Posts by Tom 279 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2007
It seems the RIAA and MPAA have actually worked out they are merely parasites in the entertainment industry and are struggling to find a way to be useful. Hence the litigation 'on behalf of the creative artists'.
All sing in a squeeky voice:
'Your history, no good to me!'
But only so as no-one else can here as this would be transmission and you could be sued by some industry parasite!
Its not just the fact that you can only use a Microsoft car on the road.
The road seems to be built to move money from government coffers to companies and not provide services.
Get paid buckets to write bad software and then get paid to nearly fix it.
Makes dole scroungers look like productive angels.
How do these companies get the contracts and fail again and again?
No one can be that incomptent - it must be corruption at the highest level.
If RedHat have your code sue them. You can read the code very easily - if you had any decent programmers you could examine every line in RH and show RH where they violate your IP and then they would say 'oh sorry' and cough up not tell you to take a hike.
Conclusions
a) Balmer is lying through his teeth about IP violations.
b) and/or his company doesnt know how to write/plagiarise/run even simple software any more and has destroyed any company that might be willing to help.
"Laissez-faire, unlike the free market, is an ideology that doesn't work"
No-ones ever tried the free market. Because it wont work either - everything would eventually belong to one entity.
Monopolies commissions sometimes manage to stop its worst excesses.
The most successful economic policy so far is the one that pretends theres a free market and equality of opportunity so the proles will work hard for someone elses profit.
But dont tell everyone otherwise it wont work...
Microsoft will never come out face to face with Linux/GNU -too much to lose. They sponsored SCO and have lost.
They may have sponsored this lot.
You have to ask yourself why a teeny weeny startup wants to go to court when for the price of an hours litigation it can make its code available to everyone.
Or are they really fighting for their principles? i.e. the right for companies to effectively steal other peoples work, work they gladly gave away in the first place.
Basically people will send more and more rubbish until the bandwith is taken up and then upgrade again.
Many years ago we could download several hundred text orders down a 14.4 modem in an hour.
Now we get a few hundred bloated word documents that cannot be automatically parsed....Less orders higher cost of processing.
Also remember a picture may be worth a thousand words.
Shame it tends to take up several megs.....
Perhaps lots of optical coatings would provide some defence to your attack.
Will we now get stealth shells. If they cant detect them they cant hit them - and at least they'd be small enough to avoid being detected by shortwave radar like stealth bombers.
There really is no such thing as progress in war. Lots more money for companies tho!
The DRM will only make it a pain for the 'lawabiding' and ignorant.
I can now buy a hard drive and a tv card for my pc for less than the price of a M$ install that will allow me to record everything I might like to watch on the BBC for a year - that way I will be able to watch things I've paid for when I want - and in higher quality than the MeMeMePlayer will offer.
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