IBM's contributions to linux, and possibly IBM's linux strategy (esspecially in China). Have made Sunw and Msft feel threatend. Sunw and Msft have funded and fully supported this lawsuit since the beginning.
A legal cloud is now over linux, which makes it much easier for sunw and msft to compete against linux, esspecially in the USA.
I believe you are refering to the Partial Summary Judgement filed about four months ago. The judge still has that "under advisement." Nobody can figure out what is taking the judge so long.
They are not even looking. They never have. This case will never go to trial, that's not the idea.
Scox execs are making $100K a month. Scox's stock price is *way* up. There is a legal cloud over linux. That is what the case is about.
The case will either be completly changed (scox already did this once) and/or the case will be dismissed before it goes to trial - scox does this all the time - look at the DCX case.
This is the best news that scox's primary benefactor could hope for.
This ruling will insure endless delays. Which means the legal cloud over linux will remain for years to come. All the while "independant" tech analysts like Yankee Group will be cranking out articles about the overwhelming legal risks inherent in F/OSS.
The scox-scam is the one of the best investments msft has ever made. $50MM for all that FUD is one hullva bargin.
> Please explain what you mean by this. The fund does indeed exist.
Yes, the money has been transferred into the general fund, but it is guaranteed by Treasury bonds.
I've never heard that before. Anyway, the entire idea of taking more SS than you give out was to have funds in reserve, but there are funds in reserve. The government squanders every penny.
Ever occure to anybody here that the present social security may not be the only way to help poor elderly? Or even the best way.
Much of the money taken for soc-sec is not used for soc-sec, is taken and given to the general fund.
We are told of some secure "trust fund" but such a fund doesn't exist.
After soc-sec money was wasted on the general fund for decades, we are told the system will be broke if we don't raise the rates. We were told the same thing a few decades ago.
> If we were, then the idea of privitizing Social Security would be no big deal. If someone misinvested by putting all his retirement money into Tyco or Enron stock, fine. We let him die broke and impoverished and that's that.
What if it was required that 75% of the money be invested in AA rated bonds.
BTW: What about 401K plans? What do they invest in?
Seems to me msft has been on autopilot for the last five years. XP and Win2K are both about five years old.
I suppose there have been a few standard application updates. I don't really consider that to be managerial genius.
Longhorn is way behind schedule. Windows is way overloaded with security issues. Msft is being sued left and right - msft paid out about $3 billion in lawsuits in the last year. Stock price is way down. Market share is erroding. XP-SP2 was a flop (IMO). Msft's support for scox has been a scandle and a disgrace. Msft's huge push to patent the work of others as their own isn't helping msft's image.
Lots of people are still using Win98 and NT4 (esspecially NT4 server in business). In fact XP only recently overtook Win98 in popularity.
The super-zowie graphics cards of today will be junk by the time longhorn is popular - but longhorn will probably work with them.
unusual amount of remakes, sequels, comic books,
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cartoons, and children books?
Looks at what hollywood is churning out:
- fat albert - fantastic four - electra - charly and the choclet factory - harry potter - flight of the phoenix - lord of the rings (?) - starwars (okay, prequel) - another spiderman - another batman - another blade - meet the fockers - polar express - lemony snickets - ocean's twelve - I Robot (?)
Hardly a new idea anywhere. I guess there are a few original ideas, but there does seem to be a lot of re-hashing of old ideas.
In 1984, Apple really did revolutionize computers, and they really brought computers to the masses. At the time there were many people who never dreamed they would use a computer. It was a new concept, and caused a business explosion.
Today, practially any five year old kid uses a PC everyday. PCs have been easy, and then easier, and now IMO easy to point of being obtrusive. Think "clippy."
Maybe stuff like "clippy" is useful the very first time you use a computer - but it's obtrusive after that.
Yet msft, and others, are still trying to attract new users by making PCs easier to use. They don't realize that are past - way past - the point of diminishing returns as far as that's concerned.
And you get a full GUI environment, on anything from 486 on up. Linux advocates carry on about Linux leveraging older hardware, but I can think of any linux distro that gives me a fast and complete GUI on 486.
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IBM's contributions to linux, and possibly IBM's linux strategy (esspecially in China). Have made Sunw and Msft feel threatend. Sunw and Msft have funded and fully supported this lawsuit since the beginning.
A legal cloud is now over linux, which makes it much easier for sunw and msft to compete against linux, esspecially in the USA.
I believe you are refering to the Partial Summary Judgement filed about four months ago. The judge still has that "under advisement." Nobody can figure out what is taking the judge so long.
They are not even looking. They never have. This case will never go to trial, that's not the idea.
Scox execs are making $100K a month. Scox's stock price is *way* up. There is a legal cloud over linux. That is what the case is about.
The case will either be completly changed (scox already did this once) and/or the case will be dismissed before it goes to trial - scox does this all the time - look at the DCX case.
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the reason they are so desperate for more is because they have found nothing to support their claim yet.
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They aren't looking, never have. This is all discovery for the sake of delay.
