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IBM Doesn't Comply With SCO's Deadline
prostoalex writes "IBM refused to settle with SCO and comply with their deadline, expiring Friday the 13th. "We've got a strong defense case, and we're going to fight it", IBM representative is quoted."
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assboats for everyone! your gonna need em especially, sco.
*snore*
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
she was making out with some guy. Probably just met him. He seemed more interested in his Budweisre than in her. She was grinding her hips, dry fucking him. He was standing there. Then he went off to the bar to get another drink. She stood around for 10 minutes looking sad. I briefly thought, "hey, leftovers!", but her arms were a little too flabby, and i expected she wouldn't look so good in the morning.
eventually, she found her "boyfriend" and started making out with him again.
Francisco Franco is still dead.
2.4.21 is out.
Now, what's particularly interesting is that it's arrived right at the dead time between SCO treatening to do something, and actually doing it.
If I wanted to thumb my nose at SCO, I'd release a kernel right now (probably call it the "recumbant bicycle" release, or something). Of course, the dev time for the stable series is so long, that it's just coincidence - right?
So why did Marcelo say he was planning 2.4.22 in a few weeks?
If SCO's aim is to hurt linux, I think that they just got a good demonstration that the engineers (who, in terms of OSS, are the only ones who count) don't care about them.
I don't feel that OpenBSD's strength is that they are doing something different. It shares a large base of code with the other BSDs and is about as *nix as you can get. The strength of OpenBSD is that the maintainers are actively seeking out and squashing bugs. Even with all the linux advocates out there trumpeting the many eyes theory it doesn't beat a core team that spend the majority of their time just finding bugs.
Pol.
Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,
Giving more light than heat,--extinct in both,
Even in their promise, as it is a-making,--
You must not take for fire. From this time
Be something scanter of your maiden presence;
Set your entreatments at a higher rate
Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
Believe so much in him, that he is young;
And with a larger tether may he walk
Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,--
Not of that dye which their investments show,
But mere implorators of unholy suits,
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
The better to beguile. This is for all,--
I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth
Have you so slander any moment leisure
As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
Look to't, I charge you; come your ways.
IBM even made machines that were sold to Nazi Germany before WW2 and used to administrate the execution of Jews. Or so I heard.
in soviet russia, ibm complies with you!
"The meek shall inherit the earth, the rest of us shall go to the stars." Isaac Asimov
mod down lame and ignorant
If you want safety, buy treasuries. The government can just print up more money if they need to pay you.
And they're going to have to do it, too, which will accelerate inflation- the #1 enemy of the bondholder. It swallows your interest earnings. If they just turn on the printing press to pay you, it wasn't such a good investment, was it?
If you want safety, buy Euros. The dollar is going to crash sooner or later once they start printing money to pay for these tax cuts and the baby boomer retirements. As a share of federal budget outlays, interest payments on the debt have already almost caught up to what we spend on the military.
Almost makes you wonder why the government even bothers to borrow money instead of just printing it in the first place. It wouldn't be any more irresponsible than what it's doing now.