Sun may not have a focused Linux strategy, but you can bet that Fujitsu does. In addition to the PrimePower line of SPARC-based servers, they have their Primergy line of Intel-based servers that can easily run Linux. Fujitsu's Linux strategy hasn't been well defined yet, but they would be remiss to not jump on that bandwagon ASAP.
This is what is going on here with KaZaA and other file sharing programs -- there is a model in place that allows for the product to get to the users faster and cheaper, and without the unnecessary middlemen markup that the RIAA imposes on us. The RIAA's problem with this is that it completely breaks their business model, so they do the only possible things they can -- pretend it doesn't exist, and then when that fails, villify those that use it, even for legal purposes.
The RIAA's biggest fear about this is the possibility of the use this distribution method coupled with direct compensation to the artists who create the music. At that point, musicians stop signing with the RIAA companies en masse, and the RIAA companies instantly become obsolete and die off, as happened to Edison's movie industry. In fact, I'm surprised that the RIAA hasn't also lobbied against mastering programs like CakeWalk, since that potentially affects their revenue streams as well if the artists begin to mix and master their own recordings, circumventing the need for RIAA technicians.
The bottom line is that the RIAA member companies will never embrace these technologies because they take out the overwhelming majority of the built-in cost they tag on every recording they produce, and without that cash flow, how are they going to afford their yachts and vacation homes?
...is that they produce code that is only just good enough to provide the desired capability, without any regards to security. That code then becomes v1.0, is rushed to market, and then the inevitable security and functionality bugs are found due to what seems to be a lack of QA, and they get beat up (rightfully so) by us techies for continuing to release binaries based on sloppy code.
Of course, they could do one other thing which is to change coding practices so that code is built robustly and securely the first time, but anyway....
It seems plausible to me that SunnComm's CEO had a sit-down with the DMCA proponents where they informed him to cease any pursuit of legal action involving the DMCA, since they're afraid that putting a weak case against it could result in a court throwing out the entire Act, and thereby jeopardize their ability to contnue to threaten others/hide behind/abuse it to their benefit.
I tell ya. The one thing I hate about Windows vs. UNIX-type systems is Window's bad use of screen real estate when compared to X displays running on Linux, Solaris, etc.
For example, with the same 19" monitor in my house, I can have so many more windows open and viewable with Linux than with Windows. Also, Windows in 1280x1024 resolution or higher gets unreadable whereas I don't tend to have that problem with Linux for some reason.
So I'm not so sure about needing >=2 monitors, but perhaps to enhance the GUI readability of various OS's at higher resolutions.
You know, in certain circles, this is intolerably rude. This guy flew halfway around the world to meet with a long-time partner, and their response was to blow him off? At least SCO should have offered him the courtesy of a polite "thanks for coming, but our business is concluded" type of face-to-face response. But instead, they've burned yet another bridge.
You'd think that with so few "friends", SCO would at least want to keep from turning such people into enemies.
Of course, there's always one other possible reason -- SCO's headquarters are empty. No one resides there, and in fact, The SCO Group is the shill for The Canopy Group that we all believe it to be. That would explain why no one came to greet him -- no one was there.
Anyone in Utah care to help out a do a little legwork for us?
So SCO is terminating UNIX licenses left and right, but no one even notices. Can anyone point to any decrease in sales due to this with any affected vendor? Does this amount to the general opinion being set that SCO is now being ignored and good luck with enforcing any such lawsuit?
However, I still have a remnant-based knowledge of college-level physics that I haven't killed off with beer, and something tells me that gravitational wobble should be evident within our solar system if an object with a mass and gravitational pull the size of a brown dwarf were that nearby. Such a wobble, like the wobble produced by our moon on earth, should cause the position of celestial bodies in the sky to shift position from year to year, however that doesn't seem to happen (or at least, not to my non-astronomical knowledge).
Ok, progress good, stagnation bad. But that doesn't answer the original question -- what exactly is wrong with the current init process that requires a replacement? I mean, it's been in use for -- well -- as long as I've been using UNIX-type systems (about 12-13 years now), and I just don't see the deficiency.
So diatribes aside, why is init obsolete? Enlighten this dinosaur.
OK, so I'm not a rocket scientist or anything, but wouldn't the use of solar cells get less effective the farther away you are from the Sun? After all, it's the conversion from photon to electron that generates the electricity and since the number of photons decreases the farther away you get, eventually you wouldn't have critical mass enough to be self-sustaining, right?
