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by sogrady 16y ago
In a rational world and under a reasonable patent system, I might agree. But you know as well as I do, Simon, probably better, that under the current process it's difficult to guarantee that you're not violating anyone's patents. Particular
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by sogrady 16y ago
Respectfully disagree. Reputation and image are important if yours is poor amongst a community that influences buying decisions. Traditionally, this hasn't really been the case with Oracle, as their products are still adopted up the food ch
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by sogrady 16y ago
The results are mixed. But their execution must be separated from the need that prompted it.
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by sogrady 16y ago
As much as I would like to believe that this case could bring sufficient attention to the absurdity that is software patents that it would compel a remedy, I think it unlikely. Frankly, this is likely to be regarded as business-as-usual out
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by sogrady 16y ago
"Larry doesn't care about openness or community -- he holds them in contempt. What he cares about is winning. And this was his way to prove it." That's a better way of putting it than anything I came up with. To give credit where credit is
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by sogrady 16y ago
With the disclaimer that I'm the author of the linked piece, I'm not sure why the comment is silly. Dalvik is indeed at the heart of Oracle's claims, but many casual followers of its development are operating under the assumption that Googl
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by sogrady 16y ago
See slides 4-6 in Ryan's presentation ( http://nodejs.org/cinco_de_node.pdf ). He caveated the comparison heavily, and also took pains to note the vast differential in memory consumption.
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by sogrady 17y ago
My argument was not that raising the price will do nothing. "Even throttled by a higher patent fee" implies that the elevated costs would have a negative impact on patent volume. My point is that merely lowering the volume of submitted pate
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by sogrady 17y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree, I think. Proposed remedies to the existing patent system - from the economic to the temporal - fail to recognize the basic issue: the inability to scale the grant process. Your solution, for example, merely
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by sogrady 17y ago
We use ZRM to automate the backup and versioning of our MySQL databases. Then we use cron and s3sync to mirror the relevant portions of the filesystem to S3. For those interested, the process is documented here: http://monk.ly/bFBd7w
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by sogrady 17y ago
No argument here that the market for data is woefully underdeveloped. What we have now is a market in which there are very few visible sellers and fewer visible buyers, with extreme inefficiencies in connecting one to another and processing
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by sogrady 17y ago
Disclosure: I wrote the piece. But yes, I agree. SeatGeek fits the model perfectly, in terms of applying analytics to publicly available data in search of non-obvious or otherwise difficult to intuit insights. Good mention.
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by sogrady 17y ago
If someone's going to pay that, I'd say that's a fair proxy of its value. But point taken on the mobile front; I think there's definitely a case to be made there. Will try and track down the Nokia keynote.
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by sogrady 17y ago
Surely the value of the data can't be measured by its size, can it? The content must have some reading on its value, no? The $140 million Picasso canvas that woman tore a couple of weeks back is worth more than a 60 inch square of cloth an
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by sogrady 17y ago
Precisely, which is the risk Google assumes. That said, at scale, the premium paid to buy them on an open market likely compares favorably to the expense of internally managing dozens if not hundreds of smaller projects.
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by sogrady 17y ago
Ha! They say that you have to leave your job to be compensated fairly, but that's the most extreme example I can think of ;)
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by sogrady 17y ago
Disclosure: I wrote it. That said, looking at the economics doesn't require, in my view, actual numbers. Because mostly when we look at the economics of private companies we don't have the actual numbers, or the ones that we have are very i
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by sogrady 17y ago
Sorry, that should read "the original Yahoo valuation..."
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by sogrady 17y ago
The number we know is the original VMware valuation, which was ~$350M. The number we don't is the price this time around, because financial terms weren't disclosed. It seems safe to assume, however, that VMware is paying less, and AllThings
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by sogrady 17y ago
Disclosure: I wrote the linked piece. That said, I think the above argument works if you're looking at Zimbra purely as an acquisition of technology. My view, as might be gathered, is that this - like a lot of enterprise acquisitions - is a
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by sogrady 17y ago
Disclosure: I wrote the piece. But anyway, I'm still with andrewvc here. I concur that NIH - the pathology you're describing above - is equally unproductive, and that deciding when to build or buy is a difficult question to answer. That all
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by sogrady 17y ago
It's just a style thing for me, but I prefer to have my replies available in a separate tab. I also prefer to have the ability to keep scrolling back easily through my history. On the plus side, the UI is more polished than ChromedBird's, a
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by sogrady 17y ago
Because I'm told it's not obvious, I am the author of the originally linked piece. Just to ensure full disclosure.
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by sogrady 17y ago
You could be right on both counts. Obviously. Still, I do think it's at least plausible that significant changes in environmental context might lead to different adoption and uptake patterns. Languages not excepted. Witness the revitalizati
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by sogrady 17y ago
I'm frankly surprised that it got linked to at all, actually.
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by sogrady 17y ago
Clickable http://www.fossfaq.com
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by sogrady 17y ago
yep, I'll be there, and I'll probably write it up.