How to beat M$ monopoly that forces customers to pay for their software? It is easy. Force EVERYBODY (not only potential customers) to fund the development of OS SW. Fundation is easy - use taxes... It is nice solution (since I'm the programmer) but I have to admit that it is not a fair solution to those who will pay for development and never tak advantage of SW that was developed from their work...
Sorry, I didn't finish my thought (I was in hurry and I didn't noticed that my hands were not as fast as thoughts;)
I wanted to say that EU programmers are as good as American....and Asian programmers are as good as EU programmers... and all of them share love to Firefox and live on the Internet planet... so how the state borders apply to this community?
I'm hard working on the 100% remote XUL CMS (the very first one)... it works OK with 1.0 branch but they did change something in XUL for the 1.5 beta so it didn't work properly with my long-developed project...:-(
I was so disappointed and exhausted developing the XUL front-end for the 1.0 that I simply resign to fix the incompatibilities with 1.5 now. I rather wait for final release and then fix it...:-( I'm not going to test it now to don't be depressed too much;-)
"Techno-slaves built the secure shelter for their king for the case of event that the king decides to presses the button labeled 'nuclear destruction of the world'." ???
Why are the poeple still living in the same shit? The only difference is that we shit has many "advatages" such as 64-bit machines and cars with many horses inside... but the rest is all about the same (just differently named Kindom=Democracy, Kind=President/Prime Minister, cottar=voter,...).
I'm a developer of CMS. We are going to sell our CMS as the part of average-expensive hosting on pay-per-year basis. We hope that it will be better to pay, say, 180 euro per year for hosted CMS then 1200+ euro one time + hosting (that is needed anyway + installation and tech support...;-). If customer dislikes our service then he can break after one year without loosing significant amount of money.
I see it as advantage. I see it better for our customers because we are going to fight every day to keep the customers stick with us (not force them by demanding one-time big investment...).
The question is if On-line Office is such as good solution... CMS is different in that way. If something goes wrong - you are out of WiFi signal or your modem broke or... then you are unable to access your On-line Office. In case of CMS if you cannot access your CMS then hopefully others probably can... The result of WCM is directed for internet users so it is good idea to have it as hosted-service, don't you think?:-)
The question should be: Is hosted-application concept well suited for all kinds of software? Probably not. Then which applications are good for it and which are not?
In short: People forget the original meaning of "the law". People forget that the law was created to protect human beings. People think (and organizations such as WIPO and WTO strongly support this illusion) that the law is here to protect equally both people and businesses. This is not ethical, this is lie.
I think that WTO and WIPO are more strong then any army or political decision. We live in globalized world where the "states" has less power then anytime before. Instead the "global business" interests are the real world ruler. Globalized businesses are cross-country phenomenon thus impossible to be controlled by single country (yes, even USA is out of control of its own outgrown companies - originally US companies that are presently really "homeless companies" or "companies that are home anywhere" if you like). It is extremely difficult to fight something that is omnipresent...:-(
The RSS pane is almost one third of the whole browser. I can imagine that in the version 4.0 the classical browsing window will be removed and all we will ever need is the SUPERHEAVY support for RSS and shopping cart + one input field for your favorite RSS search engine:-)
Is the time of "death of classical web pages" near? Will everything in the future be just the XML/RSSv8.1/XMLShopping Protocol/... resources and the rest (displaying, stylizing, aggregating) is left up to your browser?
Maybe. We'll see.
(But I still and always will love to design my own unique webs no matter what...)
Microsoft Thinks Microsoft Doesn't Need Africa --- "Microsoft has claimed the cost of software is an important issue in the developing world. According to MS, while you can offer people expensive software or computers, they won't have money to buy it. It's clear that Africa is not profitable area for Microsoft so we are not going to expand there."
How they succeeded to patent genes? Did the God missed the oportunity to protest? Or did the God's application got rejected because it didn't meet some buerocratic requirements?:-)
I'm wandering how long it will take us to realize that patents simply forbid the mankind from using its knowledge in full for the benefit of all of us. (And of course for benefits of certain individuals, but this "dark side" cannot be the reason to continue in current direction...)
Maybe one day you can get in situation when you will think about "what if". What if the cure for the cancer your grandma is dying of could be found if all the knowledge was freely available to anybody who can use it... What if... we were simply stupid in our effort to forbid the natural usage of the knowledge by persecusion (law).
