Actually, it would make very good sense to squish SCO profoundly.
1. GPL has never been involved in a court case, so some buisnesses see it as unproven (nevermind that very very few eulas have either and most have been to extreme.)
2. What happens to the next piddling little company running out of money that may have something that they can BS into making it look like it's a big deal? This is another reason why IBM should squish them, so that they won't have to deal with it for quite a while. Litigation is expensive, and if you spend more on one case to prevent many others, then it does get cheaper in the long run, and IBM has *at times* been able to look to the long run.
3. Litigation is expensive, and SCO made IBM do most of the research already... does IBM's legal department want to look like they just wasted $$? In most businesses, that isn't a good thing for the department.
4. I know some people at IBM have got to be emotional over this. So throw back in the we are pissed at sco part.:)
5. If they win, given that IBM registers it's copyrights (please please tell me if I am wrong) it isn't just 150,000$ (if sco won, because sco didn't register the copyrights). The winnings could definately help defray some of the cost of Litigation, and if you were IBM would you object to twacking one of M$'s cronies, and getting some M$ funneled money?
there are bus, star, mesh & ring topolgies, both of which are created by links between 2 locations. (ex computer to hub)
Bus is for most things the worst, because everyone shares one connection, to everyone else.
Ring topologies (think token ring) pass things through the intermediate computers, and take reduce the bandwidth to each.
Star is by far the most common, and is arguably the best, because each computer has the full bandwidth available to it, to talk to other computers, presuming of course that each of them isn't already saturated. Hubs are examples of star network topologies.
Mesh topologies are very interesting. Seen on high performance clusters, where each computer can hit another with a jump or two (token ring like) when directly connected, or in wifi. Wireless mesh networks (rare, and usually rather custom & experemental currently) act in a way similar to a star network for the most part, but if something is out of range it contacts a node that can see it's target, and passes the information (or a series of nodes). I would really, really like to see a standard supporting this over all OSes. Currently most setups I have seen on the internet require an all (patched) linux setup to work, but can have other clients connect to it.
Someone else who knows how they operate, and is still open.
They may be distro specific (kudzu) but they have always been open-source.
Now what they are doing is using trademarks & support. You can redistribute, use, etc etc Red Hat Enterprise, but if you don't pay for it, and/or if you put it on more than one computer (period, they had a problem of multiple installs, and the one with the problem was always the paid for one.) If you do however, you can't call it RedHat, due to trademarks. Also, no binary RPMs are provided to non-paying customers, but source RPMS are.
I would add in gentoo, as it is also all based on OSS/GPL. It is also one of the easiest to use with new software that often there isn't a rh/deb/etc package, and if there isn't writing ebuilds is easier than writing rpms. (Honestly can't comment on debs, except by heresay which is that they are tougher than both.)
Slack may be included as well, but I can't say I am positive about that.
Red Hat has always been a good Open Source Company. I always figured it would come down to a RH ("Always Open") vs Caldera (bundle proprietary) some time in the US, just not in the way it has.
I will. Caldera 1.3 was the first linux distro I installed (on a 486 w/6 and 2/3 MB RAM (-2/3KB)). KDE even ran.
After that I got a K6-2 350, which was still much slower than the Alpha 533 I first used Linux on.
This will probably be remembered as either the longest running joke in the computer industry aside from windows, or the day or the rulling will be remembered as the day many technical people lost complete faith in the US legal system, if they haven't already.
As mentioned other places, the trademark was applied for the same day the linux gazette staff sent a letter to them telling them they were moving it.
SSC never owned the LG, and they have been removing at least one copyright. Essentially they were providing hosting. I would compare this to something being hosted on sourceforge.net, and then when you tell sf that you are moving away because you don't like something which conflicts with your ideas about the project, sf registers a trademark and becomes a legal jerk.
I seriously doubt the above (sourceforge) group would do that, but it appears to have happened with SSC.
I have a similar setup (using a rh7.3 server, it works I see no reason to mess with it yet. And gentoo clients (Previously Redhat 7.3, 8, and Mandrake 8.2? clients as well.)
