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Three Licensing Strategies

Three Licensing Strategieslicensing?There is always value in code. Open or proprietary. If there was no value in the code, the code wouldnt exist. Just because some OSS companies arent using the licensing of code to make money does not mean that it has no value. The value comes from the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Theives, differene, Microsoft Corp., strategy, restrictive licence, software, Red Hat Inc., licence

Discussion threads 2005-06-08

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FBI warns 'electronic Pearl Harbor' possible

FBI warns 'electronic Pearl Harbor' possibleWake Up!Just when are the public and the goverment ever going to realize that there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO SECURITY when it comes to computers? It makes no sense for banks and any goverment agency to have their networks connected to the internet. How many more...

Tags: Federal government, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, Financial services, Pearl Harbor, FBI

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Guns n Roses leaker faces prison time

Guns n Roses leaker faces prison timeI think it should be a civil matter, myself......but if Congress made it a felony, then we can't blame the US Attorney if he takes prompt action. No sympathy for the leaker.BTW: I really didn't want or need to see the cover photo....

Tags: INTERNET, Peer to peer (P2P), leaker, Guns n Roses leaker, Guns n Rose, felony

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

RIAA site was hacked today: are the hackers right, or wrong?

RIAA site was hacked today: are the hackers right, or wrong?Unfortunately in this country USA Justice is for those...who can afford it. The following will not work without more money than the RIAA lobby is paying. "You lobby Congress for a change in the copyright law you find unjust."Lobby?Talk about...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, RIAA, hacker

Discussion threads 2008-01-21

Play the Sears privacy game (and get your neighbor's purchase history)

Play the Sears privacy game (and get your neighbor's purchase history)Well Kmart never scrimped on IT...They bought way more than they ever needed, the only scrimping I saw was on their new data center, with in 6 months they had to power down so the electric company could add...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecom & Utilities, Now IT, Sears Roebuck & Co., privacy game, purchase history

Discussion threads 2008-01-04

What is virtualization?

What is virtualization?substitute conceptLinguistic minority communities are a good image for virtualization.RE: What is virtualization?I typically explain it by focusing on the resource segmentation:3 things to bake. One oven. All the issues of temperature differences and time requirements. OrYou can segment it into 3 ovens, each operating independently. Handy, right?...

Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, virtualization, oven

Discussion threads 2007-12-26

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herdersI like that !!!Yes indeed...GOOD!!!!Let the Convicted CHOOSE CANING INSTEAD OF JAIL TIME.BUT NO PROBATION.quid pro quoonly if they cane the bastards at enron and other companies that cooked books and ruined lives as wellTrue, at least then they would be productive...Unlike the Linux script...

Tags: Federal government, FBI, herder, crackdown, punishment, Web

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

France set to cut Web access for music, film pirates

France set to cut Web access for music, film piratesThis is a Dark dayThe day where ISP play police and can now illegally cut your internet access. How much bribe from the music/movie industries to buy out the french goverment? Shame Shame...IPS are not cop and have no rights to...

Tags: Consumer electronics, motivation, Web, piracy, DVD, music, CD

Discussion threads 2007-11-23

Of iPods and digits

Of iPods and digitsI always keep in iPod in plain sightThat way, if I get mugged, the thief takes the useless iPod and leaves right away without finding my hidden Zune. The poor thief now has to deal with nightmares like [url=http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1255910&tstart=15] this. [/url]RE: Of iPods and digitsIt's Security Vs....

