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Red Hat's Open Source Assurance Program
scubacuda writes "ZDnet and others report that Red Hat now offers the 'Open Source Assurance Program' as protection for customers if they get hit with a copyright infringement case from the SCO Group. From their website: 'A key feature of the Open Source Assurance Program is an Intellectual Property Warranty. The warranty ensures, that in the event that an infringement issue is identified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux software code, Red Hat will replace the infringing code. Red Hat's warranty assures customers that they can use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related solutions without interruption. The warranty is available for all customers having a valid registered subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux or related solutions.'" Following close behind Novell and Hewlett-Packard, but it looks like Red Hat is not actually indemnifying their customers like Novell and HP, but rather is simply promising to fix any real copyright problems moving forward, which is something I think we would assume they would do in any case.
What is it about? And is it wack?
It is now official - CNN has confirmed: Howard Dean is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Howard Dean community when he recently placed 3rd in the Iowa Caucus. Coming on the heels of the latest Zogby survey which plainly states that Howard Dean is losing support in New Hampshire, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Howard Dean is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by his recent statements that Osama Bin Ladin was probably not guilty.
You don't need to be Tim Russert to predict Howard Dean's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Howard Dean faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Howard Dean because Howard dean is dying. Things are looking very bad for Howard Dean. As many of us are already aware, Howard Dean continues to lose popularity in opinion polls. Red-faced rants erupt like a Mount St. Helen.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi states 18% of Democratic Iowa voters prefer Howard Dean. How Many John Kerry Supporters are there? Let's see. The number of John Kerry supporters versus Howard Dean supporters at the Iowa Caucus was 2 to 1. Therefore, he is preferred by 36% of Iowa Democrats. This is consistent with his 38% results at the Iowa Caucus.
Due to the troubles of Carol Mosely-Braun, abysmal polls and so on, she ended her campaign and endorsed Howard Dean. Now Dick Gepheardt is dead, and Howard Dean is next.
All major polls show that Howard Dean has steadily declined in popularity. Howard Dean is very angry and his long term survival prospects are very dim. If Howard Dean is to survive at all it will be among extreme anti-war freaks. Howard Dean continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Howard Dean is dead.
Fact: Howard is dead
Well, I gotta say. You certainly proved *your* worth with your oh-so-eloquent bit of prose there...
doesn't the fact that the big businesses protecting Linux now means that when Linus decided against a traditional GNU licence and allowed businesses to make money with his work he has done the right thing and *that the GNU licence as it stands right now will always have some legal existence problems*?
Hi, I've been using QNX for the last few weeks on my 1 GHz Penium III system, and I'm quite baffled by the performance or lack thereof that I've been seeing.
I downloaded the QNX 6.2.1 ISO, burnt a CD, and installed onto my hard drive. This was after erasing an old Windows 2000/Linux dual-boot install. Things went smoothly, and I was easily able to connect to the Internet for updates to various packages. I was really impressed at this point.
After a couple days of playing with it, however, I was boggled at how much like Windows the system acted. Here I was with a 1 GHz processor (the minimum required is 600 MHz) and 1 gigabyte of RAM and Photon, the GUI, was lagging. If I have a few programs open and an MP3 playing in the background, I can watch widgets redraw. Tweaking some options helped a little, but this is not in line with what I have read about QNX performance.
Isn't this supposed to be a hard realtime operating system that runs on medical devices meant to save peoples' lives? How is it that it runs on 33 MHz processors with 128k of RAM in an IV drip yet skips MP3s on a system 100x beefier in every way imagineable? Do they release a different version for free that doesn't try for realtime performance or what?
After less than a full month I've grown dissatisfied with something I'd hoped I could replace my Windows and Linux installs with for leisure and hobbyist purposes. My main system is a dual 3 GHz Pentium4 box with 4 gigs of RAM, but that's a DV workstation and I can't use it just to see how QNX scales with more robust hardware and a dual processor configuration. Something tells me it might not, though.
Can anyone offer me any insights? I realize that this is a free operating system and that I have little room to bitch, but I want to make sure there's nothing I'm missing before I discount QNX altogether and go back to Windows or Linux, which while performing slugglishly are more familiar to me.
Thank you.
editors abuse the moderation system, why cant we? someone post a link to that infamous thread...
Uh, I mispelled solution and then put it in quotes. So much for my journalistic integrity. :(