Its petty Palm is in trouble but at least some good is emerging from the MS antitrust case. If it hadn't been for that MS would be able to buy Palm for $3B+- and get rid of this nasty competitor. IBM is selling a fair amount of Palm under their own brand name, maybe they would be interested in aquiring Palm?
The theoretical problem is that Fairness is seen from the buyers perspective however rationel the pricing looks to the seller. Humans have an inate sense of fairness. As social beings we have been selected for that as a mean to better survive in a group setting. Dynamic pricing goes against this fairness sense and we consequently finds this appaling. Professor Rabin recently won the MacArthur price (same as Stallman won earlier) for incorporating this Fairness sense into modern economic theory.
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I think this boils down to Mundie stating that you can't get rich selling GPL'ed Software. That might be true but the flip side is that you can save a lot of money using it. Isn't that what RH's Bob Young has been saying all along. He has staed that Redhat will reduce the OS market by 80% in dollar terms.
Quote: we look at coke and pepsi ragging on eachother and pulling stunts and it seems normal
FYI, The ragging you are refering to was at one point called "The Cola War". Whole books were written on the subjects. Make a Google search and you will be surprised at retoric used at the time mid 80's if I remember.
Quote Also, I'm noticing more and more German borrowing in the hacker world. Is it just me? If it's not, any speculation on why?
Your idea about Shadenfreude is wrong. The idea behind the expression is complex. Its more than just taking pleasure in others misfortune, it has an element of hybris as well as relating back to one self. It makes ones own lot in life better as its compared to someone elses.
On German or other idioms. I think its a question of using the best Tool for the job so to speak. Other languages often has expressions that captures the essence succintly. Like Raison d'etre. This is not a dig at English remember how many English espression has entered into other languages.
Look at the register They have a comment from a NASA guy that they are running Solaris on the 486 Thinkpads.
QuoteThe IBM Thinkpad laptops to which you refer, called PCS (Portable Computer System) are used throughout the station. They are indeed 486 based laptops. However, they are running Sun's Solaris OS for x86, and the OpenWindows WM, and a custom application that provides a graphical interface to the various on-board systems.
Quote wee bit more configurable than their competitors I think you are absolutely right. One of the often mentioned reasons for the success of DoCOMO is that it comes with THICK manual. People like to fiddle with this stuff once they know how to do the basics. In the old day while you waited to board an airplane you looked at your ticket 10 times just to kill the few minutes. Now you can fiddle with your cell phone instead, provided there is enough configurable stuff to fiddle with.
Its wrong to rely on lawsuits and legal remedies that possible infringes on free speech to fight spam. Technology is the spam enabler and should be the spam disabler as well. At least I think so.
here is the content of the letter from Brian. As of March, 2001, SourceXchange has officially closed its virtual doors. While a unique idea and one that we feel really adhered more closely to the Open Source ideal than any other work-for-hire site ever did, it simply did not achieve the volume of business necessary to maintain the site and evolve the offering to meet the needs of sponsors and developers. Thank you to the hundreds of participants on our various projects, and to the sponsors who were willing to take a risk on a new model (and who, by and large, got good results). CollabNet is now focusing its full attention on its collaborative software development product called SourceCast. Happy Hacking! Brian
It doesn't matter if you are guilty or innocent. You request the code as part of the discoveries. The court would probably order the code being kept confidential, but this is easely circumvented by leaking to the press that publish the stuff. The press is pretty well covered even if flaunting the courts rulings. Just ask President Clinton or rather Paula Jones.
You wrote "The general public is, well, stupid and impressionable. European governments have recognised this for sometime, and take care of these issues for them by implementing strong censorship of violence. Hence there is little violence in European countries"
The fact that we do not have 1.2 guns for every citizen like the US might have something to do with it as well.
Innovations do not need to be earth shattering and the little neat things is probably what makes technology pleasant and interesting. Look at the list over at Sv.com. This is what Eazel have done in a year that neither Mac nor Windows has. This was problably put together as arguments against MicroSoft latest OpenSource hinders innovation but quite interesting in its own right.
