The GPL is written with the concept that people who distribute your work still have to attribute that work to you, not claim it as their own. BSD follows the anything you can take is your philosophy.
Mozilla has a right to protect its brand, it is not simply lending its name out for free. What would say if I put out code and it said official Linus Torvalds code! GPL relates to how copyrighted code is distributed, not a license for anyone to strip any potential value or credit for somebody else.
And to put it bluntly, the Mozilla name is not software code.
If Lucas Arts were smart, they would decide compare what they are working on with what these guys are doing. If these guys are doing a better job then they should stop development on their own game and see if they can get hire these guys to complete the project. Get a license for BF1942 and then sell the commercial product. Much better than trying to do the whole thing yourself just because you Lucas Arts.
Companies tend to make piss poor decisions about working with a community to make a good product. Yeah these guys probalbly borrowed Lucas Art content, but if they make a decent product and would like to get it officially sponsored and sold, LA should do it.
If you could build really bad software that looks good on the surface, get other people fix it for you for free, and still get paid, would you do it?
In a competitive market customer service can count for alot. The fact that it could be fixed at all means MS was slacking with this. It might cost more to fix, but if the return on getting it fixed was selling to X more customers, the costs of fixing IE would be more than compensated for.
The fact that MS does not feel a need to fix this means that they would don't lose X customers for not fixing this and saving some money shows why monopolies are bad.
How about an efficient method of converting organic material into fertilizer in 24 hours? SCO has been working on this one non-stop for a while now, I wonder when they are going to sue everyone for it.
As the article says that Microsoft is not innovating with all the money they are getting.
As you so helpfully pointed out, they are still fixing the short-comings in all their current products not generating Nobel prizing winning advances in computers.
I don't like software drivers, it implies that you need special software in order for it to work. I wondered why hardware manufacturers just don't burn drivers onto a PROM on the card. Then get the OS looks for the drivers on the card itself. No more needing a floppy disk, or CD for software. You can upgrade the chip via flash for the newest drivers.
OK, why would you do this? Image all you really have to do at this point would be to just plug in the board and the OS would just find it. OK, how is this different from the way it is now you ask. Well, the OS does not have 50,000+ drivers that come with it. It does not need them, they are on the board.
No disks, no additional software, just plug and play for your sound/video card.
Should anyone be? That seems the only way people can come up with to make money off of search engines. I am not saying it is a good way, or the right way, but damned if it has not been done before so lets do it again! Its gotta work this time!
Google did an excellent job with their advertising model, now if only someone attempt to copy that part instead of the search technology maybe we will be alright.
What about when kids raised on farms had to be involved with the butchery of animals on a regular basis? Seeing all that blood was sure to create many a mass murder I am sure.
How about all of those people who fought in WWII, I bet they went on to killing binges and terrorized the country side. That really did not happen either.
What about KKK terrorizing blacks and minorities to keep white safe? THAT DID HAPPEN! It probalbly was very scary to be a black sometimes especially if you wanted to buck the system.
People tend to have a selective memory about such things, the fact is that alot of the things that we pay attention to now, we ignored them and do not have basis to how bad it really was.
I think what it is will come down to is a lawsuit.
Basically if an ISP gets a denial of service attack via SPAM, they lose business. They look at UUNET(source of the source), and say "HEY, you have AUP but you are not enforcing it!" They shrug their shoulders, and ignore them. A big time lawyer shows up and says, "I am filing a class-action lawsuit against you for not following your own policies, which caused damage to my client."
When a company looks at a couple hundred million dollars in damages, and bad publicity for allowing those Viagra, Penis Enlargement, Breast Enlargement SPAM they really do get worried. It is just sad that it would take a major lawsuit to do it though.
You mean like ISPs that have to rely on the phone company to provide DSL and internet connectivity services? Especially when those companies are marketing the same services. How about when those phone companies charge the ISPs more per connection than they pay for themselves?
Local phone companies have all the benefits of having a monopoly on the market and now the entity that allowed them become one is tired of doing business with them. Where was the competition that was supposed to come about from opening up networks?
The local companies locked everyone else out rather than attempt to compete. I don't agree with the local governments providing competition for network services but I don't agree with a government supported monopoly either.
