What if CNN had a single link to a page with some content alleged to be pirated IP, would Google block all access to CNN? If I spot someone has infringed my copyright by quoting more than the legally-allowed fair use amounts of something I wrote, can I just get them dumped off Google? Cool!
Where's the site that lists the sites that Google isn't allowed to link to? Can Google link to that site?
I wish the US Govt the best of luck with this whole 'legislate your way out of a changing market' thing. Interesting experiment (unless you happen to be in the US, of course).
P
Ask a non-developer how big their physical desk is, and whether a 18inch desk would be big enough for their work. Surprise surprise - it isn't big enough for a developer's work either.......
The first item in their FAQ says that they are going after developers because they make the money from using the technology. Actually I think they'd find that Apple, taking 30% of everyone's in-app purchases would be earning many times the amount that any individual developer would earn.
So by their own logic they should be going after Apple. Also Apple has delivered the tools for devs to 'infringe' their patents....
Bunch of trolls...
When you leave a site you can have a popup / popunder to say that the site has put a cookie on your browser so that when you come back you can auto-login. That makes sense.
How to explain to a user why a website at www.site1.com has allowed www.site2.com to put a cookie on your browser (e.g. advert networks, google analytics) is much harder.
Differentiate between the two and you could have a workable system.
Screwing up google analytics would leave me looking to auto-upload all my apache logs to Google somehow, which would then beg the question of 'Who do server logs belong to?" I'm assuming they are mine in the same way that if I sat by the roadside and made a list of the number plates of the cars that passed, that data would be mine as well......
What do you think?
P
This could be fantastic if it were opt-in. As an iPhone dev I'd be extremely interested to see a recommended price point included in the sales reports I get, together with the option to have Apple automatically flex the price to track it, with maybe a baseline set.
If they have the data and algorithms to do this well I might even be interested in letting them take more than the current 30% for distribution if the distribution were demonstrably 'smarter'....
Check out Linode.com - they are very good if you know what you are doing. It's a small outfit that has grown rapidly. It's Xen-based hosting and linux-based. Very good value for money and great service. One downside is that the backup program is still in beta, which makes me nervous as hell.
For a little bit more money there's Slicehost, who I think are now owned by Rackspace. The price/performance isn't as good as Linode, but they have proper backups. I'm reluctantly looking to move over there.
I'd only recommend one of those two if you are happy with command-line administration of a server / installation of packages etc.
Cheers
Hi,
I agree with the points about the pace of innovation needing to increase to keep the commercial window (time between launch of paid-for version and time before OSS version is as good/better) open.
Also there is the advertising model, which is a bit different.
We are developing a system for managing property portfolios online. It's complex and taking a lot of development, and we're giving it away for free. This will be a major headache for the reasonable number of companies that sell shrink-wrapped portfolio management software, but we'll make reasonable money from advertising and sales lead generation.
I see a lot of change in business models needed, but that also means opportunities.
Also, look at the Netflix prize - a lot of entrants have chained together open source software in order to make money. As a developer you will always have work to do, but perhaps at a different point in the chain.
Peter
Old point, I know, but why don't we see more accusations of proprietary software containing stolen code? I'm sure there must be some disaffected employees out there willing to say that their ex-employer stole code from somewhere else.
What then? Forced legal publication of sourcecode? That would be fun....
Best bit would be if Google goes with doing its own share offering, then uses the software to provide similar services to other companies.
Hey presto, Google now takes business from Saloman, JP Morgan, CSFB etc. Now _that_ would be an interesting market development. I've always thought that the IPO business was a bit archaic.
So there's my prediction: Google uses its own IPO as a way of developing / testing share offering software to allow it to enter the market and compete with the big investment banks.:-)
It's a pity that probes like Galileo, and other space objects like Mir couldn't have been pushed out to space, rather than destroyed.
In a few decades time when we have decently fast travel within the solar system, the Smithsonian will be really disappointed that we didn't try and leave these things somewhere where we could pick them up again later....
Oh well....
Surely if Microsoft does the research and points out 'facts' this will just give GNU/Linux developers a checklist of things to squash.
The arms race that this will produce can only be good for GNU/Linux and ultimately backfire (again) on Microsoft. _Almost_ as good as free kernel patches from Redmond....
