"Well, it's really good at dying, especially confirmed dying. It's been doing it for some time now, years even. In fact, I have never seen anything so good at dying."
I would say Apple would beat it at that department.
Oddly what is not good at dying and just being dead all of the sudden is Apple's rival IBM.
Before non palladium drm crippled pc users who want to run Linux get thrown in the slammer?
After all its pirating since you did not pay ms the Windows tax so you must be trying to run software on your own system without Microsoft's approval.
I am getting real sick of not owning the products I buy.
What about fair use?
The whole reason mod chips are used is because all the apps are encrypted and need to be signed by MS to run. THis creates a virtual monopoly for htem and brings in a shitload of money.
The pc does not need modchips because its free.... for now??
When I install my nvida driver for my pc when it was dual XP/2k it installed the exact same dlls and all the drivers I find on the net have Windows XP/2k.
I believe they are the same except for some newer hardware and things like digital camera's. It would not make sense for MS to make a totally new set of driver api's.
I use to work repairing copiers and apps like the bios flash utility for copiers would crash laptops running XP but run fine under w2k. This was not driver code causing the problem.
I do wonder if the Windows 95/98/ME group were the ones who screwed up XP. The Windows2k group came from the NT group.
But a bad driver model could also be to blame for a crash. Bad drivers rarely crash a unix system unless the hardware is totally dead.
Look. I said that there is no money from Open source software. I did not say there was not money from owning it and suing everyone on the planet who did not pay SCO.
Sco has made alot of money owning free software. Get with the program.
I am so sick of this "ITS CALLED GNU?LINUX YOU ASSH*LE!" crap that is going on.
I call it whatever Linus calls it since its his creation. If Debian wants to call it gnu/linux then let them. If Redhat wants to call it just Linux then its fine too.
I bet I could call it Schrawux. Who cares?
Its just flamebait and not all of a Linux distro is gnu so in essence does not pass the gnu test. Debian comes close if you select to only install free software but that is it.
Linux can be built with Possix BSD tools so Gnu is not needed for Linux.
I thought congress passed a law a month or two ago making it illegal?
Perhaps the FBI should start knocking down doors from all these companies that produce it.
I agree trojan horses and worms are illegal and you can get thrown in the slammer for years if you write..... but not if your a corporation using it to sell to dataminers.
" Well, there's been no confirmation from Netcraft yet..."
It is official. Netcraft confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Linux distribution versions. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent Linux distribution study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO UNIX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time developers Simon Baldwin and Andrew Sharpe only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO UNIX project leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO UNIX. How many users of OpenServer are there? Let's see. The number of SCO UNIX versus OpenServer posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenServer users. SCO UNIX posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenServer posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO UNIX. A recent article put SCO UNIX distribution at about 80 percent of the market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SCO UNIX users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of half-baked SCO lawsuits, abysmal sales and so on, many development companies is going out of business and will probably be taken over by another company who will sell another troubled product. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
I would prefer to see NDS implementations and Novell server integrations than to give MS the fuel to convince IT that Windows is the way to go since Unix only works with AD.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Linux distribution versions. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent Linux distribution study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO UNIX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time developers Simon Baldwin and Andrew Sharpe only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO UNIX project leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO UNIX. How many users of OpenServer are there? Let's see. The number of SCO UNIX versus OpenServer posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenServer users. SCO UNIX posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenServer posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO UNIX. A recent article put SCO UNIX distribution at about 80 percent of the market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SCO UNIX users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of half-baked SCO lawsuits, abysmal sales and so on, many development companies is going out of business and will probably be taken over by another company who will sell another troubled product. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
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Not to far fetchede in 6-7 years time.
Keep in mind many newer pda's use arm processors that are as fast as the pentium'1 and early pentium pro's of that era.
I expect 3-4 ghz arm or powerpc chips that are as fast as the desktops today in cell phones and PDA's in 6-7 years time.
Companies love to have monopolies because they can set the rules.
Competitor coming in? Then just not read their files and they die off.
THe key is dynamic linking on exection and compiling time.
/compat directories for the linking.
Since gnu c/C++ did not do this that well until recently, all unix programs typically static link to a library or dependancy.
Change a library or version and BAM! Signal 11 error or some other message appears about a missing dependancy.
The key is to include the old libraries and programs and have the kernel link it to the correct ones at compile time.
This is how Solaris and the BSD's to a limited extence work. They just use
I wish Linux had this or if programers were not lazy and depend on exact versions of libraries and programs that are only on their own machines.
This is why Windows is still king.
I can run a 10 year old 32-bit or 16 bit app.
Why can't I do that under Linux?
Solaris at least lets you run old apps without a problem.
The linking problem and the expectation of having everyone compile by source and upgrade with rpm hell on their own is unacceptable.
