All quite true - although I suspect that if significant intranets start requiring Mozilla, people will get used to it, and start using it at home, too. It could easily drag IE's monopoly down from nearly 100% to, say, 60 or 70% marketshare. At that point, Mozilla becomes a real contender with momentum.
This really can be a case where first-to-market gives huge advantage.
What a small, agile company headed by a techno-geek would do is not necessarily the same as a lumbering giant headed by a sales/marketting critter.
The only reason that the red-tape may be circumvented to do something smark is that the CEO (http://www.ibm.com/ibm/sjp/bio.shtml) was instrumental in getting Linux into IBM. But it's a lot of red tape for one person in such a large bureaucracy.
But I can make an easy argument NOT to make them infinite. The person who created the work will not live forever.
If I burn a single CD of my own music that I create, and never give it away, it is obviously mine "forever." That means I can designate an heir, and they can designate an heir, etc. No problems. If I, or an heir, proceed to lend it to someone to listen to, is it still not mine? Does that person, just because it's 50 years after recording, or 100 years after my death, have an automatic (moral) right to copy it?
If I license others to keep copies for personal listening, did I lose my ownership over the CD and its contents? Why?
I'm still wondering why we continue to get regular (1 every 2-3 months) requests for porting our product from Sun/UltraSPARC to Sun/x86...
I'm expecting a new request any day now - it's been about 2 months since the last such request reached me, and I'm just a peon who has no control over these things.
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All quite true - although I suspect that if significant intranets start requiring Mozilla, people will get used to it, and start using it at home, too. It could easily drag IE's monopoly down from nearly 100% to, say, 60 or 70% marketshare. At that point, Mozilla becomes a real contender with momentum.
This really can be a case where first-to-market gives huge advantage.
IBM.
Large company.
Large bureaucracy.
Brilliant engineers.
Large bureaucracy.
What a small, agile company headed by a techno-geek would do is not necessarily the same as a lumbering giant headed by a sales/marketting critter.
The only reason that the red-tape may be circumvented to do something smark is that the CEO (http://www.ibm.com/ibm/sjp/bio.shtml) was instrumental in getting Linux into IBM. But it's a lot of red tape for one person in such a large bureaucracy.
If I burn a single CD of my own music that I create, and never give it away, it is obviously mine "forever." That means I can designate an heir, and they can designate an heir, etc. No problems. If I, or an heir, proceed to lend it to someone to listen to, is it still not mine? Does that person, just because it's 50 years after recording, or 100 years after my death, have an automatic (moral) right to copy it?
If I license others to keep copies for personal listening, did I lose my ownership over the CD and its contents? Why?
Just curious.
I'm still wondering why we continue to get regular (1 every 2-3 months) requests for porting our product from Sun/UltraSPARC to Sun/x86...
I'm expecting a new request any day now - it's been about 2 months since the last such request reached me, and I'm just a peon who has no control over these things.