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Novell Vice Chairman on Ximian, SCO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-gonna-get-stranger dept.

dotnothing writes "microsoft-watch.com has an interview with Chris Stone, who is the Vice Chairman of Novell. Stone says that Novell will be introducing a Linux distribution with Novell products and the Ximian desktop, but that they are not out to compete with Microsoft. He also expressed some gratitude to Red Hat for countersuing SCO."

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  1. Black economy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I'm glad they don't run this great country - at least yet.

    Keep America great. Keep America prosperous. Keep America white!

    1. Re:Black economy by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Mike Tyson in London in January 2000 after spending $1.6 million on a watch and a diamond bracelet.
      Actually he'd only bought the watch, costing 1 million on it's own, after not being able to buy an F1 car. It was in G2, a supplement of The Guardian this morning :)

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  2. FIRST HOMOSEXUAL POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like cock.

    1. Re:FIRST HOMOSEXUAL POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Strange, so does the poster of #6614241 above.

      Is your name Cletus by any chance?

      Donny

    2. Re:FIRST HOMOSEXUAL POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      You mean this post?

      I don't get it.

    3. Re:FIRST HOMOSEXUAL POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wrong post fuckwad.

      I think you need to read "Slashdot for Dummies"

  3. Osnews by haydenth · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It seems like Osnews has been beating Slashdot to the punch lately. I usually see an article on osnews, then a few days later it pops up on slashdot (or slashdot takes the article from osnews alltogether).

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  4. FYI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Control

    The following settings are related to channel and user control.

    Auto-Op
    If a user joins a channel where you have Ops and that user's address is listed in the auto-op list, they will be given Op status. You can add an address to the list in the following format:

    nick!userid@host,#channel1,#channel2

    On IRC, user addresses are specified in the format:

    nick!userid@host

    So if my nickname is MadGoat and my address is khaled@mirc.com then to put me in your list, you would use:

    madgoat!khaled@mirc.com

    If I change nicknames a lot, then you would use:

    *!khaled@mirc.com

    If I change my nickname and userid a lot, then:

    *!*@mirc.com

    The /auto command /auto [-r] [#channel1,#channel2,...] [type]

    The -r switch indicates that the address is to be removed.

    If you do not specify a type then only the users nickname is added to the op list. If you specify a type then the users address is looked up via the server and added to the list.

    Random delay auto-op
    This option introduces a random 1 to 7 seconds delay in the auto-op routine. This is to prevent channel windows from filling up with mode notifications whenever a nickname is in the auto-op list of several users. If at the end of the random delay the user has already been opped then mIRC does not perform an Op.

    Ignore
    If a user sends you a message, whether on a channel or in private, and that user's address is in the ignore list, the user's message will be ignored and won't be displayed. You can add an address to the list in the following format:

    nick!userid@host,private,invite,ctcp

    The /ignore command /ignore [-lrpcntikxu#] [type]

    Where p = private, c = channel, n = notice, t = ctcp, i = invite, k = control codes.

    The -u# switch specifies a delay in seconds after which the ignore is automatically removed.
    The -r switch indicates that the address is to be removed.
    The -x switch indicates that this address should be excluded from ignores.
    The -l switch displays the list of ignored addresses which match the specified switches.

    If you do not specify a type then only the users nickname is ignored. If you specify a type then the users address is looked up via the server and all messages coming from this address will be ignored.

    You can clear the ignore list by specifying -r with no address.

    Note: if you have a /query window open with someone, private messages from them won't be ignored even if their address matches an ignore address.

    Protect
    If you are on a channel and you have channel Op status, any users that match the given nicknames will be automatically protected. mIRC does this by kicking or de-opping anyone who tries to kick or de-op your protected users. You can add an address to the list in the following format:

    nickname,#channel1,#channel2

    Note: This option is limited to using nicknames because of the way IRC servers work.

    The /protect command /protect [-r] [#channel1,#channel2,...]

    The -r switch indicates that the address is to be removed.

  5. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not quite fp :P

  6. Re:How come by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your sig: "Free your mind"? I think a better line would be "put on your tinfoil hat, boyos, because we've got a lot of leftist conspiracy theories to share!"

  7. ZENworks on Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Sweeeeeet. I've you've ever used ZEN you know what great news this is.

  8. Re:What did Novell buy ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    you are so fucking stupid it actually makes my asshole hurt.

  9. Please ask this question at the conference call! by yeremein · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Blake Stowell on Moglen's statement that users don't need a "copyright license":
    Copyright absolutely applies. For the same reason that a commercial user must have a valid licence to run Microsoft Word, a user must also have a valid licence to run our Unix source code.

    It was my understanding that the Microsoft EULA is the "use" license for Word--Linux customers have made no agreement with SCO.

    In addition, Stowell admits that IBM holds the copyrights to the code in question (emphasis mine):

    While IBM owns the copyrights on these derivative Unix programs, SCO owns the control rights to these and they cannot be contributed to open source. The contracts between IBM and SCO state all of this.

    Someone please ask SCO this:

    Since IBM has the copyrights to the code in question, what recourse can SCO possibly have against end-users?

    It looks to me like all they can do is go against IBM for breach of contract. But they're inventing a new kind of intellectual property, "control rights", which allow them to go against end-users, or so it looks to me.

  10. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by T-Ranger · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Stallman is a lot of things. But when it comes time to be throwing quotes from powerfull people around when discissing the future of the computer world, his name should be at the bottom of the list.

    Java might be a threat to his free software utopia that exists (only in) his mind, but in the real world its not a problem.

  11. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by Rinikusu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a poor person, I'd rather have the full loaf.

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  12. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by Tokerat · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    It's GNU/Stallman, dammit!

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