But what would compel a company to support FreeBSD when they could just take the code, use it for their own needs, and never make upstream contributions?
Yes, I just checked the autocad shop and nowhere it mentions that you will buy a license. Instead you spend about 4000 dollars on something for which it mentions "Reasons to Buy" (so not Reasons to license). Nowhere on the page it gives us any buying conditions. (or did I miss them?)
Additionally they have a subscription service with a different pricing scheme. Autocad there is about 400 dollar I guess, it doesn't mention on what timespan, a year probably.
All this data on their own website points in one direction: for 4000 dollars you buy the software package after which you own that copy of the software package, to do what you want with it. For a subscription price you can buy a subscription where you don't own the software but it makes sure that during your subscription they 'lend' you the most recent software.
You only get to see the contract AFTER buying. Someone should test how legal this can be. There are things I won't own but pay for it, say my DSL connection. I do get to read and are asked to read the contract before I buy it. I am ok with that because I can be fully aware of the conditions before I pay for it (I actually do read this stuff to be sure when and how I can get rid of the contract in the case I want to switch). But if I buy a watch or a bread or anything that didn't ask me to sign a contract before buying it, I would surely not expect or comply to any "suprise!" contract that is in the package after opening it.
Let them sell personal licenses straight up front then! If I want to use matlab, I contact the sales representative and he will tell me the price for one year of Matlab use, it would be fully clear I don't own the software. Even then it might be legal to sell, say a remaining license period. Why not, I can also transfer my DSL contract to someone else when I move.
Makes it even worse. Wouldn't it be a good idea to use the test track to also test the safety equipment? This is like BMW not putting brakes on their pre-production cars. Or like google not using SSL for their beta gmail. Safety is not something that can be applied afterwards, it should be an integral part of the product, ground up.
I've never heard of this case before, running through the article I guess the problem is Autodesk doesn't want him to sell used software packages of their software AutoCAD.
The bastards, I would say! It's like trying to prevent selling used music CDs or used books. How long will we have to cope with companies 'selling' us stuff when they mean 'lending'. Either they let us SIGN a contract BEFORE we buy explaining how they want to deliver their product (lend it, lease it), or if they don't do that, we can consider it BOUGHT and our property. You can not in retrospect claim someone didn't buy (gain ownership) to the product if you didn't make that completely clear beforehand. They ask enough money for the product to make it sure look like you have the right to own it and do what you want with it.
Note the date of the accident, there was just the 1 year remembrance of this tragic accident killing 22 people. The timing couldn't have been worse, or better, as I'm not so sure if it's a good idea to build it here in Germany.
The point is, they forgot a maintenance car on the test track. Now this is a CLOSED test track, on poles, nothing unexpected can pass (except birds I guess). No one apparently thought of a system to keep track of the cars that are present on the track, even though it would be very simple to do electronically (railroad sign posts are not exactly new)! They used some error-prone system of manually keeping track if someone left the track or not. In the end they blamed it as a personal error on the guy in the control room, even though the whole design was apparently lacking in security measures (let me guess, a cost issue?).
If nothing else, the 22 people that died proved that this system, or at least the development of it here in Germany, is by far not ready for the heavy use they want to do with it in Bayern. As someone else here wrote, this will mainly be built as a monument for the glorious Stoiber, not because it's the most reasonable thing to do.
I don't know why you don't want to see it, but an employee working unpaid overtime is actually paying for the work he does! Or, put otherwise, time and money is stolen from him! Why would an employee have to tolerate the uncertainty about how much he will work in a week?
And, asking for overtime frequently will cost a lot more in the end since the employer has to replace qualified employees that are either sick or just leave by new, unexperienced employees. In civilized countries it would also cost a lot because of the sick leave the employee needs to take to recover.
When an employer treats his employees in a civil way, he gains the certainty of a stable, experienced, workforce.
Resume spam is already happening in the academic world. Any university researcher with a website offering positions will get a lot of job applications from people all over the world (probably mostly india/asia though) from totally irrelevant fields, either done by the applicant themselves or maybe there are companies that offer the addresses or send them around. They are written in a standard way, often not even mentioning the name of the addressee. Then again the same might happen for any job offer on monster, but I have no experience with that.
I'll keep hammering on this, but this is why the recent anti-"hacking" law in Germany is one of the stupidest political ideas concerning IT ever to come to reality. It also shows a total neglect of the international state of the internet. By stopping "hacking" for Germans, the German IT systems just become less secure for the rest of the world. It's like an open invitation to break into our bank accounts and company networks. Swell! Not!
