It is no sign of strength to beat a company which casts baseless claims. The only thing which surprises me is that the stock market took it serious. It was very obvious to everyone that it was fraud from the very beginning. So perhaps the market is not that perfect as some make you believe.
The extraordinary amount of communication issued to the press during the anti-Linux SCO case should have alerted a real investor about the nature of these claims. Now, I wonder whether US criminal prosecutors will take the required measures against those SCO manager who are responsible.
Some people argue that AOL means Time Warner. Time Warmer staff has to eat snakes on a plane and fried worms. Those who think it was funny may stay. Lord of the Rings was a recent Time Warner success. So our Lords of the ringtones think it makes sense to provide AOL's special features for FREEEEEEE. It will end up like this. Citizens will get paid by AOL for testing spyware, watching advertisement and the resurrection of Harry Potter.
Wait, I guess AOL does it because intellectual property protection is too weak in the US. Another DMCA++ is needed. Net neutrality is to be blamed for the lay-offs. Legislators have to combat net neutrality to secure jobs...
They will have to move jobs abroad. AOL CD will get distributed to new emerging markets such as Iraq or the Democratic Republic of Congo. New markets such as home decorating...
I mean politicians are ignorant anywhere. And what policymakers do is often too conservative but civil society really makes inroads. The EU institutioons will soon standardise on ODF, just a matter of time. One or two EU Commissioners even run a weblog. Microsoft lobbying alienates policians here as does Us foreign policy.
The United States are strong in Social Software, the next big thing. Economic growth still looks good. And despite agrobusiness they are an important exporter of intellectual property. Unfortunately also an exporter of bad IP resulation: DMCA, DRM,...
Four years ago IE was an argument for the windows plattfom. Mozilla was not mature, some Linux users run an outdated Netscape 4.7.
This has changed. Microsoft may now catch up and IE7 does not look bad. However it is the less secure browser.
The first breakthrough happened when Microsoft paid AOL for using the IE engine. This is no option anymore because the IE monopoly is gone. Not that users do not take IE. But those who choose FF do it because it is the better browser.
We have now equal competition. I will upgrade to FF 2 but FF 1.5 is sufficient for me, I was pleased with gunmen parliamentarians start to hate microsoft. Anti-Microsoft sells, press likes these stories. And Bill Gates who was portrayed a kind of spirtual leader left development. Viruses, spyware, spam, delays. Ms is held responsible by its users.
Apple sort of did it with OS X, basing it on Mach and BSD instead of Linux (well actually it was NextStep, but whatever). This is a model that MS could use as well
True, just another 5 years of development. Or microsoft licenses Tiger and builds a wine based compatibility layer...
but honest: Why does Ms develop IE when there is Firefox? IE is a product that is not sold. No one buys Windows because of IE.
MS may outsource a lot to open source... It is an ideology trap created by the media.
Cider is only a kind of Wine port for Mac. So the main hope is that a Wine for Mac and linux would get a 5% market share while it only has a 1 market share when run only on Linux. Don't expect it to be perfect. But provided Apple dumps 10 million$ on it, it could maturate fast and take off.
10-15%? Come on, everybody uses Firefox these days. And even 10% of a multi-million market is huge.
A project as popular as Firefox can raise a whole lot of funds. Fan articles, cooperation offers, user donations, and sponsorship. Didn't Google give several millions to Mozilla? You say netscape had 200. Now, even 200 is nothing when you think of a core tool of the web. A tool which you like. A software which is your interface to the world.
A calendar is an important component which misses on the checklist of those who want to replace Outlook by Thunderbird.
Firefox today attracts the masses. What does a developer cost per year and what does a company pay for a magazine advertisement? Don't you think that Mozilla has the potential to use his success product firefox to raise funds/sponsorship for Sunbird? The next big thing will be commercial themes and addons for FF. CocaCola skins etc. Or sponsorship of releases: This update was brought to you by Ford...
Firefox is a strong trade mark in many people's lives. Firefox beer, why not?
The main goal should be to get sustainable development. Sunbird and Composer are products which would benefit from FF success and be promoted through the plattform such as Thunderbird is today.
"Lightning is a project launched by the very Mozilla you critic, it has lower priority over Firefox and is a very young project but it doesn't mean it is not developped. Actually, version 0.3 was announced for the end of September today."
