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"The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill."
Remember that, always.
Now ask your self, do you want to be a good manager, or a succesfull one?
If you want to be successfull, don't manage unless you absolutely have to. Allways do as the boss asks you to do and allways have someone else available to blame when it fails. Make sure the someone is not in a rank above you, make sure it's not a friend of the boss or his wife. In short, success depends on politics, not management.
If you want to do it right, again, don't manage unless you absolutely have to. Your management always interferes with people who are trying to get their job done. Let them do their work, don't interfere. Except when they don't do their job (properly) or when something prevents them from doing their job, that is when you should be there to manage things.
It is all about control, not about net income. So killing 90% of the web radio stations is better than a higher income because it is easier to control a few radio stations and because those pesky small independent stations will be the first to go down.
When that has been dealt with the income issue will be revisited. Raising income is a lot easier when your monopoly is still intact, maintain the monopoly and the income will come anyway. Currently it is the monopoly that is being defended and any plan which does not include maintaining the monopoly is a bad idea, even when it increases revenue.
"If Novell wanted the Linux community's trust, they should never have entered into a Microsoft partnership in the first place. They don't get it and never will."
Sorry, but you seem to severly mix up the "Linux community" with the "Anti-M$ zealots". Sure, to people who consider MS to be Beelzebub this deal is unforgivable. However, for the linux community, you know the ones with better thing to do then bashing MS, the ones with enough brains to actually write the code and with enough brains to understand this deal, it doesn't appear to be such a problem. And tell me, what did they loose with that deal?
And by the way, Novell had a lot of respect in the Linux community long before they got into SUSE. They have alway build rock solid software, and they will be respected for that. They have also never done any harm to the Linux community or to the Open Source movement, something which cannot be said of all these anti-MS zealots around here.
"Is Novell putting Unix in the public domain? Then their money isn't where their mouth is. This is so much a perfect clone of the Caldera debacle, I feel like I'm stuck in Groundhog day."
If you knew anything about Linux or about the old Unix you'd know this would be useless. Anything in there is either allready public domain, severly outdated or long replaced by something better. All that could come from placing this in the public domain is more hassle about copyrights, it's not worth it. Novell should bury this stuff somewhere and never touch it again. And it looks like they are doing just that.
"That seems contradictory to me. Why sign a deal with Microsoft if there isn't any violation?"
Because MS was spreading FUD about that and it was working. But I guess also because MS wanted that part in the deal, it's not just MS who made this promise you know, Novell made the same promise and they do own a bunch of patents as well. And my guess is that these patents are non-trivial, unlike most of the stuff MS is crying about. Now who was afraid to get sued here you think? Novell has been building proper operating systems well before MS got there, they were doing a lot of network stuff before finally managed to get some networking into Windows. Again, guess who has the IP here and who should fear being sued?
I believe them as well. Just take a look at what Novell is, a software company that is moslty about building damn good software. Yes, mostly at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with lousy user interfaces and bad marketing, but still very good software. They have never been really deep into the 'IP' game, their laywers aren't very trigger happy and Novell won't get involved in *any* lawsuit at all unless there is a very good reason.
Now, with SCO they where screwed big time, so they responded. They will respond again when they need to, but not before they need to.
And for the MS - Novell deal, they managed to get a shitload of money out of MS, basically forced MS to actually sell/promote SUSE linux and they gained some sort of patent protecting for a limited amount of open-source users and developers. And yes these 'protection' benefits are pretty useless, they are likely to be nothing but protection agains nothing at all and it gave MS yet an other change to spread some more FUD (which they will do anyway). I don't know what Novell used in these negotiations, but they got the most out of it, more then MS did IMHO.
So, conspiricy theorists are rarely original. And writers of 'opinion' pieces on open source websites are the worst kind.
Please stop fighting these 'freedom stealing' windmills and start enjoying your freedoms. You do realize you lost your all your copyleft freedoms the moment you started writing stuff like this when you could have been writing cool software, testing some beta version of something or even installing Linux on the PC of you mother in law? It's useless to make such a fuss about what the rest of the world does with OSS software, it doesn't help anybody, it doesn't change anything.
