RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
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From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net> Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 02:43:25 -0700
One thing that has changed fundamentally in the Information Age is the ability for the consumer to get informed -- the ease if information publishing and retrieval and the inability to control it.
Actualy you are ascribing an effect as the cause. The information is there because the holders believe it's in their best interest to dissiminate it. As companies (the US Army' current behaviour is a good example) become to respect the distribution capability of the internet you'll see a reduction of information available.
Reputation has more value then ever.
Malarky. Reputation is irrelevant, just examine the prisoners delima. Those who put reputation over action are setting themselves up for a classic abuse of trust.
Government cannot protect people from their own decisions, and should not have the right to take those decisions away.
I wouldn't eat at McDonalds even with all the regulation.
You've got to be married or have lots of free time...;)
More often than not regulation is a false sense of security, and often protects companies from legitimate liability (although god knows our liability/tort system is completely out of whack).
More often that not regulation is the result of abuse of the market by a manufacturer and is imposed ex post facto. It's intent is to eliminate future abuses. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
At 08:31 AM 10/4/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Malarky. Reputation is irrelevant, just examine the prisoners delima.
Yet strange to report, the banks have no problem with granting me many tens of thousands of dollars of unsecured credit. Perhaps your reputation is irrelevant. Mine, however, is obviously relevant.
Those who put reputation over action are setting themselves up for a classic abuse of trust.
My former employer Informix had probably a million dollars of small, readily fencible stuff such as memory chips in the computers of the many large buildings to which I and about six hundred other employees had access at any hour of the day or night. They appeared to me to have a policy not employing males straight out of college, but rather hiring people who had some established background but apart from that took no special precautions. In particular they did not have a night watchman wandering about at random. Their watchman sat at the door or patrolled the exterior, oriented solely on external threats. The continued solvency of Informix, rental car agencies, and so on and so forth looks indicates it is possible to readily distinguish between those who will defect in a game of prisoners dilemma, and those who will cooperate. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 290NudELAtcM3PNN1SqalY8d8gN9gJ4SQcm4vqLY 4U3vo+UqobR2nocMv+YQS7rqA47Y6ULXH+H1AAXVp ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald
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