Smartphone (with a capital S) is Microsoft's brandname for... smartphones (duh!). They've copyrighted the name, so that's what Howard means when he writes "first commercially available Smartphone".
You make a good point, but taking Names (TM) that already has a meaning and copyright it is stealing from the commons.
They steal the meaning that this name already have. There is nothng wrong with picking a name that helps you in the beginning you just need to undertand that what helps you now will hurt you later so take your pick.
It like the Trademarking of the word Windows. WTF. This was picked percisely because it had a well definied and undertaood meaning. The name helped yuo in the beginning now you are stuck with something that is generic and should be allowed to be trademarked.
Nothing wrong with Smartphone but as a trade mark give me a break. Maybe we need to rename Gnome or KDE SmartWindows.
He predicted tech IPO comeback for 2002
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It gets better Look what else he said.
Finally via Google we can see what these clowns said.
This question was posed at the recent press conference, and McBride said that the lawfirm were on a "Profit aligmnent" basis. Euphemism I guess for sharing the loot if they get any, in exchange for not being paid if they fail.
Re:Nah, this one's better.
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I stand corrected;-)
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Pragmatically, the same thing can happen in a proprietary product, but the customer has someone to hold responsible in that situation (the developer of the product) so the economic incentives discourage such illegal contributions
If whatever you have is not good enough maybe do as I. I use POPFile and then use the baysian filter inside Mozilla. PopFile has a feasture where you can hardcode recipient messages ID as Magnets, so you hardly ever have a false positive. I am running at 99+%. Truely excellent. PpFile takes 10 min or so to set-up. Training is a days or so.
Perfectly legitimate memo as far as I can see. I fact it makes a very good point that FOOS is a previledge not a right. Priviledges comes with attachments and can be revoked. This memo only states that DoD will play by the rules.
I think the FOOS community notably the ones (like me) that do not write code but tries to get FOOS into the corporations, increasingly need to stress the fact that it comes with strings attached and that the corporations need to make sure that those strings is being honored.
We already have a universal system. Goes like this
Country ID + Country Zip. Problem solved
Every country has a two alphanumerice code and every country has a zip system. If the latter is not the case a new system is sure not going to solve that problem.
No they do not. They need to change the way they operate. US can feed the entire world with 2%-3% of population working on farms. Denmark (You know how small it is?) could in theory feed all of Europe using less than 350K people with no extra land being used.
I do not mean to belittle world hunger, just think we need to go about fixing it differently.
Destroyed irreplacable historic artifacts in exchange for more Farmland. Farmland, for crying out loud. As if the world need more Farmland.
We need educated people not bloody peasants.
Why do undeveloped nations think they need big ill thought throught project like this. Free the people and let them do the thinking and drive the economy.
Curious about the Aswan flop
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Aswan Dam was unwise. The project was far more expensive than expected. Further, the annual floods carried silt, which created the topsoil needed for plants. Since the creation of the Aswan Dam, the farms on the formerly flooded banks have had to use expensive fertilizers in place of the silt. Formerly, fish have fed on the silt, and the people downstream depended on fishing from the riverhere
Maybe there is a way around this. Normally when you trancact somethng like this you agree to forfeit any legal claims against the parties involved.
However this does not apply to third parties hurt by SCO, so if we could find a credible third party willing to go to bat, we could get some of the money back plus hold the directors personally liable.
My personal favorite would ba a class action suit led by ESR on behalf of all the developers.
This would add up to real money and the developing "cost" of Linux would come out in the open.
Having the court certify that the development effort of Linux has a value of $xB, will be worth a lot on PR terms.
The open-source community, however, won't be be given an opportunity to remove any offending code and replace it with new material, he said. Instead, damages will continue to be sought.
As pointed out earlier (Here,Hereby a few people you can't do that. PERIOD.
You have a DUTY to mitigate damages. Failing that you will collect ZIP.
Best strategy is for IBM to make a public offer of $10M, state that they value to company around the same price that a prolonged court case would cost.
Let a few rumour slip to the press that the $10M is the price they estimate the court case will cost and thet they think they will be unable to collect the expected Damages against SCO they court will impose.
That would make their stock price crash to around $2 for a Capitalization of around $15M, then have a RedHat led consortium offer $20M or so, that will likely be accepted.
IBM can then buy some of the SCO contracts from RH and a later date.
That way there will be no impression left that IBM gave in to Blackmail.
Darl McBride at a hastily called press conference said that when they threw out the baby with the bathwater here recently they found these patents left in the tub.
You are right in a general sense, but the beauty of the capitalist system is that every market niche will be filled.
If there is enough people that wants or do not want something it will be provided.
Case in point, Internet Banking. There is not much value Added that a Bank can do. Remember Gates' much maligned comment a few years ago (pre interenet if I remember) that banking will be reduces to a few lines of code. He was close to being right, except Banks didn't want that and rebelled.
If there is a market for a Bank to fully support a FOOS solution, it will be provided. We could even do it ourselves thru a non profit organization, that bought the needed "Connection" services, like Credit card clearance, money transfer etc.
