User: edwardd

SIAC not SAIC

On: NYSE Goes To Linux

NYSE is supported by SIAC, not SAIC. SAIC is "Science Applications International Corporation".

With NYSE making this move, it's very likely that AMEX, NSCC & GSCC will eventually make this move as well, since they are all supported by SIAC.
- Former SIAC consultant

Basic interview questions

On: How Do You Interview A Sysadmin Candidate?

I like to ask some basic questions to get a feel for their understanding before going into any depth. Here's my favorite question and answer from an actual interview: q. What's the difference between TCP and UDP? a. "TCP is from Microsoft. I don't know what UDP is."

We have a strong case for similat licenses: BSD

On: GPL To Be Tested In Court?

Several companies have complied with OpenSource licencing in the past. SunOS was based on BSD.
Even today, Nokia switches are based on FreeBSD. They use GPL'd code as well, and document it, supplying the source. There are several cases of the Apache web server being bundled with large commercial products (HP Openview for one), with licencing held intact. Even Microsoft has a Perl distribution for NT on their resource kit.

All of these large companies, not all of them pro-opensource, using open source licencing give our cause much greater strengh to stand on.