The calendar gets renaming and slight improvements. It becomes better but it does not take off as it happend with Firebird. It is not even considered to be a an equal member of the community. What's to expected next? A new name and announcement?
Equal member, oh, think of KompoZer, earlier Mozilla Composer component, than Mozilla Composer+ than taken over by Robertson as NVU and now further developed. You say it is "not our son". It is. And Mozilla could benefit a lot of reintegration of these mature software projects.
Last time I checked, the Mozilla Foundation goal wasn't to replace the FSF or any other general-purpose opensource promotion organisation. The purpose of the Mozilla Foundation is to defend an Internet open to everyone and promote innovation on the web.
When you have the opportunity to raise funds you should use that power to make other projects mature. Mozilla was able to emerge because many believed in the cathedral which was second choice for a quite a long time. It seems like 3 years ago the other projects had a more equal status than today. Sunbird is crucial for Thunderbird's future and the little progress clearly indicates a lack of programmers staff.
The task would be * to use the cash cows to crossfinance emerging products * to get software "mature" like Sunbird and strengthen the plattform (they would be the future cash cows) * to ensure that projects maturated by external parties such as NVU/KompoZer get merged back and are kept uptodate with plattform progress. * develop innovative solutions that will take some time to rule the market just as Firefox finally does.
Mozilla got so much money. But do they invest in development? I fear they don't. Just look at Sunbird, Lightening or whatever the calendar is called these days. Or NVU's son KompoZer?
Mozilla has the ressources to cross-finance development of other tools, to bootstrap open source. But it seems they don't want to.
I mean we have a successful tool called Firefox every company likes to play with, including a fanatic user community. We have a a wonderful mail client which lacks a calendar tool.
But what about other tools of the community? Chatzilla - wouldn't it be nice to get a standalone version? Or Fireftp stabdalone? A preconfigured Bugzilla server distribution. KompoZer. Better spellchecking tools and dictionaries. Tools for Internet Cafés, I think of a kind Browser-Only plugandplay Linux distribution. Brushed Theme for Thunderbird. An ODF view plugin. A usable pdf viewer. Developer Conferences coorganised by their mozilla-hungry AJAX-fanatic bigbusiness friends.
I would rather recommend us business people to get organised and put your money where your mouth is. Combatting software patents means nuking patent lawyers. You need a strong movement and US activities are unorganised and misguided. You feed the scum that fights for (or against) individual patents. It is better to approach the legislator and improve the rules. It is easier to justify a payment of $500 000 to your patent attorney than $5000 to an advocacy group. But unlike an affected business guy our patent attorney will be willing to invest in lobbying and public patent institutions are polluted by these 'patent user' activists.
It is intresting to read sourcewatch. You may find out a lot about these lobbyists. And it is important to take part in lobbying yourself. It is real fun to beat them.
If Telcos do not respect net neutrality users will switch to other service.
Everybody laughs about US-FCC regulations, Eric Idle even wrote a song, and the good old Hollywood code is real fun for movie history classes. Or watch Mr. Zappa. Protection of minors is everywhere the same. Most effects of media on minors are bogus from a scientific point of view. (Okay, there is a partisan 'science' community and an awareness industry) It is damage without victims, rather society consensus.
We don't want minors to watch certain content but there is no scientic proof that it does damage. In my view mainstream content is certainly more 'damaging' to minors than certain offensive content. Just think of Barbie or the Grimm Brothers.
5) What measures do you recommend in the different areas described below, and why? By whom should they be implemented? 5a) Classification of commercial content. 5b) Opt-in/opt out. Should the Opt-in (where the user has to explicitly request access to adult content rather by accessing it by default) approach be applied in all EU countries? 5c) Age verification: should Mobile network operators implement face to face identity check to determine the age of the user? Should this process also be applied when a customer buys a pre-paid card? 5d) Filtering and blocking systems. Should filtering systems be installed by default when the subscription allows internet access? 5e) Chat rooms. Should chat rooms accessible by children be moderated (in an automatic way or by a person)? 5f) Raising awareness among parents and children 5g) Dedicated mobile phone packs for children, for which age group?
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Cyc is nothing but an onthology database. I can be useful like dictionaries can be useful.
but the problem remains: we live in a world with low level dictionaries which are crap. Why expect better results on a higher level?
