Or you could leave the United States, as patenting software seems to be largely a function of that legal jurisdiction, and write your now-legal clone in another country.
I did some programming work in my own time - no pay, written contract, etc. The question of IP has never been discussed in five years. At the time, the bosses didn't even want it to be done. But, as a result, I got a promotion, I have even seen my software on TV (a laptop with my program prominent in a news item), it is being used throughout a significant industry in my state, I was moved into IT (now 2nd in charge), I get all sorts of useful IT benefits, and I have an interesting and diverse job. I am quite happy about this.
And I know others who have put their own private software into their jobs, and reaped serious rewards from a grateful employer (even a multi-national).
Moral: Not every tourist gets mugged by the locals.
How long is it, before corporations begin to carve up the English dictionary and we won't be able to use a single word without following it with "(tm)"?
If the moon descends to the point that it crashed into the sea, then a gigantic tidal wave would cause an enormous power surge in all the sea- and wave-powered electricity grids.
The Linux crowd may have gone berserk, but it never suppressed the result.
We may be obnoxious, immature, ill-informed and unreasonable, but there is no Linux marketing department with the power to say that the publication of truth is a breach of your EULA.
Why is it alright for businessmen to band together to form a union so that they can reap the benefits of co-operation (we call it a "company", but it is an association of investors), but not alright for workers to band together to do the same?
If employers want the right to deal with each employee individually, why can't we have the right to deal with each shareholder individually?
And why do the people who invest financial capital get to elect the directors of an enterprise, but the people who contribute the human capital get no say at all?
Unions exist as an external force on companies, because workers are excluded virtually everywhere from participating in corporate government in the same way that "shareholders" are ('shareholders' is understood in the narrow sense of those who invest financial capital, not those who invest their human capital in a firm.) Corporate government is still back in the ages when only property-owners could vote, the mere worker was entitled to no vote. This is still the case in most corporations.
The search bar has to go somewhere, so it goes to MSN. (I wonder if you can change it? I've never looked.)
Yes, I think you can. I noticed one day that the URL for the search button is stored in the registry. So, if you hack that URL (usual disclaimers about registry hacking apply here), then you should go to a different search engine. Can't remember if I tried it - I never use IE for surfing the web, I use NS 4.x on both Linux and Windows. I never notice any serious problems with it - I am using it right now. But then I don't go to sites that use the latest gimmicks.
If we think in more than one model, how do we choose? The instant we use more than one model, or are affected by more than one model, a meta-choice is called for: which model influences our choice of the appropriate model?
Secondly, do we go through a sequence of models over time? Are there are higher order model that control which lower-order models will replace earlier ones? Ah, postgradute courses in the history of ideas - how it all comes back to me now... and I left it all behind to play with Linux. Or so I thought.
"ASP with SQL Server on IIS allows you to knock out web applications very rapidly"
But so do PHP 4.0 and (say) Interbase running on WinNT 4.0. And then you can run the same apps on Win with IIS or Linux with Apache. I find PHP's cleaner style faster to code than VBScript's ugly bloated syntax. EG. want a newline?
VBScript: "Hello"&vbCrLf
PHP: "Hello\n"
Why do you have to write 7 characters in VBS to accomplish what PHP does in 2? Of course, there is an alternative in VBS: &chr(10).. but that takes 8 characters!
Moral: I have switched from ASP to PHP for my web development, even on NT boxes. And I am loving it.
My first reaction was: it is not an election year. But hey, it's a US site, so fair enough.
But then I thought - maybe people in other nations should be allowed to vote in the US presidential elections. After all, we are affected by the decisions of the US government. Remember "no tax without reps"? Maybe "WE the people of planet earth..." should get a say.
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Outlook is certainly a killer app - those viruses sure kill lots of systems. That is why we don't allow it at all in our organisation.
Or you could leave the United States, as patenting software seems to be largely a function of that legal jurisdiction, and write your now-legal clone in another country.
