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SCO Lists Specific Code-Infringement Claims
mugnyte writes "Those tireless folks at groklaw have transcribed and published the documents from the latest IBM/SCO hearing. In it, the exact lines of the supposed Dynix / AIX / Linux logic are given. SCO claimed that Linux's read copy update, journaling file system, enterprise volume management system, AIO (Asynchronous I/O), and "scatter gather" I/O code had been derived from either AIX or Dynix/ptx. Now we can take a look at what SCO thinks makes Linux an enterprise-ready platform started at 2.4, stealing away their market share. However, IBM released these things under the GPL ... so what license did IBM really have from SCO to do this? Which raises the question, What license did SCO have from Novell to disallow this?"
Ahhh, that stuff never gets old. Let it fly again!
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MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING
Yeah, you tend not to move much in that condition.
I have a flashback to Heavy Metal, the trial of Captain Stern(Darl) when they call out Sterns' "angle" Hanover Fist(Po' Badari)!
"PULAVARTY, CALLING BADARI PULAVARTY TO THE STAND!"
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
That reminds me of a joke: A blind man walks into a bar and says "Hey everyone, do you want to hear a blonde joke?"
There's a deathly silence, and finally the barmaid speaks up: "Sure, but before you tell it, I think I should let you know something: I'm blonde, the owner of the bar's blonde, the bouncer outside is a blonde, the woman sitting next to you is a black belt and she's blonde, as is my wieghtlifting chum at the end of the bar. Now, are you sure you want to tell us a blonde joke?
The blind man looks crestfallen. "I guess not", he says, "Not if I'm going to have to explain it five times."
ha ha ... nice try you fucking n00b! enjoy the karma hit!
Guinness in a bottle...? BRILLIANT!!!
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From Dictionary.com:
lie
noun
1. A false statement deliberately presented as being true
lie
verb
1.To present false information with the intention of deceiving
In October 2002, Bush said Iraq had "a massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for and is capable of killing millions."
That is a true statement. The stockpile still to this day hasn't been accounted for. We KNOW that he had the stockpile at some point. Bush never said Saddam has a stockpile now.
I have a funny image in my mind of a bunch of guys in turbans getting an order from Saddam Hussein over the radio. "Destroy the WMD! UN says so!" (in Arabic) and then them all getting insanely drunk and then blowing up rockets outside their base, and then drinking some more. Then Saddam radios in, "Guys, remember, we need to furnish proof" and they've been unable to present the weapons or proof of destruction since.
Bush and Blair may indeed have made false statements, but they were not necessarily deliberately false.
Mod "Overrated" instead of replying "I disagree with you," you coward.
IMHO... Bush isn't done lying until he gets what he wants, and Blair didn't know he was lying.
What The SCO Group fails to mention was that any agreements with IBM were with the Santa Cruz Operation. IBM dropped out of the Moterey Project after the sale of the UNIX portion of old SCO to Caldera. The SCO Group is trying to confuse the issue of what agreements were made to whom with their name change from Caldera. Of course Caldera would be pissed when IBM dropped out of something that they just bought and had high hopes for. But IBM didn't make the agreements with Caldera. Whether any agreements with the Santa Cruz Operation carried over with the sale to Caldera would depend on the wording of the agreements. My guess is that they don't, otherwise IBM would not have been so quick to drop the Monterey Project like a hot potato.
.005% of internet servers. "It's just not reliable," said Christine McGee, VP of Technology for eBay, Inc. "Nor do we find it a very modern OS. I would recommend Linux to anyone contemplating a server OS, or maybe Windows, before I would recommend a BSD."
There's a saying that if you tell a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it. And that's exactly what SCO is doing. They're trying to push the lies so that people will believe them. In reality, its organizations like IBM, Novell, AT&T, and groklaw that are doing all of SCO's homework for them. Heck, SCO even tried to compel IBM to show source code for AIX and Dynix which would effectively cause IBM to make SCO's case for them.
With a sickening thud, another blow has struck what's left of the *BSD community, as a soon-to-be-released report by an independent commission doing a year-long study concludes: *BSD is dead and mummified. Here are some of the commission's findings:
Fact: the *BSDs have balkanized yet again. There are now no less than twelve separate, competing *BSD projects, each of which has introduced fundamental incompatibilities with the other *BSDs, and frequently with Unix standards. Average number of developers in each project: fewer than five. Average number of users per project: there are no definitive numbers, but reports show that all projects are on the decline.
Fact: *BSD has no support from the media. Number of Linux magazines available at bookstores: 5 (Linux Journal, Linux World, Linux Developer, Linux Format, Linux User). Number of available *BSD magazines: 0. Current count of Linux-oriented technical books: 1071. Current count of *BSD books: 6.
Fact: servers running OpenBSD, which claims to focus on security, are frequently compromised. According to Jim Markham, editor of the online security forum SecurityWatch, the few OpenBSD servers that exist on the internet have become a joke among the hacker community. "They make a game out of it," he says. "(OpenBSD leader) Theo [de Raadt] will scramble to make a new patch to fix one problem, and they've already compromised a bunch of boxes with a different exploit."
