Actually it not a flaimbait. IBM was the biggest supplier of jew-tracking systems to the nazis. During the whole war they (ibm) backed up the nazis in their quest to exterminate jews.
"I hope this move will see them through the current slowdown"
I hope you don't have the idea that it's temporary?
Many companies (dotcoms, open source etc) gave away their products for free or charged insuffient for them. They still got huge amount of $$$ from VC's and the public and what is best described as gambling.
"fun with other 'reasonable' licensing (MP3 and GIF come immediately to mind)"
I don't think those two are a very good example of patent problems. They are not really problems at all.
You can use them and licens them in that case, thats the costs of using other peoples work (the work involved in reseaching&developing them). Otherwise you can develop your own formats. You are perfectly free to chose.
The real big problems is obvious patents, and even worse to broad patents. Those really are huge problems and will get even worse.
You don't happen to implement gif by accident but there are horribly broad patents out there locking up whole categories of software/businessmodels.
I would guess that they are skeptical to this kind of statement since people said they would buy more albums because of napster but instead it has dropped with 20% or so.
"Does anyone else see the acquisitions in the past year or so as an opportunity for the DSL industry to rebound?"
The DSL industry must charge more for their services. Just like so many other bussinesses the fokus has been to much on market-shares and to little on having big enough revenues the last years.
Say I spend X amount of money on developing something and then are going to try to make this on service and support.
What happens now is that anyone can offer this service&support, they have to cover the salaries for the consultants and some more. I, on the other hand, must cover the same +the development costs. This makes it impossible for me to compete, I simple can't sell the same thing but have higher costs.
This is exactly why companies in general are constructed that each department must live on its income. Departments _can_ make a loss if it's directly makes it possible for another department to make a profit on what it produces. However, for this to work it must have some exclusive benefit. Otherwise someone else can sell it to a lower cost (since they don't have to pay lots of cash for the production).
On the question on what they are supposed to live on:
* Red Carpet Express: a subscription service for those who want a reliable high speed access to the Red Carpet servers.
* Red Carpet Corporate Connect: We modified our Red Carpet updater technology to help people manage networks of Linux workstations easily and to deploy and maintain custom software packages.
* Support and services for the GNOME desktop and Evolution: Our latest boxed products are our way of selling support services for the various products we ship.
More apps for home users. Microsoft says (but that don't make it true) that is shall have better performance when it comes to enterprise solutions. That should mean processhandling, socketshandling and memoryhandling, I guess we have to wait and see.
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"Anyone knows if it's true?"
The memset bug that is. How on earth can there be a bug in a function like memset, it's not the most complex function there is???
Totally offtopic but kind of fun anyway.
Check out www.stallman.org, I wasn't aware that he wants legalisation of marajuana, was you?
Quite absurd: http://211.9.115.254/slashdot/memset-bug
Anyone knows if it's true?
Oh, good damn! I thought it was a joke but there really was a memset bug in glibc, HAHAHA :)
Hehe, to bad moderators don't have any humor :)
1: Hmmm... Maybe 10? :)
2: Most are already dead
What wrong with going after criminals?
As long as I can use it for legal causes like backup thats ok.
Piracy just drives up the prices so I really hope they hunt down offenders.
Actually it not a flaimbait. IBM was the biggest supplier of jew-tracking systems to the nazis. During the whole war they (ibm) backed up the nazis in their quest to exterminate jews.
Oh! Mod this up! He spelled MS with a $!!!
Lets see some serious microsoft bashing geeks!
Maybe they got a haircut and a real job? :)
"I hope this move will see them through the current slowdown"
I hope you don't have the idea that it's temporary?
Many companies (dotcoms, open source etc) gave away their products for free or charged insuffient for them. They still got huge amount of $$$ from VC's and the public and what is best described as gambling.
This is gone and will hopefully never come back.
"Why does everything have to be so controlled and so restrictive"
Unfortunately otherwise it seems like lots and lots of people abuses it. Napster had quite a number of people using it.
"Just one more brick in Microsoft's continuing monopoly..."
Really? So it hasn't anything to do with doing something about the widespread crimes that are taking place on the internet?
"This is NOT Encription"
Thats right, it's not encription.
"fun with other 'reasonable' licensing (MP3 and GIF come immediately to mind)"
I don't think those two are a very good example of patent problems. They are not really problems at all.
You can use them and licens them in that case, thats the costs of using other peoples work (the work involved in reseaching&developing them). Otherwise you can develop your own formats. You are perfectly free to chose.
The real big problems is obvious patents, and even worse to broad patents. Those really are huge problems and will get even worse.
You don't happen to implement gif by accident but there are horribly broad patents out there locking up whole categories of software/businessmodels.
I would dislike it because I have to work another two years to buy a new one.
Same thing here.
I certainyl don't think the copyright holders dislike that you get something for free, they dislike that you erade THEIR income.
I would guess that they are skeptical to this kind of statement since people said they would buy more albums because of napster but instead it has dropped with 20% or so.
Well, it is stealing so whats wrong with saying that?
Really?
Is that why office xp is so exellent and intuitive and open office is to shitty?
Is that why visual c++ is so neat and superb and gcc such a shitty compiler it's difficult to understand why anyone in it's own mind would use it?
Let it rest in peace.
CD-sales has dropped 20% the last year. People buys the music they download anyway. We just want it in our cars also. Yeah, sure...
"Does anyone else see the acquisitions in the past year or so as an opportunity for the DSL industry to rebound?"
The DSL industry must charge more for their services. Just like so many other bussinesses the fokus has been to much on market-shares and to little on having big enough revenues the last years.
No, thats basically what I laugh about :)
Say I spend X amount of money on developing something and then are going to try to make this on service and support.
What happens now is that anyone can offer this service&support, they have to cover the salaries for the consultants and some more. I, on the other hand, must cover the same +the development costs. This makes it impossible for me to compete, I simple can't sell the same thing but have higher costs.
This is exactly why companies in general are constructed that each department must live on its income. Departments _can_ make a loss if it's directly makes it possible for another department to make a profit on what it produces. However, for this to work it must have some exclusive benefit. Otherwise someone else can sell it to a lower cost (since they don't have to pay lots of cash for the production).
On the question on what they are supposed to live on:
* Red Carpet Express: a subscription service for those who want a reliable high speed access to the Red Carpet servers.
* Red Carpet Corporate Connect: We modified our Red Carpet updater technology to help people manage networks of Linux workstations easily and to deploy and maintain custom software packages.
* Support and services for the GNOME desktop and Evolution: Our latest boxed products are our way of selling support services for the various products we ship.
Are you kidding?
More apps for home users. Microsoft says (but that don't make it true) that is shall have better performance when it comes to enterprise solutions. That should mean processhandling, socketshandling and memoryhandling, I guess we have to wait and see.