"I did something unique, and I want to be rewarded for it". --Note when you have an incorportion that exists outside of time how long is a limited duration, what 50 years, 75, or has AOL/TimeWarner/Disney pushed it to 100 Years?
I'd like to remind you the initial idea of a patent was to allow ideas to become public domain, now it's a legal means to protect your assets.
Oh how Jefferson must be turning!
I say they probe the female's dataports....see what they can derive.
Fist off, women in the IT department, where is this company and how do I sign up?
Secondly, meh, big deal male nurses deal with this all the time, as do female police officers, military personell and any other male dominated industry.
As long as your all sick and twisted people, your IT department will run very smoothly.
Hooo Damn,
Soon we will have resarchers in China reverse engeninnering the "Speical Bubble-Fusion" and it will be called the woo instead of the wi. Then the Resarch team will admit to the plagerized content of woo, and be branded national heros, or was that the other way around, wait didn't that have somthing to do with silicon, or a processor or somthing?
Well, I can understand Theo's point, all of this software is given away for free and bam! The popularity and marketing contests are won hands down.
As to that Thread, well he's a programmer not a marketing guru. Everyone here maintains some aspects of the stereotypes that programmers have social issues involving thier ego's espically infamous ones.
Personally I beleive Checkpoint, Nokia, Apple, Red-Hat and any organization which sustains a profit from OpenSSH should contribute, I'm not about to dictate corporate morales; as they generally don't exist and I don't like carrying a shovel with me. However since OpenSSH/SSL is such an integrated part of the net, it would be unwise to loose such an important part of your own business models foundation.
Myself as a consultant whenver I sell an OpenBSD based firewall (which is what I love using it for) I purchase some CD's for my clients and bill them for it, my clients understand that yes the liscence is free but selling the media is how they make a profit.
It's a small gesture but if everyone did it then there wouldn't be any issues now would there?
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"I did something unique, and I want to be rewarded for it". --Note when you have an incorportion that exists outside of time how long is a limited duration, what 50 years, 75, or has AOL/TimeWarner/Disney pushed it to 100 Years? I'd like to remind you the initial idea of a patent was to allow ideas to become public domain, now it's a legal means to protect your assets. Oh how Jefferson must be turning!
I say they probe the female's dataports....see what they can derive. Fist off, women in the IT department, where is this company and how do I sign up? Secondly, meh, big deal male nurses deal with this all the time, as do female police officers, military personell and any other male dominated industry. As long as your all sick and twisted people, your IT department will run very smoothly.
Hooo Damn, Soon we will have resarchers in China reverse engeninnering the "Speical Bubble-Fusion" and it will be called the woo instead of the wi. Then the Resarch team will admit to the plagerized content of woo, and be branded national heros, or was that the other way around, wait didn't that have somthing to do with silicon, or a processor or somthing?
Well, I can understand Theo's point, all of this software is given away for free and bam! The popularity and marketing contests are won hands down. As to that Thread, well he's a programmer not a marketing guru. Everyone here maintains some aspects of the stereotypes that programmers have social issues involving thier ego's espically infamous ones. Personally I beleive Checkpoint, Nokia, Apple, Red-Hat and any organization which sustains a profit from OpenSSH should contribute, I'm not about to dictate corporate morales; as they generally don't exist and I don't like carrying a shovel with me. However since OpenSSH/SSL is such an integrated part of the net, it would be unwise to loose such an important part of your own business models foundation. Myself as a consultant whenver I sell an OpenBSD based firewall (which is what I love using it for) I purchase some CD's for my clients and bill them for it, my clients understand that yes the liscence is free but selling the media is how they make a profit. It's a small gesture but if everyone did it then there wouldn't be any issues now would there?