Personally, I don't see how this is any different than a TV station which refuses to pull defamatory advertising.
In that case, I'd guess you don't know very much about Usenet.
Settling with this guy (who has sued others before, I believe), not only panders to net.kookery, but fails to recognize the decentralized nature of Usenet.
To order an ISP to remove a Usenet post is silly; yes, they can issue a cancel, but a lot of good that does for an article that has already propagated. Many servers do not honor cancels, for a number of reasons, so the article, while it may not be available on the local server, will still exist on servers throughout the world (He did manage to get DejaNews to pull it, though...another scary thing).
Usenet is really a record of events; what this guy has done is to try to alter history by scribbling in his own newspaper.
When you think about it, the radio stations only help the RIAA make more profits anyway - thousands of radio stations all over the country and abroad have to buy their own copies of all the RIAA songs to play, often in the more expensive single format or full CDs or remixes or all of the above. (I'm sure they must get discounts, but I'm betting that the RIAA protects their profit margin.)
Radio stations typically get free promo copies of CDs/singles/etc., both for airplay, and for giveaways. Mostly this is for "current product" (i.e., the shite the record company rep is pushing right now for airplay). Sometimes, though, if you have a decent relationship with your rep, they'll even get you some free "catalog" (i.e., older stuff).
I used to work in radio back in the 80s. I don't miss it all that much, though.
I have a BP6 with two Socket 370 333s running at 500 MHz, and my CPU temperature stays in the 80s. I don't have any special cooling stuff, just ball bearing CPU fans, and one additional case fan.
This was a new story that I heard yesterday; it was not the old Bloomberg story. The story was that the settlement offer that Microsoft submitted included opening (or somehow otherwise disclosing) Windows' source code as a concession/remedy.
Did I say anything about the ease of installing RAM? No. I was talking about the quality of components, which you have to admit was superior on the 8500, compared with the iMac/G3/G4.
OK...the first thing you think when you hear this story is, well, naturally, the DOJ is rejecting Microsoft's offer, since:
The DOJ seems poised to win, and you don't settle easily when you're winning
Microsoft is likely offering minor concessions
However, I heard that Microsoft was actually offering a number of substantial concessions, including releasing source code for Windows. It seems odd the the DOJ would pass on this, as it could seriously change the marketplace.
I guess the real question would be: is Microsoft offering to release the Win 9x source code, only to turn around and concentrate on the NT codebase? And would they immediately make API changes to make the old codebase incompatible? Perhaps that's what DOJ is thinking.
Anyhow, I certainly don't have the answer. I don't really like government getting into all of this anyhow, but I don't particularly care for Microsoft, and what they've done to the industry, either.
If anything good is to come of this, they should get Microsoft to release any rights to OS/2 source code, so IBM could open source OS/2, if they want to. That SOM stuff could be very useful to the KDE and GNOME projects.
You're assuming all that software that is missing on BeOS would be ported from MacOS-PPC. The big one, MS Office, would almost certainly *not* be ported, as an x86 MacOS would be directly competing with Windows.
Although, you never can tell what would happen now with the anti-trust trial and everything...
Apple's box are well built and with a nice design, I don't think they are over priced if you compare them with quality PCs.
There was a time I would have agreed with you, perhaps, but that time has long passed.
Modern Apple hardware is not all that hot. Look at the quality of the components in the iMac, G3, G4. Nothing all that different than the stuff that gets put into most PCs. But still a bit more expensive (although less so than previously). The last *really* nice Apple hardware, IMO, was the 8500.
Apple made a business decision (and probably a wise one) to get more competitive price-wise with PCs, by becoming much more like a PC maker.
And as for people like me who build their boxes, there's still no comparison to what I can do with commodity PC parts. An SMP machine for less than $1000. Beat that with Apple hardware.
Heck, even most Sun hardware ain't what it used to be. Too bad.
Of course they shouldn't have done what they did; and of course they should have been disciplined.
That said, we seem to have moved into an era of overreaction. Kids hook up ethernet, get arrested. Woman protests president, gets arrested. Girl says she's going to bring *gum* to school, gets suspended. A boy can't even have a pocket knife at school anymore...what has our world come to?
No one has a sense of humor anymore, or a sense of proportionality. What has happened to us?
It was Clinton that signed the CDA Tipper Gore who headed the effort to censor music in the 80s, and I would remind you that Sen. Exon, a Democrat from Nebraska, introduced the CDA.
And if you look into region coding a bit more, you will see that it is the content providers indeed who want to enforce that regime.