Just don't spend a dime on 'patent protecting' or other shit like that. And if somebody else want to pay MS tax, pay licenses, get crappy software, etc. just let them have it. Who cares when the all these closed source companies sue each other to death? Just ignore it.
"J&J is being foolish. The suit will cost them their trademark."
I sure hope so. But I also hope it will cost the ARC the right to monetize this symbol. Both uses cash in on the trust value it currently has, but both uses severely damage this value. If the ARC where to continue this commercial use no one in the US would ever be sure when to take the symbol seriously and when not. That is a problem, and seeing such a trend being started by the ARC is downright sick. (And a violation of the geneva convention, but he, who cares, there's money to be made...)
The current situation was rather balanced, it's the ARC which decide to change this, not J&J. And if I where J&J I'd be prepared to loose my trademark to stop this. And if I where the ICRC i'd takes steps against the ARC for this commercial usage of their symbol.
So, if ARC are using (or licensing) the Red Cross emblem on stuff they are not giving away for free, they are violating the First Geneva Convention.
There is a nice case of a pot calling a kettle black here.
It's also a nice example of how sick the current 'if it doesn't generate cash it's worthless' culture on both sides has become. I mean, a charity which generates revenue by licensing that symbol that provides them with immunity? That by far the most sick use of "ip" i've seen so far...
"The article is lighter on details than it should be for an article that spans two pages, but it looks to me like someone set up yet another "bank", promising high returns (and actually delivering for awhile), that was actually just a pyramid scheme. Once the pyramid gets big enough the creator always grabs the money and runs, and people cry and write articles about it."
Al very true, but in the end it might just be the game which is a pyramid scheme, not just the bank inside the game. If Lindon were to pull the plug out of the game right now, where would you go to exchange your Lindon Dollars for real ones?
Only promoting it and having it become a threat to them (i.e. lawsuits, users uninstalling Java on their systems, webpage designers moving away from it) will motivate them to fix the problem.
I'm all with you on forcing vendors to fixs security problems, but you make a rather blunt statement about SUN. So far I haven't seen any examples of security issues in Java being ignored by SUN so you'd better back up an accusation like that with some facts.
Hardware cost, bandwith etc. are the things that need to be 'available' to get things like this running. And that problem can be fixed in two ways, with advertising, which created the need to restrict access to the data to 'things which can show ads', or through a subscription fee which usually puts of the users en thus kills the data.
Maybe some P2P system could fix this, but that whould require users to install certain software which generally slows adoption quit a bit.
Or someone should donate a proper serverfarm with sufficient bandwith, surely there will be people writing for it.
/. summary:
10. It puts Betamax up agains VHS, a format war which should have been won by Video2000
9. It puts Minidisc up agains the CD, although it competed with DCC at the time as the next-gen compact cassette. Recordable CD's didn't exist at that time.
8. They put laserdisc up agains VHS, even though laserdisc's where never writable. There never was a format-war around laserdisc, it was just a product which was released ahead of it's time and failed because of that.
7. Selecting 8 track tapes over Compact Cassettes because, erm, their fixed length 'tracks' are so convenient. Sure, if you enjoy listening to silence...
6. Here is a format war for you, DVD-Audio together with SA-CD again the normal CD. Just ignore the actual format war... And, I quote: "The copy protection is good too, which means less of that pesky piracy the music industry keeps banging on about." Right.
5. Right after the 'All hail HD Audio' part comes the argument that Mini-Disc should have won because of the lossy compression.
4. Yes, BeOS should have survived. But it doesn't explain what an OS has to do in an article about format-wars.
3. DTS should be used instead of Dolby Digital because it's handy in theaters, so we should all use DTS at home. And DTS can use any number of channels which is a good thing, because standards exist to make sure everybody does things differently.
2. Atari-ST, it's not just operating systems in this format war, whole computers count as 'Format' these days.
1. No, its not a top 10, the last page just sums up the ideal world of BeOS operated Betamax recorders with 8-Track laserdiscs and Atrac compressed DTS sound stored on a separate minidisc to be played on and HD-Audio Atari. Or something like that.
The simulation might for example show changes in allegiance of Afghan villagers over time depending on how many times they are bombed / given food by NATO troops.
Outcome: It's not just cheaper to simply bomb all of them, it also keeps the sponsors happy.
