willrobinson

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by willrobinson 14y ago
That Ekirch article is great reading. Thank you.
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by willrobinson 14y ago
What was the date they started in the UK? How much cash on hand did they have at that point? A billion or so in the bank maybe? It all started with public data. Google was born out of a project at Stanford centered around the idea of "on
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by willrobinson 14y ago
And didn't CL change their terms (excl-->nonexcl) after some blogger posted about them? And didn't they make some changes to their site (collaborate with a maps provider so users can now get geo mappings) after filing this lawsuit? I'
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by willrobinson 14y ago
If data is deliberately made available to the public, then it's public data. Even if's made available for free, that won't stop some on the web from trying to repackage it and derive commercial benefit from it. We've seen this many times.
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by willrobinson 14y ago
"The law really only intimidates the people playing by the rules, or trying to." A seemingly simple yet profound statement. Thanks for this.
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by willrobinson 14y ago
Do you think most people listing ads on CL read the terms and understand them as you did? (Or were the terms confusing?) Are CL's terms different from what one would normally expect from a newspaper? That is, would you expect that the ne
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by willrobinson 14y ago
spellcheck: abolute My favorites were the last paragraph and the last footnote. How did those Russians get on anyway? The only other thing I would add is that these high growth companies, so-called startups, are all utilizing the web. They
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by willrobinson 14y ago
I read the article differently. I think he's both smart and that he is spot on (but maybe Jarvis is the real source). Apple gets a lot of "free help" from the media, not to mention Hollywood, that other companies normally have to pay for.
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by willrobinson 14y ago
Have you read the CL complaint?
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by willrobinson 14y ago
"stole" market share. You got it. "[S]tole" was just a figure of speech. And that is in fact what meant by stole. re: scraping. This is something that has come before the courts a few times (I'm thinking Ebay and a few others; although
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by willrobinson 14y ago
"stole" and "steal" and "CL idea" are all in quotes for a reason. Here, quotes are intended to signify the words quoted do not necessarily carry their dictionary meanings. They carry whatever meaning you assign to them. And that is what
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by willrobinson 14y ago
The more Sherman Act claims that are brought against web incumbents, the sooner one is going to stick. The CL blog stinks of entitlement. Craigslist "stole" the classifieds business from local newspapers. Now they are accusing others of tr
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by willrobinson 14y ago
I am sure about what I said in my comment, not what you've said in yours. I said they started with free data. And indeed they started with data on the US, not the UK. Everyting begins at home. My point is Maps did not start from zero.
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by willrobinson 14y ago
"cyber aggression" Wow.
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by willrobinson 14y ago
Credit to Mapquest for opening their data to all and giving OSM a big push forward. Correct me if I'm wrong but Google Maps started with public data. Data you tradtionally could find in public and university libraries and from government s
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by willrobinson 14y ago
Take away the financial incentive: high fees. Good luck with that. The only way to stop this troll problem is to stop these patents from being issued. Nip it in the bud. There will always be someone willing to pay for an exclusive license
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by willrobinson 14y ago
3. Control bad PR. Warrantless threats of litigation are attributed to the shell not the troll. As far as the press can see the troll is not involved.
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by willrobinson 14y ago
1. Limit liability. Each threatened action is made by a separate LLC created just for that purpose. The troll's company is not put at risk every time they want to threaten someone with litigation. The LLC does the dirty work. 2. Make it
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by willrobinson 14y ago
Google the Merciful should just send over a few maps people and help them out. What fun is a "thermonuclear war"[1] when it's so one-sided? 1. As declared by Our Man Jobs.
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by willrobinson 14y ago
I wonder if they all took separate flights, because of the danger to Apple of having them all on one flight. What if there was a tragic plane crash? Apple could end up like Lynyrd Skynyrd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd_skynyrd
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by willrobinson 14y ago
We could probably get the answer by hanging out on an ESL forum for a bit, that's assuming it's non-native English speakers who are making this mistake (it might not be!).
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by willrobinson 14y ago
Can't wait to read this study. The simple and unpleasant truth, as past research has shown, is that so much business, irrespective of its legality, is conducted using shells, so much wealth moves through them and into tax havens, it is unth
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by willrobinson 14y ago
Not sure bout you but I see this as an _extremely_ common misspelling on the web. I would love to know how it arises. Phonetics? Soundalike? Lose and loose certainly have very different meanings.
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by willrobinson 14y ago
Judy. Hot. Cogswell Cogs. Not.