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Apple Responds To iTunes "First Sale" Question
atallah writes "It looks like Apple has come out and explained its position on resale of songs. It is interesting that they didn't flat-out reject the idea.
Check out this Business Week article."
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Darl here, with another fine Fr1st P0st. After all -- SCO did everything first, and the rest of the responses to this story will owe their heritage to a foundation built on SCO's staff of talented programmers.
You may be wondering why SCO salesmen are not answering your numerous calls while you try to order more SCO licenses. Well, we aren't answering the phones because we're too busy celebrating our newest business partner. Rather than explaining it myself, I'll let our formal press release do the talking. Take it away, Mr. Reuters...
LINDON, Utah, Sept. 8/PRNewswire - FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner and licensor of the core UNIX operating system source code, today announced its second Fortune 500 clent for the SCO Linux IP license, the GNAA (Nasdaq: RHAT - News), developer of fine Slashdot trolls on irc.efnet.net #GNAA, also well-known for revolutionizing small business development with its "Step 2: ??????" profit model. The availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux affords Linux deployments to come into compliance with international law for the use of all 2.4 and future kernels. The run-time license permits the use of SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux distributions.
By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 kernels and assure Darl financial security for the purchase of his second home. Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed. Source may still be distributed under the terms of the GPL, however source distributors are held accountable for all violation of SCO's IP. Indemnification is provided for customers of runtime clients only. Read that twice, dirty hippy. You're not in the clear yet.
GNAA spokesperson penisbird said of the licensure, "coming into compliance affords us a new competitive advantage with the other Slashdot authors. By being in the right, we can thumb down our noses at not only the Windows users and the BSD-thieving Mac Users, but also the unwashed Linux hippies running stolen code on their parents' PCs." VP of anus enlargement goat-see added, "fr1st p0st? damn i miss. how do i next story?"
Mr. Darl McBride concurred with GNAA's analysis, adding "We soon hope to convince additional clients such as Trollklore and Cabal of Logged In Trolls of the benefits of licensing SCO's valuable IP. Also, I <3 GNAA bunny. (@.@)" JesuitX clarified the nature of the SCO and GNAA alliance, adding "We're more than just a licensing client. We're also going to be helping to bring these other potential licensors into compliance. We can break them in little by little as paying sublicensors. The alternative is pretty horrible. Our lawyers can take a reticent client from virgin to hello.jpg [figure 2] in under an hour, and believe me -- it is not pleasant."
Commander Taco was unavailable for comment, however Cowboy Kneel was said to ask for a print of [figure 2] for his basement apartment. Simoniker remained British and unable to spell "color," while Timothy responded by posting the same story six times, and Hemos reposted a seventh time, the submission differing only from his application of that damned Einstein icon.
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but i doubt it. if it is, please someone stab me to death because i hate my life and i want to die. thanks.
Nevermind that searching for 'playboy' in the (non-mature) Magazines & Catalogs section yields 2064 hits. There are also 3 listings for the August '77 Oui in question.
This happened within a week or so of eBay canceling the iTunes auction.
Let's do a quick comparison. The following is the current going prices of the listed hardware on newegg.com:
$47.00 - ECS K7S5A mainboard, AGP 2x/4x, USB 2.0 (onboard 10/100 NIC)
$74.00 - AMD AthlonXP 2200+ (1.8GHz, 266MHz FSB) retail
$80.00 - 512MB PC2100 RAM (major brand)
$129.00 - Nvidia GeForceFX 5200 Ultra 128MB DDR
$33.00 - Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Dolby Digital 5.1 SB0220
$63.00 - Acer DVD/CDRW 48x24x48x16 Drive
$72.50 - Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM 2MB cache
$40.00 - Standard ATX AOpen case with 300watt and front USB ports
$34.99 - Belkin Wireless keyboard and mouse combo
$369.00 - Optiquest Q170 17" LCD Monitor, 1280x1024, 80Hz
Grand Total: $942.49
With Linux from ISO: $942.49
With Microsoft Windows XP Home, SP1a ($93): $1,035.49
The above system is more powerful than Apple's midrange "revamped" offering, the 1.25GHz G4 with a 17" display, which runs $1,799.00. That's $763.51 more expensive than the above system with Windows XP Home SP1a. $763.51 more for a system with closed hardware, half the system memory, half the video RAM, and less raw computing power. Why would anyone willingly pay so much more money for so much less?