I assume the author has never had any experience with a small ISP attempting to sell microsoft small business server. In that market you will find the people that worship the juggernaut.
I am going to have to agree with you. An angered swarm of goons is not a bees nest I would want to stir up. I have seen how far goons are willing to go to protect what is theirs. Goldman should talk to ebaum if he wants to get an understanding of what it is like.
"Could these moves signal the beginning of a period of rapid improvement in Free drivers for video cards"
VIA is hardly a leader in the video industry. Seems to me like this type of prediction is just going to wind up letting people down. Hope is nice, but lets not slide down this slippery slope.
So they are selling songs for 99 cents and they keep none of that? Where does all that money go? I know it doesn't go into the syringes of the musicians.
correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the internet supposed to put more money into artists pockets wtih all this "direct to customer" type stuff?
It is my understanding that sun releases many of their products unsupported. If they really want to make a dent in a business market they could actually start selling support contracts for software. It would be good for their income and good for a customer to be guaranteed support when they need it. Other shops have been doing this for years; I am surprised Sun hasn't caught on.
Just a little reminder here. AOL has all sorts of snail mail spam going out to people. Has anyone ever tried to get this shut off? Good luck. Is there an opt in for this stuff? No. Is there any sort of opt out for it? Not that I have ever seen. I bet if there was an opt out phone number on the back AOL would take this information and sell it to partners.
I find all the AOL CD displays at retail stores annoying as well. www.nomoreaolcds.com (as seen on slashdot) talks about this just a bit. I really think it would be great to start up some sort of class action law suit against them for mailing this crap out to pepole. Or hell any of the 30 different places that send me crap in the mail on a weekly basis.
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I assume the author has never had any experience with a small ISP attempting to sell microsoft small business server. In that market you will find the people that worship the juggernaut.
I am going to have to agree with you. An angered swarm of goons is not a bees nest I would want to stir up. I have seen how far goons are willing to go to protect what is theirs. Goldman should talk to ebaum if he wants to get an understanding of what it is like.
"Could these moves signal the beginning of a period of rapid improvement in Free drivers for video cards" VIA is hardly a leader in the video industry. Seems to me like this type of prediction is just going to wind up letting people down. Hope is nice, but lets not slide down this slippery slope.
So they are selling songs for 99 cents and they keep none of that? Where does all that money go? I know it doesn't go into the syringes of the musicians. correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the internet supposed to put more money into artists pockets wtih all this "direct to customer" type stuff?
It is my understanding that sun releases many of their products unsupported. If they really want to make a dent in a business market they could actually start selling support contracts for software. It would be good for their income and good for a customer to be guaranteed support when they need it. Other shops have been doing this for years; I am surprised Sun hasn't caught on.
Just a little reminder here. AOL has all sorts of snail mail spam going out to people. Has anyone ever tried to get this shut off? Good luck. Is there an opt in for this stuff? No. Is there any sort of opt out for it? Not that I have ever seen. I bet if there was an opt out phone number on the back AOL would take this information and sell it to partners. I find all the AOL CD displays at retail stores annoying as well. www.nomoreaolcds.com (as seen on slashdot) talks about this just a bit. I really think it would be great to start up some sort of class action law suit against them for mailing this crap out to pepole. Or hell any of the 30 different places that send me crap in the mail on a weekly basis.