Commodore trademark has a new daddy

[jorkany]

I am afraid we are horribly outnumbered though and no one will listen to reason, unless the silent majority start chipping in and asking for the disruptive dozen to cool it.

So your line of thinking goes something like this: "Not enough people posting agree with me, but of course I'm right so there must be more people who don't post who agree with me than those who do post"

There is no "silent majority".


@Darrin,
After reading some of Amigadave's more recent posts I think he's just some kind of control freak - and I don't mean self-control.

[jorkany]

Posted in the "Massive Announcement" thread from 10 or 11 weeks ago:


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I can see where there might be a delay.


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What part of "looking good though" don't you understand??

[jorkany]

I posted one possibility here

I bought a fractal compression program back in the 1990s. If the size of the file to be compressed was divisible by certain values, and it was Tuesday and the moon was blue, it would work fine. Otherwise you were just as well off using zip. I can understand why FIF never took off.

[jorkany]

If the codec tech was that hot ****e, there would (and will) be bigger guns on it like stink on a monkey long before the small fry heard about it.

You don't really think a company like Google, MS or Apple wouldn't snap up a revolutionary technology without saying a word for either patents or further development, do you?  Long before a furniture vendor in Florida would have, the big sharks would have been all over it if it was worthwhile and not a complete clusterf*ck of legality.

Nah, they've only done it hundreds upon hundreds of times, lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft

Good grief. One has to wonder what these giants would have on their own today if they couldn't acquire so much. Seems like only the small guys innovate anymore, kind of like starving artists, then the giants poach them like salmon swimming upstream. Very sad when you think about how things were in the 1970s-1980s compared to today.