My point is that monkeys will fly out of my nose before the FSF starts apologizing about their licensing discrepencies to the Joe user.
This is yet another reason why I think the non-commercial licenses that carry absolutely zippo legal recourse when their terms are violated, besides some crazy smelly bastard standing on his soapbox waiving his finger in your face, are the most rediculous facets of technology in the past decade.
I will not waste my precious cycles worrying over such minutia.
You don't actually buy the OS from IBM, it typically only comes with the hardware.
Oh yeah, the licensing is crazy too -- the media you install is specific for the hardware you're installing it on (at least it is for the larger servers)
Want upgrades? You'll have to pay through the nose for their support contracts. Ours costs in the neighborhood of 7 left-of-decimal digits for premier support of about 13 AS/400s.
Want parts? hahahaha..
They're a whole new dimension of hardware and software. On the bright side, they never ever ever ever crash. Just one of our as/400s under a pretty good load has out uptime'd our entire NT, solaris, and linux server farms.
But never fear, IBM is porting linux to the s/390 -- The as/400 may be on the horizon.
Why is it stupid? It's rather refreshing to see a good beer story admist all the repetitive M$ bashing and linux hyping. Jeez, lighten up and try to have a little fun for once in your life. Variety is good for the soul. ~dlb
Yahoo can take the hit, mainly because they have this ridiculous valuation based on the potential on the Internet
So does that mean I can dynamite the highway? Gee, the state or DOT are loaded, they can take the hit.
It doesnt matter if Yahoo lost $1 or $1 billion, due to DoS, they still lost revenue. Victimizing another organization, no matter how big it is, for 'education' of the masses is a poor excuse to be malicous.
You very well could if you a) had the cash to make it throught the lawsuit, and b) could come up with a good enough reason to convince the 'authorities' that you're using the name for legitimate reasons.
I have to deal with this quite frequently, since I manage the domain names for our organization. Mostly the jokers we deal with have blatantly reserved the name to exort money from the company. Luckily, we have a lot of 'a)' and since our name IS trademarked, 'b)' is easy to obtain as well.
Actually, watching the legal department go after someone who's registered SomeFormOfOurName.com|net|org with no intention of using it is rather satisfying. I dont agree with First Come First Serve unless the First person to get it actually has a legitimate reason. Sitting on domain names just to piss off a large company sucks, and I have no pity for the people who get the pants sued off them when they try such a thing.
Sure it is, matter of fact it's downright rude to make an announcement that you know is going to impose a load on a company's service when they're making every attempt to distribute the load out to the mirrors so you can download it.
How about looking at this from the service's point of view rather than wallowing in your own little world? ~dlb
I think theres a reason they don't announce the beta right off the bat and it's probably (just maybe) so they can get the distribution out to mirrors so their core site doesnt get slammed. Jeezus, do you think we could be just a tad more responsible when making these kind of announcements?
If someone reverse-engineered one of your patented trade-secrets without first contacting you, and the vehicle for duplicating this feat was mirrored all over the Internet, how would you respond?
Additionally, they probably DID sign an acceptable use policy, which I seriously doubt includes saturating their network with illegal mp3 files.
If the student did sign such a policy (you DID read it, didn't you?) then the institution can accept/deny whatever services they see fit.
I mean seriously, if you were in charge of such a network, and a chunk of it was being eaten up by a protocol that you knew was used for (more often than not) illegal activity, and condoning such activity would put you in a bad light to the students (and the parents of) who really wanted to use the net for research, what would you do? Jeez, put yourself in the shoes of those running the network for once rather than sticking to your own narrow opinions.
Slashdot Mirror
That's unfortunate, because nobody cares about NoMad Linux.
"The 2.4 kernel will also support IPv6."
Hey, Solaris has supported IPv6 for a coupla years know. What's taking you folks so long? =P
~dlb
Too bad if you want a bind server to secondary you, you're screwed.
Once you've produced something, how much does it cost you if someone makes a copy? zero
Um, the cost when someone makes a copy is the lost sale if they had legitimately bought it.
That's what AC is complaining about.
It's not that hard to fathom.
~dlb
My point is that monkeys will fly out of my nose before the FSF starts apologizing about their licensing discrepencies to the Joe user.
This is yet another reason why I think the non-commercial licenses that carry absolutely zippo legal recourse when their terms are violated, besides some crazy smelly bastard standing on his soapbox waiving his finger in your face, are the most rediculous facets of technology in the past decade.
I will not waste my precious cycles worrying over such minutia.