I think that TV ads are comparable to spam. They have no need to work on their image, they just sell based on statistics. If enough people see their show, there will be a big enough group of (sorry to say this) dumb people buy their product, and their scheme is succesfull. How many people who watch these TV ads and are inclined to buy stuff from it will look it up on the internet before they buy?
Ah it is even older: back in the days, if you were all stressed and sweaty while punching your punchcards, they would get soggy and clog up in the card reader! That really forced you to relax!
Don't get me wrong, but I personally believe that US Americans are unable to get good education, because Osama people in the nation, and I believe that the education over here in the US should help countries such as everywhere like the Iraq and South Africa such as, to be able to get a good future.
Well, since the airplane market is shrinking and has very low margins, spreading their income is probably a good idea as well. And when can we buy servers from them? Of course it will be overpriced and all, but really, who doesn't want a server with a 'lockheed martin' logo:)
Hmm, where I did my PhD there were specific rules on who gets to keep the patent (the institute itself, as far as I know). I'd think that of all places MIT has a probably very well worked out contract for this, which he agreed to when starting to work there. With his background, I can hardly imagine he didn't have the knowledge to find this out before starting at MIT, it will be hard for him to get the patent.
As for paying no royalties, I guess it's not the same as owning the patent. I wonder how it works, would it matter if his name was on the patent?
I don't know about the feel, but it certainly looks like a Mac application. And then again, even Apple itself is not a master in getting its applications all have the same look and feel, using the aqua/brushed steel/whatever they use now theme all mixed up. Can someone actually explain me why the look of an apple program is built in the binary instead of determined by the window manager/OS?
And.... what about Japan and Korea and the likes? Do they still use GSM out there? It's probably outdated there:) Isn't Apple losing a lot of Market potential? Or is the iPhone also capable of some better standard we don't have out here yet?
Yes, and out here in Germany we now by law are not allowed to do stuff like that anymore, on our way to the computational dark ages, so don't expect any German company to stop hacking attacks anymore, not allowed to use hacking tools ourselves. In fact, it's like being in a cold war and removing all your defense lines.
Let me put it straight, I don't think all Russians are money-greedy hackers, in fact getting kids out there learn Linux will give them an advantage in lots of fields, so less need for criminal activities. But still I will keep stressing how stupid this German decision was:(
Thank you for the in-depth info! I guess it means that the pirate bay will be 'suspect' in this issue then until 2011, since the opposing party has unlimited funds for lawyers and is likely inclined to make this process as long as possible.
As far as "unfairly placed in a position to be ridiculed" is concerned, in TFA it says that the advertisement had the text "dump your pen friend" next to the picture of the girl. I'm not a lawyer but this sounds like ridiculing her to me.
Ah, I was wondering what happened to that! Did they already get the servers back? Also, how many times can he ask for / get an extension? Isn't continuously extending such a case a misuse of the law?
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Like Apple, for example?
Additionally they have a subscription service with a different pricing scheme. Autocad there is about 400 dollar I guess, it doesn't mention on what timespan, a year probably.
All this data on their own website points in one direction: for 4000 dollars you buy the software package after which you own that copy of the software package, to do what you want with it. For a subscription price you can buy a subscription where you don't own the software but it makes sure that during your subscription they 'lend' you the most recent software.
Let them sell personal licenses straight up front then! If I want to use matlab, I contact the sales representative and he will tell me the price for one year of Matlab use, it would be fully clear I don't own the software. Even then it might be legal to sell, say a remaining license period. Why not, I can also transfer my DSL contract to someone else when I move.
Makes it even worse. Wouldn't it be a good idea to use the test track to also test the safety equipment? This is like BMW not putting brakes on their pre-production cars. Or like google not using SSL for their beta gmail. Safety is not something that can be applied afterwards, it should be an integral part of the product, ground up.
The bastards, I would say! It's like trying to prevent selling used music CDs or used books. How long will we have to cope with companies 'selling' us stuff when they mean 'lending'. Either they let us SIGN a contract BEFORE we buy explaining how they want to deliver their product (lend it, lease it), or if they don't do that, we can consider it BOUGHT and our property. You can not in retrospect claim someone didn't buy (gain ownership) to the product if you didn't make that completely clear beforehand. They ask enough money for the product to make it sure look like you have the right to own it and do what you want with it.