Scox doesn't expect to win the case. In fact scox doesn't expect the case to even go to trial.
You have to understand how the scam works.
- delays ruling on lanham act violations.
- allows scox's primary benefactor to keep a legal cloud over linux.
- Scox's CEO keeps getting $100K/month.
- sent scox already insanely high stock price up 25%.
- keeps scox's "linux lottery" promise alive for longer.
This is the best news that scox's primary benefactor could hope for.
This ruling will insure endless delays. Which means the legal cloud over linux will remain for years to come. All the while "independant" tech analysts like Yankee Group will be cranking out articles about the overwhelming legal risks inherent in F/OSS.
The scox-scam is the one of the best investments msft has ever made. $50MM for all that FUD is one hullva bargin.
>
Please explain what you mean by this. The fund does indeed exist.
Yes, the money has been transferred into the general fund, but it is guaranteed by Treasury bonds.
I've never heard that before. Anyway, the entire idea of taking more SS than you give out was to have funds in reserve, but there are funds in reserve. The government squanders every penny.
Ever occure to anybody here that the present social security may not be the only way to help poor elderly? Or even the best way.
Much of the money taken for soc-sec is not used for soc-sec, is taken and given to the general fund.
We are told of some secure "trust fund" but such a fund doesn't exist.
After soc-sec money was wasted on the general fund for decades, we are told the system will be broke if we don't raise the rates. We were told the same thing a few decades ago.
>
If we were, then the idea of privitizing Social Security would be no big deal. If someone misinvested by putting all his retirement money into Tyco or Enron stock, fine. We let him die broke and impoverished and that's that.
What if it was required that 75% of the money be invested in AA rated bonds.
BTW: What about 401K plans? What do they invest in?
As I understand it. Most serious under-achievers are male. Almost all the greatest scientists are also male.
The number of state colleges is way up in the last 50 years. The nuber of ivy leage colleges is the same.
Global warming will be cancled out by nuclear winter.
Seems to me msft has been on autopilot for the last five years. XP and Win2K are both about five years old.
I suppose there have been a few standard application updates. I don't really consider that to be managerial genius.
Longhorn is way behind schedule. Windows is way overloaded with security issues. Msft is being sued left and right - msft paid out about $3 billion in lawsuits in the last year. Stock price is way down. Market share is erroding. XP-SP2 was a flop (IMO). Msft's support for scox has been a scandle and a disgrace. Msft's huge push to patent the work of others as their own isn't helping msft's image.
Msft just bought that spyware company. A month from now, adware/spyware will be non-issues, right?
As long as they haven't heard the jokes a million times already. Maybe the guys just needed new material?
Jeff Merkey: Stop calling me names or my lawyer will sue you!
Groklaw: Shut up or I will censor you!
That's all I could think of.
of the lawyers.
Lawyers are the entire power stucture on the USA: judges are lawyers, politicians are lawyers, and of course lawyers are lawyers.
"lawyerocracy" indeed.
Lots of people are still using Win98 and NT4 (esspecially NT4 server in business). In fact XP only recently overtook Win98 in popularity.
The super-zowie graphics cards of today will be junk by the time longhorn is popular - but longhorn will probably work with them.
cartoons, and children books?
Looks at what hollywood is churning out:
- fat albert
- fantastic four
- electra
- charly and the choclet factory
- harry potter
- flight of the phoenix
- lord of the rings (?)
- starwars (okay, prequel)
- another spiderman
- another batman
- another blade
- meet the fockers
- polar express
- lemony snickets
- ocean's twelve
- I Robot (?)
Hardly a new idea anywhere. I guess there are a few original ideas, but there does seem to be a lot of re-hashing of old ideas.
Not on my debian box anyway. Can't view comedycentral clips either.
*sigh*
In 1984, Apple really did revolutionize computers, and they really brought computers to the masses. At the time there were many people who never dreamed they would use a computer. It was a new concept, and caused a business explosion.
Today, practially any five year old kid uses a PC everyday. PCs have been easy, and then easier, and now IMO easy to point of being obtrusive. Think "clippy."
Maybe stuff like "clippy" is useful the very first time you use a computer - but it's obtrusive after that.
Yet msft, and others, are still trying to attract new users by making PCs easier to use. They don't realize that are past - way past - the point of diminishing returns as far as that's concerned.
Especially NT4 server.
And you get a full GUI environment, on anything from 486 on up. Linux advocates carry on about Linux leveraging older hardware, but I can think of any linux distro that gives me a fast and complete GUI on 486.
Maybe seriously overweight people don't sleep well? Maybe they don't breath as well, or can't get comfortable.
Bounce back to the insanity of the late'90s? Where any kid with a web-site could raise $600MM in venure capital? I doubt it.
Before the dot-com boom of 1994-2000; I.T. was sucking wind, so was the rest of the economy. Employment was down etc.
Take off openoffice, the games, and the fancy default GUI. Put on more rescue tools. Make a version that is more tech oriented.