Hey, we have this thing called no-business-model-of-any-value see, so I come on board, because I am a Don in the making anyway, and I decide to sue everyone or demand payment for having a freakin computer. Surprisingly, the other side just won't give in so I make them an offer I figure they can't refuse.
I offer them the chance to pay me lots of money for doin nuttin see, or I will cause such a stink like they ain't never gonna hear the end of it. I got my button man Chris here, he goes to the papers, we buy a few stories here and there and we make all kinds of accusations and allegations.
Pretty soon, Don Gates and Don Ballmer come around, they wanna do a deal see? They wanna make like they ain't doing nuttin wrong or underhanded, but hey, we are paisans, no? Dey eben offa me some of dere reporters and shill in da press to use for free too.
So I says to 'em, "Yeah, I tink we can make a deal. I just need to make a profit and make people listen up to what I demand see? So you pay me like big money and act all a-scared in da press, and you can even a say it's just all a normal business a-deal, right?"
Meanwhile, I got some dirty rats on my own ship, they are a busy makin a-deals wit their stock options and a-selling them while they are high like. Fortunately, mosta da press, they are too stupid to report on dese tings. The CFO, The VP of Finance, the VP of International Marketing, the VP of Professional Services, dey aint no made men. Dese are da men wit no conscience, but dey are nuttin more dan penny-ante wannabe's see? Dey are what we call small-timers, dey aint got da cojones to stand up and pull dis racket off.
I, have no conscience. Dat is for men who tink dat God exists and all dat stuff. I never bodder wit dat cause it don't make no difference when you dead. You still freakin dead.
Dat's why I am a-here to tell youse dat since dey didn't pay up, I am going to have to declare dat dey owe me big money sometime in da future. I still won't show no cuase, cause I don't need to. All I gotta do is make enough noise and sooner or later, somebody's gonna pay. Dey all do. Dat's da way da organization works. You wanna do business here, you gotta pay and pay and pay. You don't like it, we'll whack your family. We don't listen to no laws, we don't need no proof, and we don't need no stikin badges eeda.
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Hi Chickenwing, I don't mean this as a slam, but a question instead. Why do you believe that a majority of Americans supported Microsoft during the trial and settlement?
I don't know that to be the case. I think those that knew what was going on and what was at stake did not do so. I think Justice ignored a majority of Americans when it rejected what it called "form letters" which in fact were people who were making arguments against the monoploy called Microsoft. Microsoft also raised many people from the dead to sign petitions on their behalf, and generally had very little suuport in the settlement phase from anyone other than shills.
I am not attacking your post or you, I just wonder why you believe that the public was behind Microsoft. I wasn't seeing that. I did see a lot of lack of knowledge - not a show of support.I believe the two can coexist.
This should not come as a surprise Judge CK and Justice both bent over backwards to please Billy since Ashcroft and others could only recuse themselves from direct involvement because of the contributions they received. This does not mean they did not have a hand in giving Microsoft the power to act as though there was no settlement, it merely means that the settlement was thus: Microsoft is free to be a monopoly and self-enforcing monopolies never can do anything wrong (or at least they SEE no evil, HEAR no evil, and SPEAK of no evil that they are involved in).
Really, who won the case? Not the people, well they did, but the newly elected administration had that overturned and gave Microsoft everything they ever wanted and then some.
Crash, bang, pow! The sound of companies being crushed, jobs being lost, and consumers losing more and more to the power of a global monopoly that is in fact a de facto government taxing American citizens on a national basis every time our government (once elected - now paid) buys from the Nation of Microsoft.
Do we really want more media consolidation - must be, someone in the government says its cool for one company to own everything and offer us the same crappy meals every day.
To borrow a line we might have to get used to""You will work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day."
Thanks to Justice and Judge CK the animal is free to prowl and kill whatever it wants. Nice, real nice.
>The entire purpose of the GPL is to prevent companies from making money off the sale of software.
No, it isn't. That is merely a poor interpretation of the GPl that is confused by a misunderstanding of the English language and an apparent need to be a troll.
The purpose of the GPL is to keep people from restricting the rights of people to modify and/or use software to their benefit. The GPL basically insures that you supply me the source for any GPL'd product, that I can modify same if I wish, and that if I make any modifications or changes to that software, then I must share those changes back to the community that originated the GPL'd software in the first place if I choose to ship a product based on the original work.
In other words, I don't take public software, build it into a proprietary product and then start denying access to the source to enrich myself at your expense.
