Not to be listed as "Flame Bait", but does the Government need to confide with you on it's internet plans? If you run a government website, do you think they need to check with you to list it's content? I work for the government conducting tests for various military and government related items, do they need to contact me when they are planning on designing a new weapon?
I think that this type of market manipulation by companies trying to force their competitors to fold under by applying, and getting moronic patents is ludicrous. One thing we as consumers have always been able to do is fight back with our money, by not giving it to a certain company. This is even more so now, with the Internet and E-mail. As a collective group we can show a company what we as consumers feel is right or wrong, and as we have always had the choice of taking our business elsewhere, they have the choice of taking their product elsewhere. I would like to see/. or another site come up that takes an issue, like this CD-Now patent, and takes the collective feelings from consumers and drops in their laps a group of consumers that are willing to say and follow through with telling a company that they will no longer buy a product from that company if they continue with this type of practice. Of course, they have a right to do business and protect their interests, but we as consumers have a right to keep innovation and more importantly prices, down.
I love it. My post was labeled as a "Troll" since it offered a comparison that was true, but not putting/. in the best light./. is the first sight that I look at everyday, I just figured that you would treat criticism with the respect that it deserves, even more so when it is done on a website that likes to hold itself up to the high standards of freedom of speech. Instead, you try to make a post seem less important by giving it your arbitrary terms. Is the real/. coming through? Freedom of speech and another person's point of view is only valid if it happens to concur with/.'s?
Sorry, subtle sarcasm does not seem to be your strong suit. They misspelled a word on their web page, so I thought it would be funny if I offered them up a title with the word grammar misspelled. Get it? "Grammer for dummies" and it is a book about grammar. Sorry it went over your head.
Here is the e-mail I sent to Isabelle Drewelow. In my job I am often asked to recommend books for begginers, and the IDG books always seemed like a quick tool that anyone could use. Not anymore. I hope more people do the same, since they are not protecting anything and do not even seem to have all the fact. Reactionary move at its best.
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I just learned about you and the company you work for complaining about and threatening to take legal action against a person for posting an e-mail that someone else wrote that had the subject line "SMART_HOST for dummies"; as an avid fan of "... for dummies" books I have a suggestion for your next one. "How to lose business for dummies", because you seem to be very good at it. I will no longer purchase any books from your company. You think it is OK to protect your "rights" by not letting an e-mail subject line say "...for dummies" but you can publish books, with other names in front of "... for dummies". I don't think that pushing this to far is very good for business, I know that I will be recommending to any company, or Governmental agency that I do contract and actual work for, not to use any IDG books, since requesting them or suggesting new titles for books may tend to get them sued.
E*Trade has not yet started taking indications of intrest on the RedHat IPO. Also just because RedHat says come buy our stock does not mean you will get it. E*Trade only gets a certain amount of shares and those are distributed by lottery from qualified investors. E*Trade asks those questions to help keep the SEC at bay about selling speculitive stocks, like IPOS, to people that may not know better then to blow thier life savings on a stock. Also I don't know if I would count on the RedHat IPO taking off.
You forgot number 3.) You sell open source software, your competetor looks at your source, combines it with his own, makes a better program, puts you out of business and it is not illegal, because you cannot prove it.
I am all for Open Source, but I also understand why some companies do not want Their software Open Source, unti they have better ways to regulate it.
i appreciate everything that ESR has done, and I admire him for the things that he has accomplished, but I am starting to get the feeling that he likes to hear himself talk. Great ideas and all, but I don't think ESR is the do all end all, if he was gone tomorrow another person would get the lime lite and nothing would be different. I am so glad he is here to tell everyone what they must think, except for us "Vocal Minority"
This is a letter that I e-mailed to Phoenix Tech investor relations. I e-mail it to mary_ann_chirchill@phoenix.com. I think everyone against it should do the same, or else the other bios companies will get the same idea.
I just thought I would take the time to tell you that I do not care for the idea of you selling advertisements on my computer when I boot it up. I will no longer buy any product that is associated with your company, and I will be contacting computer manufacturers telling them that I will not buy their product if it is in association with your company. Sincerely,
TNT, Channel 17 here in Hawaii, Kauai, showed it about a month ago. It wasn't bad, but it was not very accurate. I was just flipping through the channels, and there it was. I wrote into/. about it, but it didn't make the cut.
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Glad to see that CDRTaco got his law degree. Nice to know that you know more about the law then a judge.
Not to be listed as "Flame Bait", but does the Government need to confide with you on it's internet plans? If you run a government website, do you think they need to check with you to list it's content? I work for the government conducting tests for various military and government related items, do they need to contact me when they are planning on designing a new weapon?
