Novell probably paid a lot more than Red Hat would have paid.
Red hat is not interested in.NET.
Ximian Desktop is largely redundant with its own packaging and customization.
Now that Red Hat Linux has changed from a product to a community project, I don't think it's looking for more pacakagers.
Red Hat might be interested in the programmers (esp. Evolution), but why buy a company for the privilege of paying their salaries?
And remember, we never said the copyright thing between us and SCO was over.
We'll see.
These VPs can ham it up all they want, but if they worked for me, I wouldn't let them out of the executive wash room.
I'm sorry, but Novell's copyright stunt embarassed them at least as much as it did SCO.
To allude to it ominously like the preview of a summer reality show is just tacky.
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A ruling that SCO put its code under the GPL unknowingly would destroy corporate faith in the GPL
So far, the RCU patch seems to be the focus of the suit.
SCO claims this "infringement" was discovered during a recent code audit.
As discussed in "How SCO Helped Linux Go Enterprise", a clueful Caldera employee publicly acknowledged and encouraged this work.
Based on this information, I hope SCO loses the GPL argument (although I really doubt it will come to that).
Otherwise, free software users will always wonder where the next submarine will surface.
Regardless of whether this results in changes to POSIX or LSB, this analysis is a terrific resource for those porting applications from Unix to Linux.
Thank you, Andrew Josey, for poring over not one, but two specifications.
Thank you, Open Group for funding the work.
It was at least a year after we ported to Linux that I noticed a bug related to the nice() system call.
Even more strange, it didn't happen on one of the newer Red Hat Linux test systems.
This document could have saved us so much time.
"Here you have a product without R&D controls, and it's not part of a cross-license," he said.
"Given the high level of functionality, you'd think it would have patents.
The GNU GPL is, in many ways, the ultimate "cross license."
When the German government wants a few more features in KDE, it pays for exactly those features.
If you feel the need to stock up on more traditional IP ammo, just make sure you own all the copyrights, like Trolltech, or file some patents, like Red Hat.
It became apparent in yesterday's new that SCO was going after the Sequent SMP code that IBM donated to Linux.
Actually, this was pretty clear a month ago, as discussed in
"SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies 'Violations,' Triples Damages".
The theory is that because Read-Copy Update was developed for DYNIX/ptx, a System V Unix, it is derivative and subject to the System V license.
Under this theory, JFS and XFS could also be derivative.
The fact that a Caldera employee encouraged RCU and JFS development makes it difficult for SCO to claim ignorance, as in the "pregnant cow".
This not only renews the GPL debate, but opens the door to "the affirmative defenses laches, undue delay, waiver, and estoppel."
I would add to that list unclean hands.
SCO's continued existence as a company depends upon revenue from this case... they don't have the money to carry on this long litigation.
I wouldn't depend on this.
As far as I know, the remnants of Be Inc. still have a lawsuit pending against Microsoft.
Furthermore, who's to say that the next owner of the AT&T contracts won't have deeper pockets and a death wish?
Recall that Caldera bought DR-DOS largely to pursue the case against Microsoft.
I have never known a company to be trigger happy to fork over x million on something that they might never use.
There may have been a "friend of my enemy" aspect to Microsoft's choice to purchase a license from SCO.
Indeed, I've read that Microsoft was collecting royalties on Xenix as recently as 1995.
However, I'll charitably construe Windows Services for Unix as their primary motivator.
If you recall, SFU is the proprietary product that won an "open source" product excellence award.
maybe IBM just released a "parody" of System V, eh?
Funny you should mention parody.
The Wind Done Gone was a parody set as a sequel to Gone with the Wind.
The Mitchell estate won a preliminary injunction blocking its publication, but later settled.
Anyhow, I hope IBM can come up with a better defense(/offense) than that.
The code that found its way into Linux is "based on original DYNIX/ptx code (released by IBM under GPL)."
SCO's position is that everything in DYNIX/ptx, including RCU, is derivative of System V.
Most of us assumed that SCO's chest thumping about copyright infringement referred to literal copying of System V or Monterey code.
Now, it seems, it is based on the more tenuous theory that any part of a System V-based O/S is derivative.
RCU is also notoriously absent from SCO's product, so how they can claim ownership of the technology is beyond me.
The latest twist in the lawsuit is revealed in a recent CNET interview of Darl McBride: "The System 5 source code, that is really the area that gives us incredible rights, because it includes the control rights on the derivative works that branch off from that trunk. "
It is SCO's position that JFS and RCU are derivative of System V.