That is what the GPL is for, to ensure that the community has access to the software and cannot be denied access to same.
No funny stuff with NDA's as well. There is nothing in the GPL that denies you the right to sell software or make money from software at all.
Now, please refrain from saying that the GPL is designed to keep people from making money - that is just garbage.
Includes support for 3 years (w/updates) and 5 licenses I believe. It's some kind of SMB thing similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Just from what I have read from SuSE. This addresses the fact that Business Users are muvh different than the retail market.
These are smart business models for the SMB market. The only market that matters right now. The big boys spent their wads - now everyone has to compete for real - not just on advertising.
An Anonymous Coward wrote:" IBM has already come by and asked us how many Linux servers we run. They even instructed us to shut them down. They were really scared."
Yeah, and my dog Pete came along and said that the Utah bound dogs were about to revolt, that idiot SCO employee post was the last straw.
Seems they really don't even want to be seen anywhere near such men. Man's best friend yes, but belong to a SCO exec? That's just too much.
They planned on leaving a little poo behind for the SCO execs to step in - after all, that's what their owners have been doing to the whole community for so long.
They say they are headed to Ardmore, Oklahoma. They hear that that town likes the Killer D's and is very friendly too. Maybe they can find some new owners there who believe in freedom and don't attempt to judge the whole world by the way they want to see things.
How about a class-action suit against SCO for anti-trust based on their clearly harmful actions toward innovation,and their violations of the GPL by trying to be retroactive and enact an ex post facto lawsuit? They screwed up and GPL'd their code. Don't tell me that they didn't because they know they did. That is also why they are withdrawing their UnixWare CD's from the market as well - they have GPL'd code and they are afraid to get caught with their pants down.
Unbelievable. Yes it is a ploy to gather interest in the non-profit camp and to keep OSS and GNU/Linux out. It is only that though, for you still have to have maintenance and for that - you will pay eventually. Especially when it comes time to get support.
If it wasn't MS, anybody would call it transparent. The fact that it is MS, someone will say they are doing it from their *good intentions*.;P
This idea occurred to me that there may be some outcomes that MS does not want discovered. The SCO suit could backfire in a very large way into MS-land. Not an outcome they would want.
Any takers on the idea that the SCO "license" could be as temporary as the Corel cash infusion and quick withdrawal?
MS - promises a great ride, but pulls out too quickly.
Scanned documents have been an accepted legal practice since at least the Pennzoil/Texaco lawsuit days. Pennzoil won a few Billion dollars from Texaco and went on a scanning spree and wasted few million when the market was just getting Windows for Workgroups (Yech - 3.11).
The requirement is that the scan documents have to be written to WORM (Write Once Read Many) media. At the time we were using 5GB optical platters (pretty advanced in its day).
I will never forget the MIS director Barbara saying that we should just "delete" the documents from the WORM platters so that we could use that room for other information.
Seems that the concept of WORM was unknown to her. She didn't support macros either, thought everything should be hand-coded, even when it was boring and repititious. I used to write macros back then to massage the DB and would have them running on 5 or 6 PCs at once. Drove the suits crazy. They thought I wasn't doing anything (until they looked at the machines working - then they looked like deer caught in the headlights - didn't quite know what to do).
This was back in 1988 or 89, so the concept isn't new - and has been around for a very longe time. Before that it was a little thing called Microfiche - film on tapes, often stored in little cassette like rolls. Of course, that just shows my age.;)
Compaq was working on this technology ages ago. The idea was that the computer would self-report imminent failures. It has moved up a notch, but only a notch. Micro-rebooting - there's a concept! Narf!
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Well, there is also the problem that a lot of us receive email from companies that CLAIM exactly what you are claiming - that we somehow signed on for their crap when we did not ever do that at all. So if you want to see a real difference in legitimate business email - then by God, poilce your own. I don't know of one of those "Unsubscribe" email links I would ever hit, because then the spam meisters would simply tag that as a legitimate e-mail address. SO you see, it's your own industry's damn fault for causing us all the unnecessary bandwidth hogging, lost productivity and other garbafge we don't want. I am so friggin' tired of the SPAM promoters eating up bandwidth and ISP's saying - "it ain't my fault" - that I would rather see a few SPAMMERS be strung up than have to deal with it everyday. Maybe then they might stop sending me the stupid pr0n, drugs, and mortgage emails. I don't need their stinking cable descramblers or stupid SystemWorks either and I sure as hell don't need no damn DRM enabled e-books either. SPAMMERS deserve to be sent up into space in the first "sun refueling rockets". It is their moral duty to burn. Sorry, I just don't see any legitimate way you can expect anyone to want to hit an unsubscribe link - people know that those lists are then sold to SPAMMERS. Get a new business maybe?
