Why would SCO sue other companies to prop up their company. Ultimately they will lose customers as people find out they don't innovate, just hound those that do. More than likely SCO has better things to do with their time then fight legal battles they have no chance of winning. Hell, Darl McBride believes that linux should be SCO's. Why wouldn't one of his employees peek at the kernel code?
is what she said in an interview in discover magazine. I can't remember which month but it was some time recently. She said she had asked Carl about this and he said the inspiration was himself.
I relized after reading the article for the fifth time... It could work. Of course I just downed a handful of pills in the drawer that the last cube drone left when he did. Since when is slashdot so colorful?
Actually, I believe that the fact that pics of organic material is less complex. Organisms have more order and therfore are more regular. The point is that non-organic material is of higher entropy, therefore more "complex" or fractal. Humans have bilateral sysmetry, and virii and bacteria would be bilateral or other types.
To achieve this more ordered state energy is used to stave off entropy. Directed use of energy to produce high order is a hallmark of life.
That actually should flatter you. You have less entropy so you are of a higher order than the rock. You can brag to all your non-rock friends that those stupid rocks have high entropy.
Sun has never been a competitor to M$ in the OS space. Microsoft sells software for commodity hardware, period. Sun sells software that runs on their own hardware (yes I know they have solaris for x86). Ignorant is believing that they single handedly stop microsoft from taking over everything. If you think that large companies purchase software from only single vendors, it just doesn't happen.
Sun did no more keep Unix alive then IBM, HP, Silicon Graphics, or Next (Apple). Microsoft, Sun and every other company are not the enemy, they bring money into the US economy. That's a good thing.
I don't hate all their products, just their software policy which resembles M$, Novell, CA, etc.
from sun themselves Q: What were the hottest issues to resolve?
Deutsch: They were much the same issues that other standards committees are facing with the same difficulty: intellectual property and patent rights.
You've probably seen lots of accounts in the press over the last year, about standards organizations struggling to come to agreement on intellectual property -- and patents in particular. We were no different. Those were the topics that became very intense for all of us. In fact, they became so intense, that at some point the business representatives started having their lawyers join in on the conference calls.
At various times the lawyers fielded their own calls, as well as joining us in our regular ad hoc teleconferences. This was necessary because we were trying to answer some very complex legal questions about intellectual property and patents that frankly hadn't been addressed by many other collegial forums -- hot issues that evoke some very strongly held and generally conflicting opinions.
This seems to me to be them talking about using community developed standards and calling them theirs.
You are correct that Java was built in-house with prior art being to numerous to bother listing. I am usually not a M$ mouthpiece but at least the released the VM specification and C# language specification over to SOME standards body. Java is not free, it's definition is not free and neither is code posted on their own developer forum by individuals who do not work for Sun.
I appreciate the thought, but I argue only the point that Mozart's composition would be better or worse since that could be highly subjective. If the same type of criteria are used to judge "quality" of Sun's efforts or the effort's of the open source community, I would not be able to devine the difference.
No, more like shared source as in Java, OpenOffice, etc. It bothers me that a company takes work that is done gratis by the community and then patents it to claim authorship. StarOffice is this. Java and it's extensions are this. I just distrust orginizations that act one way and say that it is something other than what it really is.
Needless to say, better or not it suffers from not invented here syndrome. Simply put I hate Sun and all their software products because they have REPEATABLY shown themselves to be the microsoft of unix-land.
Though if you take software off the table they do have some of the most interesting and exciting hardware around. Although I will never be able to afford any new UltraSparc, sigh.
Anything that you buy for bug fixes of the older product is being charged for the providers mistakes. I would say a glorified patch is inflated if the company is charging ANYTHING. this only applies if the reasoning is above and not for new features.
This blatent disregard of Paramounts copyrights is exactly why everyone NEEDS microsoft to fix computers from enabling us to abuse material, such as the screenplay quoted here. You obviously did not give a second thought of how that careless quoting used to illustrate your point actually dilutes the owners product (ie the screenplay, movie, soundtrack, Jean-luc action figures, your personal DVD collection, LCARS, Whoopie Goldberg, use of the term "Engage", things that have to do with space, bad scripts, and any reference to "Q" including and not limited to "Quit this listing of dribble")
Further, I hereby copyright this and all derivitive posts, and sanction the Nexus to come and save my interests because my business model is one that disenfranchises me from my customer. My intention is to get everyone who uses my product to hate me because I use the term customer and thief interchangably. Your viewing of this material and not having nexus on your system proves that final point.
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Why would SCO sue other companies to prop up their company. Ultimately they will lose customers as people find out they don't innovate, just hound those that do. More than likely SCO has better things to do with their time then fight legal battles they have no chance of winning. Hell, Darl McBride believes that linux should be SCO's. Why wouldn't one of his employees peek at the kernel code?
I wouldn't say the always crappy... The original mx was just as good as me original geforce-sdr at 1/4 the price. You really can't beat that.
I need a "agonizing detail" mod. The problem is I would make that a positive mod.
is what she said in an interview in discover magazine. I can't remember which month but it was some time recently. She said she had asked Carl about this and he said the inspiration was himself.
unfortunately some are.
