Look, if we don't like the RIAA's behavior, we can simply stop buying overpriced CDs. Oh wait...people have already stopped buying their CDs...
This is just another example of greed and avarice. The RIAA is responsible for killing the goose that laid the golden egg and now is trying to compensate.
My personal recommendation is that people should stop fooling with the drivel the RIAA wants to shove down our throats. The world would be alot more pleasant if once a week you got together with your friends and played music yourselves- on real instruments.
I'm sure the RIAA would try to get a chunk of that too...
Wasn't it only a few years ago that Philadelphia had a school budget crisis that was intensified by Microsoft's demanding additional licenses be purchased?
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice or more and I must be a devoted Windows user...
I remember a kid in our neighborhood growing up who wasn't a very nice person.
One time he said to a group of us: "You just hate me because I'm Jewish."
To wit, I replied: "No David, we hate you because you're an a**hole..."
We don't hate SCO because they are trying to make a profit selling software, we hate them because they are trying to make a profit by scheming and defaming and threatening people.
Did I mention that IBM told me to say this?
In the old days, real science fiction writers wrote episodes of Star Trek. Excellent wrting made for a compelling show.
Unfortunately, since Next Generation, it seems the writing has suffered and "special effects" and a preachy political correctness has been more a focus for the producers.
Star Trek was charming because it told good stories. It hasn't in a while. No quantity of Vulcan or Borg hotties in decon showers can fix the fact that the writing has been lame for years.
Would seem to be whether or not the distribution of a freely distributable version of Linux by the prior owners of SCO, perhaps in violation of their own patents, would in some way negate their current claims. After all, isn't it the case that if you fail to defend your patent or other intellectual property, it becomes harder to defend it later?
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Look, if we don't like the RIAA's behavior, we can simply stop buying overpriced CDs. Oh wait...people have already stopped buying their CDs... This is just another example of greed and avarice. The RIAA is responsible for killing the goose that laid the golden egg and now is trying to compensate. My personal recommendation is that people should stop fooling with the drivel the RIAA wants to shove down our throats. The world would be alot more pleasant if once a week you got together with your friends and played music yourselves- on real instruments. I'm sure the RIAA would try to get a chunk of that too...
Wasn't it only a few years ago that Philadelphia had a school budget crisis that was intensified by Microsoft's demanding additional licenses be purchased? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice or more and I must be a devoted Windows user...
I remember a kid in our neighborhood growing up who wasn't a very nice person. One time he said to a group of us: "You just hate me because I'm Jewish." To wit, I replied: "No David, we hate you because you're an a**hole..." We don't hate SCO because they are trying to make a profit selling software, we hate them because they are trying to make a profit by scheming and defaming and threatening people. Did I mention that IBM told me to say this?
In the old days, real science fiction writers wrote episodes of Star Trek. Excellent wrting made for a compelling show.
Unfortunately, since Next Generation, it seems the writing has suffered and "special effects" and a preachy political correctness has been more a focus for the producers.
Star Trek was charming because it told good stories. It hasn't in a while. No quantity of Vulcan or Borg hotties in decon showers can fix the fact that the writing has been lame for years.
We could elect Richard Stallman provided that we decided to rename the country GNUnited States of America.
Would seem to be whether or not the distribution of a freely distributable version of Linux by the prior owners of SCO, perhaps in violation of their own patents, would in some way negate their current claims. After all, isn't it the case that if you fail to defend your patent or other intellectual property, it becomes harder to defend it later?