Yale Law School, which is consistently rated as #2 after Harvard, has pass or fail w/no grades. The implication is that getting in is enough to "signal" your "quality" on the market. Compare this all other law schools where students are mercilessly ranked based on a bell curve.
"a great deal of apple's strength is that they don't follow trends. if they listened to what the industry thinks, they would license osx for plain-vanilla pcs, compete against ugly low-cost hardware from their competitors, etc etc etc, until they were indistinguishable from dell or hp, and therefore completely uninteresting."
They did exactly this a year before Jobs came back. In spite of Jobs's claims to the otherwise, the experiment did not last long enough to indicate whether it would have been viable in the long term. What is clear is that the clone makers where releasing computers more expandable and powerful than what Apple actually had on the market.
But Apple isn't just about powerful computers. It's about the Apple way. And for better or for worse, that means focusing on the complete package of the computer.
"Completely uninteresting" in exchange for "expandable and powerful" is not a good one for Apple to make.
rp, in theory, that makes sense. But I think there's a category error possibly at work. Hung out with many average (read: normal) college kids lately? :)
They probably qualify for the DMCA safe harbor so one of the few incentives to act are complaints. Also, one can assume they are getting complaints given the volume of documents they host.
The recent decision of Jacobsen v. Katzer (different jurisdiction) held that violation of an open source license can be a copyright violation, which is what is being claimed here. This filing suggests that they FSF was emboldened by the Jacobson case.
Please remember that the only thing that is "free" is the fee that you would pay this company to do your paperwork. You will have to pay business organization fees to the state of formation no matter what you do (check your state). As noted by others, most states also charge yearly franchise taxes, which is in addition to any federal taxes you are liable for if you see revenue.
Yes but for someone like me (Read: not a lawyer, can't afford one) a service like this can save me a ton of money. I understand there are risks when not working with a lawyer, and I haven't actually submitted yet because my partner and I are discussing this, but in general I think it's helpful if you know you want an LLC/S-Corp and don't need anything complex. You'd have to pay the state fees no matter what, so it's like doing it yourself, only you get some experts to help you out -- free.
Don't take this the wrong way, but hit up slideshare.net for "Starting a Business". There's a great tip in a lot of those presentations: Make a (non-family member) accountant your new best friend. Most CPAs have a "checklist" of what needs to be done (tax wise and regulation wise) to incorporate.
It wasn't worth pointing out unless you are insulting the intelligence of new business owners/people who use this service. They should know by checkout that the service is not absolutely free - the details are splashed all over the main page.
I would imagine the Myspace/Facebook teens would have difficulty skimming the entire page, but surely not the people who are creating new businesses in our country. If they are, then that is sad indeed.