Nope - not angry. You are assuming facts not in evidence Mr. Troll. I wouldn't use DSL because it is more expensive and the SBC service has largely SUCKED so far. Most people complain, and taking tow months to get service is a JOKE.
May a flea-ridden dog with mange visit your bed and leave you with maggots.
Umm.. don't look now, but there is a little bird passing you by at 100 MPH.
Broadband that works is the answer. Cable is the way to go for the time being. DSL is too limited and overpriced (most DSL tech know less than anyone I have ever seen) for the disservice that has been provided. Roadrunner may be a part of AOL/Time Warner, but it sure doesn't suck.
Most people who have had DSL have ended up frustrated by poor service, strange outages, little to no tech support, and extreme wait periods for connection (as in availabilty).
With Roadrunner, I was connected quickly (on a weekend when I was at home) - veruss a two month wait to get DSL, and even then they wouldn't be certain until they got to my home to verify if it was available.
I see to remember a whole lot of products that tried this with software all during the "dialup only" Internet era. It didn't really work well, because it relies on caching, compression, and "look-ahead". The "look-ahead" was supposed to follow links on the pages you were on to speed up access to those links. In theory - sounds great. In reality, people don't always surf like that, so it didn't really work.
Nice try, but I would wait and see before rushing off to scream "Yippee! I am almost getting broadband". Heck, even ISDN would be better than this in all probability. Why not just get two ISDN lines and bond them for that matter?
That is truly the answer. I am going to take you up on that idea. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired because some morons think that by being crass and idotic they can run a company into the ground and take up doing it all over again next week.
Not a good move at all. I am not surprised though. I do not know anyone that uses Caldera anymore. The analysis seems correct - a desperate move. Maybe a last gasp. Seems awfully brazen and certainlt cannot say that they have anything to add to the GNU/Linux scene. Too bad for them.
I would be embarassed to work there and claim to have any kind of association with GNU/Linux. This is really low. Sad for the people who work there and must hate this type of action.
Not good at all for the community, and it certainly makes their defenders look foolish in the public eye.
Why not use use DIP or DAP instead? They are dinosaur protocols I am well aware: Dinosaur Internet Protocol and Dinosaur Access Protocol, but they have been around for millions of years. Compression is excellent and I hear they have a very fluid viscosity to them that make them permeable, yet full of energy potential. Unfortunately DIP and/or DAP packets do tend to explode when exposed to high temperature electric wiring, and they put off a foul smelling odor, but you are sure to be the L33t3zt kiddie on your block cuz U n0 the DIP and DAP codez!
I am sorry - your message did not come across the wire. Please go back down the hall to the lavatory, kneel, place your head in the toilet and flush twice.
The author is right to complain. Did you know that once you have paid for an item in a store, that no one is legally allowed to rifle through your purchase as they do at stores today?
Yet for the lack of anyone complaining and protesting the abrogation of our rights, you would have us all "fall in line"? Give me break.
Please repeat step one until you have a clear head, FNG.
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DRM is only meant to maintain the rights of the RIAA and MPAA and nothing else. The digital formats for music have been under attack simply because the mguls had not figured out any way to successfully squeeze every dollar out of the digital scene. DRM is a non-starter, but unless we stop governance by the body corporate, we may have no other choice to obtain music other than enlightened artists who want to reach a different auidence.
Make a difference - support EFF, or write your Congress jerk. Ask them to stand up for the rights of citizens over the rights of the corporations for a change.
DRM and corporate greed. It's all about selling out to tell you what entertainment should be. This announcement brought to you by the good folks at the RIAA who remind you that you don't own music when you buy a CD - didn't you read your EULA.
Nope. No consolation - just the many more ERRORS I have seen from sites running Win2K/SQL Server that can't process this or that request. Get real, I see many more MS SQL Server sites with problems than anyone else.
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Hey, we have this thing called no-business-model-of-any-value see, so I come on board, because I am a Don in the making anyway, and I decide to sue everyone or demand payment for having a freakin computer. Surprisingly, the other side just won't give in so I make them an offer I figure they can't refuse.
