The email, of itself, may not conclusively prove anything; buy where is all this "good faith" of which Wells spoke?
Why have these judges been gushing over all of scox's "good faith", when the judges know that scox was outright lying about the "mountians" of infringing code. The judges know the NDA was a giant scam - specifically designed to fool the public.
Yet the judges continue to help scox in their little scam. All along what has scox wanted from the courts, and what has scox got?
- Endless delays - Harass IBM with bogus discovery requests - No accountability on scox's parts - Freedom for scox to continue it's crimminal activities - Keep a legal cloud over F/OSS (recent article in Forbes captializing on scox's claims).
Scox has been given practically everything scox wanted at every turn. And, I am certain that nobody at scox will ever be held accounting. Not in Utah.
- it appears that scox's showing of the code to select journalists, who signed an NDA, was a stunt specifically designed to decieve the public. No wonder there was an NDA.
- it appears that scox's showing the code in Las Vegas ScoForum, was not just a mistake, it appears to be another possible deception.
- apparently scox filed the law suit in bad faith, right from the begining.
- scox letters to 1500 businesses, demanding payment for the scox code in linux, appears to be an attempt at outright extortion.
- scox execs enriching themselves by selling scox in the high teens appears a blantant stock scam.
- mcbrides numerous public statements about millions of lines of code, appears to be somewhat less than truthful.
> Is Windows XP worth 150$ when you can get something that performs 95% of the tasks you would need performed for free?
First of all XP raises the price of new computer about $100, and that's once ever five years. Grand total of $20 year.
For a business, if that makes users 1% more efficient, or decress admin costs by 1%, then it's well worth every penny.
If you have just one "must have" windows program, then linux isn't worth it. A lot college students and home users think that if they can surf the web and have basic office apps, that's all anybody will ever need. Problem is: there is whole big wide world of specialized business software.
For that matter, even one "must have" windows game makes linux not worth it.
I'm not kidding. The man is an idiot. Any high-school kid could do a better job.
I'm not just saying that because of this article. The guy always writes idiotic crap. I think just about anybody familiar with Paul Murphy would agree.
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Please don't misunderstand, I'm not suggesting any more schoolwork. I would propose that all schoolwork - including homework - be done at school.
Before you dismiss the idea, consider these points:
1) A good student should do about six hours of school, two hours of extracurricular activities, and two hours of homework - that adds up to ten hours anyway.
2) A ten hour school day would keep kids off the streets, and out of trouble, in those two hours (roughly: 3:30 to 5:30) between the time that school is out, and the time parents get home.
3) A ten hour school day would be a god-send for lower income families with very young children. It would free them from very expensive day-care.
4) The present six hour school day is based on an agrarian economy that is out of date by centuries. Way back when, the kids had to slop the hogs in the morning, and pick peas in the afternoon. Even rural kids don't do that anymore.
5) What do school age kids have to do that is more important than their school work? Video games? Web surfing? TV?
6) It would cost more, but not that much. For example, a two hour study hall, would not need a licensed teacher to oversee it.
7) Students would not have to carry books, or anything else, between home and school. All school work would be done at school.
8) Students would not need computers, or internet connections, at their homes. That would be provided by the schools.
I run various versions of linux, and windows, on the same PC all the time. Franking, in a 5 minute demo, I think windows would win. Especially if viewed by a total newbie, or somebody who only knew windows.
Windows has a sharp, snappy, display. Plenty of eye candy. Applications launch fast. Linux is okay, but I think windows would win *that* sort of comparison.
After a few months, of going back and forth between both systems; I think a lot of people would chose Linux. With Linux you don't get the software rot, or the adware/spyware/viruses. Also, once you learn a little bit about how to use linux, it's more powerful and flexible. And with Linux, you don't have msft on your back.
1) Get out of IT if you possibly can. It's a crappy field, and it won't get better any time soon.
2) Gear yourself for something that's difficult to export.
3) Discourage others from the entering the field.
4) The future is obvious: soon all wealth in the USA will produced by people suing each other. If it's not too late for law school, you ought to think about it.