I think that the biggist problem of all the "platforms" is incompatibility. Do you want to use Python on Rails and you don't know Python? Do you want to use "*" and you don't know "*"? Did any "platfrom" developer thought about this problem? Or is it just a marketing how to bind the developers just to your platform?
I think it is not so difficult. My working prototype of an extension for my project will allow you to write modules for my CMS in ruby, python, php,.net... generally whatever language you know... I generally don't like tons of documentation/tutorials and so on to get integrated with other platform. I'm sure that the platform developers and I always share at least one technology that I can use without reading "How to integrate with *" tutorials...
I don't like to switch my "mother" programming language for other language just to take advantage of some great functions in some third-party platform...
Hey! Why do we have so great _standards_ and widely supperted technologies...?
Stop it! Pythagoras invented cool rules and greeks does not try to keep "historical control" over them. Nobody tries to make it private or state property.
Why is the Internet different? It is cool and many people are benefiting form it. Money? Do we speak again about human's greed?:-( "It's mine!" "I invented it!" "I saw it first!" "I bought it!" "I'm the Protector!" "I'm the Owner!"
Come on! Are we still those beings that use two legs instead of four and in addition great capacity of our brain? Are we acting in favor of human's good? Or will we eat each other? It looks like discussion of children below 12 that don't want to share control over a newest Toy...:-) Where are we living?
Main purpose of the armies is to destroy other armies (in name of defense or in other name) or tame rioting mobs in case of emergency. Any test that the army does heads toward one of this aims: destroy army or calm down citizens. There is a police for other security related problems (including terrorism which is a organized crime - not a classic war as your politicians say).
I'm sure that you have plenty of other institutions that can take care of vaccination of citizens, for example CDC or others (I don't know your institutions - I'm not an American but you will problably find planty of them by yourself). Did you really asked yourself why army does this and not other institution?;-)
Sure Microsoft become multinational corporation. In real it grown behind the US border so I agree that Microsoft is not really USA (it can be India as well;-).
In my opinion (it is my personal opinion - my personal point of view - my own right to have it) USA deserve to be hated for many things and deserve to be loved for many others.
I personally hate USA for their "global policy". That is my point of view as Czech. I feel threaten by American "global policy" because it does not make me feel safer (the opposite is the true). That is my feeling that I believe share with many others. Things like Anthrax, Kioto protocol, USA weapons of mass destruction, US military presence in other countries... does not improve my bad feeling. Sorry. I have nothing against american people - it is not a xenophobia. This is a bad feeling of the member of the small nation.
I don't belive Americans. They scared me very often in recent years. They have full mouth of words like "peace" and see what they do... I think that they have the potential to be very dangerous for the rest of the world. American paranoia plus strong military potential is a real threat. I hope that there are still wise people in the USA who have influence on their "global policy"... I hope for the good of all of us.
I'll be happy if it will not crash five times a day with XUL applications and if I won't see ten times a day random error "out of memory" when parsing 30kB XUL files...
I'm patient. Some things are difficult to do. I know that. This is just my wish as a web/xul developer.:-)
How much must the company be profitable to don't try to minimize costs (sack people)? Do they have a cashflow problems? What is the business ethics? Is there any?
Are the people just numbers in financial analysis? From the history we know that treating people as numbers is not good for mankind. I don't want to have tatoo with my personal number (cost) on my forearm.
Intellectual property CANNOT BE OWNED. It can be hidden from others and secured but nobody has the right to stop others redevelop or reinvent the same IP.
Bible says that there is no new things, everything already existed in some form or another. I'm very surprised that Americans are those propagating IP and turning IP into dollars labeled as "In God We Trust"(tm). I dought that humans can "invent" or "create" something in the real sense. People are rather "finding" and "understanding" the world, universe, themselves.
If you "find" some way to do something you can hide it from others. But if somebody else will succeed in "finding" the same solution by himself/herself then it is NOT right to sue him/her for "stealing" intellectual property. Because the "intellectual property" cannot be reserved/owned because it is an "idea/word". Other people MUST be allowed to do what you had been granted to do. If you were allowed to invent something how you can prevent somebody else from doing the same thing?
