Hi pals, here's a nice link ecommerce.com - boy oh boy there sure is too much choice as to who will be The Big ecommerce software provider, isn't there...you know, somewhere years ago I learned that you can't patent software because it won't work by itself (it needs a computer) and that the only way to patent a computer is to explain it's functionality without software as sort of a calculator-style typewriter nightlight ; I learned that the only for sure legal protection for software is to copyright the binary codes, spreadsheet loops, and design. Do you know that a copyright protection is actually usually more rock-solid than a patent, and the term of expiration is longer? Permissions must be granted, references must be documented. Unlike a patent, which permits new developments of existing inventions if functionality is enhanced. It looks like, I mean, why bother with protecting software anyway, you'd go broke paying the lawyer to file zillions of suits and the judge throws it out as incomprehensible til the litigant produces the experts. What a nightmare. Change a zero to a one over here, change a one to a zero over there, change the looping structure, it's different, it still works, so ba-da-bing. It's wide open. With e-commerce, it seems as though the latest trend is to provide the portal, the access, the software, the whole thing. It changes every day before my very eyes. I mean, how fast did buying software to install in puter and needing an html expert to get a webpage become virtually obsolete except for the Biggest Complex and Fanciest sites? Do you think SUNW and ORCL will actually make an Operating System Obsolete in the next few years, using the Internet? Will it just not happen, or will Other Companies Jump Ahead of Their Idea? If so, who?
Still looking for the next up-and-coming independent browser should the AOL python actually ultimately swallow NSCP at a gulp. When/if I find it I'll let you know. Just rambling; now doing a silly little prologue for Blue's Part IV - "How To Lose Bigtime In Internets" (sink all your chips in one new coming thing and take your eyes off it for a day)...second only to Blue's Famous "Why Not To Short Internets When They're Running!".
How do you like this internet stock motto, "Buy On Rumor, Sell On News, Steer Clear Of Company Promises Altogether". Pretty good?
Looking forward to Part IV, Blue; figuring out "what to do" like you do so well is so much harder than figuring out the "what not to do" which are expensive lessons learned the hard way. Blue, thanks so much always, great pal. The knowledge you so succinctly and generously spell out, has helped me feed my family. And This Board Is Truly The Most Cozy and Elegant Of Castles.
Joanie
ps. new penny momentum Lookies...CMOZ, PQT, ZSUN, TLTG (thanks Kasha) |
