. An example are salesmen who get paid a ton of money and programmers who get outsourced to India since they provide no value(the ones that can't sell themselves or what they do).
What I am learning in school goes to the opposite of what your post says. If I were an account working for the CFO (under several levels) I would question the compentency of anyone who would want to raise costs and provide no value or ROI. A CEO should give the CIO a raise when he or she saves millions of dollars. I certainly would.
But now that person is no longer important because of his budget?? Maybe its good I am leaving the IT industry. Maybe taking the CPA exam out of school might be an option.
To a certain extent it makes sense to have the right tool for the job. Windows is great for phb desktops but not for servers.
I tend to follow to standardize on one platform unless a requirement for high availability is there for something like a database server. Unix is much cheaper to control and administer with less hardware for things like one app per server and expensive switches due to constant bsods. For servers win32 compatibility is not important either unless its to service a win32 desktop.
But for desktops an all windows environment makes sense unless the graphics department riots when they take their macs away. In that case they can pay for their own support out of their budget.
What this doctor did sounded like a nightmare. As much as I despise ms products and their monopoly I would have picked windows for everything but the most intense server apps. If windows update is bugging him all the time then its not configured right and he needs to hire more competent techs.
I was expecting him to pick all Windows
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Especially after he mentioned simply that his exotic eap network would not work and a 6 minute wait for email??
If you use win32 apps then you need Windows. Standardization is important and I used to have Ubuntu on my laptop and love it. But I have XP now as I get ready for school with MBA majors who will be sending me excel and ms access files that openoffice would have trouble with.
As many pointed out this CIO was a laughing stock 4 years ago when his whole network failed due to poor planning.
Ubuntu is great but unless your a hacker or need a webserver its not practical. Large organizations need to stick with one platform and that is Microsoft as much as I wish it were not true. Until linux takes over more government agencies and foreign companies I would not trust the platform yet as its not standard.
IF I were a CIO or an IT manager I would care only if it got the job done as thats what I am paid to do. MS exchange, active directory, and proprietary vb apps dictate my decision when lowering costs.
The stock market exploded with reagonomics and interest rates plummeted and inflation was finally under control.
More money for the wealthy means lower interest rates so businesses can hire more and expand as loans become cheap. It also helps joe sixpack refinance his home which goes up in value as more can afford. Infact the housing hike that hit so much of the nation was because of Clinton's low interest rate policy borrowed from republicans.
What happened in the 1920's was the result of unregulated loans for stocks where you could buy a stock with only a a fraction of the up front cost. Great way to gain alot of wealth fast but once they go down then your pretty much screwed. That is illegal today.
What happened in the late 1980's was related to computer problems and the banks not having enough money for some bad savings and loan scams. Again more reagonomics can fix this as more banks have money but competing agaisnt hte government for money is bad as the banks favor the government. Right now they have alot more in capital so a repeat is not close to what happened in the late 80's. IT had nothing to do with reagonmics.
The more money people have the more jobs are created and the fact that after 9-11 we had not had a serious recession confirms that giving businesses low interest rate loans and wealth insurances more jobs.
Its already turning into this as the federal government is slashing funds for state programs that provide transportation, education, and medicaid.
My wifes college loan is now 7%! Fasfa paid for her college totally before I married her when her exhusband made more money. Now I am finishing school with less money and fasfa can't afford to pay for all of it. I need 2k every semester and work fulltime while I go to school.
Now the government under Bush is in record debt and the biggest it ever has. Hmmm
The states are doing things now that the federal government used to provide and property taxes have went up 3% in my state alone! Why? Because the government is wasting money on wars and paying interest on our debt.
I support Ron Paul and I am very close to becoming a republican. The federal government is way too big and I have been studying Ronald Reagan's policies and they make sense. Take college economics 101?
We need less federal government and more state level government programs. States pay for most of the things you describe and thanks to high federal spending you are suffering for it.... but with high taxes.
As Stalin once said those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
In such a lottery system who would run it? The republicans probably as they are in charge of elections and counting already. Even the voting machines are made by party loyalists.
Gold has fluctuated very heavily in recent years. People I know lost money in the early 80s for investing gold.
At least the government can control its own currency to slow inflation or stop deflation by just reducing or printing more money. That is kind of hard with gold.
A simple quote can make a lawyers day if IBM is ever sued.
Also press leaks on secret projects are big deal too.
