I wonder if that will be mentioned in Disney's PR for the film. Of course it's rumored that Uncle Walt was fond of the National Socialist Worker's Party of Germany too, so they were birds of a feather.
Not always. Some people feel the urge to archive history, if only for their own personal sense of purpose.
After Turner studios started colorizing old movies there were people who felt it a personal mission to track down and keep said movies in black and white "as they were ment to be seen".
Ditto for censored cartoons. Warner Bros. and Disney have butchered cartoons of historical merit because of today's PC sensibilities.
Or Star Wars - some people feel the 1977 theatical version should be preserved and wish to own a physical version for that reason. They feel a personal sense of ownership and responsibility for a piece of our culture.
It's not always some Comic Book Guy motivation to hold up a ultra-rare thing and sneer and go "fuck you" (although for some people it is that). It might be a desire to share things with their children - "this is great. I watched it 1000 times when I was your age"
By allowing someone else to keep our store our personal libraries for us we invite the oportunity for these things to disappear without warning. Day one of CS class in school we were taught to be responsible for our own storage, that mainframe files can and will be deleted without warning. People who didn't listen lost homework.
People like to own things. It's the hunter-gatherer in us. The author does not understand consumers if he thinks that on-demand services is going to satify collectors. People want to own tangible things - whether it's a table or a DVD. Often times renting something is not enough. They are not as fond of paying for something they get to enjoy once.
I'm sure that SCO will pay the 10k euro without blinking, but they are unlikely the change their bahavior. Then what? In the US the continuation of claims after paying the fine would eventually lead to contempt of court charges. Would this not be the case in Germany as well?
Darl in a German prison. That thought makes me smile:)
The SCO site has been up during business hours in Utah, but has since failed again. Many news sites carried the story that Eric Raymond had spoken to agroup responsible for a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the www.sco.com site and that they agreed to stop. However it appears that this may have been a hoax, or they subsequently changed their minds, or another person decided to continue the attack, or that the timeout on the attack has not yet been reached.
In a similar situation 10 days ago Microsoft chose to deploy Akamai's caching service, which has successfully averted any outages.
Akamai would be more dependable at warding off Distributed Denial of Service attacks than favours from Eric Raymond, but concievably SCO may have difficulty swallowing its pride and buying a service that uses tens of thousands of Linux servers, for which Akamai presumably has not purchased a SCO licence.
So we consolidate all of the best features of numerous WMs and then someone claims we've infringed on IP.
Sorry, I think one WM is a bad idea. I'm a gnome user, but I like the fact the KDE is out there keeping Miguel on his toes and that I can switch anytime.
I also like that some of the non-spotlight WMs keep on pushing new features. Afterstep has re-written it's entire engine and is totally XML based. Enlightenment's next release renders to GL. And WindowMaker is still my favorite option for running a gui on old hardware.
I've always thought it was a selling point at the installfest when someone comes up to me, sees my tricked out gnome theme, and says "what's that?". If they seem to think my theme is to out there, I load up an OSX theme and suddenly they can't get Linux on their box fast enough.
One WM to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Redmond, where shadows fall.
Frankly, I think they misdirrected their frustration - I think the OSS community has piled on worse than IBM at this point. Bruce Perins blew the crap out of their Vegas presentation. Linus says the "smoke crack". Grocklaw rips them a new one every day.
IBM is the storm cloud on the horrizon. SCO hasn't even begun to feel what they have in store.
Dr. Evil - Gentlemen welcome to my underground lair. Its been 30 years but I'm back. Everything's gone perfectly to plan except one small flaw. Due to a technical error by my henchman Darl complications arose in the unfreezing process.
Darl - My design was perfect.
Dr. Evil - Look what you did to Mr. Bigglesworth.
Darl - But Dr. Evil we were unable to anticipate feline complications due to the reanimation process.
Dr. Evil - Silence. Let this be a reminder to you all that this organization will not tolerate failure.
(trap door opens)
Darl - Ahhhhhh.
Dr. Evil - Gentlemen, lets get down to business.
Darl - Ahhhhhh.
Dr. Evil - We've got a lot of work to do. Darl - Someone help me. I'm still alive only I'm very badly burned.
Dr. Evil - Some of you I know some of you I'm meeting for the first time.
