This has nothing to do with EA wanting to steal away talent or Ubi having "unethical" business practices (In EA's opinion). This is about EA trying to make their takeover better for their bottom line.
If EA gobbles up Ubi, they have to then deal with the employment contracts. Usually a contract has buyout if the employee is terminated. Well, if EA buys Ubi they are going to probably terminate plenty of employees to cut their costs. They can't do that efficiently if they have to pay X dollars for every employee they terminate.
This is just EA trying to improve their bottom line for a takeover plain and simple. But they are doing it under the guise of being a good company.
From the MS Office EULA
3. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP. Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted to you
in this EULA. The Software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties. Microsoft or its
suppliers own the title, copyright, and other intellectual property rights in the Software. The Software is licensed, not
sold. This EULA does not grant you any rights to trademarks or service marks of Microsoft.
Bolding added by me.
You bought the license, therefore the sales tax. You did not buy the software.
The difference between this software and say MS Office is that you don't "own" MS office, you have a license to use it but you do not have property rights on it.
I'm going to reply to my own message
I'm pretty sure this will be used to argue why the "broadcast flag" that is working it's way back through congress should be passed. They will say that since they will be selling the episodes, consumers don't need to record them on a DVR and such.
I'm willing to bet they will push DC to enact laws that may recording TV illegal. Kiss your Tivo goodbye. This is just them being able to tell everyone, look people can get the TV show after it plays for a fair price, they shouldn't be able to record it on their own.
It's not true. under HIPAA Privacy regulations, your computers just can't be easily seen by people passing by. Technically, you shouldn't probably be accessing the information anyway but if you do you just are not supposed to have the screen that someone walking by can see.
HIPAA Security regulations should take care of the rest of the issues from the computer being in an open area.
Yes, there are two different parts to HIPAA (Privacy and Security).
I should know, I'm the HIPAA Officer at my job......DON'T DO IT!
Yes, because real courts follow the rulings of the stuff you saw on TV. Just cite the reference law of CoutTV case docket #12213221 and any court in the land will enter it as evidence.
</sarcasm>
I'm not saying that the OP doen't have a good case but I don't think it's wise to give legal advice based on your TV viewing habits. If I did, I'd tell you that a DNA test takes about 2 minutes to run!
Why do most people insist on recreating the wheel. I cannot imagine that your company needs some specialized version of EDI that no other company uses since that is the point of EDI (to make everything equal).
Tell your boss that buying standard software is usually cheaper than programming and supporting custom software to do the same job. Are you going to be writing the companies word processing software next. If so, quit now!
Don't forget everyone, this is the same weather service our friends at Accuweather and like minded companys are trying to get to stop their innovation.
I pay for them to gather the weather, why should I have to pay accuweather to give it to me in a more readable format.
I'll let the guys/girls that gathered it in the first place make it purdy!
Just to be a d**k, that was actually 9 questions and a statement.
I'm going to for your list and make my own.
Q1. But forking is bad!
A. No, not unless it splits the team, and even then competition is as good a driver as collaboration. Many of the most successful products come from forked versions that eventually out-evolved their ancestors. Homo Sapiens is a good example.
Q2. Is it legal to start a new fork like this?
A. The GPL guarantees this possibility. It's one of the better reasons for choosing GPL'd software - you are assured that if the product is good but the management is bad, the developers are free to continue their work.
Q3. What about the copyrights?
A. The copyright allows the owner to (a) define the license terms, (b) change these over time, e.g. from GPL to APL, etc., and (c) sell alternative licenses, e.g. commercial opt-out licenses for a GPL'd product.
Q4. So the copyright owner could sell opt-out licenses for a fork?
A. No! The forked code will now have multiple copyright owners - the new and the old code. The copyright owner can only license their own code.
Q5. What would have happened if Mambo was licensed under a BSD-style license originally?
A. Probably exactly the same, except that it would have forked earlier. The GPL discourages forking because it gives the copyright owners more incentive to "hold the work together" at some level.
