of consumer activism, it is the now of consumer activism. Actually, the net may make boycotts more effective too. In the past, consumer boycotts worked poorly due to the difficulty in organizing so many far flung people. The net may finally make boycotts easier to organize, track and upkeep. Now that, may be the future. Ditto for the governments. Before only political parties and large scale consumer/activist organizations had the infrastructure to get heard. Now ordinary voters can mass on-line and organize too
Europeans will be playing less PS3 games too... on the plus side, they will be playing a lot of Wii games.
Right now, their biggest danger is developers changing their focus to the fast growing installed user base of Wii (and 360 though not growing as fast as the Wii). That sales potential is the main performance figure developers sweat about.
Actually, I remember once when Sony made great products and had savvy marketing. Of late, watching their tactics has been like watching a drunk fall down a long staircase.
They put out the OS, it is up to the software vendors to make sure their software works with the OS. They knew it was coming and certainly had the time. Also, as others have pointed out, this is just a seal of approval program and doesn't mean the software won't run in vista.
I have watched this submission's comments and am fascinated how close it is to talk radio calls I have heard about the subject. Interestingly, there is a group that seems to believe that somehow bullying is an important part of a social norm, whether they explicitly say that or not. All I can say about these people, is that they are at best - dysfunctional. Others seem to be over the top in how to deal with the bullies. This to me, is also, dysfunctional. Neither reaction will ever contribute to solving the problem. Nor will a new law.
At a low level, the bullying can and should be dealt with by the school via progressive suspensions and expulsion. For those who say the bullies then will just sit on their ass and play games and not learn anything, I can just say that's fine. These kids aren't learning anything anyway, and on top of it, are preventing others from learning and wrecking their lives. Boot them out. If they look at it as a reward, fine, as long as they are kept away from those who want to learn. They'll find out the truth. No, this is not creating new criminals down the road, these types are slated for that anyway.
In fact, if the bullying is physical assault, that is criminal, should result in charges, and if proven, convictions. Libel and slander are harder to prove to prove and often fall under civil codes. Hate crime legislation criminalizes such under certain conditions, and hasn't really been too effective. But where proven, fines and judgments should be levied and restitution aggressively pursued. If the court action is for cyberbullying, in addition to fines, seizure of their equipment and a ban on computer ownership and use be applied.
In any event though, bullying, cyber or otherwise, is not normal, and should not be tolerated.
I doubt MTBF fits into anyone's thoughts when buying a drive, unless they are buying bulk or such for a business and have to justify the choice. I am only talking about home use here.
Personally I have only ever had one drive go on me (a quantum scirroco) in 10 years. For myself, and most home users, that's a great track record. On the other hand, I have had friends and relatives who's drives just up and quit. New ones, old one, many brands. As long as you buy a major brand, they seem to be more or less equal in practice.
That said, with drives going at 10K rpm, the heat, etc, there are going to be lemons. I suspect that will always be a long as we use mechanical drives. I am not suprprised warranty periods dropped about the time drives began to exceed 7200 rpm. Always remember to back up data that's important and keep those receipts.
Is bigger than your distro... Frankly, while I can understand why the people who run one distro want to show that they are better than the other distros... it is one of the things that holds linux back a bit. You get the diversity of development that comes from the different groups producing distros, but to the public who might want to try linux, it gets very confusing to sort between them if they are not technical.
I mean you look at ubuntu's "linux for human beings" which implies that the other distros are not for them...
And before anyone mentions that vista has six versions, they are all from MS, clearly enough delineated with a dot chart, and there are sales people there ready to steer you to the most expensive version.
It would be at some level in linux's interest to have the distros look at some kind of mutual marketing strategy to help people sort out the differences between them so they can pick the one right for them, at least on the desktop side. The server people for the most part are learned enough to figure it out.
The standard most companies want implemented tend to be the standard they themselves developed. Otherwise, they would just be shooting themselves in the foot (in their minds) because then they couldn't sell them proprietary connectors, adapters, special tools etc... This applies across most industries... it's the reason you can't put a five bolt Chevy wheel on a Ford.
And that's fine. It has always held that MS's biggest competitor in the OS business is MS's older versions. Many still use 98SE. I expect XP will be around for a good long time too still. A lot of people still run old equiipment as it still serves their needs.