I worked for a temp agency for a major gaming company and to this day I can not tell you where I worked. I can mention it on a job app or something but not on the web.
Reason being is the media and competitors will do anything to get trade secrets. So yes if your sallaried your always on the clock and if not then signing a document should be required for employment.
What if an IBM employee told a secret that MS got ahold of? OR what if he identified himself as an IBM employee and then did something illegal like hit up on a minor. Could IBM be sued? If he identified himself as an IBM employee then possibly.
I used to work for a gaming company and I almost got fired on my first day for mentioning where I worked on my livejournal. THe market department flipped out and called my bosses and boss. Ouch.
I turned the entry friends only.
They are obsessed with media misquoting even a lowly temp help desk worker. I had to sign a legal document saying I can tell my friends where I work and used to work but not anywhere on the internet. Especially/.:-)
I no longer work there but I can still be sued for giving out any information on how our servers work or rumors of upcoming projects. It was strange but I guess the major game publisher had bad press releases and lawsuits where/. ers who worked there quotes were actually used in court.
If I were IBM I would make any remark that I even work there on the net a firable offense.
mega conglomerates also provide high entry independent of government. The oil refinery industry is artifically raising hte price of gas and of course how can you compete with Walmart and Target? You can't.
Many view these as a free market because anti trust laws mean government interfence which therefore equal no free market. Many libertarians here on/. even supported ms business tactics and opposed any ruling on them as it would affect the free market.
I agree that government should provide and promote competition but its too busy deregulating barons and creating wars.
The reason is then became not hte answer was that Microsoft changed the EULA to make them more expensive than a pc. Shoot if I were an IT manager I did not want to pay $11,000 per desktop for support either! Yes they were that much because windows is a POS and licensing costs. IF someone makes only 35k a year then I am paying more than a third of their salary on just their workstation.
MS Terminal server was an overpriced example to make thick pc clients look cheaper.
ALso this article failed to mention that Microsoft killed most of the 19 innovative products. Lotus 123 and wordperfect died because ms bundled ms-office with their illegal monopoly and IT wanted to use one vendor and one standard over quality. Those 2 things killed most of the other products besides bad management for the rest.
VMS also was the best operating system ever made. If Berkeley did not chose Unix for BIND and Sendmail then things would be alot different and Unix would have not taken over the internet server market. VMS is alot lot cheaper at the time with agroup of 20 or more pcs vs terminals. Again it was the need for standards and illegal practices by ms is what brought the pc to the table. Then the apps followed.
Except his scary fairtax plan is quite extreme and can cause serve economic damage if you apply a 25% consumption tax in addition to state taxes! Yes the rich corporate fat cats will pay nothing but it wont help if their income drops by 50% as people can afford the taxes at their level of spending. Regression consumption taxes really hurt the lower class the most and people who are just trying to get buy.
Yes I will probably be modded as a troll here but think before you follow a candidate who support such an idea? Rich alreayd have insane savings rates and poor have debt or dissaving rates.
Anyway a huge depression could result if he is elected and does such an insane system.
Free enterprise today means zero regulation. To me that is that is the free market is anarchy run by corporate barons. Theoriticaly a newer competitor will come in to save us. But the barriers of entry are so large its impossible.
Google is the only exception that can save us now. At least that is true with net neutrality and the telecoms charging obscene rates compared to the rest of the world. I remember back in the gold old days that when you can could find hundreds of ISPs to choice from in the phone book? Now its cable or dsl. Sure there is qwest and earthlink but guess who is taking several months to install their dsl package? You guessed it? The monopolistic telecos who refuse to provide service so customers like my have to use sprint. The telecos have been shape shifting traffic on 3rd parties for years and it just makes them mad as they switch to the telecos.
Anyway you get my point on monopolies. If regulation is bad then its more of the same as its now the new definition of free market.
I would be pretty pissed if I spent 7 months writing a book with an agreement that I make some money on the sales only to have someone violate my copyright and take credit for my novel and I go broke. d
Copyright needs to exist to make sure authors are recongized and yes, compensated for their work. If you do not agree to pay for it then dont buy it. There are creative commons licenses for creative works such as free books too. But copyright enforces credits on who writes what. Even if something is free it needs to be recognized by the author of that work.
Many/. ers confuse copyright protection and patents. Patents are more debatable as they are given out like lolipops by the government.
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Even with automatix I still had to find an illegal patch for X just to have true clear type rendering in addition to installing the ms fonts.
