So what's a CLA. Why is there a "controversy" around it. Why does everyone hate Cononical.
As a techy and Linux geek - I think if I have to do research to understand a Slashdot article, it's either bad, or I've been reading Slashdot for too long.
How about more like Bejing or Herzelia. I'm really sorry (and a bit ashamed) to say/admit it - but they Valley was all-it back in the 90's - but we're livin' in different and scary times...
Adobe will not make more nor less off the "cloud" model vs. the "boxed" model. They will make as much as their software is worth via the laws of supply and demand. I'd their software is great, and the is little alternative, they'll extort a high price. If they try to go too high - people will seek alternatives, even if it is painful. It doesn't matter if they do this via the higher cloud pricing model, or merely by jacking-up their boxed rate.
Stop telling people what their tablet should be used for, and listen to them
I'veI seen people bumbling around with smartphones, tablets and PDAs trying to take them to meetings and conferences, and use them to take notes. They all suck. The iPad keyboard is not "like a dream" to type on no matter what Steve Jobs said.
I know one guy who has a surface pro - I asked him (as a joke) how he liked it. He said "it's great - I grab it on a way to a meeting - I can type - take notes, write docs, do spreadsheets."
It's not about replacing the desktop - but being able to do some work while your not at it.
I hate MS just as much as the next guy (I'm actually a Linux and iOS zealot) - but I believe microsoft's biggest mistake was showing those commercials with stupid people dancing around clicking their covers on-and-off and not showing what the product could actually do for you.
Nope. Not involved in Hollywood at all.
Everything your are arguing about ALREADY exists TODAY - just in a completely ad-hoc, non standard way. No content provider is going to cease to protect their content whether or not there is protection built into HTML5. It's just a matter of how they are going to go about it. Its not a question of DRM or no-DRM. There is DRM and will be DRM whether you or I like it it not. I personally would LOVE no DRM. So it's a matter of if there is a STnDARDiZED way to do it or not. I believe a standardized way exceeded a non-standardized way.
If we removed the ability to put DRM plug-ins into web browsers - there would probably be no browser-based way of playing much of any "big media" content. Should we do that?
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I think I just answered my own question. It would be much cooler on Cool Korea, but probably funny as hell in Krazy Korea!!!
As a techy and Linux geek - I think if I have to do research to understand a Slashdot article, it's either bad, or I've been reading Slashdot for too long.
I thought I heard this EXACT story *years* ago?! Verbatim. Or is my browser doing some weird caching ;-)
How about more like Bejing or Herzelia. I'm really sorry (and a bit ashamed) to say/admit it - but they Valley was all-it back in the 90's - but we're livin' in different and scary times...
Adobe will not make more nor less off the "cloud" model vs. the "boxed" model. They will make as much as their software is worth via the laws of supply and demand. I'd their software is great, and the is little alternative, they'll extort a high price. If they try to go too high - people will seek alternatives, even if it is painful. It doesn't matter if they do this via the higher cloud pricing model, or merely by jacking-up their boxed rate.
I'veI seen people bumbling around with smartphones, tablets and PDAs trying to take them to meetings and conferences, and use them to take notes. They all suck. The iPad keyboard is not "like a dream" to type on no matter what Steve Jobs said.
I know one guy who has a surface pro - I asked him (as a joke) how he liked it. He said "it's great - I grab it on a way to a meeting - I can type - take notes, write docs, do spreadsheets."
It's not about replacing the desktop - but being able to do some work while your not at it.
I hate MS just as much as the next guy (I'm actually a Linux and iOS zealot) - but I believe microsoft's biggest mistake was showing those commercials with stupid people dancing around clicking their covers on-and-off and not showing what the product could actually do for you.
Neither very funy not interesting.
If we removed the ability to put DRM plug-ins into web browsers - there would probably be no browser-based way of playing much of any "big media" content. Should we do that?