Q6. Is this bad for Mambo?
A. Certainly not. It's good publicity, and a little fighting always strengthens team spirit, so long as the enemy is clear. Let's all kick the corporations!!!
Q7. How do you know all this stuff?
A. I don't, I'm just making it up as I go along.
Q8. You're kidding?
A. Yes. Gotcha!
Q9. Is that all?
A. Yes, I'm just trying to get to 10 questions. Maybe that was a bit ambitious. Should I go and change it to "7 easy questions"?
Q. Well, I think 10 is a better number, don't you?
A. Yes!
the Minister sent strong signals in the direction of Redmond to open up or become irrelevant to the Norwegian Government.
Should say:
the Minister sent strong signals in the direction of Redmond that we want a better deal on your software, and once you drop the price a bit we'll keep using your formats
Everyone here keeps getting wide eyed when a country makes some claim like this, but as long as M$ drops their price they all seem to fold fast.
We also use SBC for our P2P T1 and our DIA T1 at our locations, but have not had ANY problems during business hours. I do get a larger amount of emails telling me they are doing maintence. Overall, I had one outage and that was when someone across the street cut our wires.
We are by O'Hare so they may have a bit more reliablity built in there.
What are some good business-specific tasks you have used distributed or grid computing to work through?
I put our servers to work to find out what the most optimized route would be for me to take to sneak out of work early.
The only problem was there seemed to be some "quirk" in the software that kept suggesting to walk by the bosses door.
Actually you can use GSM in the US. Voicestream/T-Mobile website, Cingular (on the west coast) and AT&T (overlaying their current TDMA network) all. I know for a fact Voicestream will let you buy any 1900 mhz GSM phone and use it on their network.
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This has nothing to do with EA wanting to steal away talent or Ubi having "unethical" business practices (In EA's opinion). This is about EA trying to make their takeover better for their bottom line. If EA gobbles up Ubi, they have to then deal with the employment contracts. Usually a contract has buyout if the employee is terminated. Well, if EA buys Ubi they are going to probably terminate plenty of employees to cut their costs. They can't do that efficiently if they have to pay X dollars for every employee they terminate. This is just EA trying to improve their bottom line for a takeover plain and simple. But they are doing it under the guise of being a good company.
No, but it did use those old IBM hard drives. That's why it blew up.
From the MS Office EULA
3. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP. Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this EULA. The Software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties. Microsoft or its suppliers own the title, copyright, and other intellectual property rights in the Software. The Software is licensed, not sold. This EULA does not grant you any rights to trademarks or service marks of Microsoft.
Bolding added by me.
You bought the license, therefore the sales tax. You did not buy the software.
The difference between this software and say MS Office is that you don't "own" MS office, you have a license to use it but you do not have property rights on it.
AFAIK.
IANAL.
I'm going to reply to my own message
I'm pretty sure this will be used to argue why the "broadcast flag" that is working it's way back through congress should be passed. They will say that since they will be selling the episodes, consumers don't need to record them on a DVR and such.
I'm willing to bet they will push DC to enact laws that may recording TV illegal. Kiss your Tivo goodbye. This is just them being able to tell everyone, look people can get the TV show after it plays for a fair price, they shouldn't be able to record it on their own.
It's not true. under HIPAA Privacy regulations, your computers just can't be easily seen by people passing by. Technically, you shouldn't probably be accessing the information anyway but if you do you just are not supposed to have the screen that someone walking by can see.
HIPAA Security regulations should take care of the rest of the issues from the computer being in an open area.
Yes, there are two different parts to HIPAA (Privacy and Security).
I should know, I'm the HIPAA Officer at my job......DON'T DO IT!
Two words: Choke Hazard His kid is two....he'll try to stuff them all down his throat.
Yes, because real courts follow the rulings of the stuff you saw on TV. Just cite the reference law of CoutTV case docket #12213221 and any court in the land will enter it as evidence.