Opponents of the GNU General Public License perpetuate the misconception that it is somehow viral.
In fact, it is copyright law itself that is viral.
Quoting from IP in a Nutshell:
A copyright owner has the right to exclude all others from creating works based on his own....
The statutory definition of a "derivative work" is extremeley comprehensive, including such things as translations, arrangements, dramatizations, fictionalizations, films, recordings, abridgments, condensations, "or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted."
If carried to its conclusion, this suit could be the textbook on derivative works with regard to software.
why don't you just get convincing forged identification that reads "Sam Schmidt"?
It's called social engineering.
Your presence on the fly list is a kind of "these are not the droids you're looking for" blessing.
Airport security may be less inclined to search the bag of someone who has, presumably, been repeatedly searched in the last year.
That said, the name "bin Laden" is likely to get you searched whether you're on a list or not.
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Every time Slashdot posts a Linux games story, there is a "what-if" post about bootable game CDs--basically turning your PC into a PlayStation. I believe this America's Army CD is just that.
I remember buying American Beauty last year on VHS, as a gift for my sister.
The clerk asked me 3 times whether I was sure I wanted widescreen.
You have to admit that wide-screen VHS is a small market.
Wide-screen anamorphic DVD is popular because it displays at a high resolution on a decent TV.
Wide-screen VHS looks bad on any TV.
This site has some samples of movies in widescreen format and the result that one will get in the full screen format.
It would be more useful if the pictures were shown at the same width.
Showing them at the same height is like comparing a 27" full-screen TV (~$500) to a 32" wide-screen TV (~$1,500).
This isn't a beta for a product - it's a Technology Preview.
Unlike a beta, it doesn't reflect what will be included in any planned future product.
The next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux... will support the AMD64 platform in both 32 and 64 modes.
They're doing this to gain experience with the platform.
This preview is based on RHL 9, whereas their first actual x86-64 product will probably be part of the next version of RHEL.
I see no reason [copyright assignment would be required] unless the FSF wanted the option to release GCC under a license other than their own GPL.
A company like TrollTech requires copyright assignment so that it can release under a different license.
The Free Software Foundation requires assignment so that it can pursue copyright infringement.
If infringement occurs for a program the FSF doesn't own, then it has no standing to bring action.
Such issues may not concern you, but the enforcability of copyleft is important to the FSF.
Can we please use an upper-case "B" to refer to bytes, reserving a lower-case "b" to refer to bits. When the author describes a "20Gb" drive, I'm thinking of something that holds a little over 2 GB.
SGI laughed at the unassuming threat of the video chipsets, thinking that they would never be as fast as brute force....
You can set up a cheap-ass render farm... that can do the same job as a SGI render farm... (Shuttle SFF PC w/ 3 gig CPU + ATI 9700)
A high-end video card is used in a workstation for content creation.
Final rendering, however, is still done in software (i.e., by the CPU), whether it's LightWave, Mental Ray or RenderMan.
Don't waste your money on a Radeon for your render node.
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Red Hat could have filed for a preliminary injunction, but that would have been riskier.
Novell probably paid a lot more than Red Hat would have paid. Red hat is not interested in .NET.
Ximian Desktop is largely redundant with its own packaging and customization.
Now that Red Hat Linux has changed from a product to a community project, I don't think it's looking for more pacakagers.
Red Hat might be interested in the programmers (esp. Evolution), but why buy a company for the privilege of paying their salaries?
These VPs can ham it up all they want, but if they worked for me, I wouldn't let them out of the executive wash room. I'm sorry, but Novell's copyright stunt embarassed them at least as much as it did SCO. To allude to it ominously like the preview of a summer reality show is just tacky.
As discussed in "Novell to Make Linux Robust and Reliable", NetWare 7 will be able to run on the NetWare or Linux kernel.
I'm looking forward to playing with the datetime module. The old C-based API is just gross.
So far, the RCU patch seems to be the focus of the suit. SCO claims this "infringement" was discovered during a recent code audit. As discussed in "How SCO Helped Linux Go Enterprise", a clueful Caldera employee publicly acknowledged and encouraged this work.
Based on this information, I hope SCO loses the GPL argument (although I really doubt it will come to that). Otherwise, free software users will always wonder where the next submarine will surface.