On a laptop its painful and it makes me wish I had WinXP back on it without those 2 things. Automatix makes this task easier.
Is there a way I can do this with synaptic? Not that I know of for legal reasons.
They already have broke all the laws.
Remember the big mean doj did to them after they were found guilty? Nothing because good old pro capitalistic republicans were out to protect poor little old Microsoft. I am sure campaign contributions to Bush were a huge part as well. Hell Cheney broke many laws and is never going to be prosecuted. Just business as usual in Washington.
IT already has in my mind. Its not a democracy when you have only 2 parties bought and paid for and the majority of Americans do not even bother to vote. Then the fundies chose the corporate sponsored candidates and we have someone like Bush.
Want to vote 3rd party? More than likely you will help tip the election for someone who holds your opposite viewpoint. Eg - Voting for Nader helps Bush. Voting liberatarian helps democrats.
The poor in China have these great manufactoring jobs because Mexicans and Latin Americans were viewed upon as too expensive because of $.33 an hour vs $.11 cents in China.
The middle class already can afford a pc. However I do admit the Chinese are very frugal and save rather than spend their hard earned money. Its fustrating many economists.
I hate ASP and php because it intermingles html and code.
.Net its autogenerated but still a real seperation is better engineering.
At least with
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I would mod you up if I had points
Housing prices are still not going down much. At least here in California they may have lost only 5% of their value. Many are buying foreclosed homes because they are cheaper but with how auctions work they are not much cheaper. I feel the housing market bubble is here to stay as consumers who paid large amounts of money for a home want to keep it that high price no matter what and its their god given right. At least this is how it is on the west coast and I am dissapointed its not tumlbing to at least 2004 levels when they were half of what they are now.
What if you live in an area where the average house is over 400k? I live in California and my inlaws live in Virgina.
The inlaws in Virgina own property they rent in California and even after selling the property and getting 120k in cash its still not enough for a down payment for a 3 bedroom home??
It makes southern California look very cheap.
Thanks for your info.
... ok my boss did after I recommend a solution.
:-)
Anyway I figured this is how business works and its how many retailers work. If I am responsible for others people money then I am more valuable as I can tell someone how to make it and where to cut off loses.
Currently I work for a crappy minimum wage job now at a retailer I will not mention by name here to get by while I go to school. When I worked in big business I had to make a business case for any decision.
Now at minimum wage my hours are being cut because I do not sell enough insurance protection plans when I sell electronics. Basically I am viewed by productivity charts provided by SAP as not making the company enough money. I knew 19 year old came in and is being promoted to my boss with no experience in just a month. Why? He brought in more money.
So it seems the responsibility to bring money is now at the blue collar level and not white anymore from what your telling me? Good god just fire all the suites then.
I wish I could agree but IT techs cost money and businesses spend as much as $10k a year per seat for support!
If your paying someone 40k a year that is 1/5th of their salary. Ouch.
Where does this money go?
Most goes to servers and administrators as well as techs to repair problems. Can you name any techs who know Linux, OSX, and Windows who are willing to work for only 30k a year with several years experience? Infact you would have to double or even tripple the amount of techs and administrators to handle the tickets.
You can find an MCSE A+ tech for dirt cheap at the price listed above who knows windows inside and out to fix desktops. Also if everyone uses the same hardware and same version of Windows then the problems are all teh same so the techs know what to do. That means I can hire less of them and save money as newer problems take longer to troubleshoot.
Maybe I can use Ubuntu on all systems with vmware images of XP but now I have to maintain to profiles. One for linux that I have to hire a unix administrator for and my current MCSE admin for the active directory for the images.
Things need to just work and if the CFO's and CEO's pet projects do not work or they can not log on then your pretty much fired. They want to just work. A worker without a computer costs hundreds of dollars a day with lost productivity.
Inflation was over 17% when Carter was in Office. Reagan had to do something about this fast before the second great depression would have started.
So reagan increased money and borrowed (yes its bad when overdone) and the democrats kept getting in his way as he requested funds to be cut from government programs.
Teh S&L issues would have been worse if the interest rates were higher.
Also do not confuse federal fund interest rates that banks use with what they charge customers. Yes they went up to control inflation but when you have an oversupply of money aka inflation then it needs to be cut by charging more for it. This brought stabilization. But the government tried to take too much too quickly and that brought interest rates up again.
Shoot and wow
I am an accounting major who was once an MIS major and has a background in IT.
