the glory days of her business were over - the fancy sets and high production values of her best stuff were no longer economically viable
I think this is certainly true for the media industry in general, for sure. Time for them to face it -- they're not going to make as much money as they used to.. no matter how many laws are passed!
But ya can't blame them for trying I guess... thats just the way the corporate world is build.
Meh, I say.
A good point. But lets imagine a case where a huge, powerful firm makes claims relating to an individual or small firm.
The individual/small firm probably doesn't HAVE the money, time, or power to reply effectively. Even a lawsuit may not rectify the damages, nor deter the large firm. The damage is already done. But your view on that depends on your view of "survival of the fittest".
To overgeneralize, it seems like a good idea when a big guy beats on a little guy, but a bad idea when a little guy tries to beat on a big guy. The policy isn't just about an individual writing his/her thoughts.
(And although I think its a good idea in theory, I also think that the implementation and enforcement of such a policy would be quite difficult and just result in more lawsuits in reality, as you'd say.)
The power to publish your thoughts is still there. You can post whatever you want. But like all good debates, the other side gets a voice too... Why not allow them to counter? If you have a good argument in the fist place there isn't much to be scared of. And the policy allows for a reply to be hyperlinked to, so you don't have to host their reply, just link to it (so bandwidth TOS isn't an issue).
Imagine it the other way -- when a powerful entity criticises you... they would be forced to let you reply too.
I wouldn't buy that service myself, but I think at the very least its a good sign that the industry is realizing that maybe (just maybe) distributing music on the internet isn't as gastly as first thought.
Ah, theres a lot of morons out there, and a lot of money to be squeezed out of them... and not just on the internet either.
If you're not smart enough to write a program worthy of sale, you may as well write a silly program that does something trivial and is good at moron-squeezing.
Seems like a pretty good strategy. Make sure that everybody is using Windows... a pretty basic business plan for MS. I think the thing that scares the execs at MS et al is the fact that Linux/open source is a very different threat than a normal business... they can't really out price it because the software is free in the first place. They can't buy it out or bully it because nobody really owns it. If you're a MS exec, you're thinking "why the HELL are people doing this basically for FREE??" In the make-as-much-money-as-possible business world that your traditional exec would thrive in, it would hardly make sense to do something for free.
So, its scary... KILL IT! Humans have been doing that since before history was recorded. But, usually attempting to kill a good idea to keep money and power seems to fail in history... for the most part... meh.
So lets say the SCO's little PR stunt causes a few companies to get cold feet and stop using Linux or not switch to Linux. Whats the loss? Those companies get to pay more money to use an inferior product.
I see open source taking over the market in a very slow fasion over a long period of time, a little setback won't kill it. Sure, the MS balance sheet might look a little better in the short term, and some investors will be happy with the money they made. Linux is the flagbearer, and you gotta expect that the people it threatens to do everything they can to take shots at it.
But like that cyborg in Terminator, it just gets up and keeps coming! Maybe if they put Linux into molten iron... hmmmm... I should be a MS strategist.
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the glory days of her business were over - the fancy sets and high production values of her best stuff were no longer economically viable
I think this is certainly true for the media industry in general, for sure. Time for them to face it -- they're not going to make as much money as they used to.. no matter how many laws are passed!
But ya can't blame them for trying I guess... thats just the way the corporate world is build.
Meh, I say.
Perhaps some kind of "least comments ever" record for a /. homepage article...
Meh.
Until somebody emails you who doesn't know the deal, or if you have friends who don't even know what encryption is...
meh
I do find it interesting that Windows "Server" 2003 release and advertising coincides with this whole battle though...
Worried about the uncertainty of AIX and Linux? Good thing we here at M$ have a great solution for you...
Meh, I care not for basketball.
Or an extra R here and therrrrre.
Although not much of a "race", I'm hoping it at least spurrs more NASA funding to send stuff to Mars (that won't blow up...)
:)
We humans are messing this planet up pretty bad, might be nice to move to a new one some day
A good point.
But lets imagine a case where a huge, powerful firm makes claims relating to an individual or small firm.
The individual/small firm probably doesn't HAVE the money, time, or power to reply effectively. Even a lawsuit may not rectify the damages, nor deter the large firm. The damage is already done. But your view on that depends on your view of "survival of the fittest".
To overgeneralize, it seems like a good idea when a big guy beats on a little guy, but a bad idea when a little guy tries to beat on a big guy. The policy isn't just about an individual writing his/her thoughts.
(And although I think its a good idea in theory, I also think that the implementation and enforcement of such a policy would be quite difficult and just result in more lawsuits in reality, as you'd say.)
The power to publish your thoughts is still there. You can post whatever you want. But like all good debates, the other side gets a voice too...
Why not allow them to counter? If you have a good argument in the fist place there isn't much to be scared of.
And the policy allows for a reply to be hyperlinked to, so you don't have to host their reply, just link to it (so bandwidth TOS isn't an issue).
Imagine it the other way -- when a powerful entity criticises you... they would be forced to let you reply too.
I wouldn't buy that service myself, but I think at the very least its a good sign that the industry is realizing that maybe (just maybe) distributing music on the internet isn't as gastly as first thought.
Ah, theres a lot of morons out there, and a lot of money to be squeezed out of them... and not just on the internet either.
If you're not smart enough to write a program worthy of sale, you may as well write a silly program that does something trivial and is good at moron-squeezing.
Mmmm... evil.
Seems like a pretty good strategy. Make sure that everybody is using Windows... a pretty basic business plan for MS.
I think the thing that scares the execs at MS et al is the fact that Linux/open source is a very different threat than a normal business... they can't really out price it because the software is free in the first place. They can't buy it out or bully it because nobody really owns it.
If you're a MS exec, you're thinking "why the HELL are people doing this basically for FREE??" In the make-as-much-money-as-possible business world that your traditional exec would thrive in, it would hardly make sense to do something for free.
So, its scary... KILL IT! Humans have been doing that since before history was recorded. But, usually attempting to kill a good idea to keep money and power seems to fail in history... for the most part... meh.
So lets say the SCO's little PR stunt causes a few companies to get cold feet and stop using Linux or not switch to Linux. Whats the loss? Those companies get to pay more money to use an inferior product.
I see open source taking over the market in a very slow fasion over a long period of time, a little setback won't kill it. Sure, the MS balance sheet might look a little better in the short term, and some investors will be happy with the money they made. Linux is the flagbearer, and you gotta expect that the people it threatens to do everything they can to take shots at it.
But like that cyborg in Terminator, it just gets up and keeps coming! Maybe if they put Linux into molten iron... hmmmm... I should be a MS strategist.
Meh.
If you're religious and to you the world should fit into your religion, you're going to make up reasons why everything fits.
Meh, I say.