Lucasfilm has a long history of defending its copyright and images fiercely. Since Lucasfilm controls all merchandising rights from the Star Wars saga, they persecute counterfitters visciously. Remember that whole "Revenge" rather than "Return of the Jedi" name-switcheroo? It was a feint to foil early counterfitters into producing incorrectly-named merchandise. (I wish I still had my pirate "Revenge of the Jedi" poster too. That ersatz print would be worth more than an original on e-bay!)
In 1984 they sued FASA over the name of their new boardgame: "Battledroids." Get this: they successfully argued that 'Droid' was their word. FASA then renamed their game Battletech.
Illiad's "Y2K: The Phantom Menace" is just enough to flip those hyperactive copyright lawyers into a sabre-rattling fit.
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I seem to recall that he is a huge fan of Napoleon.
Which just begs the question: which disaster will be his Waterloo?
>> A "design-by-community" ethos will not work in corporations, he said, where even highly customized applications such as ERP systems include much shrink-wrapped technology.
But it helps sooo much when you're confronted by twenty years worth of heterogenous, incompatible, and back-assward systems that are piled on top of each other (many of them Microsoft's own messess, although the ODT3 is a close second to Win3).
ERP systems have to be cross-platform in order to succeed. (I mean, like, duh!) Shrink-wrap has nothing to do with it; if the ERP design scope isn't flexible enough to encompass a truly diverse environment, what does that say about the designer's concept of "enterprise?" Having the source available to the community goes a lot farther to fixing those problems instead of just re-framing the question as "what are you running if you're not running NT?"
A prefix to a troll, if ever I saw one. I seriously doubt you were really laughing; sanctimoniousness usually suggests a lack of humor.
What many of you people need to learn is that you CAN'T make a difference.
And yet you say:
why not volunteer at a shelter or food bank and actually make a real difference in somebody's life.
So which is it? We can't make a difference or we don't make a difference to your pet causes? All the C-net story points out is that Slashdot is a rallying point for some consumer causes. And in the United States of America (forgive my Amerocentrism in example), consumer groups can be pretty powerful organizations. It can be a strange fulcrum, but consumer groups have leveraged their power for conservation, prevention of abuse, and safety.
Freedom means the freedom to be sit-on-my-ass lazy if I want to as well as do-something-about-it-because-it-matters. That's how a lot of Right Things get done. So don't lecture people for caring about something, no matter how banal it may seem to you.
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I'm neither here nor not-here on Katz, but I'm kind of suprised at Wood's comment on our Commanding Taco.
How can someone who obviously knows his way around a technical manual be functionally illiterate?
Lucasfilm has a long history of defending its copyright and images fiercely. Since Lucasfilm controls all merchandising rights from the Star Wars saga, they persecute counterfitters visciously. Remember that whole "Revenge" rather than "Return of the Jedi" name-switcheroo? It was a feint to foil early counterfitters into producing incorrectly-named merchandise. (I wish I still had my pirate "Revenge of the Jedi" poster too. That ersatz print would be worth more than an original on e-bay!)
In 1984 they sued FASA over the name of their new boardgame: "Battledroids." Get this: they successfully argued that 'Droid' was their word. FASA then renamed their game Battletech.
Illiad's "Y2K: The Phantom Menace" is just enough to flip those hyperactive copyright lawyers into a sabre-rattling fit.
I seem to recall that he is a huge fan of Napoleon.
Which just begs the question: which disaster will be his Waterloo?
But it helps sooo much when you're confronted by twenty years worth of heterogenous, incompatible, and back-assward systems that are piled on top of each other (many of them Microsoft's own messess, although the ODT3 is a close second to Win3).
ERP systems have to be cross-platform in order to succeed. (I mean, like, duh!) Shrink-wrap has nothing to do with it; if the ERP design scope isn't flexible enough to encompass a truly diverse environment, what does that say about the designer's concept of "enterprise?" Having the source available to the community goes a lot farther to fixing those problems instead of just re-framing the question as "what are you running if you're not running NT?"
Not a first post.
Not much is funnier to watch...
A prefix to a troll, if ever I saw one. I seriously doubt you were really laughing; sanctimoniousness usually suggests a lack of humor.
What many of you people need to learn is that you CAN'T make a difference.
And yet you say:
why not volunteer at a shelter or food bank and actually make a real difference in somebody's life.
So which is it? We can't make a difference or we don't make a difference to your pet causes? All the C-net story points out is that Slashdot is a rallying point for some consumer causes. And in the United States of America (forgive my Amerocentrism in example), consumer groups can be pretty powerful organizations. It can be a strange fulcrum, but consumer groups have leveraged their power for conservation, prevention of abuse, and safety.
Freedom means the freedom to be sit-on-my-ass lazy if I want to as well as do-something-about-it-because-it-matters. That's how a lot of Right Things get done. So don't lecture people for caring about something, no matter how banal it may seem to you.