i can feel it in the air... IBM is coming for those m'er f'ers and the aftermath will NOT be pretty. This will be like watching a squad of musketeers defend vs. 10 megaton nuke.
its one thing to sue someone becuase they did you wrong and released some code that souldn't have been released.. its another thing to sue them for ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
for $86 million dollars I'd definitely be compeled to express myself by sitting on my ass in one of those $5000 vibrochairs with fridge, in front of a webcam all day, giving all your poor fuckers the finger.
blaming lawyers for making laws is in the same boat as blaming gun makers for killing someone. They just write down the laws, the politicians come up with them and weild them about threateningly. It seems akin to a programmer writing DRM software, to put it in/. terms.
it always bothered me... yeah, 'buy it now' is REAL innovative and deserving of patent protection. damn that evil ebay for trying to use such advanced technology without paying the little wittle innocent IP firm's bullshit patent scam fees... er...
if you defend yourself against such an attack, you acknowledge its validity
im afraid thats utter bullshit, sir. defending yourself against someone elses claim is an important part of life itself. with that frame of mind, you are damned if you do, damned if you dont.:(
as far as his life's work, well, in a monumental coincidence, once again he's damned both coming and going. no doubt his work is probably being used assist in the blowing up of shit in other countries. unless of course he programmed some sort of autoflush toilet system for the airforce. but even then im sure they'd find a way to use it to blow shit up. maybe even literally.
i think the point is more along the lines of freebsd/etc is free if you have some old junker box lying around (like most of us seem to do), you just have to spend a little time LEARNING something... god forbid.
disclaimer: i use a linksys pos router at home and yes, its gets the job done, but make no mistake, i only use it cuz im fucking lazy.:)
effect, you do need to be prepared to distribute source to anyone who requests it
and the source you provide HAS TO BE LICENSED UNDER THE GPL. thus, whomever you share the source with can legally distribute it freely on their own website (again, under terms of the gpl) and you can do nothing to stop them. thats why i love the gpl.:-D
I doubt a video game where the goal was to hijack a plane and crash it into a building would be well-received even if the targets weren't police, so I don't think it's really a question of police being more valuable
actually, thats the first thing I did when I got MS Flight Simulator, just to see what would happen. the point of the game wasnt to crash into buildings, but i made a conscious choice to do so and there was nothing to stop me... does that imply that I have any sort of terrorist intentions? (coincidentally, it was one of the towers i crashed it into... i feel kinda bad about it now but that was many years ago and im pretty sure there weren't any 'subcontractors' in the tower, if you get my drift...)
if i remember (in)correctly in proper/. fashion, previous lawsuit(s?) against BSD got raped in the eye b/c berkeley wrote huge portions of the code that SCO now holds in its hand. some sort of 'you dont sue us we wont sue you, motherf__kers' deal.
The Matrix has nothing particularly interesting with respect to philosophy, it is essentially a retread of the story of christ, and the idea that Descartes had about dreams vs reality
dude, christ could fly? and kick the hell out of a thousand bad guys at one time? and made sweet sweet love to a hot chick? SWEET!
*runs off to find one of his two hundred bibles-as-southern-baptist-relative-gifts collecting dust in the attic*
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as a matter of fact, virginian people working for AOL that live less than 10 miles from the AOL corporate campus are still stuck with dialup.
you obviously havent had many pirates vs ninjas battles with programmers.
why not just max the optimizations for each processor architecture and have at it? id accept such a result as more valid than the current b-s.
surely im not the only one that simply reads $1999 as $2000 automagically?
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There are police officers on horses outside. what the hell is going on downtown.
Anybody got any good book recommendations on "Windows Services for Unix"?
The Bible, more specifically, those parts about the return of the Beast.
i think you meant
All for one! And one for [flash of light] [cease to exist]
Note; we will be putting Linux on the boxes after SCO is removed, so please, no suggestions that involve damage to the hardware.
doh, there goes my 13 story dropkick idea...
i can feel it in the air... IBM is coming for those m'er f'ers and the aftermath will NOT be pretty. This will be like watching a squad of musketeers defend vs. 10 megaton nuke.
its one thing to sue someone becuase they did you wrong and released some code that souldn't have been released.. its another thing to sue them for ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
that is why SCO is so unbelievable.
