I also agree. SCO is wrong and so is IBM but that does not change that the fact that IBM has been down this path before and will use what ever stick they can get their hands on. Right, wrong, or indifferent, today in America the guy who has the most money to spend on lawyers wins. You don't like this? Fine! What are YOU gonna do about it? Talk is cheap.
SCO is wrong on 3 counts. 1) this bullshit that they own all the IP of Unix and all subsequent Unix like OS. 2) that suing people is a legitimate business model and 3) the thing that really pisses me off. That they can threaten IBM, Apple, the Linux, FreeBSD and Open Source community and get away with it with out retribution. In my view stupidity should be painful and stupidity on this scale should cause SCO and everyone associated with them should be extinct. All I have to do is wait a couple of years and they will be.
This does not change the fact that the patent and legal system in this country is profoundly fucked. But one pile of shit at a time.
Sontag is wrong if he thinks that US govt will help because Linux is used by terrorists, since Linux is also used by NASA, Pentagon etc. It would have been different matter if he had said that Linux is used by Al Gore....
The government will help SCO only if they give several million dollars to G.W. Bush's re-election campaign.
IBM is going crush SCO. It's gonna take a few years but they have been marked for death. No licensing, no merger, no buyout. Remember, IBM got into a pissing contest with the Justice Dept. in the 70's. In case you need to be reminded the Justice Dept. is part of the U. S. Government who prints the money. The Justice Dept. does not have to show a profit, IBM does. IBM fought the Justice Dept. to a standstill for over 12 years and still showed a profit every year.
IBM most likely employs more people in their legal department than all of SCO. IBM is going to go into court with SCO and stall, bleeding them dry in the process. The legal fees will bankrupt SCO and IBM will not even break a sweat. Want proof? Go to your local University library and start reading the New York Times from the early 70's. 1971 or 1972. If I remember correctly IBM went into court to file a brief and the brief was 56 4-draw filling cabinets. It took the lawyers 2 years to read it. Ever seen mainframe documentation? Visualize that as legal paper work. SCO is dead they just don't know it yet.
It would seem that MS is playing its cards the same way Saddam did. Eventually, this "law and order" regime (if it is to retain that title) will have no political choice but to eventually slam MS down, and good.
Not going to happen. Not while G. W. Bush, et. al. is sucking Big Business's dick. The base ideology of the Republican party is "Business can do no wrong". As far as they our concerned the law exists to protect business. The moment the law gets in the way of business, that law goes into the rubbish bin like yesterdays newspaper. Microsoft knows this. If they ever get into trouble all they have to do is stall in court until the next election cycle, purchase a few congress sluts, and bingo! they get a free pass. If this makes you unhappy, do something about it. Oh, here is a free clue, bitch on slashdot is NOT doing doing something about it.
talk, wall etc were all in non-windowed. xtalk and lots of others were windows. The "unique" element is being able to see who is online before you talk to them.
I ran a Wildcat BBS in the mid 80's that had chat rooms and one of the features of the system was that you could see who was in the room before you entered. The system would also notify you when you logged on who was also logged on. I might even still have a backup copy of the Wildcat BBS I was running somewhere in the closet. There is a example of prior art.
It really has. I just, last night, replaced my DVD player. The old unit was an upper range Sony that I got at a January white sale 3 years ago and paid $450 for it. It was $600. It died on me last week. I have a 6 year old Sony VCR, again an upper range, and it's still going strong. I watch a lot of non mainstream movies so the VCR gets more of a workout that the DVD. The thing that pisses me off is I took the old DVD player to 3 places to get it repaired and all 3 places wanted between $125 and $175 just to take a look at it.
...don't buy their products. I haven't bought an RIAA-affected CD in 10 years
I haven't bought a NEW CD in 3 years. I go to used record stores. This works for me, I get new music to listen to and the music industry does'nt get one fucking dime out of me. When they start acting in a reasonable fashion then I'll start buying new again.
