Our views on the current Oracle v Google case-Revised!
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- **Published on ****Tuesday**, 08 **May** 2012 13:29****
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If the I.T. industry is beleaguered by unwise Patent cases or Patent issues where the interests of one business take priority over the well-being of the U.S.A., it is likely that the U.S.A. will suffer economically.
The Eastern world might benefit in the medium to long term.
Our reasoning is simple; look at history. When U.S.A. scientists developed the first mobile phone technology, they couldn't use it because Motorola had control of the frequency bands required. After 10 years in the courts the bands were freed for mobile phones.
By that time, worldwide companies like Nokia (who used to be in the tyre business) and Sony were world leaders-the Americans were nowhere.
If this had gone unchallenged, the U.S.A. would be in a much worse state; luckily Apple jumped into the Smart phone market and smashed Nokia and the rest is history.
Apple tried to use a proprietry Operating System and dominate the world, getting fat commissions every time users purchased third-party goods/services.
Google used Java (which can run potentially on ANY computer or phone, now and in the future) to quickly write a universal Smart phone mobile O/S called Android.
Since Smart devices were limited in CPU and memory Google had to and create new more efficient and simpler parts of Java. For Patent reasons the "Dalvik" virtual machine replaced the Java Virtual Machine.
There were allegations of minor breaches of copyright.
Companies in the U.S.A. who stand to loose out from the growth in Smart Phones and The Cloud are using the courts to get a slice of the action. This has delayed and damaged the attempt of U.S.A companies to advance and eventually dominate The Cloud.
As a result, others in other countries could challenge for Cloud leadership.
While the U.S.A. is still dominates I.T. in important areas, we have never seen a more fluid situation which could gain or loose America the world over the next few years.
The credibility of the U.S.A. as the world primary super-power has been damaged, the credibility of the capitalist system undermined by the Housing Bubble and the Banking crash, and now the I.T. giants are squabbling over minor Patent issues.
Only the teams of Lawyers understand the minutiae of the reams of terms, conditions and types of license. This makes it crucial for any I.T. interested company to dominate in quality and numbers of lawyers, with whose aid small companies can be bludgeoned and crushed, and forced to hand over large interests.
The President should focus the minds of industry on regaining a booming economy.
If this situation of internal dispute and delay goes on, private U.S.A. interests and monopolies will damage the U.S.A. I.T. economy when viewed from a world market standpoint. We admit the U.S.A. I.T. economy will still be profitable, just not a dominant worldwide.
The rest of the world is not waiting for the U.S.A., while part of the technology was developed there, power is shifting away. The rest of the world makes 95% of the hardware already. The U.S.A. is now dependant on foreign manufacturers who are now competitors.
Many powerful states pay only lip service to U.S.A. Patents. This is partly because the technologies are essential to economic life and must be the property of mankind. It is also because the number of potential users worldwide is only limited by the human population, and selling a small piece software for a few cents potentially nets $billions.
The concept that people should continue to pay Microsoft $50 for client software and $100's for server software is ridiculous-yet millions still do. Equally, the price per unit of business applications must come down, or the poor in the world will just steal it.
We fully support the rights of copyright owners, just not their right to damage and delay the whole world's progress when they hold important tools and are already earning billions and rich beyond their wildest personal dreams.
We hope they will think more of mankind at large and their own countrymen and less of money, which is not an end in itself-except to fools.
Oracle tries to deny Java's Open Source status-European courts proclaim Computer Languages un-copyrightable
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- **Published on ****Saturday**, 05 **May** 2012 12:27****
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Link:-European Central Courts proclaim Programming Languages un-copywritable on 2nd May 2012?
BT attack competitors with Infinity II large Upload Rates :UPDATED!!
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- **Published on ****Monday**, 16 **April** 2012 13:31****
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It appears that the large potential upload rates offered by BT Infinity (also Business) II ("upto" 19Mbps?) are targeted at hitting ISPs who are trying to sell 10Mbps Symmetric Upload/Download for 1000's of UK pounds per annum (i.e.SDSL).
We are in deep shock at this amazing development, which we hoped for but did not believe would happen. We guess the government was desperate to stimulate the UK economy, even to the extent of breaking the effective monopolies that are crushing it, and chance of revival from Stagflation but tonight we learned one reason that may go part-way to explain why BT have done this.
The law on advertising Broadband data rates has changed in the UK. They can only advertise the top download rates that the lowest 10% have.
BT realised that the lying game was up and needed to sell on other areas, like Upload rates.
We can only hope the Government deal with the other effective monopolies in the UK, including banking and energy to name two in two seconds, let me think, ah! yes also supermarkets, tied pubs. I must stop it is too depressing a list.
With a virtual monopoly in Broadband of course you can charge what you want to home or business users.
In future, I.T. service companies must think twice before using companies like Virgin Broadband as ISPs when their own core business is competitive with Virgin Cloud and similar offerings. Additionally, Virgin Broadband may look at your traffic figures and business success and usurp your business.
We are very pleased with more upload capacity from BT. At last the old paternalistic client based " Broadcast model" as in the analog Radio and TV era has been broken.
Why should we be limited to 'consuming' Broadband content? Are we not producers of content too? Don't we upload the wedding videos to family, add to Youtube, produce great home business services et al?
Currently you are lucky to get half of a measley 1Mbps. The old phone modems were 56Kbps, around 10x slower.
Often the physical capacity for Symmetric rates for upload and download is already easily achievable with little cost for ISPs.
Isn't the Cloud future of the Internet based on hundreds of thousands of small service providers located worldwide putting their goods, cloud services and other services online to the world, not just a future of brain dead drones consuming the insipid products by Global brands? Aren't we forced to watch the advertising of Global brands every time we Google?
