If you've been keeping up with the tech news, you know SCO is throwing around lawsuits and threats of lawsuits.
It all boils down to claims that someone put something in Linux that belongs to SCO.
Reports form SCO on what was inserted and by whom changes from day to day. All we've gotten from SCO is vague statements and shifting claims. Either this is a smear campaign against Linux and IBM, or SCO's executives have no real understanding of their company's technology, and can't speak consistently about what's going on.
They have, to date, refused to release the details, and restricted themselves to vague doublespeak worthy of a Dilbert comic.
I want SCO to tell us exactly what code violates their patents, copyrights, contracts or whatever the "They did bad" of the day is.
SCO's press releases have claimed ownership of IP and trademarks that are owned by Novell and the Open Group. Every time they are called to task they make a new string of claims.
"McBride added that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing the Linux operating system, for patent infringement."
This just days after Novell pointed out that SCO does NOT own any of the Unix patents. They are largely owned by Novell. It smells more like blackmail than anything else. If Linus Torvalds has infringed patents, why not just sue him? Why do these alleged patent infringements get ignored if enough people buy SCO licenses?
I want SCO to tell us what was done wrong.
I want to know what the actual violations are.
I want to see the details.
I want SCO to stop hiding behind press releases and lawyers and tell us what is going on.
Unless they show us the code, I'll be forced to conclude that this is the dying gasp of a doomed company, grasping at straws in a desperate effort to shift the blame for the company's death away from the executives running it.
Kazaa Lite and other applications come with a modified Hosts file you can use to route a number of nasty sites to localhost.
http://www.bonzi.com is one of the sites that are blocked by default.
Very nice. I like it, and it's funny to see IE open a popup that loads my workstation's custom 404 error message instead of sending me to popup Hell. Doubleclick and other sites are in that same custom hosts file.
We thought about that, and while we agreed that a real life junkyard wars would be fun, we don't have the garage space to store a home made dune buggy, and neither of us is very good at welding.
Watch TV all the time. Requests to turn the damn thing off are met with a confused gaze.
My Apartment:
TV gets turned on when we have friends over for the purpose of watching a movie, or we're too brain drained to do anything but sit and watch pretty colors. Oh, and when I want to play with my PS2.
How does that impact our lives? I spend most of my time with my friends. A night to myself becomes a rare and cherished thing spent reading a book I've been looking forward to or on a game I haven't played in ages.
My GF and I throw dinner parties, have nights out with friends, spend time talking to each other and interacting as adult human beings.
Hell, I didn't have cable for four years and never missed it.
Although I do admit, the Food Chanel is pretty fun. Of course, my GF and I end up trying a lot of the tings we see on the shows there.
My mother can give a run down of the entire life story of all the characters on "Friends" and "Stargate SG1" (The latter watched not for the content, but for MacGyver's presence.) Her social life consists largely of people from Church, and she doesn't see them very often.
I prefer my life, thank you very much.
And to add a slice of irony, I'll quote a character from a very bad sci-fi show: "We stopped watching movies when we realized that our own lives were far more interesting."
However, we don't know how long ago this issue was brought to their attention, and how long they've had to act on it.
I'd say a week from when they found out there was a GPL issue would be fair. If it's been longer than that, then I'll have to assume that they're trying to get away with something.
Less than that, and they could just be carving through all the red tape.
Hell, this could all be due to a single PHB who refuses to listen to reason!
Or the whole company could be corrupt and evil, paid by Microsoft to trash the GPL any way they know how.
Theory 1: Legal department stamped the standard disclaimers and restrictions on the outgoing code, and never bothered to read the GPL or didn't know they needed to.
Theory 2: A PHB thought the GPL wasn't important or could be safely ignored.
Theory 3: The company was trying to get away with something.
Lacking evidence to the contrary, I'll do what Napoleon recommends, and assume incompetence instead of treachery.
Given that assumption, posting the code in accordance with the GPL without further fuss is just fine. Sort of a "We were going what?" Followed by "Our bad, let us take care of that ASAP."
Even if they were doing it on purpose, I'd say they get a pass on this one. "We caught you, we'll let it slide this time if you obey the rules from here on out." Like getting out of a speeding ticket because you say you didn;t see the 55 mph sign, and thought it was still a 65 zone.