I offer them the chance to pay me lots of money for doin nuttin see, or I will cause such a stink like they ain't never gonna hear the end of it. I got my button man Chris here, he goes to the papers, we buy a few stories here and there and we make all kinds of accusations and allegations.
Pretty soon, Don Gates and Don Ballmer come around, they wanna do a deal see? They wanna make like they ain't doing nuttin wrong or underhanded, but hey, we are paisans, no? Dey eben offa me some of dere reporters and shill in da press to use for free too.
So I says to 'em, "Yeah, I tink we can make a deal. I just need to make a profit and make people listen up to what I demand see? So you pay me like big money and act all a-scared in da press, and you can even a say it's just all a normal business a-deal, right?"
Meanwhile, I got some dirty rats on my own ship, they are a busy makin a-deals wit their stock options and a-selling them while they are high like. Fortunately, mosta da press, they are too stupid to report on dese tings. The CFO, The VP of Finance, the VP of International Marketing, the VP of Professional Services, dey aint no made men. Dese are da men wit no conscience, but dey are nuttin more dan penny-ante wannabe's see? Dey are what we call small-timers, dey aint got da cojones to stand up and pull dis racket off.
I, have no conscience. Dat is for men who tink dat God exists and all dat stuff. I never bodder wit dat cause it don't make no difference when you dead. You still freakin dead.
Dat's why I am a-here to tell youse dat since dey didn't pay up, I am going to have to declare dat dey owe me big money sometime in da future. I still won't show no cuase, cause I don't need to. All I gotta do is make enough noise and sooner or later, somebody's gonna pay. Dey all do. Dat's da way da organization works. You wanna do business here, you gotta pay and pay and pay. You don't like it, we'll whack your family. We don't listen to no laws, we don't need no proof, and we don't need no stikin badges eeda.
This interview with the Simply Criminal Organization brought to you via Sane News
Ummm... just you.;)
Hi Chickenwing, I don't mean this as a slam, but a question instead. Why do you believe that a majority of Americans supported Microsoft during the trial and settlement?
I don't know that to be the case. I think those that knew what was going on and what was at stake did not do so. I think Justice ignored a majority of Americans when it rejected what it called "form letters" which in fact were people who were making arguments against the monoploy called Microsoft. Microsoft also raised many people from the dead to sign petitions on their behalf, and generally had very little suuport in the settlement phase from anyone other than shills.
I am not attacking your post or you, I just wonder why you believe that the public was behind Microsoft. I wasn't seeing that. I did see a lot of lack of knowledge - not a show of support.I believe the two can coexist.
Cheers!
This should not come as a surprise Judge CK and Justice both bent over backwards to please Billy since Ashcroft and others could only recuse themselves from direct involvement because of the contributions they received. This does not mean they did not have a hand in giving Microsoft the power to act as though there was no settlement, it merely means that the settlement was thus: Microsoft is free to be a monopoly and self-enforcing monopolies never can do anything wrong (or at least they SEE no evil, HEAR no evil, and SPEAK of no evil that they are involved in).
Really, who won the case? Not the people, well they did, but the newly elected administration had that overturned and gave Microsoft everything they ever wanted and then some.
Crash, bang, pow! The sound of companies being crushed, jobs being lost, and consumers losing more and more to the power of a global monopoly that is in fact a de facto government taxing American citizens on a national basis every time our government (once elected - now paid) buys from the Nation of Microsoft.
Do we really want more media consolidation - must be, someone in the government says its cool for one company to own everything and offer us the same crappy meals every day.
To borrow a line we might have to get used to""You will work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day."
Thanks to Justice and Judge CK the animal is free to prowl and kill whatever it wants. Nice, real nice.
>The entire purpose of the GPL is to prevent companies from making money off the sale of software.
;P
No, it isn't. That is merely a poor interpretation of the GPl that is confused by a misunderstanding of the English language and an apparent need to be a troll.
The purpose of the GPL is to keep people from restricting the rights of people to modify and/or use software to their benefit. The GPL basically insures that you supply me the source for any GPL'd product, that I can modify same if I wish, and that if I make any modifications or changes to that software, then I must share those changes back to the community that originated the GPL'd software in the first place if I choose to ship a product based on the original work.
In other words, I don't take public software, build it into a proprietary product and then start denying access to the source to enrich myself at your expense.
That is what the GPL is for, to ensure that the community has access to the software and cannot be denied access to same.
No funny stuff with NDA's as well. There is nothing in the GPL that denies you the right to sell software or make money from software at all.