The entirety of the web front-end is Windows 2000. The back end is Sun (yes, there is an ongoing project to migrate this platform). FreeBSD never had anything more than a small role in the Hotmail environment, even PRE Microsoft.
This is incorrect. At the time Microsoft bought Hotmail it was the largest single FreeBSD site in the world. IIRC, the machine count was just over 5000. Since then Microsoft has replaced most of the FreeBSD machine with either Windows 2000 or Sun boxes. There are a few FreeBSD left but not many. My sources, who worked at Hotmail at the time of the Microsoft takeover, tell me that the remaining FreeBSD boxes are doing DNS duty.
The "BSD is dying" clown must be sleeping. Hey shit head! You are not doing your job. No BSD announcement is complete without a few dozen "BSD is dying" posts. So quit goofing off and get to work.
Wouldn't getting a beer at the local watering hole be considered "corporate entertainment consumption"? After all, Anheuser-Busch is a big corporation, you're drinking to entertain yourself, and it's certainly consumption.
You know, there is such a thing as locally brewed beer, not that Anheuser-Busch makes anything that even remotly resembles beer.
According to VH1 where are they now television show, Gary Glitter (co-founder of legendary punk band, the new york dolls - and author of that rediculous jock jam) had computer problems and brought his pc into a repair shop. They then discovered child pr0n and turned him in. Haha!
Wrong!
Gary Glitter is English and had nothing to do with the New York Dolls. The members were;
Umm, the troll said FreeBSD has 80% of the *BSD market, at 36,400 users. That
would make the whole market 45,500 users. Your counter shows 42,927 total *BSD
machines, and 50,187 users. It would seem that the *BSD is dying troll statistics split
the difference between users and machines quite accurately, given a little statistical
wiggle room.
The
BSD Counter is a work in progress. The user count is working, mostly. The machine count is broken and is being fixed this week. The number of machines you see there is part of a debug test. Come back later and register your machine.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is
very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at
all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of
a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Yea, yea. I was wondering when you were going to be showing your troll-ass. The
BSD Counter proves you wrong. Fuck off, troll.
If you have not read it in a while, everyone should re-read
1984 again.
If
you really want to do something about this organize a day of protest. Image
several thousand people wondering around downtown Tampa dress as Santa or
wearing Nixon masks. Will they get arrested for not showing their face in
public? What will the police in Tampa charge them with?
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick
and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be
among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could
save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Once again this loser posts this crap. *BSD is not dead. I run the
BSD Counter Page. By our count we currently have 43,028 verified FreeBSD users. This page is not very well advertised and is in the process of being revamped. All you *BSD users out there come and register on this site and fuck this loser.
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I agree. Wish I had mod points.
I also agree. SCO is wrong and so is IBM but that does not change that the fact that IBM has been down this path before and will use what ever stick they can get their hands on. Right, wrong, or indifferent, today in America the guy who has the most money to spend on lawyers wins. You don't like this? Fine! What are YOU gonna do about it? Talk is cheap.
SCO is wrong on 3 counts. 1) this bullshit that they own all the IP of Unix and all subsequent Unix like OS. 2) that suing people is a legitimate business model and 3) the thing that really pisses me off. That they can threaten IBM, Apple, the Linux, FreeBSD and Open Source community and get away with it with out retribution. In my view stupidity should be painful and stupidity on this scale should cause SCO and everyone associated with them should be extinct. All I have to do is wait a couple of years and they will be.
This does not change the fact that the patent and legal system in this country is profoundly fucked. But one pile of shit at a time.
Sontag is wrong if he thinks that US govt will help because Linux is used by terrorists, since Linux is also used by NASA, Pentagon etc. It would have been different matter if he had said that Linux is used by Al Gore....
The government will help SCO only if they give several million dollars to G.W. Bush's re-election campaign.
IBM is going crush SCO. It's gonna take a few years but they have been marked for death. No licensing, no merger, no buyout. Remember, IBM got into a pissing contest with the Justice Dept. in the 70's. In case you need to be reminded the Justice Dept. is part of the U. S. Government who prints the money. The Justice Dept. does not have to show a profit, IBM does. IBM fought the Justice Dept. to a standstill for over 12 years and still showed a profit every year.