That's the stupidest demand I've seen on this board to date.
I dont know which is more disgusting -- RMS's position on system security or the site at the other end of that other link in your post.
~dlb
Face it Stallman, you're just a sellout for GNU and Gnome. (what did you call it? "GNU Desktop"? Oh please.)
Go get em, KDE! I want to see him pull his GNU/Foot out of his mouth for once.
~dlb
Who cares.
As much as I want to believe that chip is the greatest thing since Cap'n Crunch, it's still vapourware - I'll believe it when I see it.
~dlb
You don't actually buy the OS from IBM, it typically only comes with the hardware. Oh yeah, the licensing is crazy too -- the media you install is specific for the hardware you're installing it on (at least it is for the larger servers)
Want upgrades? You'll have to pay through the nose for their support contracts. Ours costs in the neighborhood of 7 left-of-decimal digits for premier support of about 13 AS/400s.
Want parts? hahahaha..
They're a whole new dimension of hardware and software. On the bright side, they never ever ever ever crash. Just one of our as/400s under a pretty good load has out uptime'd our entire NT, solaris, and linux server farms.
But never fear, IBM is porting linux to the s/390 -- The as/400 may be on the horizon.
RMS and ESR are the same person; nobody cares
That's my favourite.
It's true.. isn't it?
Isn't it?
If the company owns the equipment, the company has the right to spy all it wants.
Yeah, its called "Platinum".
Included is the right to call up sun 24/7 and have a tech show up on site with replacement parts and/or a software fix within 4 hours.
Lets see if some of these guys can get that with their free linux download.
~dlb
Why is it stupid?
It's rather refreshing to see a good beer story admist all the repetitive M$ bashing and linux hyping.
Jeez, lighten up and try to have a little fun for once in your life. Variety is good for the soul.
~dlb
Good post.
Too bad more people can't take this advice to heart -- we could have a healthier community.
~dlb
Yahoo can take the hit, mainly because they have this ridiculous valuation based on the potential on the Internet
So does that mean I can dynamite the highway? Gee, the state or DOT are loaded, they can take the hit.
It doesnt matter if Yahoo lost $1 or $1 billion, due to DoS, they still lost revenue. Victimizing another organization, no matter how big it is, for 'education' of the masses is a poor excuse to be malicous.
~dlb
..Just make sure you fix the date first.
This week's DDoS attacks could very well have been the FBI beta testing their new app.
You very well could if you a) had the cash to make it throught the lawsuit, and b) could come up with a good enough reason to convince the 'authorities' that you're using the name for legitimate reasons.
I have to deal with this quite frequently, since I manage the domain names for our organization. Mostly the jokers we deal with have blatantly reserved the name to exort money from the company. Luckily, we have a lot of 'a)' and since our name IS trademarked, 'b)' is easy to obtain as well.
Actually, watching the legal department go after someone who's registered SomeFormOfOurName.com|net|org with no intention of using it is rather satisfying. I dont agree with First Come First Serve unless the First person to get it actually has a legitimate reason. Sitting on domain names just to piss off a large company sucks, and I have no pity for the people who get the pants sued off them when they try such a thing.
~dlb
Sure it is, matter of fact it's downright rude to make an announcement that you know is going to impose a load on a company's service when they're making every attempt to distribute the load out to the mirrors so you can download it.
How about looking at this from the service's point of view rather than wallowing in your own little world? ~dlb
I think theres a reason they don't announce the beta right off the bat and it's probably (just maybe) so they can get the distribution out to mirrors so their core site doesnt get slammed.
Jeezus, do you think we could be just a tad more responsible when making these kind of announcements?
~dlb
Is it just me or do the figures look wayyy out of proportion? (look at the tiny head on a few of those bodies).
..but Time-Warner (TW) is alive and well.
If someone reverse-engineered one of your patented trade-secrets without first contacting you, and the vehicle for duplicating this feat was mirrored all over the Internet, how would you respond?
Additionally, they probably DID sign an acceptable use policy, which I seriously doubt includes saturating their network with illegal mp3 files.
If the student did sign such a policy (you DID read it, didn't you?) then the institution can accept/deny whatever services they see fit.
I mean seriously, if you were in charge of such a network, and a chunk of it was being eaten up by a protocol that you knew was used for (more often than not) illegal activity, and condoning such activity would put you in a bad light to the students (and the parents of) who really wanted to use the net for research, what would you do? Jeez, put yourself in the shoes of those running the network for once rather than sticking to your own narrow opinions.