The whole idea of free trade is
bullshit and is a meme that needs to be
destroyed.
If pure free trade actually existed it
would be warlordism. Might makes right
and everybody does what the group with the
most powerful weapons says. It is far
more profitable that way.
In reality every market has
rules (written and unwritten) that stop
negative competitive behaviour (e.g.
protection rackets, lying, murder, anything
that pulls the competition down) and
allows positive competitive behaviour
(e.g. improving a product, reducing prices,
advertising your product, anything that
builds your company up relative to the
competition). The problem is in deciding
what is negative competitive behaviour.
--
Open source and freeware is simple
statistics. With 6,000,000,000+ people in
the world it is a statistical certainty
that somebody somewhere will have both the
means and the motivation to create commonly
needed software. And once it's been created
it can be copied millions of times.
I don't have a video DVD player but even
so I've stopped watching most commercial
TV because the signal-to-noise ratio is
so laughably bad. These idiots don't
seem to realise that if they keep raising
the advertising load they will have a consumer
revolt on their hands
e.g. from :
Audience Share is Decreasing: Television's network prime time audience has decreased dramatically, from 90 percent in 1980 (ABC, CBS, NBC) to just 43.3 percent (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC) in July 1999. The last increase -- just one ratings point, and for only one year -- occurred in the 1993-94 season and was the only positive blip in a twenty-year downward spiral.
--
Open source works because of simple
statistics. There are 6,300,000,000 people
in the world. It is a statistical certainty
that a small fraction of that population will
have both the means and motivation to create
free software. And once it's been created it
can be copied millions of times.
Aside from the really obvious massive bias that Roblimo has, he's completely anti-Windows even before he starts
It's a par-o-dy.
You're kidding, right? This is "/.",
not "c:\" or "My Computer". If want
massive bias go to microsoft.com and
a thousand other sites. I for one want
something to balance out that garbage.
Slashdot is one of open source's
premier mouthpieces. M$Windows apologists
and astroturfers should go back to
microsoft.com etc. where they
belong.
This news story is turning out to be
a really great way to spot the M$
astroturfers.;)
M$ is one of the few entities with the
financial resources to take on the patent
office, at least in a low key way. It would
be a great way for them to get some positive
publicity in the non-M$ IT community.
--
It's wrong that an intellectual property
creator should not be rewarded for their work.
It's equally wrong that an intellectual
property creator should be rewarded too many
times for the one piece of work, for
exactly the same reasons.
RMS is not a zealot, at least no more a
zealot than the "free enterprise" nutcases
who think that it is reasonable that because
of broken intellectual property laws and
unethical business practices M$ should
continue to be paid $30,000,000,000/year
for ten programs it wrote ten years ago.
--
It's wrong that an IP creator should
not be rewarded for their work.
It's equally wrong that an IP creator
should be rewarded too many times for the one
piece of work, for exactly the same reasons.
M$ is forever going on about it's
bullshit "right to innovate". Commenting
on how another similarly parasitic company
is trying the same lie is entirely
appropriate.
--
It's wrong that an intellectual
property creator should not be rewarded
for their work.
It's equally wrong that an
intellectual property creator should
be rewarded too many times for the
one piece of work, for exactly the
same reasons.
M$ has a it's propaganda at microsoft.com
and a thousand other websites, not to mention
so called "educational" institutions. I for
one am glad/. offsets by a tiny amount
those bigoted mouthpieces.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Get real. The free market is a myth.
Every market has rules to stop negative behaviour
(eg. lying about competitors products,
engaging in monopolistic behaviour, running
a protection racket) while allowing positive
behaviour (eg. improving product, lowering
prices).
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The whole idea of free trade is bullshit and is a meme that needs to be destroyed.
If pure free trade actually existed it would be warlordism. Might makes right and everybody does what the group with the most powerful weapons says. It is far more profitable that way.
In reality every market has rules (written and unwritten) that stop negative competitive behaviour (e.g. protection rackets, lying, murder, anything that pulls the competition down) and allows positive competitive behaviour (e.g. improving a product, reducing prices, advertising your product, anything that builds your company up relative to the competition). The problem is in deciding what is negative competitive behaviour.
--
Open source and freeware is simple statistics. With 6,000,000,000+ people in the world it is a statistical certainty that somebody somewhere will have both the means and the motivation to create commonly needed software. And once it's been created it can be copied millions of times.
I don't have a video DVD player but even so I've stopped watching most commercial TV because the signal-to-noise ratio is so laughably bad. These idiots don't seem to realise that if they keep raising the advertising load they will have a consumer revolt on their hands e.g. from :
Audience Share is Decreasing: Television's network prime time audience has decreased dramatically, from 90 percent in 1980 (ABC, CBS, NBC) to just 43.3 percent (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC) in July 1999. The last increase -- just one ratings point, and for only one year -- occurred in the 1993-94 season and was the only positive blip in a twenty-year downward spiral.
--
Open source works because of simple statistics. There are 6,300,000,000 people in the world. It is a statistical certainty that a small fraction of that population will have both the means and motivation to create free software. And once it's been created it can be copied millions of times.
Aside from the really obvious massive bias that Roblimo has, he's completely anti-Windows even before he starts
It's a par-o-dy.
You're kidding, right? This is "/.", not "c:\" or "My Computer". If want massive bias go to microsoft.com and a thousand other sites. I for one want something to balance out that garbage. Slashdot is one of open source's premier mouthpieces. M$Windows apologists and astroturfers should go back to microsoft.com etc. where they belong.
This news story is turning out to be a really great way to spot the M$ astroturfers. ;)
M$ is one of the few entities with the financial resources to take on the patent office, at least in a low key way. It would be a great way for them to get some positive publicity in the non-M$ IT community.
--
It's wrong that an intellectual property creator should not be rewarded for their work.
It's equally wrong that an intellectual property creator should be rewarded too many times for the one piece of work, for exactly the same reasons.
RMS is not a zealot, at least no more a zealot than the "free enterprise" nutcases who think that it is reasonable that because of broken intellectual property laws and unethical business practices M$ should continue to be paid $30,000,000,000/year for ten programs it wrote ten years ago.
--
It's wrong that an IP creator should not be rewarded for their work.
It's equally wrong that an IP creator should be rewarded too many times for the one piece of work, for exactly the same reasons.
Nonsense, it's not the least bit extraneous.
M$ is forever going on about it's bullshit "right to innovate". Commenting on how another similarly parasitic company is trying the same lie is entirely appropriate.
--
It's wrong that an intellectual property creator should not be rewarded for their work.
It's equally wrong that an intellectual property creator should be rewarded too many times for the one piece of work, for exactly the same reasons.
M$ has a it's propaganda at microsoft.com and a thousand other websites, not to mention so called "educational" institutions. I for one am glad /. offsets by a tiny amount
those bigoted mouthpieces.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Get real. The free market is a myth. Every market has rules to stop negative behaviour (eg. lying about competitors products, engaging in monopolistic behaviour, running a protection racket) while allowing positive behaviour (eg. improving product, lowering prices).