Now, Independent artists artists who actually want to have their music shared can actually find a market. The big labels already have their marketing channel (radio + TV). Now, there's one for the independents.
I pretty much agree. SCO is Really Freakin' Annoying, but they're not, like, gassing babies or running Abu Garib prison or anything. They paid MySql's commercial arm for services, and they got (more or less) what they paid for.
It also seems to me that the MySQL group is being about as low-key about this as they can be. Hopefully, MySQL also charged them absolute full price along with a hazard-pay premium.
This reminds me of back in '99 just after Microsoft had bought HotMail, and tried (unsucessuflly) to transfer the whole thing to NT... They ended up having to buy about $6Million worth of SUN hardware -- absolute full list price. Not a penny in discounts. As our SUN salesman said:
"Discounts are to retain are to retain loyal customers. We knew that MS would never buy from us ever again, unless they absolutely had to." (in which case, I presume, they'd be charged full price once again).
$500K is a lot for most people, but we're talking about movies with budgets in the $100M range, and one installation can serve a number of movies. If Windows provided a noticeably better end result, it would be pretty easy to get the budget allocation.
It's similar for the high-finance move to Linux. One transaction can be worth over a billion dollars. Paying an extra $500k for a system that prevented the loss of a hundred transactions would be a no-brainer. These people use Linux because it works not because it's cheap.
The saved $500K just means a quick downpayment for that new yacht.
The reason was that they didn't want to upgrade the entire organization to Office XP, and yet once you saved a doc with XP, you had a decent chance of being able to open it only with XP.
How about bringing in a couple of copies of Knoppix, than challenging them to create an MS Word document (using MS Word) that could be opened by MS Word, but not by Open Office? Start by showing them how to create a document (with Word) that can be opened by OpenOffice, but not by MS Word.
There's no such thing as a copy of Linux which *isn't* legitimate.
We'll see what happens to SCO at the end of their litigation with IBM.
Granted, it takes some work to lose your right to use and distribute Linux, but a couple of companies have managed to do it. It's incredible what greed will lead some people to do.
Box shifters selling pirate copies are cheating their customers, violating the copyright of the software vendors and engaging in unfair cmpetition with other box shifters.
Not to mention competing with Legitimite copies of Linux.
They're blocking independent website. I'm a Telus customer, and that was the first thing I tried: A CBC article has links to both The Union website and a proxy. The proxy works, but the direct IP address is filtered in their routers:
From My box:
traceroute to www.voices-for-change.com (204.14.106.29), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 192.168.196.43 (192.168.96.43) 1.372 ms 1.211 ms 1.144 ms
2 * * *
From a friend of mine (A telus business customer in another city):
traceroute to www.voices-for-change.com (204.14.106.29), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 10.X.Y.9 (10.X.Y.9) 11.937 ms 9.774 ms 9.080 ms
2 192.168.X.Y (192.168.X.Y) 6.888 ms 10.091 ms 9.272 ms
3 REDACTED.bb.telus.com (209.115.XX.XX) 175.486 ms 108.097 ms 203.427 ms
4 * * *
SSHing to a non-telus IP, I can access the website directly.
ping www.voices-for-change.com
PING www.voices-for-change.com (204.14.106.29): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 204.14.106.29: icmp_seq=0 ttl=115 time=107.100 ms
64 bytes from 204.14.106.29: icmp_seq=1 ttl=115 time=107.068 ms
Yes. The H bomb produces much more energy than you put into it, but it turns out that capturing the energy of that specific reaction is something of a killer problem (if you'll excuse the pun).
Also: While congresscritters normaly jump hoops to get multi-billion dollar recearch facilities built in their constituencies, Nobody (I repeat nobody) was willing to have a thermonuclear test reactor built anywhere near their ridings.
Internation arms treaties may also cause problems with such a facility.
As a result, research has been stalled for years and is likely to be stalled for the forseeable future.
Phase, infestation, posession... Different people call it different things, depending on what they believe. Some think it gives them great power, but they do not understand the long term costs.
I've exorcised a few machines. Once people understand what's available on the other side, they rarely want to go back to their old state.
It'd be inclined to view a document containing GPL font characters as a collection of GPL entities. As such, it might require you to make the source of the font available to anybody you send the document to (not a bad thing, in and of itself), but the document wouldn't be a derivative work of the font unless it included (for example) a listing of the font's source.
Such a use would, if nothing else, arguably fit under the 'fair use' provisions of US copyright law.
