It doesn't seem fair to attack Microsoft with GPL V3 without also going after Google. Google gets to use GPL software without ever having to release source because they're not selling software, they're selling services. If Microsoft did that GPL V4 would come out faster than you can say Free Software.
Wouldn't we just complain about them "embracing and extending" ODF? Anyone remember J++. They tried to make their own version of Java that compiled against the JVM and Sun sued them. So instead they went and built.NET and C#. Now we have C# and Java to choose from. In a way the competition has been good. In a way it kinda sucks.
I can almost guarantee that if MS said "we're gonna support ODF" we'd be predicting how they're going to embrace and extend it.
I'm done with your products. I'm tired of your 500 MB Print Drivers anyway. But more importantly, we the consumers, have to take a stand where you'll notice: at the bottom line. So from now on, you're dead to me. I'll buy from a competitor.
ABC announced that they want to circumvent fast forward on PVRs. Apple announced a new media PC to replace the TV (and MS's media PC). Then I read this article about adware/spyware being a huge business with real investors and legitimate companies buying in to the idea.
Then I add it all up and realize that in a few years my TV is going to be hijacked by popup ads that make me punch the monkey before I'm able to watch any of the tv shows I've recorded.
The other thing I noticed is how much damage this has done to microsoft. MS should be doing all they can to hope the Attorney General wins this law suit. Most of my family has "switched(tm)" for this very reason. Either to lin or mac, but away from win.
My fear with this idea has always been that if I provided a proxy for others, say, people in China, then others could also use my proxy for downloading RIAA songs and MPAA movies and kiddie porn and hacking into the state department to not get a photo of a ufo.
I guess this system works on trust, you only give your proxy info to people you trust. But I don't know. I hope they have solved this potential problem, because it's the one thing keeping me from running a public proxy.
the only companies that don't use their dominance of old technology to get rich on new technology are the RIAA and the MPAA. The oil/automobile industry would jump on that other stuff if they could. In fact, ironically enough, they are the leading investors in alternative energy.
If we've learned anything from immigration activists, it's that we need to march in the streets/
Maybe burn all our dvds and cds on the steps of congress. Or boycott disneyland this summer. I mean, if we really cared, we would do something. We had so many opportunities with starwars movies, and matrix and LOTR, but we all got in line, some of us early.
Wouldn't this end up creating some sort of infinate dupe-loop and tear the fabric of space-time?...damn, foiled by slashcode "This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original..."
If you're like me, and believe that at least half of the viruses out there are made by the anti-virus corporations to convince you of the need to buy their software, then this is bad news indeed!
When MS tried this, we all got PO'ed saying "great, and then one day they'll decide you have to pay per month to access your own files, and the next day you'll pay per file, and then eventually you'll pay per letter typed/read/modified"
If I was right to have irrational fears about online-office when MS tried it in 1999, I'm sure I'm right to have the same irrational fears now that google is trying it, even if I do trust Google, deep down, to do the right thing if given the opportunity. (Scientology and other law suits took that opportunity away from them, but when they've had the choice between good and evil they've always chosen good).
Still, I like running word at home, so the bloated piece of shit can crash my computer. Why change a good thing?:)
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I was listening to my ipod at a coffee shop, and so were three other people, and I was thinking to myself, why can't my ipod show songs available from the coffeeshop. I hope they figure out how to stream to the ipod, with the songs showing up on the screen and everything.
If there are any chinese websites that we (in the rest of the free world) can get to that those in China can also get to, we should log in and post some of the banned stuff.
We'll need a) willing volunteers (I'm one) b) something worthy to post, preferably in chinese, that is both illegal and worth while (no chinese nazi hate shit, you know, but maybe a chinese version of Tom Paine's Common Sense c) some chinese urls
Why not flood their internet with banned material? sort of a force feeding of freedom. What are they gonna do, build a giant freaking wall?!?! And if they do, will it keep chinese spammers out?
I agree. Nothing else will make them think twice. They hide behind the corporation knowing that even if they do get caught, they'll get the golden parachute and the corporation will take the fall - and most likely be bailed out. See WorldCom. Fuck em. If they thought, evev if only for a second, gee, someone might shoot me for being an evil prick. Maybe things would be a little more tempered.
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It doesn't seem fair to attack Microsoft with GPL V3 without also going after Google. Google gets to use GPL software without ever having to release source because they're not selling software, they're selling services. If Microsoft did that GPL V4 would come out faster than you can say Free Software.
Wouldn't we just complain about them "embracing and extending" ODF? Anyone remember J++. They tried to make their own version of Java that compiled against the JVM and Sun sued them. So instead they went and built .NET and C#. Now we have C# and Java to choose from. In a way the competition has been good. In a way it kinda sucks.
I can almost guarantee that if MS said "we're gonna support ODF" we'd be predicting how they're going to embrace and extend it.
