All that, plus the fact that they themselves distributed the very code they claim as their intellectual property under the GPL in their own Linux distribution.
This was the very fist affirmative defense IBM brought up, lo these many months ago.
If the GPL holds then the entire SCO case can be simply dismissed prima facie and we can all go home.
The GPL screws SCO thirtynine ways from Sunday. If it holds they have no case to begin with, but then they become the bait fish instead of the shark and they're going to get torn to bits by possibly hundreds of suits.
By putting forth their claims they made themselves a treed 'coon surrounded by a pack of hounds. They can't simply climb down out of the tree and walk away.
It's a done deal. Life or death. The GPL or SCO. There will be only one survivor.
And if SCO is the survivor it may still get taken out in the parking lot and beaten to death with tire irons.
Perhaps you misunderstand The Smart Guy concept. He would have absolutely no decision making power. He is not part of "managment" at all, except as managment sees fit to access his "smarts."
His thoughts may have influence, as do the thoughts of everyone in an organization, to one extent or another, but they do not decide, any more than an encyclopedia "decides."
But yes, he would be perceived as usurping power just by the virtue of the appearance of his being smarter than the "boss."
On the whole, one of the problems with management is that they aren't, typically, smart enough to understand what their job is, nor is the social structure built by such managers conducive to those that do actually understand the function of managment.
My mom is a freelance travel photographer. Nobody "bribes" her, but she sure gets to travel a lot for "free."
Now what do you suppose happens to her free trips if she publishes unflattering copy about her "hosts?"
You don't have to be bribed to be beholden.
She could, of course, simply take her own trips on her own dime. ..if she were independantly wealthy and just playing at it instead of trying to make a living.
And thus the media is corrupted without any application of coercion at all. No threat to remove advertising or anything. Just a loose understanding by everyone involved as to what's in their own personal interest.
No, they do not. Cars that must be stock for racing are stripped down and rebuilt with individual parts off the line that most closely match spec.
This is far more certain than testing every vehicle to find the "good" ones, which will never, ever, be quite as good as one assembled specifically to be good.
Even well heeled amatuers with access to a dealer's or distributer's parts bins do this. Hence classes like Star Mazda and Legends where the motor can only be touched by an official builder and has a seal affixed to it to prevent tampering.
This practice was first started in the 60's by the official Austrian Formula Vee team ( a class where every engine part must be absolutely box stock). Jochen Rindt simply ran away from the international field with a perfectly legal engine whose parts had all been individually cherry picked.
To be fair to Lexmark (Ouch! Ooooooo, make it stop) they also rate Lexmark's Optra line of business printers as excellent with 100% support for free software.
Lexmark seems to take good care of its corporate customers while pounding Joe User up the ass.
Not that I consider that any sort of inducment to buy any of their products, mind you.
Without putting too fine a point on it, I dare you to find something even rougly equivelent to the content of the Armadillo Book in the man pages and/or online.
Documentation has information. The good books expand this information with experience and wisdom.
Not to mention the fact that you can read them in the park.
Charlie Daniels was accused, during an interview, of not being that great a musician and simply hiring people better than himself to back him, making him just look good.
To which Charlie replied, roughly," I'm just a front man. Of course they're better than me. If they weren't I wouldn't have hired them.
Charlie knows something.
You'll never see a job ad that says "Wanted: Really Smart Guy."
No boss really wants that guy around the place. Despite some of your other respondents this fairly common knowledge with lots of anecdotal evidence.
Robert Townsend, author of "Up the Orininization" and former President of both Avis and American Express wrote that every company should have a Bullshit guy. This is a guy whose only job is to wander around and yell "Bullshit!" any time he sees any in a company practice. It' would take a reasonably smart guy to fill this position.
And what boss would have him, wandering around yelling "Bullshit!" at all the policies he implemented?
I take the idea a bit further though. Every company of any size should have a position that's called "The Smart Guy." Officially. That's what it would say on his cards and everything.
No official duties other than being smart, curious, informed and the interest to keep himself informed, on nearly anything.
Anybody in the company could talk to "The Smart Guy." Network's down and you can't figure it out? Go talk to The Smart Guy. Maybe he doesn't know the answer, in fact he probably doesn't, but talking to someone smart might helf you think about the problem in a way that allows its solution.
