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| Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 05:03 AM EDT |
If you look through the Oracle v. Google pages on Groklaw, you will find that
Google were desperate to avoid Microsoft freezing out their mobile browser
search revenue. As it turned out, Microsoft bombed in mobile and it was Apple
that tried to use its monopoly in the smartphone OS market to freeze out
Google.
The Android platform was intended to provide an assured platform for Google
search engines and advert revenue. The present attack is again directed against
Google's search engine, but also against Google's app store because Microsoft
are failing on Bing revenue and on Microsoft app store revenue.
Microsoft are wrong to attack competing platforms as a way to boost their app
store and search revenue because people would rather not click at all than to
use Microsoft or their partners' platforms.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 08:34 AM EDT |
GuitarPro, the company that has been pirated to the extent that they are now
the standard guitar tabbing software, has released its GuitarPro 6.0 Lite as a
free download for anyone wishing to sign up to receive their email
newsletters.
http://www.mostiwant.com/blog/guitar-pro-lite-free-download-user-id-
and-key-id/
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2013/05/27/guitar-pro-6-lite-free-
downloa/
http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php%3fpg=lite-bundle-licence-
generator&distributor=iguitar
As far as I can make out, it's a constructive response to the level of software
piracy they face. Better to have a small piece of a very large pie than a big
piece of a very small pie ... technically, a Loss Leader.
I seriously doubt that Fairsearch has anyone who's ever had business
experience, because Loss Leader is one very powerful method of regaining
access to a customer base that would otherwise ignore you.
(Mind you, I think one could also say the same thing about Microsoft - that its
leadership has no idea of how to handle a truly competitive business
environment, thus casting into doubt its ability to ever bring Microsoft back
into profitability. (But I'm sure we won't be overly upset about that! :) )[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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