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Anty, yoiu're being RIDICULOUS!

"I was talking about the intentional confiscation of the value of a piece of software by an imitator."

That is PARANOIA and delusional. Where did you get this insanity from? Most everyone imitates everyone in the business world. Both Lipton and Nestea makde iced tea. Who's copying who? Who has the sole rights to sell iced tea? If one lowers their prices, you mean to tell me it's to "steal" the value of its competitiors' products? Why can't you uinderstand that people may be doing these things FOR THEMSELVES and not to harm others?

"Settle down."

Jesus, likewise..;-)

"Tell you what, if open source projects that imitate successful proprietary products don't exist, then my criticism applies to no one."

Sendmail=open source
apache=open source
unix=mostly open source
bind=open source

So your dns lookups are being done by open source, run off of open source OS, the e-mails you send over the internet are delivered by open source, and your posting to an open source web server running apache open source software. Can you imagine if you were asked to pay each time you did any kind of exchanging with all these technologies? Put it to you this way: the internet would not exist! So according to you, Microsoft should abandon Exchange, as they are obviously seeking to "confiscate" the profits derived from sendmail.

"C'mon. That's like saying, if I can get away with your money, then it's not stealing any longer."

Anty please, this is childish, unrealistic, and runs counter to all forms of modern day business. If I make a profit off something, it WAS NOT your profits that I "stole". You NEVER earned it, thus you have no rights to it. If imitating products were considering stealing bvy the court system..you do realize that virtually NO companies would be in business..right? Where did Microsoft COPY the idea of Windows from?
If we followed through with your "logic", Windows, IE, Outlook, Exchange, Outlook Express, Word, Excel, etc..WOULD NOT EXIST!!!
You seem to feel this automatic entitlement to money. Apparently you don't realize that what you keep suggesting is PRECISELY what is wrong with the patent system right now. You want to create something, then use the legal system to ensure you never have to innovate again, and keep an eternal monopoly lock on whatever that product is.

"You realize that you could write a program that does the same job, the same way.
Would you write that program and not charge for it?
You do know that producing that free version would reduce someone else's income. You also know that a reduction in income damages people."

Waaaaaaaaah! Awwwwww poor baby! THat's called *LIFE*, ma man! Ever hear of market share??? If one company's share increases, doesn't that naturally "damage someone else's income"? DUH! Join the free market, my friend! Do you ever step foot out of the house? EVERYONE is looking to capitalize on something, and being that this is a finite world of relationships..inevitably someone else suffers! Is there any possible solution you can realistically propose where everyone wins and no one loses?

"Would you, in your more lucid moments, take an action that you knew would harm someone else at no gain to you? Even with gain to you? I expect not."

YES!!! So you have never done something whereby someone else lost out? You do realize you are taking up a spot at your company. Well, that's a job that SOMEONE ELSE could have had..but you "DAMAGED THEIR INCOME" my friend! Bwahahahaha!!! You're profiting, and their getting squat! They get to buy your wares..right after they get off the unemployment line baby! Bwahahahaha!!!

"What we're looking at here is not market competition, it's simply malevolence, by the losers you were describing."

That is ABSURD overreaching. So you really mean to tell me you think Linus's sole motivation in creating linux was to hurt and try to put everyone out of business? PLEASE don't tell me you really think that.

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli   Posted on: 04/08/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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