I get the idea that you don't work in IT, and don't know what it really takes.
A BSCS is about as difficult to get as an engineering degree. That, a load of certs, constant study, many years of experience, and a lot of luck, might get you a decent salary.
I know of lot of people in IT, they aren't expecting six figure incomes for nothing.
From what I've seen on job boards, it's not especially unusually for companies to ask for more than 30 skills. Including some stuff you wouldn't ordinarilly associate with sys admin like: MVS, C++/Java.
Among many other things, I constantly see: CISCO, Citrix, Tivoli, Remedy, HTML, PHP, Perl, Apache, Samba, Veritas, OpenView, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, SAP, SQL-Server, VoIP, Exchange; and so much more - every job is completely different of course.
But if you can't live on the $35K a year they want to pay you; janitors and truck drivers usually make about $50/year.
I know a guy who, by agreement, took sole custody of their only child. He went to court so he would no longer have to pay child support.
Get this, the court ruled that he still has to pay his ex-wife for child support; in spite of the fact that his ex-wife doesn't support the child - he does.
When I watched spiderman-2, I couldn't help but think that Doc-Occ could have been just as effecive if he just had an ordinary hand gun, instead of sci-fi mechanical arms.
Think about it, he could have used a hand gun to rob the bank, a hand gun could also kill spiderman. For that matter, a gun-shot to the head would kill doc occ, as well.
If somebody like bruce wayne existed, he could do 100X more good by donating to established law enforcement, or other charities.
Could batman have prevented 9/11? How about msft's patent abuse? What are the big problems today that could be fixed by an armored suit?
Commic book super-heros are only good for fighting comic book super-villians.
I don't have a fancy home theater set-up. I still like to watch movies like starwars on the big screen.
But, for most movies, I'm fine the tube; and I don't mind waiting six months for the DVD.
Frankly, I can hardly imagine somebody paying $9 for admission, and another $10 for consessions; to see the movie versions of "Bewitched" or the "Honeymooners."
Sure why not, there are probably more linux distros than linux users; so why not more CMS projects than those who use them?
I like the idea behind F/OSS. But sometimes it seems like, instead of using common code to work together on a project, F/OSS developers prefer to go in a thousand different directions all working on their own projects.
I use linux, but I have the upmost respect for the BSDs.
I think the difference in popularity mainly comes down to the license. As I understand it: stuff you contribute to BSDs can be pirated by msft, and others, and put into their binary code. Whereas, the GPL offers a little more protection.
Msft's business practises are deplorable. The governments and/or courts ought to do something.
But why is it, that everything the goverments and/or the courts do is so completely wrong and retarded?
Instead of a ten year DOJ bogo trial, why not have the Feds tell msft: "look msft, knock of the BS, or we're going to use another vendor. In fact, maybe we'll switch everything to F/OSS." Can you even imagine how much more effective and efficient that would be?
Why not change the patent system to stop all the msft bogo filing?
Why not cite msft for being a vexatious litigant, since msft is sponsering scox's bogo lawsuits?
Why not convict a msft executive, like bill or steve, for msft's obviously illegal practices? Let bill cool his heels for about six months. It would change everything.
Why not cite msft for lanham violations for publishing phoney TCO studies?
It would be easy to bring msft under control. But in EU and the USA; it's like we have the three stooges running the system.
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The judges had this letter all along.
The email, of itself, may not conclusively prove anything; buy where is all this "good faith" of which Wells spoke?
Why have these judges been gushing over all of scox's "good faith", when the judges know that scox was outright lying about the "mountians" of infringing code. The judges know the NDA was a giant scam - specifically designed to fool the public.
Yet the judges continue to help scox in their little scam. All along what has scox wanted from the courts, and what has scox got?
- Endless delays
- Harass IBM with bogus discovery requests
- No accountability on scox's parts
- Freedom for scox to continue it's crimminal activities
- Keep a legal cloud over F/OSS (recent article in Forbes captializing on scox's claims).
Scox has been given practically everything scox wanted at every turn. And, I am certain that nobody at scox will ever be held accounting. Not in Utah.
