User: Sique

Re:Ignoring the internet piracy...

On: DeCSS, From the Beginning

I may be able to drive my out-of-state car there. I may be able to register my 1962 chevy there, and get an exemption for the exhaust emissions. But if I move there and try and register my other-49-state 1994 mitsubishi, I'm going to have to sell it, because it won't meet California emissions standards.

You got something wrong. If it is the local authority to restrict the use of something locally, than it may be bad for you, but it's something completely different if you cardealer or the car manufacturer writes in your contract, that he doesn't like California for some reasons and therefore forbids you to drive there.

Nice way to stop GM food

On: Can I See Your License for those Plants, Sir?

I guess the canadian court mentioned in the article is just trying to stop GM food :) If farmers are forced to check their crops for those grown out of seeds blewn in from neighbouring farms, then they'll get very angry about neighbours seeding privately owned crops. So probably those trying GM seeds, will be the target of countersuits claiming deliberately to blow those seeds over to their neighbours to drive them out of business. And soon no farmer will risk to be made responsible for GM seeds growing at their neighbour's farm. And they will stop using it.

Sique

Re:Translation of Spiegel Article plus comments

On: Bundeswehr Says Microsoft Software Verboten

there is of course BS2000. a siemes unix clone.

BS 2000 is _no_ UNIX clone. It is a OS/390 clone.

Sique

Re:a very intelligent move for them

On: Baan IVc/V - The First Open-Source ERP?

To be correct: Software like SAP R/3 is Open Source in a way: You can look at the code, when you buy a license. That is in fact what I am doing for work, so I should know ;)

We have modified lots of things in the original SAP R/3 source code so far. And we repair bugs from SAP (partly with their help, partly on our own) direct in the SAP R/3 source code.

Being able to modify the original code from SAP is one of the strength of R/3, and it is one of the main cost factors in using it ;) You have to pay a huge staff of SAP trained personal, and you have to sent them sometimes to SAP for new training.

I don't believe that anyone who's using R/3 in his enterprise would run it as it comes out of the box. Even after huge customizing and screwing lots of tables completly up you are discovering missing features and locations in the code, where a small change will do for you :)

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Sique