do you know exactly what all of your colleagues are paid? would you know if they were making 5-10% more than you? 5-10% isn't something you'd make a stink with your manager about, but to a company that's employing hundreds of engineers it's a big savings. by subtly paying H1-B resources 5-10% less, they put downward pressure on everyone's wages.
Why are they unable to compete other that sheer incompetence and laziness?
what you say if great if american workers are welcomed around the world with open arms, but the truth is that other countries are much more protectionist than the US when it comes to foreign workers.
seriously? it's the difference between the design patent and a functional patent. apple patented the design / look / feel of the ipad, not the technology.
I find it hilarious that someone feels that a fictional depiction should be used as evidence that the actual manufacturer of a device should not be given credit.
apple patented a design, not an implementation. they didn't patent the processes used to manufacture the ipad or components of the ipad. they didn't patent some super-special piece of technology that made the ipad possible. they patented things like icon shapes, form factor, look & feel, gestures.
the things they patented are nothing more than the fictional depictions you see in the movies and TV.
so your rational is they since they are making money, it's okay for you to steal it? or what the heck are you even saying?
i didn't say anything about industries making or not making money in the face of piracy. i said linux users like you aren't helping your cause, when you clearly state your willingness to steal the software. if i'm a game company, i'm thinking,
1. if i don't price it how he wants, he's going to steal it 2. if i don't package how he wants, he's going to steal it 3. if i don't provide equal support for linux, he's going to steal it
why would i support linux again? anything you have an interest in you'd have already pirated right? you clearly have no qualms about it.
Windows is far and above the platform of preference for most game pirates -- after all, Windows is what most games are designed to run on.
it might have something to do with the fact that there's practically no games worth pirating on linux.
you have essentially said that they need to produce a product that can compete with free, because if it's cheaper / easier to steal it, you'll do that. it's pretty hard for a company to compete with free, so now you understand why they aren't producing a linux version.
Why do you assume news sites would be fucked if Google news shut down? Do you really think people can't remember CNN.com, bbc.com, foxnews.com, aljazeera.com, bostonglobe.com, wallstreetjournal.com, washingtonpost.com, etc?
they'd be f***** because people don't do that. they go to google for news, and will keep doing it. the difference will be that they won't get results from the agencies that opt-out, and those agencies will get zero revenue from click throughs.
i could care less if all of those organizations drop out of google news. there are a million smaller organizations waiting to take their place that are hungry for the clicks. news is a commodity. you can get it from cnn.com or some indie organizations. it matters little.
the problem (for news organizations) with this is that news is a commodity now. i can get my news from an indie source that offers it for free or i can get it from the an established organization... i'm going to pick the free one.
I truly see Obama re-elected as a threat to the US, with Romney...I think his fiscal ideas might help, or at least won't be as hurtful as O's
try to keep in mind that a vague hypothetical plan will *always* beat any real implementation.
you can be upset that obama hasn't made things happen fast enough, but the "hurtful" policies of deregulation that caused the mortgage / financial crisis were put in place by the presidents before him, and romney has said point blank that he's in favor of decreased regulation.
Keep your army within your borders. That would be a pretty fucking good foreign policy.
maybe, but it wouldn't get you elected. having a global military presence is essentially to being able to harvest a disproportionate amount of the world's nation resources.
i don't know... what's a non-windows shop? how many companies can get away with producing zero software that runs on windows? i'm not a windows developer and i've never worked in a company that primarily produced windows software.
anyway, that doesn't even matter. the issue is that once GPL gets inside the firewall, the company has to track where and how it's used and make the necessary consolations when it's used. they have to ensure that the GPL code is never used by code for which they have a license to use but not to distribute.
it's very easy to make mistakes and get into violation of the license. most companies just so "no" to begin with to avoid the headache.
no company i've ever worked allowed GPL behind their firewall, period. i think you have a strange definition of permissive. the viral nature of GPL is a huge PITA for a businesses.
the way to get business to play nice with open source is not to throw at them what amounts to religious arguments. show them that contributing back to OSS is good for their bottom line. that's the only argument that will win.
if a company forks, there comes a point where getting the goodies from the main branch is prohibitively difficult. if they continuously integrate with the OSS project this isn't a problem. you win this by not making the processes painful for them and continuing to provide good stuff that they want from the OSS project.
The question is, will it be considered anti-competitive for them to allow unlimited delivery of their own media over the pipe, while charging extra for media from their competitors?
comcast is already doing part of this. anything you download from "xfinity TV" doesn't count against your monthly cap.
email and IM are pushed based as well. it's push based at a higher level in the software stack but the end user doesn't care. well, they care because the email is free and the text is not (often, in the US).
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do you know exactly what all of your colleagues are paid? would you know if they were making 5-10% more than you? 5-10% isn't something you'd make a stink with your manager about, but to a company that's employing hundreds of engineers it's a big savings. by subtly paying H1-B resources 5-10% less, they put downward pressure on everyone's wages.
Why are they unable to compete other that sheer incompetence and laziness?
what you say if great if american workers are welcomed around the world with open arms, but the truth is that other countries are much more protectionist than the US when it comes to foreign workers.
seriously? it's the difference between the design patent and a functional patent. apple patented the design / look / feel of the ipad, not the technology.