I worked for the DOD for about a year. Originially the originization that I worked with was using 486 DX-33's to run Windows 3.11, but decided to get everyone to upgrade to Windows NT 4.0 for security reasons. However the IT department does not provide computers for individual departments within the organization, they had to shell out of their own budgets to purchase new computers. If you wanted they could give you a 486 for free but not a brand new computer. So there were people running NT 4.0 that would literally wait for a half-hour for their machine to login to the network and running the logon script.
The moral of the story, people will put up with a lot of BS, if the money that they would be shelling out comes out of their own pocket. LINUX might be harder to use than Windows, but they will put with problems because at $300/workstation is alot of money that someone did not want to pay for.
Easy money is like a drug, you keep coming back for more. This guy basically saw easy money, made easy money, and probalbly did not believe that he could get into that much trouble for it(he is the first you know). I don't many people that would be willing to stop making $150,000 a year for doing nothing, even if they know they are doing something wrong.
When peer pressure comes into play then a person will start to think twice. An outside influence can help someone bring perspective to what your doing and who knows if he ever mentioned what he does to anyone else?
Little Girl: You are trapped between the machine world and man's world.
Neo: You mean...
Little Girl: Thats right, the Blue Screen of Death! Where the machine cannot do anything and neither can the user... The only person who can free you is a MCSE!
Neo: Where am I?
Little Girl: You are trapped between the machine world and man's world.
Neo: You mean...
Little Girl: Thats right, the Blue Screen of Death! Where the machine cannot do anything and neither can the user... The only person who can free you is a MCSE!
Neo: NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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Well it only took 37 1/2 hours of this for this guy to get on slashdot and it did not even require any real skill! He could have saved 212 hours!
For Google going public, there are two basic possibilities. Google no longer feels that they can pull away from the market, so they are going to cash in what they can. The other is that Google needs more money to expand their horizons.
Either way, it would be foolish to assume that things are going stay they way they are. Everyone would like to make money on their ideas.
I fear that this would stifle their innovation and bring it closer to some of the other failed portals.. ie more ads in an attempt to satisfy investors.
Why should Google not "sellout?" Are you providing them with money by way of investing? An investor is someone who believes in the business and approves of the way the business is run. They might have to change the way that they do some business but if you are not willing to invest in the company, what type of voice do you deserve?
Those people who only use google as a search engine are certainly getting more than they put in, and they always have a choice of going someplace else. So why should they "hope" that Google does not change?
The purchase of the company was issue stock of Comcast. So it cost them basically no bread at all. Hell I could buy Disney by offering stock. It is just a matter if I could convince the company that my offer was worth anything by me being in charge.
They could probalbly up the anty a bit too for a stock to stock exchange. It is basically no cash out of their pocket.
I find that it will be hard for a bunch of people who's primary interest in diamonds as bobbles being able to influence governments to regulate the industry. Especially since they have been getting occasional bad press due to associations with instabilities in Africa, for example.
There is alot of money at stake, but it is not for alot of people. Diamonds are a relatively small industry and they might be able to market them based on differentiation and authenticity, but I doubt that would really keep people in check from manufacturing man-made diamonds.
Diamonds have alot of properties that people have been unable to test. It has been to expensive, but as the man-made stuff is used to do things like do a "diamond-coating" of electronics. They are discovering all of these properties and incredible uses for them that noone have even considered. Maybe a diamond coated CPU perhaps?
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Have redirected some of that current into getting a more powerful network connection.
The GPL is written with the concept that people who distribute your work still have to attribute that work to you, not claim it as their own. BSD follows the anything you can take is your philosophy.
Mozilla has a right to protect its brand, it is not simply lending its name out for free. What would say if I put out code and it said official Linus Torvalds code! GPL relates to how copyrighted code is distributed, not a license for anyone to strip any potential value or credit for somebody else.
And to put it bluntly, the Mozilla name is not software code.
Cop: Yeah I know it is against the law but I think that we are in the wrong here.
DA: Look, we don't make the rules we just enforce them.
Cop: But look how can we deny the future of such a plentiful bounty. Think of it, 10,000 young, nubile sex-crazed Natalie Portman's!
DA: Your so right! Your honor, case dismissed!
