.... some lawyer sent by Monsanto etc. will sue you for using their IP without paying for it. Happened to some poor farmers in Canada growing Soy as far as I recall, they even sued one for keeping seeds for next year (they won BTW). Have fun getting rid of the modified grass without paying your years salary.
The "why not" can be explained easily, the resulting Product would erode their market-share. Try to imagine, a bunch of OSS programmers makes sense of the old FM sources and creates The ultimate software (real cross-platform) for writing longer documents. Warnock and Geschke would think: "Thank god I left this massive pile of suits at the right time". And the rest of the world will laugh at Adobe. In addition, how do they explain their shareholders that the outsourcing to India didn't produce the same result? my 2 cents
Sorry, for not being more precise: I don't think voting for the 'others' will make a big difference because the lobbyists already staked their claims over the ones in power and the 'potentials'.
... between the EU countries. What they want to avoid is the fact that a country with 'lax' IP laws could proof to be more successful than the ones with some kind of EU-DMCA. The EU isn't 'united', it's a bunch of countries trying to equalize everything while milking the ones with some money left, Germany and France come to mind here (why these countries have to pay more than they get while being punished for not meeting the deficit criteria is beyond me). Europe is dictated by the individual interests of the members, e.g. you cannot afford to buy a decent banana from South-America in the EU because France made sure the imports from around the world except their old colonies are heavy taxed. My point here is, since everybody is eying all others who might have an advantage, all members are easy prey for the lobbyists. The EU Commission is constantly under fire for not getting the needs of the people but ruling in favor of the big companies exporting the jobs to some Third-World country. Voting this year won't make a difference because regarding IP laws, the lobbyists where faster and have deeper pockets. Remember last year when EU-Citizens annoyed the politicians by demanding things while not paying for a free lunch at the same time?
If I want facts about crypto I would read something else. This book is written to entertain you, for crying out loud!!!! I liked his books so far, again good entertainment and excellent research in DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons. Those two made me search the web and check photos from visits to Rome and Paris, everything he describes is there. I'm in the process of reading Deception Point right now, so I can't comment on that one. I hope another Dan Brown book isn't that far away.
My take on this announcement would be: there's a party going on in Redmond. The real objective at Palmsource should be market-share, now they are trying to alienate their last viable market. Means, the big Windows shops will switch to WinCE (or whatever it is called right now) anyway and buy iPaqs. Microsofts market-share will go up in mobile devices, shareholders bail out of Palm due to shrinking potential. Apple users will be pissed and take a closer look at Symbian-based devices, ditching their existing Palm hardware. Mark/Space will continue to tell the potential customers that it's no problem simply shell out additional bucks for something your Symbian device does for free. There will be a great hangover in Redmond, but a good one. my 2 cents
Based on this article even the latest M$Office on the Mac can't read all files from its WinDOS sibling. Bottom line is, if you want to avoid a lock-in a.k.a. pay to view your own documents if you decide to stop using M$ Software, don't start using the 'new' M$Office in the first place.
Not only that, they can afford to buy themselves the legislation they like, see the latest EU laws regarding copyrights. Write the EU Ombudsman, supposedly the one to talk to if the EU abuses its power.
First I like the report and wait for part 2 (3??). To sum up a reply to a lot of the posts here, you should compare an X-Serve with SUN or IBM boxes and the respective OS, or even Windows Server (whatever it may be called at the time of this writing). The X-Serve with unlimited User license out of the box gives the aforementioned systems a run for the money, verbatim. About a year ago I gave the system a shot and installed Oracle 9i R2 and QuickTime Streaming Server to see how the box performs. I didn't manage to get the CPU load over 60 % while doing three audio streams, users connected to the fileshares (Mac and Windows) and running Oracle with load. The setup was painless and I switched between GUI and CLI to see if it makes a difference. The only thing I could really complain about, but that holds true to some Linux distros as well, is the fact that some GUI tools mess up the config files in/etc. BTW: I'm a Unix SysAdmin for 17 years by now and went through *NIX systems some of you might not even heard of.