It was at least a year after we ported to Linux that I noticed a bug related to the nice() system call. Even more strange, it didn't happen on one of the newer Red Hat Linux test systems. This document could have saved us so much time.
The GNU GPL is, in many ways, the ultimate "cross license." When the German government wants a few more features in KDE, it pays for exactly those features. If you feel the need to stock up on more traditional IP ammo, just make sure you own all the copyrights, like Trolltech, or file some patents, like Red Hat.
Actually, this was pretty clear a month ago, as discussed in "SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies 'Violations,' Triples Damages". The theory is that because Read-Copy Update was developed for DYNIX/ptx, a System V Unix, it is derivative and subject to the System V license. Under this theory, JFS and XFS could also be derivative.
The fact that a Caldera employee encouraged RCU and JFS development makes it difficult for SCO to claim ignorance, as in the "pregnant cow". This not only renews the GPL debate, but opens the door to "the affirmative defenses laches, undue delay, waiver, and estoppel." I would add to that list unclean hands.
I wouldn't depend on this. As far as I know, the remnants of Be Inc. still have a lawsuit pending against Microsoft. Furthermore, who's to say that the next owner of the AT&T contracts won't have deeper pockets and a death wish? Recall that Caldera bought DR-DOS largely to pursue the case against Microsoft.
It's called the doctrine of unclean hands.
There may have been a "friend of my enemy" aspect to Microsoft's choice to purchase a license from SCO. Indeed, I've read that Microsoft was collecting royalties on Xenix as recently as 1995. However, I'll charitably construe Windows Services for Unix as their primary motivator. If you recall, SFU is the proprietary product that won an "open source" product excellence award.
The availability of working code is a pitfall, to be sure. You can mitigate these risks by familiarizing yourself with the GNU Coding Standards and Information For Maintainers of GNU Software.
Funny you should mention parody. The Wind Done Gone was a parody set as a sequel to Gone with the Wind. The Mitchell estate won a preliminary injunction blocking its publication, but later settled. Anyhow, I hope IBM can come up with a better defense(/offense) than that.
Most of us assumed that SCO's chest thumping about copyright infringement referred to literal copying of System V or Monterey code. Now, it seems, it is based on the more tenuous theory that any part of a System V-based O/S is derivative.
The latest twist in the lawsuit is revealed in a recent CNET interview of Darl McBride: "The System 5 source code, that is really the area that gives us incredible rights, because it includes the control rights on the derivative works that branch off from that trunk. " It is SCO's position that JFS and RCU are derivative of System V.
Opponents of the GNU General Public License perpetuate the misconception that it is somehow viral. In fact, it is copyright law itself that is viral. Quoting from IP in a Nutshell:
If carried to its conclusion, this suit could be the textbook on derivative works with regard to software.He asked the FSF because it owns much of the code Red Hat is distributing, and it has experience pursuing infringement.
It's called social engineering. Your presence on the fly list is a kind of "these are not the droids you're looking for" blessing. Airport security may be less inclined to search the bag of someone who has, presumably, been repeatedly searched in the last year. That said, the name "bin Laden" is likely to get you searched whether you're on a list or not.
Every time Slashdot posts a Linux games story, there is a "what-if" post about bootable game CDs--basically turning your PC into a PlayStation. I believe this America's Army CD is just that.
You have to admit that wide-screen VHS is a small market. Wide-screen anamorphic DVD is popular because it displays at a high resolution on a decent TV. Wide-screen VHS looks bad on any TV.
It would be more useful if the pictures were shown at the same width. Showing them at the same height is like comparing a 27" full-screen TV (~$500) to a 32" wide-screen TV (~$1,500).
Matt Wilson explained this in the linked thread:
They're doing this to gain experience with the platform. This preview is based on RHL 9, whereas their first actual x86-64 product will probably be part of the next version of RHEL.A company like TrollTech requires copyright assignment so that it can release under a different license. The Free Software Foundation requires assignment so that it can pursue copyright infringement. If infringement occurs for a program the FSF doesn't own, then it has no standing to bring action. Such issues may not concern you, but the enforcability of copyleft is important to the FSF.
Can we please use an upper-case "B" to refer to bytes, reserving a lower-case "b" to refer to bits. When the author describes a "20Gb" drive, I'm thinking of something that holds a little over 2 GB.
A high-end video card is used in a workstation for content creation. Final rendering, however, is still done in software (i.e., by the CPU), whether it's LightWave, Mental Ray or RenderMan. Don't waste your money on a Radeon for your render node.