How about:
- it appears that scox's showing of the code to select journalists, who signed an NDA, was a stunt specifically designed to decieve the public. No wonder there was an NDA.
- it appears that scox's showing the code in Las Vegas ScoForum, was not just a mistake, it appears to be another possible deception.
- apparently scox filed the law suit in bad faith, right from the begining.
- scox letters to 1500 businesses, demanding payment for the scox code in linux, appears to be an attempt at outright extortion.
- scox execs enriching themselves by selling scox in the high teens appears a blantant stock scam.
- mcbrides numerous public statements about millions of lines of code, appears to be somewhat less than truthful.
> Is Windows XP worth 150$ when you can get something that performs 95% of the tasks you would need performed for free?
First of all XP raises the price of new computer about $100, and that's once ever five years. Grand total of $20 year.
For a business, if that makes users 1% more efficient, or decress admin costs by 1%, then it's well worth every penny.
If you have just one "must have" windows program, then linux isn't worth it. A lot college students and home users think that if they can surf the web and have basic office apps, that's all anybody will ever need. Problem is: there is whole big wide world of specialized business software.
For that matter, even one "must have" windows game makes linux not worth it.
Also, that 5% figure can be argueed.
I'm not kidding. The man is an idiot. Any high-school kid could do a better job.
I'm not just saying that because of this article. The guy always writes idiotic crap. I think just about anybody familiar with Paul Murphy would agree.
Please don't misunderstand, I'm not suggesting any more schoolwork. I would propose that all schoolwork - including homework - be done at school.
Before you dismiss the idea, consider these points:
1) A good student should do about six hours of school, two hours of extracurricular activities, and two hours of homework - that adds up to ten hours anyway.
2) A ten hour school day would keep kids off the streets, and out of trouble, in those two hours (roughly: 3:30 to 5:30) between the time that school is out, and the time parents get home.
3) A ten hour school day would be a god-send for lower income families with very young children. It would free them from very expensive day-care.
4) The present six hour school day is based on an agrarian economy that is out of date by centuries. Way back when, the kids had to slop the hogs in the morning, and pick peas in the afternoon. Even rural kids don't do that anymore.
5) What do school age kids have to do that is more important than their school work? Video games? Web surfing? TV?
6) It would cost more, but not that much. For example, a two hour study hall, would not need a licensed teacher to oversee it.
7) Students would not have to carry books, or anything else, between home and school. All school work would be done at school.
8) Students would not need computers, or internet connections, at their homes. That would be provided by the schools.
Any thoughts?
> Against what, precisely?
Against Linux, of course, that is the topic of the article being discussed.
I think, that in a five minute demo, most people would prefer windows to linux.
JMHO.
I run various versions of linux, and windows, on the same PC all the time. Franking, in a 5 minute demo, I think windows would win. Especially if viewed by a total newbie, or somebody who only knew windows.
Windows has a sharp, snappy, display. Plenty of eye candy. Applications launch fast. Linux is okay, but I think windows would win *that* sort of comparison.
After a few months, of going back and forth between both systems; I think a lot of people would chose Linux. With Linux you don't get the software rot, or the adware/spyware/viruses. Also, once you learn a little bit about how to use linux, it's more powerful and flexible. And with Linux, you don't have msft on your back.
Again, all totally based on my guess.
Do hybrids actually mean less total emissions? Or just less at the tailpipe?
Speaking for myself. I find that modern linux distros do a *great* job of finding and installing existing HW. Way better than Windows in many cases.
But, updating a driver, or changing your video card, is far easier in windows.
Again, JMHO.
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Sorry to correct you, but scox certainly is disputing the legitimacy every single GPL project in existance.
Scox has declared the GPL, not only illegal and unenforcable, but actually unconstitutional.
These accusations by scox are in their court filings, and in a letter to the US congress.
But, that doesn't stop from distributed GPL projects, and bragging about it.
I guess the USA must censor some stuff, or somebody in another country could give away music.
I think they were called "minnows" or something.
Small, black, monocrome screen, no floppies, or cdrom. But, an external scsi port that could read from an external cdrom - even boot from the cdrom.