The Internet has always had the potential to be the great equalizer, a place where the small business person can have nearly the same presence as the mega-corporation.
Many small sites, including my wife's, are turning a profit, albeit a small one.
If these huge sites fail to ever become profitable, and if VC starts to dry up, it won't kill the net; it will just restore some balance again.
Personally, I've heard too many lame ultra-commercial "concept" site TV/radio ads. A respite from those would be more than welcome.
At least from what the xanim guy has said. Yes, the codec is the property of Sorenson...but, they say that it is Apple that is preventing them from licensing to him, which they indicate they would otherwise be willing to do.
So, the fact that Sorenson would need to do the licensing is pretty much a non-issue at this point.
The organization standing in the way of this happening is Apple.
I look at it this way...at least he's managed to keep the PETA wackos (I mean, c'mon...they're against owning pets!) *off* the web for four years.
That really brings up another issue. Most domain disputes are over money; this one is over politics. How should political situations like this be handled? The same as others? Or should there be different considerations?
I would think that the fact that he has a web site, and is using it to present a particular point of view related to the name should be sufficient for him to keep it.
Yeah, yeah...the guy was a squatter, and we all hate squatters, but...
Complainant contends that respondent has registered as a domain name a mark which is identical to the service mark registered and used by complainant, that respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect to the domain name at issue, and that respondent has registered and is using the domain name at issue in bad faith.
Note, however:
The complainant has provided evidence of the registration of the following marks: 1. Service Mark - MUSICWEB, for computer online retail services in the field of recorded music and music information in Int. Class 42, registered for a term of 10 years from September 15, 1998. Complaint, Exhibit B. The Service Mark claims a first use of June 10, 1998. Id. Complainant uses the mark, MUSICWEB, for the sale of recorded music, discs, tapes and other electronic recording devices. Complaint 8.
and... The Whois record of the domain MUSICWEB was created on January 10, 1995 and last updated on January 5, 1997.
So, musicweb.com was created over three years before this guy registered his service mark.
Does that mean that any domains held by speculators are up for grabs? I mean, all you have to do is register a service mark that is the same as the root name of a domain, complain to ICANN, and bingo...the domain is yours!
I dunno...but something just doesn't seem right about this.
Perhaps speculators will simply start registering service marks.
I'd really like to see about 1000 new non-geographical TLDs to put an end to all this nonsense, once and for all.
At least in the Linux/x86 version...I hope they put them back for the final release. The bookmarks thingy has been replaced by a "Content" menu, which appears to be non-editable. Too bad. I found that very useful in G2/6.0. I had a nice little menu of radio stations and video feeds.
Can someone tell me if they're also gone in the Macintosh and Windows versions?
OTOH, it does seem to play video better than that last version, even at low data rates.
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This is absolutely not true. Consider that libraries may lend books that they have purchased.
DVD-CCA is trying to block consumers' fair use (and other) rights through technology. They are not acting in the spirit of the law.
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- watch DVDs from any region?
- make back up copies of my DVDs?
- manipulate the video as I see fit?
If not, then it does not serve my interests, as it still allows DVD-CCA to violate my rights, which include all of the above.There is lawbreaking going on surrounding the DeCSS issue, and it's all being done by the corporate goons that make up DVD-CCA.
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Agreed. It's kinda late, but still, this is going to be one hell of a processor.
Notice how Suns keep their value? I mean, I'm trying to get an Ultra 1, and can't seem to get one for under $1000 on eBay.
What's with the pissant moderators around here?
Dunno. I see that you are at a 0, but don't see any moderations on your post. Do you have negative karma or something?
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In that case, I'd guess you don't know very much about Usenet.
Settling with this guy (who has sued others before, I believe), not only panders to net.kookery, but fails to recognize the decentralized nature of Usenet.
To order an ISP to remove a Usenet post is silly; yes, they can issue a cancel, but a lot of good that does for an article that has already propagated. Many servers do not honor cancels, for a number of reasons, so the article, while it may not be available on the local server, will still exist on servers throughout the world (He did manage to get DejaNews to pull it, though...another scary thing).
Usenet is really a record of events; what this guy has done is to try to alter history by scribbling in his own newspaper.
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Radio stations typically get free promo copies of CDs/singles/etc., both for airplay, and for giveaways. Mostly this is for "current product" (i.e., the shite the record company rep is pushing right now for airplay). Sometimes, though, if you have a decent relationship with your rep, they'll even get you some free "catalog" (i.e., older stuff).
