05.02.07
Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 10:58 pm by liviu.tudor 
So Bill Gates had a go at Apple’s commercials — good on him, I’d say! What is the big deal about Windows “borrowing” from Mac OS-X? Or any other system for that purpose?
Do guys in Apple think that every company should only stick to their own internal ideas? How would they envisage progress in that case? Because let’s face it, we would either end up with one big company which has everything — so then they can use in one department ideas developed in another — or we pretty much kill every single company that wants to make something with wheels, on the basis that, well, the wheel wasn’t invented by them!
I am not a big fan of Microsoft myself, on the contrary, but I am beginning to be less of a fan of Apple lately. “We came up first with that idea and the lads in MS stole it. What’s next? Blame their failures on Microsoft as well? Shouldn’t you guys take a look at IBM for instance? I mean the whole Windows Networking SMB protocol was based on LANMan, which came from IBM. So Microsoft used it and developed it and improved… IBM was probably not too pleased I would imagine about not being able to monetize that themselves, but last time I look at their stocks they were doing pretty well.
Perhaps it’s time for Applet to keep their voices down and focus on getting their market price higher and higher — even at the cost of borrowing some ideas from someone else. Microsoft, maybe? 
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04.02.07
Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 9:04 pm by liviu.tudor
So, according to President Basescu piracy worked for Romania by helping the country grow a very vibrant technology industry.
Being a Romanian myself and having “enjoyed” partially during my student years the “privilege” of pirate copies (mainly because there were no dedicated shops at the time where you could acquire a software with a license — let alone having the student discount facility for software licenses!), I cannot but still disapprove to such a blatant encouragement of the whole piracy phenomenon, and have to ask (myself and the others): does Mr. Basescu seriously believe that this is the only reason why Romania has grown a vibrant technology industry? (And God forbid that the answer yes, because that would be disastruous!) Even more, does he honestly believe that software piracy could have only worked its “magic” in a country like Romania? Why would he think that software piracy cannot improve the creative capacity of youngsters in the USA (or UK for that reason)? After all, trying to hack a software protection takes the same amount of brain and work in Bucharest as it would in Silicon Valley! And the same tools. And the same computers. And algorithms… and the list can go on!
Wake up, Mr. President, it’s not the piracy that helped us build a “vibrant technology industry” — it’s the passion that people have all around the world in the work they’re doing. Bucharest is no longer the place that ninemsn is insinuating to be, where illegal software copies are sold on every corner — that’s long gone. (Granted, the piracy phenomen has only been reduced, it hasn’t disappeared — but that’s a problem which proves difficult to erradicate in every single country.) Yet, even without piracy, the IT industry kept growing stronger in Romania.
Altogether, here’s another brilliant comment from Mr. Basescu, who seems to be on the same par pretty much with Mr. Bush, when it comes to dumb statements. Here’s my advice to you Mr. President for such situations: if you don’t know what to say, say nothing — just as Bill Gates did in the same meeting!
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