Exported via nfs (I know about the potential security risks, etc.) the/home
Each computer when running linux, uses pam_ldap to authenticate users to an ldap server (slapd) (I plan to implement kerberos over the break: 2 reasons, nfs can use it to authenticate and more services have builtin kerberos support)
On the windows side, Samba PDC with a homes section (roaming profiles on windows) & logins synced with linux.
I have written up most of the script to recreate it, and manage it, at sloppyadm.sourceforge.net if you are interested.
KDE's control panel is a very good interface, and almost every app has a text file config (which the kde control panel modifies) That's for app settings
KDE 3.2 (using a cvs build of it now) uses a wallet to store information like that. Currently only konqueror (think like opera's storing passwords & such) & kopete (account information) use it, though I am willing to bet that by the next major version (or maybe first point release). I am willing to bet that kde will have it fully well before gnome.
You think that Corperations know they are killing anything resembling a free market (lazze faire) with their IP rights, their bought law protection, campaign donations?
I personally think that the people know, and frankly to ensure their position, they are perfectly happy to screw everyone else over.
You think that capitalism as described by Adam Smith is how it works? (Copyright, Patents, etc prevent the system from working.) You think that communism or free market capitalism have ever existed? (the answer is no)
Ok, since you seem to want to be a "it's marketed as..." An Apple is not a PC it's a PowerPC, they don't call it a PC. They call it a Power PC!
This arguement is about as fair as yours is.
Oh yeah, and every time Apple or AMD claims to be the first 64-bit Personal computer, I would like to smack them over the head with my 300MHz Alpha. I am pretty sure that if the cases colided, it would beat a G5, given what most apple systems (and rackmount systems for their server line) have for cases:)
So I claim: My 300MHz DEC alpha beats a dual G5*
*On survivability when contacting the other at high speed.:)
Doesn't implement everything. Judging from the state of a university, much of the cobol stuff needs to be replaced, because to get useful things out of it requires all sorts of research, because very very few people know how to write it without breaking systems in use for 20 years or so, that do work.
Of course, what they are replacing it with often has a worse reputation (in one instance a university is going with peoplesoft, a program dumped by another university in the state because for the same thing, it wouldn't work well at all)
Ok, Nvidia/ATI has some drawbacks compared to Matrox and other highend makers. It may kill them on Price/Performance, but people buy CPUs with crappy price performance (Xeon, P4EE (well theoreticly at least!)) when they could get chips with a much better price/performance ratio.
Matrox & other professional cards simply look better for most things, and Nvidia doesn't support some things sub-pixel antialiasing.
An example of this: http://www.3dlabs.com/product/technology/Wildcat_Q uality_ro.doc
(It's a.doc I know, but open office opens it fine) (note the lack of a matrox card, and that nvidia and ati have improved from this, but it still has problems)
I will give you a guess.
It's IBM
IBM is as one of it's many many counter-claims (including sco violating (at least) 4 patents on all it's products (something SCO cannot fight back with: Novell owns those, and we know how friendly to novell is to sco...)
My thought would be wait for IBM to squish them.:)
The last War the United States of America was involved in was World War II. Every conflict (Vietnam "War", Korean "War", Desert Storm) has not been a war, in the realm of politics which you seem to say is truth. Or perhaps you need to go read the United States Constitution again-see the section on Congress' powers.
I can't blame you for not knowing. I have the impression that most people aren't really taught such truths in school anymore. These days, for one to actually learn the truth, they have to hunt for it themselves.
Unlike other forms which just get on it, and connect things, this ate away about half the circuit board. Always wondered how it would do vs an IBM keyboard...
I hope you'll agree that this situation is ridiculous: If I've decided you're the best candidate, why should a quality that DOESN'T detract from you being the best candidate disqualify you.
This is the whole issue: should the Mass government be forced into a best canidate that may force you to pay more over the long run, and have only certain features, vs you hiring the programmers to implement features, if you need them. But that is a tangent: the basic thing is: What are the qualifications to being the best canidate? I would think that the Open Sourceness of an item should be considered, and admittedly it is a qualification which does not favor Microsoft (or any other proprietary software vendor).