If $EVIL_CORPORATION would allow fair competition (release the REAL APIs), it wouldn't be a problem. As long as everything !$EVIL_CORPORATION has problems running smoothly, there is a problem (it's not fun trying to keep up with the latest weird ideas all the time).
The suit will force me to re-write the code eventually, usually after he/she gets under attack by furious customers. (Been there, five (5) rewrites). Things like that shouldn't happen in the first place. My point was that a sound design (build prototype - learn from it - throw it away - do the real thing) doesn't require re-writes (in the sense of throw away and start from scratch), so the mentioned re-write-mania doesn't happen at all (except if the design needs to be changed, but even then, no complete rewrite). The number one reason for a programmer to do a rewrite is that the production code wasn't 'production-ready' from the start. Sorry for being to general.
All sound and clear, but usually at some time during the first phase of development (the one that should be thrown away) a PHB/suit pops up and decides 'this is good enough for selling' and there you go. Microsoft style software in dire need for a rewrite within the next couple of years. Years, because the inevitable bug-fixes and patches begin to develop a live of its own.
... the whole shebang we're witnessing here is another FUD bomb by the monopolists. The goal is to hinder independent publishers to distribute their works and convince the public that P2P is always illegal. John/Jane Doe don't care about choice (yet). What scares the *AAs of this world is the fact that said couple could find out that there are actually non-ex-lawyers in the music business who care about quality. Target #1 independent labels who care about quality and not DRM (Digital Restrictions Management).
I removed RedHat yesterday and installed SuSE (I just wanted to test something). I'm a systems integrator doing Linux HA systems, used to be RedHat-based.
In PHB speak: 'In the light of recent developments...', SuSE will stay and I'll port my solution to it (porting is kind of boasting anyway).
I kind of understand the ratio behind this quote, if they (RedHat) can't deliver it, bad-mouthing is the way to go.
The whole setup RI/MPAA is trying to establish is EVERY time you watch or listen you're supposed to pay in the long run.
In other words if there's something new where people don't pay per listening/viewing session it will be crushed by the lawyers of the aforementioned 'Organizations'. As long as we don't find a politician that works for the people, this is how the future will be.
The brother/sister orgs of RI/MPAA here in Europe told the lawmakers to get rid of the 'fair use' right by naming it an American thing that should be banned anyway. Main Problem is: politicians don't care about people (exception: there is a public vote comming).
Face it, as soon as some scientist (paid by MP/RIAA) figures out a patented way of charging for your hearing/seeing ability, we all will be paying for the fact that we're infringing copyrights all the time, like you're paying for blank CDs, Tapes and DVDs to compensate for 'possible' infringements right now and most politicians will think this will create jobs.
couldn't have stated it better. (Sorry no mod points available). Mod parent up if you're able to.
Put all apples in one basket??
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Call me old-fashioned, but if everything (calendar, contacts, phone-numbers, etc.) is stored on one single device, loosing that device while on the road is disastrous.
I was actually thinking of replacing my Palm with my new cellphone, but said cellphone died on me while on the road (NEVER trust the standby times in the glossy papers!). Actually it's not a problem to find a phone booth, but it's 'Game Over' if you don't know the number you'll intend to call by heart, don't you think??
You're probably right, but the thing is that given DMCA and Software-Patents, Adobe will be able sue all competition into oblivion faster than you can say 'free enterprise'.
...and possibly a Windoze box next to every Server.
As it happened in another 'independent' study, that stated Windoze is cheaper since you'll have to add the cost for a DOS box (Hard- and Software) to your Linux desktop to run M$ Office.
Don't forget that PHBs will never admit that somethings didn't work out they authorized in the first place. I know of a company where everybody complains about messy code, but nobody dares to inform the CEO because it was his idea to outsource to India.
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Anytime: the Q: "Hey guys, watch this!"
I'd love to see this one, really.
.... some lawyer sent by Monsanto etc. will sue you for using their IP without paying for it.
Happened to some poor farmers in Canada growing Soy as far as I recall, they even sued one for keeping seeds for next year (they won BTW).