Hopefully you can get by with linux. It would be good if MS had real competition. Someday soon, maybe. As for 2000 being faster, not in my experience.
The default interface? I'm not fond of it either. That's why I run it in classic mode. Looks about the same as 2000. That style of interface though is here to stay. Check out an OSX desktop, or one of the linux destops with beryl. People seem to like their eye candy.
In the meantime, may your MS Windows 2000 hold you close to it's breast.
Thing is, MS has the legs in terms of cash to wait for Vista to mature into a market force, even if all of us wait for Vista to mature into a better OS. People howled when XP came out, and now people don't want to give it up. When Win95 came out, it sold very well despite all the Win95 = Mac 88 jokes. Within three years expect Vista to the dominating operating system. Today's expensive hardware required to run the fancier parts of Vista will be next year's cheap hardware. The drivers to run everything will come and DX10 games will eventually show.
I will wait until I need to/want to upgrade, but I expect Vista will grow in usage even if I never adopt it. Whatever adoption rate regarding Vista is happening today, don't expect it to stay that way. Also don't expect MS to be crying that everyone isn't picking up a copy today.
To make games that anyone (literally) can pick up and play, and enjoy, without the crutch of violence and fancy visuals. I like fancy visuals and I do like my counterstrike, but frankly they are truly deriviative and really add nothing truly new over their predecessors. It seems that to use less graphic power and not use the dramatic tension that violence provides requires the kind of out of the box thinking that this guy brings to the table. Games are supposed to be fun, they really are toys, (even the PS3 and 360). That's why you buy them. Those two systems don't have the mass appeal that the Wii is getting by sticking to it's path. And at the Wii's price... many people will get one fix on their 360 pr PS3 and the other with the Wii.
In the end, you can have all the violent viseo games you want, but if you really just want fun games that you can play with anyone, it's much harder to do. This guy really deserves to be called a genius.
Translating for our American friends... I am as Canadian as Don Cherry, large bottles of Brador, flannel shirts, screech and Tim Horton's... I cried when the Victoriaville stick company burned down eh...
Let them come visit up here in Lake Malaki Ontario north of Kenora... if they come in the summer, they will need a canoe to do the portages and a Deet heavy repellent
Do you think I should tell them we are like... a whole separate country eh? Like the Dog the Bounty Hunter who came up here to find his profession was illegal, could be a culture shock eh...
Come and get me RIAA! Sixty miles from town on highway, 25 miles via dirt road, 10 miles via dog sled, and 6 by snowshoe... fourth igloo on the left with the green satellite dish... oh, and windchill is -45 today, very balmy
Actually, removing DRM is against what I believe are Apple future plans. Yesterday, in the Yahoo hates DRM thread it mentioned how microsoft's DRM only works 50% of the time. Makes sense when you realize they don't make the hardware, therefore, they are only 50% of the equation.
Apple, on the other hand, makes both hardware and software. My own belief is that the iPod, and soon the iPhone will be joined by among other things.. iTV or some such thing. Apple brought back Jobs to create, sell and make them money. He did it by advancing them as a multimedia delivery company and selling consumers devices that make it easier to buy content from them. I do believe that those nice Apple displays will become nice Apple HDTV's with firmware that enforces DRM and gets you to choose Apple as your content provider through their user friendly software et al. I actually expect more stringent hardware based DRM to come, not less, and I see Apple at the forefront.
I can't blame Jobs, it will make money and that is what he was hired to do. Now, OSX and it's incarnation can be 100% better than Vista, but all the comparisons smack to me of the old Windows 95 = Apple 88 stuff. And we know how that turned out.
Interesting that despite all the hype about OSX, it's the iPod and iTunes (banned in Norway!) that arguably turned Apple around. Iview will carry them forward when it comes.
With all the anti-DRM stuff coming out of these guys who speak out of both sides of their mouth of late, it is easy to be cynical, and I have been cynical on this topic. Every one of the people who have come out against DRM (yes, Jobs too) has been a beneficiary.
They all hate it? Fine, do away with it by mutual consent! Shut up and do it!
Otherwise it is just like one of those ads that say the banks are your friends.
The Wii being a fad was a statement made by the President of Sony. Frankly though, if Sony want to be contenders, some games would be nice. Right now they are selling you a Ferrari that runs on hydrogen, which would be good, if you could buy hyrdogen for it.
