The GPL v3 is specifically targetting the power of the corporation to retain its own product. I can respect the ideological war that the FSF seems to want to pick with the rest of the world, and they aren't entirely wrong, but surely you can see why most corporations, especially for a language level product, would want to craft their own open source license instead of using a license which is progressively making more audacious legal claims... ones that will likely not hold up in court.
I was a little bit more zealous with the second point, and I think it caused me to miss the main focus of the second point: Micrsoft went into the original XBox with a bad brand, the first thing many Japanese consumers buy on. And unfortunately for Microsoft, the XB1 all but destroyed what brand they did have.
It's important to point out though that from what I've heard, the few Japanese who did pick up the original XB enjoyed it, and highly recommended it.
I was going to mod you down, (-1, Troll), but I decided it would be more constructive, and more helpful to all the rest of slashdot, if I responded.
Your assertions are both simplistic and false. Japan has no real bias against American technology firms, nor American companies in general. The American concept of "pop culture" dictates a lot of what is popular in Japan, and the Japanese have no hate for American driven culture in the public sense.
Point and case: the iPod has been wildly successful in Japan, and is the number one selling MP3 player in Japan by a wide margin, despite the fact that Apple is VERY much an American company.
The problem for Microsoft is two-fold:
1. They don't understand the Japanese consumer. Japanese consumers are VERY different from American consumers. American consumers, more often than not, follow one of two basic buying templates: they buy based on hype, or they buy based on function. Japanese consumers, generally speaking, buy on these three principals, in this order: 1. Brand (has this company sold quality products in the past) 2. Form & Community (Will it look cool wearing it/Will I easily be able to use this with other people I know) 3. Function (Does it have all of the features I am looking for).
Microsoft fails all three counts drastically with the 360, which brings me to the second problem for Microsoft.
2. Microsoft faces a very negative connotation in Japan. Most Japanese people see Windows for what it is: a bulky, bloated, lazy piece of insecure code that isn't worth a fourth as much as Microsoft charges for it, and only survives because of strongarm techniques and an active monopoly.
The Japanese people resent this; nearly as much as the average slashdotter.
So the problem is not that American companies face negative connotations, it's that Microsoft does, and it doesn't help that Microsoft entered a field that where TWO other companies have all three important consumer points in Japan.
So next time you see that the Japanese consumer passed by a display of 30 X360's to buy a DS, don't tag it to racism. Just cry more noob.
On the otherhand, I was very unimpressed with certain issues concerning lack of professionalism in the lecture. As one example, though this is only an impression, it seemed that he felt he could just get away with wearing jeans and a Google t-shirt for the few days that he was with us because he worked at the ever prestigious Google. It seemed a bit arrogant. Also keep in mind that his position at google is higher than a solutions engineer.
Maybe in a presentation environment, but in a work environment Google has rediscovered a fundamental of employee moral:
The point at which you allow your employees the absolute most freedom while still maintaining enough control to keep the workplace's focus on the work is the point at which your employees will be most productive, because at that point, not only do they feel most productive, but they also feel more like a person, not a tool.
Yes, but primarily because the barrier to duplicate things made it more desirable to create your own things and thus improve upon them in some way, or at the very least improve upon the process.
That barrier does not exist in our current society for many things. As I said in response to another commenter, this assumes that all art is considered to not be a commodity... or that is, is universally available.
Yes, but only so long as all forms of art are not considered a commodity... or that is they are universally available to everyone, which is not the case.
The EU need only abolish copyrights, and the problem shall be quickly solved.
That's like saying "you can get rid of your athlete's foot by amputating your leg... then the problem shall be quickly solved".
The concept of copyrights are almost inherent to culture itself. That no one can copy, verbatim, something you made and claim it their own is fundamental to many freedoms we have. I'm Libertarian, not stupid.
If you really want to take the position that PERL is in every way superior to PHP, I challenge you to use nothing but PERL driven web apps. They are painful, slow, and prone to their own set of problems. PERL is much more powerful for serverside tasks which require access to things outside of user data and databases, but PHP has it's purposes, and it serves them moderately well.
Here's a cookie for taking it FAR too seriously. Like I said, just playing devil's advocate and providing a differing opinion. I think that there is a profound moral difference between laws which strip someone of equal status as a person, and laws which prevent someone from doing something with a product they've purchased, (or in this case often not purchased). Unfortunately, your knee jerked too hard for you to comprehend my point: that dismissing the whole idea of downloading as an ideological slap to a system which screws customers simply because that also fits an abstract concept of stealing is rather stupid.
