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OSDL Answers SCO With Kernel Awareness Campaign
prostoalex writes "Open Source Development Labs announced a new initiative to increase customer confidence in using Linux in business. The initiative is launched in answer to legal claims by SCO Group. So far managers and developers around the world are supposed to boost their confidence in Linux with the help of this little poster, which explains the kernel development process."
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Its very managment speak with a few differenet coloured tux's
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http://slushdot.org/mirror/poster/linux_dev_proces s.jpg
The "volcano" is actually an erlenmeyer flask. I'd guess it's supposed to conotate "experimental".
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Never link a big uncropped jpg image from slashdot.
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Since OSDL is kinda slow and lagged, heres the image:
http://www.sosdg.org/images/linux_dev_process.jpg
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Actually, hilarity ensues, you asshat! ;)
/.: why the hell am I here?
Linus would be the Penguin with the flask, aka Fux, Andrew Morton would be with tbe briefcase, aka Bux.
Not actually true. Patent violation in this (weird) country applies even if there was a good-faith effort to avoid such tussles. Most courts would look kindly upon a group that, upon discovery of the problem, removed all areas of offence. However, as a proven by microsoft's previous tussles in this area, ongoing usage once a patent violation is discovered requires payment. If SCO had any evidence, and Google was found to be in violation, a court may waive an initial damages clause but would require that they either pay up for a license or switch to a different OS.
If mere Copyright violations are found, suits against end users would have no basis, but the result would be the same. Distribution of Linux would become illegal, therefore Google would still need to pay a gaggle of *bsd programmers for a port. I may be off in this regard, but I believe Google would retain the right to their current server farm... but without security patches, the system would be quickly hacked. Maybe.
Either way, Linux end users need to understand that they cannot be sued *without proof.* So far, SCO has dodged every possible opportunity to provide proof, and likely will continue to do so. They have already been banned from this extortion racket in other countries, where they declined to show any evidence of their claims. Why would they behave any differently with any other company? A year into the IBM case and they are still stalling on procedure.
It brings up a very interesting question. Which will die first... The case, or the company?
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A couple of people aperantly havn't realized that OSDL, the group that released this isn't the same as OSDN, the group that owns slashdot, source forge, etc. OSDL is a multi-company group including IBM that funds Linux and other OSS software, and employs Linus.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Worse... given the fact that there are large swatches of flat-color, a JPEG is one of the worst formats that you can save an image like that in (even if you kick the quality way up).
That image needed to be cropped and saved out as a GIF, PNG or TIFF (e.g. a compression format that is lossless). It would have resulted in sharper edges with no blotchiness.
Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?