This will help them with their profits and make the PS3 more saleable, provided of course that people realize the Wii is just a fad and the 360 is never ever going to be as good as the PS3, regardless of its spiffy games like Gears of War.
These guys are just pandering. It is right that the masses buy the stuff and without them, the companies are screwed. All true. However all the publicity about suing dead grandmothers, the rootkit fiasco etc hasn't got the public coming with torches to the RIAA/MPAA offices either... Bad news... boycotts have a poor record of working.
However... the only way (if ever) DRM is going to be dropped is if they associations are offered big piles of money among other things. Guess what, neither Apple nor Yahoo is going to pony up a dime for to make this dream happen unless they get a guaranteed return on investment. Jobs wasn't brought back to Apple because they like turtlenecks. They brought him back to make money. Something he has done by implementing DRM, a proprietary music sales site, and marketing the hell out of them. He can speak out all he wants, just like Mr. Yahoo. He isn't going to change this practice. He is also not going to voluntarily drop DRM either, that would violate their contracts and he is not cool enough to be sued on your behalf anymore that he would do a perp walk for you. Is he pandering? Absolutely.
IMHO, the only thing I see happening is the RIAA/MPAA pushing for stiffer penalties and stronger DRM... and Mr. Jobs, Mr. Gates et al are going to help them. There is too much money to be made (in their eyes) from these proprietary models.
Sure, keep speaking out, keep trying to rock the boat, but if you think either of these guys is out to help you, the consumer, you're fooling yourself. They just want you to like them.
It's all fine and well for both Jobs and this guy to come out and say cast down the DRM, but it really is just pandering to the masses. If a deal to drop DRM is ever to be worked out, it will be through backroom deals, not in the tech press. I think we all know DRM doesn't work well and is a pain, but it is not up to these delivery vehicles (iTunes et al) to drop the DRM. It is a condition under which they are allowed to sell the licensed product. No DRM, no product to sell. It's that simple.
A lot of this is just saying, "it's them, not us". Fine for geek politics, but it probably is not going to make a pig's fart of difference to the RIAA/MPAA cabal.
I want DRM to go away to, but it isn't going to happen through these feel-good speeches. It's going to happen through things like the recent EMI announcement (which frankly only applies to a chunk of their catalog that isn't selling anyway).
You raise some good points... and it is true that bubblegum or pop music will outsell the old classics in the short term (the Archies had a number one record once if you want to be a-feared), but the classic rock albums do sell. I think their sales figures might even be higher if my son and others like him didn't just walk over to dad's collection and pull some rips for his player. And at those old rocker concerts, there are not just old farts like us there, lots of young people.
True too, I was broke as a kid too, but radio was more interesting then... at least it was to me... doesn't seem like they listen to much radio these days. At least it's not as vital as it was back then
And hey, the Cars were not that bad... and I did turn him on to the Clash too... Also, I didn't sell my vinyl (you heretic!)... I still have a transcriptor turntable and... an original copy of Fly By Night as well as some others...
For all the CD's unsold and rotting on the shelves... they are assembly-line crap... like fast food for the masses, it is bland. Pay attention and you will see that a lot of what kids are listening to is... old fogey music! When I was a kid, I would never have listened to my dad's music because ours was so much better. Now, my son and his friends are hitting me up for ACDC, Led Zeppelin and many other old gems... in fact last night I turned him on to... the Cars!
There is some good indie music out there, but the major companies shun it while pushing out their canned pap. This is what is on the shelves rotting (as it should). No wonder their primary source of funds seems to be lawsuits right now.
No wonder the Police have chosen to reunite. The rockers with walkers are making a killing because the industry today is creatively bankrupt. Bring on Jagger, the Stones and their musical wheelchairs.
IBM is the real winner in the console wars by supplying chips to all the participants. This seems to be what they are best at. Their software? Not so good, at least not by their track record. I can't see this getting anyone in the industry excited.
They should take a clue from Apple and look for new markets. I fully expect to see Apple branded TV's within five years as they make the move from the desktop to the living room. Yes, their PC's will still exist, but they will make barrels of moneythe other way.
IBM still, somehow, has delusions of relevance in the software world.
