If you don't want to pay royalties, then don't take in income by charging people to listen. Paying a percentage of as yet untapped *profit* is hard for these people? They will be making MORE MONEY, with royalties or without.
Screw em. The less we buy, the less likely they are to patent their business model...
I wish they'd include snailmail as well in something like this. Spam is easy because its so cheap, which makes it bad, but it doesn't leave near the impact of the tonnes of trash matter that have been mailed to me over the years...
It takes me longer to discover that something is a credit card application than it does to delete that 'live hot nudes' email that keeps coming in, if you want to talk loss of productivity, etc etc.
Won't this make it that much easier for kiddies to find the algorithm that is used to verify these numbers? Or are they maintaining a database of them, which could be stolen, etc?
Does anyone know if the OS is visible/usable on this device? If the device is wrapped in its own UI and applications, it really doesn't matter a bit what is underlying it.. but if its something that we can develop for, thats another story.
Combine a reasonably more robust Windows system (most people don't keep their systems on 24 hour uptime), with all its pretty UI, with the free software suite that Linux and its open source cousins provide, and you either have a way to bring free software to the common man, or a way for certain other companies to suddenly offer most of the benefits that the open source community has been claiming all along.
Then, you take your standard GPL'd utility, and write a windows wrapper of some kind. Releasing the source of course.. and you'll have utilities that look pretty, and are as open source as the next guy, but not backward compatable...
This is probably at least half troll, but how would non-*nix compatable GPL software impact the community? Branches of software tend to grow on their own... would 'good' software on a 'bad' platform be beneficial to computer users as a whole? Personally, I don't feel that alternative operating systems have to be commercially successful in order to serve their purpose, but a move to run or port the functionality of free software to a non-free system might split off the marginal users that define the desktop market.
And in related news, showing (paper) birthday cards to your friends and family after you recieve them is ruled an offense, as well as telling anyone about an email you recieved, or reading your email in a public place, or... or....
I'm surprised they haven't done this in a more reality-based way... network executives committing horrible crimes on tape in Vegas.
Or...
real life psychological counseling...
real life pre-natal care for crack mothers...
criminal court live...
escape from alkatraz...
the running man...
climbing for dollars...
Sad thing is, I'd probably watch, even though I'm kidding.
If the project you have is near completion, and the need of your employer's customer is real, they would likely be willing to license the project from you... as that would allow them to enjoy the same jump on the market that you are looking for. Speaking as an individual, the hardest part about putting out something new isn't in coming up with the idea, or even implementing it.. its finding people that are willing to back you up with capital and make it real.
Provided that you don't have any clause in your contract that makes your spare time revert to your employers, I'd find myself a lawyer, and then inform your company that there is a solution available. Cutting the development cycle that much (just think of the salary savings alone) almost certainly would make this a desirable alternative to reimplementing your work. They might not make as much money in the end, but removing the initial outlay of cash from the project, any risk assessment would go *way* down.
This has practically fallen in your lap. Don't waste it.
Not that I'm an expert on system security by any means, but the inclusion of more complex process permissions may have the exact opposite effect than intended. For each competent sysadmin, there is somewhere one that is less competent... and it seems that splitting powerful permissions away from the idea of a 'root' user may make system weaknesses harder to identify and close down.
Couple this with the buzzword effect that this idea would have.. (Our new Linux is more secure than that old Linux!)..and I forsee too many people jumping on board without really understanding the mechanics of how this changes their jobs. Paranoia is a virtue, don't let your guard be lulled because your system is only vulnerable to certain exploits some of the time.
Wait for kiddies to attack someone elses system before you trust how secure this kind of setup is.
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Best thing they can do is upload some money to the freenet network... its bound to be popular, and will be replicated all over the place!
This could easily prevent the slashdot-effectish bank runs that we have from time to time as well.
If you don't want to pay royalties, then don't take in income by charging people to listen. Paying a percentage of as yet untapped *profit* is hard for these people? They will be making MORE MONEY, with royalties or without.
Screw em. The less we buy, the less likely they are to patent their business model...
I wish they'd include snailmail as well in something like this. Spam is easy because its so cheap, which makes it bad, but it doesn't leave near the impact of the tonnes of trash matter that have been mailed to me over the years... It takes me longer to discover that something is a credit card application than it does to delete that 'live hot nudes' email that keeps coming in, if you want to talk loss of productivity, etc etc.
Won't this make it that much easier for kiddies to find the algorithm that is used to verify these numbers? Or are they maintaining a database of them, which could be stolen, etc?
Does anyone know if the OS is visible/usable on this device? If the device is wrapped in its own UI and applications, it really doesn't matter a bit what is underlying it.. but if its something that we can develop for, thats another story.
Combine a reasonably more robust Windows system (most people don't keep their systems on 24 hour uptime), with all its pretty UI, with the free software suite that Linux and its open source cousins provide, and you either have a way to bring free software to the common man, or a way for certain other companies to suddenly offer most of the benefits that the open source community has been claiming all along.
Then, you take your standard GPL'd utility, and write a windows wrapper of some kind. Releasing the source of course.. and you'll have utilities that look pretty, and are as open source as the next guy, but not backward compatable...
This is probably at least half troll, but how would non-*nix compatable GPL software impact the community? Branches of software tend to grow on their own... would 'good' software on a 'bad' platform be beneficial to computer users as a whole? Personally, I don't feel that alternative operating systems have to be commercially successful in order to serve their purpose, but a move to run or port the functionality of free software to a non-free system might split off the marginal users that define the desktop market.
And in related news, showing (paper) birthday cards to your friends and family after you recieve them is ruled an offense, as well as telling anyone about an email you recieved, or reading your email in a public place, or... or....
I'm surprised they haven't done this in a more reality-based way... network executives committing horrible crimes on tape in Vegas.
Or...
real life psychological counseling...
real life pre-natal care for crack mothers...
criminal court live...
escape from alkatraz...
the running man...
climbing for dollars...
Sad thing is, I'd probably watch, even though I'm kidding.
If the project you have is near completion, and the need of your employer's customer is real, they would likely be willing to license the project from you... as that would allow them to enjoy the same jump on the market that you are looking for. Speaking as an individual, the hardest part about putting out something new isn't in coming up with the idea, or even implementing it.. its finding people that are willing to back you up with capital and make it real.
Provided that you don't have any clause in your contract that makes your spare time revert to your employers, I'd find myself a lawyer, and then inform your company that there is a solution available. Cutting the development cycle that much (just think of the salary savings alone) almost certainly would make this a desirable alternative to reimplementing your work. They might not make as much money in the end, but removing the initial outlay of cash from the project, any risk assessment would go *way* down.
This has practically fallen in your lap. Don't waste it.
Not that I'm an expert on system security by any means, but the inclusion of more complex process permissions may have the exact opposite effect than intended. For each competent sysadmin, there is somewhere one that is less competent... and it seems that splitting powerful permissions away from the idea of a 'root' user may make system weaknesses harder to identify and close down.
Couple this with the buzzword effect that this idea would have.. (Our new Linux is more secure than that old Linux!)
Wait for kiddies to attack someone elses system before you trust how secure this kind of setup is.