This isn't a Sun problem specifically - all of the companies that were using OSS to gain marketshare are wrestling with it now. Some of them have blamed Sun (Lutris) for their own inability to make OpenSource work for them.
The simple fact remains that no company that needs to make profit in order to stay in business can cater to open source in the same spaces where they are trying to make money. Sun has open sourced Star Office, no biggie - doesn't make them any money really. Sun won't give away or disrupt J2EE license revenue to cater to open source because they make money from this.
Anyone who doesn't understand this and thinks that Sun or any other company can just give this stuff away really needs a good class in economics and finance.
I hate to step into this, but if you read your history and perhaps some papers of the era - the opening years of WW2 were a lot like what happens in many of these countries we're policing.
Who makes the US the cop? The American moral compass. We cannot just sit by and let butchers and criminals kill innocents while we play Madden on PS2!
WW2 wasn't 'instant global warfare,' it was a lot of small things that grew because noone put them in check. In terms of your comment about pictures on TV - sorry, but the press in the United States is free and they are more often than not the people who discover and air these events (and then bashed for glorifying the activities). So if you believe that the government controls the press - it is you are naive my friend.
You have to remember that at one point they used to have an agreement with respect to AOL in the OS. Now that the deal is gone, I don't think we'll be seeing AOL holding back against Microsoft much at all.
Gee thanks, now the broadband ISPs have even more reason to stop people from hosting servers from their homes. If the ISPs find themselves forced to do the blocking, they'll just block everything.
I've been a fan of the show since the begging, but it doesn't take a genius to realize this baby has been circling the drain for a few years now. I think its best to just let it die.
While I can see why people would be against any attempts to stop people from making copies of other people's works - Phillips will be incapable of realistically doing anything to stop copyright owners from protecting their works.
It is now a crime under DCMA for Phillips to circumvent copy protection. Any attempts by Phillips to circumvent any existing copy protection will result in them being continuously in court with suits from each and every company that desires to copy protect their wares (and that's not just audio CD companies).
Major copyright owners will lobby the government to stop Phillips CD players and writers from shipping (which would be one up the butt for Phillips), and they don't need to succeed. All the copyright owners need to do is keep the players off the market while the case is at trial... something that could put Phillips through immense financial hardship.
Most people who buy audio CDs (and the retailers who sell them) could really care less about the CD logo. The ones that actually aren't compatible with the standard can't ship with them, but what does that change? If you can only get the song on protected media are you just not going to listen to that artist (and any others) indefinitely?
Phillips has a commitment to build hardware and this isn't much more than an exec speaking his mind about what he'd like to see happen. In most companies I've noticed that what execs say and that actually happens/can happen is generally pretty far apart. Even if we assume that Phillips succeeds, the rest of the copyright owners will simply band together - put together a competing logo and such and print CDs in their own format that will just happen to be backwardly compatible with CD players.
Phillips has no teeth in this matter - this is just a nice consumer spot to get people excited about the Phillips brand.
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This isn't a Sun problem specifically - all of the companies that were using OSS to gain marketshare are wrestling with it now. Some of them have blamed Sun (Lutris) for their own inability to make OpenSource work for them. The simple fact remains that no company that needs to make profit in order to stay in business can cater to open source in the same spaces where they are trying to make money. Sun has open sourced Star Office, no biggie - doesn't make them any money really. Sun won't give away or disrupt J2EE license revenue to cater to open source because they make money from this. Anyone who doesn't understand this and thinks that Sun or any other company can just give this stuff away really needs a good class in economics and finance.
I hate to step into this, but if you read your history and perhaps some papers of the era - the opening years of WW2 were a lot like what happens in many of these countries we're policing. Who makes the US the cop? The American moral compass. We cannot just sit by and let butchers and criminals kill innocents while we play Madden on PS2! WW2 wasn't 'instant global warfare,' it was a lot of small things that grew because noone put them in check. In terms of your comment about pictures on TV - sorry, but the press in the United States is free and they are more often than not the people who discover and air these events (and then bashed for glorifying the activities). So if you believe that the government controls the press - it is you are naive my friend.
Bah... we'd just put a popcorn layer around the bunkers - then we'd have something to eat, and a specific smell when the sheildings going south :)
You have to remember that at one point they used to have an agreement with respect to AOL in the OS. Now that the deal is gone, I don't think we'll be seeing AOL holding back against Microsoft much at all.
Gee thanks, now the broadband ISPs have even more reason to stop people from hosting servers from their homes. If the ISPs find themselves forced to do the blocking, they'll just block everything.
I've been a fan of the show since the begging, but it doesn't take a genius to realize this baby has been circling the drain for a few years now. I think its best to just let it die.
While I can see why people would be against any attempts to stop people from making copies of other people's works - Phillips will be incapable of realistically doing anything to stop copyright owners from protecting their works.
It is now a crime under DCMA for Phillips to circumvent copy protection. Any attempts by Phillips to circumvent any existing copy protection will result in them being continuously in court with suits from each and every company that desires to copy protect their wares (and that's not just audio CD companies).
Major copyright owners will lobby the government to stop Phillips CD players and writers from shipping (which would be one up the butt for Phillips), and they don't need to succeed. All the copyright owners need to do is keep the players off the market while the case is at trial... something that could put Phillips through immense financial hardship.
Most people who buy audio CDs (and the retailers who sell them) could really care less about the CD logo. The ones that actually aren't compatible with the standard can't ship with them, but what does that change? If you can only get the song on protected media are you just not going to listen to that artist (and any others) indefinitely?
Phillips has a commitment to build hardware and this isn't much more than an exec speaking his mind about what he'd like to see happen. In most companies I've noticed that what execs say and that actually happens/can happen is generally pretty far apart. Even if we assume that Phillips succeeds, the rest of the copyright owners will simply band together - put together a competing logo and such and print CDs in their own format that will just happen to be backwardly compatible with CD players.
Phillips has no teeth in this matter - this is just a nice consumer spot to get people excited about the Phillips brand.