I did some programming work in my own time - no pay, written contract, etc. The question of IP has never been discussed in five years. At the time, the bosses didn't even want it to be done. But, as a result, I got a promotion, I have even seen my software on TV (a laptop with my program prominent in a news item), it is being used throughout a significant industry in my state, I was moved into IT (now 2nd in charge), I get all sorts of useful IT benefits, and I have an interesting and diverse job. I am quite happy about this.
And I know others who have put their own private software into their jobs, and reaped serious rewards from a grateful employer (even a multi-national).
Moral: Not every tourist gets mugged by the locals.
It all depends.
Red hat once boasted that its aim was not to become as big as Microsoft, but to make Microsoft as big as Red Hat.
I am still longing to see it happen. Can you offer me a progress report?
How long is it, before corporations begin to carve up the English dictionary and we won't be able to use a single word without following it with "(tm)"?
It(tm) will(tm) never(tm) happen(tm)!(tm)(patent pending)(copyright 2001, ignavus)
If the moon descends to the point that it crashed into the sea, then a gigantic tidal wave would cause an enormous power surge in all the sea- and wave-powered electricity grids.
But things would settle down after that.
The Linux crowd may have gone berserk, but it never suppressed the result.
We may be obnoxious, immature, ill-informed and unreasonable, but there is no Linux marketing department with the power to say that the publication of truth is a breach of your EULA.
You are not comparing like with like.
So please explain again to me.
Why is it alright for businessmen to band together to form a union so that they can reap the benefits of co-operation (we call it a "company", but it is an association of investors), but not alright for workers to band together to do the same?
If employers want the right to deal with each employee individually, why can't we have the right to deal with each shareholder individually?
And why do the people who invest financial capital get to elect the directors of an enterprise, but the people who contribute the human capital get no say at all?
Unions exist as an external force on companies, because workers are excluded virtually everywhere from participating in corporate government in the same way that "shareholders" are ('shareholders' is understood in the narrow sense of those who invest financial capital, not those who invest their human capital in a firm.) Corporate government is still back in the ages when only property-owners could vote, the mere worker was entitled to no vote. This is still the case in most corporations.
the voters would have behaved totally differently under true popular vote
Oh, you mean the 50% who voted would have stayed home, and the 50% who stayed home would have voted.
And the 25% who voted for Bush would have voted for Gore, and the 25% who voted for Gore would have voted for Bush.
Yes, I can see that would have been totally different.
The search bar has to go somewhere, so it goes to MSN. (I wonder if you can change it? I've never looked.)
Yes, I think you can. I noticed one day that the URL for the search button is stored in the registry. So, if you hack that URL (usual disclaimers about registry hacking apply here), then you should go to a different search engine. Can't remember if I tried it - I never use IE for surfing the web, I use NS 4.x on both Linux and Windows. I never notice any serious problems with it - I am using it right now. But then I don't go to sites that use the latest gimmicks.
..if someone starting sending MS diffs with improvements to the code!
If we think in more than one model, how do we choose? The instant we use more than one model, or are affected by more than one model, a meta-choice is called for: which model influences our choice of the appropriate model? Secondly, do we go through a sequence of models over time? Are there are higher order model that control which lower-order models will replace earlier ones? Ah, postgradute courses in the history of ideas - how it all comes back to me now ... and I left it all behind to play with Linux. Or so I thought.
But so do PHP 4.0 and (say) Interbase running on WinNT 4.0. And then you can run the same apps on Win with IIS or Linux with Apache. I find PHP's cleaner style faster to code than VBScript's ugly bloated syntax. EG. want a newline?
VBScript: "Hello"&vbCrLfPHP: "Hello\n"
Why do you have to write 7 characters in VBS to accomplish what PHP does in 2? Of course, there is an alternative in VBS: &chr(10) .. but that takes 8 characters!
Moral: I have switched from ASP to PHP for my web development, even on NT boxes. And I am loving it.My first reaction was: it is not an election year. But hey, it's a US site, so fair enough. But then I thought - maybe people in other nations should be allowed to vote in the US presidential elections. After all, we are affected by the decisions of the US government. Remember "no tax without reps"? Maybe "WE the people of planet earth ..." should get a say.