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Yeah, apparently it's true, but it happened last September. Whew...that's some breaking news story.

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According to some guy on the internet, this story is old. http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/36819/index.h tml

I don't think the best way for the OP to resolve a conflict between site A and site B is to read what site A thinks about it :-P

SCO Uses Legal Documents from Groklaw and Tuxrocks

Well, well, what have we here? SCO has put up its own legal documents page after all. Evidently the generic brand anti-Groklaw websites that coincidentally sprang up just when theirs didn't were not a huge success. So they have put up their own page here: <a href="http://www.sco.com/scoip/">http://www.sco.co m/scoip/</a> All they have there so far are some of the legal documents in all their cases. But Frank Sorenson noticed one little thing: it appears the defenders of their most holy IP grabbed the PDFs from Groklaw and Frank's tuxrocks.com site, without giving us credit for doing the work of obtaining the documents from the court and scanning them to create the PDFs. Oops.

- Tom

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/33934/index.h tml

...but I have cursed (metamodded against) the idiot who painted this with a "Flamebait" rating.

Note to such idiots: modding is not about whether you agree with what's said, it's about how well the poster made their point. This post was well written, made some good points (if not as valid as the author might hope), was on topic and (-: hallelujah! :-) gramatically correct.

I'd give it +1 Interesting. Perhaps Slash needs to do something like LXer and break the ratings out into separate agree/disagree, quality/trash scales?

My point is that Sun has not been successful in building much of an outside developer community, for what should be the second most important software program in all of Open Source software, behind only the kernel. Of the people participating, a good many are Sun contractors, etc. And it's difficult to find very many volunteers. Says who exactly. 50% of the project leads on OpenOffice.org do not work for Sun. In addition there is a very large community of reviewers and testers who don't work for Sun. Finally OpenOffice.org has won a number of awards for the quality of the SW it has produced and in addition the quality of the OpenSource program itself. http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/11244/ Refers to a recent award not for the quality of OpenOffice but for the OpenSource project itself Care to explain what leads you to your conclusion when all the facts tend to suggest the opposite.

Using Gentoo ebedded makes total sense, since you can customize it during install to be as big or small as you want.

as for the compiling joke, it's pretty old, and partially untrue if you use binaries during emerge (much like FreeBSD's pkg_add). Nonetheless, please read Dispelling the myths of Gentoo Linux, an honest review, and learn before you flame. After that, go on using whatever Linux distro you prefer.

CB

you are not dave from Lxer by any chance are you?

I always thought this was a good overview, and directly addressed some misconceptions about Gentoo. Regardless, people that don't care won't get it, but that's fine; Gentoo isn't for everyone, that's why there are lots of distros out there.

Personally I've learned more by using Gentoo than from any other Linux. YMMV.

CB)#@$@

(can you tell me about a US computer mag, which actually features news?)

Linux Journal and Linux Maganize come to my mind. Even though their news lag several months behind, they're still a treat to read. I go online for my news, magazines for insight and articles.

I know, I know, don't feed the trolls, but if more ppl would read things like this: Dispelling the myths of Gentoo Linux, an honest review: more ppl would know what they were talking about in regards to Gentoo.

Oh, and CAN WE GET A GODDAMN GENTOO TOPIC ICON ON /. PLEASE!

CVB!@#$%^&*()

Funny how it used to have one them ..

see here, I also think there was a flaw which was corrected seperately to do with loading and intepretting .exrc from the current directory, etc, /tmp, which was fixed as well.

No program is too trivial to have flaws.

I've looked at linuxtoday every day for the
last 3 years. However that stopped 2 weeks
ago when I switched over to lxer

It's a little broader and much less noise.
Try both over 56K modem to really see what I mean.

• emerge -k (packagename)

• We recommend Red Hat Fedora, Mandrake Linux or SUSE for the first time switchers. These three distributions are easy to install, have good hardware compatibility and come with boatloads of software. As you gain Linux experience, you can try more difficult distributions such as Debian or Gentoo.

Did you actually read IBM's proposal? They were offering their own implementation. They just wanted Sun to do the same thing and merge efforts to make it a *true* community driven language.