Note the date of the accident, there was just the 1 year remembrance of this tragic accident killing 22 people. The timing couldn't have been worse, or better, as I'm not so sure if it's a good idea to build it here in Germany.
The point is, they forgot a maintenance car on the test track. Now this is a CLOSED test track, on poles, nothing unexpected can pass (except birds I guess). No one apparently thought of a system to keep track of the cars that are present on the track, even though it would be very simple to do electronically (railroad sign posts are not exactly new)! They used some error-prone system of manually keeping track if someone left the track or not. In the end they blamed it as a personal error on the guy in the control room, even though the whole design was apparently lacking in security measures (let me guess, a cost issue?).
If nothing else, the 22 people that died proved that this system, or at least the development of it here in Germany, is by far not ready for the heavy use they want to do with it in Bayern. As someone else here wrote, this will mainly be built as a monument for the glorious Stoiber, not because it's the most reasonable thing to do.
And, asking for overtime frequently will cost a lot more in the end since the employer has to replace qualified employees that are either sick or just leave by new, unexperienced employees. In civilized countries it would also cost a lot because of the sick leave the employee needs to take to recover.
When an employer treats his employees in a civil way, he gains the certainty of a stable, experienced, workforce.
Uncertainity? About what? That employees should actually be paid according to the hours they work?
Resume spam is already happening in the academic world. Any university researcher with a website offering positions will get a lot of job applications from people all over the world (probably mostly india/asia though) from totally irrelevant fields, either done by the applicant themselves or maybe there are companies that offer the addresses or send them around. They are written in a standard way, often not even mentioning the name of the addressee. Then again the same might happen for any job offer on monster, but I have no experience with that.
It's insightful/funny/sad, because it's true.
I'll keep hammering on this, but this is why the recent anti-"hacking" law in Germany is one of the stupidest political ideas concerning IT ever to come to reality. It also shows a total neglect of the international state of the internet. By stopping "hacking" for Germans, the German IT systems just become less secure for the rest of the world. It's like an open invitation to break into our bank accounts and company networks. Swell! Not!
I think that TV ads are comparable to spam. They have no need to work on their image, they just sell based on statistics. If enough people see their show, there will be a big enough group of (sorry to say this) dumb people buy their product, and their scheme is succesfull. How many people who watch these TV ads and are inclined to buy stuff from it will look it up on the internet before they buy?
Anyone who can make up an older example :p
One point is, does the person on the other end of the line know that the conversation is 'voluntarily wire-tapped'?
Don't get me wrong, but I personally believe that US Americans are unable to get good education, because Osama people in the nation, and I believe that the education over here in the US should help countries such as everywhere like the Iraq and South Africa such as, to be able to get a good future.
Google for "coleslaw".
(Sorry,couldn't resist. I lived next to one for three years)
Well, since the airplane market is shrinking and has very low margins, spreading their income is probably a good idea as well. And when can we buy servers from them? Of course it will be overpriced and all, but really, who doesn't want a server with a 'lockheed martin' logo :)
As for paying no royalties, I guess it's not the same as owning the patent. I wonder how it works, would it matter if his name was on the patent?
I don't know about the feel, but it certainly looks like a Mac application. And then again, even Apple itself is not a master in getting its applications all have the same look and feel, using the aqua/brushed steel/whatever they use now theme all mixed up. Can someone actually explain me why the look of an apple program is built in the binary instead of determined by the window manager/OS?
And.... what about Japan and Korea and the likes? Do they still use GSM out there? It's probably outdated there :) Isn't Apple losing a lot of Market potential? Or is the iPhone also capable of some better standard we don't have out here yet?
Let me put it straight, I don't think all Russians are money-greedy hackers, in fact getting kids out there learn Linux will give them an advantage in lots of fields, so less need for criminal activities. But still I will keep stressing how stupid this German decision was :(
Thank you for the in-depth info! I guess it means that the pirate bay will be 'suspect' in this issue then until 2011, since the opposing party has unlimited funds for lawyers and is likely inclined to make this process as long as possible.
Do you have this on video? Please? :)
As far as "unfairly placed in a position to be ridiculed" is concerned, in TFA it says that the advertisement had the text "dump your pen friend" next to the picture of the girl. I'm not a lawyer but this sounds like ridiculing her to me.
Ah, I was wondering what happened to that! Did they already get the servers back? Also, how many times can he ask for / get an extension? Isn't continuously extending such a case a misuse of the law?