Posted on 11/29/2005 8:06:45 AM PST by Salo
Cisco just bought Scientific Atlanta to get into the VOD market. Why didn't they buy CCUR? It's so much cheaper.
I owned SFA at a time and sold it for more then CISCO is paying.
SFA serves a completely different purpose for CISCO. Together with Linksys, CISCO will make the SFA boxes into a consumer product. Buy the box and you control all you TV viewing. A play on a VOD future but only at the consumer end.
CCUR has disappointed in recent years due to an incompetent management- now replaced- and to the nature of continues delays in cable companies equipment orders. Also VOD didn't catch on as quickly as assumed- and there is still problems with the studios releasing product.
Now, VOD is talked about all the time. VOD on everything. I'm betting at the end people don't want to watch TV on their cell phones but on big screens at home with the product coming from either the cable companies or the telco wires. CCUR is still one of the leaders making that possible. CCUR is changing into a software rather then a hardware company. How that will work is anyone's guess.
It is a risk. And a stock that consistently irritates. But IMHO, betting on a VOD future, at such a cheap price, a risk worth playing. And then there is their Real Time computing- the subject of this article- that has been getting some traction.
"Obvious lie, worse is you know it is. Linux is what they get for free, to do with whatever they want, include name it "Red Flag" and resell it without a dime back to the U.S."
I posted the link many threads ago to articles which discuss MS giving its OS for free to ChiChom gov agencies. Don't call me a liar because your memory sucks either by design or nature.
You selectively quoted BTW. MS gave the ChiComns source access - but not you and me.
I guess he trusts them more? Must be their model of "capitalism" he gushes over.
Just built myself a new PC, installed Fedora Core 4. The new installer is very nice, and the redhat network is now easier to use than Windows Update. All my hardware was detected immediately and worked without a hitch, too. There was a time when it wasn't this easy... I like it this way better. :)
Linux is the official operating system of China, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, etc because they get free copies they can rename and resell as their own. Your whines about MS is obviously you trying to cover it all up, since countries like Cuba don't get anything legally from them.
It will be, as soon as ANYONE who bought a copy decides to release the source code.. Then China, Cuba, or whoever wants a copy can get it, for free, and make as many copies as they want, rename it, etc, just like they do with "Red Flag Linux".
It will be, as soon as ANYONE who bought a copy decides to release the source code. Then China, Cuba, or whoever wants a copy can get it, for free, and make as many copies as they want, rename it, etc, just like they do with "Red Flag Linux".
Due to the extremely large number of inaccurate and idiotic posts you've presented to this point, you are no longer relevant. Thanks and have a nice day.
P.S. - You're talking to yourself.
"Linux is the official operating system of China, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, etc because they get free copies they can rename and resell as their own. Your whines about MS is obviously you trying to cover it all up, since countries like Cuba don't get anything legally from them."
Water is their official beverage, better stop drinking water!
Air is their official breathable gas, better stop breathing!
You never responded to my previous message, anyway... you just changed topics.
Last message: Accusing me of lying that MS doesn't give the ChiCom govt it's OS and source code for free, meanwhile you and I can't see the source.
I suggested that your memory was bad - and I'm not a liar
You responded with THIS? How pathetic.
My response was right on the money - you can't fake concern over Microsoft when Cuba and China get much more from your free Lunix than they ever do from anything else.
Sweet. Very sweet.
Would you trust Microsoft Windows to run this software?
Imagine a blue screen at the critical moment of launch and then trying to get through on the Microsoft help desk that is now outsourced to India?
LOL
"My response was right on the money - you can't fake concern over Microsoft when Cuba and China get much more from your free Lunix than they ever do from anything else."
Your responses have nothing to do with the message you post them in response to.
Btw, I'm not faking concern. One of the reasons MS gave the DOJ in its monopoly trial was that showing the source to it's OS was a security risk. So what did they do? Show it to the chinese. Either they endangered security, or they lied to the FBI. Which is it?
Yes you are, quite obviously. Microsoft doesn't give every country in the world the right to copy, modify, rename, or resell Windows. Microsoft only allowed some governments the right to view most of their code under strict circumstances, that's it. And they only did it as a response to Linux anyway. You try to complain about Microsoft's response, but ignore the original problem that China LEGALLY takes the latest copy of "Red Hat Linux" and promptly renames it "Red Flag Linux" and "Asianux" and resells it across the world without a dime back to the U.S. They'll soon be doing the same thing to this "Red Hawk Linux", what's to stop them? Maybe they'll rename it "Red Star Linux" since "Red Flag" is already taken.
I wonder what reboot in flight does?
Due to the extremely large number of inaccurate and idiotic posts you've presented to this point, you are no longer relevant. Thanks and have a nice day.
" Yes you are, quite obviously. Microsoft doesn't give every country in the world the right to copy, modify, rename, or resell Windows."
So what?
"Microsoft only allowed some governments the right to view most of their code under strict circumstances, that's it."
Strict circumstances? Bravo Sierra. They claimed in the DOJ lawsuit than any exposure of their source was a big security exposure - and then let the chicoms see it. Answer my question - are they liars, or are they traitors? It has to be one or the other. Which is it, MS - liar or traitor?
"And they only did it as a response to Linux anyway."
If you think that's why China wanted the Windows sources then you're a bigger idiot than N3wB13 thinks you are. ;)
"You try to complain about Microsoft's response, but ignore the original problem that China LEGALLY takes the latest copy of "Red Hat Linux" and promptly renames it "Red Flag Linux" and "Asianux" and resells it across the world without a dime back to the U.S."
Actually it's not a problem because Red Hat's license allows it. People buy Red Hat for the support - I don't think there are many US customers of Red Flag. Can you prove different? If it's not a problem for Red Hat, why's it a problem for you? Besides, Linux kernel isn't even a US venture. Linus is from Finland.
"They'll soon be doing the same thing to this "Red Hawk Linux", what's to stop them? Maybe they'll rename it "Red Star Linux" since "Red Flag" is already taken.""
Actually no, try reading the article.
You're the biggest hypocrite and supporter of free technology for China on here yet. They'll get their free copies of this Red Hawk just like they get the free copies of Red Hat, with you cheering them all the way and somehow trying to blame others like Microsoft.
You said if you redistribute it, you have to release the source code.
I said, "Exactly. If you redistribute it."
So, I agree with you, and you call it a lie?
You've wrangled this around for days now, and it still doesn't say what you want it do. Give it up.
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