This isn't "NannyState" at all, this is an attempt at stopping scammers and other slimeballs from taking advantage of people.
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"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson
I guess you have to be an american to see the logic in the combination of those two opinions?
How can you defend the right to have 'tools' used to kill people but also say the tools used to scam people should be taken away? Either both are a part of your freedom no one is allowed to interfere with or both are tools with largely undesireable uses and should be forbidden. I can see a point in both, but I cannot see how you can mix both.
If that holds true, wouldn't the same priciple be applied to the reverse scenario? E.g. an U.S. based radio station setting up mirrors in another country whould not have to pay?
I guess the best 'solution' whould be a P2P like broadcasting set-up where you really can't tell who is listening and who is broadcasting.
That's only 2.5% of the budget, and if you're a citizen of the US you'd better hope and pray that your country is spending at least 2% of the budget on intelligence in these times.
Why exactly if i may ask? To be assured of oil? To be assured your next president is an moron as well? To be sure this $DEFENSE_CORP gets it's bonus? To be sure the US will have a enemy available when it needs one?
I think it's a lot of money to put into organisation of which the effect is disputable and limited. I bet you'd save far more lifes spending that money on trafic safety, health care and old fashioned crime prevention. Or perhaps use it to actually achieve at least a little bit of those 'millenium goals'. That might just stop some terrorists along the line as well.
So while nothing is perfect, even in the US, I do think that we are doing it quite right.
So please, let's start respecting patents and lets stop violating them at every opportunity.
Please make up your mind before posting. What is it, you are doing quit right and should go on violating patents at every opportunity? Or you are doing badly and should change that as soon as possible?
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Also, my Opera highlights searches inside the page with every way I try (inline with
Now that is what I call a true maffia^H^H^H^Hrket leader.
"The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill."
Remember that, always.
Now ask your self, do you want to be a good manager, or a succesfull one?
If you want to be successfull, don't manage unless you absolutely have to. Allways do as the boss asks you to do and allways have someone else available to blame when it fails. Make sure the someone is not in a rank above you, make sure it's not a friend of the boss or his wife. In short, success depends on politics, not management.
If you want to do it right, again, don't manage unless you absolutely have to. Your management always interferes with people who are trying to get their job done. Let them do their work, don't interfere. Except when they don't do their job (properly) or when something prevents them from doing their job, that is when you should be there to manage things.
It is however an understandable mistake to make, as most Dutch know very well, you can't expect Belgians to figure these things out.
But than again, it's not like linking to a
It is all about control, not about net income. So killing 90% of the web radio stations is better than a higher income because it is easier to control a few radio stations and because those pesky small independent stations will be the first to go down.
When that has been dealt with the income issue will be revisited. Raising income is a lot easier when your monopoly is still intact, maintain the monopoly and the income will come anyway. Currently it is the monopoly that is being defended and any plan which does not include maintaining the monopoly is a bad idea, even when it increases revenue.
"If Novell wanted the Linux community's trust, they should never have entered into a Microsoft partnership in the first place. They don't get it and never will."
Sorry, but you seem to severly mix up the "Linux community" with the "Anti-M$ zealots". Sure, to people who consider MS to be Beelzebub this deal is unforgivable. However, for the linux community, you know the ones with better thing to do then bashing MS, the ones with enough brains to actually write the code and with enough brains to understand this deal, it doesn't appear to be such a problem. And tell me, what did they loose with that deal?
And by the way, Novell had a lot of respect in the Linux community long before they got into SUSE. They have alway build rock solid software, and they will be respected for that. They have also never done any harm to the Linux community or to the Open Source movement, something which cannot be said of all these anti-MS zealots around here.
"Is Novell putting Unix in the public domain? Then their money isn't where their mouth is. This is so much a perfect clone of the Caldera debacle, I feel like I'm stuck in Groundhog day."
If you knew anything about Linux or about the old Unix you'd know this would be useless. Anything in there is either allready public domain, severly outdated or long replaced by something better. All that could come from placing this in the public domain is more hassle about copyrights, it's not worth it. Novell should bury this stuff somewhere and never touch it again. And it looks like they are doing just that.