Thoughts are Words. Man cannot think without Words. If Thoughts/Words can be owned then I steel from my mother and father, from everybody I meet in my life... And, at the beginning there was the Word, right? Who will be the first to claim ownership over the Word that was at the beginning?:-) Who'll dare it? I'm sure that the lawmakers will make it possible soon.:-):-) Philosophical question. Are you sure that you own at least ONE ORIGINAL THOUGHT that you created? Are you? If you do so, are you sure that this ORIGINAL THOUGHT was not the result of other thoughts given to you by your teachers, mother, father, friends,...? Shouldn't you reconsider to pay some royalty fees for everything you say and think?
Writing this short imperfect post with my imperfect English cost me $53.5 in royalty fees, because I used partially thoughts of other great people I met in my life (virtualy or personaly) and the rest is just the "derivative work".:-)
REAL COST is what you "earn" - price of the inputs (your time + material + education etc.)
PROFIT is the extra money that you didn't work for. This is the money that somebody else worked for and he/she was so fascinated by your product that he/she decided to give the profit-money to you:-)
> Businesses want to save money and boost IT
> efficiency. Can open-source software do the trick?
It's clear that it can. But it is of course risky operation (as any other business decision) so the OSS solution must be selected with certain level of knowledge. OSS can boost efficiency but of course not always. So generalizing is not good way to ask this question.
What I don't like is the SW business using OSS for faster start up. Simply pretend to be totally FREE - get fast response, fast growing community and then find ways how to generate profit from it. It is really dirty trick. Better to be honest from the very beginning and clearly declare the aims to prevent the community from being surprised.
Slashdot Mirror
How to beat M$ monopoly that forces customers to pay for their software? It is easy. Force EVERYBODY (not only potential customers) to fund the development of OS SW. Fundation is easy - use taxes... It is nice solution (since I'm the programmer) but I have to admit that it is not a fair solution to those who will pay for development and never tak advantage of SW that was developed from their work...
Don't you think? Am I wrong?
Sorry, I didn't finish my thought (I was in hurry and I didn't noticed that my hands were not as fast as thoughts ;)
....and Asian programmers are as good as EU programmers... and all of them share love to Firefox and live on the Internet planet... so how the state borders apply to this community?
I wanted to say that EU programmers are as good as American
"Better check your passports first though, as those outside the US, EU and Canada (or in Québec) are ineligible to enter."
:-(
I thing that european developers are as good as american, don't you think? I didn't know that Internet (Mozilla) playes on state borders...
I'm hard working on the 100% remote XUL CMS (the very first one)... it works OK with 1.0 branch but they did change something in XUL for the 1.5 beta so it didn't work properly with my long-developed project... :-(
:-( I'm not going to test it now to don't be depressed too much ;-)
I was so disappointed and exhausted developing the XUL front-end for the 1.0 that I simply resign to fix the incompatibilities with 1.5 now. I rather wait for final release and then fix it...
:-) How the history will describe this buiding?
...).
"Techno-slaves built the secure shelter for their king for the case of event that the king decides to presses the button labeled 'nuclear destruction of the world'." ???
Why are the poeple still living in the same shit? The only difference is that we shit has many "advatages" such as 64-bit machines and cars with many horses inside... but the rest is all about the same (just differently named Kindom=Democracy, Kind=President/Prime Minister, cottar=voter,
I'm a developer of CMS. We are going to sell our CMS as the part of average-expensive hosting on pay-per-year basis. We hope that it will be better to pay, say, 180 euro per year for hosted CMS then 1200+ euro one time + hosting (that is needed anyway + installation and tech support... ;-). If customer dislikes our service then he can break after one year without loosing significant amount of money.
... then you are unable to access your On-line Office. In case of CMS if you cannot access your CMS then hopefully others probably can... The result of WCM is directed for internet users so it is good idea to have it as hosted-service, don't you think? :-)
I see it as advantage. I see it better for our customers because we are going to fight every day to keep the customers stick with us (not force them by demanding one-time big investment...).
The question is if On-line Office is such as good solution... CMS is different in that way. If something goes wrong - you are out of WiFi signal or your modem broke or
The question should be: Is hosted-application concept well suited for all kinds of software? Probably not. Then which applications are good for it and which are not?
In short: People forget the original meaning of "the law". People forget that the law was created to protect human beings. People think (and organizations such as WIPO and WTO strongly support this illusion) that the law is here to protect equally both people and businesses. This is not ethical, this is lie.
