Most likely, they are. Afterall, in order to use a Windows Corporate License, you need to have actually had a Windows License to go with each machine. The Corporate License functions more as a upgrade license than an initial license.
I think that's what the problem with this idea is.
If Company A hires Company B or Contractor B to write a custom piece of software for them, it would be exactly the same as if I had a person from Company A do it. In otherwords, I am not 'buying' software from anyone. I am 'hiring' a knowledge resource only. The software was never purchased.
This is the way a lot of web pages are "designed". Graphic Designers use PhotoShop or the like to create the way the page should look. Then, they hand it over to Web Designers to get it to work the way is should work.
It's kind of like a Politician saying we should have this great program and then somebody else has to find a way to pay for it.
>'such information would be in the public domain by law.'
It would not be in the public domain. That would mean that anyone could use it or change it without any notice or respect to the originators of the work.
It could be placed into a form of software patent/copyright. NOT in the existing patent concept. But one that acknowledges who wrote what and still provide the end user the freedom to enhance or customize.
This is one of the very base issues that currently exist with the interpretations of what Intellectual Property is or should be.
I'd have to agree here. I can't see any companies making notable purchases of this OS. Looking at the Amiga site, I don't see anything that tells me why I should run the OS.
We currently have three (or four) major desktop OS's. MS Windows, Apple MacOS X, and Linux (and *BSD). Solaris and HP-UX are commencing the slow death. Businesses still prefer MS Windows in the majority with Linux, in all it's flavors, making some major inroads. MacOS X still maintains a solid hold on the graphic industry and probably will never lose it due to very solid hardware, very solid OS, and the stylish nature that Steve Jobs gave it in it's creation. Other than creating another hobby OS that you have to pay for, I don't see where AmigaOS will fit in.
I feel it would have been better for the AmigaOS to have opened it's doors and intergrated with the OpenSource world. Enhancing the development of XFree86 and Gnome/KDE would have been a much better choice. They could have their own distribution and style to a *BSD or Linux. And they wouldn't have had to fight a (STILL!) crowded OS market.
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Most likely, they are. Afterall, in order to use a Windows Corporate License, you need to have actually had a Windows License to go with each machine. The Corporate License functions more as a upgrade license than an initial license.
I'd have to agree with that. Beside's they DO reference 'Googol' on their Corp Info Page. http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html
I think that's what the problem with this idea is. If Company A hires Company B or Contractor B to write a custom piece of software for them, it would be exactly the same as if I had a person from Company A do it. In otherwords, I am not 'buying' software from anyone. I am 'hiring' a knowledge resource only. The software was never purchased.
This is the way a lot of web pages are "designed". Graphic Designers use PhotoShop or the like to create the way the page should look. Then, they hand it over to Web Designers to get it to work the way is should work.
It's kind of like a Politician saying we should have this great program and then somebody else has to find a way to pay for it.
It would not be in the public domain. That would mean that anyone could use it or change it without any notice or respect to the originators of the work.
It could be placed into a form of software patent/copyright. NOT in the existing patent concept. But one that acknowledges who wrote what and still provide the end user the freedom to enhance or customize.
This is one of the very base issues that currently exist with the interpretations of what Intellectual Property is or should be.
- Baelbouga
I'd have to agree here. I can't see any companies making notable purchases of this OS. Looking at the Amiga site, I don't see anything that tells me why I should run the OS. We currently have three (or four) major desktop OS's. MS Windows, Apple MacOS X, and Linux (and *BSD). Solaris and HP-UX are commencing the slow death. Businesses still prefer MS Windows in the majority with Linux, in all it's flavors, making some major inroads. MacOS X still maintains a solid hold on the graphic industry and probably will never lose it due to very solid hardware, very solid OS, and the stylish nature that Steve Jobs gave it in it's creation. Other than creating another hobby OS that you have to pay for, I don't see where AmigaOS will fit in. I feel it would have been better for the AmigaOS to have opened it's doors and intergrated with the OpenSource world. Enhancing the development of XFree86 and Gnome/KDE would have been a much better choice. They could have their own distribution and style to a *BSD or Linux. And they wouldn't have had to fight a (STILL!) crowded OS market. - Baelbouga