Alternatively, you'd have to build one heck of a big solar cell to account for the reduced photon's per square meter as you travel farther out...
"Notably, it appears that most or all of the System V code fragments we found had previously been placed in the public domain, meaning it is very doubtful that the SCO Group has any proprietary claim to these code fragments in any case."
I recall a conversation with a telemarketer for my local newspaper back in 1996, asking me why I don't subscribe to their rag. When I responded that I can get the news instantly while online and that waiting for the morning edition was unnecessary, their only response was "Oh...hmm. Well...." Besides, newspapers are really only big advertising vehicles anymore -- "news" (not the fluff in Section D about knitting or pet daycare providers and similar garbage^Wfiller) probably makes up less than 25% of available space.
At this point, it doesn't matter what the announcement is from SCO. Simply saying anything, regardless of how ridiculous it is, causes the stock to go up.
If the majority of the district's constituents were telemarketers, this would be valid. However, to me, it reeks of preferential treatment for a small minority of well-funded lobbyists in those districts.
I know what you're saying, and you need look no further than the efforts of the former major of Cleveland and current U.S. President candidate, Dennis Kucinich, to understand why an unpopular vote is both sometimes necessary and career suicide at the same time.
Kucinich voted against the policies of the former entity that is now FirstEnergy when dealing with Cleveland's power crisis in the 70's. Cleveland Muni was about to be absorbed and vanquished by FirstEnergy, but Kucinich saw the writing on the wall about FirstEnergy's corruptness, and blocked the city council's popular vote. Turns out he was right, but as was expected, it ultimately cost him his job.
But in this case, if the people keep elected officials in office even though they go against the majority's will, then they get what they deserve. The ignorant will be governed by the corrupt.
First of all, DUMBASS (emphasis mine to make you see just how stupid this makes YOU look...e.g. dumbass coward)
It isn't 'mob rule' at the representative level -- it's democracy. That's why the U.S. is a 'representative democracy' -- not a pure republic. He is absolutely responsible for listening to his constituency and representing the majority view of the citizens he represents. We tell him what to do, not the other way around!
If he doesn't do what his constituents tell him, then he's going against their wishes and will likely be voted out at the next election, by, oh wait, what's it called? A DEMOCRATIC ELECTION. Therefore, he is responsible to uphold the majority view of his district, lest he get voted out.
This is simple high school civics stuff. I'm surprised that you can't figure this out.
So what you're saying is that the other 630,500 people in Ohio's 6th district are wrong? Last I recall, the job of the representative is to 'represent' the views of his/her constituency. This seems to fly contrary to that charter.
The congressmen listed represent the following areas:
Ron Paul -- Southeast Texas. Jeff Flake -- parts of Mesa, Chandler, and all of Gilbert, Queen Creek, and Apache Junction, Arizona. Kendrick Meek -- Miami, Florida Tim Ryan -- Youngstown, Ohio Ted Strickland -- suburbs of Youngstown, Ohio and Ohio River valley area Lee Terry -- Omaha, Nebraska Rob Bishop -- Northwestern Utah, including northern suburbs of Salt Lake City Chris Cannon -- Western Utah, including southern suburbs of Salt Lake City
So how much you wanna bet those congressmen all have major telemarketing presences in their districts?
"The eight who voted against the bill were: Ron Paul, R-Texas; Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; Kendrick Meek, D-Fla.; Tim Ryan, D-Ohio; Ted Strickland, D-Ohio; Lee Terry, R-Neb.; Rob Bishop, R-Utah, and Chris Cannon, R-Utah."
This is turning into a case of someone driving by your house, seeing a light in the window, walking up to that window and seeing you watching a video tape that you don't own, guessing you don't own it and didn't properly rent it, and then saying to a judge that the want all your information so they can sue you because they were in the item you were watching.
Not quite, this is more analogous to you offering copies of the video (whether for profit or not is irrelevant), while the RIAA determines that you are not authorized to be a distributor for the video, followed by the identity subpeonas as you describe above. The difference is that they aren't (currently) after the usage of unauthorized copies, but they are trying to squelch the distribution of unauthorized copies in order to protect their (broken) business model.
This reeks more of the big boys wanting to ensure that their business model is not broken more than ensuring that a strong, open, and extensible specification is designed.
Sort of like some other technology vs. business model battle we've been discussing here lately...
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Sun may not have a focused Linux strategy, but you can bet that Fujitsu does. In addition to the PrimePower line of SPARC-based servers, they have their Primergy line of Intel-based servers that can easily run Linux. Fujitsu's Linux strategy hasn't been well defined yet, but they would be remiss to not jump on that bandwagon ASAP.