Darl - Hello out there. Anyone. Can someone call an ambulance, I'm in quite a lot of pain.
Dr. Evil - Ok, you've all been gathered here to form my evil cabinet...excuse me. Yes he's down there.
Darl - If somebody could open the retrieval hatch down here I could get out. See I designed this devise myself...Oh, Hi, Good. I'm glad you found me listen, I'm very badly burned so if you could just...You shot me.
Dr. Evil - Ok, moving on.
Darl - You shot me right in the arm, why did...
Dr. Evil - Right, Let me go around the table and introduce everyone.
Well, knock me over with a feather. It turns out that old SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, also donated code to Linux. There is an article dated June 12, 2000, that tells us all about their Linux distribution and their plans, which included scaling it to the enterprise, as marketroids like to call it:
"While SCO may be rolling out its Linux distribution long after Red Hat and Caldera hit the market with theirs, SCO is no open source Johnny-come-lately. The company offers support services to Caldera and TurboLinux customers. In addition, the company's Tarantella middleware supports Linux, as will Monterey, the Intel-based version of Unix that SCO is building with IBM.
"SCO is expected to announce 32- and 64-bit versions of Linux for Intel-based servers, which will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. In early 2001, SCO plans to deliver a 32-bit Internet Infrastructure Edition that will come bundled with a Web server and other IP applications. The company is also working on a 64-bit edition for service providers, including ISPs and application service providers, which will feature special billing and management tools.
"The company is also expected to explore the following areas:
"--Building the Linux clustering capacity to be in line with SCO's NonStop Clusters technology, which scales to 12 or more boxes with advanced reliability for data and applications. Current Linux clustering technology is generally limited to two or four nodes. --Beefing up Linux's symmetric multiprocessing capabilities. Currently the number of CPUs per Linux server is usually limited to eight; UnixWare can run on servers with up to 32 CPUs. -- Managing multiple Linux servers as well as applications from a single console as if they were a single system.
-- Improving security and the ability of Linux to handle applications such as e-mail, including instant messaging. -- Adding online support services and documentation."
Wait a sec. Isn't that what paragraph 85 of SCO's original complaint was talking about, and didn't they say that without IBM entering the picture, Linux could never have scaled? The complaint said:
"For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous operation."
That wasn't accurate, but it does give me an idea. Maybe New SCO needs to sue Old SCO and leave the rest of us in peace.
One year earlier, in 1999, a press release from Old SCO described itself like this:
"We have over twenty years of experience with UNIX, Intel, and Open Source technologies. In fact, we believe that SCO has the largest staff of Open Source experts of any commercial software vendor.
"As a founding sponsor of Linux International, SCO is a strong proponent of the Open Source movement, citing it as a driving force for innovation. Over the years, SCO has contributed source code to the movement, and currently offers a free Open License Software Supplement CD that includes many Open Source technologies. SCO UnixWare 7 operating system, the fastest growing UNIX server operating system for the past two years, supports Linux applications as part of its development platform."
All the Tarantella-Linux press releases from June 1999 to February 2000 are here.All Tarantella press releases from June of '99 to July of 2000 are
If I were at IBM, I would have seen to it that we mentioned four patents are being infringed, but SCO will have to agree to our terms to find out what they are.
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Nice catch editors.
I wonder if that will be mentioned in Disney's PR for the film. Of course it's rumored that Uncle Walt was fond of the National Socialist Worker's Party of Germany too, so they were birds of a feather.
I will not ever pay for an RIAA member label music product until such a time that they end their predatory lawsuits.
Frankly, this won't be a hard promise to keep, since most mainstream music sucks.
PS - The radio is still free, and I have an TV/FM tuner/capture card.
It's raining frikin' elephants!!!
"You mean its the annoying show-off in us."
Not always. Some people feel the urge to archive history, if only for their own personal sense of purpose.
After Turner studios started colorizing old movies there were people who felt it a personal mission to track down and keep said movies in black and white "as they were ment to be seen".
Ditto for censored cartoons. Warner Bros. and Disney have butchered cartoons of historical merit because of today's PC sensibilities.
Or Star Wars - some people feel the 1977 theatical version should be preserved and wish to own a physical version for that reason. They feel a personal sense of ownership and responsibility for a piece of our culture.
