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Yes, I like this revision very much. The only problem I have with it is the clause concerning to the program's name. Being unable to use the name (assuming a company is being obstinant) would cause confusion. How about, you must hybridize the name, such as adding prefixes. Quicken 98 ported to amiga on PPC becomes AmigaPPC OpenPort Quicken 98 (*breath*) then subtitled a port of Intuit's Quicken 98. Plus a limitation on the payment garnered on the port via contract, to keep a company from forcing a port to charge more than what it cost on the original platform presently.
IMHO the laws governing software/hardware protection should be worded such:
1)inorder to be covered by copyright, a softwares source code must be available and archived by the government (or government appointed body). This being so no source code will ever be "lost".
2a)to enforce your copyright on another platform you must have a port of it on said platform. i.e. if you don't want to make a Macintosh/Amiga port, you can not complain is someone emulates it(black box rules still apply) or writes a driver for your hardware.
2b)to aid the porters, the gov. will supply before mentioned source/driver specs to aid the individuals in porting the program.
well, this is the gist of what I would like. You give a commercial company 6 months to port or else, if it's the "or else" you have some setup where a group of hackers can go under NDA and port it to any system it's not on yet. The commercial company would still get royalties, but purely based on the same criteria that song writers get thier pay. Of course the ported code would also belong to the commercial company. But god-damnit, I would have X-Com on my mac.
From what a bio-chem major tells me, the terminator technology does not stop pollen production, but merely makes the pollen created unsuitable for reproduction with that type of crop. Unfortunetly, plants aren't like animals, and they can fairly easily reproduce from other species pollen. Such as the appearence of wild plants that are resistant to a version of Round-Up Herbicide. The weeds gained the genes from a strain of crop geneneered to be resistant to this particular formula of Round-Up. Hell, why do you think they were able to splice a glow worm gene into the Flavor-Savor(tm) tomato? Plants are really not that picky about what genes they have and can reproduce with many of them damaged or altered. I personally think this is a very bad idea.
A Few Of Apple's Good Decisions (possibly in conjuction with other groups): a)QuickTime b)TrueType c)ATSUI technology (another font tech. sometimes called stroke font technology) d)FireWire (IEEE 1394) e)Embracing USB and PCI fully before the x86 crowd f)iMAC (as much as you hate it, its selling well)
As for your example, apple is in fact going to be shipping a PPC with some form of open *nix installed soon, MkLinux being the prime canidate.
As for exibit B, it was $150 Million + stock + patent swap + unspecified other monatary (presumed to be for the lawsuits Apple dropped against MS) Just consider how silly it is to even think that $150 million can save a four billion dollar company. Really, please get a handle on how large these corporations are. And no, it wasn't about QuickTime, it was about MS Office, hence Office 98 for the MacOS. Apple thumbed its nose at MS over threats to QuickTime.
Sure Apple may be the underdog, but remember every team but one is the underdog in all sporting events. I would really like to see your experience on golden parachutes. Could you be the hachet CEO of Bun corporation that recently got fired for cutting over half the jobs and still not turning the company around? He sure knows about golden parachutes. Or did you read the ghost written "autobiography" of Gil Amelio? There's a guy that sky dives with yellow silk for a living.
Apple... The company that got the PC before there were PCs The company few can grok Infinite Loop indeed... when your in the groov, busta move The good idea company that gets everything ripped-off The company that made up over 50% of the computers at Wired, over a year ago (cuz Wired is no more) The no IRQ/DipSwitch/Plug&Pray hardware company. just like Sony Playstation!
*RANT ON* I would love to take to take my BIG ASS BOOT and do some concusive maintenance on anyones crainium that calls Apple a propriatary hardware company. BAM! That's for the Dell BIOSes. BAM! That's for the Compaq's chipset. BAM! That's for SGI. BAM! that's for any and all Intel chipsets ever made. Every one of them propriatary BAM! BAM! BAM! *RAND OFF* - this view doesn't necc. reflect my opinion tomorrow, but I'm real sure it will.
