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It's a conspiracy I tells ya. I mean we all know the IBM shifted right thing, and that Aurthur C. Clarke says that it is just coincidence, but come on, and now this article.

*puts tinfoil hat on*

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

I read that the following Javascript code is sufficient to cause a crash in many Javascript-enabled browsers (Lynx need not apply, and you will need to turn on Javascript to have any chance to see this work):

<HTML>
<SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT>
</HTML>

Copy that into a text file, open it with your favorite web browsers and be prepared to lose work.

But I'm having odd results in two copies of Firefox 1.0. In my installation of Firefox 1.0 (from Fedora Core 3, fully updated) I get a prompt that lets me cancel running the scripts (I get prompted once per SCRIPT element). Running Firefox 1.0 from mozilla.org on Fedora Core 2 (again, fully updated) the browser quickly crashes.

Any hints as to why one Firefox is crashing and the other not? I'm guessing that there is a Javascript execution timeout setting I could adjust with about:config in the FC2 Firefox 1.0 which crashes? If so, which settings are relevant?

Thanks.

Sorry, but Google doesn't like that.

Good old never-be-evil Google doesn't see anything wrong with scraping thousands of news sites and putting them on their own web site. Scrape Google News, however, and you're suddenly on their lawyers' shit list.

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

[laughing out loud]

In July 2003, Gartner predicted 10% of all IT jobs (at vendors) and 5% in enterprises would disappear by December 2004. When they show the data on how accurate THAT prediction was, I'll consider being worried about the new results from their dart board.

Listen, buddy... it's not that we don't trust you (we do! of course we do, why wouldn't we) it's just that.. y'know, all the available sources seem to completely disagree with that statement - unless you count *yourself* as a source, of course.

So, I really would like to apologize on behalf of everybody here in the BSD section if, occasionally, you might be called names like "retard" or "clueless idiot" or "FUD-spreading GNU/troll". Maybe it's because of the academical spirit of the BSD projects that they attract scientific-minded people (duh!..) who tend not to believe in unsupported statements - and even less in statements going against the supported truth.
Besides, I really have to apologize for their complete lack of humour, because you clearly have been doing this for years just to be funny, and not to spread FUD.
On the whole, I hope you can forgive them for their close-mindedness that, I'm sure, is the reason that prevents them from dropping *BSD and switching to GNU/Linux.
Please forgive them, and don't take it personally!

(..I don't need to put an explicative closing tag here, do I!..)

-S

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

• Color
  [just published this past August]
  ISBN:1585422193
• Drawing on the Artist Within
  ISBN: 067163514X
• New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
  ISBN: 0874774241

I also purchased the following at Linuxworkd NY this year and found it a good read that would be germane to your needs:

• The Art of Interactive Design
  by Chris Crawford
  ISBN: 1886411840

• Adobe is on the SVG Working Group
• The standard utilizes aspects of Illustrator for rendering the:

• Edges;
• Spaces;
• and Relationships;

• Aspects of Photoshop for rendering:

Relationships (yes there is some crossover);

Lights and Shadows

Gestalt

• Follow this link for a security report entitled: Security Report: Windows vs. Linux
• Here is a nice little report about Viruses: Linux vs. Windows
• And here is The U.S. government's warning to Web surfers to stop using Internet Explorer (IE) browser.

That would be quite a big zombie invasion. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

Get a clue..

Windows Media remains integrated into the OS because Windows Media's processing is being handled at the DirectX level - that said, I don't know of a single vulnerability in Windows Media itself.

Indeed. The Internet2 consists of a super-set of technologies that are currently independent from the existing internet. i.e. The two networks are connected, but not all internet applications are compatible with Internet 2. Which is really too bad. I'd love to use a pipeline or two.

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

>I think some people believe it.
They should get a clue then! :)
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (June 2004)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."

Bye, lamer, have a nice day. :)
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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project
maybe the troll has different sources?.. :)

I picked the articles about FreeBSD because it's the BSD "mainstream" version, and now I'm talking about popularity. Of course this means nothing about the quality (let's remember that Windows is the "mainstream" OS... ;). In fact, NetBSD and OpenBSD are usually considered on the same level of excellence.