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What if CNN had a single link to a page with some content alleged to be pirated IP, would Google block all access to CNN? If I spot someone has infringed my copyright by quoting more than the legally-allowed fair use amounts of something I wrote, can I just get them dumped off Google? Cool! Where's the site that lists the sites that Google isn't allowed to link to? Can Google link to that site? I wish the US Govt the best of luck with this whole 'legislate your way out of a changing market' thing. Interesting experiment (unless you happen to be in the US, of course). P
Ask a non-developer how big their physical desk is, and whether a 18inch desk would be big enough for their work. Surprise surprise - it isn't big enough for a developer's work either.......
The first item in their FAQ says that they are going after developers because they make the money from using the technology. Actually I think they'd find that Apple, taking 30% of everyone's in-app purchases would be earning many times the amount that any individual developer would earn. So by their own logic they should be going after Apple. Also Apple has delivered the tools for devs to 'infringe' their patents.... Bunch of trolls...
When you leave a site you can have a popup / popunder to say that the site has put a cookie on your browser so that when you come back you can auto-login. That makes sense. How to explain to a user why a website at www.site1.com has allowed www.site2.com to put a cookie on your browser (e.g. advert networks, google analytics) is much harder. Differentiate between the two and you could have a workable system. Screwing up google analytics would leave me looking to auto-upload all my apache logs to Google somehow, which would then beg the question of 'Who do server logs belong to?" I'm assuming they are mine in the same way that if I sat by the roadside and made a list of the number plates of the cars that passed, that data would be mine as well...... What do you think? P
This could be fantastic if it were opt-in. As an iPhone dev I'd be extremely interested to see a recommended price point included in the sales reports I get, together with the option to have Apple automatically flex the price to track it, with maybe a baseline set. If they have the data and algorithms to do this well I might even be interested in letting them take more than the current 30% for distribution if the distribution were demonstrably 'smarter'....
Check out Linode.com - they are very good if you know what you are doing. It's a small outfit that has grown rapidly. It's Xen-based hosting and linux-based. Very good value for money and great service. One downside is that the backup program is still in beta, which makes me nervous as hell. For a little bit more money there's Slicehost, who I think are now owned by Rackspace. The price/performance isn't as good as Linode, but they have proper backups. I'm reluctantly looking to move over there. I'd only recommend one of those two if you are happy with command-line administration of a server / installation of packages etc. Cheers
Hi, I agree with the points about the pace of innovation needing to increase to keep the commercial window (time between launch of paid-for version and time before OSS version is as good/better) open. Also there is the advertising model, which is a bit different. We are developing a system for managing property portfolios online. It's complex and taking a lot of development, and we're giving it away for free. This will be a major headache for the reasonable number of companies that sell shrink-wrapped portfolio management software, but we'll make reasonable money from advertising and sales lead generation. I see a lot of change in business models needed, but that also means opportunities. Also, look at the Netflix prize - a lot of entrants have chained together open source software in order to make money. As a developer you will always have work to do, but perhaps at a different point in the chain. Peter
Old point, I know, but why don't we see more accusations of proprietary software containing stolen code? I'm sure there must be some disaffected employees out there willing to say that their ex-employer stole code from somewhere else. What then? Forced legal publication of sourcecode? That would be fun....
Best bit would be if Google goes with doing its own share offering, then uses the software to provide similar services to other companies.
:-)
Hey presto, Google now takes business from Saloman, JP Morgan, CSFB etc. Now _that_ would be an interesting market development. I've always thought that the IPO business was a bit archaic.
So there's my prediction: Google uses its own IPO as a way of developing / testing share offering software to allow it to enter the market and compete with the big investment banks.
Do you remember this coming up in Douglas Coupland's Microserfs? They had the advantage that they were watching movies with subtitles....
:-)
Try it again with the subtitles enabled on the DVD and that should get you up to 4x
It's a pity that probes like Galileo, and other space objects like Mir couldn't have been pushed out to space, rather than destroyed. In a few decades time when we have decently fast travel within the solar system, the Smithsonian will be really disappointed that we didn't try and leave these things somewhere where we could pick them up again later.... Oh well....
Surely if Microsoft does the research and points out 'facts' this will just give GNU/Linux developers a checklist of things to squash. The arms race that this will produce can only be good for GNU/Linux and ultimately backfire (again) on Microsoft. _Almost_ as good as free kernel patches from Redmond....