Can it be shown that they have stopped doing this accross the board? Or only for the "high rollers"? It wouldn't surprise me if such a bunch of assholes as these only "whitelist" people that can sue them.
As long as we depend on cigars with wings and chemical based propellants we will only inch our way along this journey. I had higher hopes for this crew.
What new space-alien-derived here-to-unknown technology where you proposing they use? This thing isn't headed for Mars, you know.
The real sign of success or progress would be when OEMs pre-install FireFox. I don't understand why the OEMs are so timid and still so tied to MSFT.
The problem is that most (if not all) OEMs are stricly business. There has been no measurable outcry from their customers (who can download it anyway), and Microsoft pays them to include IE on the desktop.
So, how about Google - I mean Mozilla - pay OEMs too? That's the only way you'll see it pre-installed.
Then you have to attract the attention of this mob and persuade them that it would be cheaper to buy your patent, rather then just sue you for infringing one of their patents.
Except in the rare occasion where the patent is *VERY* valuable, it is almost NEVER cheaper to allow a law suit rather than settle. In the case that The IP Cartel wins, what assets do the IP Squatters really have beyond the IP itself? In all, a net financial loss for The Cartel. This is why although both sides will "posture" and "strut", eventually there will be a settlement for some sum of cash-ola for the IP Squatter.
If ever this was a great boon to the IP Squatters! I see a bundle of the folks setting up "business models" based wholly on selling IP to this single group.
IANAL but as I understand it the GPL requires that source is made available to customers, not everyone. Of course in this case they don't appear to be making it available to customers either.
What if the end-user, the guy with the box, doesn't own it? Suppose the IPTV company maintains ownership of the box? Than the end-user wouldn't need to be provided with the code?
Why? NetFlix, as I'm sure you understand, is not some altruistic service for movie geekdom. It's a business. From their standpoint, if it is possible to increase their revenue by eliminating this "feature", then they should do it. They are in business to make money, it's not the public library.
Any discomfort will soon be forgotten, and they may even be able to shed themselves of the dead-beat "customers" that cost them more than they make.
I've been using the RC, and must say the memory issues that the Mozilla developers have tried to claim never existed, are almost nonexistent now. The only tiny thing I don't like is the Text Size function which is now called "zoom", and is sucky.
The question is, how did this change occur? Did they put something in his tea?
It is possible that he thinks this is the only way to get elected, and he wants to get elected. The other possibility is that he's eating the crow out of loyalty to his party (he's a military man, he believes in that sort of thing). And yet another possibility is both of these things are true.
I for one welcome our new Roland Overlord. May he pour hit grits down Natalie Portman's shorts, I'll take a Beowulf cluster of that! I'll bet in Soviet Russia they can't even get Roland. But one thing is for sure, he does run Linux. And all these stories of his on Slashdot almost certainly result in Profit!
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Can it be shown that they have stopped doing this accross the board? Or only for the "high rollers"? It wouldn't surprise me if such a bunch of assholes as these only "whitelist" people that can sue them.
This could be a very good thing, as maybe the courts will see the folly of the current laws.
What new space-alien-derived here-to-unknown technology where you proposing they use? This thing isn't headed for Mars, you know.
Exactly so. If your standard of privacy is that high, don't expose yourself to public streets.
The problem is that most (if not all) OEMs are stricly business. There has been no measurable outcry from their customers (who can download it anyway), and Microsoft pays them to include IE on the desktop.
So, how about Google - I mean Mozilla - pay OEMs too? That's the only way you'll see it pre-installed.
Speak for yourself.
Pretty much the same as gas...
Except in the rare occasion where the patent is *VERY* valuable, it is almost NEVER cheaper to allow a law suit rather than settle. In the case that The IP Cartel wins, what assets do the IP Squatters really have beyond the IP itself? In all, a net financial loss for The Cartel. This is why although both sides will "posture" and "strut", eventually there will be a settlement for some sum of cash-ola for the IP Squatter.
If ever this was a great boon to the IP Squatters! I see a bundle of the folks setting up "business models" based wholly on selling IP to this single group.
No?
Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
Since Bishop is a M$ shill, it's likely from a "reliable source".
More BLOG SPAM. Are you Roland's love child?
Why yes! I see by the news accounts that there has been a ground-swell and NetFlix has announced bankruptcy...
Honestly, I'm SHOCKED!
Any discomfort will soon be forgotten, and they may even be able to shed themselves of the dead-beat "customers" that cost them more than they make.
Cable porn. Is that a sub category of tentacle porn? A giant Cthulhu-like monster made of Cat-5?
Still not the same and a total HASSLE to use. AND, mo one needs the "zoom". it's called screen resolution.
I've been using the RC, and must say the memory issues that the Mozilla developers have tried to claim never existed, are almost nonexistent now. The only tiny thing I don't like is the Text Size function which is now called "zoom", and is sucky.
So this is "innovation", eh?
I for one welcome our new Roland Overlord. May he pour hit grits down Natalie Portman's shorts, I'll take a Beowulf cluster of that! I'll bet in Soviet Russia they can't even get Roland. But one thing is for sure, he does run Linux. And all these stories of his on Slashdot almost certainly result in Profit!
Meth isn't illegal, eh? Try that one on the cop when you get busted. "Honestly officer, it's only schedule II.