While he is technically correct that Oracle could just bribe the key developers to abandon pgsql, this would likely backfire.
First, it assumes that the pgsql developers of importance can be bought. Our world is decadent, but not everyone has a price tag
No, everyone does have a price. The question is if that price is too high to be feasible. And who says hiring them is a bribe? If you get hired away to work on other projects, its called getting another job, not being bribed. Happens every day.
That is what i was thinking too from the story, why on earth does it have to activate in the first place? I can accept having to make a backup of the drivers and feeling stupid when the company went bust, but having to activate my "hardware" online is just as bad as everyone else out there and they wouldn't get my dime.
Sure Bono, and for the alternative perspective, how about Janis Ian's? "The Internet, and downloading, are here to stay... Anyone who thinks otherwise should prepare themselves to end up on the slagheap of history.".
Of course he wont care, hes already bilked his millions out of people and doesn't need the free advertising 'downloads' could give a band..
"Losses" occur if you cant produce something worth buying. Provide something of value, and you will get paid. Oh, and another reason to boycott this annoying prick.
( ya mod me down, i don't care, he and all like him annoy me )
People still don't get the concept of the slippery slope. By the time they do, they have fallen off the end of it and are sitting in the mud and cant get out.
Freetrade != freedom. Also, if you want to include the WTO into the mix, its just the opposite as everyone has to conform to the least common denominator.
Atari TOS/GEM ( And later the open sourced MiNT ) was/is still better! So take that! Seriously tho, see where all that bickering got us? Compartmentalized and marginalized into oblivion as the world of mass produced, consumer oriented mediocrity won in the end.... But I suppose at least we are in the same boat now, going nowhere.. A shame really, as a 'PC' just has no soul.
You honestly believe the federal government is still 'us'? I don't. It has been a self supporting anti citizen entity for as long as i can remember and 'us' isnt a part of it anywhere. ( except that we are forced to fund it )
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Don't forget searching ON Microsoft site is also hitting bing in the process.
Microsoft has in place a 'pay to bing' program where you are paid to switch over your companies default search engine to bing.
That will be helping their stats.
So a government gets caught damaging a foreign companies resources.
Isn't that grounds for war? Or at least some sanctions?
Shhhhh regular print books will be next..
So you give the blind kids braille or audio books, like we do now.. Or is now a real book with print on it not politically correct either?
What is wrong with people these days?
Guess that's Google's answer to things like Microsoft's Skydrive.
Wonder if it will be blocked from work too.. :(
I know a lot of people not in the IT world that have asked me about OO.. "can i use this instead, i cant afford 'office'?".
.I find it interesting that they keep a copy of still infringing software available to purchase, AND its the most expensive version they offer.
While he is technically correct that Oracle could just bribe the key developers to abandon pgsql, this would likely backfire.
First, it assumes that the pgsql developers of importance can be bought. Our world is decadent, but not everyone has a price tag
No, everyone does have a price. The question is if that price is too high to be feasible. And who says hiring them is a bribe? If you get hired away to work on other projects, its called getting another job, not being bribed. Happens every day.
Then they buy the next 20... then the next. While it may not kill a project, if it doesn't move forward it might as well be dead.
If it works, why replace it?
That is what i was thinking too from the story, why on earth does it have to activate in the first place? I can accept having to make a backup of the drivers and feeling stupid when the company went bust, but having to activate my "hardware" online is just as bad as everyone else out there and they wouldn't get my dime.
But its different then the patent.
One the entire stream is encrypted, one the end contents are.. A subtle difference.
Sure Bono, and for the alternative perspective, how about Janis Ian's? "The Internet, and downloading, are here to stay... Anyone who thinks otherwise should prepare themselves to end up on the slagheap of history.".
Of course he wont care, hes already bilked his millions out of people and doesn't need the free advertising 'downloads' could give a band..
"Losses" occur if you cant produce something worth buying. Provide something of value, and you will get paid. Oh, and another reason to boycott this annoying prick.
( ya mod me down, i don't care, he and all like him annoy me )
Better question: How many get blocked trying it?
People still don't get the concept of the slippery slope. By the time they do, they have fallen off the end of it and are sitting in the mud and cant get out.
Seriously, I'm beginning to question the value of completely free speech.
Your statement there is as offensive as Google censoring.
Freetrade != freedom. Also, if you want to include the WTO into the mix, its just the opposite as everyone has to conform to the least common denominator.
India does value free speech and political speech. But they are weighing the harm of free speech against violence in their streets.
Sorry, you cant have it both ways.
Atari TOS/GEM ( And later the open sourced MiNT ) was/is still better! So take that! Seriously tho, see where all that bickering got us? Compartmentalized and marginalized into oblivion as the world of mass produced, consumer oriented mediocrity won in the end.... But I suppose at least we are in the same boat now, going nowhere.. A shame really, as a 'PC' just has no soul.
Free trade actually does work, but few people really want to be part of it due to greed.
Because the corporations buy the laws.
You honestly believe the federal government is still 'us'? I don't. It has been a self supporting anti citizen entity for as long as i can remember and 'us' isnt a part of it anywhere. ( except that we are forced to fund it )