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Investigating the RIAA's Billion-Dollar Claims
zrosener writes "I've put together a site with a lot of information on the cases. I created
diagrams and explanations of the file sharing systems these students created
that the RIAA is suing them for - and how they are functionally and
technically very similar to Microsoft's tools built right into windows,
and how they are dissimilar from Napster's." Good detective work.
No. It's a MetaDupe!
So why the hell didn't you prepare?!
From the office of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka Baghdad Bob):
"In post Saddam Iraq, special Republican guards investigating the RIAA coalition's billion-dollar claims!"
More at 11.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
I can see it now...
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I've just completed a study on how BSD IS NOT DYING.
Everyone look at me whoopty friggin do.
I'm sure congress is scrambling to convene an emergency session to discuss some jim nobodies claims.
The courts will decide, in the end. The law is more about intent than the tools you used. You dont say "your honor, it wasnt a knife, it was a sharpened spoon!". Whats relevent is that someone was stabbed.
Oh well, blah blah blah etcetera.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Why post a story on Slashdot whose link is to a Dynamic DNS-served site? This person is not likely to have the bandwidth available on his home server (cable? low-speed DSL?) to come close to dealing with the Slashdot effect.
/. effect better than someone running a home server over broadband.
Let's please consider these things before a story is posted. I'm sure that there are good stories in the que that could have handled a
I hope I get to nail whoever M'd this redundant in M2. This is a perfect example of why I M2 all redundant M's as unfair.
You sad bunch of fucks!
please don't get a life.
Thank you, move along please.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying