I agree with you completely. It's not very easy to run a newsgroup, and not very cheap: the amount of data one must store is ginormous, even if it's deleted after 2 or so weeks.
To be honest, I haven't learned to use USENET 'til 2 or so years ago; but I'm glad I did, and I'm glad that my ISP supports this many newsgroups.
Bad statistics always irk me.
Yet a recent survey by the Points North Group of 1,098 Internet users found that 28 percent said they wanted to watch regular television shows on their PC's or laptops, Mr. Storck said.
Yea, and in a recent phone interview, 100% of the participants have a phone line. I'd be much more interested in the number of television viewers who'd prefer to switch to watching shows on their computers if they could.
Think of it this way: if there were an easy way to make money, wouldn't you go for it? Granted, you'd have to step on a few toes, and piss a few people off; but as long as Software Patents are allowed, why shouldn't these companies make use of them?
I agree with you in that only now do I see how stupid software patents are in the first place. It's an interesting transition: the Open Source movement creates a global community and shifts the focus from the individual to the group, but then Software Patents come in and try to set the society back a couple of hundred years by encouraging individuals to remain selfish, and NOT share.
Didn't their mothers teach them to share?
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I agree with you completely. It's not very easy to run a newsgroup, and not very cheap: the amount of data one must store is ginormous, even if it's deleted after 2 or so weeks. To be honest, I haven't learned to use USENET 'til 2 or so years ago; but I'm glad I did, and I'm glad that my ISP supports this many newsgroups.
Bad statistics always irk me. Yet a recent survey by the Points North Group of 1,098 Internet users found that 28 percent said they wanted to watch regular television shows on their PC's or laptops, Mr. Storck said. Yea, and in a recent phone interview, 100% of the participants have a phone line. I'd be much more interested in the number of television viewers who'd prefer to switch to watching shows on their computers if they could.
Think of it this way: if there were an easy way to make money, wouldn't you go for it? Granted, you'd have to step on a few toes, and piss a few people off; but as long as Software Patents are allowed, why shouldn't these companies make use of them? I agree with you in that only now do I see how stupid software patents are in the first place. It's an interesting transition: the Open Source movement creates a global community and shifts the focus from the individual to the group, but then Software Patents come in and try to set the society back a couple of hundred years by encouraging individuals to remain selfish, and NOT share. Didn't their mothers teach them to share?
If you know "Glen", how come you misspelled his first name? :-)