It's not always some Comic Book Guy motivation to hold up a ultra-rare thing and sneer and go "fuck you" (although for some people it is that). It might be a desire to share things with their children - "this is great. I watched it 1000 times when I was your age"
By allowing someone else to keep our store our personal libraries for us we invite the oportunity for these things to disappear without warning. Day one of CS class in school we were taught to be responsible for our own storage, that mainframe files can and will be deleted without warning. People who didn't listen lost homework.
People like to own things. It's the hunter-gatherer in us. The author does not understand consumers if he thinks that on-demand services is going to satify collectors. People want to own tangible things - whether it's a table or a DVD. Often times renting something is not enough. They are not as fond of paying for something they get to enjoy once.
I'm sure that SCO will pay the 10k euro without blinking, but they are unlikely the change their bahavior. Then what? In the US the continuation of claims after paying the fine would eventually lead to contempt of court charges. Would this not be the case in Germany as well?
:)
Darl in a German prison. That thought makes me smile
http://news.netcraft.com/
The SCO site has been up during business hours in Utah, but has since failed again. Many news sites carried the story that Eric Raymond had spoken to agroup responsible for a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the www.sco.com site and that they agreed to stop. However it appears that this may have been a hoax, or they subsequently changed their minds, or another person decided to continue the attack, or that the timeout on the attack has not yet been reached.
In a similar situation 10 days ago Microsoft chose to deploy Akamai's caching service, which has successfully averted any outages.
Akamai would be more dependable at warding off Distributed Denial of Service attacks than favours from Eric Raymond, but concievably SCO may have difficulty swallowing its pride and buying a service that uses tens of thousands of Linux servers, for which Akamai presumably has not purchased a SCO licence.
Choice is good. It's also good self defense.
So we consolidate all of the best features of numerous WMs and then someone claims we've infringed on IP.
Sorry, I think one WM is a bad idea. I'm a gnome user, but I like the fact the KDE is out there keeping Miguel on his toes and that I can switch anytime.
I also like that some of the non-spotlight WMs keep on pushing new features. Afterstep has re-written it's entire engine and is totally XML based. Enlightenment's next release renders to GL. And WindowMaker is still my favorite option for running a gui on old hardware.
I've always thought it was a selling point at the installfest when someone comes up to me, sees my tricked out gnome theme, and says "what's that?". If they seem to think my theme is to out there, I load up an OSX theme and suddenly they can't get Linux on their box fast enough.
One WM to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Redmond, where shadows fall.
Somebody got paid to write that article.
I have to work for a living.
I want to do nothing like that guy and make money.
Is SCO hiring?
Go and under Preferences->Homepage goto the section "Exclude Stories from the Homepage" and select "Caldera" and "IBM" and you won't be bothered any more with the SCO lawsuit.
What, you didn't get a Valentine's card from IBM?
Boo-Hoo.
Frankly, I think they misdirrected their frustration - I think the OSS community has piled on worse than IBM at this point. Bruce Perins blew the crap out of their Vegas presentation. Linus says the "smoke crack". Grocklaw rips them a new one every day.
IBM is the storm cloud on the horrizon. SCO hasn't even begun to feel what they have in store.
Dr. Evil - Gentlemen welcome to my underground lair. Its been 30 years but I'm back. Everything's gone perfectly to plan except one small flaw. Due to a technical error by my henchman Darl complications arose in the unfreezing process.
Darl - My design was perfect.
Dr. Evil - Look what you did to Mr. Bigglesworth.
Darl - But Dr. Evil we were unable to anticipate feline complications due to the reanimation process.
Dr. Evil - Silence. Let this be a reminder to you all that this organization will not tolerate failure.
(trap door opens)
Darl - Ahhhhhh.
Dr. Evil - Gentlemen, lets get down to business.
Darl - Ahhhhhh.
Dr. Evil - We've got a lot of work to do.
Darl - Someone help me. I'm still alive only I'm very badly burned.
Dr. Evil - Some of you I know some of you I'm meeting for the first time.
Darl - Hello out there. Anyone. Can someone call an ambulance, I'm in quite a lot of pain.
Dr. Evil - Ok, you've all been gathered here to form my evil cabinet...excuse me. Yes he's down there.
