Interesting perspective, but Red Hat *actually has* a more reliable source of income, . Although it isn't piles of money, it is definitly helping their value on Wall Street. Think if Amazon were to make a few hundred million dollar investment into a profitable company (Cygnus), I'd bet my bottom dollar that their stock price would sky-rocket.
This is a very smart move for Red Hat, and although this has nothing to do with DVD, I'm trying to show that Red Hat does have money, and if they ever did decide to tackle it, they always could issue more shares!
Companies, and people, patenting anything marketable is becoming a problem in my opinion.
Think about this, according to the keynote at comdex by Carleton (Carly) Fiorina (CEO of HP), anything can be marketable. And thinking about it, I'm sure anything could.
This is scary, while at the same time, a definite business opportunity to anyone creative enough to envision the next e-service.
One of the best ways to learn about business in general, which you will need these skills for, is to examine other companies and see what is it about their "vision" that makes them sucessful. Carleton (Carly) Fiorina, the new CEO of HP had, in my opinion, a very good keynote address at comdex (I recommend you listen/watch it if you've got about an hour). According to her (and she's been throught more business education than most people I know, so I believe it's worth listening to), the next generation is bundling services to products - as much as web-based businesses would like to (or the one's I'd like to start anyway) have super-low overhead, and little need for research, I believe research is the biggest piece of a company.
There apparently haven't been any known outbreaks according to ZDTV anyway. Now anti-virus companies will really be praised from keeping us safe from everyday things, now there is a full time danger and we must trust "HTML escorters" to surf around the internet. Gee Wiz.
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Interesting perspective, but Red Hat *actually has* a more reliable source of income, . Although it isn't piles of money, it is definitly helping their value on Wall Street. Think if Amazon were to make a few hundred million dollar investment into a profitable company (Cygnus), I'd bet my bottom dollar that their stock price would sky-rocket.
This is a very smart move for Red Hat, and although this has nothing to do with DVD, I'm trying to show that Red Hat does have money, and if they ever did decide to tackle it, they always could issue more shares!
Companies, and people, patenting anything marketable is becoming a problem in my opinion.
Think about this, according to the keynote at comdex by Carleton (Carly) Fiorina (CEO of HP), anything can be marketable. And thinking about it, I'm sure anything could.
This is scary, while at the same time, a definite business opportunity to anyone creative enough to envision the next e-service.
One of the best ways to learn about business in general, which you will need these skills for, is to examine other companies and see what is it about their "vision" that makes them sucessful. Carleton (Carly) Fiorina, the new CEO of HP had, in my opinion, a very good keynote address at comdex (I recommend you listen/watch it if you've got about an hour). According to her (and she's been throught more business education than most people I know, so I believe it's worth listening to), the next generation is bundling services to products - as much as web-based businesses would like to (or the one's I'd like to start anyway) have super-low overhead, and little need for research, I believe research is the biggest piece of a company.
There apparently haven't been any known outbreaks according to ZDTV anyway. Now anti-virus companies will really be praised from keeping us safe from everyday things, now there is a full time danger and we must trust "HTML escorters" to surf around the internet. Gee Wiz.