Fact: There are almost no FreeBSD developers left, and its use, according to Netcraft, is down to a sadly crippled
Fact: DragonflyBSD, yet another offshoot of the beleaguered FreeBSD "project", is already collapsing under the weight of internal power struggles and in-fighting. "They haven't done a single decent release," notes Mark Baron, an industry watcher and columnist. "Their mailing lists read like an online version of a Jerry Springer episode, complete with food fights, swearing, name-calling, and chair-throwing." Netcraft reports that DragonflyBSD is run on exactly 0% of internet servers.
With these incontroverible facts staring (what's left of) the *BSD community in the face, they can only draw one conclusion: *BSD is dead and mummified.
You're not helping by adding all this noise to the conversation.
This "noise" is the conversation.
Need someone to explain the concept of slashdot to you?
i voted for him today
...OSDN registers "scodot.org" so we can have all of the aimless SCO news there, and then maybe we can see something else on Slashdot. I suppose then we could only use Slashdot to gripe about the new Microsoft Office commercials, since they clearly pose more of a threat to Linux than SCO ever will. Clearly.
I am feeling fat and sassy
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dtfinch gives shit to trolls. Trolls stalk dtfinch. dtfinch's mother takes it up the ass.
SCOCountdown.com is a load of shit. This is never, ever, ever going to end. At least not until long after everyone stops caring and 2038 hits and Unix stops working anyway.
Poindexter was a pawn in a massive power grab by a Congress that couldn't get a Democrat elected President. Some reference first, the Iran-Contra affair.
Simply put, the heavily Democrat Congress wanted to dictate foreign policy to Ronald Reagan, specifically how to deal with Communist Nicaragua. This was traditionally an executive power, though not constitutionally delimited as such, except inasmuch as Executive branch officials and military personnel are under the President's orders, not Congress'.
Whitewater had more meat to it than Iran-Contra, at least someone did something plausibly illegal there. What was done was ugly and distasteful, but not illegal. If anything was illegal, the Boland amendment was. The Congress had no Constitutional power to regulate the Executive branch in this way. The unwillingness of the higher officials in the Executive branch to admit that they were responsible for the actions (Shultz, Reagan) was what provoked the investigation and maddened the Dems into organizing a witch hunt. And it was a witch hunt.
Ollie North and Eliott Abrams (I believe this is a sic, his name is Eliot, but we'll go with the wiki here) were convicted on some pretty pathetic charges of 'lying to Congress' and 'accepting gratuities' (Abrams was browbeaten into it by 5 years of investigations that bankrupted him, read his book "Undue Process" for more details). Ollie North we know about, and his stupid security fence that he got convicted over.
Poindexter's part in this was to act as the fall guy. Apparently his conviction and taking of the majority of the blame for this was considered more acceptable than the political backlash of admitting what was done to the public.
Overall, an ugly incident but considering the relative merit of both sides - consider that the uber-slime and since disgraced Dan Rostenkowski and Robert Torricelli were two of the cheerleaders on the Democrat side, it just shows how really ugly politics is. Your vehement hatred of Poindexter is misguided in this light.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
AC have no karma.
i hope i can metamoderate this bitch (crosses fingers)
and that's no lie.
(some a-hole thinks parent is flamebait)
Re:Or maybe Howard Dean... (Score:4, Interesting) - With the MP3 link
Re:Or maybe Howard Dean... (Score:0, Offtopic) - With the rebuttal
Ahem, mods on crack. If you're going to make them offtopic, make them both offtopic or don't mod them at all.
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For those of you who don't want to jump on a media bandwagon and ignorantly listen to Howard Dean sounding keerazy because he's talking into a noise-cancelling microphone, you can view the original rally from the crowd's POV here.
Dean is still a lod moth jackass!!!
Edwards in 04!!!
Wrestlers (the loud-talking noncompetitive kind from TV) yell like that because they are talking to crowds of thousands of people, who are sometimes screaming themselves. When you see it on TV, you hear the noise-adjusted version culled from the wrestlers' mics, with crowd noise mixed from a different source as needed.
It's a good comparison, just not a negative one.
Two weeks ago, I was jamming out with my band and an old band member. We hadn't jammed with this guy in years. I had the vocals going through a mixing board, with mic's on all the other instruments as well. We were playing a cover of Helmet's "Iron Head." Listening back, there's a part in the middle where he screams (if you've heard the song, you may remember this part). Well, he screamed so loud, that the vocals clipped, and it was extremely distorted. It was significantly louder than everything in the mix, and painful to hear at the volume level I was listening at. And it sounded almost exactly like a long, stretched out version of the Dean scream. I laughed my ass off when I heard it. But I don't remember him sounding anything like that in the room.
I'll maybe have to put it up for comparison.
In any case, yeah.. Things aren't always recorded as they sound.