"That seems contradictory to me. Why sign a deal with Microsoft if there isn't any violation?"
Because MS was spreading FUD about that and it was working. But I guess also because MS wanted that part in the deal, it's not just MS who made this promise you know, Novell made the same promise and they do own a bunch of patents as well. And my guess is that these patents are non-trivial, unlike most of the stuff MS is crying about. Now who was afraid to get sued here you think? Novell has been building proper operating systems well before MS got there, they were doing a lot of network stuff before finally managed to get some networking into Windows. Again, guess who has the IP here and who should fear being sued?
I believe them as well. Just take a look at what Novell is, a software company that is moslty about building damn good software. Yes, mostly at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with lousy user interfaces and bad marketing, but still very good software. They have never been really deep into the 'IP' game, their laywers aren't very trigger happy and Novell won't get involved in *any* lawsuit at all unless there is a very good reason.
Now, with SCO they where screwed big time, so they responded. They will respond again when they need to, but not before they need to.
And for the MS - Novell deal, they managed to get a shitload of money out of MS, basically forced MS to actually sell/promote SUSE linux and they gained some sort of patent protecting for a limited amount of open-source users and developers. And yes these 'protection' benefits are pretty useless, they are likely to be nothing but protection agains nothing at all and it gave MS yet an other change to spread some more FUD (which they will do anyway). I don't know what Novell used in these negotiations, but they got the most out of it, more then MS did IMHO.
So, conspiricy theorists are rarely original. And writers of 'opinion' pieces on open source websites are the worst kind.
Please stop fighting these 'freedom stealing' windmills and start enjoying your freedoms. You do realize you lost your all your copyleft freedoms the moment you started writing stuff like this when you could have been writing cool software, testing some beta version of something or even installing Linux on the PC of you mother in law? It's useless to make such a fuss about what the rest of the world does with OSS software, it doesn't help anybody, it doesn't change anything.
Just don't spend a dime on 'patent protecting' or other shit like that. And if somebody else want to pay MS tax, pay licenses, get crappy software, etc. just let them have it. Who cares when the all these closed source companies sue each other to death? Just ignore it.
"J&J is being foolish. The suit will cost them their trademark."
I sure hope so. But I also hope it will cost the ARC the right to monetize this symbol. Both uses cash in on the trust value it currently has, but both uses severely damage this value. If the ARC where to continue this commercial use no one in the US would ever be sure when to take the symbol seriously and when not. That is a problem, and seeing such a trend being started by the ARC is downright sick. (And a violation of the geneva convention, but he, who cares, there's money to be made...)
The current situation was rather balanced, it's the ARC which decide to change this, not J&J. And if I where J&J I'd be prepared to loose my trademark to stop this. And if I where the ICRC i'd takes steps against the ARC for this commercial usage of their symbol.
So, if ARC are using (or licensing) the Red Cross emblem on stuff they are not giving away for free, they are violating the First Geneva Convention.
There is a nice case of a pot calling a kettle black here.
It's also a nice example of how sick the current 'if it doesn't generate cash it's worthless' culture on both sides has become. I mean, a charity which generates revenue by licensing that symbol that provides them with immunity? That by far the most sick use of "ip" i've seen so far...
"What about the rest of the planet that has been using a red cross as a medical & neutrality symbol for more than 50 years."
Then why why why is the American Red Cross now using it as means to promote commercial products? Indeed an interesting case of "is nothing sacred"...
"The article is lighter on details than it should be for an article that spans two pages, but it looks to me like someone set up yet another "bank", promising high returns (and actually delivering for awhile), that was actually just a pyramid scheme. Once the pyramid gets big enough the creator always grabs the money and runs, and people cry and write articles about it."
Al very true, but in the end it might just be the game which is a pyramid scheme, not just the bank inside the game. If Lindon were to pull the plug out of the game right now, where would you go to exchange your Lindon Dollars for real ones?
Only promoting it and having it become a threat to them (i.e. lawsuits, users uninstalling Java on their systems, webpage designers moving away from it) will motivate them to fix the problem.
I'm all with you on forcing vendors to fixs security problems, but you make a rather blunt statement about SUN. So far I haven't seen any examples of security issues in Java being ignored by SUN so you'd better back up an accusation like that with some facts.