What I have seen is that those who make money or save the company money are the most valued. An example are salesmen who get paid a ton of money and programmers who get outsourced to India since they provide no value(the ones that can't sell themselves or what they do).
What I am learning in school goes to the opposite of what your post says. If I were an account working for the CFO (under several levels) I would question the compentency of anyone who would want to raise costs and provide no value or ROI. A CEO should give the CIO a raise when he or she saves millions of dollars. I certainly would.
But now that person is no longer important because of his budget?? Maybe its good I am leaving the IT industry. Maybe taking the CPA exam out of school might be an option.
To a certain extent it makes sense to have the right tool for the job. Windows is great for phb desktops but not for servers.
I tend to follow to standardize on one platform unless a requirement for high availability is there for something like a database server. Unix is much cheaper to control and administer with less hardware for things like one app per server and expensive switches due to constant bsods. For servers win32 compatibility is not important either unless its to service a win32 desktop.
But for desktops an all windows environment makes sense unless the graphics department riots when they take their macs away. In that case they can pay for their own support out of their budget.
What this doctor did sounded like a nightmare. As much as I despise ms products and their monopoly I would have picked windows for everything but the most intense server apps. If windows update is bugging him all the time then its not configured right and he needs to hire more competent techs.
Especially after he mentioned simply that his exotic eap network would not work and a 6 minute wait for email??
If you use win32 apps then you need Windows. Standardization is important and I used to have Ubuntu on my laptop and love it. But I have XP now as I get ready for school with MBA majors who will be sending me excel and ms access files that openoffice would have trouble with.
As many pointed out this CIO was a laughing stock 4 years ago when his whole network failed due to poor planning.
Ubuntu is great but unless your a hacker or need a webserver its not practical. Large organizations need to stick with one platform and that is Microsoft as much as I wish it were not true. Until linux takes over more government agencies and foreign companies I would not trust the platform yet as its not standard.
IF I were a CIO or an IT manager I would care only if it got the job done as thats what I am paid to do. MS exchange, active directory, and proprietary vb apps dictate my decision when lowering costs.
The stock market exploded with reagonomics and interest rates plummeted and inflation was finally under control.
More money for the wealthy means lower interest rates so businesses can hire more and expand as loans become cheap. It also helps joe sixpack refinance his home which goes up in value as more can afford. Infact the housing hike that hit so much of the nation was because of Clinton's low interest rate policy borrowed from republicans.
What happened in the 1920's was the result of unregulated loans for stocks where you could buy a stock with only a a fraction of the up front cost. Great way to gain alot of wealth fast but once they go down then your pretty much screwed. That is illegal today.
What happened in the late 1980's was related to computer problems and the banks not having enough money for some bad savings and loan scams. Again more reagonomics can fix this as more banks have money but competing agaisnt hte government for money is bad as the banks favor the government. Right now they have alot more in capital so a repeat is not close to what happened in the late 80's. IT had nothing to do with reagonmics.
The more money people have the more jobs are created and the fact that after 9-11 we had not had a serious recession confirms that giving businesses low interest rate loans and wealth insurances more jobs.
Its already turning into this as the federal government is slashing funds for state programs that provide transportation, education, and medicaid.
.... but with high taxes.
My wifes college loan is now 7%! Fasfa paid for her college totally before I married her when her exhusband made more money. Now I am finishing school with less money and fasfa can't afford to pay for all of it. I need 2k every semester and work fulltime while I go to school.
Now the government under Bush is in record debt and the biggest it ever has. Hmmm
The states are doing things now that the federal government used to provide and property taxes have went up 3% in my state alone! Why? Because the government is wasting money on wars and paying interest on our debt.
I support Ron Paul and I am very close to becoming a republican. The federal government is way too big and I have been studying Ronald Reagan's policies and they make sense. Take college economics 101?
We need less federal government and more state level government programs. States pay for most of the things you describe and thanks to high federal spending you are suffering for it
As Stalin once said those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
In such a lottery system who would run it? The republicans probably as they are in charge of elections and counting already. Even the voting machines are made by party loyalists.
Gold has fluctuated very heavily in recent years. People I know lost money in the early 80s for investing gold.
At least the government can control its own currency to slow inflation or stop deflation by just reducing or printing more money. That is kind of hard with gold.
A simple quote can make a lawyers day if IBM is ever sued.
Also press leaks on secret projects are big deal too.