Extrapolate.
You'll never, ever see this position advertised. Not because it's not a good idea, but because every boss thinks that he's The Smart Guy. He wouldn't be "boss" otherwise. Right?
Not to mention that fact that MS has always written a lot of apps for Apple. Do people think they do it on an Etch-a-Sketch?
I work mostly in Linux but have to support various diverse platforms. Just because I advocate Linux in most cases doesn't make me some sort of evil hypocrite for having a couple of Macs about the place for testing purposes, or even just because they might be fun to play with.
But let's say that MS was bringing in Macs for some "nefarious" purpose.
What was the first thing that GM did when designing the "new" Corvette back in the early 80s?
They went out and bought a Porsche 928.
Analyzed that mother within an inch of its life too. Biiiiiiiiiiig Deal. Happens all the time. Nothing wrong with it.
Didn't the KDE team have a Windows box or two somewhere in the org as a reference?
KFG
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Now all I need is a crank on the side of my television, just like my radio, and I'll be set for the next blackout.
Buy a book. See any license agreement on it? No, such has been tried and explicitly rejected by law. You buy the book, you own the book and its content. You license nothing at all. You are merely restricted from making illegal (as opposed to unauthorized. Think about it) copies.
You may use the content in any manner you like. Cut it up and rearrange all words if you wish. Read it anywhere, under any circumstances. This is your right. Because you own it. You do not license the content.
Hey, same thing for videotape. How about that! Nifty, huh?
"Hey Patrick. Yeah, send me a box ok? It's on Bill. Try not to giggle too hard while packing it. We don't want you to be personal proof that Windows kills."
KFG
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I do not listen to some doofwad in Los Angeles. I listen to the doofwad who lives, literally, around the corner from me. As doofwads go he's an ok guy and programs a lot of jazz and big band music.
Turn on your radio. Spin the dial slowly. Clear Channel may be the 800 lb. gorilla, but hasn't even come close to snagging up "all" the local radio stations. Especially here in the North East.
Clear Channel owns an average of 26 stations per state. There are 40 something stations in my immediate broadcast area alone, five of them noncommercial. I can pick up dozens of stations from outside of my immediate area. That's one of the cool things about radio.
Don't like Clear Channel? Don't listen to them. You don't have to.
At least not yet.
KFG
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(yes, I'm old enough to remember more than one) everything failed. My internet connection went down, my TV went black, my electric lights went out ( my oil lamps chugged along like always).
My portable radio worked like a charm and the emergency generators the radio stations employ kept them on the air.
Promoting RIAA "stars" is hardly the only use for radio. In fact, small radio stations are still the most used medium for promoting obscure music unaligned with the RIAA, why do you think they oppose the proliferation of small neighborhood radio stations?
Radio is one of the true modern marvels, its usefulness is far from past.
Yes, I'd have to agree that Starfleet seems to have found a really nifty stylist for that generation.
I still think, if I had to choose between the two, I'd take the tulipwood Hispano-Suiza. Saves all the hassle of rounding up a crew when you just want to take a cruise around the bay.
I missed them myself. I'll have to see if they come around on the guitar again.
Nor am I at all sure what any possible lack of obscurity has to do with any possible humorous content.
In fact I'm generally used to being accused of poor humor because of obscurity, where there is lack of understanding where it the joke? Explaining a joke, of course, is both lame and pointless.
In other words, having once lit the fuse and failing to convince the Road Runner to eat it they now seem to face the choice of either eating it themselves or shoving it up their butt.
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Of course. The position is primarily a communicative one.
KFG
Thank you. Here we have a perfect example of the true meaning of the phrase "begs the question."
KFG
All that, plus the fact that they themselves distributed the very code they claim as their intellectual property under the GPL in their own Linux distribution.
This was the very fist affirmative defense IBM brought up, lo these many months ago.
If the GPL holds then the entire SCO case can be simply dismissed prima facie and we can all go home.
The GPL screws SCO thirtynine ways from Sunday. If it holds they have no case to begin with, but then they become the bait fish instead of the shark and they're going to get torn to bits by possibly hundreds of suits.
