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Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'

Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'It is not quite so black and whiteI believe in Capitalism, but it is in the interest of companies not to abuse their employees, and to try and provide a good environment for them. This does not mean providing foreign aid, but just...

Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, capitalism, creative capitalism, Charity Comes

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

On 'creative capitalism,' Gates gets it

On 'creative capitalism,' Gates gets itDon't aim this at corp's., stockholders arethe ones you have to convince. All they most care about is the value of their stock. For management to take on this type of social workings they would get fired.So Gates"It's gung-ho, rather than hairshirt, philanthropy."Gates talk,...

Tags: capitalism, creative capitalism, Ferrari

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

Additional Resources

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)

Not a big surpriseThe EC is a protectionist tool extorting technology and money from the creative genius of the US and other countries outside the EU. If you are successful, you are a target.RE: EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)Well that says it...

Tags: Intel Chip, Intel Corp., page decision, PR War, public relations

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Is Apple pricing itself out of education?

Is Apple pricing itself out of education?Apple is destinedto remain a niche 'elite' market player.o Their O/S is proprietary, o Their iPOD is proprietary,o Their iPhone is proprietary,o Their Mac is proprietary,o Their Hardware is proprietary and locked to their O/S.Apple has essentially 'locked' itself into a limited market for...

Tags: Desktops, pricing strategy, Apple Inc., education, Microsoft Windows NT, Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

The future of copyright: an 'undiscovered country'

In a speech at Sandra Day O'Connor's Conference on the State of the Judiciary, Alan Greenspan held forth on the importance of capitalism and property rights in the context of the financial meltdown. While many have argued that Greenspan himself bears substantial blame for the meltdown because of his support...

Tags: Property, Alan Greenspan, Marxism, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-18

Is open source anti-American?

Is open source anti-American?Who thinks up this stuff???NTJust because there's a profound, global, anti-American sentiment,doesn't mean Open Source is anti-American--unless you consider it anti-American for other countries to look for ways to avoid paying for, and using, American IP. There are lots of people who use Open Source alternatives...

Tags: anti-American, American Business, Is open source anti-American, open source, IS open source

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

More and more the earth has less and less

More and more the earth has less and lessMaybe, maybe not...I know it's fashionable to be a global warming alarmist, but the climate trends are making it harder and harder to stay the "politically correct" course. Antarctic sea ice has actually been growing over the last two decades (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/antarctic_020822.html) We...

Tags: global warming, wealth redistribution

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

Google's antitrust throwdown

Google's antitrust throwdownWell...I too am unconvinced that this takeover thing is good in any sense. Personally, I think where anti-trust is going to come in is not over search, but over the portal, IM and webmail dominance it'd give Microsoft. Mind you that presumes that the userbase for these services...

Tags: Web browsers, Corporate law, INTERNET, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Interesting JC, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

Imagine having just one power supply for all your portable gadgets

Imagine having just one power supply for all your portable gadgetsWay overdueWe in the rock and roll touring biz have something like this already. It a Boss PSA 9v standard jack that manufacturers of effects pedals either adopt or die. Products that don't have this jack almost always...

Tags: USB specification, power supply, USB, portable gadget

Discussion threads 2008-01-28

Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?

In a speech before the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week, mega-billionaire Bill Gates is calling for a “creative capitalism” in which businesses build and target products for poorer nations. Question for Bill: Like Linux and open source software, which has been widely embraced by...

Tags: GPL, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-01-24

i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon

i-Snake, a new robotic surgeonWhy did this come out of Europe?From the way we in the US talk, one would think that all innovations are the result of free market capitalism. So how is it that an innovation that may result in improved surgery is coming from the EU...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, i-Snake, innovation

Discussion threads 2007-12-31

Oregon AG office to RIAA: 10 things we want to know how you find file-sharing students

Oregon AG office to RIAA: 10 things we want to know how you find file-sharing studentsOregon AG: Oregon follows "FOX law" - Fair and BalancedIt took the RIAA's attorneys a couple years to ramp up their approach and processes to winning cases of illegal music sharing. Now, it seems, they...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), file-sharing, Now IT, RIAA, Oregon AG

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

U.S. pushes WTO piracy case against China

U.S. pushes WTO piracy case against ChinaHow about this...If the Bush administration made companies pay more for the goods that they produce in China.... then maybe they wouldn't have to pirate American movies because they might actually be able to afford them. When things get too expensive then people pirate...

Tags: Free trade, World Trade Organization

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Hollywood hates pirates, but can it use them?

Hollywood hates pirates, but can it use them?He's pathetic...Why waste your time with him... Obviously they are either not very intelligent... or they are just another broom-closet movie/music industry clown on a crusade to save the world! The clown sits at his computer all day responding to each of...

Tags: clown, movie, piracy

Discussion threads 2007-07-03

U.S. healthcare industry: Google wants to protect you from Michael Moore's Sicko

U.S. healthcare industry: Google wants to protect you from Michael Moore's SickoGoogle wants to protect us from Michael Moore's Sicko?Google?The same Google that [url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=604]was found to be the worst for protecting our privacy?[/url]The same Google that [url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=596]has security holes in their services?[/url]The same Google that [url=http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3248]was in DC recently sizing...

Tags: Google Inc., health care, Michael Moore, Mikey

Discussion threads 2007-06-30

Supreme Court weighs 'obviousness' of patents

Supreme Court weighs 'obviousness' of patentsThis might help, but patents will still stifle inovation.The best thing we could do is through copyright and trade secret.So will this effect McDonaldsWith there patent on making the sandwich, and Microsoft on the double click mouse which was just passed last year, or the...

Tags: patent, obviousness

Discussion threads 2006-11-28

The Economics of Cross Platform

The Economics of Cross PlatformDepends on what you're doingLot's of companies including the one that employs me develop for UNIX, of which Linux is really just another flavor MacOS X is another. Of course, the downside to the single-platform strategy promoted by MS for the last 15 years or...

Tags: Web browsers, UNIX, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2006-07-26

What is neutral about 'Net Neutrality'?

What is neutral about 'Net Neutrality'?ZDNet vs. Professional Reporting;-)Emotion, bias, and irrational of net neutralityNaturally, the fight about net neutrality is not the same as the fight in Congress about estate tax, and yet both issues demonstrate the folly of emotional arguments and propagandist framing of terms such as 'net...

Tags: NETWORKING, Lord, Net Neutrality, network, Schumpeterian, old economy, worker

Discussion threads 2006-06-08

Google spreadsheet moves it further away from search

Google spreadsheet moves it further away from searchit's all about search....This doesn't move google farther away from search, it's all very much related to search. Google is constantly looking for more content to index. Mail, word processing, excel, personals, classifieds are all mainstream content creation tools that satisfy...

Tags: StarOffice, PRODUCTIVITY, OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, spreadsheet, C/NET, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-06-05