Crucifying the company when they're trying to make amends is a waste of resources. Save the legal fees for a company that is violating the GPL and thumbs their nose at the FSF when they're caught.
Now, if these guys don't post the code in accordance with the GPL, I say the lawyers get a call.
You didn't see it because he was still in shock form the whole battle.
Besides, you'll see plenty of him angsting over her death in his spinoff. "Xander, the one eyed demon hunter."
"A campy send up of Buffy, the Exorcist and Hell House all rolled up into one, as Xander (Nicholas Brendon) roams the Earth, seeking a way to revive his murdered love."
"The Island of Dr. Moreau" is the original title of the H. G. Wells book upon which "Island of Lost Souls" is based.
Hardly pseudo-historical though, as Wells admitted that it was based on pure fancy, and was was written as "A bit of youthful heresy."
And it had nothing to do with cross breeding humans and animals, but was about experiments in changing animals into humans through surgery and conditioning.
I wrote a paper on sci-fi the works of H. G. Wells in High School. "The First Men in the Moon" was fun. Jules Verne was very critical of Wells' work, claiming he played too fast and lose with science.
Is there any reference material on supposedly true tales of human - animal hybrids?
a.) Some punk kid who knew what it was and didn't know how hard it was to hotwire.
b.) Captain Crunch found out how to hotwire it with a few wires and a toy from a box of cracker jacks. (+1 for 2600 reference)
c.) Druggie who had no clue and is trying to sell it.
d.) Vandals.
e.) It's a publicity stunt by the company selling them in a bid to both get attention, and show how "useless" it would be to steal one (Implying that even if yours is stolen, Insurance will replace it and the thief won't benefit from ti anyway)
But that doesn't explain WHY the Apes didn't evolve as much as humans. How different could our environments have been??
I'll tell you the REAL reason.
Apes, Chimps, they're all lazy. Always lounging around, never doing anything to better themselves, just lying around masturbating all day long.
And keep in mind, the environment does not cause certain characteristics to develop in a species. It only eliminates creatures who are not as fit as others. Those characteristics have to form first.
The fact that having opposable thumbs will result in a higher survival rate does not cause a species to develop opposable thumbs. What Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest really means is that if a Species develops that has opposable thumbs, it will be more likely to survive.
The environment can't cause a species to become more intelligent, but it can weed out the dumb ones. If no sufficiently intelligent creatures arise, then the species will go extinct.
And no, I am not claiming that thumbs and IQ are the be all and end all. I'm just using them as examples.
Well, Saddam should have been taken out during the first Bush lead Gulf War, but political pressure forced the US to stop.
That said, the present administration is using September 11 as an excuse for a whole slew of nasty things. Patriot Act = BAD.
We won't know how well Bush did until the present 20 somethings are old and gray. If Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, India, North Korea and any other nations we attack are properly reconstructed and rebuilt, they'll be islands of stability in the Middle East.
Of course, The Shrub is more likely to take control of the oil and lead us into a morass that will make Vietnam look like a Sunday School Picnic.
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Damn, and all my capital is tied up in bonds.
By the time I can convert into IBM stock this will probably ahve blown over.
Damn.
As Ray Bradbury wrote in "Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow", "If you can build a city on Mars, you can turn the Sahara into a Suburb."
He IS about the right age...
And it would add a whole new level of plausibility to the whole "Pervy Hobbit Fancier" theme that surfaced in their online diaries.
If you've been keeping up with the tech news, you know SCO is throwing around lawsuits and threats of lawsuits.
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It all boils down to claims that someone put something in Linux that belongs to SCO.
Reports form SCO on what was inserted and by whom changes from day to day. All we've gotten from SCO is vague statements and shifting claims. Either this is a smear campaign against Linux and IBM, or SCO's executives have no real understanding of their company's technology, and can't speak consistently about what's going on.
They have, to date, refused to release the details, and restricted themselves to vague doublespeak worthy of a Dilbert comic.
I want SCO to tell us exactly what code violates their patents, copyrights, contracts or whatever the "They did bad" of the day is.
SCO's press releases have claimed ownership of IP and trademarks that are owned by Novell and the Open Group. Every time they are called to task they make a new string of claims.