By putting forth their claims they made themselves a treed 'coon surrounded by a pack of hounds. They can't simply climb down out of the tree and walk away.
It's a done deal. Life or death. The GPL or SCO. There will be only one survivor.
And if SCO is the survivor it may still get taken out in the parking lot and beaten to death with tire irons.
KFG
Well, a picture IS worth a thousand words
Please express this concept with a picture.
KFG
Perhaps you misunderstand The Smart Guy concept. He would have absolutely no decision making power. He is not part of "managment" at all, except as managment sees fit to access his "smarts."
His thoughts may have influence, as do the thoughts of everyone in an organization, to one extent or another, but they do not decide, any more than an encyclopedia "decides."
But yes, he would be perceived as usurping power just by the virtue of the appearance of his being smarter than the "boss."
On the whole, one of the problems with management is that they aren't, typically, smart enough to understand what their job is, nor is the social structure built by such managers conducive to those that do actually understand the function of managment.
KFG
"I wonder how much of that was duplicate data."
3% was [AOL] Me Too! [/AOL] posts.
1% was In Soviet Russia jokes.
0.5% Profit!!!
So I guess there was a fair amount of duplication.
KFG
Yes, even the boss would be allowed to talk to The Smart Guy.
In fact, he should be The Smart Guy's best "customer."
KFG
My mom is a freelance travel photographer. Nobody "bribes" her, but she sure gets to travel a lot for "free."
.if she were independantly wealthy and just playing at it instead of trying to make a living.
Now what do you suppose happens to her free trips if she publishes unflattering copy about her "hosts?"
You don't have to be bribed to be beholden.
She could, of course, simply take her own trips on her own dime. .
And thus the media is corrupted without any application of coercion at all. No threat to remove advertising or anything. Just a loose understanding by everyone involved as to what's in their own personal interest.
KFG
KFG
No, they do not. Cars that must be stock for racing are stripped down and rebuilt with individual parts off the line that most closely match spec.
This is far more certain than testing every vehicle to find the "good" ones, which will never, ever, be quite as good as one assembled specifically to be good.
Even well heeled amatuers with access to a dealer's or distributer's parts bins do this. Hence classes like Star Mazda and Legends where the motor can only be touched by an official builder and has a seal affixed to it to prevent tampering.
This practice was first started in the 60's by the official Austrian Formula Vee team ( a class where every engine part must be absolutely box stock). Jochen Rindt simply ran away from the international field with a perfectly legal engine whose parts had all been individually cherry picked.
But the engine was completely stock.
KFG
Touche! :)
Insert Dilbert joke here.
KFG
To be fair to Lexmark (Ouch! Ooooooo, make it stop) they also rate Lexmark's Optra line of business printers as excellent with 100% support for free software.
Lexmark seems to take good care of its corporate customers while pounding Joe User up the ass.
Not that I consider that any sort of inducment to buy any of their products, mind you.
KFG
Without putting too fine a point on it, I dare you to find something even rougly equivelent to the content of the Armadillo Book in the man pages and/or online.
Documentation has information. The good books expand this information with experience and wisdom.
Not to mention the fact that you can read them in the park.
KFG
Charlie Daniels was accused, during an interview, of not being that great a musician and simply hiring people better than himself to back him, making him just look good.
To which Charlie replied, roughly," I'm just a front man. Of course they're better than me. If they weren't I wouldn't have hired them.
Charlie knows something.
You'll never see a job ad that says "Wanted: Really Smart Guy."
No boss really wants that guy around the place. Despite some of your other respondents this fairly common knowledge with lots of anecdotal evidence.
Robert Townsend, author of "Up the Orininization" and former President of both Avis and American Express wrote that every company should have a Bullshit guy. This is a guy whose only job is to wander around and yell "Bullshit!" any time he sees any in a company practice. It' would take a reasonably smart guy to fill this position.
And what boss would have him, wandering around yelling "Bullshit!" at all the policies he implemented?
I take the idea a bit further though. Every company of any size should have a position that's called "The Smart Guy." Officially. That's what it would say on his cards and everything.
No official duties other than being smart, curious, informed and the interest to keep himself informed, on nearly anything.
