You guys never cease to amaze me. You talk about the internet like its an American exlusive and you will make all the rules. Check out how Europe is working on ousting the American control of the internet over there. Other than ripping off the rest of the world, you guys have no idea or concern about how anyone outside the US wants the internet to evolve. You think we give a damn about Microsoft or AOL's visions? You may like to live under those monopolies but we sure don't. How about getting your heads out of the sand and looking beyond your borders for ideas and recommendations. Ohhh, excuse me, I lost me head for a minute there, I know that'll never happen.....
The main issue causing the rejection of the "corn" is the fact that once you start using "that corn", you will never reach self subsistance since you have to pay Mr. American Seed Maker (MASM)in perpetuity to grow crops. No one ever wants to enter into a "never ending" agreement with anyone. To add insult to injury, as stated by others, even neighbouring farmers can get their corn cross pollinated by the blowing winds and be forced into a contract with MASM. See the article on the Canadian forced to pay. That's what's being refused. The individual farmers end up giving control of "their land" to the large companies in long term seed fees. Ironically the US govt pays a huge subsidy to the american farmers who in turn pay large fees to MASM. Corporate greed knows no bounds in the USA and you expect the rest of the world to "buy it". Guess again....
The real reason the Itanium effort between HP and Intel died is because the "best" way to do things in that chip were already patented against the Alpha chip. After years of trying to work around the patent problems, HP was tossed out by Intel to go it alone BUT the real kicker is that the Itanium II chip will be based on the Alpha chip to utilize all the "best way to do it" technology the alpha uses. When it comes to compilers that's the one thing that Digital (creator of the Alpha) did right, they produced all the compilers before releasing the chip to market. Optimized 64bit computing has been around for years on the Alpha. Too bad stupid old Compaq threw away the Alpha before they learned what they had IE: the egg from the Golden goose. If my mole is right, it will live again in the Itanium II.
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You guys never cease to amaze me. You talk about the internet like its an American exlusive and you will make all the rules. Check out how Europe is working on ousting the American control of the internet over there. Other than ripping off the rest of the world, you guys have no idea or concern about how anyone outside the US wants the internet to evolve. You think we give a damn about Microsoft or AOL's visions? You may like to live under those monopolies but we sure don't. How about getting your heads out of the sand and looking beyond your borders for ideas and recommendations. Ohhh, excuse me, I lost me head for a minute there, I know that'll never happen.....
The main issue causing the rejection of the "corn" is the fact that once you start using "that corn", you will never reach self subsistance since you have to pay Mr. American Seed Maker (MASM)in perpetuity to grow crops. No one ever wants to enter into a "never ending" agreement with anyone. To add insult to injury, as stated by others, even neighbouring farmers can get their corn cross pollinated by the blowing winds and be forced into a contract with MASM. See the article on the Canadian forced to pay. That's what's being refused. The individual farmers end up giving control of "their land" to the large companies in long term seed fees. Ironically the US govt pays a huge subsidy to the american farmers who in turn pay large fees to MASM. Corporate greed knows no bounds in the USA and you expect the rest of the world to "buy it". Guess again....
The real reason the Itanium effort between HP and Intel died is because the "best" way to do things in that chip were already patented against the Alpha chip. After years of trying to work around the patent problems, HP was tossed out by Intel to go it alone BUT the real kicker is that the Itanium II chip will be based on the Alpha chip to utilize all the "best way to do it" technology the alpha uses. When it comes to compilers that's the one thing that Digital (creator of the Alpha) did right, they produced all the compilers before releasing the chip to market. Optimized 64bit computing has been around for years on the Alpha. Too bad stupid old Compaq threw away the Alpha before they learned what they had IE: the egg from the Golden goose. If my mole is right, it will live again in the Itanium II.