After a few web searches I was able to find Killustrator code as far back as Feb 1999. Now 2 1/2 years later they are pursuing this. Is there a statute of limitations on this ?
I have had similar expierences. Several at 3 in the morning. The support is generally followed up by an Email survey request and a phone call from there customer service. Almost everytime I have called Cisco, one the first questions from the technicians is can I access this device ? I like calling at 3 in the morning and talking to some chick in Austrailia with a sexy accent:)
Watch out using this on a laptop. Redhat is using the "NEW" Kernel Cardbus driver which sucks. I was not able to get the 7.1 beta to work on my Compaq Laptop. I had to do some major rework to get Donald Beckers pcmcia-cs package to work.
After reading this interview, I really wonder how people like this get to be in the positions they are. This is a classic example of "I really dont have a clue but I know its wrong syndrom". This is the typical excuse of big business. This type of mentality is destroying the "open-ness" of the internet.
I bet if you asked this guy if he knows how much harddrive space is consumed by one movie he wouldn't know that either. Why hasn't this been brought about in the case ? Its clear that it would take the better part of a day with the fastest DSL or cable modem to d/l a single movie.
I really dont even understand how a Judge can rule on something that he does not understand. Until this ingnorance ploy it eradicated in the Justice System, these types of cases will coninue to prevail, and destroy the internet.
I hope that we will begin to see people take public office that have been exposed to the opensource movement and the internet while they were in college. When this starts to happen, then and only then will there be significant change in the way the Government (clueless) and big business (even more clueless patent whores) can throw there weight around. </RANT OFF>
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After a few web searches I was able to find Killustrator code as far back as Feb 1999. Now 2 1/2 years later they are pursuing this. Is there a statute of limitations on this ?
I have had similar expierences. Several at 3 in the morning. The support is generally followed up by an Email survey request and a phone call from there customer service. Almost everytime I have called Cisco, one the first questions from the technicians is can I access this device ? I like calling at 3 in the morning and talking to some chick in Austrailia with a sexy accent :)
Watch out using this on a laptop. Redhat is using the "NEW" Kernel Cardbus driver which sucks. I was not able to get the 7.1 beta to work on my Compaq Laptop. I had to do some major rework to get Donald Beckers pcmcia-cs package to work.
After reading this interview, I really wonder how people like this get to be in the positions they are. This is a classic example of "I really dont have a clue but I know its wrong syndrom". This is the typical excuse of big business. This type of mentality is destroying the "open-ness" of the internet.
I bet if you asked this guy if he knows how much harddrive space is consumed by one movie he wouldn't know that either. Why hasn't this been brought about in the case ? Its clear that it would take the better part of a day with the fastest DSL or cable modem to d/l a single movie.
I really dont even understand how a Judge can rule on something that he does not understand. Until this ingnorance ploy it eradicated in the Justice System, these types of cases will coninue to prevail, and destroy the internet.
I hope that we will begin to see people take public office that have been exposed to the opensource movement and the internet while they were in college. When this starts to happen, then and only then will there be significant change in the way the Government (clueless) and big business (even more clueless patent whores) can throw there weight around.
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