Actually, this is a good way to make people less likely to purchase the product.
If you only consider the proposition in strict money terms, then you are correct, but there are other things motivating people. There is lots of shareware out there that does not lock you out or nag if you do not pay, but people still pay although they don't have to.
There will be people who like the product alot and are grateful someone wrote it and will happily pay the money. We're only talking about 300 people. If it's useful there will easily be 300 people who just want to support the guy who wrote it. Who cares about everybody else who doesn't want to pay for it?
What's good about this is that the programmer gets a reward and so does everybody else. Someone might write some software and GPL it becuase they don't want others to benefit from their work. But if they get some money they might feel alot better about others getting benefit out of it: "Hey, I got paid! Who cares about what happens to the source".
The great weakness of GPL is that it makes it harder to make money out of. Some might say "exactly - we don't want to support evil corporate leeches". But that just means that it makes it harder to make an industry out of open source. Why have good programmers locked up (employed) by evil corporates when they could be freelace open source programmers? It would also give people like MS one less stick to beat open source with. The most important thing to keep in mind is that competition is what the corporate world is really afraid of. And if the source is open to all without comercial restriction then anyone make use of the source and complete in the market place. No one company or person can make a killing, meanwhile everybody benefits from improved technology.
One fine example of this is the BSD networking code and the corresponding success of the Internet (yes, the two are related).
Also, once he sells 300 copies @ $34 each, he's going to release the source under a BSD-style license.
This is a great. You could cal it "payware" or "wageware" or something. The programmer gets paid for his time and we get some new open source software. This is much better than shareware since it contributes to the pool of open source, but dosen't limit development to those who have the time (or the lack of a social life) to develop software for free. And by using the BSD licence, another enterprising soul could enhance the product and do the same thing. This is much better than GPL - it lets the small guy make some money instead of just companies who have the capital to make money from open source.
In Oz, it's essentially illegal to enforce region coding, which this stoush seems to be about. It's considered anti-competitive. Similarly, a company cannot stop a product from being imported into the country, even if it already sold there (no anti-grey marketting laws). So basically you could still get your xboxen if you really wanted to and MS can do fuck all about it.
It's interesting to note that Visa and Mastercard are thretening similar action if the Reserve bank doesn't back down on some reforms.
One day, when we get rid of all the evil corporates, Australia will be the perfect place to live.
You bleeding heart Liberals! You don't understand that Microsoft sits at the very centre of the axis of evil that threatens our country, our economy and our very way of life. If we don't take decisive action now we may pay the concequences later. The only answer is a pre-emptive strike to rid the earth of this scurge.
I used to work for a fairly large company - they managed about $3 billion in investments. The IT department was being run by an idiot. One of the IT managers who left becuase the IT department was being run into the ground sent one of the directors an email revealing what was going on in IT. The director was on holidays for a week, but he never got the email becuase the head of IT got one of the sysadmins to delete the mail from his inbox. I quit the company after 4 months after being dressed down for bringing up serious problems in their trading systems.
The Age reports that another employee is being castigated for giving Valerie Mallinson crack in order to get her to write the article in the first place.
...now she can switch back to something more usable.
Of course it's a bit rich saying it was a rouge PR or marketing drone. I'm sure the marketing gestapo at MS rules with an iron fist and may well have insisted some sort of respose to Apple's succesful campaign.
I've heard that PowerPC CPUs run cool, so I think that they would really be a better choice.
I dunno, I have one of the earlier TiBooks and they can run pretty hot - enough to not want it on your lap. I don't know if the later ones are cooler. One thing it has never done is forced a shutdown. The worst thing that happens is that the fan turns on, and boy is it noisy.
You're correct. The reason Australians say "rowter" is that it's not really possible to pronounce it "rooter" in polite company. They may as well have called it a "fucker". So we call it as the Armericans do. Of course, the pun still works, it's just a little more hidden.
Yes, exactly. It would be foolish to think they all conspired in the name of a stupid joke. Did you ever, or any other one of you humourless dweebs who have made the same point, or the moderator, ever consider that my post was a joke?
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Actually, this is a good way to make people less likely to purchase the product.
If you only consider the proposition in strict money terms, then you are correct, but there are other things motivating people. There is lots of shareware out there that does not lock you out or nag if you do not pay, but people still pay although they don't have to.
There will be people who like the product alot and are grateful someone wrote it and will happily pay the money. We're only talking about 300 people. If it's useful there will easily be 300 people who just want to support the guy who wrote it. Who cares about everybody else who doesn't want to pay for it?