And now, according to http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7
"McBride added that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing the Linux operating system, for patent infringement."
This just days after Novell pointed out that SCO does NOT own any of the Unix patents. They are largely owned by Novell. It smells more like blackmail than anything else. If Linus Torvalds has infringed patents, why not just sue him? Why do these alleged patent infringements get ignored if enough people buy SCO licenses?
I want SCO to tell us what was done wrong.
I want to know what the actual violations are.
I want to see the details.
I want SCO to stop hiding behind press releases and lawyers and tell us what is going on.
Unless they show us the code, I'll be forced to conclude that this is the dying gasp of a doomed company, grasping at straws in a desperate effort to shift the blame for the company's death away from the executives running it.
http://www.bonzi.com isn't really down.
Kazaa Lite and other applications come with a modified Hosts file you can use to route a number of nasty sites to localhost.
http://www.bonzi.com is one of the sites that are blocked by default.
Very nice. I like it, and it's funny to see IE open a popup that loads my workstation's custom 404 error message instead of sending me to popup Hell. Doubleclick and other sites are in that same custom hosts file.
WARNING. POPUPS AHOY!
Thank God I'm using Mozilla and could block popups from the site.
You rotten son of a bitch. Now I'll be the third person in the company to be reamed out for "Inappropriate Internet use"
You miserable SOB.
Given the fact you got modded to +5 funny, Yes, if you troll like that it will ge through the lameness filter and the people with mod points.
Good work!
We thought about that, and while we agreed that a real life junkyard wars would be fun, we don't have the garage space to store a home made dune buggy, and neither of us is very good at welding.
My Parents:
Watch TV all the time. Requests to turn the damn thing off are met with a confused gaze.
My Apartment:
TV gets turned on when we have friends over for the purpose of watching a movie, or we're too brain drained to do anything but sit and watch pretty colors. Oh, and when I want to play with my PS2.
How does that impact our lives? I spend most of my time with my friends. A night to myself becomes a rare and cherished thing spent reading a book I've been looking forward to or on a game I haven't played in ages.
My GF and I throw dinner parties, have nights out with friends, spend time talking to each other and interacting as adult human beings.
Hell, I didn't have cable for four years and never missed it.
Although I do admit, the Food Chanel is pretty fun. Of course, my GF and I end up trying a lot of the tings we see on the shows there.
My mother can give a run down of the entire life story of all the characters on "Friends" and "Stargate SG1" (The latter watched not for the content, but for MacGyver's presence.) Her social life consists largely of people from Church, and she doesn't see them very often.
I prefer my life, thank you very much.
And to add a slice of irony, I'll quote a character from a very bad sci-fi show: "We stopped watching movies when we realized that our own lives were far more interesting."
They distributed the @($& code!
I hate lawyers, I really do.
I am.
It was the hate filled slashdot reaction I was worried about!
I know the FSF knows how to deal with this kind of thing.
Point.
However, we don't know how long ago this issue was brought to their attention, and how long they've had to act on it.
I'd say a week from when they found out there was a GPL issue would be fair. If it's been longer than that, then I'll have to assume that they're trying to get away with something.
Less than that, and they could just be carving through all the red tape.
Hell, this could all be due to a single PHB who refuses to listen to reason!
Or the whole company could be corrupt and evil, paid by Microsoft to trash the GPL any way they know how.
Theory 1: Legal department stamped the standard disclaimers and restrictions on the outgoing code, and never bothered to read the GPL or didn't know they needed to.
Theory 2: A PHB thought the GPL wasn't important or could be safely ignored.
Theory 3: The company was trying to get away with something.
Lacking evidence to the contrary, I'll do what Napoleon recommends, and assume incompetence instead of treachery.
Given that assumption, posting the code in accordance with the GPL without further fuss is just fine. Sort of a "We were going what?" Followed by "Our bad, let us take care of that ASAP."
Even if they were doing it on purpose, I'd say they get a pass on this one. "We caught you, we'll let it slide this time if you obey the rules from here on out." Like getting out of a speeding ticket because you say you didn;t see the 55 mph sign, and thought it was still a 65 zone.