I worked for a temp agency for a major gaming company and to this day I can not tell you where I worked. I can mention it on a job app or something but not on the web.
Reason being is the media and competitors will do anything to get trade secrets. So yes if your sallaried your always on the clock and if not then signing a document should be required for employment.
What if an IBM employee told a secret that MS got ahold of? OR what if he identified himself as an IBM employee and then did something illegal like hit up on a minor. Could IBM be sued? If he identified himself as an IBM employee then possibly.
I used to work for a gaming company and I almost got fired on my first day for mentioning where I worked on my livejournal. THe market department flipped out and called my bosses and boss. Ouch.
/. :-)
/. ers who worked there quotes were actually used in court.
I turned the entry friends only.
They are obsessed with media misquoting even a lowly temp help desk worker. I had to sign a legal document saying I can tell my friends where I work and used to work but not anywhere on the internet. Especially
I no longer work there but I can still be sued for giving out any information on how our servers work or rumors of upcoming projects. It was strange but I guess the major game publisher had bad press releases and lawsuits where
If I were IBM I would make any remark that I even work there on the net a firable offense.
mega conglomerates also provide high entry independent of government. The oil refinery industry is artifically raising hte price of gas and of course how can you compete with Walmart and Target? You can't.
/. even supported ms business tactics and opposed any ruling on them as it would affect the free market.
Many view these as a free market because anti trust laws mean government interfence which therefore equal no free market. Many libertarians here on
I agree that government should provide and promote competition but its too busy deregulating barons and creating wars.
The network pc was the answer.
The reason is then became not hte answer was that Microsoft changed the EULA to make them more expensive than a pc. Shoot if I were an IT manager I did not want to pay $11,000 per desktop for support either! Yes they were that much because windows is a POS and licensing costs. IF someone makes only 35k a year then I am paying more than a third of their salary on just their workstation.
MS Terminal server was an overpriced example to make thick pc clients look cheaper.
ALso this article failed to mention that Microsoft killed most of the 19 innovative products. Lotus 123 and wordperfect died because ms bundled ms-office with their illegal monopoly and IT wanted to use one vendor and one standard over quality. Those 2 things killed most of the other products besides bad management for the rest.
VMS also was the best operating system ever made. If Berkeley did not chose Unix for BIND and Sendmail then things would be alot different and Unix would have not taken over the internet server market. VMS is alot lot cheaper at the time with agroup of 20 or more pcs vs terminals. Again it was the need for standards and illegal practices by ms is what brought the pc to the table. Then the apps followed.
Except his scary fairtax plan is quite extreme and can cause serve economic damage if you apply a 25% consumption tax in addition to state taxes! Yes the rich corporate fat cats will pay nothing but it wont help if their income drops by 50% as people can afford the taxes at their level of spending. Regression consumption taxes really hurt the lower class the most and people who are just trying to get buy.
Yes I will probably be modded as a troll here but think before you follow a candidate who support such an idea? Rich alreayd have insane savings rates and poor have debt or dissaving rates.
Anyway a huge depression could result if he is elected and does such an insane system.
Free enterprise today means zero regulation. To me that is that is the free market is anarchy run by corporate barons. Theoriticaly a newer competitor will come in to save us. But the barriers of entry are so large its impossible.
Google is the only exception that can save us now. At least that is true with net neutrality and the telecoms charging obscene rates compared to the rest of the world. I remember back in the gold old days that when you can could find hundreds of ISPs to choice from in the phone book? Now its cable or dsl. Sure there is qwest and earthlink but guess who is taking several months to install their dsl package? You guessed it? The monopolistic telecos who refuse to provide service so customers like my have to use sprint. The telecos have been shape shifting traffic on 3rd parties for years and it just makes them mad as they switch to the telecos.
Anyway you get my point on monopolies. If regulation is bad then its more of the same as its now the new definition of free market.
Devils advocate here ...
/. ers confuse copyright protection and patents. Patents are more debatable as they are given out like lolipops by the government.
I would be pretty pissed if I spent 7 months writing a book with an agreement that I make some money on the sales only to have someone violate my copyright and take credit for my novel and I go broke. d
Copyright needs to exist to make sure authors are recongized and yes, compensated for their work. If you do not agree to pay for it then dont buy it. There are creative commons licenses for creative works such as free books too. But copyright enforces credits on who writes what. Even if something is free it needs to be recognized by the author of that work.
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