This is how it's going to be settled : IBM sends grim looking men in black suits to SCO, and a representative named "Smith"
(who looks oddly familiar) confronts Darl Mcbride.
Smith: As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Mcbride. It seems that you've been living...two lives. In one life, you're Darl McBride, CEO of what used to be a respectable software company, you have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in lawsuits, where you go around accusing everyone that they are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. McBride. You're here because we need you to
cut it out. We know that you think you can get your ailing company to be bought out. Now whatever you think you know about intelluctual property laws is irrelevant. You actions are considered by the open source community to be the annoying and disruptive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in dropping your stupid lawsuits against IBM.
Darl: Yeah. Wow, that sound like a really good deal. But I think I got a better one. How about I give you the finger... and
we see you in court.
Smith: Um, Mr. Mcbride. You disappoint me.
Darl: You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. We own UNIX IP rights. I want my lawyer.
Smith: And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is your IP rights... if your company has violated so many of our patents.
(Smith drops a huge pile of legal papers on the desk with a thud)
Smith: You're going to help us, Mr. McBride whether you want to or not.
(Darl screams hysterically)
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I bought that book... any idea how to get a refund?
...Besides the ptrace vulnarability fix and the ext3 bug fix, the new kernel also includes interesting netfilter updates, such as ARP filtering and MAC address filtering. Which is real useful in my institution where stupid XP boxes crapflood the whole LAN with ARPS.
I've been a fan of Reiserfs ever since I started using it, and I've been very impressed by its speed. I'm really anticipating Reiser4, and I hope it'll get merged into 2.6. However the last I heard about this is that Linus hasn't read your docs yet, and the status page on kernelnewbies shows Reiser4 to be "pending". Can you give us any insight on what's going on?
..margerine box at the bottom? Is it what the programmers ate during the creation of shfs? Like that apocryphal Java-drinking sessions at Sun? Does margerine have magical caffiene-like properties too?
MS Marketing Guy : Our new plan is to create a
proprietry hardware platform and lock the Linux rebels out of the desktop! This "Athens" PC will be the ultimate power in the universe!
Darth Gates : Do not be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to monopolize a desktop is insignificant, next to the power of the Source. (breathes heavily)
Actually his given name was Henry, Jr. If you remember what Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery) said at the end of the 3rd movie, they named the dog Indiana.
Bah, every command prompt Microsoft has come up with is retarded. Billions of dollars in the bank, and they couldn't come up with something more decent.
I'm currently making some Slackware 9 packages for it. I'm trying to get it to compile with the Quicktime codecs, but it seems kinda broken (I probably screwed up somewhere)
The new default skin is really cool looking...
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The new slackware installer boots a fairly advanced kernel, with USB auto-detection. Older versions might not work, as with older Linux distros.
That said, why the need to remove ps/2 mice/keyboard slots? It works, right? Why fix what's not broke?
Maybe another perspective is needed: scratching the users' itches instead of one's own:)
You'd have to pay the programmer to get him to care. Microsoft programmers are paid to make software the way average people would like it to be.
The point is, if a coder is going to be making something for himself, it's going to turn out just the way he likes it. Unless he's paid to do otherwise, I don't think open source software is going to be catered to the "average user" very much.
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This "Linux for everything" bigotry is just silly
... "Microsoft for everything" isn't? Interesting.
So "Linux for everything" is "bigotry"... but...
It is better than an NT 4 domain for so many reasons. However almost equally important is the fact that Windows Server is the Microsoft solution.
Is it just me or did you place Mcbride in the role of Neo as the salvation of humanity?
Nah, I just like Agent Smith. It would be cool to have him shake up Darl a bit.
This is how it's going to be settled : IBM sends grim looking men in black suits to SCO, and a representative named "Smith" (who looks oddly familiar) confronts Darl Mcbride.
Smith: As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Mcbride. It seems that you've been living...two lives. In one life, you're Darl McBride, CEO of what used to be a respectable software company, you have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in lawsuits, where you go around accusing everyone that they are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. McBride. You're here because we need you to cut it out. We know that you think you can get your ailing company to be bought out. Now whatever you think you know about intelluctual property laws is irrelevant. You actions are considered by the open source community to be the annoying and disruptive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in dropping your stupid lawsuits against IBM.