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

If you really want to know why Novell latched on to Linux then you just need to pay attention to what Chris Stone (Vice Chairman of the office of CEO and primary person behind the open source moves) has said about it. Basically, he blames the decline in NetWare to the fact that nobody except Novell write software for NetWare because it is such a bad development environment. Switching to Linux gave them a platform that developers will happily code for and it also gets rid of the dreaded "Legacy" label that has been haunting them for several years. The scary thing is that Stone, just today announced that he is leaving Novell for "other pursuits" http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3 431541, and based on previous ignorant statements by Jack Messman (Chairman and CEO), I'm not sure that anyone else in upper management at Novell really "gets it".

"However, banner advertising is like TV advertising. Its "presence"."

X10 went out of business. That's how effective "presence" was. Who the hell cares, if "everyone" knows about it. Clearly it didn't work.

Google, on the other hand, generated about $800M in revenue in the last quarter. From what I've read that's almost entirely advertising revenue. DoubleClick, on the other hand, made $81M in their last quarter.

Looks like "presence" doesn't really pay.

BSD what?
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (growing at the rate of half a million a year)
...you seem to have a problem telling trolltalk from facts. ;-)

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

Fine, but why isn't ProPolice distributed/enabled by default in gcc?

Yeah, it's "been around for ages!".

But, if that's the case, then why do we have buffer overflow fixes in OpenSSH , Mozilla, and Apache?

See, I know I could probably install this compiler extension, and pass flags and all that. I'm sure Gentoo nuts do it all the time.

But why the hell is this not done by default, everwhere, if it's been available for NN years? This is where Microsoft may actually be ahead of us.

But, I guess pointing out this unpopular fact makes me a troll?

The Zaurus line is a great one; I've had three models (5000D, 5500, 5600). However, my Treo does everything that the Zaurus can do, and comes with a phone! Since the Treo is a non-MS device, it also satisfies my desire not to support Microsoft. Of course, the Treo 650 will be even better. ;)

More articles, for the more article inclined.

Lawyers have said that Google News can never be run for profit, not that it must remain in "lawyer-induced beta" like that headline claims. Google News qualifies for Fair Use provisions as long as it is not a for-profit entity. It doesn't matter whether you call it "alpha," "beta," or "Suzy." Google News cannot make money; its entire purpose is to copy little samples of images and news from other companies' web sites.

Now if you want to start syndicating Google News yourself, Google has some news for you.

They became an Evil Company last april

I never contended that what they did was legal, only that the lawsuits have NOT stopped the downloading.
They have dramatically reduced activity. And they have certainly stopped those we were doing it.

but now you feel she not only should have known better it was justifiable for the RIAA to not only sue her but refuse to drop the case when the facts surfaced
No, I content that 12-yr olds should not be allowed to operate unsupervised, and that if she does, she should be held responsible for her actions as well should her guardians for being so remiss.

His grandkids had installed the software when visiting without his permission or knowledge. They downloaded some music, and left it running, set to start on startup. So the real violaters were his grandkids, he was an innocent bystander. Yet again your reaction is he got what he deserved.
Yes. He was operating a machine he was unqualified to operate, and was as such responsible for his ignorance.

Funny that there was no accusation in my post.
Yes, there was. The accusation was that Congress was owned by corporations and that RIAA/MPAA had purchased this law in a corrupt exchange.

As far as your claim they aren't working, get a clue. Do some research.

they got ripped off when they signed their contracts with the record companies
I can enter into any contract I want within the bounds of the law. There are thousands of very weatlhy artists. Even if they were ripped off by the RIAA, it doesnt make it okay for them to be ripped off by people who want without thinking of the law.

How soon we forget the studies that have shown that active downloaders buy more music
Irrelevant. That's irrelevant. If I make music and choose to release only to people I want, thats MY RIGHT. NOT YOURS TO BARTER AWAY WILLY-NILLY.

I'm far more concerned about things like that being prevented that Congress wasting time and money to pass yet more laws to go after music downloaders.
Lame argument. Congress can do more than aone thing at a time. Congress will continue to pass laws until the issue is resolved.

someone trojans your machine and starts sharing files off of it, then you find out 3 weeks later and spend 2 weeks trying to get it stopped weren't you "knowingly" sharing for those 2 weeks, even though you were trying to stop it? Yes you were, and you too could wind up in jail thanks to this law.
If you find out, you pull the plug. 30-seconds. Knowingly has a legal definition, you should look it up. It means you know what you are doing, and choose to do it anyways. Figure it idiot. You can make up lame examples all you want, it doesn't change the fact that this law is completely justified.

The public has spoken, repeatedly, by their actions that they do not support the RIAA's current business model any longer, that they will not stop downloading music even in the face of adverse consequences.
This isn't about a business model. This is about the law. The public has said that if P2P infringement is easy, they'll do it. Nothing more.