Now, please refrain from saying that the GPL is designed to keep people from making money - that is just garbage.
Have a nice day.
Includes support for 3 years (w/updates) and 5 licenses I believe. It's some kind of SMB thing similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Just from what I have read from SuSE. This addresses the fact that Business Users are muvh different than the retail market.
These are smart business models for the SMB market. The only market that matters right now. The big boys spent their wads - now everyone has to compete for real - not just on advertising.
An Anonymous Coward wrote:" IBM has already come by and asked us how many Linux servers we run. They even instructed us to shut them down. They were really scared."
Yeah, and my dog Pete came along and said that the Utah bound dogs were about to revolt, that idiot SCO employee post was the last straw.
Seems they really don't even want to be seen anywhere near such men. Man's best friend yes, but belong to a SCO exec? That's just too much.
They planned on leaving a little poo behind for the SCO execs to step in - after all, that's what their owners have been doing to the whole community for so long.
They say they are headed to Ardmore, Oklahoma. They hear that that town likes the Killer D's and is very friendly too. Maybe they can find some new owners there who believe in freedom and don't attempt to judge the whole world by the way they want to see things.
How about a class-action suit against SCO for anti-trust based on their clearly harmful actions toward innovation ,and their violations of the GPL by trying to be retroactive and enact an ex post facto lawsuit? They screwed up and GPL'd their code. Don't tell me that they didn't because they know they did. That is also why they are withdrawing their UnixWare CD's from the market as well - they have GPL'd code and they are afraid to get caught with their pants down.
Unbelievable. Yes it is a ploy to gather interest in the non-profit camp and to keep OSS and GNU/Linux out. It is only that though, for you still have to have maintenance and for that - you will pay eventually. Especially when it comes time to get support.
;P
If it wasn't MS, anybody would call it transparent. The fact that it is MS, someone will say they are doing it from their *good intentions*.
Right answer, but the request was wrong. Should be: Whatever you are smoking, don't bogart it my friend, pass it on!
This idea occurred to me that there may be some outcomes that MS does not want discovered. The SCO suit could backfire in a very large way into MS-land. Not an outcome they would want.
Any takers on the idea that the SCO "license" could be as temporary as the Corel cash infusion and quick withdrawal?
MS - promises a great ride, but pulls out too quickly.
Scanned documents have been an accepted legal practice since at least the Pennzoil/Texaco lawsuit days. Pennzoil won a few Billion dollars from Texaco and went on a scanning spree and wasted few million when the market was just getting Windows for Workgroups (Yech - 3.11).
;)
The requirement is that the scan documents have to be written to WORM (Write Once Read Many) media. At the time we were using 5GB optical platters (pretty advanced in its day).
I will never forget the MIS director Barbara saying that we should just "delete" the documents from the WORM platters so that we could use that room for other information.
Seems that the concept of WORM was unknown to her. She didn't support macros either, thought everything should be hand-coded, even when it was boring and repititious. I used to write macros back then to massage the DB and would have them running on 5 or 6 PCs at once. Drove the suits crazy. They thought I wasn't doing anything (until they looked at the machines working - then they looked like deer caught in the headlights - didn't quite know what to do).
This was back in 1988 or 89, so the concept isn't new - and has been around for a very longe time. Before that it was a little thing called Microfiche - film on tapes, often stored in little cassette like rolls. Of course, that just shows my age.
Compaq was working on this technology ages ago. The idea was that the computer would self-report imminent failures. It has moved up a notch, but only a notch. Micro-rebooting - there's a concept! Narf!
Well, there is also the problem that a lot of us receive email from companies that CLAIM exactly what you are claiming - that we somehow signed on for their crap when we did not ever do that at all. So if you want to see a real difference in legitimate business email - then by God, poilce your own. I don't know of one of those "Unsubscribe" email links I would ever hit, because then the spam meisters would simply tag that as a legitimate e-mail address. SO you see, it's your own industry's damn fault for causing us all the unnecessary bandwidth hogging, lost productivity and other garbafge we don't want. I am so friggin' tired of the SPAM promoters eating up bandwidth and ISP's saying - "it ain't my fault" - that I would rather see a few SPAMMERS be strung up than have to deal with it everyday. Maybe then they might stop sending me the stupid pr0n, drugs, and mortgage emails. I don't need their stinking cable descramblers or stupid SystemWorks either and I sure as hell don't need no damn DRM enabled e-books either. SPAMMERS deserve to be sent up into space in the first "sun refueling rockets". It is their moral duty to burn. Sorry, I just don't see any legitimate way you can expect anyone to want to hit an unsubscribe link - people know that those lists are then sold to SPAMMERS. Get a new business maybe?
