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Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code?
Jonathan Riddell writes "`It would appear that Castle Technology Limited, UK, have taken some of the Linux 2.5 code, and incorporated it into their own product, "RISC OS", which is distributed in binary ROM form built into machines they sell. This code is linked with other proprietary code.' Full details from Russell King on lkml."
Please suck my balls.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
which is worse... stealing non-free code, or selling free code?
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Stallman...hahaha...
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Under UNIX, use "file foo " to try to determine the type of contents in foo. It uses pattern information in the file /etc/magic to make its guess.
--JoeProgram Intellivision!
In the very first FIDE Man vs Machine Championship, Kasparov accepted a draw offer from Deep Junior to end the championship in a TIE. The audience started booing. Ahahahahahahaha. You heard it here first.
So I was dating this girl in a sorority for awhile. And things were going OK, but then we broke up. Now, there are a LOT of hot girls in this sorority, and once we broke up, I was pretty much barred from dating any of them. Oh, well. Now just gotta look in other places for booty. ;]
/. is kind of becoming an online version of this. "Oh no Microsoft is so bad or listen to this evil thing Apple did", and then hundreds of people go out there and flame these companies without ever having heard from them first. A bit blind, don't you think?
The thing that's disturbing is that after we broke up, it's kind of this sorority rule that they'll go out of their way to be mean to you, because you hurt one of their poor sisters. So now, not only am I barred from dating anyone else in that sorority, but odds are that if I try to talk to them, they'll just be total jerks to me for no reason and be just generally mean to me because of my ex-girlfriend.
Now, instead of dealing with problems like this on our own, a whole sorority of unthinking and unquestioning people can somehow get involved in a situation like this and leap down my throat for no good reason, and WITHOUT ever having heard my side of the story. Sound a bit familiar?
Seems like
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
A beowulf cluster of mourners was expected to attend his funeral.
From: Madu Nominees.
Plot 33 Nicholas Crescent, V/I.
Lagos-Nigeria.
Dear Sir,
I do not mean to embarras you by this proposal, but to confide to you a very sensitive issue, of a very pathetic situation, and also to seek your utmost assistance for the issue I am about to explain to you.
My name is Ezeani Madu, and I am the principle
consultant of the above mentioned law firm here in
Lagos Nigeria.
You see!, one of my clients, and ofcourse my most
valued client by name Hamza Al-Mustapha just called my presence to confide a very sensitive situation to me. My client happened to be the then chief security officer {CSO} to the former military dictator, Late General Sani Abacha, who died july 1998 on active service as the then head of state of the federal republic of Nigeria.
My client, Al-Mustapha is presently being detained in the prison custody, awaiting trial for charges of acute human right violations, and mismanagement of government fund, leveled against him and Mohammed Abacha, son of the late General {His Master}.
A first class information has revealed that the duo are likely to face life imprisonment for the charges against them, which they are likely to be convicted of. My client Al-Mustapha got this information somehowand called to brief me of a security trunk which he deposited with a trust company here in Nigeria before his arrest, and subsequent detention. According to him, the trunk contains the cash sum of US$35,000,000 which the trust company does not know about yet, as the content was declared as family jewelries and security documents. Also according to him, some security application was made on the bills to prevent it from being stolen or spent by another person, until the application is cleared.
Now that his chances of being set free from the
allegations against him are rare, he called me to
assist him secure the the fund, which ofcourse is the only hope of the family,{His two wives, and seven children}. After much deliberation however, I managed to convince him to endorse a change of beneficiary for the deposited trunk. This will enable the new beneficiary to put an application for withdrawal of the trunk as the new legal beneficiary to the deposited trunk.
In the light of this, I decided to contact you to
assist us in this transaction since the plan is to
have the change of beneficiary done in favour of a
foreigner, who also will be our foreign contact and assistance to move this money out of the country.
The arrangement is to change the beneficiary of the consignment into your name, forward you with all the necessary deposit documents to this effect and have you contact the trust company for withdrawal of the trunk as the new/legal beneficiary.
You will hereafter, request that the consignment be deliverred to you at your nominated destination. After proper identification and verification as the new legal beneficiary to the deposit, the company will release and ship the consignment to your agreed destination. The company may also take care of customs clearing and handling of the consignment until it is
deliverred at your domain, or any of your choosen
destination, as you may advise.
My client lost almost a hundred million US dollars, frozen in swiss banks and in different personal accounts on the instruction of the present deomacratic government of the fedral republic of Nigeria.
The plan to move this fund out of the country was
informed by a joint decission by the family of my
client to invest this money abroad, probably into
commercial real estate, at least to shelter their
money. You may also have the priviledge of brokering the purchase of valuable properties for my client, since they have all agreed to invest the money into commercial real estate as I tolf you.
Having gone through this explanation, and considering the fate of my client and the dependants he is about to leave behind as the sole bread winner of the family, should he not be lucky on this case, I ask a simple question:
Should my client suffer for offences allegedly
committed by him master?, should even his family be left, abandoned and even refused to be heard, by a government which is prosecuting their sole bread winner for human right violations?
To freeze an account of a fulltime house wife who
never knew anything in the government, yet they are denied the basic requirements of life, is a crime to humanity, and human rights violation at its peak. Yet my client's family is presently denied of telephone access etc, hence dening them the freedom of communication and association.
It is for this reason that I sincerely solicit your utmost assitance to move this fund out of the country, and maybe into your care abroad, on behalf of the family for safe keeping, subject to when they are ready to manage the fund. It is also expected that you will represent this
family in brokering the purchase of valuable/profitable proprties in your country or the neighbouring, so they can always fall back to these properties when the heat on the family reduces.
My client has also resolved to reward you hansomely with 5% of the total amount on the sucessful conclussion of this transaction.
I shall also be 100% available to provide you with all the necessary assistance and guidelines you may require on the course of this transaction.
I have just entrusted the details of this fund and the fate of this helpless family into your conscience for safe keeping. I also hope to have offerred you a great opportunity to make yourself some good money, I believe I have. Should the above transaction appeal to you therefore,
I hereby urge you to mail me your response immediately for further details and immediate commencement of this transaction. You will also be doing us a lot of good to guide this information with immense confidentiality, should
this transaction does not appeal to you.
Hoping to hear from you soon on this issue.
Regards,
Ezeani Madu. {ESQ}