I remember MS did with OS/2, threatening that store-owners will get NO MS goodness unless they had all of the choicest shelf-space? This is hilarious to me - seeing MS on the other side of the marketing wall. The fact that they didn't pay for prominent, exclusive displays says (to me) that Verizon thought that any amount MS thought they could afford was not enough, and would hurt sales badly enough to affect the bottom line.
To comprehend how the free marketeers think about such things, just use a BSD analogy. The market is not free unless it is free to eliminate competition entirely.
Tell me, did Obama supporters try and alter history in order to make it look as if he was right? Did Obama admit his mistake?
Get over it. Just continue lying about him being a secret kenyan corporatist socialist fascist communist muslim who takes his marching orders from radical christian preachers and get over it.
True. The NRA is a gigantic, truly grassroots lobbying organization that exists to serve the interests of it's members (mainly to protect the 2nd amendment). It works, too.
An NRA-like lobbying organization to counter 'IP' abuses (soft / process patents, infinitely extended copyrights, media company abuses of the legal system, etc, etc) just might work!
Of course, the media companies will try to get such a group classified as a terrorist organization, but still...
Why do you think 'walled garden' app stores/markets exist? You don't think that's covered? And you don't think your ISP has plans to throttle every service that competes with theirs on your wifi anyway, as soon as that pesky net-neutrality is laid to rest? What? You thought you were paying for data, a commodity, rather than endpoints (big media)? Sucker.
The free market will provide. Haha! Would that be the free market that maximizes profit? You know, by delivering as little as possible for the greatest possible price? Competition would mitigate this, but to compete is to eliminate (or co-opt) competition, so this is it. Welcome to the FUTURE! Future.. future...
Bullshit. You want the money for the SAME THINGS to go to corporations instead - you know, organizations that serve their customers with the lowest possible benefit for the highest possible price. You know - because the difference is profit, and that is what business maximizes. And don't give me the old 'competition' saw - competition is temporary in any such system (unless regulated, which is anathema to the libertarian dogma). Competition is all about colluding with or eliminating your competitor so that you can charge even more and serve even less.
You aren't about liberty, you are about changing to far more oppressive masters.
Understood - but "Can you really consider an operating system open sourced if the source code is only released when Google thinks it's okay?" was what I was responding to - there are many open source projects where the source code is 'only released when xxxxxx thinks it's okay'.
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I remember MS did with OS/2, threatening that store-owners will get NO MS goodness unless they had all of the choicest shelf-space? This is hilarious to me - seeing MS on the other side of the marketing wall. The fact that they didn't pay for prominent, exclusive displays says (to me) that Verizon thought that any amount MS thought they could afford was not enough, and would hurt sales badly enough to affect the bottom line.
Hilarious!
Perhaps you are right, my fascist-rat-bastard friend.
Boehner, is that you?
Nah - they're fakes. Richelieu made a deal with the devil to get the samples.
To comprehend how the free marketeers think about such things, just use a BSD analogy. The market is not free unless it is free to eliminate competition entirely.
SO - since DUI checkpoints REQUIRE publication, Apple is effectively saying: "We are complicit when the Police BREAK THE LAW".
That IS what you just said, right?
Tell me, did Obama supporters try and alter history in order to make it look as if he was right? Did Obama admit his mistake?
Get over it. Just continue lying about him being a secret kenyan corporatist socialist fascist communist muslim who takes his marching orders from radical christian preachers and get over it.
would give 'computer virus' new meaning.
Google voice? libjingle? sip and pbxs.org with google voice?
So don't worry about Skype being taken away by MS - be annoyed at MS behavior, yes. Remember that they have NOT changed their ways, just their PR.
But don't be worried.
No it's not a block. It just uses a slower connection.
Funny I can watch TV.com and use the market when that happens. It's just slower.
Prescience? ROFL. Quite the opposite.
Well, that stuff is all copyrighted, so...
True. The NRA is a gigantic, truly grassroots lobbying organization that exists to serve the interests of it's members (mainly to protect the 2nd amendment). It works, too.
An NRA-like lobbying organization to counter 'IP' abuses (soft / process patents, infinitely extended copyrights, media company abuses of the legal system, etc, etc) just might work!
Of course, the media companies will try to get such a group classified as a terrorist organization, but still...
Mod parent up... Please?
Yup. Like google distributing Android 3.0 without releasing the source. FreedomFreedom Oy! Oy! Oy!
Indirect actions that do not materially affect these guys' quest for power will be ignored.
Why do you think 'walled garden' app stores/markets exist? You don't think that's covered? And you don't think your ISP has plans to throttle every service that competes with theirs on your wifi anyway, as soon as that pesky net-neutrality is laid to rest? What? You thought you were paying for data, a commodity, rather than endpoints (big media)? Sucker.
And what happens when you go over?
I prefer that.
The free market will provide. Haha! Would that be the free market that maximizes profit? You know, by delivering as little as possible for the greatest possible price? Competition would mitigate this, but to compete is to eliminate (or co-opt) competition, so this is it. Welcome to the FUTURE! Future.. future...
All of the products it operates as loss leaders prove you wrong...
See: Bullshit.
Bullshit. You want the money for the SAME THINGS to go to corporations instead - you know, organizations that serve their customers with the lowest possible benefit for the highest possible price. You know - because the difference is profit, and that is what business maximizes. And don't give me the old 'competition' saw - competition is temporary in any such system (unless regulated, which is anathema to the libertarian dogma). Competition is all about colluding with or eliminating your competitor so that you can charge even more and serve even less.
You aren't about liberty, you are about changing to far more oppressive masters.
Understood - but "Can you really consider an operating system open sourced if the source code is only released when Google thinks it's okay?" was what I was responding to - there are many open source projects where the source code is 'only released when xxxxxx thinks it's okay'.
The Apache license makes for closed source software then, right?