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New Survey Finds No Linux 'Chill' From SCO Suit
daddywonka writes "According to this article at internetnews.com, an upcoming survey from the Robert Frances Group shows that 'cost-savings and the General Public License, or GPL, are trumping any concerns about SCO Group's claim of copyright infringement within parts of Linux.' The survey only covers 15 companies. That doesn't seem very reassuring to me. Do any slashdotters have experience with their companies pulling the plug on Linux projects due to the SCO trial or is it business as usual?"
"Your parents are aliens and when you're at school, they shed their human skins and breathe dryer lint!"
well, not everybody is thrilled, yet. many of the same execrabilious greed/fear/ego based corepirate nazi felons who oppose (intend to delete) the good gnus, are the same wons who fear (it's overwhelming for them) the creators' power. not much different from those who bulleaved the sadman had any real power.
many unwittingly support the life0cide against the planet/population, because they have been MiSled to ?think? that their personal wasteful frivolousness is actually good for US (see also: more monIE is all that really matters).
consult with/trust in yOUR creators... the lights are coming up now.
has anywon tried robbIE's gnu dating service yet, or herd any more about the illegitimacy (not a member of robbIE's service, may not be real at all) of the won-eyed girl in the jump-you ads.
survey says: lookout bullow
luminarIEs? (Score:mynuts won, do you need a date buddIE?)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 24, @08:25AM (#7802182)
icann see having pictures of linus et al. even mr allen seems to be a deceNT sort. but what the fud has the felonious softwar gangster naykid furor dictator of the payper liesense kingdumb of fud, done for the 'net, beside attempting to turn it into sum kind of garmeNT disstricked?
robbIE/lairIE's pateNTdead, whoreabully infactdead PostBlock(tm) devise is still broken again early this a.m., despite having blocked ranges of ip's across our great nation which was built on the notion of freedom of speech, etc...?
warm reception for creators newclear power mandate (mynuts won, turn the pateNTdead PostBlock devise on)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 24, @07:47AM (#7802062)
well, not everybody is thrilled, yet. many of the same execrabilious greed/fear/ego based corepirate nazi felons who oppose (intend to delete) the good gnus, are the same wons who fear (it's overwhelming for them) the creators' power. not much different from those who bulleaved the sadman had any real power.
many unwittingly support the life0cide against the planet/population, because they have been MiSled to ?think? that their personal wasteful frivolousness is actually good for US (see also: more monIE is all that really matters).
consult with/trust in yOUR creators... the lights are coming up now.
has anywon tried robbIE's gnu dating service yet, or herd any more about the illegitimacy (not a member of robbIE's service, may not be real at all) of the won-eyed girl in the jump-you ads.
survey says: lookout bullow
Here are some worries! Jami's TOP TEN LIST OF REASONS WHY WINDOWS XP sucks.
10.
Back in the day, one could totally access every function without the mouse, if needed. Tabbing through the screens and pressing enter can be convenient. Also were the use of Control and (letter) to represent a function. NOT ANYMORE! Everything is mouse-oriented. Mouse breaks? Sorry sucka.
9.
Most people agree- America Online just generally sucks. It looks bad, the graphics are hideously huge, takes forever to get into the next screen, disregards any overall visual composition and colors are so bold that even Tim Leary has never seen colors like this on his highest acid trip. Windows XP did NOT need to take pointers from AOL. Yet, the WHOLE setup looks like an AOL rip off."Well, at least they're not ripping off OS/2 anymore."
8.
Everything needs a password. You know, I was starting to get annoyed at how every website I access has a separate password. Hell, I don't even know my own phone #, and yet I am forced to remember 30 passwords? INCLUDING one to access my own computer? Sheesh!
7.
Each person who uses the computer must register themselves into the system (like a website). It then will configure the screen appearance to your own preferences. Nowadays, everyone in a family has their own computer system. That seem useless to me. Besides, I don't like seeing my name pop up at every application. I wonder what would happen if you registered yourself as Bill Gates? Would you get to access cool shit like in the game Zelda? Only, you get stuff like his bank accounts? heheheh.. worth a try I s'pose.
6.
A 50 gig hard drive, pentium 4 or 5 (thousand) should NOT be running as slow as a 486 trying to run Windows 98. Damn this system was so friggin bogged down when it was just first turned on. I'd hate to see how it runs with Photoshop on it. Ugh. My theory? All the new graphics and individual user capability is a memory hog!
5.
When an error message pops up, it also asks you if you would like to send your error message to Microsoft so they can look into the problem. Yeah! They are really going to send the Microsoft Fairy to fix what they messed up! I can only think back to the comic strip "The City" in which one strip had a keyboard with buttons like, Die you Virus Ridden Piece of Shit, Dial the Home # of the Idiot who Designed this Software, Make me a Latte, Increase my Sexual Potency, Check my Breath, Wake Me When the Boss Comes By, and finally, Don't Beep at Me, Just Do It. I'll wait until Microsoft can do that.
4.
Ok, why does the system need to come with all of the following internet programs: CompuServe, America Online, Prodigy, MSN, and Internet Explorer. Hmm... left out Netscape there buddy. Funny how I can't even find the regular network dialer. I'm sure in embedded in here somewhere. Bad monopoly, BAD. Oh- and the government restrictions did nothing- MSN Explorer is still an embedded program, which means you can't get rid of it. Its also even harder to add/remove programs and not all programs are not even listed under add/remove.
3.
The system loaded appearance screens and screensavers are even cheesier than before. My suggestion? Go to a website and download art for your screen appearance. Here is a website suggestion- www.thehumandespairproject.com and download pictures from Michael, Jon or Jason as your wallpaper background. Where are Jami's artwork you ask? You can also SEND MICHAEL (your webmaster for the human despair project) A MESSAGE LETTING HIM KNOW THAT HE STILL NEEDS TO SEND ARTWORK TO HER SITE. Funny how all the other artists in the Human Despair Project has artwork up besides her. And you know its because she's the best artist of the"fantastic despairing four." (ok, sorry for the embittered rant. I just want my work up damnit)
2.
Uhmmm.... explain to me why 1.44 mb floppy drives still exist, yet we still have to purchase zip drives (which hold a HELL of a lot of info) separately and are starting to become a dying fad? Zip d
Even worse analogy. SCO is Iraq. Linux is the U.N. Guess who's going to win in the end?
The ONLY way for this SCO affair to come out in their favor is if some judge decides they are entitled to own Linux copyrights. And that, friends, is not going to happen.
If I close my eyes I can see the dusting of freckles across the tops of her shoulders and feel her flat stomach tense under my palms when I kiss the back of her neck, but time has stolen her name from me.
Dude, I'm not being critical, but that is strange. I'm older than you are, and I still have too many living brain cells to forget the name of somebody I shared such memorable times with. Maybe it's repressed--you do still seem to have some residual warmth going there.
Anyway, Merry Xmas, etc. No offense, just a comment.
Mods, hit this one hard: -1 Seriously Offtopic