It is indeed a non-trivial task to leverage the "appeal" of "free" without taking on the "risk" of "no cashflow". Perhaps this whole Open Source phenomenon is experiencing the very reality that Communism faced. That is, "from each his ability, to each his need", really is a violation of human nature.
Regards,
Big
"Hey, better yet, why not just preemtively lock up anyone with a sufficiently above-average IQ?"
It's happened already, in China. It was called the "cultural revolution". One way to get locked up, was to be "an intellectual", which is "redspeak" for "smart".
Being smart is already its own punishment. We have to work for power hungry politicians, that constantly force us to carry out their ludicrous initiatives without complaint. I've always said it is indeed stressful to be a smart person in a world full of dullards. Especially when you work for them, and they control you and your family's prosperity!
Regards,
Big
So true...last I checked, you couldn't live in Ohio and use a toilet in India, nor drive a car that's there, here in Texas. Wow...talk about devolution!
Big
Real geeks use brain power to figure out how to romance a woman, marry her, reproduce (heck, there's at a bunch of books and online primers on how to do it). I for one, have managed to reproduce 3 times, and one of them is primed to take on the geek mantle, no sweat! Just as geeks figured out how to hook a pop machine to the internet, we can figure out how to woo a female!
By-the-way, interesting aside, but since I'm a software engineer, getting my MBA in eBusiness, I believe we ARE going to inherit the earth. It's much easier for us to learn business, that for business drones to learn technology. Computing devices don't respond much to politics, that's why business types don't like them.
Regards,
big_daddy_mpd
Not true! I've been married to a Geek lover, for 20 years now. Of course, I was a "stealth geek" in college, played on the football team, sang in the choir, secretly spent sleepless nights in the computer center, playing Advent, Dungeo, and writing BASIC programs. In fact, I've even procreated 3 times, one of which, has already inherited my geekdom.
BTW, "happily" married geeks, get laid alot more than unmarried geeks. Marriage is good that way.
So, the issue to me here, is that Google is simply reporting on someone's "opinion" on a subject. So, it's "libel" to report someone's opinion? Someone should tell www.epinions.com then, because they're in for big trouble. This guy needs to be told that bad word-of-mouth is simply a peril of business, and, that if he wishes to avoid that, he needs to take a look at his customer service and customer dispute practices. They obviously stink!
All of what you say is true, however, however "liberal" the courts are, IP lawsuits are pretty common, and there is a gaggle of court rulings that make it clear that S.C.O, SCO, whatever, will have to prove a couple of things:
1) That code was duplicated by IBM in Linux in violation of the license that IBM has.
2) That the code that was duplicated is "novel", that is, that it isn't some remenant of BSD Unix (in the public domain for a long time), that they both share, or, that the "similar" code simply isn't an example of "form-follows-function". I mean, memory allocation, how many ways can you really do that?
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It is indeed a non-trivial task to leverage the "appeal" of "free" without taking on the "risk" of "no cashflow". Perhaps this whole Open Source phenomenon is experiencing the very reality that Communism faced. That is, "from each his ability, to each his need", really is a violation of human nature. Regards, Big
"Hey, better yet, why not just preemtively lock up anyone with a sufficiently above-average IQ?" It's happened already, in China. It was called the "cultural revolution". One way to get locked up, was to be "an intellectual", which is "redspeak" for "smart". Being smart is already its own punishment. We have to work for power hungry politicians, that constantly force us to carry out their ludicrous initiatives without complaint. I've always said it is indeed stressful to be a smart person in a world full of dullards. Especially when you work for them, and they control you and your family's prosperity! Regards, Big
So true...last I checked, you couldn't live in Ohio and use a toilet in India, nor drive a car that's there, here in Texas. Wow...talk about devolution! Big
Real geeks use brain power to figure out how to romance a woman, marry her, reproduce (heck, there's at a bunch of books and online primers on how to do it). I for one, have managed to reproduce 3 times, and one of them is primed to take on the geek mantle, no sweat! Just as geeks figured out how to hook a pop machine to the internet, we can figure out how to woo a female! By-the-way, interesting aside, but since I'm a software engineer, getting my MBA in eBusiness, I believe we ARE going to inherit the earth. It's much easier for us to learn business, that for business drones to learn technology. Computing devices don't respond much to politics, that's why business types don't like them. Regards, big_daddy_mpd
Not true! I've been married to a Geek lover, for 20 years now. Of course, I was a "stealth geek" in college, played on the football team, sang in the choir, secretly spent sleepless nights in the computer center, playing Advent, Dungeo, and writing BASIC programs. In fact, I've even procreated 3 times, one of which, has already inherited my geekdom. BTW, "happily" married geeks, get laid alot more than unmarried geeks. Marriage is good that way.
So, the issue to me here, is that Google is simply reporting on someone's "opinion" on a subject. So, it's "libel" to report someone's opinion? Someone should tell www.epinions.com then, because they're in for big trouble. This guy needs to be told that bad word-of-mouth is simply a peril of business, and, that if he wishes to avoid that, he needs to take a look at his customer service and customer dispute practices. They obviously stink!
All of what you say is true, however, however "liberal" the courts are, IP lawsuits are pretty common, and there is a gaggle of court rulings that make it clear that S.C.O, SCO, whatever, will have to prove a couple of things: 1) That code was duplicated by IBM in Linux in violation of the license that IBM has. 2) That the code that was duplicated is "novel", that is, that it isn't some remenant of BSD Unix (in the public domain for a long time), that they both share, or, that the "similar" code simply isn't an example of "form-follows-function". I mean, memory allocation, how many ways can you really do that?