Re: [ossig] Copyright Laws

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dinesh Nair wrote:

> 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.

May I point your attention to the tiny wiggly arms ?

> i doubt this. in the past 10 years, microsoft has dropped the ball badly
> on the internet and server based computing.

But they found their way out. December 1995 saw W95 coming out with a 
badly engineered network connectivity. Which was bought like crazy; for 
example because it had apps and *drivers* ? Who didn't ? OS/2.

Who ships the majority of servers these days ? I never understood this, 
btw., and this is no zealotery. I can imagine people using XP, and some 
reason behind it, but a Micro$oft server ? I honestly cannot see an 
argument of technical nature.

> who's to say that they'll not miss
> out on the next jump in paradigms ?

They've learned their lesson, I'm afraid. They have a costly foot in 
X-Box; a costly foot in embedded systems and a currently almost useless 
one in GPRS.
They try to provide content; they try to migrate cinemas to WMP.
They try to set up .NET as Box for the whole world to play inside of.

> 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)

Which is what I argued for; didn't I ?? Read your own lines above and 
don't confound 'scratch' and 'glue'.

People actually should do that on Linux and get the damn BSDs together. 
The security of OpenBSD; its advanced PF and stuff; FreeBSDs scalability 
and memory management and NetBSDs portability.

> nooooo, this is more fun, no ? :)

Not so sure. Maybe academically, but doesn't bring us much further with 
respect to the underlying problem(s); inside and outside the confines of 
this country with respect to Computer Science and IT.
Eh, copyright(s) included.

Uwe

-- 
Linux.  You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.


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