As I digressed above, I would like to make the point that longevity of a piece of software is a very important thing, as I would also consider the ability to modify the OS/Application/Server/Library to your needs.
because I'm sure this analogy will be under attack
Actually I think it is a good analogy. (minus disagreement about the qualifications)
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1. GPL has never been involved in a court case, so some buisnesses see it as unproven (nevermind that very very few eulas have either and most have been to extreme.)
2. What happens to the next piddling little company running out of money that may have something that they can BS into making it look like it's a big deal? This is another reason why IBM should squish them, so that they won't have to deal with it for quite a while. Litigation is expensive, and if you spend more on one case to prevent many others, then it does get cheaper in the long run, and IBM has *at times* been able to look to the long run.
3. Litigation is expensive, and SCO made IBM do most of the research already... does IBM's legal department want to look like they just wasted $$? In most businesses, that isn't a good thing for the department.
4. I know some people at IBM have got to be emotional over this. So throw back in the we are pissed at sco part. :)
5. If they win, given that IBM registers it's copyrights (please please tell me if I am wrong) it isn't just 150,000$ (if sco won, because sco didn't register the copyrights). The winnings could definately help defray some of the cost of Litigation, and if you were IBM would you object to twacking one of M$'s cronies, and getting some M$ funneled money?
Bus is for most things the worst, because everyone shares one connection, to everyone else.
Ring topologies (think token ring) pass things through the intermediate computers, and take reduce the bandwidth to each.
Star is by far the most common, and is arguably the best, because each computer has the full bandwidth available to it, to talk to other computers, presuming of course that each of them isn't already saturated. Hubs are examples of star network topologies.
Mesh topologies are very interesting. Seen on high performance clusters, where each computer can hit another with a jump or two (token ring like) when directly connected, or in wifi. Wireless mesh networks (rare, and usually rather custom & experemental currently) act in a way similar to a star network for the most part, but if something is out of range it contacts a node that can see it's target, and passes the information (or a series of nodes). I would really, really like to see a standard supporting this over all OSes. Currently most setups I have seen on the internet require an all (patched) linux setup to work, but can have other clients connect to it.
Now. I believe we have knoppix to thank for that.
Which would change the way the business operates.
They may be distro specific (kudzu) but they have always been open-source.
Now what they are doing is using trademarks & support. You can redistribute, use, etc etc Red Hat Enterprise, but if you don't pay for it, and/or if you put it on more than one computer (period, they had a problem of multiple installs, and the one with the problem was always the paid for one.) If you do however, you can't call it RedHat, due to trademarks. Also, no binary RPMs are provided to non-paying customers, but source RPMS are.
I would add in gentoo, as it is also all based on OSS/GPL. It is also one of the easiest to use with new software that often there isn't a rh/deb/etc package, and if there isn't writing ebuilds is easier than writing rpms. (Honestly can't comment on debs, except by heresay which is that they are tougher than both.)
Slack may be included as well, but I can't say I am positive about that.
Red Hat has always been a good Open Source Company. I always figured it would come down to a RH ("Always Open") vs Caldera (bundle proprietary) some time in the US, just not in the way it has.
I think it was something like 6 months. And it was traced to Russia, but no further, and they apparently got the XP source code.
that was from rac
I suspect more info will be coming later on (as they get more information)
After that I got a K6-2 350, which was still much slower than the Alpha 533 I first used Linux on.
This will probably be remembered as either the longest running joke in the computer industry aside from windows, or the day or the rulling will be remembered as the day many technical people lost complete faith in the US legal system, if they haven't already.
I have: Solaris being Sun's version of Linux :)?P?
The person was asking a question about it, but it was still funny.
SSC never owned the LG, and they have been removing at least one copyright. Essentially they were providing hosting. I would compare this to something being hosted on sourceforge.net, and then when you tell sf that you are moving away because you don't like something which conflicts with your ideas about the project, sf registers a trademark and becomes a legal jerk.
I seriously doubt the above (sourceforge) group would do that, but it appears to have happened with SSC.
Where are the Gentoo DVD ISO images? (not that I don't believe you, just haven't seen them, and I assume it's GRP?)
Exported via nfs (I know about the potential security risks, etc.) the /home
Each computer when running linux, uses pam_ldap to authenticate users to an ldap server (slapd) (I plan to implement kerberos over the break: 2 reasons, nfs can use it to authenticate and more services have builtin kerberos support)
On the windows side, Samba PDC with a homes section (roaming profiles on windows) & logins synced with linux.
I have written up most of the script to recreate it, and manage it, at sloppyadm.sourceforge.net if you are interested.
Until he gets the bandwidth bill, he made 70$...
Nope, They don't mean 800Kilobits/second (100KiloBytes), they mean 100Kilobits/second (or about 12Kilobytes/second)
A Sanyo phone (I have looked at a 4900 and a 8100) both have have an upper limit of 230Kbit max (burst, 144Kbit normally)
When I was looking at cingular's edge stuff it was the same Kbits/sec though theoreticly rated faster.
It's still faster than dialup, portable... and more expensive
KDE 3.2 (using a cvs build of it now) uses a wallet to store information like that. Currently only konqueror (think like opera's storing passwords & such) & kopete (account information) use it, though I am willing to bet that by the next major version (or maybe first point release). I am willing to bet that kde will have it fully well before gnome.
I personally think that the people know, and frankly to ensure their position, they are perfectly happy to screw everyone else over.
You think that capitalism as described by Adam Smith is how it works? (Copyright, Patents, etc prevent the system from working.) You think that communism or free market capitalism have ever existed? (the answer is no)
This arguement is about as fair as yours is.
Oh yeah, and every time Apple or AMD claims to be the first 64-bit Personal computer, I would like to smack them over the head with my 300MHz Alpha. I am pretty sure that if the cases colided, it would beat a G5, given what most apple systems (and rackmount systems for their server line) have for cases :)
So I claim: My 300MHz DEC alpha beats a dual G5* :)
*On survivability when contacting the other at high speed.
Doesn't implement everything. Judging from the state of a university, much of the cobol stuff needs to be replaced, because to get useful things out of it requires all sorts of research, because very very few people know how to write it without breaking systems in use for 20 years or so, that do work.
Of course, what they are replacing it with often has a worse reputation (in one instance a university is going with peoplesoft, a program dumped by another university in the state because for the same thing, it wouldn't work well at all)
Matrox & other professional cards simply look better for most things, and Nvidia doesn't support some things sub-pixel antialiasing.
An example of this: http://www.3dlabs.com/product/technology/Wildcat_Q uality_ro.doc
(It's a .doc I know, but open office opens it fine) (note the lack of a matrox card, and that nvidia and ati have improved from this, but it still has problems)
I will give you a guess. :)
It's IBM
IBM is as one of it's many many counter-claims (including sco violating (at least) 4 patents on all it's products (something SCO cannot fight back with: Novell owns those, and we know how friendly to novell is to sco...)
My thought would be wait for IBM to squish them.
I can't blame you for not knowing. I have the impression that most people aren't really taught such truths in school anymore. These days, for one to actually learn the truth, they have to hunt for it themselves.
Which you obviously didn't.
Unlike other forms which just get on it, and connect things, this ate away about half the circuit board. Always wondered how it would do vs an IBM keyboard...
Performance: Fibre Channel
Performance/Price: SATA
Fibre Channel uses (it can use other high-level protocols, true) SCSI commands... and it's serial... as similar to SCSI as SATA is to IDE...
This is the whole issue: should the Mass government be forced into a best canidate that may force you to pay more over the long run, and have only certain features, vs you hiring the programmers to implement features, if you need them. But that is a tangent: the basic thing is: What are the qualifications to being the best canidate? I would think that the Open Sourceness of an item should be considered, and admittedly it is a qualification which does not favor Microsoft (or any other proprietary software vendor).
As I digressed above, I would like to make the point that longevity of a piece of software is a very important thing, as I would also consider the ability to modify the OS/Application/Server/Library to your needs.
because I'm sure this analogy will be under attack
Actually I think it is a good analogy. (minus disagreement about the qualifications)
An ode to alpha