Posts by Kris

'Fuzzy' royalties policies challenge Microsoft's open API pledge

@ Glen

Individuals don't license the same way that corporations do. If you were a developer and you were purchasing a license for the codecs to be used in your software for re-licensing to your customers when your software is purchased/licensed, then it would cost you $1m or more (I bet MS got a deal for bulk licensing). As a consumer rather than a producer you would have a completely different type of license that would only allow you to make content or view content with the codecs, not give the codecs to other people, and it would be considerablly less maybe a few hundred or less for all of them.

BitTorrenters seek sanctuary in Pirate Bay

@ Andy Barber

So just because the EU made a stupid law means that it suddenly apply to the whole world? Thats like saying that Austrailians should be thrown in jail because in some obsure law in the UK that says you _must_ perform at least two hours of longbow training a week, in front of a clergyman, and we all know that none of us on here have done that...

http://www.dumblaws.com/law/1046

A law ONLY applies to the area that makes it. As such the most that they could do is make it so that the EU routers cannot transmit traffic to the servers, or change the laws in Sweden so that they have to move somewhere else.

Opera hits Microsoft with EC complaint

@Duncan Hothersall

'Best' is an opinion, and is going to vary according to the individual. There is no way to make the 'Best' software for everybody, which is why NOBODY is trying to do that. They make the 'Best' software for the majority of the people, which in this case are casual users that don't care about what software they are using as long as it allows them to do what they want to do, which usually isn't very much.

Steven is correct with how this is happening, the standard bodies take too long to agree on any one standard until well after it's in use, or in some cases isn't used anymore at all... IEEE is horrible at agreeing on any one networking standard and can took YEARS to agree on the standard, take 802.11n which took 4 years to be published... Software standards are the same way, even W3C's XML standard took more than two years from the first draft came out before the 1.0 standard was approved... does that mean nobody should have used XML until it was a standard?

Also just because a standard exists doesn't mean the company's cannot do more than the standard... next some of you will start complaining about Intel and AMD both using different multimedia extensions...

Project over-runs make US IT workers scared for their jobs

Documentation

I like how in house applications that run over suddenly 'loose' all sense of documentation... Help file *gone*... how to use the application *gone*... setup instructions *gone*... helpful comments in code *gone*...

And I'm seriously tired of comments that look like "Doug said that this is the way to do it because of the error, hope it works." Doug?? error?? wt* are they talking about?!?