What makes a database succesful is its application. What problem solves Cyc?
It is no sign of strength to beat a company which casts baseless claims. The only thing which surprises me is that the stock market took it serious. It was very obvious to everyone that it was fraud from the very beginning. So perhaps the market is not that perfect as some make you believe.
The extraordinary amount of communication issued to the press during the anti-Linux SCO case should have alerted a real investor about the nature of these claims. Now, I wonder whether US criminal prosecutors will take the required measures against those SCO manager who are responsible.
Windows for free would make Wine obsolete. Qemu a second operating system with some annoying ads for the desired apps.
Maybe your comments are an indication of a shining future...
Some people argue that AOL means Time Warner. Time Warmer staff has to eat snakes on a plane and fried worms. Those who think it was funny may stay. Lord of the Rings was a recent Time Warner success. So our Lords of the ringtones think it makes sense to provide AOL's special features for FREEEEEEE. It will end up like this. Citizens will get paid by AOL for testing spyware, watching advertisement and the resurrection of Harry Potter.
Jobs at AOL? CD-packagers?
Wait, I guess AOL does it because intellectual property protection is too weak in the US. Another DMCA++ is needed. Net neutrality is to be blamed for the lay-offs. Legislators have to combat net neutrality to secure jobs...
They will have to move jobs abroad. AOL CD will get distributed to new emerging markets such as Iraq or the Democratic Republic of Congo. New markets such as home decorating...
Why not move to Europe? Just for a year of two.
...
I mean politicians are ignorant anywhere. And what policymakers do is often too conservative but civil society really makes inroads. The EU institutioons will soon standardise on ODF, just a matter of time. One or two EU Commissioners even run a weblog. Microsoft lobbying alienates policians here as does Us foreign policy.
The United States are strong in Social Software, the next big thing. Economic growth still looks good. And despite agrobusiness they are an important exporter of intellectual property. Unfortunately also an exporter of bad IP resulation: DMCA, DRM,
Four years ago IE was an argument for the windows plattfom. Mozilla was not mature, some Linux users run an outdated Netscape 4.7.
This has changed. Microsoft may now catch up and IE7 does not look bad. However it is the less secure browser.
The first breakthrough happened when Microsoft paid AOL for using the IE engine. This is no option anymore because the IE monopoly is gone. Not that users do not take IE. But those who choose FF do it because it is the better browser.
We have now equal competition. I will upgrade to FF 2 but FF 1.5 is sufficient for me, I was pleased with gunmen parliamentarians start to hate microsoft. Anti-Microsoft sells, press likes these stories. And Bill Gates who was portrayed a kind of spirtual leader left development. Viruses, spyware, spam, delays. Ms is held responsible by its users.
Apple sort of did it with OS X, basing it on Mach and BSD instead of Linux (well actually it was NextStep, but whatever). This is a model that MS could use as well
True, just another 5 years of development. Or microsoft licenses Tiger and builds a wine based compatibility layer...
but honest: Why does Ms develop IE when there is Firefox? IE is a product that is not sold. No one buys Windows because of IE.
MS may outsource a lot to open source... It is an ideology trap created by the media.
Cider is only a kind of Wine port for Mac. So the main hope is that a Wine for Mac and linux would get a 5% market share while it only has a 1 market share when run only on Linux. Don't expect it to be perfect. But provided Apple dumps 10 million$ on it, it could maturate fast and take off.
10-15%? Come on, everybody uses Firefox these days. And even 10% of a multi-million market is huge.
A project as popular as Firefox can raise a whole lot of funds. Fan articles, cooperation offers, user donations, and sponsorship. Didn't Google give several millions to Mozilla? You say netscape had 200. Now, even 200 is nothing when you think of a core tool of the web. A tool which you like. A software which is your interface to the world.
A calendar is an important component which misses on the checklist of those who want to replace Outlook by Thunderbird.
Firefox today attracts the masses. What does a developer cost per year and what does a company pay for a magazine advertisement? Don't you think that Mozilla has the potential to use his success product firefox to raise funds/sponsorship for Sunbird? The next big thing will be commercial themes and addons for FF. CocaCola skins etc.
Or sponsorship of releases: This update was brought to you by Ford...
Firefox is a strong trade mark in many people's lives. Firefox beer, why not?