It's been a while, but I deffinately remember the things.
1) Get out of IT if you possibly can. It's a crappy field, and it won't get better any time soon.
2) Gear yourself for something that's difficult to export.
3) Discourage others from the entering the field.
4) The future is obvious: soon all wealth in the USA will produced by people suing each other. If it's not too late for law school, you ought to think about it.
5) Medicine and bio-tech might be worthwhile.
I get the idea that you don't work in IT, and don't know what it really takes.
A BSCS is about as difficult to get as an engineering degree. That, a load of certs, constant study, many years of experience, and a lot of luck, might get you a decent salary.
I know of lot of people in IT, they aren't expecting six figure incomes for nothing.
From what I've seen on job boards, it's not especially unusually for companies to ask for more than 30 skills. Including some stuff you wouldn't ordinarilly associate with sys admin like: MVS, C++/Java.
Among many other things, I constantly see: CISCO, Citrix, Tivoli, Remedy, HTML, PHP, Perl, Apache, Samba, Veritas, OpenView, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, SAP, SQL-Server, VoIP, Exchange; and so much more - every job is completely different of course.
But if you can't live on the $35K a year they want to pay you; janitors and truck drivers usually make about $50/year.
I know a guy who, by agreement, took sole custody of their only child. He went to court so he would no longer have to pay child support.
Get this, the court ruled that he still has to pay his ex-wife for child support; in spite of the fact that his ex-wife doesn't support the child - he does.
I'm sorry, but it's not. What about those few sites you actually need? MSIE is compatible with 100%, and that is what people think they need.
I use firefox myself. Msft anti-competitive practises piss me off. But I must admit, they do work.
When I watched spiderman-2, I couldn't help but think that Doc-Occ could have been just as effecive if he just had an ordinary hand gun, instead of sci-fi mechanical arms.
Think about it, he could have used a hand gun to rob the bank, a hand gun could also kill spiderman. For that matter, a gun-shot to the head would kill doc occ, as well.
If somebody like bruce wayne existed, he could do 100X more good by donating to established law enforcement, or other charities.
Could batman have prevented 9/11? How about msft's patent abuse? What are the big problems today that could be fixed by an armored suit?
Commic book super-heros are only good for fighting comic book super-villians.
I don't have a fancy home theater set-up. I still like to watch movies like starwars on the big screen.
But, for most movies, I'm fine the tube; and I don't mind waiting six months for the DVD.
Frankly, I can hardly imagine somebody paying $9 for admission, and another $10 for consessions; to see the movie versions of "Bewitched" or the "Honeymooners."
Sure why not, there are probably more linux distros than linux users; so why not more CMS projects than those who use them?
I like the idea behind F/OSS. But sometimes it seems like, instead of using common code to work together on a project, F/OSS developers prefer to go in a thousand different directions all working on their own projects.
I use linux, but I have the upmost respect for the BSDs.
I think the difference in popularity mainly comes down to the license. As I understand it: stuff you contribute to BSDs can be pirated by msft, and others, and put into their binary code. Whereas, the GPL offers a little more protection.
Another pretty distro, that nobody uses. Because nobody wants to pay all that $$, when you can download an equally good distro for free.
Msft's business practises are deplorable. The governments and/or courts ought to do something.
But why is it, that everything the goverments and/or the courts do is so completely wrong and retarded?
Instead of a ten year DOJ bogo trial, why not have the Feds tell msft: "look msft, knock of the BS, or we're going to use another vendor. In fact, maybe we'll switch everything to F/OSS." Can you even imagine how much more effective and efficient that would be?
Why not change the patent system to stop all the msft bogo filing?
Why not cite msft for being a vexatious litigant, since msft is sponsering scox's bogo lawsuits?
Why not convict a msft executive, like bill or steve, for msft's obviously illegal practices? Let bill cool his heels for about six months. It would change everything.
Why not cite msft for lanham violations for publishing phoney TCO studies?
It would be easy to bring msft under control. But in EU and the USA; it's like we have the three stooges running the system.
As far as I can tell, pelikan doesn't support USA. So it's useless to most of the of the posters here.