This is what is going on here with KaZaA and other file sharing programs -- there is a model in place that allows for the product to get to the users faster and cheaper, and without the unnecessary middlemen markup that the RIAA imposes on us. The RIAA's problem with this is that it completely breaks their business model, so they do the only possible things they can -- pretend it doesn't exist, and then when that fails, villify those that use it, even for legal purposes.
The RIAA's biggest fear about this is the possibility of the use this distribution method coupled with direct compensation to the artists who create the music. At that point, musicians stop signing with the RIAA companies en masse, and the RIAA companies instantly become obsolete and die off, as happened to Edison's movie industry. In fact, I'm surprised that the RIAA hasn't also lobbied against mastering programs like CakeWalk, since that potentially affects their revenue streams as well if the artists begin to mix and master their own recordings, circumventing the need for RIAA technicians.
The bottom line is that the RIAA member companies will never embrace these technologies because they take out the overwhelming majority of the built-in cost they tag on every recording they produce, and without that cash flow, how are they going to afford their yachts and vacation homes?
Or perhaps Secure AIM is not as secure as you're led to believe...
(puts on tinfoil hat...)
...is that they produce code that is only just good enough to provide the desired capability, without any regards to security. That code then becomes v1.0, is rushed to market, and then the inevitable security and functionality bugs are found due to what seems to be a lack of QA, and they get beat up (rightfully so) by us techies for continuing to release binaries based on sloppy code.
Of course, they could do one other thing which is to change coding practices so that code is built robustly and securely the first time, but anyway....
It seems plausible to me that SunnComm's CEO had a sit-down with the DMCA proponents where they informed him to cease any pursuit of legal action involving the DMCA, since they're afraid that putting a weak case against it could result in a court throwing out the entire Act, and thereby jeopardize their ability to contnue to threaten others/hide behind/abuse it to their benefit.
I tell ya. The one thing I hate about Windows vs. UNIX-type systems is Window's bad use of screen real estate when compared to X displays running on Linux, Solaris, etc.
For example, with the same 19" monitor in my house, I can have so many more windows open and viewable with Linux than with Windows. Also, Windows in 1280x1024 resolution or higher gets unreadable whereas I don't tend to have that problem with Linux for some reason.
So I'm not so sure about needing >=2 monitors, but perhaps to enhance the GUI readability of various OS's at higher resolutions.
As someone who used to run www.att.com, I think I can safely say that they know each other.
Intimately.
You know, in certain circles, this is intolerably rude. This guy flew halfway around the world to meet with a long-time partner, and their response was to blow him off? At least SCO should have offered him the courtesy of a polite "thanks for coming, but our business is concluded" type of face-to-face response. But instead, they've burned yet another bridge.
You'd think that with so few "friends", SCO would at least want to keep from turning such people into enemies.
Of course, there's always one other possible reason -- SCO's headquarters are empty. No one resides there, and in fact, The SCO Group is the shill for The Canopy Group that we all believe it to be. That would explain why no one came to greet him -- no one was there.
Anyone in Utah care to help out a do a little legwork for us?
So SCO is terminating UNIX licenses left and right, but no one even notices. Can anyone point to any decrease in sales due to this with any affected vendor? Does this amount to the general opinion being set that SCO is now being ignored and good luck with enforcing any such lawsuit?
Is this meek whimper the final end of SCO?
First off, IANAAstronomer.
However, I still have a remnant-based knowledge of college-level physics that I haven't killed off with beer, and something tells me that gravitational wobble should be evident within our solar system if an object with a mass and gravitational pull the size of a brown dwarf were that nearby. Such a wobble, like the wobble produced by our moon on earth, should cause the position of celestial bodies in the sky to shift position from year to year, however that doesn't seem to happen (or at least, not to my non-astronomical knowledge).
Ok, progress good, stagnation bad. But that doesn't answer the original question -- what exactly is wrong with the current init process that requires a replacement? I mean, it's been in use for -- well -- as long as I've been using UNIX-type systems (about 12-13 years now), and I just don't see the deficiency.
So diatribes aside, why is init obsolete? Enlighten this dinosaur.
OK, so I'm not a rocket scientist or anything, but wouldn't the use of solar cells get less effective the farther away you are from the Sun? After all, it's the conversion from photon to electron that generates the electricity and since the number of photons decreases the farther away you get, eventually you wouldn't have critical mass enough to be self-sustaining, right?
