Re: vogons vs turlettes

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

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> Arkain wrote in message <397db3fa$1@hal.grnco.net>...
>
> >This just show how well suited the copy right law are for books, and yet so
> >completely unsuitable for digital media. Books can easily sell for 120+
> >years, but I know of no software company that wants to sell a piece of
> >software for the lifetime of the company + 70 years!!!! The laws need to be
> >adjusted to accomodate the new medium.
>
> Arkain,
>     They are adjusted for the new media exactly as Megacorporate
> America(Earth?) likes them. No one will upgrade (and spend new money) if
> suitable older software exists.

But John, you are just not right on that. Most of the copyright violations have
to do with games, and the fact is that people do buy Doom 2, 3, 4 or whatever.
People are buying new computers in large numbers, just so they can run new
software. It is my opinion, for what it's worth, that new software is written
just to sell new hardware. I think that one of the reasons that WordPerfect
isn't being supported by the hardware people is that it will run on much older
hardware. WordPerfect 2000 will work on a 486-66!! That won't sell a lot of
Pentium IIIs will it?

> They'd either have to come up with new
> concepts for software that justify newer machines (No way, that takes
> talent, effort!!)

But that is happening - all the time. Not so much the concept part, as the new
software that does more things, slower, so you need new hardware. Has anyone
tried the new GEOS internet suite? It will work on a 286, and just last week a
new internet box was released that is 486 based and uses GEOS as it's web
browser and email client. It will work with a TV, or with a VGA monitor. It only
costs $299, and I predict that it will be a bust - Microsoft and or their
hardware toadies will find a way to swamp the machine.


> or live off aa more meager profit margin. The only mystery
> is why QC agrees with this, as I can't imagine him being clever or cunning
> enough to have his slice of the megacorporate pie.

If you have a pension plan at work, or an IRA or other retirement plan, then you
probably own stock and have your own slice of the megacorporate pie. I do. And
I'm far from rich!

Roy

> In earlier posts, I have
> pointed out the time limits and their inappropriateness for new media, and
> he hurls insults such as...
>
> 'and a few dippy terms like "internet years" '
>
> He likes it like this. Perhaps, he's living off great-great-granpa's
> literary genius. Who can say?
>
> John