Nope - not angry. You are assuming facts not in evidence Mr. Troll. I wouldn't use DSL because it is more expensive and the SBC service has largely SUCKED so far. Most people complain, and taking tow months to get service is a JOKE.
May a flea-ridden dog with mange visit your bed and leave you with maggots.
Umm.. don't look now, but there is a little bird passing you by at 100 MPH.
Broadband that works is the answer. Cable is the way to go for the time being. DSL is too limited and overpriced (most DSL tech know less than anyone I have ever seen) for the disservice that has been provided. Roadrunner may be a part of AOL/Time Warner, but it sure doesn't suck.
Most people who have had DSL have ended up frustrated by poor service, strange outages, little to no tech support, and extreme wait periods for connection (as in availabilty).
With Roadrunner, I was connected quickly (on a weekend when I was at home) - veruss a two month wait to get DSL, and even then they wouldn't be certain until they got to my home to verify if it was available.
I see to remember a whole lot of products that tried this with software all during the "dialup only" Internet era. It didn't really work well, because it relies on caching, compression, and "look-ahead". The "look-ahead" was supposed to follow links on the pages you were on to speed up access to those links. In theory - sounds great. In reality, people don't always surf like that, so it didn't really work.
Nice try, but I would wait and see before rushing off to scream "Yippee! I am almost getting broadband". Heck, even ISDN would be better than this in all probability. Why not just get two ISDN lines and bond them for that matter?
That is truly the answer. I am going to take you up on that idea. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired because some morons think that by being crass and idotic they can run a company into the ground and take up doing it all over again next week.
Later to the Loser Larry's.
Damn dued, it's just another lense problem or the tech was using the wrong film again.
Not a good move at all. I am not surprised though. I do not know anyone that uses Caldera anymore. The analysis seems correct - a desperate move. Maybe a last gasp. Seems awfully brazen and certainlt cannot say that they have anything to add to the GNU/Linux scene. Too bad for them.
I would be embarassed to work there and claim to have any kind of association with GNU/Linux. This is really low. Sad for the people who work there and must hate this type of action.
Not good at all for the community, and it certainly makes their defenders look foolish in the public eye.
Damn - why do people have to be so greedy?
Why not use use DIP or DAP instead? They are dinosaur protocols I am well aware: Dinosaur Internet Protocol and Dinosaur Access Protocol, but they have been around for millions of years. Compression is excellent and I hear they have a very fluid viscosity to them that make them permeable, yet full of energy potential. Unfortunately DIP and/or DAP packets do tend to explode when exposed to high temperature electric wiring, and they put off a foul smelling odor, but you are sure to be the L33t3zt kiddie on your block cuz U n0 the DIP and DAP codez!
I am sorry - your message did not come across the wire. Please go back down the hall to the lavatory, kneel, place your head in the toilet and flush twice.
The author is right to complain. Did you know that once you have paid for an item in a store, that no one is legally allowed to rifle through your purchase as they do at stores today?
Yet for the lack of anyone complaining and protesting the abrogation of our rights, you would have us all "fall in line"? Give me break.
Please repeat step one until you have a clear head, FNG.
DRM is only meant to maintain the rights of the RIAA and MPAA and nothing else. The digital formats for music have been under attack simply because the mguls had not figured out any way to successfully squeeze every dollar out of the digital scene. DRM is a non-starter, but unless we stop governance by the body corporate, we may have no other choice to obtain music other than enlightened artists who want to reach a different auidence.
Make a difference - support EFF, or write your Congress jerk. Ask them to stand up for the rights of citizens over the rights of the corporations for a change.
DRM and corporate greed. It's all about selling out to tell you what entertainment should be. This announcement brought to you by the good folks at the RIAA who remind you that you don't own music when you buy a CD - didn't you read your EULA.
Where can you listen tomorrow?
Damn Lag! Can't get that story for a day or so, I guess.. the slashdot effecct took hold already!
It's HUMOR. RTFA - read the frigging article!
HUMORIX.com
Nope. No consolation - just the many more ERRORS I have seen from sites running Win2K/SQL Server that can't process this or that request. Get real, I see many more MS SQL Server sites with problems than anyone else.
Have a nice day.