If there really is nothing which stealing an album will do to promote change, then I'm sure we'll have many people facing hard decisions soon about whether or not to pay their blackmailer or chance some jailtime. Me? I'm quite happy paying for what little music I listen to, and having all of my movie mailed to me.
When a studio and label charge an inexorbinate amount of money for a product which they create an artificial need for by maliciously preventing alternatives from existing or thriving, and then pass next to none of that on to the people who actually created the art, I'd say there's definately room for change. But it will happen, if it's going to, without my help.
How do you even know that I'm white? Or that I'm young? You can call me whatever you want. Fine, I'm a "fucking spoiled brat". At least I'm a "fucking spoiled brat" that understands the concept of "alternative points of view".
It's just human nature that we tend to dig for excuses to justify our actions so we can avoid the feelings of guilt typically associated with them...
Just play devil's advocate here, but how is this different then riding at the front of the bus? Both are done endangering one self, both result in personal gain, both are done through ideologies of corrupt or broken systems, both are (were) equally illegal, and both have their martyrs and their advocates. Just as riding at the front of the bus "disserviced" the people who "rightfully owned" that location, downloading a song "disservices" the artist which "rightfully owns" all uses of that IP. Both situations masked the truth that it was the corrupt system that was screwing people over, not the people being disserviced, nor the people who were disservicing them.
It's easy to point at someone who is stealing something and simply say "cry more n00b". Easy to tell them that they don't have a right to those ideals. But you are in fact wrong. They do have a right to those ideals, and to "fight" the perceived corruption through peaceable disobedience, whether or not that disobedience results in personal gain. They then also have the right to pay for their actions and be held responsible for a disruption of public law. It's the way it's worked for over 200 years in this country, and it's worked well at destroying corrupt systems and granting inherent rights.
If there is indeed an inherent right to do what you want with things you own, then the "pirates" will win. It's the way our society is made right now, and they will do so no matter what names you call them or whether or not you think they are petty thugs committing crimes.
For I also note that the American quotient of said forum is quite low, instead being comprised mainly of Europeans and people from the Asia-Pacific region.
Are you claiming that Linux users are arrogant and at the same time claiming that Europeons are better than Americans?
Reading the responses to your post reminded me of what someone said in the recent topic of 'Linux Snobs' : he was a 'noobie' (god I fucking hate that term) and he explained how he couldn't get the smug pedantic twats to help him with anything, no matter how far he went in trying to help them help him.
Really?
Look SMB is a MS proprietary protocol. It's a miracle that you are even allowed to write to the share in the first place. MS has been doing it's best to sabotage the samba people for years.
Package installation is not one of Fedora's strengths, and never has been.
What you say is true--there is serious work to do to get business productivity applications fairly close to the integrated polish of MS Office.
Just as a random remark, but this week I got an error message from OpenOffice as well, that it couldn't create a backup file. Turns out that I had to create the directory that holds them by hand.
The directory is buried somewhere in OOo's hidden directory in your home dir, by default, the exact path is somewhere in the preferences screens. It didn't create the directory by itself. So possibly SMB was not related to your problem at all.
Sounds to me like they were just answering his questions, but then again, Linux itself is slowly becomeing "the man", so keep on fighting I guess.
Eh? But wouldn't it be more difficult to deal with the silicon in three dimensions? I'm not an engineer, but I imagine that the wafers are much easiers to use, (especially with my understanding of how they create transistors using semi-conductors).
Is the IP protocol really worth that many patents?
Not to worry. Soon we will move to IPv6 and then their thousands of patents will be useless... much like moving up a version of AOL will simply make your internets slower and less reliable.
I have one question for the IE team, if you ever care to ask: why is a 6+ year old bug with margin's on CSS floats still not fixed in IE 7?
Making IE secure as part of the OS is difficult, I'll grant that, but not impossible. Keeping IE up to date with other, more innovative and more nimble companies and foundations is difficult, but not impossible.
But for the one thing IE is really EXPECTED to do, render HTML, it does it sporadically, unreliably and dismally. I've been doing web development for over ten years now... why can IE just not seem to function in the standards department?
