In there small way KFC is threatening freedom of speech.
How do you mean?
What if everybody did this... a moral question that kids begin to ask when they are 9ish. So the only new foods we have are trade secrets backed by advertising campaigns, and 100 years later we've still got the same foods.
KFC Corp. keeps trade secrets because it's in its own interest. If they are going to give back, it will be on their terms. This is perfectly legal and by design.
But there is something rotten in our laws. There's nothing wrong with KFC making $$$ by creating a receipe and marketing it as kewl if, over time it is beneficial to society.
So in 50 years the receipe may still be secret. Now I'm not interested in it, but pretend I am... well too bad... someone else owns my culture. Star Wars is a much better example, because it really is part of our culture.
The society constructed in the Western world currently has mechanisms in place to allow autonomous, individual pursuit for people or corporations.
So the George Lucas is rich, and so are many other who worked on this great piece of art. They needed to protect the monopoly on Star Wars for a certain amount of time to get their due compensation. But Star Wars has transcended 'money making', and little kiddies and adults want to do things with Star Wars IP, like write stories and make other movies, but they can't.
Big business owns this celebrity, and they make big $$$ because many people have attachments to it. They have lobbied and subverted IP laws so that they can hang on to such cash cows as long as possible (indefinitely would be nice for shareholders). We need to rewrite IP laws and strike a balance somewhere.
Specifically, if some fan of a celebrity should be able to create (art?) for non-commercial purposes. (Why should Wizards of the Coast dislike fanfiction).
If the original author has already made $$$ from a work, then why shouldn't they be forced to compete and innovate with other authors (commercially) who want to extend that work? Because it's easier to lobby congress with those original $$$, and create a legal situation where you can sit on your thumb playing golf and still wrack in the dollars.
PHB's, as annoyingly ingornant as they are, will generally follow the advise of their experts unless they have some agenda of there own. Now, computer experts are going to say cheap, no vendor lockin, no hidden features, and most can understand that even if they don't understand the process
Now, what about that agenda... Bill and Steve can only play golf with only so many PHBs. Perhaps M$ can start hiring idiot business graduates to play golf with the CEO's?
This Free Speech/Open Source movement is not just a philosophy. It's a religion
Any philosophy would appear like a religion if you don't agree with it. That's just like saying "all you people are wrong, and why don't you just shut up with your new philosophy".
Is Free Speech in danger when McDonald's doesn't publish the recipes of their menu or when KFC keeps the 13 spices and herbs secret?
How about my favorite Italian restaurants meatballs?
Almost all chefs that I've met keep their receipes secret. This is a tradition amongst chefs, and helps them distinguish themselves, much like an artist has a certain style.
As for those 13 herbs and spices... consider the following transcript from this article...
So let me tell you what I think the owners of culture were doing in the 20th century. It took them two generations from Edison to figure out what their business was, and it wasn't music and it wasn't movies. It was celebrity. They created very large artificial people, you know, with navels eight feet high. And then we had these fantasy personal relationships with the artificial big people. And those personal relationships were manipulated to sell us lots and lots of stuff -- music and movies and T-shirts and toys and, you know, sexual gratification, and heavens knows what else. All of that on the basis of the underlying real economy of culture, which is that we pay for that which we have relations with. We are human beings, social animals.
In there small way KFC is threatening freedom of speech. They've created a secret formula, and made it a celebrity. They own a piece of our culture, like George Lucus owns Star Wars, and that's how they make all that money.
As for freedom of speech, people will publish receipes, (and make movies), and others will take those receipes and improve upon them (there is no requirement to republish), and over the centuries we developed wonderful and complex delicacies and great diversity. KFC gives us a few types of food and they sustain their IP with marketing. Why is this restricted model somehow better for society just because it creates shareholder value in the pockets of a few?
I doubt Microsoft will ever write software for Linux
I doubt that Microsoft won't write software for Linux. They are in it for the money, and they have proven flexible in the past. If Linux becomes so popular that they can't lock people into using Windows, then they'll sell software for Linux.
While Microsoft probably welcome articles like this one, that's only because it helps them preserve the monopoly, which helps them make a profit, if only in the short term.
Microsoft doesn't _just_ sell Windows, and even though it's very profitable for them at the moment, that doesn't mean they'll do a complete 180 turn... if only in the name of the all mighty dollar.
So now you've got that sub-plot of the Grasshopper and Master thing
That's great Darl, I love the story about the Grasshopper and the Master. It's my favourite kung fu story.
Keep them coming Darl
Have you ever read teh Weekly World News? If not, you should, it's a great read.
How many of you thought that I was some gullible fool that believes in wild tabloid press? You my friends should all read the WWN before you decide what it is. Maybe you'll laugh out loud, and wonder why anybody could think it's real - oh, that's the joke =)
You can't be smarter than the average Joe if you just go along with the crowd!
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In there small way KFC is threatening freedom of speech.
How do you mean?
What if everybody did this... a moral question that kids begin to ask when they are 9ish. So the only new foods we have are trade secrets backed by advertising campaigns, and 100 years later we've still got the same foods.