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of consumer activism, it is the now of consumer activism. Actually, the net may make boycotts more effective too. In the past, consumer boycotts worked poorly due to the difficulty in organizing so many far flung people. The net may finally make boycotts easier to organize, track and upkeep. Now that, may be the future. Ditto for the governments. Before only political parties and large scale consumer/activist organizations had the infrastructure to get heard. Now ordinary voters can mass on-line and organize too
Europeans will be playing less PS3 games too... on the plus side, they will be playing a lot of Wii games.
Right now, their biggest danger is developers changing their focus to the fast growing installed user base of Wii (and 360 though not growing as fast as the Wii). That sales potential is the main performance figure developers sweat about.
Actually, I remember once when Sony made great products and had savvy marketing. Of late, watching their tactics has been like watching a drunk fall down a long staircase.
They put out the OS, it is up to the software vendors to make sure their software works with the OS. They knew it was coming and certainly had the time. Also, as others have pointed out, this is just a seal of approval program and doesn't mean the software won't run in vista.
I have watched this submission's comments and am fascinated how close it is to talk radio calls I have heard about the subject. Interestingly, there is a group that seems to believe that somehow bullying is an important part of a social norm, whether they explicitly say that or not. All I can say about these people, is that they are at best - dysfunctional. Others seem to be over the top in how to deal with the bullies. This to me, is also, dysfunctional. Neither reaction will ever contribute to solving the problem. Nor will a new law.
At a low level, the bullying can and should be dealt with by the school via progressive suspensions and expulsion. For those who say the bullies then will just sit on their ass and play games and not learn anything, I can just say that's fine. These kids aren't learning anything anyway, and on top of it, are preventing others from learning and wrecking their lives. Boot them out. If they look at it as a reward, fine, as long as they are kept away from those who want to learn. They'll find out the truth. No, this is not creating new criminals down the road, these types are slated for that anyway.
In fact, if the bullying is physical assault, that is criminal, should result in charges, and if proven, convictions. Libel and slander are harder to prove to prove and often fall under civil codes. Hate crime legislation criminalizes such under certain conditions, and hasn't really been too effective. But where proven, fines and judgments should be levied and restitution aggressively pursued. If the court action is for cyberbullying, in addition to fines, seizure of their equipment and a ban on computer ownership and use be applied.
In any event though, bullying, cyber or otherwise, is not normal, and should not be tolerated.
Damned uppity dead people! Bad corpse!
I doubt MTBF fits into anyone's thoughts when buying a drive, unless they are buying bulk or such for a business and have to justify the choice. I am only talking about home use here.
Personally I have only ever had one drive go on me (a quantum scirroco) in 10 years. For myself, and most home users, that's a great track record. On the other hand, I have had friends and relatives who's drives just up and quit. New ones, old one, many brands. As long as you buy a major brand, they seem to be more or less equal in practice.
That said, with drives going at 10K rpm, the heat, etc, there are going to be lemons. I suspect that will always be a long as we use mechanical drives. I am not suprprised warranty periods dropped about the time drives began to exceed 7200 rpm. Always remember to back up data that's important and keep those receipts.
Stealing from the dead is a very old tradition. As is having them cast votes, collect pensions et al... No respect for the old ways anymore...
Is bigger than your distro... Frankly, while I can understand why the people who run one distro want to show that they are better than the other distros... it is one of the things that holds linux back a bit. You get the diversity of development that comes from the different groups producing distros, but to the public who might want to try linux, it gets very confusing to sort between them if they are not technical. I mean you look at ubuntu's "linux for human beings" which implies that the other distros are not for them... And before anyone mentions that vista has six versions, they are all from MS, clearly enough delineated with a dot chart, and there are sales people there ready to steer you to the most expensive version. It would be at some level in linux's interest to have the distros look at some kind of mutual marketing strategy to help people sort out the differences between them so they can pick the one right for them, at least on the desktop side. The server people for the most part are learned enough to figure it out.
So what's the fishing like?
The standard most companies want implemented tend to be the standard they themselves developed. Otherwise, they would just be shooting themselves in the foot (in their minds) because then they couldn't sell them proprietary connectors, adapters, special tools etc... This applies across most industries... it's the reason you can't put a five bolt Chevy wheel on a Ford.
Sadly, yes, in the late 80's I believe. Used to be my favourite stick. Now, it's Sherwoods for me None of that Easton crap
And that's fine. It has always held that MS's biggest competitor in the OS business is MS's older versions. Many still use 98SE. I expect XP will be around for a good long time too still. A lot of people still run old equiipment as it still serves their needs.