I think that this type of market manipulation by companies trying to force their competitors to fold under by applying, and getting moronic patents is ludicrous. One thing we as consumers have always been able to do is fight back with our money, by not giving it to a certain company. This is even more so now, with the Internet and E-mail. As a collective group we can show a company what we as consumers feel is right or wrong, and as we have always had the choice of taking our business elsewhere, they have the choice of taking their product elsewhere. I would like to see /. or another site come up that takes an issue, like this CD-Now patent, and takes the collective feelings from consumers and drops in their laps a group of consumers that are willing to say and follow through with telling a company that they will no longer buy a product from that company if they continue with this type of practice. Of course, they have a right to do business and protect their interests, but we as consumers have a right to keep innovation and more importantly prices, down.
And "anonymous Cowards" should be moderated down. Whats a matter, don't like a differance of opinion? Go back to playing with your legos.
I love it. My post was labeled as a "Troll" since it offered a comparison that was true, but not putting /. in the best light. /. is the first sight that I look at everyday, I just figured that you would treat criticism with the respect that it deserves, even more so when it is done on a website that likes to hold itself up to the high standards of freedom of speech. Instead, you try to make a post seem less important by giving it your arbitrary terms. Is the real /. coming through? Freedom of speech and another person's point of view is only valid if it happens to concur with /.'s?
It is kind of funny that /. would have this opinion, since a lot of your content is taken from other sites.
It might be better for journalists today to study the news itself, and not the biased opinion of a website that is reporting what they feel is news.
The cartoon on the "... for dummies" books looks like Waldo to me, maybe IDG is infringing on that trademark.
Sorry, subtle sarcasm does not seem to be your strong suit. They misspelled a word on their web page, so I thought it would be funny if I offered them up a title with the word grammar misspelled. Get it? "Grammer for dummies" and it is a book about grammar. Sorry it went over your head.
I sent an e-mail to IDG and this is what came up on their website after it was sent:
"Thank You
If you mail can not be delivered, it will be returned to the email address you provided."
Try "your" not "you". Just what you want in a publishing company that does what could be considered "technical books".
Here is the e-mail I sent to Isabelle Drewelow. In my job I am often asked to recommend books for begginers, and the IDG books always seemed like a quick tool that anyone could use. Not anymore. I hope more people do the same, since they are not protecting anything and do not even seem to have all the fact. Reactionary move at its best.
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I just learned about you and the company you work for complaining about and threatening to take legal action against a person for posting an e-mail that someone else wrote that had the subject line "SMART_HOST for dummies"; as an avid fan of "... for dummies" books I have a suggestion for your next one. "How to lose business for dummies", because you seem to be very good at it. I will no longer purchase any books from your company. You think it is OK to protect your "rights" by not letting an e-mail subject line say "...for dummies" but you can publish books, with other names in front of "... for dummies". I don't think that pushing this to far is very good for business, I know that I will be recommending to any company, or Governmental agency that I do contract and actual work for, not to use any IDG books, since requesting them or suggesting new titles for books may tend to get them sued.
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Actually MTV News, if you can call it that, is the largest of its type. It is international. They are still a bunch of idiots.
They also do security for classified equipment.
E*Trade has not yet started taking indications of intrest on the RedHat IPO. Also just because RedHat says come buy our stock does not mean you will get it. E*Trade only gets a certain amount of shares and those are distributed by lottery from qualified investors. E*Trade asks those questions to help keep the SEC at bay about selling speculitive stocks, like IPOS, to people that may not know better then to blow thier life savings on a stock. Also I don't know if I would count on the RedHat IPO taking off.
You forgot number 3.) You sell open source software, your competetor looks at your source, combines it with his own, makes a better program, puts you out of business and it is not illegal, because you cannot prove it.
I am all for Open Source, but I also understand why some companies do not want Their software Open Source, unti they have better ways to regulate it.
i appreciate everything that ESR has done, and I admire him for the things that he has accomplished, but I am starting to get the feeling that he likes to hear himself talk. Great ideas and all, but I don't think ESR is the do all end all, if he was gone tomorrow another person would get the lime lite and nothing would be different. I am so glad he is here to tell everyone what they must think, except for us "Vocal Minority"
This is a letter that I e-mailed to Phoenix Tech investor relations. I e-mail it to mary_ann_chirchill@phoenix.com. I think everyone against it should do the same, or else the other bios companies will get the same idea.
I just thought I would take the time to tell you that I do not care for the idea of you selling advertisements on my computer when I boot it up. I will no longer buy any product that is associated with your company, and I will be contacting computer manufacturers telling them that I will not buy their product if it is in association with your company.
Sincerely,
That was an accidental showing, I think. It was not listed, I just happen to catch it by channel surfing.
TNT, Channel 17 here in Hawaii, Kauai, showed it about a month ago. It wasn't bad, but it was not very accurate. I was just flipping through the channels, and there it was. I wrote into /. about it, but it didn't make the cut.