Darl: Yeah. Wow, that sound like a really good deal. But I think I got a better one. How about I give you the finger... and we see you in court.
Smith: Um, Mr. Mcbride. You disappoint me.
Darl: You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. We own UNIX IP rights. I want my lawyer.
Smith: And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is your IP rights... if your company has violated so many of our patents.
(Smith drops a huge pile of legal papers on the desk with a thud)
Smith: You're going to help us, Mr. McBride whether you want to or not.
(Darl screams hysterically)
I bought that book... any idea how to get a refund?
...Besides the ptrace vulnarability fix and the ext3 bug fix, the new kernel also includes interesting netfilter updates, such as ARP filtering and MAC address filtering. Which is real useful in my institution where stupid XP boxes crapflood the whole LAN with ARPS.
Yeah, you're right. Real walking trees don't look anything like that!
Shouldn't this topic be in the "BSD" section of Slashdot?
I've been a fan of Reiserfs ever since I started using it, and I've been very impressed by its speed. I'm really anticipating Reiser4, and I hope it'll get merged into 2.6. However the last I heard about this is that Linus hasn't read your docs yet, and the status page on kernelnewbies shows Reiser4 to be "pending". Can you give us any insight on what's going on?
Since I live in the real world (tm) I just use Slackware. I reckon I can trust Pat not to fuck with my system :-).
:)
Dude, this is probably the best comment I've heard on slashdot
I can't get localfs to work. Every time I mount the local filesystem, I can't view any files in the mount point. Typing ls just makes the shell hang.
What am I doing wrong?
..margerine box at the bottom? Is it what the programmers ate during the creation of shfs? Like that apocryphal Java-drinking sessions at Sun? Does margerine have magical caffiene-like properties too?
In Soviet Russia, economy aids Linux!
MS Marketing Guy : Our new plan is to create a proprietry hardware platform and lock the Linux rebels out of the desktop! This "Athens" PC will be the ultimate power in the universe!
Darth Gates : Do not be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to monopolize a desktop is insignificant, next to the power of the Source. (breathes heavily)
Actually his given name was Henry, Jr. If you remember what Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery) said at the end of the 3rd movie, they named the dog Indiana.
I live in Malaysia, which is relatively safe from SARS, but in Singapore it's really bad and is other parts of Asia, people are dying left and right :(
Is there anything we can do to help speed up the search for a drug or vaccine?
Bah, every command prompt Microsoft has come up with is retarded. Billions of dollars in the bank, and they couldn't come up with something more decent.
I'll watch anything with her in it. She is the ultimate in hotness. She was James Cameron's lead actress for his short-lived TV series.
...why a T-shirt?
I don't think any modern and popular Linux distro does this. I know Slack doesn't.
Great, now we have some dude complaining about too much documentation. Sheesh, if I had mod points I'd mod the parent up as a troll.
The headlines read "Trusted Computing Group wants to beerben TCPA"
I dunno what "beerben" is, but that whole sentence sounds so dirty. =)
The Microsoft and Linux icons on the same topic... what an unholy combination! I thought I'd never see the day.
Ha! Take that Slashdot!
I'm currently making some Slackware 9 packages for it. I'm trying to get it to compile with the Quicktime codecs, but it seems kinda broken (I probably screwed up somewhere)
The new default skin is really cool looking...
The new slackware installer boots a fairly advanced kernel, with USB auto-detection. Older versions might not work, as with older Linux distros.
That said, why the need to remove ps/2 mice/keyboard slots? It works, right? Why fix what's not broke?
Maybe another perspective is needed: scratching the users' itches instead of one's own :)
You'd have to pay the programmer to get him to care. Microsoft programmers are paid to make software the way average people would like it to be.
The point is, if a coder is going to be making something for himself, it's going to turn out just the way he likes it. Unless he's paid to do otherwise, I don't think open source software is going to be catered to the "average user" very much.