:-(
I think that WTO and WIPO are more strong then any army or political decision. We live in globalized world where the "states" has less power then anytime before. Instead the "global business" interests are the real world ruler. Globalized businesses are cross-country phenomenon thus impossible to be controlled by single country (yes, even USA is out of control of its own outgrown companies - originally US companies that are presently really "homeless companies" or "companies that are home anywhere" if you like). It is extremely difficult to fight something that is omnipresent...
The RSS pane is almost one third of the whole browser. I can imagine that in the version 4.0 the classical browsing window will be removed and all we will ever need is the SUPERHEAVY support for RSS and shopping cart + one input field for your favorite RSS search engine :-)
Is the time of "death of classical web pages" near? Will everything in the future be just the XML/RSSv8.1/XMLShopping Protocol/... resources and the rest (displaying, stylizing, aggregating) is left up to your browser?
Maybe. We'll see.
(But I still and always will love to design my own unique webs no matter what...)
They changed the article, the original is here:
Microsoft Thinks Microsoft Doesn't Need Africa
---
"Microsoft has claimed the cost of software is an important issue in the developing world. According to MS, while you can offer people expensive software or computers, they won't have money to buy it. It's clear that Africa is not profitable area for Microsoft so we are not going to expand there."
How they succeeded to patent genes? Did the God missed the oportunity to protest? Or did the God's application got rejected because it didn't meet some buerocratic requirements? :-)
I'm wandering how long it will take us to realize that patents simply forbid the mankind from using its knowledge in full for the benefit of all of us. (And of course for benefits of certain individuals, but this "dark side" cannot be the reason to continue in current direction...)
Maybe one day you can get in situation when you will think about "what if". What if the cure for the cancer your grandma is dying of could be found if all the knowledge was freely available to anybody who can use it... What if... we were simply stupid in our effort to forbid the natural usage of the knowledge by persecusion (law).
Zimbra looks good, but I really don't like when somebody says things like "The most advanced browser-based AJAX web client." (by as Zimbra)
;-))) But it is still VERY nice.
What I saw is definitly not "an most advanced browser-based AJAX web client" (because I built the most advanced...
I think that the biggist problem of all the "platforms" is incompatibility. Do you want to use Python on Rails and you don't know Python? Do you want to use "*" and you don't know "*"? Did any "platfrom" developer thought about this problem? Or is it just a marketing how to bind the developers just to your platform?
.net... generally whatever language you know... I generally don't like tons of documentation/tutorials and so on to get integrated with other platform. I'm sure that the platform developers and I always share at least one technology that I can use without reading "How to integrate with *" tutorials...
I think it is not so difficult. My working prototype of an extension for my project will allow you to write modules for my CMS in ruby, python, php,
I don't like to switch my "mother" programming language for other language just to take advantage of some great functions in some third-party platform...
Hey! Why do we have so great _standards_ and widely supperted technologies...?
Stop it! Pythagoras invented cool rules and greeks does not try to keep "historical control" over them. Nobody tries to make it private or state property.
:-( "It's mine!" "I invented it!" "I saw it first!" "I bought it!" "I'm the Protector!" "I'm the Owner!"
:-) Where are we living?
Why is the Internet different? It is cool and many people are benefiting form it. Money? Do we speak again about human's greed?
Come on! Are we still those beings that use two legs instead of four and in addition great capacity of our brain? Are we acting in favor of human's good? Or will we eat each other? It looks like discussion of children below 12 that don't want to share control over a newest Toy...
I hope that the DELL info is a hoax (the source of this information cannot be verified and I'm not an owner of the DELL)
Your government know that so it will force the companies to include the espionage appliances directly in your refrigerator, calculator, hair brush...
It looks like the DELL is the pioneer:
http://ivlad.unixgods.net/lj/keylog/klog.htm
:-) I'm working hard on it. But the way is not so easy.
Main purpose of the armies is to destroy other armies (in name of defense or in other name) or tame rioting mobs in case of emergency. Any test that the army does heads toward one of this aims: destroy army or calm down citizens. There is a police for other security related problems (including terrorism which is a organized crime - not a classic war as your politicians say).