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, SECURITY, biometrics, iPODS

Discussion threads 2007-11-23

Microsoft-Novell: What a long, strange year it's been

Microsoft-Novell: What a long, strange year it's beenVERDICT: Microsoft's cynical patent FUD campaign is a DISMAL FAILURE.Let's be honest here. Microsoft doesn't want to "interoperate" with Linux. Microsoft wants to EMBRACE AND DESTROY Linux. Fortunately, as is often the case when Microsoft gives the "bear hug of death" and then...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, IT Consulting, Microsoft Corp., Linux Distro, Linux, Novell Inc., FUD, patent

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

Make+Cisco+%241+billion+and+win+a+job

Make+Cisco+%241+billion+and+win+a+jobAren't a lot of hotshots under 18?"Entrants must be at least 18 years of age"Aren't a lot of hotshots under 18? Sometimes that's the only time you can get them before others scoop them up.RE: Make Cisco $1 billion and win a jobWait a minute.... they 'might' put $10...

Tags: Investment, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-31

Software morality

Software moralitythat dependquote(Economics implies a kind of social compact, and you can’t just impose the necessary restrictions from the center, as totalitarianism isn’t usually conducive to vibrant economies.)but you could inforce morality and good manner by revoking the business permit by forcing tthe acquisition of one you could penalize...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, morality, Booch, technologist

Discussion threads 2007-10-16

Apple's growth, an unwinnable iPhone war and a reputation at risk

Apple's growth, an unwinnable iPhone war and a reputation at riskUnfortunately ...Mac devotees are the same as MS devotees - no matter how they get treated, they will still buy. This may lose them a few sales to Techies but the great unwashed won't know about this and buy anyway....

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Digital media, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., unwinnable iPhone, iPhone war

Discussion threads 2007-09-28

Microsoft says some way to go on software piracy

Microsoft says some way to go on software piracyCraig Mundie should not be speaking on thisCraig Mundie is the old boy Microsoft management whoes name has not come up a lot in the US antitrust cases. But he was a central figure in the permatemp problems which came prior to...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Craig Mundie, software

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Kids justify illegal downloads, study finds

Kids justify illegal downloads, study findsHuman nature99.9% of people will steal if they think they won't get caught, its why we have shop assistants :)They'll justify stealing from the Manand the Man will justify stealing from them, the rest of each others' lives (except the man is a corporation or...

Tags: Digital music, Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, copyright fee

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

Parsing the details of the Microsoft-Novell pact

Parsing the details of the Microsoft-Novell pactWho really cares?Yeah I know, the open source zealots are having a cow but they are such a itty bitty, tiny minority what they want matters very little to the rest of the world and the rest of the world LIKES and WANTS the...

Tags: SAP USA, Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, OSS, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-28

What should Microsoft do about the 235 "free software" patent violations?

What should Microsoft do about the 235 "free software" patent violations?Atleast so far they haven't went the way of the patent troll...I would say it would be rather hypocritical of them.Show us the codeA while back, the Linux community demanded of the Microsoftees "show us the code," meaning the code...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, patent, Microsoft Corp., software, OSS, Linux, software patent, SCO Group Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-14

Google purchases conferencing software from start-up

Google purchases conferencing software from start-upGoogle purchases conferencing software from start-upAnd now Google will have all the inside info on your private and very sensitive meetings. Would you want Google spying on your company's business? I wouldn't.hmmmmmDo we have issues?Yeah, Google and their spyingI could totally imagine Larry Page...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, Google Inc., Google Purchases

Discussion threads 2007-04-20

Amazon sues Alexaholic...everyone loses!

Amazon sues Alexaholic...everyone loses!Self-selected sampleYou're correct that only small samles are required to produce results very likely to be true of the much larger population being studied. However, reliable samples are randomly selected. Just as a web poll doesn't apply to more than the participants (and not even...

Tags: Channel management, Alexia, Alexa Internet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., diamond

Discussion threads 2007-04-18

House looks into 'bad' Chinese attacks on State, Commerce systems

A House subcommittee is holding a hearing tomorrow to try to understand "how deeply" US government computers have been penetrated by foreign forces and whether the governments IT response so far is adequate, ComputerWorld reports. "The purpose of this hearing is to afford [House members] the opportunity...

Tags: Security, International, Government technology, Congress

Blog posts 2007-04-18