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An April 2000 study by the Canadian Council for the Use of the Internet found that web business site that were updated less frequently than once per week were 72% more likely to disappear within three months, as compared to sites that were updated more frequently than once per week.
And that was over a year ago, when the world of the internet was still sailing high!
The cemetery will continue to grow, and people won't care. After all, who cares about the fact that Altos went out of business? Or that Synergistic Software is gone???
Why would we sites be any different? Let them rot, and let those who are tactiful and savvy win the moment.
It's incredible how much good science comes out of solar eclipses. My organization has brought our approx. 1000 kg dimotrian telescope from Texas to central Africa so we can study the plasma winds of the sun - in hopes to determine some of those picky nuclear details of the sun.
Alas, this is just a small victory for free speech in America... one which I think we will eventually win.
The new legal approach for pursuing the *sucks* domain names are to (1) pretend that such *sucks* domains could have a positive business value for the trademark holder, and (2) Those who originally own and register the *sucks* sites are merely squatting on a piece of realestate.
Of course, we all know it's far from that simple - "Oh, explorers-suck.com helps us relate to our customers". Yeah, right.
In our capitalist economy, every domain name is for sale for some price. And if Ford wants and can buy "explorer-sucks.com", that's well and good. But to proclaim that such domain ownership is squatting unless proven otherwise is the current trend of the lower courts.
Happily, the supreme court may thing otherwise. In Amptron vs. Amptronics, the court determined that there is the reasonable concept of so-called "Dualistic Trade Rights", where the trademark holder was found not to have automatic rights over a similar name. Proof that not guilty unless proven innocent still exists.
If and when one of these cases makes it to that court, it'll be interesting to see if they equate the outcome of this kind of case with the Amptron case.
I'd bet that they will, and all these "*sucks*" cases will be history. Only after it gets that high up in the courts will we have a final answer
Actually, the current round of VA Linux layoffs is being blamed on the efforts of those formerly WinTel leaders of Compaq and IBM.
So although it's sad to see VA Linux get hit hard, it's also reassuring to know that WinTel powerhouses are seeing Linux as an important (but perhaps not yet significant) piece of the action.
The OBV reporter quoted a study which stated that CIOs who support Linux have very high faith in the established companies, but respect the service and reliability of VA Linux. (http://obvreport.com/ references a copy of the report - is the original off-line? Someone follow up if you can find the original!)
It's too bad that everyone can't survive. But given the strong market forces of both WinTel, Linux and MacOS, this should NOT be a surprise - even to the VCs!
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An April 2000 study by the Canadian Council for the Use of the Internet found that web business site that were updated less frequently than once per week were 72% more likely to disappear within three months, as compared to sites that were updated more frequently than once per week.
And that was over a year ago, when the world of the internet was still sailing high!
The cemetery will continue to grow, and people won't care. After all, who cares about the fact that Altos went out of business? Or that Synergistic Software is gone???
Why would we sites be any different? Let them rot, and let those who are tactiful and savvy win the moment.
See http://stardate.utexas.edu/resources/ssguide/sun.h tml
It is exciting to see a solar eclipse for 15 minutest, and then spend the balance of the time exploring a very interesting continent.
Too bad I couldn't go.
Alas, this is just a small victory for free speech in America... one which I think we will eventually win.
The new legal approach for pursuing the *sucks* domain names are to (1) pretend that such *sucks* domains could have a positive business value for the trademark holder, and (2) Those who originally own and register the *sucks* sites are merely squatting on a piece of realestate.
Of course, we all know it's far from that simple - "Oh, explorers-suck.com helps us relate to our customers". Yeah, right.
In our capitalist economy, every domain name is for sale for some price. And if Ford wants and can buy "explorer-sucks.com", that's well and good. But to proclaim that such domain ownership is squatting unless proven otherwise is the current trend of the lower courts.
Happily, the supreme court may thing otherwise. In Amptron vs. Amptronics, the court determined that there is the reasonable concept of so-called "Dualistic Trade Rights", where the trademark holder was found not to have automatic rights over a similar name. Proof that not guilty unless proven innocent still exists.
If and when one of these cases makes it to that court, it'll be interesting to see if they equate the outcome of this kind of case with the Amptron case.
I'd bet that they will, and all these "*sucks*" cases will be history. Only after it gets that high up in the courts will we have a final answer
So although it's sad to see VA Linux get hit hard, it's also reassuring to know that WinTel powerhouses are seeing Linux as an important (but perhaps not yet significant) piece of the action.
The OBV reporter quoted a study which stated that CIOs who support Linux have very high faith in the established companies, but respect the service and reliability of VA Linux. (http://obvreport.com/ references a copy of the report - is the original off-line? Someone follow up if you can find the original!)
It's too bad that everyone can't survive. But given the strong market forces of both WinTel, Linux and MacOS, this should NOT be a surprise - even to the VCs!