Four Journals

mercedo's Journal (2554)
Shield of Water
2005.12.07 6:11
When I got married in the past and the name of the marriage ring we bought was acquascutum, literaly shield of water, water shield is so strong that can keep from anything. If so it stands to reason that water can repel water.

Dependency
2005.12.07 6:09
One journalist was the first Japanese to travel space in the invitation of former Soviet Union some fifteen years ago. Now more and more Japanese have been participating in a space program of USA, probably some ten astronauts. It is no wonder if another Japanese were invited by Russia, and unlike China that can develop manned spacecraft on its own, Japan has to heavily rely on other superstate.

One Analysis of OSS Currents
2005.12.07 5:57
Yes, it is very beneficial to users, but no, it is less profittable to companies.
Knowledge has to prevail, should be liberated from the handful of cronies to the general public, but sometimes a theory of companies go against the benenit of ordinary users.
Also unification to the common open source software shows vulnerability to the system itself. Open source software is convenient to use, but at the same time hinders us from innovating other software regardless of whether it is more convenient or not. The feature of capitalism lies in its allowing many other alternatives to show up in a market, all these flowers are not substitutes for others but they themselves are one and only, unique one.

Reason of Share Decline
2005.12.07 5:54
I think more than one-tenth fall of total share of that company has something to do with its relying on OSS in some of its product (Shipment of computers, with Apple's OS X, was also up. OS X uses many F/OSS components and utilities, many from the GNU project in particular.) In general, those companies who has succeeded in developing new technologies tend to be evaluated much more in the stock market. There's a difference between private companies use OSS and public institutes like goverment -local, national whatever do.