Hopefully you can get by with linux. It would be good if MS had real competition. Someday soon, maybe. As for 2000 being faster, not in my experience.
The default interface? I'm not fond of it either. That's why I run it in classic mode. Looks about the same as 2000. That style of interface though is here to stay. Check out an OSX desktop, or one of the linux destops with beryl. People seem to like their eye candy.
In the meantime, may your MS Windows 2000 hold you close to it's breast.
Thing is, MS has the legs in terms of cash to wait for Vista to mature into a market force, even if all of us wait for Vista to mature into a better OS. People howled when XP came out, and now people don't want to give it up. When Win95 came out, it sold very well despite all the Win95 = Mac 88 jokes. Within three years expect Vista to the dominating operating system. Today's expensive hardware required to run the fancier parts of Vista will be next year's cheap hardware. The drivers to run everything will come and DX10 games will eventually show.
I will wait until I need to/want to upgrade, but I expect Vista will grow in usage even if I never adopt it. Whatever adoption rate regarding Vista is happening today, don't expect it to stay that way. Also don't expect MS to be crying that everyone isn't picking up a copy today.
To make games that anyone (literally) can pick up and play, and enjoy, without the crutch of violence and fancy visuals. I like fancy visuals and I do like my counterstrike, but frankly they are truly deriviative and really add nothing truly new over their predecessors. It seems that to use less graphic power and not use the dramatic tension that violence provides requires the kind of out of the box thinking that this guy brings to the table. Games are supposed to be fun, they really are toys, (even the PS3 and 360). That's why you buy them. Those two systems don't have the mass appeal that the Wii is getting by sticking to it's path. And at the Wii's price... many people will get one fix on their 360 pr PS3 and the other with the Wii. In the end, you can have all the violent viseo games you want, but if you really just want fun games that you can play with anyone, it's much harder to do. This guy really deserves to be called a genius.
Translating for our American friends... I am as Canadian as Don Cherry, large bottles of Brador, flannel shirts, screech and Tim Horton's... I cried when the Victoriaville stick company burned down eh...
Let them come visit up here in Lake Malaki Ontario north of Kenora... if they come in the summer, they will need a canoe to do the portages and a Deet heavy repellent
Do you think I should tell them we are like... a whole separate country eh? Like the Dog the Bounty Hunter who came up here to find his profession was illegal, could be a culture shock eh...
Come and get me RIAA! Sixty miles from town on highway, 25 miles via dirt road, 10 miles via dog sled, and 6 by snowshoe... fourth igloo on the left with the green satellite dish... oh, and windchill is -45 today, very balmy
You're right.
Actually, removing DRM is against what I believe are Apple future plans. Yesterday, in the Yahoo hates DRM thread it mentioned how microsoft's DRM only works 50% of the time. Makes sense when you realize they don't make the hardware, therefore, they are only 50% of the equation.
Apple, on the other hand, makes both hardware and software. My own belief is that the iPod, and soon the iPhone will be joined by among other things.. iTV or some such thing. Apple brought back Jobs to create, sell and make them money. He did it by advancing them as a multimedia delivery company and selling consumers devices that make it easier to buy content from them. I do believe that those nice Apple displays will become nice Apple HDTV's with firmware that enforces DRM and gets you to choose Apple as your content provider through their user friendly software et al. I actually expect more stringent hardware based DRM to come, not less, and I see Apple at the forefront.
I can't blame Jobs, it will make money and that is what he was hired to do. Now, OSX and it's incarnation can be 100% better than Vista, but all the comparisons smack to me of the old Windows 95 = Apple 88 stuff. And we know how that turned out.
Interesting that despite all the hype about OSX, it's the iPod and iTunes (banned in Norway!) that arguably turned Apple around. Iview will carry them forward when it comes.
With all the anti-DRM stuff coming out of these guys who speak out of both sides of their mouth of late, it is easy to be cynical, and I have been cynical on this topic. Every one of the people who have come out against DRM (yes, Jobs too) has been a beneficiary.
They all hate it? Fine, do away with it by mutual consent! Shut up and do it!
Otherwise it is just like one of those ads that say the banks are your friends.