;-)
I'm sure that you have plenty of other institutions that can take care of vaccination of citizens, for example CDC or others (I don't know your institutions - I'm not an American but you will problably find planty of them by yourself). Did you really asked yourself why army does this and not other institution?
Sure Microsoft become multinational corporation. In real it grown behind the US border so I agree that Microsoft is not really USA (it can be India as well ;-).
In my opinion (it is my personal opinion - my personal point of view - my own right to have it) USA deserve to be hated for many things and deserve to be loved for many others.
I personally hate USA for their "global policy". That is my point of view as Czech. I feel threaten by American "global policy" because it does not make me feel safer (the opposite is the true). That is my feeling that I believe share with many others. Things like Anthrax, Kioto protocol, USA weapons of mass destruction, US military presence in other countries... does not improve my bad feeling. Sorry. I have nothing against american people - it is not a xenophobia. This is a bad feeling of the member of the small nation.
I don't belive Americans. They scared me very often in recent years. They have full mouth of words like "peace" and see what they do... I think that they have the potential to be very dangerous for the rest of the world. American paranoia plus strong military potential is a real threat. I hope that there are still wise people in the USA who have influence on their "global policy"... I hope for the good of all of us.
I'll be happy if it will not crash five times a day with XUL applications and if I won't see ten times a day random error "out of memory" when parsing 30kB XUL files...
:-)
I'm patient. Some things are difficult to do. I know that. This is just my wish as a web/xul developer.
How much must the company be profitable to don't try to minimize costs (sack people)? Do they have a cashflow problems? What is the business ethics? Is there any?
:-)
Are the people just numbers in financial analysis? From the history we know that treating people as numbers is not good for mankind. I don't want to have tatoo with my personal number (cost) on my forearm.
Sorry.
Intellectual property CANNOT BE OWNED. It can be hidden from others and secured but nobody has the right to stop others redevelop or reinvent the same IP.
:-) Who'll dare it? I'm sure that the lawmakers will make it possible soon. :-) :-) Philosophical question. Are you sure that you own at least ONE ORIGINAL THOUGHT that you created? Are you? If you do so, are you sure that this ORIGINAL THOUGHT was not the result of other thoughts given to you by your teachers, mother, father, friends,...? Shouldn't you reconsider to pay some royalty fees for everything you say and think?
:-)
Bible says that there is no new things, everything already existed in some form or another. I'm very surprised that Americans are those propagating IP and turning IP into dollars labeled as "In God We Trust"(tm). I dought that humans can "invent" or "create" something in the real sense. People are rather "finding" and "understanding" the world, universe, themselves.
If you "find" some way to do something you can hide it from others. But if somebody else will succeed in "finding" the same solution by himself/herself then it is NOT right to sue him/her for "stealing" intellectual property. Because the "intellectual property" cannot be reserved/owned because it is an "idea/word". Other people MUST be allowed to do what you had been granted to do. If you were allowed to invent something how you can prevent somebody else from doing the same thing?
Thoughts are Words. Man cannot think without Words. If Thoughts/Words can be owned then I steel from my mother and father, from everybody I meet in my life... And, at the beginning there was the Word, right? Who will be the first to claim ownership over the Word that was at the beginning?
Writing this short imperfect post with my imperfect English cost me $53.5 in royalty fees, because I used partially thoughts of other great people I met in my life (virtualy or personaly) and the rest is just the "derivative work".
> it would be beyond foolish to interpret the EULA in this manner
... Isn't it the way how the lawyers earn money? :o))
Foolish interpretation
So you don't care but I have to because lawyers do.
I disagree.
:-)
PROFIT + REAL COST = PRICE
REAL COST is what you "earn" - price of the inputs (your time + material + education etc.)
PROFIT is the extra money that you didn't work for. This is the money that somebody else worked for and he/she was so fascinated by your product that he/she decided to give the profit-money to you
> Businesses want to save money and boost IT > efficiency. Can open-source software do the trick? It's clear that it can. But it is of course risky operation (as any other business decision) so the OSS solution must be selected with certain level of knowledge. OSS can boost efficiency but of course not always. So generalizing is not good way to ask this question. What I don't like is the SW business using OSS for faster start up. Simply pretend to be totally FREE - get fast response, fast growing community and then find ways how to generate profit from it. It is really dirty trick. Better to be honest from the very beginning and clearly declare the aims to prevent the community from being surprised.