It seems to me that this is more a victory for the pop-up companies. After all, if this company manages to make it less profitable for companies to USE popup ads, then eventually there will be fewer of them. I mean, it's generally pretty sleezy tactics, but that seems to be the general trend in advertising these days anyway.
I'm just glad safari and mozilla block popups for me...
ACCC seeks details from SCO over Vic group's complaint
By Sam Varghese
October 8, 2003
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has asked the SCO Group to provide information regarding complaints filed with it, about SCO's IP claims and statements regarding the need for commercial Linux users to obtain a Unix licence, according to the company's latest quarterly filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The complaint was filed in July by Open Source Victoria, a marketing, advocacy and focus group.
It asked the ACCC to investigate SCO's activities in light of "unsubstantiated claims and extortive legal threats for money" against possibly hundreds of thousands of Australians.
SCO's latest SEC filing said the company intended to respond to the ACCC's inquiry.
"The ACCC has notified us that it has not made any decision to pursue the complaints it has received or determined what, if any, action it will take," it said.
In March, SCO filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against IBM, for "misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach of contract."
SCO also claimed that Linux was an unauthorised derivative of Unix and warned commercial Linux users that they could be legally liable for violation of intellectual copyright. SCO later expanded its claims against IBM to US$3 billion in June when it said it was withdrawing IBM's licence for its own Unix, AIX.
IBM has counter-sued SCO over the claims and then expanded its claims. Red Hat has filed a case against SCO.
It is completely within a content provider's rights to dictate how you access the content. They could easily say "you have to use Yahoo!Mail to access your free Yahoo account, or pay $20 a year for web access." In fact, I wouldn't be too surprised if this came about at some point. You don't have a right to free services. If someone wants to give you something, they can put limits on how they give it...
They have $5billion in cash, but their market cap is only $15.4 billion. That doesn't sound like a company the market has a lot of faith in. Someone will buy them just to get control of java.
Bloomberg is a company that lives and breathes tech. They have a huge investment in technology, and tend to stay ahead of the curve. It isn't surprising at all that they get linux.
Perhaps because it's his hobby? I'm sure if you made him a generous enough offer, he'd quit his day job, quit scrounging for ways to be able to afford to keep the website up, etc, and just work on the web comic.
Used, or new even, VXPockets are available on ebay all the time, for between $300 and $400. I know, I just bought one. Certainly the best solution I could find for laptop based recording...I don't have a clue how well it works for music creation, however.
If prices were set by cost of manufacturing, the record companies would be overcharging. But what prices are set by is the Law of Supply and Demand. Same for concert tickets. If you think they're overpriced, don't buy them. If enough people agree, demand will drop, and so will price.
No one makes artists go through the record companies, and no one makes consumers buy commercial cds. Prince demonstrated with Crystal Ball that it's possible for established artists to make more money on fewer sales outside the system. And bands like String Cheese Incident are doing pretty well on independent labels.
Actually, the thing is, lots of shops have excess mainframe capacity they weren't using. This lets them throw another OS up to use the spare capacity. With the advantage that it's isolated, with the uptime of a mainframe.
As someone who is responsible for several of IBM's big iron aix boxes, I can say that reliability is an issue, and this development is a good thing. In the scheme of things, mainframes are pretty cheap compared to other comparably sized systems...
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It seems to me that this is more a victory for the pop-up companies. After all, if this company manages to make it less profitable for companies to USE popup ads, then eventually there will be fewer of them. I mean, it's generally pretty sleezy tactics, but that seems to be the general trend in advertising these days anyway.
I'm just glad safari and mozilla block popups for me...
ACCC seeks details from SCO over Vic group's complaint
By Sam Varghese
October 8, 2003
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has asked the SCO Group to provide information regarding complaints filed with it, about SCO's IP claims and statements regarding the need for commercial Linux users to obtain a Unix licence, according to the company's latest quarterly filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The complaint was filed in July by Open Source Victoria, a marketing, advocacy and focus group.
It asked the ACCC to investigate SCO's activities in light of "unsubstantiated claims and extortive legal threats for money" against possibly hundreds of thousands of Australians.
SCO's latest SEC filing said the company intended to respond to the ACCC's inquiry.
"The ACCC has notified us that it has not made any decision to pursue the complaints it has received or determined what, if any, action it will take," it said.
In March, SCO filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against IBM, for "misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach of contract."
SCO also claimed that Linux was an unauthorised derivative of Unix and warned commercial Linux users that they could be legally liable for violation of intellectual copyright. SCO later expanded its claims against IBM to US$3 billion in June when it said it was withdrawing IBM's licence for its own Unix, AIX.
IBM has counter-sued SCO over the claims and then expanded its claims. Red Hat has filed a case against SCO.
It is completely within a content provider's rights to dictate how you access the content. They could easily say "you have to use Yahoo!Mail to access your free Yahoo account, or pay $20 a year for web access." In fact, I wouldn't be too surprised if this came about at some point. You don't have a right to free services. If someone wants to give you something, they can put limits on how they give it...
They have $5billion in cash, but their market cap is only $15.4 billion. That doesn't sound like a company the market has a lot of faith in. Someone will buy them just to get control of java.
Sun will likely be out of business before AIX is end of lifed.
Not to mention IBM will have made Linux binary compatible with AIX when run on compatible hardware.
I'll take More Stable, More Powerful, and Less Expensive, for $500, Alex...
> Out of interest, how much is it for the 106-CPU version of the Mac, again?
Well, the 32 processor Regatta from IBM (using the CPU that was the basis for the G5), which outperforms the starfire, is cheaper than the starfire.
Sun is hurting these days...the dot com crash put them in a capital crunch that they're going to have a tough time digging out of.
Bloomberg is a company that lives and breathes tech. They have a huge investment in technology, and tend to stay ahead of the curve. It isn't surprising at all that they get linux.
Perhaps because it's his hobby? I'm sure if you made him a generous enough offer, he'd quit his day job, quit scrounging for ways to be able to afford to keep the website up, etc, and just work on the web comic.
Used, or new even, VXPockets are available on ebay all the time, for between $300 and $400. I know, I just bought one. Certainly the best solution I could find for laptop based recording...I don't have a clue how well it works for music creation, however.
If prices were set by cost of manufacturing, the record companies would be overcharging. But what prices are set by is the Law of Supply and Demand. Same for concert tickets. If you think they're overpriced, don't buy them. If enough people agree, demand will drop, and so will price.
No one makes artists go through the record companies, and no one makes consumers buy commercial cds. Prince demonstrated with Crystal Ball that it's possible for established artists to make more money on fewer sales outside the system. And bands like String Cheese Incident are doing pretty well on independent labels.
Actually, the thing is, lots of shops have excess mainframe capacity they weren't using. This lets them throw another OS up to use the spare capacity. With the advantage that it's isolated, with the uptime of a mainframe.
As someone who is responsible for several of IBM's big iron aix boxes, I can say that reliability is an issue, and this development is a good thing. In the scheme of things, mainframes are pretty cheap compared to other comparably sized systems...