Isn't the lameness filter working?
I relized after reading the article for the fifth time... It could work. Of course I just downed a handful of pills in the drawer that the last cube drone left when he did. Since when is slashdot so colorful?
a story with something new to say.
or see this reference
Lisa: They can't seriously expect us to swallow that tripe.
Cmdr_Taco: Now as a special treat courtesy of our friends at Slasdot, please help yourself to this tripe.
Actually, I believe that the fact that pics of organic material is less complex. Organisms have more order and therfore are more regular. The point is that non-organic material is of higher entropy, therefore more "complex" or fractal. Humans have bilateral sysmetry, and virii and bacteria would be bilateral or other types.
To achieve this more ordered state energy is used to stave off entropy. Directed use of energy to produce high order is a hallmark of life.
That actually should flatter you. You have less entropy so you are of a higher order than the rock. You can brag to all your non-rock friends that those stupid rocks have high entropy.
I trolled not three articles ago complaining about sun... yet I feel vindicated. I will have satisfaction, and you were here to provide :)
Sun has never been a competitor to M$ in the OS space. Microsoft sells software for commodity hardware, period. Sun sells software that runs on their own hardware (yes I know they have solaris for x86). Ignorant is believing that they single handedly stop microsoft from taking over everything. If you think that large companies purchase software from only single vendors, it just doesn't happen.
Sun did no more keep Unix alive then IBM, HP, Silicon Graphics, or Next (Apple). Microsoft, Sun and every other company are not the enemy, they bring money into the US economy. That's a good thing.
I don't hate all their products, just their software policy which resembles M$, Novell, CA, etc.
from sun themselves
Q: What were the hottest issues to resolve?
Deutsch: They were much the same issues that other standards committees are facing with the same difficulty: intellectual property and patent rights.
You've probably seen lots of accounts in the press over the last year, about standards organizations struggling to come to agreement on intellectual property -- and patents in particular. We were no different. Those were the topics that became very intense for all of us. In fact, they became so intense, that at some point the business representatives started having their lawyers join in on the conference calls.
At various times the lawyers fielded their own calls, as well as joining us in our regular ad hoc teleconferences. This was necessary because we were trying to answer some very complex legal questions about intellectual property and patents that frankly hadn't been addressed by many other collegial forums -- hot issues that evoke some very strongly held and generally conflicting opinions.
This seems to me to be them talking about using community developed standards and calling them theirs.
You are correct that Java was built in-house with prior art being to numerous to bother listing. I am usually not a M$ mouthpiece but at least the released the VM specification and C# language specification over to SOME standards body. Java is not free, it's definition is not free and neither is code posted on their own developer forum by individuals who do not work for Sun.
Is it good to incorporate community work that is useful into core products, yes. Is it good that they later patent it, no.
Why do we an alien to give us such things. We have a limitless (from our perspective) source of energy in the sun.
Biotechnology is on the brink of offering clinical immortality, and GM plants that can survive harsh environments (deserts, mars, etc.)
Though I would like a node on the pan-galactic info net.
If only they had a gnucash version for windows... Then i could get my wife to dump that poorly planned spreadsheet.
I appreciate the thought, but I argue only the point that Mozart's composition would be better or worse since that could be highly subjective. If the same type of criteria are used to judge "quality" of Sun's efforts or the effort's of the open source community, I would not be able to devine the difference.
No, more like shared source as in Java, OpenOffice, etc. It bothers me that a company takes work that is done gratis by the community and then patents it to claim authorship. StarOffice is this. Java and it's extensions are this. I just distrust orginizations that act one way and say that it is something other than what it really is.
Needless to say, better or not it suffers from not invented here syndrome. Simply put I hate Sun and all their software products because they have REPEATABLY shown themselves to be the microsoft of unix-land.
Though if you take software off the table they do have some of the most interesting and exciting hardware around. Although I will never be able to afford any new UltraSparc, sigh.
Anything that you buy for bug fixes of the older product is being charged for the providers mistakes. I would say a glorified patch is inflated if the company is charging ANYTHING. this only applies if the reasoning is above and not for new features.
Unfortunately the updated the EULA to include "What part of kiss my ass don't you understand?"
This blatent disregard of Paramounts copyrights is exactly why everyone NEEDS microsoft to fix computers from enabling us to abuse material, such as the screenplay quoted here. You obviously did not give a second thought of how that careless quoting used to illustrate your point actually dilutes the owners product (ie the screenplay, movie, soundtrack, Jean-luc action figures, your personal DVD collection, LCARS, Whoopie Goldberg, use of the term "Engage", things that have to do with space, bad scripts, and any reference to "Q" including and not limited to "Quit this listing of dribble")
Further, I hereby copyright this and all derivitive posts, and sanction the Nexus to come and save my interests because my business model is one that disenfranchises me from my customer. My intention is to get everyone who uses my product to hate me because I use the term customer and thief interchangably. Your viewing of this material and not having nexus on your system proves that final point.
Why exactly would you want to air the biggest Douche-bag in the universe anyway?