User: atapi

Re:A 40% drop in pay is easy to understand

On: U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species?

so what are your plans when you lose that 40%job to an a guy making $20 a week in india and after a couple of years of being unemployeed your cash reserves start to run out and you cant afford the house payment? Please let me know because down in south florida I know a ton of people in exactly this situation. They are working three jobs to pay the mortgage. waiter, waiter, waiter..... 40% of 100k is 40k just wait till your making 10k

hmm can you sue back?

On: Mambo Users Threatened

I was wondering if you can sue back... If your currently developing a web site which uses the mambo code in your project and this open threat to development costs you money because you have to redesign a website from the ground up to avoid legal issues costing you time and money so that you can add all the features back in. can you sue the guy if his case turns out not to hold water? I am tired of these people going after communities of web developers because they sneak 5 lines of html into an open source project. Anyone who slanders(or liable I forget which is correct term) a project and or projects and threatens to sue them but doesnt should be sued... ie if SCO case fails then all the users of linux should be able to sue sco for damages to their linux based business... if these people choose to try these types of cases in view of public light rather than in court then everyone in that community should sue back when the case does not hold ground. if we dont then we the open source community set a very bad precedent... The method: 1.get someone to sell you code that is put in open source projects 2.sue all users of open source project code 3.ask for money without proof 4.hire a lawyer at 50% commission on all money collected 5. ask for donations on your web site for your case(mabye sco will pay him) 6. if you have to goto court drag it out for 2 years so that you can keep collecting money from people as you go 7. if you lose just pay the lawyer fees and minor damages of the other person in that one case... 8. Horray you just got 10 million for code that cost $1000 bucks to produce and 5 minutes time... The only real way to scare people away from this is to set a few examples. We need 1000 lawsuits against this guy for having to develop new biz models and software etc... The people who play this game need to learn that they lose far more for nonsense complaints then they can gain. the only group who normally handles cases in these matters has been the eff www.eff.org we need way more than one case. we need 100 cases. or 10000 cases... can you sue someone seperately and not be forced to join a class action suit?

Re:I brought one of these recently: Skip this prod

On: ReplayTV Price Drop Bait-and-Switch

i very disappointed... i went to circuit city the other day and saw the deal for 149 and didnt buy it because i didnt have the cash.. then i went back the next day to 4 stores the last store posted a notice that the 40 hour replay did not include service... but the 80 hour did... so i didnt want the 80 hour but i knew that it was my only choice... I bought two of them... both as presents... iv always wanted one but i couldnt afford one myself... so for christmas i bought my father his replay tv.. and after i set it all up i find out that they will not honor my purchase.. i now have two replay tv's sitting on my floor... my dads xmas present and my friends xmas present... im sopposed to see my friend tommorrow to exchange gifts and i have no time to replace it... i dont feel right giving him a unit with a 300 dollar price tag... the reason i bought it was for the free service... i could afford to pay for something once not forever... so if there is a class action law suit i want in... replay tv ruined my christmas... and im so pissed off becuase tommorrow i have to deal with my friend and tell him that i dont have a present for him.. because replay messed me over... the worst part is i think my friend bought me one.. because after i saw the deal i told him about it and i think he went and purchased one for me because he knows iv wanted one for year just couldnt afford it for myself.. sucky thing is i cant afford to pay for service since im a collage student... please email me if your starting a class action suit because i have two of these and i think im getting a third... replay you ruined my xmas you ruined my dads christmas you ruined my friends present... you all suck... please email me if you know of a class action suit.. virgill41@HOTMAIL.COM

can you resell dsl i thought dsl was illegal to

On: Building a Wireless Network for an Apartment Complex?

i dont think anyones agreements with there isp allows for the reselling of dsl service any thoughts