KFC Corp. keeps trade secrets because it's in its own interest. If they are going to give back, it will be on their terms. This is perfectly legal and by design.
But there is something rotten in our laws. There's nothing wrong with KFC making $$$ by creating a receipe and marketing it as kewl if, over time it is beneficial to society.
So in 50 years the receipe may still be secret. Now I'm not interested in it, but pretend I am... well too bad... someone else owns my culture. Star Wars is a much better example, because it really is part of our culture.
The society constructed in the Western world currently has mechanisms in place to allow autonomous, individual pursuit for people or corporations.
So the George Lucas is rich, and so are many other who worked on this great piece of art. They needed to protect the monopoly on Star Wars for a certain amount of time to get their due compensation. But Star Wars has transcended 'money making', and little kiddies and adults want to do things with Star Wars IP, like write stories and make other movies, but they can't.
Big business owns this celebrity, and they make big $$$ because many people have attachments to it. They have lobbied and subverted IP laws so that they can hang on to such cash cows as long as possible (indefinitely would be nice for shareholders). We need to rewrite IP laws and strike a balance somewhere.
Specifically, if some fan of a celebrity should be able to create (art?) for non-commercial purposes. (Why should Wizards of the Coast dislike fanfiction).
If the original author has already made $$$ from a work, then why shouldn't they be forced to compete and innovate with other authors (commercially) who want to extend that work? Because it's easier to lobby congress with those original $$$, and create a legal situation where you can sit on your thumb playing golf and still wrack in the dollars.
PHB's, as annoyingly ingornant as they are, will generally follow the advise of their experts unless they have some agenda of there own. Now, computer experts are going to say cheap, no vendor lockin, no hidden features, and most can understand that even if they don't understand the process
Now, what about that agenda... Bill and Steve can only play golf with only so many PHBs. Perhaps M$ can start hiring idiot business graduates to play golf with the CEO's?
This Free Speech/Open Source movement is not just a philosophy. It's a religion
Any philosophy would appear like a religion if you don't agree with it. That's just like saying "all you people are wrong, and why don't you just shut up with your new philosophy".
Is Free Speech in danger when McDonald's doesn't publish the recipes of their menu or when KFC keeps the 13 spices and herbs secret?
How about my favorite Italian restaurants meatballs?
Almost all chefs that I've met keep their receipes secret. This is a tradition amongst chefs, and helps them distinguish themselves, much like an artist has a certain style.
As for those 13 herbs and spices... consider the following transcript from this article...
So let me tell you what I think the owners of culture were doing in the 20th century. It took them two generations from Edison to figure out what their business was, and it wasn't music and it wasn't movies. It was celebrity. They created very large artificial people, you know, with navels eight feet high. And then we had these fantasy personal relationships with the artificial big people. And those personal relationships were manipulated to sell us lots and lots of stuff -- music and movies and T-shirts and toys and, you know, sexual gratification, and heavens knows what else. All of that on the basis of the underlying real economy of culture, which is that we pay for that which we have relations with. We are human beings, social animals.
In there small way KFC is threatening freedom of speech. They've created a secret formula, and made it a celebrity. They own a piece of our culture, like George Lucus owns Star Wars, and that's how they make all that money.
As for freedom of speech, people will publish receipes, (and make movies), and others will take those receipes and improve upon them (there is no requirement to republish), and over the centuries we developed wonderful and complex delicacies and great diversity. KFC gives us a few types of food and they sustain their IP with marketing. Why is this restricted model somehow better for society just because it creates shareholder value in the pockets of a few?
I for one would love to peek around in this, more out of curiosity than any desire to actually do something useful with it
I'd love to peek around in it to see if there's any GPL'ed or BSD code in there. Maybe there could be a few licences missing from a few files.
I doubt Microsoft will ever write software for Linux
I doubt that Microsoft won't write software for Linux. They are in it for the money, and they have proven flexible in the past. If Linux becomes so popular that they can't lock people into using Windows, then they'll sell software for Linux.
While Microsoft probably welcome articles like this one, that's only because it helps them preserve the monopoly, which helps them make a profit, if only in the short term.
Microsoft doesn't _just_ sell Windows, and even though it's very profitable for them at the moment, that doesn't mean they'll do a complete 180 turn... if only in the name of the all mighty dollar.
So now you've got that sub-plot of the Grasshopper and Master thing That's great Darl, I love the story about the Grasshopper and the Master. It's my favourite kung fu story. Keep them coming Darl
Have you ever read teh Weekly World News? If not, you should, it's a great read.
How many of you thought that I was some gullible fool that believes in wild tabloid press? You my friends should all read the WWN before you decide what it is. Maybe you'll laugh out loud, and wonder why anybody could think it's real - oh, that's the joke =)
You can't be smarter than the average Joe if you just go along with the crowd!
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Naw, At the time I was a student of the guy who did it, and I'm not from 3000
Just ask
"Why is it okay to use these particular open source products when SCO has publicly vilified the whole the open source method?"
IMHO you've got to keep a question to 1 scentence.