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The GPL v3 is specifically targetting the power of the corporation to retain its own product. I can respect the ideological war that the FSF seems to want to pick with the rest of the world, and they aren't entirely wrong, but surely you can see why most corporations, especially for a language level product, would want to craft their own open source license instead of using a license which is progressively making more audacious legal claims... ones that will likely not hold up in court.
You know, I'm wondering why Timmy felt this should be placed under "BSD" simply because their mailservers are run on BSD...
I was a little bit more zealous with the second point, and I think it caused me to miss the main focus of the second point: Micrsoft went into the original XBox with a bad brand, the first thing many Japanese consumers buy on. And unfortunately for Microsoft, the XB1 all but destroyed what brand they did have.
It's important to point out though that from what I've heard, the few Japanese who did pick up the original XB enjoyed it, and highly recommended it.
I was going to mod you down, (-1, Troll), but I decided it would be more constructive, and more helpful to all the rest of slashdot, if I responded.
Your assertions are both simplistic and false. Japan has no real bias against American technology firms, nor American companies in general. The American concept of "pop culture" dictates a lot of what is popular in Japan, and the Japanese have no hate for American driven culture in the public sense.
Point and case: the iPod has been wildly successful in Japan, and is the number one selling MP3 player in Japan by a wide margin, despite the fact that Apple is VERY much an American company.
The problem for Microsoft is two-fold:
1. They don't understand the Japanese consumer. Japanese consumers are VERY different from American consumers. American consumers, more often than not, follow one of two basic buying templates: they buy based on hype, or they buy based on function. Japanese consumers, generally speaking, buy on these three principals, in this order: 1. Brand (has this company sold quality products in the past) 2. Form & Community (Will it look cool wearing it/Will I easily be able to use this with other people I know) 3. Function (Does it have all of the features I am looking for).
Microsoft fails all three counts drastically with the 360, which brings me to the second problem for Microsoft.
2. Microsoft faces a very negative connotation in Japan. Most Japanese people see Windows for what it is: a bulky, bloated, lazy piece of insecure code that isn't worth a fourth as much as Microsoft charges for it, and only survives because of strongarm techniques and an active monopoly.
The Japanese people resent this; nearly as much as the average slashdotter.
So the problem is not that American companies face negative connotations, it's that Microsoft does, and it doesn't help that Microsoft entered a field that where TWO other companies have all three important consumer points in Japan.
So next time you see that the Japanese consumer passed by a display of 30 X360's to buy a DS, don't tag it to racism. Just cry more noob.
Maybe in a presentation environment, but in a work environment Google has rediscovered a fundamental of employee moral:
The point at which you allow your employees the absolute most freedom while still maintaining enough control to keep the workplace's focus on the work is the point at which your employees will be most productive, because at that point, not only do they feel most productive, but they also feel more like a person, not a tool.
Too late, already done.
Toche.
Numbers.... of what? Only, what, 46-47% of the country is even white, let alone "White Christian Male".
*cough cough*Libertarians*cough cough*
How can they suggest those numbers for the PS3 when the PS2 sold over 100 million in jsuta botu five years?
Yes, but primarily because the barrier to duplicate things made it more desirable to create your own things and thus improve upon them in some way, or at the very least improve upon the process.
That barrier does not exist in our current society for many things. As I said in response to another commenter, this assumes that all art is considered to not be a commodity... or that is, is universally available.
Yes, but only so long as all forms of art are not considered a commodity... or that is they are universally available to everyone, which is not the case.
The EU need only abolish copyrights, and the problem shall be quickly solved.
That's like saying "you can get rid of your athlete's foot by amputating your leg... then the problem shall be quickly solved".
The concept of copyrights are almost inherent to culture itself. That no one can copy, verbatim, something you made and claim it their own is fundamental to many freedoms we have. I'm Libertarian, not stupid.
If you really want to take the position that PERL is in every way superior to PHP, I challenge you to use nothing but PERL driven web apps. They are painful, slow, and prone to their own set of problems. PERL is much more powerful for serverside tasks which require access to things outside of user data and databases, but PHP has it's purposes, and it serves them moderately well.
I'll have a Blu-ray by proxy, as I'll pick up a PS3.
Here's a cookie for taking it FAR too seriously. Like I said, just playing devil's advocate and providing a differing opinion. I think that there is a profound moral difference between laws which strip someone of equal status as a person, and laws which prevent someone from doing something with a product they've purchased, (or in this case often not purchased). Unfortunately, your knee jerked too hard for you to comprehend my point: that dismissing the whole idea of downloading as an ideological slap to a system which screws customers simply because that also fits an abstract concept of stealing is rather stupid.
