I am one of them who downloaded from P2P. But the reason for me to download those software is just because I have some spare time and the download is free (as in beer).
I download the software last night, install it in a pirated copy of Windows at the morning, play it around, and finally find that it is a rubbish at evening and I removed it.
Why I did so? Just because I wanna keep myself in touch with the software trend. I wanna know what software is available and what is their capability -- and incapability. Other then these, I have no other sense to "really" use it: I am a loyal Linux user!
If I don't have P2P network, I will just find out another way to spend my spare time. I won't feel anything missed if I don't have the software. So if the software maker is so powerful that killed all P2P network of the world and charged for every copy of their software, I won't pay to any of them either!
Now, you can see that: If I have P2P, the world has one more user of the software, the software makers' revenue from me is zero. If I don't have, P2P, the world has one less user user of the software, the software makers' revenue from me is also zero!
So the revenue of the software makers don't change. Do you say I cause you any loss among the $29b?
Search is a fiercely competitive arena, even though there are really only five Web search companies today: Google, Yahoo (Altavista/AlltheWeb/Inktomi), Looksmart (Wisenut), AskJeeves (Teoma), and Gigablast.
I am a Chinese speaker and the tradition of east asian writing is character-based and no alphabets. That means we don't separate words with blank spaces but rather dosomethinglikethis. The language we use is having this characteristic and caused many problem for search services because you never know you interpret that thing into dos ome thingli keth is is right or not. We have to introduce some dictionary into the search engine and it is different from many western languages.
So I don't believe there is only five search engine providers in this world. At least I know a list of more search engines developed to support east asian languages.
Try and do the same thing on UNIX.
# apt-get install your_favorite_MTA
your_favorite_IMAP your_favorite_POP3 .....
(some minutes later) .....
# make fun
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I am one of them who downloaded from P2P. But the reason for me to download those software is just because I have some spare time and the download is free (as in beer).
I download the software last night, install it in a pirated copy of Windows at the morning, play it around, and finally find that it is a rubbish at evening and I removed it.
Why I did so? Just because I wanna keep myself in touch with the software trend. I wanna know what software is available and what is their capability -- and incapability. Other then these, I have no other sense to "really" use it: I am a loyal Linux user!
If I don't have P2P network, I will just find out another way to spend my spare time. I won't feel anything missed if I don't have the software. So if the software maker is so powerful that killed all P2P network of the world and charged for every copy of their software, I won't pay to any of them either!
Now, you can see that:
If I have P2P, the world has one more user of the software, the software makers' revenue from me is zero.
If I don't have, P2P, the world has one less user user of the software, the software makers' revenue from me is also zero!
So the revenue of the software makers don't change. Do you say I cause you any loss among the $29b?
2nd POST....not PSOT
Search is a fiercely competitive arena, even though there are really only five Web search companies today: Google, Yahoo (Altavista/AlltheWeb/Inktomi), Looksmart (Wisenut), AskJeeves (Teoma), and Gigablast.
I am a Chinese speaker and the tradition of east asian writing is character-based and no alphabets. That means we don't separate words with blank spaces but rather dosomethinglikethis. The language we use is having this characteristic and caused many problem for search services because you never know you interpret that thing into dos ome thingli keth is is right or not. We have to introduce some dictionary into the search engine and it is different from many western languages. So I don't believe there is only five search engine providers in this world. At least I know a list of more search engines developed to support east asian languages.
Hay, X Window, not X Windows
Try and do the same thing on UNIX.
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# apt-get install your_favorite_MTA
your_favorite_IMAP your_favorite_POP3
(some minutes later)
# make fun
Try and do the same thing on UNIX. .....
(some minutes later) .....
# make fun
# apt-get install your_favorite_MTA your_favorite_IMAP your_favorite_POP3
Did Bill means his team is going to *invent* Baysian spam filtering? I am used to this in Mozilla for a long time.
Oh...I **hate** communist....and I am a Hong Kong citizen