I am a CEO. I wouldn't regard a potential employee negotiating over an employment contract as confrontational. Employee contracts are boiler-plate and lawyers always ask for the world (as they are trained to.) From my perspective the purpose of an employment contract is to smoke out potential conflicts of interest early on so we all know what is going on and there are no hard feelings down the road.
I recommend hiring a lawyer to review the contract and not worry about negotiating specific, detailed changes. I think that any employer who whines about such negotiation is an employer you are better off not working for...
If you are speaking of the United States, then it is going to be real hard to abolish patents, as they have been a fundamental basis of our law for well over 200 years. Abolishing them would be very, very messy, not elegant at all.
The US Constitution is an example of an elegant solution. It is concise, yet includes the specific legislative power to set up a patent office:
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
I am not a constitutional lawyer and don't know if it would require a constitutional admentment to outlaw patents. I am sure that the legislature could pass laws limiting what can be patented and the length of the patent...
I offer myself as a contradicting example. Daily I use OpenOffice in a business setting. I am CEO of a successful 100 employee company. On a daily basis I use Writer, the Presentation Manager and Calc. The only problem I have had is font differences between platforms: I use OO on FreeBSD on a Thinkpad and most of my employees use Microsoft Office on Dells. Some times when they prepare parts of a presentation and send them to me for integration, I find the differences in fonts create minor problems. I was thinking of asking them all to switch to OpenOffice, but there was some resistance.
I do admit to being a farmer in my off-hours. However, I wouldn't touch Linux if I could avoid it.... I also have already ordered a copy of Using StarOffice 6.0 in response to this review.
There is a company that has been running fiber in the core of the ground wire on top of high voltage transmission lines for a number of years,
it is NEON Communications (http://www.neoninc.com). In fact, one of our OC3s runs from Portland, ME to Boston, MA via this link, so the bits that make up this posting are probably transversing such a line.
I found the general tone of the article interesting, because it implies that the demi-clueless in the corporate world are starting to wake up from their long, bad dream.
However, I loved the part where he says that Linux is bound to take over BSD, because Linux had more "apps" for developing web pages.
Most of those apps are crap anyhow
"BSD for server. Linux for workstation." One creates the web pages behind the firewall on a Linux workstation, then the servers/databases run on BSD.
By the same logic, Windows would win out because it has superior numbers of apps.
Finally, in defense of the author, the article was written before the BSDI/Walnut Creek merger. The landscape looks considerable different now:)
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I am a CEO. I wouldn't regard a potential employee negotiating over an employment contract as confrontational. Employee contracts are boiler-plate and lawyers always ask for the world (as they are trained to.) From my perspective the purpose of an employment contract is to smoke out potential conflicts of interest early on so we all know what is going on and there are no hard feelings down the road.
I recommend hiring a lawyer to review the contract and not worry about negotiating specific, detailed changes. I think that any employer who whines about such negotiation is an employer you are better off not working for...
If you are speaking of the United States, then it is going to be real hard to abolish patents, as they have been a fundamental basis of our law
for well over 200 years. Abolishing them would be very, very messy, not elegant at all.
The US Constitution is an example of an elegant solution. It is concise, yet includes the specific legislative power to set up a patent office:
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
I am not a constitutional lawyer and don't know if it would require a constitutional admentment to outlaw patents. I am sure that the legislature could pass laws limiting what can be patented and the length of the patent...
Hi;
I offer myself as a contradicting example. Daily I use OpenOffice in a business setting. I am CEO of a successful 100 employee company. On a daily basis I use Writer, the Presentation Manager and Calc. The only problem I have had is font differences between platforms: I use OO on FreeBSD on a Thinkpad and most of my employees use Microsoft Office on Dells. Some times when they prepare parts of a presentation and send them to me for integration, I find the differences in fonts create minor problems. I was thinking of asking them all to switch to OpenOffice, but there was some resistance.
I do admit to being a farmer in my off-hours. However, I wouldn't touch Linux if I could avoid it.... I also have already ordered a copy of Using StarOffice 6.0 in response to this review.
thanks,
fletcher kittredge
There is a company that has been running fiber in the core of the ground wire on top of high voltage transmission lines for a number of years, it is NEON Communications (http://www.neoninc.com). In fact, one of our OC3s runs from Portland, ME to Boston, MA via this link, so the bits that make up this posting are probably transversing such a line.
However, I loved the part where he says that Linux is bound to take over BSD, because Linux had more "apps" for developing web pages.
Finally, in defense of the author, the article was written before the BSDI/Walnut Creek merger. The landscape looks considerable different now :)