Darl - If somebody could open the retrieval hatch down here I could get out. See I designed this devise myself...Oh, Hi, Good. I'm glad you found me listen, I'm very badly burned so if you could just...You shot me.
Dr. Evil - Ok, moving on.
Darl - You shot me right in the arm, why did...
Dr. Evil - Right, Let me go around the table and introduce everyone.
I love apt get. It's always so much easier than reading the article.
No, really, it's a serious business question.
-- Bill Gates
Microsoft
LOL!!!
These guys make cooler furnature that looks halfway functional.
Don't wait for the facts! Let's point fingers NOW! What did Bush know!?!?!
I don't know anything about how a power grid works, but that won't stop me from having an opinion!!!
Make the government regulate the power industry!!! But keep their goddamn paws off our precious internet and Linux!!!
I got on the Niagara Mohawk Website and reported the outaged. They should be getting to work on it any time now.
CFO Robert K Bench sold 7000 shares this morning. Fortunately because of the big press release that SCO sold a license nobody noticed :)
From Groklaw
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/
Old SCO Also Donated Code to Linux
Well, knock me over with a feather. It turns out that old SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, also donated code to Linux. There is an article dated June 12, 2000, that tells us all about their Linux distribution and their plans, which included scaling it to the enterprise, as marketroids like to call it:
"While SCO may be rolling out its Linux distribution long after Red Hat and Caldera hit the market with theirs, SCO is no open source Johnny-come-lately. The company offers support services to Caldera and TurboLinux customers. In addition, the company's Tarantella middleware supports Linux, as will Monterey, the Intel-based version of Unix that SCO is building with IBM.
"SCO is expected to announce 32- and 64-bit versions of Linux for Intel-based servers, which will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. In early 2001, SCO plans to deliver a 32-bit Internet Infrastructure Edition that will come bundled with a Web server and other IP applications. The company is also working on a 64-bit edition for service providers, including ISPs and application service providers, which will feature special billing and management tools.
"The company is also expected to explore the following areas:
"--Building the Linux clustering capacity to be in line with SCO's NonStop Clusters technology, which scales to 12 or more boxes with advanced reliability for data and applications. Current Linux clustering technology is generally limited to two or four nodes.
--Beefing up Linux's symmetric multiprocessing capabilities. Currently the number of CPUs per Linux server is usually limited to eight; UnixWare can run on servers with up to 32 CPUs.
-- Managing multiple Linux servers as well as applications from a single console as if they were a single system.
-- Improving security and the ability of Linux to handle applications such as e-mail, including instant messaging.
-- Adding online support services and documentation."
Wait a sec. Isn't that what paragraph 85 of SCO's original complaint was talking about, and didn't they say that without IBM entering the picture, Linux could never have scaled? The complaint said:
"For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous operation."
That wasn't accurate, but it does give me an idea. Maybe New SCO needs to sue Old SCO and leave the rest of us in peace.
One year earlier, in 1999, a press release from Old SCO described itself like this:
"We have over twenty years of experience with UNIX, Intel, and Open Source technologies. In fact, we believe that SCO has the largest staff of Open Source experts of any commercial software vendor.
"As a founding sponsor of Linux International, SCO is a strong proponent of the Open Source movement, citing it as a driving force for innovation. Over the years, SCO has contributed source code to the movement, and currently offers a free Open License Software Supplement CD that includes many Open Source technologies. SCO UnixWare 7 operating system, the fastest growing UNIX server operating system for the past two years, supports Linux applications as part of its development platform."
All the Tarantella-Linux press releases from June 1999 to February 2000 are here.All Tarantella press releases from June of '99 to July of 2000 are
"If IBM were serious about addressing the real problems with Linux, it would offer full customer indemnification and move away from the GPL license."
More evidence that Mirco$oft is the real engine here. They are attacking the GPL directly and via proxy.
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Hey Dale!!!!
I don't think IBM is going to buy your company!
This isn't working out like you wanted, is it?
If I were at IBM, I would have seen to it that we mentioned four patents are being infringed, but SCO will have to agree to our terms to find out what they are.
1. Sue IBM
2. ???????
3. Run for your life!
...when you can say "Ni" to an old woman!