Have fun getting rid of the modified grass without paying your years salary.
my 2 cents
The "why not" can be explained easily, the resulting Product would erode their market-share. Try to imagine, a bunch of OSS programmers makes sense of the old FM sources and creates The ultimate software (real cross-platform) for writing longer documents. Warnock and Geschke would think: "Thank god I left this massive pile of suits at the right time". And the rest of the world will laugh at Adobe. In addition, how do they explain their shareholders that the outsourcing to India didn't produce the same result?
my 2 cents
Sorry, for not being more precise: I don't think voting for the 'others' will make a big difference because the lobbyists already staked their claims over the ones in power and the 'potentials'.
... between the EU countries. What they want to avoid is the fact that a country with 'lax' IP laws could proof to be more successful than the ones with some kind of EU-DMCA.
The EU isn't 'united', it's a bunch of countries trying to equalize everything while milking the ones with some money left, Germany and France come to mind here (why these countries have to pay more than they get while being punished for not meeting the deficit criteria is beyond me). Europe is dictated by the individual interests of the members, e.g. you cannot afford to buy a decent banana from South-America in the EU because France made sure the imports from around the world except their old colonies are heavy taxed.
My point here is, since everybody is eying all others who might have an advantage, all members are easy prey for the lobbyists. The EU Commission is constantly under fire for not getting the needs of the people but ruling in favor of the big companies exporting the jobs to some Third-World country. Voting this year won't make a difference because regarding IP laws, the lobbyists where faster and have deeper pockets. Remember last year when EU-Citizens annoyed the politicians by demanding things while not paying for a free lunch at the same time?
my 2 cents
If I want facts about crypto I would read something else. This book is written to entertain you, for crying out loud!!!!
I liked his books so far, again good entertainment and excellent research in DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons. Those two made me search the web and check photos from visits to Rome and Paris, everything he describes is there.
I'm in the process of reading Deception Point right now, so I can't comment on that one. I hope another Dan Brown book isn't that far away.
my 2 cents
My take on this announcement would be: there's a party going on in Redmond.
The real objective at Palmsource should be market-share, now they are trying to alienate their last viable market. Means, the big Windows shops will switch to WinCE (or whatever it is called right now) anyway and buy iPaqs. Microsofts market-share will go up in mobile devices, shareholders bail out of Palm due to shrinking potential. Apple users will be pissed and take a closer look at Symbian-based devices, ditching their existing Palm hardware.
Mark/Space will continue to tell the potential customers that it's no problem simply shell out additional bucks for something your Symbian device does for free.
There will be a great hangover in Redmond, but a good one.
my 2 cents
Sorry if have insulted you AC
Based on this article even the latest M$Office on the Mac can't read all files from its WinDOS sibling.
Bottom line is, if you want to avoid a lock-in a.k.a. pay to view your own documents if you decide to stop using M$ Software, don't start using the 'new' M$Office in the first place.
my 2 cents
Not only that, they can afford to buy themselves the legislation they like, see the latest EU laws regarding copyrights.
Write the EU Ombudsman, supposedly the one to talk to if the EU abuses its power.
First I like the report and wait for part 2 (3??). /etc.
To sum up a reply to a lot of the posts here, you should compare an X-Serve with SUN or IBM boxes and the respective OS, or even Windows Server (whatever it may be called at the time of this writing). The X-Serve with unlimited User license out of the box gives the aforementioned systems a run for the money, verbatim.
About a year ago I gave the system a shot and installed Oracle 9i R2 and QuickTime Streaming Server to see how the box performs. I didn't manage to get the CPU load over 60 % while doing three audio streams, users connected to the fileshares (Mac and Windows) and running Oracle with load. The setup was painless and I switched between GUI and CLI to see if it makes a difference. The only thing I could really complain about, but that holds true to some Linux distros as well, is the fact that some GUI tools mess up the config files in
BTW: I'm a Unix SysAdmin for 17 years by now and went through *NIX systems some of you might not even heard of.
my 2 cents
If $EVIL_CORPORATION would allow fair competition (release the REAL APIs), it wouldn't be a problem. As long as everything !$EVIL_CORPORATION has problems running smoothly, there is a problem (it's not fun trying to keep up with the latest weird ideas all the time).
The suit will force me to re-write the code eventually, usually after he/she gets under attack by furious customers. (Been there, five (5) rewrites).