If there really is nothing which stealing an album will do to promote change, then I'm sure we'll have many people facing hard decisions soon about whether or not to pay their blackmailer or chance some jailtime. Me? I'm quite happy paying for what little music I listen to, and having all of my movie mailed to me.
When a studio and label charge an inexorbinate amount of money for a product which they create an artificial need for by maliciously preventing alternatives from existing or thriving, and then pass next to none of that on to the people who actually created the art, I'd say there's definately room for change. But it will happen, if it's going to, without my help.
How do you even know that I'm white? Or that I'm young? You can call me whatever you want. Fine, I'm a "fucking spoiled brat". At least I'm a "fucking spoiled brat" that understands the concept of "alternative points of view".
It's just human nature that we tend to dig for excuses to justify our actions so we can avoid the feelings of guilt typically associated with them...
Just play devil's advocate here, but how is this different then riding at the front of the bus? Both are done endangering one self, both result in personal gain, both are done through ideologies of corrupt or broken systems, both are (were) equally illegal, and both have their martyrs and their advocates. Just as riding at the front of the bus "disserviced" the people who "rightfully owned" that location, downloading a song "disservices" the artist which "rightfully owns" all uses of that IP. Both situations masked the truth that it was the corrupt system that was screwing people over, not the people being disserviced, nor the people who were disservicing them.
It's easy to point at someone who is stealing something and simply say "cry more n00b". Easy to tell them that they don't have a right to those ideals. But you are in fact wrong. They do have a right to those ideals, and to "fight" the perceived corruption through peaceable disobedience, whether or not that disobedience results in personal gain. They then also have the right to pay for their actions and be held responsible for a disruption of public law. It's the way it's worked for over 200 years in this country, and it's worked well at destroying corrupt systems and granting inherent rights.
If there is indeed an inherent right to do what you want with things you own, then the "pirates" will win. It's the way our society is made right now, and they will do so no matter what names you call them or whether or not you think they are petty thugs committing crimes.
I've designed and studied keyboards over the years
Forgive me, but I believe that's a -5 to ePeen.
For I also note that the American quotient of said forum is quite low, instead being comprised mainly of Europeans and people from the Asia-Pacific region.
Are you claiming that Linux users are arrogant and at the same time claiming that Europeons are better than Americans?
The irony... it burns.
Really?
Look SMB is a MS proprietary protocol. It's a miracle that you are even allowed to write to the share in the first place. MS has been doing it's best to sabotage the samba people for years.
Package installation is not one of Fedora's strengths, and never has been.
What you say is true--there is serious work to do to get business productivity applications fairly close to the integrated polish of MS Office.
Just as a random remark, but this week I got an error message from OpenOffice as well, that it couldn't create a backup file. Turns out that I had to create the directory that holds them by hand. The directory is buried somewhere in OOo's hidden directory in your home dir, by default, the exact path is somewhere in the preferences screens. It didn't create the directory by itself. So possibly SMB was not related to your problem at all.
Sounds to me like they were just answering his questions, but then again, Linux itself is slowly becomeing "the man", so keep on fighting I guess.
I'll be waiting for 4.1... the version without bugs.
Thank you. That's about the most on topic, helpful reply I've ever received on /.
How's he supposed to do that? They all speak French?
Eh? But wouldn't it be more difficult to deal with the silicon in three dimensions? I'm not an engineer, but I imagine that the wafers are much easiers to use, (especially with my understanding of how they create transistors using semi-conductors).
Is the IP protocol really worth that many patents?
Not to worry. Soon we will move to IPv6 and then their thousands of patents will be useless... much like moving up a version of AOL will simply make your internets slower and less reliable.
I have one question for the IE team, if you ever care to ask: why is a 6+ year old bug with margin's on CSS floats still not fixed in IE 7?
Making IE secure as part of the OS is difficult, I'll grant that, but not impossible. Keeping IE up to date with other, more innovative and more nimble companies and foundations is difficult, but not impossible.
But for the one thing IE is really EXPECTED to do, render HTML, it does it sporadically, unreliably and dismally. I've been doing web development for over ten years now... why can IE just not seem to function in the standards department?
Anyways, that's just my short rant.