IBM most likely employs more people in their legal department than all of SCO. IBM is going to go into court with SCO and stall, bleeding them dry in the process. The legal fees will bankrupt SCO and IBM will not even break a sweat. Want proof? Go to your local University library and start reading the New York Times from the early 70's. 1971 or 1972. If I remember correctly IBM went into court to file a brief and the brief was 56 4-draw filling cabinets. It took the lawyers 2 years to read it. Ever seen mainframe documentation? Visualize that as legal paper work. SCO is dead they just don't know it yet.
It would seem that MS is playing its cards the same way Saddam did. Eventually, this "law and order" regime (if it is to retain that title) will have no political choice but to eventually slam MS down, and good.
Not going to happen. Not while G. W. Bush, et. al. is sucking Big Business's dick. The base ideology of the Republican party is "Business can do no wrong". As far as they our concerned the law exists to protect business. The moment the law gets in the way of business, that law goes into the rubbish bin like yesterdays newspaper. Microsoft knows this. If they ever get into trouble all they have to do is stall in court until the next election cycle, purchase a few congress sluts, and bingo! they get a free pass. If this makes you unhappy, do something about it. Oh, here is a free clue, bitch on slashdot is NOT doing doing something about it.
It's spelled Berkeley.
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword
But Linux is licensed under the GPL! The GPL was written by Richard Stallman! RICHARD STALLMAN, people!
My God, don't these people know what they're doing? The GPL isn't really "free"! RMS is very annoying!
Yea, Richard is very annoying but he has done to advance Computer Science than you have
I ran a Wildcat BBS in the mid 80's that had chat rooms and one of the features of the system was that you could see who was in the room before you entered. The system would also notify you when you logged on who was also logged on. I might even still have a backup copy of the Wildcat BBS I was running somewhere in the closet. There is a example of prior art.
More of the same deleted...
Dude, one word... decaf.
Amen, brother
I only buy used CDs. When the Music Industry starts treating their customes with respect again, then I'll start buying new CDs.
The CVS tag you want is
RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE
See FreeBSD:CVS Tags
I haven't bought a NEW CD in 3 years. I go to used record stores. This works for me, I get new music to listen to and the music industry does'nt get one fucking dime out of me. When they start acting in a reasonable fashion then I'll start buying new again.
This is incorrect. At the time Microsoft bought Hotmail it was the largest single FreeBSD site in the world. IIRC, the machine count was just over 5000. Since then Microsoft has replaced most of the FreeBSD machine with either Windows 2000 or Sun boxes. There are a few FreeBSD left but not many. My sources, who worked at Hotmail at the time of the Microsoft takeover, tell me that the remaining FreeBSD boxes are doing DNS duty.
Please get your fact straight.
For the humor impaired, that was sarcasm.
If microsoft put any of their rotten OSs out in source code, GPL or not, I still would not use it to wipe my butt.
You know, there is such a thing as locally brewed beer, not that Anheuser-Busch makes anything that even remotly resembles beer.
Wrong!
Gary Glitter is English and had nothing to do with the New York Dolls. The members were;
Don'y blame me either, my vote was'nt counted.
The BSD Counter is a work in progress. The user count is working, mostly. The machine count is broken and is being fixed this week. The number of machines you see there is part of a debug test. Come back later and register your machine.
Yea, yea. I was wondering when you were going to be showing your troll-ass. The BSD Counter proves you wrong. Fuck off, troll.
If you really want to do something about this organize a day of protest. Image several thousand people wondering around downtown Tampa dress as Santa or wearing Nixon masks. Will they get arrested for not showing their face in public? What will the police in Tampa charge them with?
Once again this loser posts this crap. *BSD is not dead. I run the BSD Counter Page. By our count we currently have 43,028 verified FreeBSD users. This page is not very well advertised and is in the process of being revamped. All you *BSD users out there come and register on this site and fuck this loser.