So what you're saying is it's ok as long as I only do it a *little bit*? How about if youtube only has funny clips from TV shows? How long can they be, 5 minutes? 10 minutes? What if it's the entire show except for the first and last 2 minutes, is that ok?
I hate to break it to you but this is an all or nothing thing. The defense of "well our infringement isn't quite as bad" doesn't work.
Perhaps Microsoft should then take a look at the bigger picture and realize outsourcing to India is the absolute WORST possible solution for them. Last I checked upwards of 99% of windows copies in India are pirated. Just keep outsourcing until nobody in our country can afford to buy your software either Bill, then you'll have a shiny 500$ operating system that has sub-par quality due to cheap developers, and a price tag nobody can afford!
This is rather humorous coming from QWEST. They can't provide more than a 5Mbit DSL pipe to consumers, and they're complaining about not being able to *keep up*. How is it Verizon can lay FTTH, yet you can't cut it with SLOW DSL qwest? What a joke.
Essentially they're looking for a way to make even MORE money off their crappy service because they f-ed up 7 years ago.
1. *SMALL businesses* better care about SOX. If you're giving my social security number to google, who claims no responsibility for my personal information that they clearly state they will keep forever and use how they see fit, I'm going to sue your ass to oblivion when it gets into the wrong hands. And you as a small business have no way to pass that along to google because you agreed to indemnify them from any responsibility.
2. Google can't. Their grid is not setup in a way to allow it. Again, google clearly states they keep all information forever, and will use it as they see fit. That WILL NOT EVER BE SOX COMPLIANT.
3. Care to provide some data to back that up? I call bullshit.
it's complete and absolute BS for one reason only:
SOX compliance. Anyone running their business off of google apps is just begging to be run out of business by the government. There is absolutely no way, with the way google runs their apps, that you could ever meet security or retention requirements for SOX compliance.
There's one flaw in your thought process. Who are those telco's going to lose customers to? If the resident cable and telco decide to both limit bandwidth at the same time (NOT THAT THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN!!), who do I go with? Your theory, much like capitalism in general, only works when there's REAL competition.
you're a statistical anomaly to the big vendors at best. A.00001% that can be rounded down to 0 when focusing on maximizing shareholder value. If you were not, they would sell what you are asking for.
If it were profitable you would find just that. It's called free market. Start your own company and start selling computers without windows installed. If there is a demand you'll make a boatload of money;) I think you'll find as most retailers have, the demand is exactly 0.
Support is one of them, but he was also complaining about his packages no longer working on 2.6 kernel. Solaris has the whole binary compatibility thing going for it. If it worked on Solaris 2.6, odds are very very very good it will work on Solaris 10 (10 years later) unless someone did a very bad job of coding it in the first place.
Actually, the *really bad thing* is that ANY slashdotter is *pro* *insert any corporation of your choice*. Corporations are out to make money, nothing more. You should be happy Sun is giving you a choice of both competitors because in the end, we, the consumers, win.
The obvious thing to do would be to jack up the price of the computer to pass along the cost to the consumer. This is no different than the "little guy" suing the government and cheering him on. Who do you think will actually be paying for this? Dell? *HAH*. And please, don't try to say some other vendor will do differently, prices will just be raised across the board by all vendors to cover the added cost of the few linux zealots who just have to *make a point*.
It would've had the possibility of being the death of netflix. That was right up until they said it would include DRM. Divx didn't work, why do they think this is any different? They just never learn *shame*.
I love the mac fanboi's who keep claiming things like parallels will allow you to "kiss windows goodbye". "Vista who?"... here's a thought, how the hell were you planning on running an app that requires vista without actually purchasing a copy of vista? Parallels STILL requires you to install vista, it just allows you to virtualize it. MS is still getting theirs unless you pirate it... I guess you can't expect fanboi's to use common sense.
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but does it run on banana peels???!
Unfortunately apple is not including the flux capacitor upgrade with this version of the Mac, so you will not be able to edit 4d.
That's only because 80% of the windows copies are pirated =)
So what you're saying is it's ok as long as I only do it a *little bit*? How about if youtube only has funny clips from TV shows? How long can they be, 5 minutes? 10 minutes? What if it's the entire show except for the first and last 2 minutes, is that ok?
