I agree 100%. They do need to defend their TM, but they could have been cooperative about it too.
Dear Sir,
On beahlf of the PCI-SIG, thank you for your efforts to support the PCI community.
Unfortunately, we need to defend our trademarks and your site does use some of our trademarks in an un-apporved manner. A few simple changes should clear up the issues.
1. Please clearly state on your site that PCI is a trademark owned by PCI-SIG.
2. Please clearly indicate that you are not affiliated with PCI-SIG and that they are not responsible for the content of your site.
Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. If you should have questions, please call us at XXX-XXX-XXXX. We'd be delighted to work with you to insure that the resource you created remains available to the PCI community while protecting our TM.
Not including a competing product by default, because a company wants you to use the product they make. Shameful I tell you. SHAMEFUL!
In a normal market environment, there is nothing shameful about this. It may be good business.
The key point is that in a market based society, gov't should minimize its interference with companies that are participating in a market. However, when a market does not exist (a monopoly) gov't does have the duty to regulate to protect the consumers and competitors in closely alligned markets.
That M$ has a monopoly on the desktop is unfortunate. That M$ extended that monopoly to Office apps because Lotus and Corel are lame is unfortunate. That M$ successfully leveraged their desktop monopoly into a browser monopoly and is trying to do the same in the run-anywhere language space is a SHAMEFUL predatory illegal business practice.
A major point of law in the area of monopolies is that a company that has a monopoly in one area can't use that monopoly to build a second monopoly in another area.
M$ was using Java, then dropped Java entirely in order to promote their.Net product. By excluding Java in favor of their own product, they are trying to leverage their desktop monopoly into another area.
By your example, Ford does not need to use Bosch brakes because Ford is an oligopoly, not a monopoly. If Ford, GM, VW, Toyota, etc. decided to start a joint venture to make their own brakes and exclude Bosch, the analogy would be more apt.
The Debian analogy also isn't valid. There are many viable commercial and non-commercial distros. And Debian also doesn't own a competing product.
Tivo- I also wish I was dumb enough to buy a device that lets me record gobs of those same shitty shows, so that I don't miss any of the shittyness.
You miss the point. I don't have to watch shitty shows anymore because TiVo watches them for me. Since I don't have to watch my network television programming manually anymore, I have more time to watch my high quality Girls Gone Wild DVDs.
Great Great Great book, but not a book for someone just learning *nix. If someone wants to know some simple wildcarding they will start bleeding out the ears when someone tries to explain the difference between dfa and nfa (did I remember that right, I loaned my copy out?) regex engines.
This is a book for someone that wants to make vi sing and Perl dance.
If they are new to *nix get them a good book on vi[m] and a good shell scripting book with lots of examples. The power of unix-style systems only shines through the first time you pipe find, grep, sed, sort, and unique into one command line, then nohup it and route the error messages to/dev/null.
Half Height or Full Height? And is there an expansion chasis available?
(Still has an IBM PC XT somewhere in Mom's basement with 2 half height 360k floppies and a 20 Meg Seagate ST220 hard drive)
I've spent alot of time participating in TiVo forums. Glad that TiVo is a little more farsighted in this area. There are quite a few TiVo employees on the TiVo boards, and the always are able to provide the best information.
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Dear Sir,
On beahlf of the PCI-SIG, thank you for your efforts to support the PCI community.
Unfortunately, we need to defend our trademarks and your site does use some of our trademarks in an un-apporved manner. A few simple changes should clear up the issues.
1. Please clearly state on your site that PCI is a trademark owned by PCI-SIG.
2. Please clearly indicate that you are not affiliated with PCI-SIG and that they are not responsible for the content of your site.
Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. If you should have questions, please call us at XXX-XXX-XXXX. We'd be delighted to work with you to insure that the resource you created remains available to the PCI community while protecting our TM.
Kindest Regards,
Mr. Lawyer
In a normal market environment, there is nothing shameful about this. It may be good business.
The key point is that in a market based society, gov't should minimize its interference with companies that are participating in a market. However, when a market does not exist (a monopoly) gov't does have the duty to regulate to protect the consumers and competitors in closely alligned markets.
That M$ has a monopoly on the desktop is unfortunate. That M$ extended that monopoly to Office apps because Lotus and Corel are lame is unfortunate. That M$ successfully leveraged their desktop monopoly into a browser monopoly and is trying to do the same in the run-anywhere language space is a SHAMEFUL predatory illegal business practice.
Don't feel bad for M$. They did violate the law.
.Net product. By excluding Java in favor of their own product, they are trying to leverage their desktop monopoly into another area.
A major point of law in the area of monopolies is that a company that has a monopoly in one area can't use that monopoly to build a second monopoly in another area.
M$ was using Java, then dropped Java entirely in order to promote their
By your example, Ford does not need to use Bosch brakes because Ford is an oligopoly, not a monopoly. If Ford, GM, VW, Toyota, etc. decided to start a joint venture to make their own brakes and exclude Bosch, the analogy would be more apt.
The Debian analogy also isn't valid. There are many viable commercial and non-commercial distros. And Debian also doesn't own a competing product.
You miss the point. I don't have to watch shitty shows anymore because TiVo watches them for me. Since I don't have to watch my network television programming manually anymore, I have more time to watch my high quality Girls Gone Wild DVDs.
When are those coming out in HDTV?
Great Great Great book, but not a book for someone just learning *nix. If someone wants to know some simple wildcarding they will start bleeding out the ears when someone tries to explain the difference between dfa and nfa (did I remember that right, I loaned my copy out?) regex engines. This is a book for someone that wants to make vi sing and Perl dance. If they are new to *nix get them a good book on vi[m] and a good shell scripting book with lots of examples. The power of unix-style systems only shines through the first time you pipe find, grep, sed, sort, and unique into one command line, then nohup it and route the error messages to /dev/null.
Half Height or Full Height? And is there an expansion chasis available? (Still has an IBM PC XT somewhere in Mom's basement with 2 half height 360k floppies and a 20 Meg Seagate ST220 hard drive)
I've spent alot of time participating in TiVo forums. Glad that TiVo is a little more farsighted in this area. There are quite a few TiVo employees on the TiVo boards, and the always are able to provide the best information.