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You just made a double-fault.

... was originally a Perl program ...

Patently False

HISTORY of CVS:

[...]

CVS algorithms actually started in Universities several decades ago and CVS implementation started out as a bunch of shell scripts written by Dick Grune, who posted it to the newsgroup comp.sources.unix in the volume 6 release of December, 1986. While no actual code from these shell scripts is present in the current version of CVS much of the CVS conflict resolution algorithms come from them. In April, 1989, Brian Berliner designed and coded CVS. Jeff Polk later helped Brian with the design of the CVS module and vendor branch support.

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source: CVS-RCS-HOWTO

Ironically, CVS was originally a Perl program until a C version was needed to make it real software.

At the bottom of the list Linux Networx (which does) Linux Clustering

The mystery company that payed up???

Speaking of going on the offensive, I am trying to put together a list of alternatives for each company that is a member of Canopy Group. Hit them in the pocketbook, as that is all they understand.

I need your help idientifying alternative companies for each of them. If you know alternatives to them, please contact me with the information, or reply to this thread. :)

Speaking of going on the offensive, I am trying to put together a list of alternatives for each company that is a member of Canopy Group. Hit them in the pocketbook, as that is all they understand.

I need your help idientifying alternative companies for each of them. If you know alternatives to them, please contact me with the information, or reply to this thread. :)

The copy on my own website has been served to about 5000 distinct hosts so far this month. A google search for "Let's Put SCO Behind Bars" turns up 2190 matches.

Most of those are links. The article has a Creative Commons license, and I've been encouraging copying. By doing various searches, and checking my logs for referring pages, I've found a few dozen other copies on the web, many of them on message boards where they've had lots of readers.

It turned out to be very helpful when Linux Universe asked me to submit my article there. They use UBB codes instead of HTML. I realized that lots of other message boards use UBB, so I saved a copy on my site in UBB format for people to copy to other message boards.

I've been meaning to write a plain-ascii version suitable for email and usenet but haven't gotten to it yet.

Both Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond enjoyed the article. Stallman said that if it weren't against his ethics to write proprietary code, he would have enjoyed working at the SCO of old as I described it.

My first draft I posted at Advogato, followed soon after by InfoAnarchy and then Kuro5hin.

However, I didn't succeed in getting Slashdot to feature it. One can only dream.

I have been hesitant to allow copying of many of my articles before now, but when one's objective is to get a lot of people to read what one has written, and to do so in a short time, it works wonders.

They want all commercial customers to pay for a Unixware 7.1.3 license for EVERY copy of Linux they are running.

Here's my rundown of the call

I'm anti people without a sense of humor.

Be careful or I will release the Fembots. Wait till you see their knee-jerks.
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Closing Windows. Opening Eyes.
Linux-Universe

Dear Engineers,

Somebody power up one of the lasers and aim at the plaintiff's attorneys.

Thank you,
Geeks for Tort Reform

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Closing Windows. Opening Eyes.
Linux-Universe

Sorry but once all DVDs are re-released under DRM no classics will be able to be used.

If nobody buys them, they won't be released with DRM. The media companies are there to make money. It is people that shrug their shoulders and buy them anyway that are allowing them to widen the scope.

As for no entertainment, buy a concert ticket, see a broadway show, do any one of a number of things. Movies and bad spoon fed music aren't the only games in town.
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Vote on the AIX license revocation.

Brazil mandated that since all government data must be accessible by the populace, so must the tools to access it, as they can't be locked into a situation where the vendor controls the data.

Which is why my original post said I was OK with mandating open sourced file formats and protocols.

I think all the governments who are concerned with this type of situation (and that should be all of them) should work on enhancing open office's formats, as they are open. Then we can have Universal Word Processing format and Universal Spreadhseet Format and anyone will be able to exchange information with anyone else. And any software company or developer can incorporate the ability to read and write those formats. We can thus break the stranglehold MS currently has on information.

I respectfully disagree with your position, but I do understand it. And I am ok with that too. :-)
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Who do YOU think owns Unix?

IMO, and that is all it is, an opinion, if you mandate that software must have a particular license than you have forced yourself into choosing from that particular subset of software (that which is licensed in the way you have mandated). You thus automatically exclude what may be better, but not "licensed according to the mandate" software.

As I said, just my opinion.
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FSF's Lawyer Speaks Out On SCO

This is just as wrong as if a country mandated 80% Microsoft. Mandate open file formats and protocols, but don't mandate people or agencies MUST use a specific type of software.
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Who do YOU think owns UNIX?

The catch is DRM is coming and will tie up IE, the OS, Office and your ability to view (or not view) documents quite nicely.

To "protect" their data, people (similar to how some make IE-specific web sites) will produce DRM-Protected content. This will require you to use IE 7, which only comes with the OS so you will have to buy a new copy of windows, and office will rely on the same engine to render the documents, which of course will require the latest version of Office, requiring you to upgrade that as well.

I have to give MS credit, it's a beautiful, if evil, plan.
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Who do YOU think owns UNIX?.

funny you should mention that...sco is apparently threatening to expand their case to now include "a major hardware manufacturer". They do not say who, however. (Shocking I know). Here's the C|Net Article.
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Please take the poll:
Who Actually Owns UNIX?

Error checking hasn't been removed from TCP; we've removed it from Slashdot story summaries instead, speeding up the posting by nearly 6000x.
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Linux-Universe

Slashdot is still valuable as a place to see people rant about Slashdot.
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Linux Is Dying

They should go to IPv6. IPv6 solved many problems for us.

Like that pesky problem about securing our network. Now we don't need to worry about that anymore. Thanks Microsoft!
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Take the SCO Poll
Linux-Universe

Heck, I just might give this a whirl on one of my testboxes...

So, the advertising worked, is what you're saying. :-D

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