America. The only country in the world where suing someone is a right.
That's correct. Defined in the First Amendment, the same one that protects the rights of free speech, freedom of religion, free press, and freedom to peaceably assemble. Most countries don't have those, either. A rather remarkable amendment.
well, I am a legally licensed user of the Linux source code according to the GPL. That license predates SCO's copyright filing by many years.
SCO is alledging, and attempting to prove in court, that the Linux developers didn't have a right to some of that code, and thus can't legally GPL it.
Assuming they're correct, they have an absolute legal right to do this. You won't get anywhere suing for your rights to use a product you obtained illegally.
Assuming they're not correct, they still have a legal right to do this, if there case has even a little merit and isn't judged by the court to be a deliberate abuse of process.
If they are guilty of abusing the courts, you STILL don't have a case against them, because they haven't deprived you of anything.
If you want to sue somebody, sue the vendor who sold you your copy of Linux, assuming you bought it. If not, you got free shit and you might have to lose it. Cry me a river.
Now, if you wrote CODE that's in the kernel, it's a different deal. You have all kinds of standing here to make SCO's life suck. They may be violating YOUR copyright.
Bullshit. If they thought it was truly extortion, they'd file a complaint with the police.
They were trying to get paid, and it backfired.
DirecTV is going to wind up in trouble over this, but people looking for a quick buck have no right to bitch just because DirecTV's hands aren't clean either.
I cut my kid off from having things containing corn syrup on weeknights, and helped the day care come up with ways to challenge him intellectually, and all the problems went away.
ADHD is a hoax invented by the drug industry. Millions of children are being given a Schedule II psychoactive narcotic, Ritalin, to correct a dietary problem. Cut down on the sugar, avoid artificial color dyes, spend more time with your kid, and make him go outside instead of vegetating in front of the TV, and you will correct the problem without being a lazy bastard and addicting your kid to speed.
Note that there are probably a few thousand kids in the US who actually have a problem that needs drugs to fix. Not the multiple millions who are being abused with this heinous drug, however.
So, who's the backup distributor with a compatible product for Windows?
And don't use anything that requires a functioning Windows installation in your answer, because if one could still purchase Windows there'd be no need for the backup.
Gaming Addicts? That's ridiculous. The only difference between games and television is the level of interaction.
Then why do you find the term ridiculous? There are people who watch television so much it destroys their lives, as well. Even their health can fall victim to their addiction. In the case of TV addiction, it might manifest as morbid obesity.
Being addicted to anything destroys lives. Doesn't mean the thing should be outlawed, but it certainly means it should be studied.
Gosh, what an amazing way to take a bunch of people who could probably make a great port if they worked together, and remove all incentive for them to work together. While you're at it, encourage them to work fast instead of smart.
That money could have bankrolled a machine and hosting to set up a collaborative effort.
I think a better answer is that political opinion is not tied to hacking.
Even if you're right, so what? He's talking about the average politics of average hackers, and comes to the conclusion that it's too broad to say that one political ethos dominates.
If you don't care about the politics of hackers, which is something completely different than the politics of hacking, then don't read that entry. It's still nevertheless a subject that many people do care about, and Eric's description seems very concise and accurate in comparison to my own experience, which is admittedly limited in that I've only been involved in computing since 1977.
I think you're objecting to his mentioning of Libertarian hackers as some kind of evidence of bias, but he devotes a single sentence to merely mentioning that they exist. Are you denying that they exist?
The bottom line, I think, is that you are clearly agressively apolitical, which he says hackers are more likely to be. You can't see the forest because you're a tree.
Or, potentially, 12 people who are smart enough to understand and accept their civic duties, knowing that the idiots who avoid basic responsibilities also have to live in the society they won't maintain.
Nope; we get excused within seconds of the defense's interview.
The last idiot who resume-spammed me sent his in the form of a GIF. Even if I was hiring, I wouldn't have hired him.
And yes, despite the fact that my "company" is a two-person consulting firm that's on semi-permanent hold as I work in the Fortune 500 world, I still preserved the goddamn thing; along with the email I sent to his provider getting his account yanked for spamming.
For instance, it has probably already whitelisted the IP addresses of sourceforge.net, yahoogroups.com, and other popular discussion list service providers.
Then it definitely sucks, 'cause I used to get all kinds of spam from Yahoogroups. Since you can create an account for free, create all the lists you want, add people without confirmation, and then let Yahoo foot the bill for your sending, it's a spammer magnet despite their "we'll delete the abused account that never would have been used again anyway" policy.
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America. The only country in the world where suing someone is a right.
That's correct. Defined in the First Amendment, the same one that protects the rights of free speech, freedom of religion, free press, and freedom to peaceably assemble. Most countries don't have those, either. A rather remarkable amendment.
I think perhaps when he said "business", he didn't mean "hoopla". He meant actual "business", which the "free one down the street" isn't.
well, I am a legally licensed user of the Linux source code according to the GPL. That license predates SCO's copyright filing by many years.
SCO is alledging, and attempting to prove in court, that the Linux developers didn't have a right to some of that code, and thus can't legally GPL it.
Assuming they're correct, they have an absolute legal right to do this. You won't get anywhere suing for your rights to use a product you obtained illegally.
Assuming they're not correct, they still have a legal right to do this, if there case has even a little merit and isn't judged by the court to be a deliberate abuse of process.