I'm done with your products. I'm tired of your 500 MB Print Drivers anyway. But more importantly, we the consumers, have to take a stand where you'll notice: at the bottom line. So from now on, you're dead to me. I'll buy from a competitor.
Get Bent!
ABC announced that they want to circumvent fast forward on PVRs. Apple announced a new media PC to replace the TV (and MS's media PC). Then I read this article about adware/spyware being a huge business with real investors and legitimate companies buying in to the idea.
Then I add it all up and realize that in a few years my TV is going to be hijacked by popup ads that make me punch the monkey before I'm able to watch any of the tv shows I've recorded.
The other thing I noticed is how much damage this has done to microsoft. MS should be doing all they can to hope the Attorney General wins this law suit. Most of my family has "switched(tm)" for this very reason. Either to lin or mac, but away from win.
My fear with this idea has always been that if I provided a proxy for others, say, people in China, then others could also use my proxy for downloading RIAA songs and MPAA movies and kiddie porn and hacking into the state department to not get a photo of a ufo.
I guess this system works on trust, you only give your proxy info to people you trust. But I don't know. I hope they have solved this potential problem, because it's the one thing keeping me from running a public proxy.
I agree.
the only companies that don't use their dominance of old technology to get rich on new technology are the RIAA and the MPAA. The oil/automobile industry would jump on that other stuff if they could. In fact, ironically enough, they are the leading investors in alternative energy.
If we've learned anything from immigration activists, it's that we need to march in the streets/
Maybe burn all our dvds and cds on the steps of congress. Or boycott disneyland this summer. I mean, if we really cared, we would do something. We had so many opportunities with starwars movies, and matrix and LOTR, but we all got in line, some of us early.
Face it, we're their bitch.
Wouldn't this end up creating some sort of infinate dupe-loop and tear the fabric of space-time? ...damn, foiled by slashcode "This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original..."
If you're like me, and believe that at least half of the viruses out there are made by the anti-virus corporations to convince you of the need to buy their software, then this is bad news indeed!
Anyone care to decipher the perl code for us who aren't perl freaks.
I'm not stupid enough to run it, but I'd like to know how it works.
Thanks.
I want to get hired there so that I can get a RIM JOB. HAHHAHA
wow, what a bunch of whining. power to the people I say. If you're FOS enough people will point it out on their blogs.
haha, goatse. it will never die.
ALL HAIL TOM st. DENIS
He's like the best slashdotter ever!
He ROXORZ and RUl3z and all that too!
When MS tried this, we all got PO'ed saying "great, and then one day they'll decide you have to pay per month to access your own files, and the next day you'll pay per file, and then eventually you'll pay per letter typed/read/modified"
:)
If I was right to have irrational fears about online-office when MS tried it in 1999, I'm sure I'm right to have the same irrational fears now that google is trying it, even if I do trust Google, deep down, to do the right thing if given the opportunity. (Scientology and other law suits took that opportunity away from them, but when they've had the choice between good and evil they've always chosen good).
Still, I like running word at home, so the bloated piece of shit can crash my computer. Why change a good thing?
I was listening to my ipod at a coffee shop, and so were three other people, and I was thinking to myself, why can't my ipod show songs available from the coffeeshop. I hope they figure out how to stream to the ipod, with the songs showing up on the screen and everything.
If there are any chinese websites that we (in the rest of the free world) can get to that those in China can also get to, we should log in and post some of the banned stuff.
We'll need
a) willing volunteers (I'm one)
b) something worthy to post, preferably in chinese, that is both illegal and worth while (no chinese nazi hate shit, you know, but maybe a chinese version of Tom Paine's Common Sense
c) some chinese urls
Why not flood their internet with banned material? sort of a force feeding of freedom. What are they gonna do, build a giant freaking wall?!?! And if they do, will it keep chinese spammers out?
That beatch really screwed things up, eh? That's what happens when you sell your soul. Or maybe this is just part of the binging. It's hard to tell.
I hardly knew ya.
This sucks, until proven otherwise, not the other way around.
paypal + skype = suxorz
NOOOOOO
say it ain't so. NO. Please GOD NO. Not now that ebay=paypal=corrupt ass piece of shit.
Imagine the first paypal&skype marketing meeting going on right now. GOD NO!
I agree. Nothing else will make them think twice. They hide behind the corporation knowing that even if they do get caught, they'll get the golden parachute and the corporation will take the fall - and most likely be bailed out. See WorldCom. Fuck em. If they thought, evev if only for a second, gee, someone might shoot me for being an evil prick. Maybe things would be a little more tempered.
1- we had to spell out what HCL meant.
Gator, CyDoor, et al actually get to make money doing this, why haven't they been arrested.
Yeah, but now Homeland Security is after you.
They're the most innovative, impressive company in I don't know how long.
But they've hired like crazy recently. They're parking lot is so full that they offer valet service - and that fills up too!
I wish them the best though, because they rock.