Never mind the big shots. I estimate I have put about 100 hours this year into development, distribution, promotion, and documentation of open source software for optimization (coin-or.org), which benefits me directly. Multiply that by 60 (we have thousands of downloads) and there's your 3 man years (6000 hours). That arithmetic doesn't even count people whose primary job really is to support one of our packages so that IBM or SAS can use it to support their customers. One more thing: I have submitted many detailed bug reports this year. Openoffice, htlatex, lyx, etc. Not a single bug report for commercial software. BTW, does anyone even know on which Deep Blue the bugzilla for Windows Vista runs?
Right. I should also complain to Ferrari that my car goes over 55 Mph. While the analogy is not perfect, the point is that when a company chooses to create a product that explicitly removes my freedom to do something that has already been determined to be legal, and which I could easily do with lesser technology, then that product is defective.
Did I mention that this is monopolistic behavior and that is why MS does it while the other companies providing DVR service don't do it?
The right question is: Are people currently discouraged from publishing music or building businisses around music distribution because copyrights are too short?
If so, extend copyrights. If not, don't extend them, or even shorten them (good luck with that).
But don't extend copyrights every time Mickey Mouse is about to go in the public domain like we've done in the USA!! That is just using the government to stifle creativity.
Actually two corrections to your comment are in order. Both are the results of what republicans say and people repeat allthough they are factually false:
1) republicans say that democrats use class politics, but in fact democrats haven't done so in decades. Questioning this administration's tax policies, or its response to Katrina, is not stirring class or race resentment.
2) republicans claim to be the party of "conservative fiscal policy", but they stopped being that party with Eisenhower.
This image, compiled with government data, illustrates the fact that every republican administration since Nixon substantially increased the deficit, while democratic administrations substantially reduced it or left it unchanged.
I just went on MSN Search and typed in: "operating system". Results:
1. BSD Unix
2. Linux
3. OS/X
4. GNU Hurd
5. VMWare
6. P-system
7. Symbian
8. Windows
NOT! Maybe that is why Google is #1?
I still use and love my datalink. My current one is #3. I bought #2 the day of the best Superbowl I can remember http://www.superbowl.com/history/recaps/game/sbxxx iv. The little things are so precise they crap out pretty much exactly after 5 years. I hope I can still get somethings similar in 2010...
It seems pretty clear to me that congress (thus we, the people) doesn't really care anymore about having a policy of IP that promots innovation. At least we don't care about it as much as we care about other things. That is the real reason why the USPTO is so severely and chronically underfunded.
We have decided that we'd rather let the MPAA, the large IT firms, and IP lawyers play wasteful and silly games with IP that stifle innovation than update and properly fund the system to do what it was designed to do: foment innovation.
When you look at the big picture, IP is just another fundamental piece of the American fabric woven by the Founding Fathers that is being torn apart by post-Nixon politics.
At least with these toys, there might be some justification for the price, unlike most golf equipment, where the $200 item is just as good as the $2000 item except in some people's heads (that matters a lot of course).
That is why (if I had the time) I would buy some track time on a new kart facility that opened nerby. Much cheaper, faster, and more fun than a Porsche or any other sports/luxury car. Plus it is a controlled environment: if I spin out it is unlikely I will die or kill anyone (or even spend much in repairs).
There is a strong argument that software has always been a service. It is seldomly resold, requires consistent maintenance, etc. The old model of charging a fixed fee up front for a license was just the result of cultural circumstance. Now companies are moving toward subscription-based licensing and services models, which might very well be more appropriate.
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But remember: unless you are running your own mail server *someone* is aggregating your life's communication. Google at least fought tooth and nail against big government's attempt to peek into their data.
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Never mind the big shots. I estimate I have put about 100 hours this year into development, distribution, promotion, and documentation of open source software for optimization (coin-or.org), which benefits me directly. Multiply that by 60 (we have thousands of downloads) and there's your 3 man years (6000 hours). That arithmetic doesn't even count people whose primary job really is to support one of our packages so that IBM or SAS can use it to support their customers. One more thing: I have submitted many detailed bug reports this year. Openoffice, htlatex, lyx, etc. Not a single bug report for commercial software. BTW, does anyone even know on which Deep Blue the bugzilla for Windows Vista runs?
Right. I should also complain to Ferrari that my car goes over 55 Mph. While the analogy is not perfect, the point is that when a company chooses to create a product that explicitly removes my freedom to do something that has already been determined to be legal, and which I could easily do with lesser technology, then that product is defective. Did I mention that this is monopolistic behavior and that is why MS does it while the other companies providing DVR service don't do it?
Is being conservative a disability?
The right question is: Are people currently discouraged from publishing music or building businisses around music distribution because copyrights are too short? If so, extend copyrights. If not, don't extend them, or even shorten them (good luck with that).
But don't extend copyrights every time Mickey Mouse is about to go in the public domain like we've done in the USA!! That is just using the government to stifle creativity.
1) republicans say that democrats use class politics, but in fact democrats haven't done so in decades. Questioning this administration's tax policies, or its response to Katrina, is not stirring class or race resentment.
2) republicans claim to be the party of "conservative fiscal policy", but they stopped being that party with Eisenhower. This image, compiled with government data, illustrates the fact that every republican administration since Nixon substantially increased the deficit, while democratic administrations substantially reduced it or left it unchanged.
Especially in Portuguese, where "levanta" means "get up"!
I just went on MSN Search and typed in: "operating system". Results: 1. BSD Unix 2. Linux 3. OS/X 4. GNU Hurd 5. VMWare 6. P-system 7. Symbian 8. Windows NOT! Maybe that is why Google is #1?
If Scoble is looking for something to keep him excited, I have the pefect recipe: be a Windows Evangelist on /.
I still use and love my datalink. My current one is #3. I bought #2 the day of the best Superbowl I can remember http://www.superbowl.com/history/recaps/game/sbxxx iv. The little things are so precise they crap out pretty much exactly after 5 years. I hope I can still get somethings similar in 2010...
It seems pretty clear to me that congress (thus we, the people) doesn't really care anymore about having a policy of IP that promots innovation. At least we don't care about it as much as we care about other things. That is the real reason why the USPTO is so severely and chronically underfunded. We have decided that we'd rather let the MPAA, the large IT firms, and IP lawyers play wasteful and silly games with IP that stifle innovation than update and properly fund the system to do what it was designed to do: foment innovation. When you look at the big picture, IP is just another fundamental piece of the American fabric woven by the Founding Fathers that is being torn apart by post-Nixon politics.
At least with these toys, there might be some justification for the price, unlike most golf equipment, where the $200 item is just as good as the $2000 item except in some people's heads (that matters a lot of course).
That is why (if I had the time) I would buy some track time on a new kart facility that opened nerby. Much cheaper, faster, and more fun than a Porsche or any other sports/luxury car. Plus it is a controlled environment: if I spin out it is unlikely I will die or kill anyone (or even spend much in repairs).
There is a strong argument that software has always been a service. It is seldomly resold, requires consistent maintenance, etc. The old model of charging a fixed fee up front for a license was just the result of cultural circumstance. Now companies are moving toward subscription-based licensing and services models, which might very well be more appropriate.
But remember: unless you are running your own mail server *someone* is aggregating your life's communication. Google at least fought tooth and nail against big government's attempt to peek into their data.