What's good about this is that the programmer gets a reward and so does everybody else. Someone might write some software and GPL it becuase they don't want others to benefit from their work. But if they get some money they might feel alot better about others getting benefit out of it: "Hey, I got paid! Who cares about what happens to the source".
The great weakness of GPL is that it makes it harder to make money out of. Some might say "exactly - we don't want to support evil corporate leeches". But that just means that it makes it harder to make an industry out of open source. Why have good programmers locked up (employed) by evil corporates when they could be freelace open source programmers? It would also give people like MS one less stick to beat open source with. The most important thing to keep in mind is that competition is what the corporate world is really afraid of. And if the source is open to all without comercial restriction then anyone make use of the source and complete in the market place. No one company or person can make a killing, meanwhile everybody benefits from improved technology.
One fine example of this is the BSD networking code and the corresponding success of the Internet (yes, the two are related).
Also, once he sells 300 copies @ $34 each, he's going to release the source under a BSD-style license.
This is a great. You could cal it "payware" or "wageware" or something. The programmer gets paid for his time and we get some new open source software. This is much better than shareware since it contributes to the pool of open source, but dosen't limit development to those who have the time (or the lack of a social life) to develop software for free. And by using the BSD licence, another enterprising soul could enhance the product and do the same thing. This is much better than GPL - it lets the small guy make some money instead of just companies who have the capital to make money from open source.
They were right after all - you can make money from spam!
For a real larf try dusting those lollies with anthrax spores instead of sugar. Gets them every time.
You seemed to have driven your Ford SUV into a kerb and rolled over. Would you like to:
- Sue Ford?
- Sue Firestone?
- Die quiety?
In Oz, it's essentially illegal to enforce region coding, which this stoush seems to be about. It's considered anti-competitive. Similarly, a company cannot stop a product from being imported into the country, even if it already sold there (no anti-grey marketting laws). So basically you could still get your xboxen if you really wanted to and MS can do fuck all about it.
It's interesting to note that Visa and Mastercard are thretening similar action if the Reserve bank doesn't back down on some reforms.
One day, when we get rid of all the evil corporates, Australia will be the perfect place to live.
...can we convince this man to sell mod chips for Windows, Office, Passport...
The latest pentium laptop will still only get 2 hours use out of it.
You bleeding heart Liberals! You don't understand that Microsoft sits at the very centre of the axis of evil that threatens our country, our economy and our very way of life. If we don't take decisive action now we may pay the concequences later. The only answer is a pre-emptive strike to rid the earth of this scurge.
I used to work for a fairly large company - they managed about $3 billion in investments. The IT department was being run by an idiot. One of the IT managers who left becuase the IT department was being run into the ground sent one of the directors an email revealing what was going on in IT. The director was on holidays for a week, but he never got the email becuase the head of IT got one of the sysadmins to delete the mail from his inbox. I quit the company after 4 months after being dressed down for bringing up serious problems in their trading systems.
The Age reports that another employee is being castigated for giving Valerie Mallinson crack in order to get her to write the article in the first place.
The punishment should be that she has to appear in a MS switch ad with her real name and picture.
I personally favour regieme change.
switch and get fired.
Not really, she's a girl so she dosn't have balls...
...now she can switch back to something more usable.
Of course it's a bit rich saying it was a rouge PR or marketing drone. I'm sure the marketing gestapo at MS rules with an iron fist and may well have insisted some sort of respose to Apple's succesful campaign.
(1) Setup one or more servers on the end of a fat pipe
(2) Submit an 'Ask Slashdot' asking people to visit a link to the above servers
(3) Wait
(4) Study logs
Wouldn't it mean that you actually have to touch somebody? I think it defeats the whole purpose.
I dunno, I have one of the earlier TiBooks and they can run pretty hot - enough to not want it on your lap. I don't know if the later ones are cooler. One thing it has never done is forced a shutdown. The worst thing that happens is that the fan turns on, and boy is it noisy.
a beowolf cluser of these! And then imagine the smell.
You're correct. The reason Australians say "rowter" is that it's not really possible to pronounce it "rooter" in polite company. They may as well have called it a "fucker". So we call it as the Armericans do. Of course, the pun still works, it's just a little more hidden.
Actually, I think of girls as 3 port routers*. And I like to use the full bandwidth on all ports.
* You have to be Australian to fully get this pun.
Yes, exactly. It would be foolish to think they all conspired in the name of a stupid joke. Did you ever, or any other one of you humourless dweebs who have made the same point, or the moderator, ever consider that my post was a joke?
What were you saying about fools?
What's that? Is it something to with girls? Eeeww!
It's been April 1 for three hours now where I live...