Posts by gilf

Gett

Interestingly, gett (http://gett.com/nyc/#business) is not getting the same publicity.

Reason: it's a boring radio cab service with a usable app.

Managing and controlling license updates is a pain, both for the user and provider.

Using old media, old installation or serial will come back to bite them both.

There are probably several scenarios where turning a blind eye will be more cost effective then trying to enforce licensing, especially when it comes to frustrated paying customers.

Proprietary format? No thanks. I had my share of Sony MO, Zip and Jazz, I even have a Bernoulli disk somewhere. Don't know how long they last because no drives can be had.

Raided storage for online

JBOD for near line - cycled periodically.

Online for important stuff

CD/DVD for low importance

If you worry about an EMP killing all you magnetic stuff, no worries, you will not have anything to read you optical stuff either.