This legislation would be an unwarranted intrusion by the government into the commercial marketplace," said Ken Kay, executive director of the Computer Systems Policy Project, a trade group that includes IBM, Intel, Dell Computer, Motorola and others as members. "This would freeze technology...(and) force government to pick winners and losers".
As much as big corporations like to protect their IP, corporations also resent the government telling them what to do. So this puts up an interesting question: What do big corporatons want more, IP protection, or free market enterprise and development?
Whether this bill passes or not will likely show which is the winner.
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Copyrights can be bought and sold. Like a lot of musicians, he sold his rights.
If retro gaming is what you really want...
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How about reviving the Zork series? No graphics, text only...
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How about Microsoft? They seem to be a little bit of both, advancing technology as well as producing content.
MS seems to belong in both categories, but chose to be against it. Interesting.
From the article:
This legislation would be an unwarranted intrusion by the government into the commercial marketplace," said Ken Kay, executive director of the Computer Systems Policy Project, a trade group that includes IBM, Intel, Dell Computer, Motorola and others as members. "This would freeze technology...(and) force government to pick winners and losers".
As much as big corporations like to protect their IP, corporations also resent the government telling them what to do. So this puts up an interesting question: What do big corporatons want more, IP protection, or free market enterprise and development?
Whether this bill passes or not will likely show which is the winner.
Copyrights can be bought and sold. Like a lot of musicians, he sold his rights.
How about reviving the Zork series? No graphics, text only...
From the Wired article:
Such is the case for The Bard's Tale and Ultima, two classic games from the 1980s that fans are recreating with a modern look and feel.
A lot of the fun was the old-fashioned "tile-game" approach. Updating the games will almost be like a different game entirely.
From the article:
At 4.1 billion years, the halflife of 40Ar is ideal for dating ancient humans.
OK...if you're into that sort of thing.
I prefer 'em a little younger, though.
How could this be, given the popularity of Dilbert?
I wish we had one!
Crypto just wants to be cracked.
I have a full tower case PC at home, and most of that is empty space.
This is a good choice for apartment dwellers, where space is an issue.
Unfortunately, most consumers are not aware of the open-source alternatives.
My guess is that the palatability of this is from no longer having the $400.00 initial outlay for a new OS.
I signed up for a Hotmail account 2 years ago and check it quarterly, never anything in it
Nothing in it? You sure you signed up for Hotmail, The World's Free, Web-Based Spamming Tool?
Don't sweat the small stuff. It got modded up, anyway.
Besides, a lot of humor is based on insight into the situation.
I think most will metamod as "Fair" and move on.
He is looking for the perfect little boy to have some serious man-boy luvin'.
There's your Cliff notes. Hope this helps.
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And logged-in trolls!
Umm...I really don't think so? Do you have any better alternative to our representative democracy? At least we have some semblance of a choice.
We could have a true dictatorship; one person running the whole show with new rulers crowned by succession.
No government is perfect.
Fuck you! I'm dead. I'm not British, you fucknut!
I'll show you articulate. Just watch, motherfucker!
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I'm a penis bird. I will stand on your penis. Don't mind the chill, my blood hasn't flowed in a while.
He's just pining for the fjords!
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Greetings egg_troll.
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May I stand on your penis? You certainly won't mind the chill!
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I beat you by four minutes SUCKER!!
And by something DEAD too!