Alternatively, you'd have to build one heck of a big solar cell to account for the reduced photon's per square meter as you travel farther out...
Not really stupid, but definitely redundant.
"Notably, it appears that most or all of the System V code fragments we found had previously been placed in the public domain, meaning it is very doubtful that the SCO Group has any proprietary claim to these code fragments in any case."
I recall a conversation with a telemarketer for my local newspaper back in 1996, asking me why I don't subscribe to their rag. When I responded that I can get the news instantly while online and that waiting for the morning edition was unnecessary, their only response was "Oh...hmm. Well...." Besides, newspapers are really only big advertising vehicles anymore -- "news" (not the fluff in Section D about knitting or pet daycare providers and similar garbage^Wfiller) probably makes up less than 25% of available space.
At this point, it doesn't matter what the announcement is from SCO. Simply saying anything, regardless of how ridiculous it is, causes the stock to go up.
SCO has Wall Street in perpetual flinch mode.
If the majority of the district's constituents were telemarketers, this would be valid. However, to me, it reeks of preferential treatment for a small minority of well-funded lobbyists in those districts.
I know what you're saying, and you need look no further than the efforts of the former major of Cleveland and current U.S. President candidate, Dennis Kucinich, to understand why an unpopular vote is both sometimes necessary and career suicide at the same time.
Kucinich voted against the policies of the former entity that is now FirstEnergy when dealing with Cleveland's power crisis in the 70's. Cleveland Muni was about to be absorbed and vanquished by FirstEnergy, but Kucinich saw the writing on the wall about FirstEnergy's corruptness, and blocked the city council's popular vote. Turns out he was right, but as was expected, it ultimately cost him his job.
But in this case, if the people keep elected officials in office even though they go against the majority's will, then they get what they deserve. The ignorant will be governed by the corrupt.
First of all, DUMBASS (emphasis mine to make you see just how stupid this makes YOU look...e.g. dumbass coward)
It isn't 'mob rule' at the representative level -- it's democracy. That's why the U.S. is a 'representative democracy' -- not a pure republic. He is absolutely responsible for listening to his constituency and representing the majority view of the citizens he represents. We tell him what to do, not the other way around!
If he doesn't do what his constituents tell him, then he's going against their wishes and will likely be voted out at the next election, by, oh wait, what's it called? A DEMOCRATIC ELECTION. Therefore, he is responsible to uphold the majority view of his district, lest he get voted out.
This is simple high school civics stuff. I'm surprised that you can't figure this out.
"...on the verge of becoming a national figure."
He has no idea how true this is.
So what you're saying is that the other 630,500 people in Ohio's 6th district are wrong? Last I recall, the job of the representative is to 'represent' the views of his/her constituency. This seems to fly contrary to that charter.
The congressmen listed represent the following areas:
Ron Paul -- Southeast Texas.
Jeff Flake -- parts of Mesa, Chandler, and all of Gilbert, Queen Creek, and Apache Junction, Arizona.
Kendrick Meek -- Miami, Florida
Tim Ryan -- Youngstown, Ohio
Ted Strickland -- suburbs of Youngstown, Ohio and Ohio River valley area
Lee Terry -- Omaha, Nebraska
Rob Bishop -- Northwestern Utah, including northern suburbs of Salt Lake City
Chris Cannon -- Western Utah, including southern suburbs of Salt Lake City
So how much you wanna bet those congressmen all have major telemarketing presences in their districts?
"The eight who voted against the bill were: Ron Paul, R-Texas; Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; Kendrick Meek, D-Fla.; Tim Ryan, D-Ohio; Ted Strickland, D-Ohio; Lee Terry, R-Neb.; Rob Bishop, R-Utah, and Chris Cannon, R-Utah."
This is turning into a case of someone driving by your house, seeing a light in the window, walking up to that window and seeing you watching a video tape that you don't own, guessing you don't own it and didn't properly rent it, and then saying to a judge that the want all your information so they can sue you because they were in the item you were watching.
Not quite, this is more analogous to you offering copies of the video (whether for profit or not is irrelevant), while the RIAA determines that you are not authorized to be a distributor for the video, followed by the identity subpeonas as you describe above. The difference is that they aren't (currently) after the usage of unauthorized copies, but they are trying to squelch the distribution of unauthorized copies in order to protect their (broken) business model.
This reeks more of the big boys wanting to ensure that their business model is not broken more than ensuring that a strong, open, and extensible specification is designed.
Sort of like some other technology vs. business model battle we've been discussing here lately...