Hardware cost, bandwith etc. are the things that need to be 'available' to get things like this running. And that problem can be fixed in two ways, with advertising, which created the need to restrict access to the data to 'things which can show ads', or through a subscription fee which usually puts of the users en thus kills the data.
Maybe some P2P system could fix this, but that whould require users to install certain software which generally slows adoption quit a bit.
Or someone should donate a proper serverfarm with sufficient bandwith, surely there will be people writing for it.
Reading articles like this make me want to avoid growing up even more.
/. summary:
10. It puts Betamax up agains VHS, a format war which should have been won by Video2000
9. It puts Minidisc up agains the CD, although it competed with DCC at the time as the next-gen compact cassette. Recordable CD's didn't exist at that time.
8. They put laserdisc up agains VHS, even though laserdisc's where never writable. There never was a format-war around laserdisc, it was just a product which was released ahead of it's time and failed because of that.
7. Selecting 8 track tapes over Compact Cassettes because, erm, their fixed length 'tracks' are so convenient. Sure, if you enjoy listening to silence... 6. Here is a format war for you, DVD-Audio together with SA-CD again the normal CD. Just ignore the actual format war... And, I quote: "The copy protection is good too, which means less of that pesky piracy the music industry keeps banging on about." Right. 5. Right after the 'All hail HD Audio' part comes the argument that Mini-Disc should have won because of the lossy compression. 4. Yes, BeOS should have survived. But it doesn't explain what an OS has to do in an article about format-wars. 3. DTS should be used instead of Dolby Digital because it's handy in theaters, so we should all use DTS at home. And DTS can use any number of channels which is a good thing, because standards exist to make sure everybody does things differently. 2. Atari-ST, it's not just operating systems in this format war, whole computers count as 'Format' these days. 1. No, its not a top 10, the last page just sums up the ideal world of BeOS operated Betamax recorders with 8-Track laserdiscs and Atrac compressed DTS sound stored on a separate minidisc to be played on and HD-Audio Atari. Or something like that.
At least, I hope US law is not that insane yet.
Just imagine handing out amazon.com gift certificates, or worse, vouchers for internet access.
The simulation might for example show changes in allegiance of Afghan villagers over time depending on how many times they are bombed / given food by NATO troops.
Outcome: It's not just cheaper to simply bomb all of them, it also keeps the sponsors happy.
I guess most slashdotters will settle for a finite probability device to be able to move other people's underware around...
This isn't "NannyState" at all, this is an attempt at stopping scammers and other slimeballs from taking advantage of people.
--
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson
I guess you have to be an american to see the logic in the combination of those two opinions?
How can you defend the right to have 'tools' used to kill people but also say the tools used to scam people should be taken away? Either both are a part of your freedom no one is allowed to interfere with or both are tools with largely undesireable uses and should be forbidden. I can see a point in both, but I cannot see how you can mix both.
If that holds true, wouldn't the same priciple be applied to the reverse scenario? E.g. an U.S. based radio station setting up mirrors in another country whould not have to pay?
I guess the best 'solution' whould be a P2P like broadcasting set-up where you really can't tell who is listening and who is broadcasting.
But now, six years later, Who can the U.S. really trust?
The answer to that one is remarkably close to the answer of "Who can really trust the U.S?"
That's only 2.5% of the budget, and if you're a citizen of the US you'd better hope and pray that your country is spending at least 2% of the budget on intelligence in these times.
Why exactly if i may ask? To be assured of oil? To be assured your next president is an moron as well? To be sure this $DEFENSE_CORP gets it's bonus? To be sure the US will have a enemy available when it needs one?
I think it's a lot of money to put into organisation of which the effect is disputable and limited. I bet you'd save far more lifes spending that money on trafic safety, health care and old fashioned crime prevention. Or perhaps use it to actually achieve at least a little bit of those 'millenium goals'. That might just stop some terrorists along the line as well.
So while nothing is perfect, even in the US, I do think that we are doing it quite right.
So please, let's start respecting patents and lets stop violating them at every opportunity.
Please make up your mind before posting. What is it, you are doing quit right and should go on violating patents at every opportunity? Or you are doing badly and should change that as soon as possible?