That is a good reason to maintain them together, but not necessarily distribute them together. I'd guess the main reason is that once a developer gets enough knowledge to hack the kernel up this way, there are a lot more interesting problems to work on. And even if someone did manage it, its the kind of change thats hard to cut into small enough chunks for Linus to accept. There is alway the "your distribution should be dealing with this, why are you building kernels anyway?" argument as well.
The issue we have with SCO is "put up or shut up". The Linux community appears to be quite happy to fix any code that is genuinuely illegally appropriated.
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Last I checked, social programs don't hire people
No, with a wave of a magic government wand they just autonomously implement themselves.
I was being a pedant, for which I apologise. (As the guy above said it was the "and nothing more" bit I was disagreeing with.
Even the original DNS rfcs have records like WKS, HINFO, SOA, MG. Its all stuff for managing a hierarchical namespace - its not only IP to DNS mappings.
The goal of domain names is to provide a mechanism for naming resources in such a way that the names are usable in different hosts, networks, protocol families, internets, and administrative organizations.
Of course there probably aren't many people using anything more than A, MX, CNAME, NS, PTR and SOA (and any ipv6 equivalents). Reading the rfcs again makes me wonder if you can get Hesiod or Chaosnet classes anywhere.
Maybe people would care to post up the strangest records they can find in the DNS space? I'm a little surpised that/. doesn't offer Futurama quotes in TXT records
Hooke's Law for a spring: Force on a spring is proportional to the distance stretched from equilibrium. Until its stretched so far that the law doesn't work any more...
Well I'd heard rumours. And now you mention it, I've not heard from Jim for a while. I can only assume a lot of programmers got laid the year OS/2 warp was released. Or maybe that was just to throw me off the scent.
Even if SCO had something IBM wanted, which it didn't, IBM could easily reproduce it by in-house development using virgin programmers, which it has in abundance.
Is there any proof of this? Or is it merely an educated guess?
You do realise that cockroaches can put themselves back together after a good pasting with a baseball bat. Napalm does a far better job, so I've been told. Liquid nitrogen stops older models.
Chardonnay isn't expensive, at least by Western standards. I can get drinkable examples for GBP2.99 a bottle (75cl). We have high duty on alcohol. In France you can get reasonable stuff for around GBP1 per bottle.
I recently got spam from Panda entitled "HOW TO FIGHT THE NEW E-MAIL WORMS (Advertising)".
Do you think that because Advertising was in the title its OK? Wrong. Tell your marketing friend that he is no better than the rest of the scum that he professes to hate. Or maybe they'd like to add some validation to their sign up, plus leaving the please forward this to anyone who you think might like it crap off the bottom.
Less cute commentary, more helpful text in help files, please. Any programmer who has "please hire me" as the sole contents of the help file for his program is proclaiming his unemployability; who needs a programmer that can't explain what the software does?
Probably the same people who need a technical writer who can't install software.
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What if you work somewhere where bringing a camera to work is a cautionable offence?
See Noble's Law of Political Imagery
That is a good reason to maintain them together, but not necessarily distribute them together. I'd guess the main reason is that once a developer gets enough knowledge to hack the kernel up this way, there are a lot more interesting problems to work on. And even if someone did manage it, its the kind of change thats hard to cut into small enough chunks for Linus to accept. There is alway the "your distribution should be dealing with this, why are you building kernels anyway?" argument as well.
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Cool, I've just started up my copy of OO for ZX80, I'll report back to you in fifteen years when I get to type in my first character.
This is one small signal for man, one giant signal for mankind.
The issue we have with SCO is "put up or shut up". The Linux community appears to be quite happy to fix any code that is genuinuely illegally appropriated.
Last I checked, social programs don't hire people
No, with a wave of a magic government wand they just autonomously implement themselves.
I was being a pedant, for which I apologise. (As the guy above said it was the "and nothing more" bit I was disagreeing with.
Even the original DNS rfcs have records like WKS, HINFO, SOA, MG. Its all stuff for managing a hierarchical namespace - its not only IP to DNS mappings.
From rfc883:
Of course there probably aren't many people using anything more than A, MX, CNAME, NS, PTR and SOA (and any ipv6 equivalents). Reading the rfcs again makes me wonder if you can get Hesiod or Chaosnet classes anywhere.
Maybe people would care to post up the strangest records they can find in the DNS space? I'm a little surpised that /. doesn't offer Futurama quotes in TXT records
DNS is a directory service for god's sake, not a god damn search engine.
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DNS maps domain names to IP addresses and vice versa, nothing more
Wrong
Moore's Law seems as good as Hooke's Law to me.
Hooke's Law for a spring: Force on a spring is proportional to the distance stretched from equilibrium. Until its stretched so far that the law doesn't work any more...
Well I'd heard rumours. And now you mention it, I've not heard from Jim for a while. I can only assume a lot of programmers got laid the year OS/2 warp was released. Or maybe that was just to throw me off the scent.
Even if SCO had something IBM wanted, which it didn't, IBM could easily reproduce it by in-house development using virgin programmers, which it has in abundance.
Is there any proof of this? Or is it merely an educated guess?
Is there a new meaning of unique that marketeers use? Unique meaning "not in the equivalent Microsoft product".
Tabbed browsing - unique to mozilla, workspace switcher, unique to Linux???
1 rpm = 1 revolution per minute
2 rpms = 2 revolutions per minute
The old releases won't suddenly disappear. So the only real difference is the extra work it would take to rip the stuff out.
You do realise that cockroaches can put themselves back together after a good pasting with a baseball bat. Napalm does a far better job, so I've been told. Liquid nitrogen stops older models.
In other words, they've been left with the choice of killing the patient OR killing the disease.
At least that wasnt patient XOR killing the disease, so there's hope yet.
Chardonnay isn't expensive, at least by Western standards. I can get drinkable examples for GBP2.99 a bottle (75cl). We have high duty on alcohol. In France you can get reasonable stuff for around GBP1 per bottle.
Hmm, you don't program computers for a living, do you?
Why is that pathetic? Am I also pathetic when I type a domain name into a browser instead of an IP address?
Yes, you are :-)
(Java, VB, C, C++, Delphi... am I missing anything else major?).
COBOL, FORTRAN
I recently got spam from Panda entitled "HOW TO FIGHT THE NEW E-MAIL WORMS (Advertising)". Do you think that because Advertising was in the title its OK? Wrong. Tell your marketing friend that he is no better than the rest of the scum that he professes to hate. Or maybe they'd like to add some validation to their sign up, plus leaving the please forward this to anyone who you think might like it crap off the bottom.
Less cute commentary, more helpful text in help files, please. Any programmer who has "please hire me" as the sole contents of the help file for his program is proclaiming his unemployability; who needs a programmer that can't explain what the software does?
Probably the same people who need a technical writer who can't install software.
It made it into the INTERCAL spec, however http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/intercal-man/s 04.html#4.14