"Note that if you overclock your CPU, bus speed, memory bandwith, graphics card performance, network speed and harddisk perfomance are still unchanged"
Hey You are wrong here. If you overclock by upping the bus speed the Graphics card, and mem bandwidth will increase as well. The network is almost always a bottleneck regardless of CPU. You can saturate a T1 with a 100mhz CPU. So that is not really an argument for OC or not.
I am willing to bet at least a dollar that if MicroSoft stole GLP'ed code and used it it would end in court somehow. You only need one lawyer that decides to sue. Look at the silly Class action suits floating around against any company whos shares drops for whatever reason. They get sued because the lawyers gets a share of the awards. Same with GPL. The little companies can maybe get away with it but the big guys No Way.
What moron marked this comment "off topic". Its a very interesting pertinent comment and a logical questioin to ask given the initial storyline. Please mod that original poster up.
Interesting thought but it wouldn't work as you outline. 1. The software could be hosted on servers outside US and any download subject to the licensing of the hosting country. 2. Unless there is a clear intent to defraud. The damages awared has to relate to the money earned. Zero in this case.
"Personally, I think that this sort of complexity is going to become the limiting factor in the advancement of technology".
Not to diminish the problem but we will find a technological solution to this technological problem. Ie a solution not dependent on direct human labour. Its like the phone companies in the early days projecting a limit to the numbers of phones as we would run out of "telephone operators". They were banting around projecting millions of people manning switchboards.
The effort your are talking about was in Australia with different law covering licenses. The issue here is that German law specifically allow transfer of licenses regardless of the "text" under which it is granted. In this case MS.
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Its petty Palm is in trouble but at least some good is emerging from the MS antitrust case. If it hadn't been for that MS would be able to buy Palm for $3B+- and get rid of this nasty competitor. IBM is selling a fair amount of Palm under their own brand name, maybe they would be interested in aquiring Palm?
The theoretical problem is that Fairness is seen from the buyers perspective however rationel the pricing looks to the seller. Humans have an inate sense of fairness. As social beings we have been selected for that as a mean to better survive in a group setting. Dynamic pricing goes against this fairness sense and we consequently finds this appaling. Professor Rabin recently won the MacArthur price (same as Stallman won earlier) for incorporating this Fairness sense into modern economic theory.
I think this boils down to Mundie stating that you can't get rich selling GPL'ed Software. That might be true but the flip side is that you can save a lot of money using it. Isn't that what RH's Bob Young has been saying all along. He has staed that Redhat will reduce the OS market by 80% in dollar terms.
Quote: we look at coke and pepsi ragging on eachother and pulling stunts and it seems normal
FYI, The ragging you are refering to was at one point called "The Cola War". Whole books were written on the subjects. Make a Google search and you will be surprised at retoric used at the time mid 80's if I remember.
These guys are down 90% from peak of $152. Keep facts staight.
If the RICO charges goes through sucessfully they can most likely use that to void the agreement arguing it was entered into under duress.
Now the old joke has come to pass.
Quote Also, I'm noticing more and more German borrowing in the hacker world. Is it just me? If it's not, any speculation on why? Your idea about Shadenfreude is wrong. The idea behind the expression is complex. Its more than just taking pleasure in others misfortune, it has an element of hybris as well as relating back to one self. It makes ones own lot in life better as its compared to someone elses. On German or other idioms. I think its a question of using the best Tool for the job so to speak. Other languages often has expressions that captures the essence succintly. Like Raison d'etre. This is not a dig at English remember how many English espression has entered into other languages.
Look at the register They have a comment from a NASA guy that they are running Solaris on the 486 Thinkpads. QuoteThe IBM Thinkpad laptops to which you refer, called PCS (Portable Computer System) are used throughout the station. They are indeed 486 based laptops. However, they are running Sun's Solaris OS for x86, and the OpenWindows WM, and a custom application that provides a graphical interface to the various on-board systems.
