That's a little bit like saying that all a company needs to do is release one of their software products under the GPL and magically, any other party can then put that company's code into a GPL product and it's legal.
If they're using the code that was GPL'ed, of course it is.
Unless SCO/Caldera put the code in question into the Linux software base themselves, that sorts of claims are groundless. If we're gonna defeat the SCO suit against IBM/Linux we need to do it with arguements that make sense.
Is it? They had all the opportunity to audit the code before they released it as Caldera.
Isn't it the RIAA's argument that P2P is what's killing their sales? If P2P is eliminated through something like this, shouldn't (according to the RIAA, anyway) sales go up?
One, a majority of Windows Users like what Windows Update does for them. Hell, I as an IT Administrator (who also manages several Linux servers) like what it does for me. I spend enough of my life as it is reinstalling Windows due to system failures, upgrades, employee arrivals and departures...there just really are more interesting things to do in life than browse Microsoft's site for patch updates. Really. Windows Update and Office Update probably halve or third the time I have to spend per box to make them as secure as I'm going to bother with.
If you spend so much time doing rebuilds/new hires, why haven't you made an unattended install disk?
It's not your local ISPs fault that there aren't multiple providers in your area
With franchise agreements to the cable companies, not necessarily true.
I don't see anything but a poor rationalization in your arguement suggesting that it's not *YOUR* fault that you NEED to break your contract
What about the chance that the contract may be illegal? There's the nice little FCC regulation that the cable company/phone company can't say squat about what happens inside your house provided you don't get services you don't pay for (You're paying for one IP, not one computer in reality) and you don't degrade the service of others.
OK then if it's so easy to use how do you do this?
Directory X: Group A has read Group B has read/write Group C has write Group D (not owner) can assign permissions User Z (A member of C) needs read/write
It's not a myth, but it's a misleading fact that is doubly misleading because there's an OS/2 subsystem in NT that people use as evidence that it's based on the same code as the OS that was marketed as OS/2.
True, but not accurate anymore. The OS/2 subsytem went the way of the dodo as of Win2K
So Microsoft is going to have to pay $96 in royalties for every NT/2K/ME/XP license that they've collected royalties on.
The 9X series never had POSIX, and neither does XP. That's been removed.
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If they're using the code that was GPL'ed, of course it is.
Unless SCO/Caldera put the code in question into the Linux software base themselves, that sorts of claims are groundless. If we're gonna defeat the SCO suit against IBM/Linux we need to do it with arguements that make sense.
Is it? They had all the opportunity to audit the code before they released it as Caldera.
But SCO released a distro with Caldera, release their code as the GPL. Doesn't that freely permit use of the patents in any GPL code?
He may have meant CD's as well.
Isn't it the RIAA's argument that P2P is what's killing their sales? If P2P is eliminated through something like this, shouldn't (according to the RIAA, anyway) sales go up?
Considering that I just picked it up for less than $5, new, It's old.
You've never got spammed on ICQ before? I know I have, and I don't distribute that number
And if you have an address that's valid only for a short period, how do you deal with business cards?
Or even good ones that are just slightly older (Fallout 1 & 2, Planescape: Torment, Elite Force, Alpha Centauri...)
So how do you distribute that address to people that need it? A spammer can simply take advantage of that mechanism.
If you spend so much time doing rebuilds/new hires, why haven't you made an unattended install disk?
Not similar at all.
The police are the government. The MPAA isn't.
You hit the nail on the head.
A friend of mine bought the soundtrack and DVD for a movie he really liked.
The DVD was cheaper, not just bang for the buck, but in absolute terms too.
CD's don't degrade? Granted, that's relatively severe conditions, but it does happen.
Nope, not a scale.
The largest scored spam I've gotten is somewhere around 32
Is those old Apple ][ advertisements, where one was toasted in a house fire, keyboard melted and it still worked after a transplant.
With franchise agreements to the cable companies, not necessarily true.
I don't see anything but a poor rationalization in your arguement suggesting that it's not *YOUR* fault that you NEED to break your contract
What about the chance that the contract may be illegal? There's the nice little FCC regulation that the cable company/phone company can't say squat about what happens inside your house provided you don't get services you don't pay for (You're paying for one IP, not one computer in reality) and you don't degrade the service of others.
It's something called a mail server. Maybe you've heard of it?
It already happens.
OK then if it's so easy to use how do you do this?
Directory X:
Group A has read
Group B has read/write
Group C has write
Group D (not owner) can assign permissions
User Z (A member of C) needs read/write
Do you go to the bathroom during commercials? Do you experience any feelings at all concerning the revenue impacting mode in which you operate?
That's daemon to you.
WTF are you smoking? ACLs on users and groups are a hell of a lot easier to manage than the kludge that is groups.
Now, as to whether it's used *properly* by admins on Windows is another issue.
Riiiggghhht. Java is safe
Napster isn't a common carrier. An ISP is.
It's not a myth, but it's a misleading fact that is doubly misleading because there's an OS/2 subsystem in NT that people use as evidence that it's based on the same code as the OS that was marketed as OS/2.
True, but not accurate anymore. The OS/2 subsytem went the way of the dodo as of Win2K
Yet.
GPS has quite a bit in the way of privacy implications coming down the pike. Hopefully, this will give them pause.
If you opened the unlocked car door, yes.
So Microsoft is going to have to pay $96 in royalties for every NT/2K/ME/XP license that they've collected royalties on. The 9X series never had POSIX, and neither does XP. That's been removed.