RE: [ossig] Copyright Laws

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote:

> For these days, everything seems covered, in general. Compare it to cars:
> not much has happened throughout the last decades; a lot in detail, but
> almost nothing in concept.

heheh, moving from an internal combustion engine to either electric or
fuel cell powered vehicles is not a major innovation ? that's changing the
base concept of the what a vehicle is powered by. granted, these vehicles
are not prolific, but the toyota prius and it's ilk does herald something.

> laid. And Microsoft has pretty much laid its claims to any gold mine in
> view.

i doubt this. in the past 10 years, microsoft has dropped the ball badly
on the internet and server based computing. though using their cash horde
and army of programmers they have narrowed the gap, but it does prove to
me that microsoft is not infallible. who's to say that they'll not miss
out on the next jump in paradigms ?

> Linux filled a niche, but one that was suffering from a lack of 'clean
> room' thirteen years back already. And somehow suffers from comparatively
> low ROI as of now.

i think linux's low ROI is because everyone is trying to position it as a
microsoft killer, and in this regard when it doesnt deliver, it loses
mindshare in the long run. they should be positioning it for its strengths
and slowlee, slowlee, catchee monkee instead.

> Just think of your 'clean room product'. In these days it needs drivers,
> connectivity, software, applications, certificates, interoperability. In
> short: licenses; APIs, stacks. You build it in a clean room - and better

absolutely true. and dont you think that with OSS, and building stuff
modularly from what's already available and writing the glue to tie them
together as well as the missing pieces is what people should be doing ?
(cue to my argument viz a viz GPL vs BSD)

> Maybe I ought to have written 'Yes' to answer your question.

nooooo, this is more fun, no ? :)

Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh@alphaque.com                (0 0)    http://www.alphaque.com/
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