</sarcasm>
I'm not saying that the OP doen't have a good case but I don't think it's wise to give legal advice based on your TV viewing habits. If I did, I'd tell you that a DNA test takes about 2 minutes to run!
Why do most people insist on recreating the wheel. I cannot imagine that your company needs some specialized version of EDI that no other company uses since that is the point of EDI (to make everything equal).
Tell your boss that buying standard software is usually cheaper than programming and supporting custom software to do the same job. Are you going to be writing the companies word processing software next. If so, quit now!
Try here
Don't forget everyone, this is the same weather service our friends at Accuweather and like minded companys are trying to get to stop their innovation.
I pay for them to gather the weather, why should I have to pay accuweather to give it to me in a more readable format.
I'll let the guys/girls that gathered it in the first place make it purdy!
Just to be a d**k, that was actually 9 questions and a statement.
I'm going to for your list and make my own.
Q1. But forking is bad!
A. No, not unless it splits the team, and even then competition is as good a driver as collaboration. Many of the most successful products come from forked versions that eventually out-evolved their ancestors. Homo Sapiens is a good example.
Q2. Is it legal to start a new fork like this?
A. The GPL guarantees this possibility. It's one of the better reasons for choosing GPL'd software - you are assured that if the product is good but the management is bad, the developers are free to continue their work.
Q3. What about the copyrights?
A. The copyright allows the owner to (a) define the license terms, (b) change these over time, e.g. from GPL to APL, etc., and (c) sell alternative licenses, e.g. commercial opt-out licenses for a GPL'd product.
Q4. So the copyright owner could sell opt-out licenses for a fork?
A. No! The forked code will now have multiple copyright owners - the new and the old code. The copyright owner can only license their own code.
Q5. What would have happened if Mambo was licensed under a BSD-style license originally?
A. Probably exactly the same, except that it would have forked earlier. The GPL discourages forking because it gives the copyright owners more incentive to "hold the work together" at some level.
Q6. Is this bad for Mambo?
A. Certainly not. It's good publicity, and a little fighting always strengthens team spirit, so long as the enemy is clear. Let's all kick the corporations!!!
Q7. How do you know all this stuff?
A. I don't, I'm just making it up as I go along.
Q8. You're kidding?
A. Yes. Gotcha!
Q9. Is that all?
A. Yes, I'm just trying to get to 10 questions. Maybe that was a bit ambitious. Should I go and change it to "7 easy questions"?
Q. Well, I think 10 is a better number, don't you?
A. Yes!
© 2005 Questions 1-9 - OP
© 2005 Question 10 - bherman
the Minister sent strong signals in the direction of Redmond to open up or become irrelevant to the Norwegian Government.
Should say:
the Minister sent strong signals in the direction of Redmond that we want a better deal on your software, and once you drop the price a bit we'll keep using your formats Everyone here keeps getting wide eyed when a country makes some claim like this, but as long as M$ drops their price they all seem to fold fast.
We also use SBC for our P2P T1 and our DIA T1 at our locations, but have not had ANY problems during business hours. I do get a larger amount of emails telling me they are doing maintence. Overall, I had one outage and that was when someone across the street cut our wires. We are by O'Hare so they may have a bit more reliablity built in there.
What are some good business-specific tasks you have used distributed or grid computing to work through?
I put our servers to work to find out what the most optimized route would be for me to take to sneak out of work early.
The only problem was there seemed to be some "quirk" in the software that kept suggesting to walk by the bosses door.
Once I get that fixed, I'll be on easy street.
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Except /. dupes!
And they are going to respond with:
"Keep walking, nothing to see here."
Their hardware and Frontpage Slashdot article. Looks like it's time for some new stuff!
Actually you can use GSM in the US. Voicestream/T-Mobile website, Cingular (on the west coast) and AT&T (overlaying their current TDMA network) all. I know for a fact Voicestream will let you buy any 1900 mhz GSM phone and use it on their network.