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- Why don't more proprietary software vendors use a common license? The proprietary EULAs mostly say the same things -- couldn't the BSA or somebody issue a standard one?
- Twitter as we know it was built for about $15-20 million. Google lasted almost a year on $100,000 before taking over the world with $25 million of investor money. This is highway robbery, you could...
- I think the news people are in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" bind over Google's indexing and summarizing of their work. Allowing it to be indexed gets them a little...
- I'm a software engineer who has built web applications for Office Depot, Target, AIG (no I'm not proud of it) and many others. J. Stephens apparently has not worked in the private sector....
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3 years ago
the root problem is that i don't buy my network access for the great stuff the network provider brings to the table. unfortunately, the network operators all seem like spoiled bratty kids whining about how content creators (who paid for their network connection the same way i paid for mine) are using up all their bandwidth as if they had something to offer on it that would be compelling enough to look at! the network operators just don't get it. i buy my access so i can go use google, yahoo!, tech lib front, yada yada NOT because i like SBC or RoadRunner's great content...
if network operators succeed in doing this, there will be geeks everywhere trying to come up with something else in an awful big hurry...