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Yes, I like this revision very much. The only problem I have with it is the clause concerning to the program's name. Being unable to use the name (assuming a company is being obstinant) would cause confusion. How about, you must hybridize the name, such as adding prefixes. Quicken 98 ported to amiga on PPC becomes AmigaPPC OpenPort Quicken 98 (*breath*) then subtitled a port of Intuit's Quicken 98. Plus a limitation on the payment garnered on the port via contract, to keep a company from forcing a port to charge more than what it cost on the original platform presently.
IMHO the laws governing software/hardware protection should be worded such:
1)inorder to be covered by copyright, a softwares source code must be available and archived by the government (or government appointed body). This being so no source code will ever be "lost".
2a)to enforce your copyright on another platform you must have a port of it on said platform. i.e. if you don't want to make a Macintosh/Amiga port, you can not complain is someone emulates it(black box rules still apply) or writes a driver for your hardware.
2b)to aid the porters, the gov. will supply before mentioned source/driver specs to aid the individuals in porting the program.
well, this is the gist of what I would like. You give a commercial company 6 months to port or else, if it's the "or else" you have some setup where a group of hackers can go under NDA and port it to any system it's not on yet. The commercial company would still get royalties, but purely based on the same criteria that song writers get thier pay. Of course the ported code would also belong to the commercial company. But god-damnit, I would have X-Com on my mac.
Uh...chill...
and uh...like...yah, chill.
From what a bio-chem major tells me, the terminator technology does not stop pollen production, but merely makes the pollen created unsuitable for reproduction with that type of crop. Unfortunetly, plants aren't like animals, and they can fairly easily reproduce from other species pollen. Such as the appearence of wild plants that are resistant to a version of Round-Up Herbicide. The weeds gained the genes from a strain of crop geneneered to be resistant to this particular formula of Round-Up. Hell, why do you think they were able to splice a glow worm gene into the Flavor-Savor(tm) tomato? Plants are really not that picky about what genes they have and can reproduce with many of them damaged or altered. I personally think this is a very bad idea.
A Few Of Apple's Good Decisions (possibly in conjuction with other groups):
a)QuickTime
b)TrueType
c)ATSUI technology (another font tech. sometimes called stroke font technology)
d)FireWire (IEEE 1394)
e)Embracing USB and PCI fully before the x86 crowd
f)iMAC (as much as you hate it, its selling well)
As for your example, apple is in fact going to be shipping a PPC with some form of open *nix installed soon, MkLinux being the prime canidate.
As for exibit B, it was $150 Million + stock + patent swap + unspecified other monatary (presumed to be for the lawsuits Apple dropped against MS) Just consider how silly it is to even think that $150 million can save a four billion dollar company. Really, please get a handle on how large these corporations are. And no, it wasn't about QuickTime, it was about MS Office, hence Office 98 for the MacOS. Apple thumbed its nose at MS over threats to QuickTime.
Sure Apple may be the underdog, but remember every team but one is the underdog in all sporting events. I would really like to see your experience on golden parachutes. Could you be the hachet CEO of Bun corporation that recently got fired for cutting over half the jobs and still not turning the company around? He sure knows about golden parachutes. Or did you read the ghost written "autobiography" of Gil Amelio? There's a guy that sky dives with yellow silk for a living.
Apple...
The company that got the PC before there were PCs
The company few can grok
Infinite Loop indeed... when your in the groov, busta move
The good idea company that gets everything ripped-off
The company that made up over 50% of the computers at Wired, over a year ago (cuz Wired is no more)
The no IRQ/DipSwitch/Plug&Pray hardware company. just like Sony Playstation!
*RANT ON* I would love to take to take my BIG ASS BOOT and do some concusive maintenance on anyones crainium that calls Apple a propriatary hardware company. BAM! That's for the Dell BIOSes. BAM! That's for the Compaq's chipset. BAM! That's for SGI. BAM! that's for any and all Intel chipsets ever made. Every one of them propriatary BAM! BAM! BAM! *RAND OFF* - this view doesn't necc. reflect my opinion tomorrow, but I'm real sure it will.