I find it hilarious that someone feels that a fictional depiction should be used as evidence that the actual manufacturer of a device should not be given credit.
apple patented a design, not an implementation. they didn't patent the processes used to manufacture the ipad or components of the ipad. they didn't patent some super-special piece of technology that made the ipad possible. they patented things like icon shapes, form factor, look & feel, gestures.
the things they patented are nothing more than the fictional depictions you see in the movies and TV.
so your rational is they since they are making money, it's okay for you to steal it? or what the heck are you even saying?
i didn't say anything about industries making or not making money in the face of piracy. i said linux users like you aren't helping your cause, when you clearly state your willingness to steal the software. if i'm a game company, i'm thinking,
1. if i don't price it how he wants, he's going to steal it
2. if i don't package how he wants, he's going to steal it
3. if i don't provide equal support for linux, he's going to steal it
why would i support linux again? anything you have an interest in you'd have already pirated right? you clearly have no qualms about it.
Windows is far and above the platform of preference for most game pirates -- after all, Windows is what most games are designed to run on.
it might have something to do with the fact that there's practically no games worth pirating on linux.
pre-cold war:
USSR-based companies: in bed w/ the USSR government
US-based companies: in bed w/ whoever pays them
post-cold war:
Russian-based companies: in bed w/ whoever pays them
US-based companies: in bed w/ whoever pays them
you have essentially said that they need to produce a product that can compete with free, because if it's cheaper / easier to steal it, you'll do that. it's pretty hard for a company to compete with free, so now you understand why they aren't producing a linux version.
Anything they have that I'm even remotely interested in can be brought up in DosBox or WINE.
sure, if you have those floppies hanging around from 1992. if you bought them in the first place.
Well, we certainly don't want fewer sources of opinion
somehow, i don't think the world is in danger of having too few opinions.
Why do you assume news sites would be fucked if Google news shut down? Do you really think people can't remember CNN.com, bbc.com, foxnews.com, aljazeera.com, bostonglobe.com, wallstreetjournal.com, washingtonpost.com, etc?
they'd be f***** because people don't do that. they go to google for news, and will keep doing it. the difference will be that they won't get results from the agencies that opt-out, and those agencies will get zero revenue from click throughs.
i could care less if all of those organizations drop out of google news. there are a million smaller organizations waiting to take their place that are hungry for the clicks. news is a commodity. you can get it from cnn.com or some indie organizations. it matters little.
compulsory payments
the problem (for news organizations) with this is that news is a commodity now. i can get my news from an indie source that offers it for free or i can get it from the an established organization ... i'm going to pick the free one.
I truly see Obama re-elected as a threat to the US, with Romney...I think his fiscal ideas might help, or at least won't be as hurtful as O's
try to keep in mind that a vague hypothetical plan will *always* beat any real implementation.
you can be upset that obama hasn't made things happen fast enough, but the "hurtful" policies of deregulation that caused the mortgage / financial crisis were put in place by the presidents before him, and romney has said point blank that he's in favor of decreased regulation.
Keep your army within your borders. That would be a pretty fucking good foreign policy.
maybe, but it wouldn't get you elected. having a global military presence is essentially to being able to harvest a disproportionate amount of the world's nation resources.
2) Great, now a small fraction of a small fraction of people can put their lives on the line to protect oil company profits.
you don't get out much do you?
there are many common OSS licenses (MIT, apache 2, BSD) that essentially say you can do whatever you want as long as you retain the license text.
i'm talking about using GPL in a product the business is trying to sell, not using GPL software within the company.
exclusively.
i don't know ... what's a non-windows shop? how many companies can get away with producing zero software that runs on windows? i'm not a windows developer and i've never worked in a company that primarily produced windows software.
anyway, that doesn't even matter. the issue is that once GPL gets inside the firewall, the company has to track where and how it's used and make the necessary consolations when it's used. they have to ensure that the GPL code is never used by code for which they have a license to use but not to distribute.
it's very easy to make mistakes and get into violation of the license. most companies just so "no" to begin with to avoid the headache.
no company i've ever worked allowed GPL behind their firewall, period. i think you have a strange definition of permissive. the viral nature of GPL is a huge PITA for a businesses.
the way to get business to play nice with open source is not to throw at them what amounts to religious arguments. show them that contributing back to OSS is good for their bottom line. that's the only argument that will win.
if a company forks, there comes a point where getting the goodies from the main branch is prohibitively difficult. if they continuously integrate with the OSS project this isn't a problem. you win this by not making the processes painful for them and continuing to provide good stuff that they want from the OSS project.
maybe you should read this,
http://www.skymachines.com/US-National-Debt-Per-Capita-Percent-of-GDP-and-by-Presidental-Term.htm
The question is, will it be considered anti-competitive for them to allow unlimited delivery of their own media over the pipe, while charging extra for media from their competitors?
comcast is already doing part of this. anything you download from "xfinity TV" doesn't count against your monthly cap.
RTFA? this, and every other android malware report is with apps "side-loaded", which means installed from non-google play sources.
email and IM are pushed based as well. it's push based at a higher level in the software stack but the end user doesn't care. well, they care because the email is free and the text is not (often, in the US).
would you rather have a door with a lock, or a brick wall protecting you from the outside? clear enough?