Quote: An example of this risk can be taken from NVIDIA. An NVIDIA programmer, in the course of developing a driver for one of its products, used a portion of code from a freely available video driver. The developer failed to realize the code was licensed under the GPL and would therefore require NVIDIA to release the source code for its entire driver. Because NVIDIA did not want to release the source code to its commercial software, the company incurred substantial cost to develop a new driver that did not contain the GPL code.
So basically you are stating that if you steal the GPL code, and then someone catches you that you must spend time to write the code yourself. Wow. What a huge risk.
I wonder why they are worried about that type of risk....
wiredog writes: "From ZDNET comes the news that there is apparently a serious security flaw in the Simple Network Management Protocol, used to control routers and other network devices."
This is incorrect!! If you read the information in the CERT alert you will find this is a problem with implementation of the protocol. Just happens that almost everyone implemented it wrong. It is a classic buffer overflow DoS.
I have the foundation source license as well. login.c is not in it. I don't know what you were patching. If I am wrong and it is located in the source tree someplace, please let me know.
I looked in osnet_volume/usr/src/cmd/login and it is not there. Did you find it in another dir?
Re:What can 60 billion dollars buy?
on
A New Kind of War
·
· Score: 1
Let's see.. then we whould have every undeveloped country killing 5000 Americans so they could get rebuilt as well.
The team I was on once had a very funny thing happen during a demo for some VIP's.
You need a little background for this story. We all worked in a lab most of the time. It was common to get caught up in your work, and work right through lunch. So to fix this, we had an old sun sparc station 20 with the sound kit play a bunch of.au's we found on the net. They were Homer Simpson with all his "Mmmmmm cheeseburger... Mmmmmmmm cake with sprinkly things... Mmmmm beer.." etc.. It was in a cron to start playing at 11:45 each day. All the.au's together were about 4 minutes of Homer reminding you to eat.
Well, we had worked the whole weekend and had a demo at 10am on Monday. No problem. We got all the code finished and working around 8:30am Monday morning. Then we got a call from the VIP's. The plane they were flying was delayed. They told us they would get to us around 11 they said. So they show up at 11. The PHB's do thier thing with the VIP's and then it was time for the demo. Due to some special hardware needed for the demo, the demo was in the lab. So it is now 11:40..
Since we had been up for 3 days, we didn't even think about Homer. About 5 minutes into the demo, Homer started up. Our PHB was moritfied. One of the VIP's says, "You know I am getting hungry."
I have kept the same email address since 1993. I use io.com. IO started shortly after the govt. settled with the Steve Jackson Games guys. I think Steve's brother or something runs it. They have respect for you keeping your privacy. It is an excelent serivce and has all the stuff you listed. A shell account is $100 if you pay a year at a time and $10 a month if you do it by month.
I have been using this ISP for a very long time (7+ years). Things I like.
o When you call, someone is there. 24/7 even on X-mas.
o When you call, you are not told to reboot your windows box because you cannot connect to the ssh server. i.e. they have a clue.
o Nice offsite news feed is part of the deal.
I do not have any relationship with them other than I am a very happy customer. Although I will get a refferal credit if you use my email (mlh@io.com) as the refferal. *hint hint hint*
I am really disappointed. I thought that Caldera had a very strong case.
Winning this case could have easily accelerated the end of the Microsoft dominance. Caldera was going to introduce evidence about the real problems Microsoft has caused in the industry. This "bundling the browser" suit that the DOJ used was such a small part of the bigger problem. Caldera's suit was going to be about much more serious violations of their monopoly and how they acquired said monopoly.
Oh well, I am happy for the Caldera folks. I just was hoping to see the Microsoft execs squirm on the stand when they had to start facing the facts.
I have had the chance to meet you at several LinuxWorldExpo's and USENIX etc.. At each of these events, you were always present at the parties with a large glass of beer.
Slashdot Mirror
Quote:
An example of this risk can be taken from NVIDIA. An NVIDIA programmer, in the course of developing a driver for one of its products, used a portion of code from a freely available video driver. The developer failed to realize the code was licensed under the GPL and would therefore require NVIDIA to release the source code for its entire driver. Because NVIDIA did not want to release the source code to its commercial software, the company incurred substantial cost to develop a new driver that did not contain the GPL code.
So basically you are stating that if you steal the GPL code, and then someone catches you that you must spend time to write the code yourself. Wow. What a huge risk.
I wonder why they are worried about that type of risk....
wiredog writes: "From ZDNET comes the news that there is apparently a serious security flaw in the Simple Network Management Protocol, used to control routers and other network devices."
This is incorrect!! If you read the information in the CERT alert you will find this is a problem with implementation of the protocol. Just happens that almost everyone implemented it wrong. It is a classic buffer overflow DoS.
I have the foundation source license as well. login.c is not in it. I don't know what you were patching. If I am wrong and it is located in the source tree someplace, please let me know.
I looked in osnet_volume/usr/src/cmd/login and it is not there. Did you find it in another dir?
Let's see.. then we whould have every undeveloped country killing 5000 Americans so they could get rebuilt as well.
I am not sure you thought this through.
The team I was on once had a very funny thing happen during a demo for some VIP's.
.au's we found on the net. They were Homer Simpson with all his "Mmmmmm cheeseburger... Mmmmmmmm cake with sprinkly things... Mmmmm beer.." etc.. It was in a cron to start playing at 11:45 each day. All the .au's together were about 4 minutes of Homer reminding you to eat.
You need a little background for this story. We all worked in a lab most of the time. It was common to get caught up in your work, and work right through lunch. So to fix this, we had an old sun sparc station 20 with the sound kit play a bunch of
Well, we had worked the whole weekend and had a demo at 10am on Monday. No problem. We got all the code finished and working around 8:30am Monday morning. Then we got a call from the VIP's. The plane they were flying was delayed. They told us they would get to us around 11 they said. So they show up at 11. The PHB's do thier thing with the VIP's and then it was time for the demo. Due to some special hardware needed for the demo, the demo was in the lab. So it is now 11:40..
Since we had been up for 3 days, we didn't even think about Homer. About 5 minutes into the demo, Homer started up. Our PHB was moritfied. One of the VIP's says, "You know I am getting hungry."
I have kept the same email address since 1993. I use io.com. IO started shortly after the govt. settled with the Steve Jackson Games guys. I think Steve's brother or something runs it. They have respect for you keeping your privacy. It is an excelent serivce and has all the stuff you listed. A shell account is $100 if you pay a year at a time and $10 a month if you do it by month.
I have been using this ISP for a very long time (7+ years). Things I like.
o When you call, someone is there. 24/7 even on X-mas.
o When you call, you are not told to reboot your windows box because you cannot connect to the ssh server. i.e. they have a clue.
o Nice offsite news feed is part of the deal.
I do not have any relationship with them other than I am a very happy customer. Although I will get a refferal credit if you use my email (mlh@io.com) as the refferal. *hint hint hint*
Good luck,
--Mike
I am really disappointed. I thought that Caldera had a very strong case.
Winning this case could have easily accelerated the end of the Microsoft dominance. Caldera was going to introduce evidence about the real problems Microsoft has caused in the industry. This "bundling the browser" suit that the DOJ used was such a small part of the bigger problem. Caldera's suit was going to be about much more serious violations of their monopoly and how they acquired said monopoly.
Oh well, I am happy for the Caldera folks. I just was hoping to see the Microsoft execs squirm on the stand when they had to start facing the facts.
I have had the chance to meet you at several LinuxWorldExpo's and USENIX etc.. At each of these events, you were always present at the parties with a large glass of beer.
My question:
What is your favorite beer? and why?
--Mike