I hate to break it to you but this is an all or nothing thing. The defense of "well our infringement isn't quite as bad" doesn't work.
Right, and their CEO and other executive staff felt the need to move to dubai which has no extradition policy because of "business reasons".
See Sam's Club vs. Costco for real-world examples. The bottom dollar does not always win.
Perhaps Microsoft should then take a look at the bigger picture and realize outsourcing to India is the absolute WORST possible solution for them. Last I checked upwards of 99% of windows copies in India are pirated. Just keep outsourcing until nobody in our country can afford to buy your software either Bill, then you'll have a shiny 500$ operating system that has sub-par quality due to cheap developers, and a price tag nobody can afford!
This is rather humorous coming from QWEST. They can't provide more than a 5Mbit DSL pipe to consumers, and they're complaining about not being able to *keep up*. How is it Verizon can lay FTTH, yet you can't cut it with SLOW DSL qwest? What a joke.
Essentially they're looking for a way to make even MORE money off their crappy service because they f-ed up 7 years ago.
Ya, look at SOX just killing the US stock market!!
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Oh wait, it's been going up since regulation was implemented... DAMN!
1. *SMALL businesses* better care about SOX. If you're giving my social security number to google, who claims no responsibility for my personal information that they clearly state they will keep forever and use how they see fit, I'm going to sue your ass to oblivion when it gets into the wrong hands. And you as a small business have no way to pass that along to google because you agreed to indemnify them from any responsibility.
2. Google can't. Their grid is not setup in a way to allow it. Again, google clearly states they keep all information forever, and will use it as they see fit. That WILL NOT EVER BE SOX COMPLIANT.
3. Care to provide some data to back that up? I call bullshit.
the attenuating circumstance in their own words were that there was only one male in that family so it would be an *easy target*.
it's complete and absolute BS for one reason only: SOX compliance. Anyone running their business off of google apps is just begging to be run out of business by the government. There is absolutely no way, with the way google runs their apps, that you could ever meet security or retention requirements for SOX compliance.
There's one flaw in your thought process. Who are those telco's going to lose customers to? If the resident cable and telco decide to both limit bandwidth at the same time (NOT THAT THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN!!), who do I go with? Your theory, much like capitalism in general, only works when there's REAL competition.
you're a statistical anomaly to the big vendors at best. A .00001% that can be rounded down to 0 when focusing on maximizing shareholder value. If you were not, they would sell what you are asking for.
If it were profitable you would find just that. It's called free market. Start your own company and start selling computers without windows installed. If there is a demand you'll make a boatload of money ;) I think you'll find as most retailers have, the demand is exactly 0.
Sure there is, you can demand their license to be a church be revoked (as it should be).
Support is one of them, but he was also complaining about his packages no longer working on 2.6 kernel. Solaris has the whole binary compatibility thing going for it. If it worked on Solaris 2.6, odds are very very very good it will work on Solaris 10 (10 years later) unless someone did a very bad job of coding it in the first place.
And that my friend, is the niche Opensolaris will quickly start filling.
Because they tend to have a conscience and feel bad about screwing people?
Actually, the *really bad thing* is that ANY slashdotter is *pro* *insert any corporation of your choice*. Corporations are out to make money, nothing more. You should be happy Sun is giving you a choice of both competitors because in the end, we, the consumers, win.
Aren't they authorizing you to download by default, as soon as they put it out on bittorrent?
The obvious thing to do would be to jack up the price of the computer to pass along the cost to the consumer. This is no different than the "little guy" suing the government and cheering him on. Who do you think will actually be paying for this? Dell? *HAH*. And please, don't try to say some other vendor will do differently, prices will just be raised across the board by all vendors to cover the added cost of the few linux zealots who just have to *make a point*.
It would've had the possibility of being the death of netflix. That was right up until they said it would include DRM. Divx didn't work, why do they think this is any different? They just never learn *shame*.
right, except I specifically said "new software that requires vista".
I love the mac fanboi's who keep claiming things like parallels will allow you to "kiss windows goodbye". "Vista who?"... here's a thought, how the hell were you planning on running an app that requires vista without actually purchasing a copy of vista? Parallels STILL requires you to install vista, it just allows you to virtualize it. MS is still getting theirs unless you pirate it... I guess you can't expect fanboi's to use common sense.