I used to work in radio back in the 80s. I don't miss it all that much, though.
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Maybe FreeBSD is cooking those CPUs... :-)
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- The DOJ seems poised to win, and you don't settle easily when you're winning
- Microsoft is likely offering minor concessions
However, I heard that Microsoft was actually offering a number of substantial concessions, including releasing source code for Windows. It seems odd the the DOJ would pass on this, as it could seriously change the marketplace.I guess the real question would be: is Microsoft offering to release the Win 9x source code, only to turn around and concentrate on the NT codebase? And would they immediately make API changes to make the old codebase incompatible? Perhaps that's what DOJ is thinking.
Anyhow, I certainly don't have the answer. I don't really like government getting into all of this anyhow, but I don't particularly care for Microsoft, and what they've done to the industry, either.
If anything good is to come of this, they should get Microsoft to release any rights to OS/2 source code, so IBM could open source OS/2, if they want to. That SOM stuff could be very useful to the KDE and GNOME projects.
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Although, you never can tell what would happen now with the anti-trust trial and everything...
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There was a time I would have agreed with you, perhaps, but that time has long passed.
Modern Apple hardware is not all that hot. Look at the quality of the components in the iMac, G3, G4. Nothing all that different than the stuff that gets put into most PCs. But still a bit more expensive (although less so than previously). The last *really* nice Apple hardware, IMO, was the 8500.
Apple made a business decision (and probably a wise one) to get more competitive price-wise with PCs, by becoming much more like a PC maker.
And as for people like me who build their boxes, there's still no comparison to what I can do with commodity PC parts. An SMP machine for less than $1000. Beat that with Apple hardware.
Heck, even most Sun hardware ain't what it used to be. Too bad.
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That said, we seem to have moved into an era of overreaction. Kids hook up ethernet, get arrested. Woman protests president, gets arrested. Girl says she's going to bring *gum* to school, gets suspended. A boy can't even have a pocket knife at school anymore...what has our world come to?
No one has a sense of humor anymore, or a sense of proportionality. What has happened to us?
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I think of a VT220 whenever I see an iMac. Every time. Have you never seen one?
I used to use a VT220 with a 9600 baud modem to read Usenet at work. :-)
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You have no freaking idea what you're talking about, do you? Exon was a Democrat. Period.
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And if you look into region coding a bit more, you will see that it is the content providers indeed who want to enforce that regime.
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Many small sites, including my wife's, are turning a profit, albeit a small one.
If these huge sites fail to ever become profitable, and if VC starts to dry up, it won't kill the net; it will just restore some balance again.
Personally, I've heard too many lame ultra-commercial "concept" site TV/radio ads. A respite from those would be more than welcome.
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So, the fact that Sorenson would need to do the licensing is pretty much a non-issue at this point.
The organization standing in the way of this happening is Apple.
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That really brings up another issue. Most domain disputes are over money; this one is over politics. How should political situations like this be handled? The same as others? Or should there be different considerations?
I would think that the fact that he has a web site, and is using it to present a particular point of view related to the name should be sufficient for him to keep it.
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Complainant contends that respondent has registered as a domain name a mark which is identical to the service mark registered and used by complainant, that respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect to the domain name at issue, and that respondent has registered and is using the domain name at issue in bad faith.
Note, however:
The complainant has provided evidence of the registration of the following marks: 1. Service Mark - MUSICWEB, for computer online retail services in the field of recorded music and music information in Int. Class 42, registered for a term of 10 years from September 15, 1998. Complaint, Exhibit B. The Service Mark claims a first use of June 10, 1998. Id. Complainant uses the mark, MUSICWEB, for the sale of recorded music, discs, tapes and other electronic recording devices. Complaint 8.
and... The Whois record of the domain MUSICWEB was created on January 10, 1995 and last updated on January 5, 1997.
So, musicweb.com was created over three years before this guy registered his service mark.
Does that mean that any domains held by speculators are up for grabs? I mean, all you have to do is register a service mark that is the same as the root name of a domain, complain to ICANN, and bingo...the domain is yours!
I dunno...but something just doesn't seem right about this.
Perhaps speculators will simply start registering service marks.
I'd really like to see about 1000 new non-geographical TLDs to put an end to all this nonsense, once and for all.
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Can someone tell me if they're also gone in the Macintosh and Windows versions?
OTOH, it does seem to play video better than that last version, even at low data rates.
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That is not a legitimate reason to moderate a post down.
there is HUGE difference you zealot.
But thanks for the impartial, reasoned analysis!
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