I spent over 20years in the grocery business. It is common practice to check the prices of your competitors. You walk into there store and check a few key prices and then put up comparisons in your own store.
Consumer advocates do the same thing in "real-world walk-in" retail establishments. They walk in and explore the *public* areas of the store. COULD the owners kick these people out? sure they could. In fact I was asked to leave one day while checking prices. Kinda stupid thing to do though don't ya think...
A retail outlet allows public access. it's the nature of the business. I'm sure it would be difficult for Safeway or Alertsons, etc to go to court and make a case for suing the competitors for trespass when they allow access to the general public.
IMHO when you put up an e-commerce site, you're opening up a retail outlet with a public area for shopping. The reason e-commerce is whinning is because it's just simply easier and more efficient to compare prices with a computer. I say boo-hoo, and please don't clog the courts with this kind of BS.
first of all I'll get out of the way that yes, I am a capitalist Bas----. I love the freedom to make money in any ethical/legal means I want. Now to my point. Your employer is in business for one reason. to make money. The DOD is another subject). Your employer should have the right to run his business as he see's fit. those computers and the email system are NOT public entities and are not, and SHOULD not be subject to the same restrictions as the US postal service. Apples and oranges. If you find your employer is spying on you, don't do anything against company policy, and start polishing your resume. It's his business. if you don't like the way he runs it, get out.
Uh, excuse me, um, no disrespect intended, but I'm a 4 month Linux newbie, and I've read through a large number of How-To's, and other docs. the questions you're getting are not the result of us being lazy or inept. It's the result of unclear and VERY VAGUE instructions. don't get me wrong, I'm appreciative of the free info, but the fact is, most of the stuff is real vague. What I think is really needed is a document(s) that shows Windows/M$-DOS veterans how to accomplish a similar task in Linux/Unix. It should compare the windows-DOS process to the Linux/X process. I'm a 14-year DOS/Winders user folks, and making that transition is exponentially more difficult than if Linux/Unix had been the first thing I learned. My 2-cents
the first thing DOJ should have done was to define what an operating system is, and then define what an application is. When they went after M$ without this preparation, they indeed put the cart before the horse, and because of it, they made themselves look as techologically ignorant as they are. M$'s effective monopoly(ies) stem mainly from thier effective monopoly on the PC OS. If Winderz were to become open source like Linux, with an independent entity acting as the "Linus for Windows", the rest of the software industry could compete with them more effectively. How fast do you think IE would become totaly independent of the OS if M$ were required to open up the OS? I wonder how much IE would cost then... Uncle Bill would be backstepping so fast he'd run right into himself. I don't begrudge Bill his fortune. I'd like to amass that kind of money someday myself. However, we have anti-trust laws for a reason. It is time to find a way to let the rest of the country try to become billionairs in the software industry as well. Bill, you've had your day, you have your fortune and no one can take it away from you, now it's time to step down and let someone else have a shot at it.
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I spent over 20years in the grocery business. It is common practice to check the prices of your competitors. You walk into there store and check a few key prices and then put up comparisons in your own store.
Consumer advocates do the same thing in "real-world walk-in" retail establishments. They walk in and explore the *public* areas of the store. COULD the owners kick these people out? sure they could. In fact I was asked to leave one day while checking prices. Kinda stupid thing to do though don't ya think...
A retail outlet allows public access. it's the nature of the business. I'm sure it would be difficult for Safeway or Alertsons, etc to go to court and make a case for suing the competitors for trespass when they allow access to the general public.
IMHO when you put up an e-commerce site, you're opening up a retail outlet with a public area for shopping. The reason e-commerce is whinning is because it's just simply easier and more efficient to compare prices with a computer. I say boo-hoo, and please don't clog the courts with this kind of BS.
first of all I'll get out of the way that yes, I am a capitalist Bas----. I love the freedom to make money in any ethical/legal means I want. Now to my point. Your employer is in business for one reason. to make money. The DOD is another subject). Your employer should have the right to run his business as he see's fit. those computers and the email system are NOT public entities and are not, and SHOULD not be subject to the same restrictions as the US postal service. Apples and oranges. If you find your employer is spying on you, don't do anything against company policy, and start polishing your resume. It's his business. if you don't like the way he runs it, get out.
I glanced through this. Excellent! you're right, it is what I had in mind. If you're a Winders convert like myself, check it out!
Uh, excuse me, um, no disrespect intended, but I'm a 4 month Linux newbie, and I've read through a large number of How-To's, and other docs. the questions you're getting are not the result of us being lazy or inept. It's the result of unclear and VERY VAGUE instructions. don't get me wrong, I'm appreciative of the free info, but the fact is, most of the stuff is real vague. What I think is really needed is a document(s) that shows Windows/M$-DOS veterans how to accomplish a similar task in Linux/Unix. It should compare the windows-DOS process to the Linux/X process. I'm a 14-year DOS/Winders user folks, and making that transition is exponentially more difficult than if Linux/Unix had been the first thing I learned. My 2-cents
the first thing DOJ should have done was to define what an operating system is, and then define what an application is. When they went after M$ without this preparation, they indeed put the cart before the horse, and because of it, they made themselves look as techologically ignorant as they are. M$'s effective monopoly(ies) stem mainly from thier effective monopoly on the PC OS. If Winderz were to become open source like Linux, with an independent entity acting as the "Linus for Windows", the rest of the software industry could compete with them more effectively. How fast do you think IE would become totaly independent of the OS if M$ were required to open up the OS? I wonder how much IE would cost then... Uncle Bill would be backstepping so fast he'd run right into himself. I don't begrudge Bill his fortune. I'd like to amass that kind of money someday myself. However, we have anti-trust laws for a reason. It is time to find a way to let the rest of the country try to become billionairs in the software industry as well. Bill, you've had your day, you have your fortune and no one can take it away from you, now it's time to step down and let someone else have a shot at it.