The rights problems will have to be worked out (note that the announcement only covers the materials that te BBC has total rights to publish.)
Over the past couple of years, all new contracts for radio work have included explicit agreements for Internet distribution. The Beebs internet radio services are being heavily promoted in the UK.
if usenet was supposed to be friendly it would have been designed that way:-)
Seriously, usenet is supposed to be distributed and resiliant to poor communications and have no choke points that would slow operation. All of the MS ideas would seem to introduce complication, choke points and remove much of the resiliance.
I cannot believe that any campus would want to get involved in enforcing RIAA licensing requirements. It would be a nightmare just attempting to distinquish between music that was to be restricted and that which was free to copy; never mind deciding exactly who on campus was covered and who wasn't.
A paranoid person would think that the RIAA was just attempting to set up one large, rich target rather than suing each and every moneyless student independently.
how long before SCOs _existing_ customers with support contracts start to consult their lawyers? Driving the company into the ground and invalidating those existing contracts is something the customers must worry about.
I wonder how much business SCO will do this quarter? They might be lucky and pick up a nickle from the sidewalk:-)
There's a billion PCs out there right now without h/w DRM. In the next few years there will be another billion sold without h/w DRM. These machines are not going to disappear overnight.
So who can afford to limit their market place to the very small number of PCs that have DRM?
Eventually MS will turn on AOL and kill it. When your business depends so much on a product produced by a rival you don't cosy up to the rival, you work as hard as possible to become independent.
MS can't touch anything computer related because tada! instant anti-trust case. They can't just buy into another industry without tada! instant anti-trust case (using monopoly profits to buy into an industry isn't allowed.)
Leave it in the bank? No way. Should the share price drop too far having a huge wad of money in the bank allows a hostile, leveraged buyout to be attempted. In addition share holders will start complaining that the money isn't being used to best advantage.
Looks like a dividend is the only option.
Unfortunately MS is going to face the same problem next year. They are too big for the market:-)
By talking about Linux at all he is ensuring that there will be secondary articles appearing all over the world mentioning him and Linux in the same paragraph.
Perhaps he's been using the same PR company as SCO:-)
Sorry, SCO as owner of the copyrights has a special responcibility to protect their IP. They can't expect others to do so. If they really are claiming that large parts of Linux are direct cut-n-paste copies of Unix, they are also admitting they were negligent over a period of years in selling material that was a work-a-like clone of Unix without checking the code.
If they really have a mod-less hack to allow unsigned code to boot on the xbox the correct thing to do is release it.
There is no way MS will allow Linux or any other OS to boot on xbox as that effectively makes the system open and then MS wouldn't make any money selling certificates.
Besides, MS will now play the terrorist card and you _know_ how well that plays in Washington.
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The rights problems will have to be worked out (note that the announcement only covers the materials that te BBC has total rights to publish.)
:-)
Over the past couple of years, all new contracts for radio work have included explicit agreements for Internet distribution. The Beebs internet radio services are being heavily promoted in the UK.
The real problem is the use of Real formats
After this a lot of sites will just start blocking all external email including any attachment.
Many will start blocking MIME encoded emails.
It's a lot simpler than dealing with each new email problem as it arises.
As lie detector evidence is inadmissable in UK courts, what is the point?
Sounds like a scam to scare people rather than a real policy to reduce fraud.
...water discovered to be wet ...fire is hot ...drinking at work breaks down barriers
if usenet was supposed to be friendly it would have been designed that way :-)
Seriously, usenet is supposed to be distributed and resiliant to poor communications and have no choke points that would slow operation. All of the MS ideas would seem to introduce complication, choke points and remove much of the resiliance.
Hey Microsoft, what did you innovate today?
I cannot believe that any campus would want to get involved in enforcing RIAA licensing requirements. It would be a nightmare just attempting to distinquish between music that was to be restricted and that which was free to copy; never mind deciding exactly who on campus was covered and who wasn't.
A paranoid person would think that the RIAA was just attempting to set up one large, rich target rather than suing each and every moneyless student independently.
how long before SCOs _existing_ customers with support contracts start to consult their lawyers? Driving the company into the ground and invalidating those existing contracts is something the customers must worry about.
:-)
I wonder how much business SCO will do this quarter? They might be lucky and pick up a nickle from the sidewalk
If your pub is so bad that it needs such a device, change pubs.
There's a billion PCs out there right now without h/w DRM. In the next few years there will be another billion sold without h/w DRM. These machines are not going to disappear overnight.
So who can afford to limit their market place to the
very small number of PCs that have DRM?
No well run company would get into a situation where they have $40B in the bank.
Eventually MS will turn on AOL and kill it. When your business depends so much on a product produced by a rival you don't cosy up to the rival, you work as hard as possible to become independent.
Why do you think EBAY bought PayPal?
If windows is REQUIRED, what about blind voters?
You can't require a voting method that cannot be used by disabled voters.
Browsers are good because they provide a reasonably useful least common denominator.
Browsers are bad for the same reason.
Most web based apps are about as user friendly as an IBM 3270 block mode terminal of the 1970s.
We should be doing better. We have the tools and can always rely on Microsoft to show us the route to avoid.
...into the back of a business jet may not work, but stuffing rockets into the back of a surplus Concorde might...
18K factory reconditioned VAIOs will shortly come onto the market :-)
The sad thing is, we are getting a future based on StarTrek when we should be getting a future based on The Jetsons.
All that money and _nothing_ to buy :-)
:-)
MS can't touch anything computer related because tada! instant anti-trust case. They can't just buy into another industry without tada! instant anti-trust case (using monopoly profits to buy into an industry isn't allowed.)
Leave it in the bank? No way. Should the share price drop too far having a huge wad of money in the bank allows a hostile, leveraged buyout to be attempted. In addition share holders will start complaining that the money isn't being used to best advantage.
Looks like a dividend is the only option.
Unfortunately MS is going to face the same problem next year. They are too big for the market
What on earth is Bill doing anyway?
:-)
By talking about Linux at all he is ensuring that there will be secondary articles appearing all over the world mentioning him and Linux in the same paragraph.
Perhaps he's been using the same PR company as SCO
Sorry, SCO as owner of the copyrights has a special responcibility to protect their IP. They can't expect others to do so. If they really are claiming that large parts of Linux are direct cut-n-paste copies of Unix, they are also admitting they were negligent over a period of years in selling material that was a work-a-like clone of Unix without checking the code.
SCO lose.
If they really have a mod-less hack to allow unsigned code to boot on the xbox the correct thing to do is release it.
There is no way MS will allow Linux or any other OS to boot on xbox as that effectively makes the system open and then MS wouldn't make any money selling certificates.
Besides, MS will now play the terrorist card and you _know_ how well that plays in Washington.
...but he might well run the shop where big brother bought his equipment.
...$471M is an awful lot of money for a few CDs.
Perhaps someone should ask their congress-critter to find out if this contact went to public tender and if not, why not?
Accountable? Have you read the EULA?
The lawyers will make vast amounts of money.
But it will have no effect what so ever on sharing.
OTOH, I can imagine that the media companies have been told to either protect their copyrights or risk having material pass into the public domain.
This could be an indication of the weakness of the RIAA rather than an action taken from strength.
Within 6 months (if not sooner) you will be able to buy a cellphone with wifi -- it's mostly a software upgrade anyway with the modern chips.
Now that's a product will cause some interesting shifts in the market.