Networking in the rural UK and third world
Groups and users can have community Cloud services (similar to the proposals for isolated third world communities). If you have 10Mbps upload and a group of 100 users you could achieve 1Gbps upload for a torrent. A HD movie in less than a minute?
Surely we need symmetric Upload and Download for the free market to survive.
Still stunned, we can only think the Coalition government in the UK must have sent someone with steel toe-capped boots to visit BT HQ and that they left blood on the boadroom suite walls. The only way to deal with petty monopolists worldwide.
BT have been over-charging and UK industry is seriously damaged as a result. Don't they realise at BT that they are not immune from recession? No, it appears monopolists are like bubble-creators, they only live for the moment, like crazed City Bankers.
People have been dumping BT ADSL in areas miles from BT hubs and using Mobile Broadband (at least the landline rental is saved and you can access anywhere on the move) so appalling is the service, often download speeds are much less than 500Kbps. The BT boasted 2Mbps for 90% of the UK is fanciful and incorrect-more like 50% in reality. A potential for 2Mbps may exist but it will cost you £120 for a BT cable guy to investigate your speed problem, just to start...
If BT starts to provide Cloud services everyone should start ringing alarm bells as this is a monopolistic enterprise.
We will be back with a better analysis later-suffice to say we heard that the BT sales guys came into work Monday 16th April 2012 knowing only what they saw on the TV news over the previous weekend, so we are a little taken aback at this great news too!
Many Global I.T. brands to Dissappear into the Cloud...forever!
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- **Published on ****Wednesday**, 02 **May** 2012 15:16****
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Passing Cloud researchers and strategists cannot see how many Global brands will survive as large global business without having a public Cloud face where the public can "see" the brand.
For example the old "Intel Inside" PC sticker kept Intels name alive. Google or Amazon are unlikely to use Intel chips as CPUs as Cloud develops as they are too "hot" and energy inefficient, and subject to unfavourable load variations.
But even if they did they are unlikey to mention Intel.
Also rans will include the following companies if they don't get a Public Cloud image: Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Dell and HP.
No doubt these companies have strategies to transmogrify into new-generation Cloud success stories.
But just in case they don't "get" Cloud or simply can't morph their business model, it would be wise to invest elsewhere.
Looking at Intel more closely we can see parallels with GM the U.S.A. car brand. They kept churning out gas-guzzlers despite rising foreign imports of small cars, until they went bust.
Similarly Intel is not listening to their future customers-mass global Cloud datacentre owners, like Google and Amazon.
Energy consumption could be up to 50% of running costs for Cloud datacentres.
Cloud as a utility requires competitive pricing & wasting enegy is not only dumb, but could be terminal for the business.
US$100 state-of-the-art Smart Phones Made & Retailed in China as Passing Cloud predicted
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- **Published on ****Wednesday**, 04 **April** 2012 21:09****
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The circa US$100 Smart Phone with a specification equivalent to modern West European Smart phones are being made and sold in China.
Yet in the UK the prices being charged are several time higher.
The issue is surrounded with smoke and mirrors for several reasons.
1) USA I.T. giants might contest patents, especially look and feel if the cheaper products were distributed in the West under their own branding.
2) Behind closed doors, it is suspected that China is likely to destroy the most vunerable of the USA I.T. giants that used to dominate I.T. worldwide. The policy of "designed in The West and made in The East" using (almost) slave labour will rebound on the USA as as their own similar production capacity in the USA has been near destroyed by unfair competition from China. Too late too rebuild that infrastructure today without massive investment and subsidies.
3) The selling of "counterfeits" or clone phones worldwide has long been the stock-in-trade of first mobile phone and now Smart phone retailers in Africa, India, South America and Asia.
4) The power of the USA has waned to the extent that they can no longer protect their world patents (which sadly were often acquired by unfair means-after all the computer was conceived by Babbage in the UK and built by Turing in the UK in 1945 but The USA appears to "own" the patents, as per the good 'ole Courts of California!)
5) The USA can still include the UK in its sphere of power. The extradition laws mean that the UK is coming under the thrall of USA law enforcement (and patent enforcement) and "anti-terrorist" security black-out. (Maybe USA seeks to use the UK as a can-opener to restrict and influence I.T. competition and information in the EEC too. We can't see the French or Germans permitting this. Historically, when the USA companies tried to destroy competion and create monopolies [e.g. Oracle taking over Sun and stopping MySQL development, the MS IE and Netscape debacle] the French usually stopped it or limited it).
6) Passing Cloud are all for freedom, capitalism and the Constitution of the USA, but we are against hookey carpetbagger monopolists, called antitrust in Americanese, destroying trade and industry by hegemonistic means. Why doesn't the USA government stop these crooks and put them in jail where they belong? Equally, why don't they tell the Chinese to stop undermining Capitalism-after all the Chinese people are benefiting from it. It seems the Chinese philosophy is to out-capitalise The Capitalists...
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Would we prefer Chinese trade hegenomy to USA trade hegemony?
No! Look at the state of Tibet, N. Korea and Burma where whole countries are held to ransom as buffers against aggression from "foreign powers"-just childish paranoia and justification for dictatorship.
After the USA left Iraq to function as a proper democracy (as few Arabs believed would happen) and triggered the Arab Spring as the Arabs realised they had been sold lies about U.S.A. democracy by their dictators and removed them, the military in China must have been terrified by the developments having already repressed riots in Muslim regions of China.
The Chinese answer to the Arab Spring must be, not repression, but more capitalism, more free trade and wealth for the Chinese people.
This US$100 hi-power android Smart phone event was predicted by Passing Cloud. Expect $50 phone later. PROMO :: WATCH THIS SPACE for the Computer on a dongle article coming soon.
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