The main goal should be to get sustainable development. Sunbird and Composer are products which would benefit from FF success and be promoted through the plattform such as Thunderbird is today.
Oh yeah. Think of Japfuturism from the past.
Let me assume that they will also run 5th generation computers.
They wasted millions on it in the eighties.
I am looking for a way to sort messages by language. E.g. Italian mails and English mails. Doe Bayes filters work?
How does a university "block" bittorrent?
Are there provisions which prohibit university content to get delivered via torrents?
It is a business idea, no invention, not even a business method patent.
It is time for US citizens to take action and stop the USPTO madness.
"Lightning is a project launched by the very Mozilla you critic, it has lower priority over Firefox and is a very young project but it doesn't mean it is not developped. Actually, version 0.3 was announced for the end of September today."
The calendar gets renaming and slight improvements. It becomes better but it does not take off as it happend with Firebird. It is not even considered to be a an equal member of the community. What's to expected next? A new name and announcement?
Equal member, oh, think of KompoZer, earlier Mozilla Composer component, than Mozilla Composer+ than taken over by Robertson as NVU and now further developed. You say it is "not our son". It is. And Mozilla could benefit a lot of reintegration of these mature software projects.
Last time I checked, the Mozilla Foundation goal wasn't to replace the FSF or any other general-purpose opensource promotion organisation. The purpose of the Mozilla Foundation is to defend an Internet open to everyone and promote innovation on the web.
When you have the opportunity to raise funds you should use that power to make other projects mature. Mozilla was able to emerge because many believed in the cathedral which was second choice for a quite a long time. It seems like 3 years ago the other projects had a more equal status than today. Sunbird is crucial for Thunderbird's future and the little progress clearly indicates a lack of programmers staff.
The task would be
* to use the cash cows to crossfinance emerging products
* to get software "mature" like Sunbird and strengthen the plattform (they would be the future cash cows)
* to ensure that projects maturated by external parties such as NVU/KompoZer get merged back and are kept uptodate with plattform progress.
* develop innovative solutions that will take some time to rule the market just as Firefox finally does.
Mozilla got so much money. But do they invest in development? I fear they don't. Just look at Sunbird, Lightening or whatever the calendar is called these days. Or NVU's son KompoZer?
Mozilla has the ressources to cross-finance development of other tools, to bootstrap open source. But it seems they don't want to.
I mean we have a successful tool called Firefox every company likes to play with, including a fanatic user community. We have a a wonderful mail client which lacks a calendar tool.
But what about other tools of the community? Chatzilla - wouldn't it be nice to get a standalone version? Or Fireftp stabdalone? A preconfigured Bugzilla server distribution. KompoZer. Better spellchecking tools and dictionaries. Tools for Internet Cafés, I think of a kind Browser-Only plugandplay Linux distribution. Brushed Theme for Thunderbird. An ODF view plugin. A usable pdf viewer. Developer Conferences coorganised by their mozilla-hungry AJAX-fanatic bigbusiness friends.
Real Networks, oh well.
I would rather recommend us business people to get organised and put your money where your mouth is. Combatting software patents means nuking patent lawyers. You need a strong movement and US activities are unorganised and misguided. You feed the scum that fights for (or against) individual patents. It is better to approach the legislator and improve the rules. It is easier to justify a payment of $500 000 to your patent attorney than $5000 to an advocacy group. But unlike an affected business guy our patent attorney will be willing to invest in lobbying and public patent institutions are polluted by these 'patent user' activists.
Who stands up for the small-to-medium IT firms?
Stop whining. Why not donate to FFII?
No. The internet is nothing more than computers + TCP/IP connected to each other.
And with wireless mesh networks we do not need traditional internet providers anymore.
Telcos are not the only communication cable providers.
It is intresting to read sourcewatch. You may find out a lot about these lobbyists. And it is important to take part in lobbying yourself. It is real fun to beat them. If Telcos do not respect net neutrality users will switch to other service.
In Germany artists even wrapped the legislator
We don't want minors to watch certain content but there is no scientic proof that it does damage. In my view mainstream content is certainly more 'damaging' to minors than certain offensive content. Just think of Barbie or the Grimm Brothers.
Anyway, the EU asks for opinions on mobile commerce/cell phones and protection of minors.
Ddepends on rule of law in your nation.