Quote wee bit more configurable than their competitors I think you are absolutely right. One of the often mentioned reasons for the success of DoCOMO is that it comes with THICK manual. People like to fiddle with this stuff once they know how to do the basics. In the old day while you waited to board an airplane you looked at your ticket 10 times just to kill the few minutes. Now you can fiddle with your cell phone instead, provided there is enough configurable stuff to fiddle with.
Its wrong to rely on lawsuits and legal remedies that possible infringes on free speech to fight spam. Technology is the spam enabler and should be the spam disabler as well. At least I think so.
here is the content of the letter from Brian. As of March, 2001, SourceXchange has officially closed its virtual doors. While a unique idea and one that we feel really adhered more closely to the Open Source ideal than any other work-for-hire site ever did, it simply did not achieve the volume of business necessary to maintain the site and evolve the offering to meet the needs of sponsors and developers. Thank you to the hundreds of participants on our various projects, and to the sponsors who were willing to take a risk on a new model (and who, by and large, got good results). CollabNet is now focusing its full attention on its collaborative software development product called SourceCast. Happy Hacking! Brian
It doesn't matter if you are guilty or innocent. You request the code as part of the discoveries. The court would probably order the code being kept confidential, but this is easely circumvented by leaking to the press that publish the stuff. The press is pretty well covered even if flaunting the courts rulings. Just ask President Clinton or rather Paula Jones.
For this article it should be spelled mayBe
You wrote "The general public is, well, stupid and impressionable. European governments have recognised this for sometime, and take care of these issues for them by implementing strong censorship of violence. Hence there is little violence in European countries" The fact that we do not have 1.2 guns for every citizen like the US might have something to do with it as well.
Strange they didn't pick OS/365 as the next release indication the OS would work every day of the year with no downtime.
Xilinx offer free design tools for their family of chips. Look at Free Virtex Tools A company I am involved with is working a standard CPU (PowerPC) FPGA assisted Application specific computing platform.
Innovations do not need to be earth shattering and the little neat things is probably what makes technology pleasant and interesting. Look at the list over at Sv.com. This is what Eazel have done in a year that neither Mac nor Windows has. This was problably put together as arguments against MicroSoft latest OpenSource hinders innovation but quite interesting in its own right.
How soon after launch will xBSD or LinuX be available. Since MS will sell the $350 cost machine at $200 we should be in for a treat.
Hey You are wrong here. If you overclock by upping the bus speed the Graphics card, and mem bandwidth will increase as well. The network is almost always a bottleneck regardless of CPU. You can saturate a T1 with a 100mhz CPU. So that is not really an argument for OC or not.
I am willing to bet at least a dollar that if MicroSoft stole GLP'ed code and used it it would end in court somehow. You only need one lawyer that decides to sue. Look at the silly Class action suits floating around against any company whos shares drops for whatever reason. They get sued because the lawyers gets a share of the awards. Same with GPL. The little companies can maybe get away with it but the big guys No Way.
What moron marked this comment "off topic". Its a very interesting pertinent comment and a logical questioin to ask given the initial storyline. Please mod that original poster up.
Interesting thought but it wouldn't work as you outline. 1. The software could be hosted on servers outside US and any download subject to the licensing of the hosting country. 2. Unless there is a clear intent to defraud. The damages awared has to relate to the money earned. Zero in this case.
"Personally, I think that this sort of complexity is going to become the limiting factor in the advancement of technology". Not to diminish the problem but we will find a technological solution to this technological problem. Ie a solution not dependent on direct human labour. Its like the phone companies in the early days projecting a limit to the numbers of phones as we would run out of "telephone operators". They were banting around projecting millions of people manning switchboards.
The effort your are talking about was in Australia with different law covering licenses. The issue here is that German law specifically allow transfer of licenses regardless of the "text" under which it is granted. In this case MS.