Crucifying the company when they're trying to make amends is a waste of resources. Save the legal fees for a company that is violating the GPL and thumbs their nose at the FSF when they're caught.
Now, if these guys don't post the code in accordance with the GPL, I say the lawyers get a call.
There is a teacup. There is a storm in it.
You didn't see it because he was still in shock form the whole battle.
Besides, you'll see plenty of him angsting over her death in his spinoff. "Xander, the one eyed demon hunter."
"A campy send up of Buffy, the Exorcist and Hell House all rolled up into one, as Xander (Nicholas Brendon) roams the Earth, seeking a way to revive his murdered love."
Based on my memory of the chart:
The other Primates are the closest in terms of genetic drift.
Rabbits are next out, followed by horses.
Whales are closer to us (Fewer genetic differences) than cats and dogs.
I don't know where Lemurs were in the whole thing.
In other words, in terms of genetics, we have more in common with rabbits than dogs or cats.
"The Island of Dr. Moreau" is the original title of the H. G. Wells book upon which "Island of Lost Souls" is based.
Hardly pseudo-historical though, as Wells admitted that it was based on pure fancy, and was was written as "A bit of youthful heresy."
And it had nothing to do with cross breeding humans and animals, but was about experiments in changing animals into humans through surgery and conditioning.
I wrote a paper on sci-fi the works of H. G. Wells in High School. "The First Men in the Moon" was fun. Jules Verne was very critical of Wells' work, claiming he played too fast and lose with science.
Is there any reference material on supposedly true tales of human - animal hybrids?
a.) Some punk kid who knew what it was and didn't know how hard it was to hotwire.
b.) Captain Crunch found out how to hotwire it with a few wires and a toy from a box of cracker jacks. (+1 for 2600 reference)
c.) Druggie who had no clue and is trying to sell it.
d.) Vandals.
e.) It's a publicity stunt by the company selling them in a bid to both get attention, and show how "useless" it would be to steal one (Implying that even if yours is stolen, Insurance will replace it and the thief won't benefit from ti anyway)
Any URLS?
Sounds like a great basis for a twisted sci-fi story.
I remember the chart.
If memory serves, genetically, Rabbits are our closest non-primate ancestors. Horses are next.
Dogs and Cats are off in the distance. We have more in common with whales that we do with them.
But rabbits are the closest you can get without going to apes, chimps and the like.
But that doesn't explain WHY the Apes didn't evolve as much as humans. How different could our environments have been??
I'll tell you the REAL reason.
Apes, Chimps, they're all lazy. Always lounging around, never doing anything to better themselves, just lying around masturbating all day long.
And keep in mind, the environment does not cause certain characteristics to develop in a species. It only eliminates creatures who are not as fit as others. Those characteristics have to form first.
The fact that having opposable thumbs will result in a higher survival rate does not cause a species to develop opposable thumbs. What Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest really means is that if a Species develops that has opposable thumbs, it will be more likely to survive.
The environment can't cause a species to become more intelligent, but it can weed out the dumb ones. If no sufficiently intelligent creatures arise, then the species will go extinct.
And no, I am not claiming that thumbs and IQ are the be all and end all. I'm just using them as examples.
It has been tried. All the video footage is in Japan and Germany. No offspring have yet resulted.
Why not put them in the same Genus as us? They've had just as much time to evolve.
Clearly, we made better use of that time than they did. They slacked off instead of evolving, so they don't get to be in the same rank.
I don't get this desire to uplift losers with false titles designed to boost the self esteem of those who fell behind.
Of course now with Hollywood and TV causing humans to devolve, the Chimps will have a chance to catch up.
No. They should expire in 15 minutes.
No. Make that 15 seconds.
Ug.
I didn't know Ford could build cars that lasted that long!
Well, Saddam should have been taken out during the first Bush lead Gulf War, but political pressure forced the US to stop.
That said, the present administration is using September 11 as an excuse for a whole slew of nasty things. Patriot Act = BAD.
We won't know how well Bush did until the present 20 somethings are old and gray. If Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, India, North Korea and any other nations we attack are properly reconstructed and rebuilt, they'll be islands of stability in the Middle East.
Of course, The Shrub is more likely to take control of the oil and lead us into a morass that will make Vietnam look like a Sunday School Picnic.
Only time will tell.