Anybody in the company could talk to "The Smart Guy." Network's down and you can't figure it out? Go talk to The Smart Guy. Maybe he doesn't know the answer, in fact he probably doesn't, but talking to someone smart might helf you think about the problem in a way that allows its solution.
Extrapolate.
You'll never, ever see this position advertised. Not because it's not a good idea, but because every boss thinks that he's The Smart Guy. He wouldn't be "boss" otherwise. Right?
KFG
Not to mention that fact that MS has always written a lot of apps for Apple. Do people think they do it on an Etch-a-Sketch?
I work mostly in Linux but have to support various diverse platforms. Just because I advocate Linux in most cases doesn't make me some sort of evil hypocrite for having a couple of Macs about the place for testing purposes, or even just because they might be fun to play with.
But let's say that MS was bringing in Macs for some "nefarious" purpose.
What was the first thing that GM did when designing the "new" Corvette back in the early 80s?
They went out and bought a Porsche 928.
Analyzed that mother within an inch of its life too. Biiiiiiiiiiig Deal. Happens all the time. Nothing wrong with it.
Didn't the KDE team have a Windows box or two somewhere in the org as a reference?
KFG
Now all I need is a crank on the side of my television, just like my radio, and I'll be set for the next blackout.
KFG
Why yes. Yes I do. And may the Slack be with you.
KFG
Buy a book. See any license agreement on it? No, such has been tried and explicitly rejected by law. You buy the book, you own the book and its content. You license nothing at all. You are merely restricted from making illegal (as opposed to unauthorized. Think about it) copies.
You may use the content in any manner you like. Cut it up and rearrange all words if you wish. Read it anywhere, under any circumstances. This is your right. Because you own it. You do not license the content.
Hey, same thing for videotape. How about that! Nifty, huh?
Analog. Its yours. For keeps.
Fancy that.
KFG
Lesse, Wal-Mart, Tenneesee, I figure they'll redeem it on "Trailer Park Deer Hunter IV: Nuclear Annihilation!"
Or would that be cultural stereotyping?
KFG
"Hey Patrick. Yeah, send me a box ok? It's on Bill. Try not to giggle too hard while packing it. We don't want you to be personal proof that Windows kills."
KFG
I do not listen to some doofwad in Los Angeles. I listen to the doofwad who lives, literally, around the corner from me. As doofwads go he's an ok guy and programs a lot of jazz and big band music.
Turn on your radio. Spin the dial slowly. Clear Channel may be the 800 lb. gorilla, but hasn't even come close to snagging up "all" the local radio stations. Especially here in the North East.
Clear Channel owns an average of 26 stations per state. There are 40 something stations in my immediate broadcast area alone, five of them noncommercial. I can pick up dozens of stations from outside of my immediate area. That's one of the cool things about radio.
Don't like Clear Channel? Don't listen to them. You don't have to.
At least not yet.
KFG
(yes, I'm old enough to remember more than one) everything failed. My internet connection went down, my TV went black, my electric lights went out ( my oil lamps chugged along like always).
My portable radio worked like a charm and the emergency generators the radio stations employ kept them on the air.
Promoting RIAA "stars" is hardly the only use for radio. In fact, small radio stations are still the most used medium for promoting obscure music unaligned with the RIAA, why do you think they oppose the proliferation of small neighborhood radio stations?
Radio is one of the true modern marvels, its usefulness is far from past.
KFG
"So, what does this guy think about overpopulation?"
There is an abundance of people. Which, oddly enough, creates scarcity.
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.
KFG
Yes, I'd have to agree that Starfleet seems to have found a really nifty stylist for that generation.
I still think, if I had to choose between the two, I'd take the tulipwood Hispano-Suiza. Saves all the hassle of rounding up a crew when you just want to take a cruise around the bay.
KFG
I missed them myself. I'll have to see if they come around on the guitar again.
Nor am I at all sure what any possible lack of obscurity has to do with any possible humorous content.
In fact I'm generally used to being accused of poor humor because of obscurity, where there is lack of understanding where it the joke? Explaining a joke, of course, is both lame and pointless.
Ya just can't please some people.
KFG
In other words, having once lit the fuse and failing to convince the Road Runner to eat it they now seem to face the choice of either eating it themselves or shoving it up their butt.
Suuuuuper Geeeeeenius.
KFG