This is the best I can transcribe the important part. Steve Ballmer says, "I think it's great the way Novell stepped up to kinda say intellectual property matters. When people use Red Hat [shrug], at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense, have an obligation to eventually to compensate us."
pcolon
2008-12-13 20:17:07
He keeps saying "intellectual property". Where and what is this IP he keeps referring to.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-13 20:33:04
It's one of those laws you invent when you are unable to compete... A bit like domestic laws that they pass in the US for surveillance, warrantless wiretapping and imprisonment without trial, even torture without reasonable evidence. 'Intellectual' 'property' 'rights' have intellectual about them, they are not tangibles property (just thought) and they are not Mother Nature-given rights. It's about taking away rights (e.g. of competitors or opposing powers).
As imaginary as they are, Microsoft still refuses to name them. Is it the double-click? The tabbed browsing? The smiley? PageUp/Dn?
Many sites will go offline and many social control networks will shut down once they realise or even openly admit they spend money and time gardening a bunch of bots and slop
it would rightly seem like the era of centralised "social" sites (they're not social, they're about controlling the users) is ending, not overnight but gradually
Comments
twitter
2008-12-13 18:46:06
pcolon
2008-12-13 20:17:07
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-13 20:33:04
As imaginary as they are, Microsoft still refuses to name them. Is it the double-click? The tabbed browsing? The smiley? PageUp/Dn?