Further threat of jail time will just further crowd the already overcrowded jails with -- people who downloaded some music online. Now that's a good use of taxpayer dollars.
Ohh right. We should lock up murderers. You and I know both know that jail time will be for only the most extreme cases, and even then in a limited format.

Let's be real here. You have no idea idea what this law will or will not do. You haven't read the text, even though it is readily available. You have no idea what effect on musicians, artists, programmers, FOSS advocates, or whatnot will be if uninhibited P2P is allowed to proceed.

You haven't thought anywhere past the basic "Congress is in the pocket of the RIAA" and "Illegal music downloading helps muscians becauase it makes them more popular" and "why are we bothering with these crimes when crimes X Y and Z aren't stamped out yet". Typical childish perspectives.

A working link:

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 389071

It's strange the friends we seem to be making these days ... First IBM, now PWC.

IBM owns PWC. So in essence, these two friends are one and the same.

But he has made no secret of his opposition to the online sharing of copyrighted material. Last week he signed an executive order prohibiting state employees from using software designed for file sharing.

According to this article it appears that:

While the order prohibited the use of state resources to illegally download copyrighted material, it specifically allowed for legitimate uses of the controversial software -- in moderation.

So not quite so evil as it sounds..

I thought last year was supposed to be the 'worst ever' according to this article anyway.
Hmmm, let's review:
2003 - worst year ever
2004 - viruses sharply up (from the worst year ever)
So - when does that 'Great Security Initiative' of 2002 start working? Microsoft please - the authenticated code approach doesn't work. Sandboxes do.

I'll be convinced IBM contributes as much as Sun to OSS when I see that IBM has GPLed AIX like Sun will GPL Solaris...

Funny, the latest I've heard was that Sun still isn't saying what license they plan to use for Solaris. Do you have a link to an article where Sun claims they will use the GPL? All I've heard from them is that they want to "take the model with Java and bring it to Solaris."

Personally, as a Linux user, I'm much interested in IBM's real contributions to the Linux kernel. Their intent is to make Linux capable of replacing AIX eventually.

I'm not just talking about mainframe and POWER ports, as an anonymous coward above suggested, either. Of course, we all know about JFS, NUMA, SMP scalability, and EVMS (the last of which wasn't accepted, in the end). IBM has also contributed work on ext2/3, IA-64, PCI hotplug, udev, USB, and a number of other projects.

...or that IBM has given a huge office solution like OpenOffice...

How many office solutions do we need? How about a huge software development solution like Eclipse, instead?

...or that IBM supports Gnome with code contribution/HIG...

How about donating code to projects like Mozilla, Samba, and of course Apache (and more Apache)?

Finally, let's not forget that it's IBM that is paying the legal bills that will prove that Linux is free of whatever UNIX intellectual property may still exist, while Sun has been pumping funds into SCO's war chest.

• fired Perens
• leveraged SCO fud by asking protection money that cost even more than SCO asked,
• and decided to sell out their future with open source "agreed on a new patent cross license with Microsoft that protects HP in the short term, but it has significant impact on HP's use of Open Source software in the long term." is the way they put it

"We are still seeing copyright violations being committed and the damage is still occurring on a daily basis, yet the other side said, "What is the problem? Look, we took it out of the future versions."

We showed over a million lines of code and where it has existed. [Linux creator] Linus Torvalds has told me that the Linux kernel has around 5 million lines of code. This derivative code accounts for 20 percent of the Linux code base."
Q&A: SCO Group CEO Darl McBride By Michael Singer
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 114341

WTF! This guy can find a single line!! he must be blind! The CEO of SCO says that 1/5 of linux is a copy. Darl Mcbride would not lie!!!

Remeber SCO owns c++ too!
"And C++ programming languages, we own those" -Darl McBride
Caldera CEO waves UnitedLinux banner By ZDNet Staff August 15, 2002 http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/mai n/0,14179,2877578,00.html

And commerical businesss charge their employees how much for their email accounts? Nothing?

While a nice analysis it ignores the fact that many companies provide "internet" services on their own intranet and they may use commericial software to do that. That is what the Apple product is aimed at and that is what the upcoming Oracle server are targeted for. Not to mention the handful of folks selling commerical servers based upon different protocols (IBM, etc.).

I suspect a number of companies are wondering if it is a good idea for their "internal" IM travel out to AOL, Yahoo, MSN and back.