Bad analogy. Really bad. ;)
yeah i know, i was really trolling for something there
for $86 million dollars I'd definitely be compeled to express myself by sitting on my ass in one of those $5000 vibrochairs with fridge, in front of a webcam all day, giving all your poor fuckers the finger.
but thats just me...
dont forget that whole Winamp *3* thing.
blaming lawyers for making laws is in the same boat as blaming gun makers for killing someone. They just write down the laws, the politicians come up with them and weild them about threateningly. It seems akin to a programmer writing DRM software, to put it in /. terms.
If you want to blame someone, blame Barbara Streisand.
*throws money at him*
*takes the gun*
*shoots him anyway*
that would be worth a $1500 SCO license.
(ps- doesnt that last line in the article just scream that a Troll got access to the article before it went live?)
and thats the goddamn truth. at least ransom love was greedy in a pro-linuxy sort of way.
it always bothered me... yeah, 'buy it now' is REAL innovative and deserving of patent protection. damn that evil ebay for trying to use such advanced technology without paying the little wittle innocent IP firm's bullshit patent scam fees... er...
if you defend yourself against such an attack, you acknowledge its validity
:(
im afraid thats utter bullshit, sir. defending yourself against someone elses claim is an important part of life itself. with that frame of mind, you are damned if you do, damned if you dont.
as far as his life's work, well, in a monumental coincidence, once again he's damned both coming and going. no doubt his work is probably being used assist in the blowing up of shit in other countries. unless of course he programmed some sort of autoflush toilet system for the airforce. but even then im sure they'd find a way to use it to blow shit up. maybe even literally.
*ahem*
OJ Simpson.
*endahem*
as soon as we get our degrees, the industry will be profitable again
yeah, especially those of us on that 8 year degree plan. *cough*
i think the point is more along the lines of freebsd/etc is free if you have some old junker box lying around (like most of us seem to do), you just have to spend a little time LEARNING something... god forbid.
:)
disclaimer: i use a linksys pos router at home and yes, its gets the job done, but make no mistake, i only use it cuz im fucking lazy.
effect, you do need to be prepared to distribute source to anyone who requests it
:-D
and the source you provide HAS TO BE LICENSED UNDER THE GPL. thus, whomever you share the source with can legally distribute it freely on their own website (again, under terms of the gpl) and you can do nothing to stop them. thats why i love the gpl.
I doubt a video game where the goal was to hijack a plane and crash it into a building would be well-received even if the targets weren't police, so I don't think it's really a question of police being more valuable
actually, thats the first thing I did when I got MS Flight Simulator, just to see what would happen. the point of the game wasnt to crash into buildings, but i made a conscious choice to do so and there was nothing to stop me... does that imply that I have any sort of terrorist intentions? (coincidentally, it was one of the towers i crashed it into... i feel kinda bad about it now but that was many years ago and im pretty sure there weren't any 'subcontractors' in the tower, if you get my drift...)
if i remember (in)correctly in proper /. fashion, previous lawsuit(s?) against BSD got raped in the eye b/c berkeley wrote huge portions of the code that SCO now holds in its hand. some sort of 'you dont sue us we wont sue you, motherf__kers' deal.
not all of us have the 14ghz processors and 200 gigs of ram, sir. so yes, a minimal set of services can be nice.
The Matrix has nothing particularly interesting with respect to philosophy, it is essentially a retread of the story of christ, and the idea that Descartes had about dreams vs reality
dude, christ could fly? and kick the hell out of a thousand bad guys at one time? and made sweet sweet love to a hot chick? SWEET!
*runs off to find one of his two hundred bibles-as-southern-baptist-relative-gifts collecting dust in the attic*