CHAPTER 6 ( Case Study)

QUESTION TO COSIDER 

( Case Study 1)

1. Is the RIAA’s strong stand on copyright infringement helping or hurting the music recording industry?

-  the RIAA has taken legal actions against more then 40,000 people, mostly for copyright infringement for illegally sharing and downloading music via the internet some of the lawsuits threatened fines of tens of thousands of dollars alleged violators who challenged the RIAA in court risked being assessed crippling fines; thus most settled out of court

                        
2. Could an ISP’s implementation and enforcement of the RIAA’s multitier strategy have a negative impact on the ISP?

-  copyrighted works and any illegal activities through internet.RIAA says that the music industry has fully embraced the Internet as a major channel for distribution to consumers. The group has called on the Federal Communications Commission. It endorse efforts to curb illegal downloads. 

QUESTION TO COSIDER 

( Case Study 2)

1.Go to your school’s computer lab or a PC software store and experiment with current

versions of any two of the Quattro, Excel, or Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet programs. Write a brief paragraph summarizing the similarities and differences in the “look and feel” of these two programs.

- Quattro has been around for a long time (as has lotus 123) and they perform well. they are probably easier  to use to create  worksheet to do tasks of the everyday type. Excel has a much greater selection of tools to be able to display and / or print your worksheet  with a more professional look. Excel has an extremely powerful language which is used to create macros. As you might expect this language is more difficult to learn than macros functions used in quattro and 123. Both are spreadsheet that perform the same function they have similar formats just made by different companies. the standards would be excel since it is more commonplace both are good basic spreadsheet there are significant differences quattro is freeware while the excel is by for the best of this programs because the script language VB-Script is Extremely powerful.

 

2. The courts took several years to reverse their initial decision and rule in favor of Borland. What impact did this delay have on the software industry? How might things have been different if Borland had received an initial favorable ruling?

- The impact of the delay of the decision on the software industry is that they waste time their decision and in the end borland still in business operation. Another impact is that the ruling made it clear that software copyright could be successfully challenged which further discouraged the use of copyright to protect software innovations. As a result developers had to go through the more difficult and expensive patent process to protect their software Products. 

The tings have might b1een different if borland had received an initial favorable ruling is that they can develop more the spreadsheet that they have and they can continue to sell their products and also they can avoid to pay the estimated 100million in damage sought by lotus. These can be avoided if the borland had received an initial favorable ruling.     

3.Assume that you are the manager of Borland’s software development. With the benefit of hindsight, what different decisions would you have made about Quattro?

- If i were the manager of Borlands software development, I would decide not to sell the Quattro Spreadsheet software to Novell Inc. since the court of Appeals reversed the district court ruling that Borland had infringed the copyright of lotus 123. Its a big lost of the company when they sell the software but then Borland is still in business providing products and services targeted to software developers.