The study found that where office workers who were told to clean their desks with disinfecting wipes, bacterial levels were reduced by 99%.
Johnson and Johnson sponsored this study, didn't they!
Where's your shitting robot Toyota?!?!
I don't know where Ford hid the robot, but they definitely sold the turd it dropped(AKA. Pinto).
If Lucas Arts were smart, they would decide compare what they are working on with what these guys are doing. If these guys are doing a better job then they should stop development on their own game and see if they can get hire these guys to complete the project. Get a license for BF1942 and then sell the commercial product. Much better than trying to do the whole thing yourself just because you Lucas Arts. Companies tend to make piss poor decisions about working with a community to make a good product. Yeah these guys probalbly borrowed Lucas Art content, but if they make a decent product and would like to get it officially sponsored and sold, LA should do it.
If you could build really bad software that looks good on the surface, get other people fix it for you for free, and still get paid, would you do it?
In a competitive market customer service can count for alot. The fact that it could be fixed at all means MS was slacking with this. It might cost more to fix, but if the return on getting it fixed was selling to X more customers, the costs of fixing IE would be more than compensated for.
The fact that MS does not feel a need to fix this means that they would don't lose X customers for not fixing this and saving some money shows why monopolies are bad.
How about an efficient method of converting organic material into fertilizer in 24 hours? SCO has been working on this one non-stop for a while now, I wonder when they are going to sue everyone for it.
As the article says that Microsoft is not innovating with all the money they are getting.
As you so helpfully pointed out, they are still fixing the short-comings in all their current products not generating Nobel prizing winning advances in computers.
I don't like software drivers, it implies that you need special software in order for it to work. I wondered why hardware manufacturers just don't burn drivers onto a PROM on the card. Then get the OS looks for the drivers on the card itself. No more needing a floppy disk, or CD for software. You can upgrade the chip via flash for the newest drivers.
OK, why would you do this? Image all you really have to do at this point would be to just plug in the board and the OS would just find it. OK, how is this different from the way it is now you ask. Well, the OS does not have 50,000+ drivers that come with it. It does not need them, they are on the board.
No disks, no additional software, just plug and play for your sound/video card.
Should anyone be? That seems the only way people can come up with to make money off of search engines. I am not saying it is a good way, or the right way, but damned if it has not been done before so lets do it again! Its gotta work this time!
Google did an excellent job with their advertising model, now if only someone attempt to copy that part instead of the search technology maybe we will be alright.
What about when kids raised on farms had to be involved with the butchery of animals on a regular basis? Seeing all that blood was sure to create many a mass murder I am sure.
How about all of those people who fought in WWII, I bet they went on to killing binges and terrorized the country side. That really did not happen either.
What about KKK terrorizing blacks and minorities to keep white safe? THAT DID HAPPEN! It probalbly was very scary to be a black sometimes especially if you wanted to buck the system.
People tend to have a selective memory about such things, the fact is that alot of the things that we pay attention to now, we ignored them and do not have basis to how bad it really was.
I think what it is will come down to is a lawsuit.
Basically if an ISP gets a denial of service attack via SPAM, they lose business. They look at UUNET(source of the source), and say "HEY, you have AUP but you are not enforcing it!" They shrug their shoulders, and ignore them. A big time lawyer shows up and says, "I am filing a class-action lawsuit against you for not following your own policies, which caused damage to my client."
When a company looks at a couple hundred million dollars in damages, and bad publicity for allowing those Viagra, Penis Enlargement, Breast Enlargement SPAM they really do get worried. It is just sad that it would take a major lawsuit to do it though.
You mean like ISPs that have to rely on the phone company to provide DSL and internet connectivity services? Especially when those companies are marketing the same services. How about when those phone companies charge the ISPs more per connection than they pay for themselves?
Local phone companies have all the benefits of having a monopoly on the market and now the entity that allowed them become one is tired of doing business with them. Where was the competition that was supposed to come about from opening up networks?
The local companies locked everyone else out rather than attempt to compete. I don't agree with the local governments providing competition for network services but I don't agree with a government supported monopoly either.