Things like that shouldn't happen in the first place. My point was that a sound design (build prototype - learn from it - throw it away - do the real thing) doesn't require re-writes (in the sense of throw away and start from scratch), so the mentioned re-write-mania doesn't happen at all (except if the design needs to be changed, but even then, no complete rewrite). The number one reason for a programmer to do a rewrite is that the production code wasn't 'production-ready' from the start.
Sorry for being to general.
All sound and clear, but usually at some time during the first phase of development (the one that should be thrown away) a PHB/suit pops up and decides 'this is good enough for selling' and there you go. Microsoft style software in dire need for a rewrite within the next couple of years. Years, because the inevitable bug-fixes and patches begin to develop a live of its own.
my 2 cents
Maybe this was stated before, but lawyers are no SysAdmins.
I guess that happens if all the SysAdmins get fired and lawyers run a "Software Company".
my 2 cents
... the whole shebang we're witnessing here is another FUD bomb by the monopolists.
The goal is to hinder independent publishers to distribute their works and convince the public that P2P is always illegal. John/Jane Doe don't care about choice (yet).
What scares the *AAs of this world is the fact that said couple could find out that there are actually non-ex-lawyers in the music business who care about quality. Target #1 independent labels who care about quality and not DRM (Digital Restrictions Management).
my 2 cents
...what was the other one where you could download unencumbered MP3s and/or buy an album if you wished?)
You probably talk about http://magnatune.com, but it's kind of a different business model.
Wait until their next feature length report 'Comparing Windows XP with Apple's OS 9.2'. Maybe they'll call it '5 Reasons not to buy a Macintosh'.
my 2 cents
I removed RedHat yesterday and installed SuSE (I just wanted to test something). I'm a systems integrator doing Linux HA systems, used to be RedHat-based.
In PHB speak: 'In the light of recent developments...', SuSE will stay and I'll port my solution to it (porting is kind of boasting anyway).
I kind of understand the ratio behind this quote, if they (RedHat) can't deliver it, bad-mouthing is the way to go.
SuSE delivers both, at the moment at least.
my 2 cents
The whole setup RI/MPAA is trying to establish is EVERY time you watch or listen you're supposed to pay in the long run.
In other words if there's something new where people don't pay per listening/viewing session it will be crushed by the lawyers of the aforementioned 'Organizations'. As long as we don't find a politician that works for the people, this is how the future will be.
The brother/sister orgs of RI/MPAA here in Europe told the lawmakers to get rid of the 'fair use' right by naming it an American thing that should be banned anyway. Main Problem is: politicians don't care about people (exception: there is a public vote comming).
Face it, as soon as some scientist (paid by MP/RIAA) figures out a patented way of charging for your hearing/seeing ability, we all will be paying for the fact that we're infringing copyrights all the time, like you're paying for blank CDs, Tapes and DVDs to compensate for 'possible' infringements right now and most politicians will think this will create jobs.
my 2 cents
couldn't have stated it better. (Sorry no mod points available). Mod parent up if you're able to.
Call me old-fashioned, but if everything (calendar, contacts, phone-numbers, etc.) is stored on one single device, loosing that device while on the road is disastrous.
I was actually thinking of replacing my Palm with my new cellphone, but said cellphone died on me while on the road (NEVER trust the standby times in the glossy papers!). Actually it's not a problem to find a phone booth, but it's 'Game Over' if you don't know the number you'll intend to call by heart, don't you think??
Checking the 'iSynced' Palm saved me that day.
Just something to think about.
You're probably right, but the thing is that given DMCA and Software-Patents, Adobe will be able sue all competition into oblivion faster than you can say 'free enterprise'.
Just my 2 cents
...and possibly a Windoze box next to every Server.
As it happened in another 'independent' study, that stated Windoze is cheaper since you'll have to add the cost for a DOS box (Hard- and Software) to your Linux desktop to run M$ Office.
my 2 cents
Don't forget that PHBs will never admit that somethings didn't work out they authorized in the first place. I know of a company where everybody complains about messy code, but nobody dares to inform the CEO because it was his idea to outsource to India.
my 2 cents