Wow - Microsoft/Gates usually gets a bad rap on/., but kudos to them for going after the scumbags of the Internet.
Of course, they could just be giving their IP lawyers warm-up practice for when they sue the leaders of the Linux community for sudo, and all of their other random patents.
I'd always said that Microsoft was the only company that had managed to get people to pay hundreds -- even thousands of dollars for pretty much nothing (OK: them and Brazillian bikini manufacturers, but then it's not the bikini you're paying for, it's everything else it's not covering)
In any case, this might just be the next big non-existing consumer item...
$75 for a Nike label on a string, anybody?
2 hours to the International date line... you never know.
(( Actually, this is such mundane consumerism, if it wasn't real, someone from IPod marketing would have made it real by the end of the month, anyways -- and that would have been the april fools joke. Kinda like the Gmail meta-april-fools joke. ))
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Now, Independent artists artists who actually want to have their music shared can actually find a market. The big labels already have their marketing channel (radio + TV). Now, there's one for the independents.
It also seems to me that the MySQL group is being about as low-key about this as they can be. Hopefully, MySQL also charged them absolute full price along with a hazard-pay premium.
This reminds me of back in '99 just after Microsoft had bought HotMail, and tried (unsucessuflly) to transfer the whole thing to NT... They ended up having to buy about $6Million worth of SUN hardware -- absolute full list price. Not a penny in discounts. As our SUN salesman said: "Discounts are to retain are to retain loyal customers. We knew that MS would never buy from us ever again, unless they absolutely had to." (in which case, I presume, they'd be charged full price once again).
It's similar for the high-finance move to Linux. One transaction can be worth over a billion dollars. Paying an extra $500k for a system that prevented the loss of a hundred transactions would be a no-brainer. These people use Linux because it works not because it's cheap.
The saved $500K just means a quick downpayment for that new yacht.
How about bringing in a couple of copies of Knoppix, than challenging them to create an MS Word document (using MS Word) that could be opened by MS Word, but not by Open Office? Start by showing them how to create a document (with Word) that can be opened by OpenOffice, but not by MS Word.
We'll see what happens to SCO at the end of their litigation with IBM.
Granted, it takes some work to lose your right to use and distribute Linux, but a couple of companies have managed to do it. It's incredible what greed will lead some people to do.
Not to mention competing with Legitimite copies of Linux.
The butter pot is sold separately.
"... And you have a PHD in robotics."
"I take it they found tire tracks at the crime scene?"
I've been using Unix for so long that Linux is just another flavour of Unix for me.
Use Unix. This is where all those pipes and filters come in handy.
Yes. The H bomb produces much more energy than you put into it, but it turns out that capturing the energy of that specific reaction is something of a killer problem (if you'll excuse the pun).
Also: While congresscritters normaly jump hoops to get multi-billion dollar recearch facilities built in their constituencies, Nobody (I repeat nobody ) was willing to have a thermonuclear test reactor built anywhere near their ridings.
Internation arms treaties may also cause problems with such a facility.
As a result, research has been stalled for years and is likely to be stalled for the forseeable future.
Some think it gives them great power, but they do not understand the long term costs.
I've exorcised a few machines. Once people understand what's available on the other side, they rarely want to go back to their old state.
'You use our software, we own your data. It's that easy -- deal with it.'
Now needs one more 'funny' mod to be rated '+1 funny'.
Stop responding to the god damn troll.
Personally, I find it kinda funny -- not funny enough to mod up (I have the points), but funny nontheless.
Such a use would, if nothing else, arguably fit under the 'fair use' provisions of US copyright law.
Either that, or open his eyes (and stop snoring).
Of course, they could just be giving their IP lawyers warm-up practice for when they sue the leaders of the Linux community for sudo, and all of their other random patents.
It's kinda hard to know with Mr. G.
Yeah. I was thinking: some friends of mine would love the idea of burning grass as fuel, then I realize that he meant grass as in lawns.
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In any case, this might just be the next big non-existing consumer item...
$75 for a Nike label on a string, anybody?
Ah! That's the April fools joke part of this .. Making us think that this is news.
(( Actually, this is such mundane consumerism, if it wasn't real, someone from IPod marketing would have made it real by the end of the month, anyways -- and that would have been the april fools joke. Kinda like the Gmail meta-april-fools joke. ))
They should be calling it 'Gargle' or 'Gorgle' or something like that....