I worked for the DOD for about a year. Originially the originization that I worked with was using 486 DX-33's to run Windows 3.11, but decided to get everyone to upgrade to Windows NT 4.0 for security reasons. However the IT department does not provide computers for individual departments within the organization, they had to shell out of their own budgets to purchase new computers. If you wanted they could give you a 486 for free but not a brand new computer. So there were people running NT 4.0 that would literally wait for a half-hour for their machine to login to the network and running the logon script.
The moral of the story, people will put up with a lot of BS, if the money that they would be shelling out comes out of their own pocket. LINUX might be harder to use than Windows, but they will put with problems because at $300/workstation is alot of money that someone did not want to pay for.
Easy money is like a drug, you keep coming back for more. This guy basically saw easy money, made easy money, and probalbly did not believe that he could get into that much trouble for it(he is the first you know). I don't many people that would be willing to stop making $150,000 a year for doing nothing, even if they know they are doing something wrong.
When peer pressure comes into play then a person will start to think twice. An outside influence can help someone bring perspective to what your doing and who knows if he ever mentioned what he does to anyone else?
Lets fix the formatting here,
Neo: Where am I?
Little Girl: You are trapped between the machine world and man's world.
Neo: You mean...
Little Girl: Thats right, the Blue Screen of Death! Where the machine cannot do anything and neither can the user... The only person who can free you is a MCSE!
Neo: NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Neo: Where am I? Little Girl: You are trapped between the machine world and man's world. Neo: You mean... Little Girl: Thats right, the Blue Screen of Death! Where the machine cannot do anything and neither can the user... The only person who can free you is a MCSE! Neo: NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Well it only took 37 1/2 hours of this for this guy to get on slashdot and it did not even require any real skill! He could have saved 212 hours!
For Google going public, there are two basic possibilities. Google no longer feels that they can pull away from the market, so they are going to cash in what they can. The other is that Google needs more money to expand their horizons. Either way, it would be foolish to assume that things are going stay they way they are. Everyone would like to make money on their ideas.
I fear that this would stifle their innovation and bring it closer to some of the other failed portals.. ie more ads in an attempt to satisfy investors.
Why should Google not "sellout?" Are you providing them with money by way of investing? An investor is someone who believes in the business and approves of the way the business is run. They might have to change the way that they do some business but if you are not willing to invest in the company, what type of voice do you deserve?
Those people who only use google as a search engine are certainly getting more than they put in, and they always have a choice of going someplace else. So why should they "hope" that Google does not change?
That it would be better if they never find out about this web site!
The purchase of the company was issue stock of Comcast. So it cost them basically no bread at all. Hell I could buy Disney by offering stock. It is just a matter if I could convince the company that my offer was worth anything by me being in charge.
They could probalbly up the anty a bit too for a stock to stock exchange. It is basically no cash out of their pocket.
Reminds me of the idea of self-graded tests in school.
MS: Yeap! Got another 100, give me that A++!
Teacher: Are you sure? This the 5th test that you have gotten 100 on, but you keep failing all the quizes you take in class.
MS: I study really hard for the tests but I don't study for the quizzes. A++ please!
Teacher: Well lets take a look at it first...
MS: What!? You don't trust me! I am insulted that you believe that the answers for my test are less than perfect!
Teacher: That's right lets take a look here... Good god you missed that!
MS: What?! Let me see that! *rub,rub,rub*, there it is fixed give me a 100!
Teacher: That is not the way it works, give me back that test... You missed these three too!
MS: Wait, Wait I think that I made a typo there, let me fix it...
Teacher: Did you get anything right? You even mispelled your name!
MS: Help, Help I am being oppressed!
I find that it will be hard for a bunch of people who's primary interest in diamonds as bobbles being able to influence governments to regulate the industry. Especially since they have been getting occasional bad press due to associations with instabilities in Africa, for example.
There is alot of money at stake, but it is not for alot of people. Diamonds are a relatively small industry and they might be able to market them based on differentiation and authenticity, but I doubt that would really keep people in check from manufacturing man-made diamonds.
Diamonds have alot of properties that people have been unable to test. It has been to expensive, but as the man-made stuff is used to do things like do a "diamond-coating" of electronics. They are discovering all of these properties and incredible uses for them that noone have even considered. Maybe a diamond coated CPU perhaps?
In the spirit of Earth First! Enjoy!