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Or just use fiaSCO, as the Salon article suggest.
As the article in Salon said. Wonder how to pronounce SCO? It is not the 3 letters as in S-C-O but as the last syllable in fiaSCO. Priceless.
You make a good point, but taking Names (TM) that already has a meaning and copyright it is stealing from the commons.
They steal the meaning that this name already have. There is nothng wrong with picking a name that helps you in the beginning you just need to undertand that what helps you now will hurt you later so take your pick.
It like the Trademarking of the word Windows. WTF. This was picked percisely because it had a well definied and undertaood meaning. The name helped yuo in the beginning now you are stuck with something that is generic and should be allowed to be trademarked.
Nothing wrong with Smartphone but as a trade mark give me a break. Maybe we need to rename Gnome or KDE SmartWindows.
It gets better Look what else he said. Finally via Google we can see what these clowns said.
This question was posed at the recent press conference, and McBride said that the lawfirm were on a "Profit aligmnent" basis. Euphemism I guess for sharing the loot if they get any, in exchange for not being paid if they fail.
I stand corrected ;-)
Pragmatically, the same thing can happen in a proprietary product, but the customer has someone to hold responsible in that situation (the developer of the product) so the economic incentives discourage such illegal contributions
Unless the EULA states that they can't be held responsible. Like Microsoft on the famous Timeline SQL Server Patent infringement.
This point needs to be HAMMERED home, Closed Source is no better actually worse since you can't easyly remove the offending code.
Even Slashdot posting could be next.
Pretty much the best write-up of this farce so far.
If whatever you have is not good enough maybe do as I. I use POPFile and then use the baysian filter inside Mozilla. PopFile has a feasture where you can hardcode recipient messages ID as Magnets, so you hardly ever have a false positive. I am running at 99+%. Truely excellent. PpFile takes 10 min or so to set-up. Training is a days or so.
But Pro-Corporal from the look of it.
I think the FOOS community notably the ones (like me) that do not write code but tries to get FOOS into the corporations, increasingly need to stress the fact that it comes with strings attached and that the corporations need to make sure that those strings is being honored.
10 Digits is two #'s for each person on the planet.
Why would we have to build any "intelligence" into the system. That is what computers are for.
Being a very smart boy he immediately showed his little brother the trick.
We already have a universal system. Goes like this
Country ID + Country Zip. Problem solved
Every country has a two alphanumerice code and every country has a zip system. If the latter is not the case a new system is sure not going to solve that problem.
(much more for MANY Americans) Funny
No they do not. They need to change the way they operate. US can feed the entire world with 2%-3% of population working on farms. Denmark (You know how small it is?) could in theory feed all of Europe using less than 350K people with no extra land being used.
I do not mean to belittle world hunger, just think we need to go about fixing it differently.
Destroyed irreplacable historic artifacts in exchange for more Farmland. Farmland, for crying out loud. As if the world need more Farmland.
We need educated people not bloody peasants.
Why do undeveloped nations think they need big ill thought throught project like this. Free the people and let them do the thinking and drive the economy.
Curious about the Aswan flop
Quote:
Aswan Dam was unwise. The project was far more expensive than expected. Further, the annual floods carried silt, which created the topsoil needed for plants. Since the creation of the Aswan Dam, the farms on the formerly flooded banks have had to use expensive fertilizers in place of the silt. Formerly, fish have fed on the silt, and the people downstream depended on fishing from the riverhere
7 is game over.
Maybe there is a way around this. Normally when you trancact somethng like this you agree to forfeit any legal claims against the parties involved.
However this does not apply to third parties hurt by SCO, so if we could find a credible third party willing to go to bat, we could get some of the money back plus hold the directors personally liable.
My personal favorite would ba a class action suit led by ESR on behalf of all the developers.
This would add up to real money and the developing "cost" of Linux would come out in the open.
Having the court certify that the development effort of Linux has a value of $xB, will be worth a lot on PR terms.
As pointed out earlier (Here,Hereby a few people you can't do that. PERIOD.
You have a DUTY to mitigate damages. Failing that you will collect ZIP.
Let a few rumour slip to the press that the $10M is the price they estimate the court case will cost and thet they think they will be unable to collect the expected Damages against SCO they court will impose.
That would make their stock price crash to around $2 for a Capitalization of around $15M, then have a RedHat led consortium offer $20M or so, that will likely be accepted.
IBM can then buy some of the SCO contracts from RH and a later date.
That way there will be no impression left that IBM gave in to Blackmail.
If there is enough people that wants or do not want something it will be provided.
Case in point, Internet Banking. There is not much value Added that a Bank can do. Remember Gates' much maligned comment a few years ago (pre interenet if I remember) that banking will be reduces to a few lines of code. He was close to being right, except Banks didn't want that and rebelled.
If there is a market for a Bank to fully support a FOOS solution, it will be provided. We could even do it ourselves thru a non profit organization, that bought the needed "Connection" services, like Credit card clearance, money transfer etc.
It is actually quite stable, but maybe it's just before all the new stuff gets checked in.
Maybe it is actualy the 1.4rc1 build with only minor changes.