If they are guilty of abusing the courts, you STILL don't have a case against them, because they haven't deprived you of anything.
If you want to sue somebody, sue the vendor who sold you your copy of Linux, assuming you bought it. If not, you got free shit and you might have to lose it. Cry me a river.
Now, if you wrote CODE that's in the kernel, it's a different deal. You have all kinds of standing here to make SCO's life suck. They may be violating YOUR copyright.
Isn't about time that we as Linux users file a class action lawsuit against SCO for misuse of Linux source?
Excellent idea. To what portion of the code do you hold a copyright, and how many million US dollars are you pledging?
Bullshit. If they thought it was truly extortion, they'd file a complaint with the police.
They were trying to get paid, and it backfired.
DirecTV is going to wind up in trouble over this, but people looking for a quick buck have no right to bitch just because DirecTV's hands aren't clean either.
I'm not sure how appropriate it is to call the LAN party the "Million Man LAN" when only 1000 people are expected to attend.
I'd say similarly appropriate to calling 300,000 people a Million Man March.
I'd be very surprised if this organization has 100% of it's members asking them to do this, since IBM aggressively markets Linux solutions.
Somebody in the media please ask IBM for a comment.
He has ADHD and his mother and I will do whatever it takes to help him.
Getting him high on a narcotic doesn't help him, it helps YOU.
I cut my kid off from having things containing corn syrup on weeknights, and helped the day care come up with ways to challenge him intellectually, and all the problems went away.
ADHD is a hoax invented by the drug industry. Millions of children are being given a Schedule II psychoactive narcotic, Ritalin, to correct a dietary problem. Cut down on the sugar, avoid artificial color dyes, spend more time with your kid, and make him go outside instead of vegetating in front of the TV, and you will correct the problem without being a lazy bastard and addicting your kid to speed.
Note that there are probably a few thousand kids in the US who actually have a problem that needs drugs to fix. Not the multiple millions who are being abused with this heinous drug, however.
There are very few things in the real world that can be proven absolutely.
Name one.
So, who's the backup distributor with a compatible product for Windows?
And don't use anything that requires a functioning Windows installation in your answer, because if one could still purchase Windows there'd be no need for the backup.
It's not...at least not until the copyright runs out.
Copyright run out? When's the last time that happened?
Gaming Addicts? That's ridiculous. The only difference between games and television is the level of interaction.
Then why do you find the term ridiculous? There are people who watch television so much it destroys their lives, as well. Even their health can fall victim to their addiction. In the case of TV addiction, it might manifest as morbid obesity.
Being addicted to anything destroys lives. Doesn't mean the thing should be outlawed, but it certainly means it should be studied.
Ultimately, can anyone present a way to get all of the mangement features mentioned above on a 100 computer, 2 server LINUX network?
Yeah; NFS and NIS. UNIX had 'em when Windows was a DOS program that nobody ran.
All these boxes are going to be obsolete in two years anyway.
First one to market that can record HDTV gets my business, whether they have commercial skip or not.
Gosh, what an amazing way to take a bunch of people who could probably make a great port if they worked together, and remove all incentive for them to work together. While you're at it, encourage them to work fast instead of smart.
That money could have bankrolled a machine and hosting to set up a collaborative effort.
I think a better answer is that political opinion is not tied to hacking.
Even if you're right, so what? He's talking about the average politics of average hackers, and comes to the conclusion that it's too broad to say that one political ethos dominates.
If you don't care about the politics of hackers, which is something completely different than the politics of hacking, then don't read that entry. It's still nevertheless a subject that many people do care about, and Eric's description seems very concise and accurate in comparison to my own experience, which is admittedly limited in that I've only been involved in computing since 1977.
I think you're objecting to his mentioning of Libertarian hackers as some kind of evidence of bias, but he devotes a single sentence to merely mentioning that they exist. Are you denying that they exist?
The bottom line, I think, is that you are clearly agressively apolitical, which he says hackers are more likely to be. You can't see the forest because you're a tree.
Or, potentially, 12 people who are smart enough to understand and accept their civic duties, knowing that the idiots who avoid basic responsibilities also have to live in the society they won't maintain.
Nope; we get excused within seconds of the defense's interview.
Imagine the egg on their face when developers from around the world step forward to claim their code.... and it's not SCO's code.
Don't everybody be so sure about this. They don't have to convince experts, they have to convince 12 people too dumb to get out of jury duty.
Forget that, I want articles on MODDING my aircraft carrier...
The last idiot who resume-spammed me sent his in the form of a GIF. Even if I was hiring, I wouldn't have hired him.
And yes, despite the fact that my "company" is a two-person consulting firm that's on semi-permanent hold as I work in the Fortune 500 world, I still preserved the goddamn thing; along with the email I sent to his provider getting his account yanked for spamming.
Once you do start to grow, everybody will start stealing your name. Trust me on this one. :-)
She could have died and I don't think it would have cared less...
Dude, where have you been? She's already dead.
Same reason my frickin' Nokia cellphone crashes; because computer programming is still science, not engineering.
For instance, it has probably already whitelisted the IP addresses of sourceforge.net, yahoogroups.com, and other popular discussion list service providers.
Then it definitely sucks, 'cause I used to get all kinds of spam from Yahoogroups. Since you can create an account for free, create all the lists you want, add people without confirmation, and then let Yahoo foot the bill for your sending, it's a spammer magnet despite their "we'll delete the abused account that never would have been used again anyway" policy.