The Wii being a fad was a statement made by the President of Sony. Frankly though, if Sony want to be contenders, some games would be nice. Right now they are selling you a Ferrari that runs on hydrogen, which would be good, if you could buy hyrdogen for it.
This will help them with their profits and make the PS3 more saleable, provided of course that people realize the Wii is just a fad and the 360 is never ever going to be as good as the PS3, regardless of its spiffy games like Gears of War.
Just wait until next year!
BTW: I am being sarcastic!
These guys are just pandering. It is right that the masses buy the stuff and without them, the companies are screwed. All true. However all the publicity about suing dead grandmothers, the rootkit fiasco etc hasn't got the public coming with torches to the RIAA/MPAA offices either... Bad news... boycotts have a poor record of working.
However... the only way (if ever) DRM is going to be dropped is if they associations are offered big piles of money among other things. Guess what, neither Apple nor Yahoo is going to pony up a dime for to make this dream happen unless they get a guaranteed return on investment. Jobs wasn't brought back to Apple because they like turtlenecks. They brought him back to make money. Something he has done by implementing DRM, a proprietary music sales site, and marketing the hell out of them. He can speak out all he wants, just like Mr. Yahoo. He isn't going to change this practice. He is also not going to voluntarily drop DRM either, that would violate their contracts and he is not cool enough to be sued on your behalf anymore that he would do a perp walk for you. Is he pandering? Absolutely.
IMHO, the only thing I see happening is the RIAA/MPAA pushing for stiffer penalties and stronger DRM... and Mr. Jobs, Mr. Gates et al are going to help them. There is too much money to be made (in their eyes) from these proprietary models.
Sure, keep speaking out, keep trying to rock the boat, but if you think either of these guys is out to help you, the consumer, you're fooling yourself. They just want you to like them.
It's all fine and well for both Jobs and this guy to come out and say cast down the DRM, but it really is just pandering to the masses. If a deal to drop DRM is ever to be worked out, it will be through backroom deals, not in the tech press. I think we all know DRM doesn't work well and is a pain, but it is not up to these delivery vehicles (iTunes et al) to drop the DRM. It is a condition under which they are allowed to sell the licensed product. No DRM, no product to sell. It's that simple.
A lot of this is just saying, "it's them, not us". Fine for geek politics, but it probably is not going to make a pig's fart of difference to the RIAA/MPAA cabal.
I want DRM to go away to, but it isn't going to happen through these feel-good speeches. It's going to happen through things like the recent EMI announcement (which frankly only applies to a chunk of their catalog that isn't selling anyway).
You raise some good points... and it is true that bubblegum or pop music will outsell the old classics in the short term (the Archies had a number one record once if you want to be a-feared), but the classic rock albums do sell. I think their sales figures might even be higher if my son and others like him didn't just walk over to dad's collection and pull some rips for his player. And at those old rocker concerts, there are not just old farts like us there, lots of young people.
True too, I was broke as a kid too, but radio was more interesting then... at least it was to me... doesn't seem like they listen to much radio these days. At least it's not as vital as it was back then
And hey, the Cars were not that bad... and I did turn him on to the Clash too... Also, I didn't sell my vinyl (you heretic!)... I still have a transcriptor turntable and... an original copy of Fly By Night as well as some others...
For all the CD's unsold and rotting on the shelves... they are assembly-line crap... like fast food for the masses, it is bland. Pay attention and you will see that a lot of what kids are listening to is... old fogey music! When I was a kid, I would never have listened to my dad's music because ours was so much better. Now, my son and his friends are hitting me up for ACDC, Led Zeppelin and many other old gems... in fact last night I turned him on to... the Cars!
There is some good indie music out there, but the major companies shun it while pushing out their canned pap. This is what is on the shelves rotting (as it should). No wonder their primary source of funds seems to be lawsuits right now.
No wonder the Police have chosen to reunite. The rockers with walkers are making a killing because the industry today is creatively bankrupt. Bring on Jagger, the Stones and their musical wheelchairs.
IBM is the real winner in the console wars by supplying chips to all the participants. This seems to be what they are best at. Their software? Not so good, at least not by their track record. I can't see this getting anyone in the industry excited.
They should take a clue from Apple and look for new markets. I fully expect to see Apple branded TV's within five years as they make the move from the desktop to the living room. Yes, their PC's will still exist, but they will make barrels of moneythe other way.
IBM still, somehow, has delusions of relevance in the software world.