Uh most spyware infects your browser.
Many are installed by security holes via a popup ad.
You can not manually uninstall them.
Or in the case of the DivX player you can uninstall the player but the spyware remains activated.
"Well, it's really good at dying, especially confirmed dying. It's been doing it for some time now, years even. In fact, I have never seen anything so good at dying."
I would say Apple would beat it at that department.
Oddly what is not good at dying and just being dead all of the sudden is Apple's rival IBM.
What a strange world we live in.
Didn't you notice NetBSD 2.0 on the ftp site for the last 2 or 3 days?
Its been done for awhile. I have no idea why slashdot was so late.
I downloaded it last Wednesday and will install it this weekend.
But I can't do it to my dvd's?
No wonder the DMCA was passed and how Hollywood desperately wants to switch to DVD audio.
Control and setting up artificial monopolies indeed.
Before non palladium drm crippled pc users who want to run Linux get thrown in the slammer?
After all its pirating since you did not pay ms the Windows tax so you must be trying to run software on your own system without Microsoft's approval.
I am getting real sick of not owning the products I buy.
What about fair use?
The whole reason mod chips are used is because all the apps are encrypted and need to be signed by MS to run. THis creates a virtual monopoly for htem and brings in a shitload of money.
The pc does not need modchips because its free.... for now??
Its not legally binding.
You didn't sign anything and no notary was present.
Why o why after 25 years has no one challenged the EULA in court?
I don't know about you but I see a big difference between Clinton and Bush.
I miss Clinton quite alot these days.
But OS/2, proprietary unixies, and MacOSX do not have this problem?
I thought they were identical?
When I install my nvida driver for my pc when it was dual XP/2k it installed the exact same dlls and all the drivers I find on the net have Windows XP/2k.
I believe they are the same except for some newer hardware and things like digital camera's. It would not make sense for MS to make a totally new set of driver api's.
I use to work repairing copiers and apps like the bios flash utility for copiers would crash laptops running XP but run fine under w2k. This was not driver code causing the problem.
I do wonder if the Windows 95/98/ME group were the ones who screwed up XP. The Windows2k group came from the NT group.
But a bad driver model could also be to blame for a crash. Bad drivers rarely crash a unix system unless the hardware is totally dead.
God let the old drivers crap spewed up by the MS marketing department die.
Windows2k uses the exact same drivers as XP yet is stable!
The problem is Windows and not drivers.
After all Linux is more stable yet all the driver programers target Windows. Windows should be top solid in return.
No no no!
Look. I said that there is no money from Open source software. I did not say there was not money from owning it and suing everyone on the planet who did not pay SCO.
Sco has made alot of money owning free software. Get with the program.
You can add spyware to your app and sell it to download.com in order to make money .... cough ...cough
and mod the one before it down.
I am so sick of this "ITS CALLED GNU?LINUX YOU ASSH*LE!" crap that is going on.
I call it whatever Linus calls it since its his creation. If Debian wants to call it gnu/linux then let them. If Redhat wants to call it just Linux then its fine too.
I bet I could call it Schrawux. Who cares?
Its just flamebait and not all of a Linux distro is gnu so in essence does not pass the gnu test. Debian comes close if you select to only install free software but that is it.
Linux can be built with Possix BSD tools so Gnu is not needed for Linux.
Just end this debate please.
WHen money is involved from small to large businesses to government computers being shutdown with spyware they will listen.
Its true they don't give a shit but will listen to corporate lobbiests.
Most spyware does not even install upon the user knowing it and uses backdoors and bufferoverflows to install itself.
That should not be legal. I believe cyberterrorism laws already cover it but why is spyware an exception?
But download.com puts spyware in it!
I was wondering why perl had spyware by default and so did some html editors.
Turned out I downloaded it from download.com.
BASTARDS!
I thought congress passed a law a month or two ago making it illegal?
Perhaps the FBI should start knocking down doors from all these companies that produce it.
I agree trojan horses and worms are illegal and you can get thrown in the slammer for years if you write..... but not if your a corporation using it to sell to dataminers.
Microsoft which owns %15 of SCO and contributed Xenix aka Openserver code 24 years ago owns the code and would have a fit if you opensourced it.
" Well, there's been no confirmation from Netcraft yet..."
It is official.
Netcraft confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Linux distribution versions. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent Linux distribution study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO UNIX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time developers Simon Baldwin and Andrew Sharpe only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO UNIX project leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO UNIX. How many users of OpenServer are there? Let's see. The number of SCO UNIX versus OpenServer posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenServer users. SCO UNIX posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenServer posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO UNIX. A recent article put SCO UNIX distribution at about 80 percent of the market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SCO UNIX users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of half-baked SCO lawsuits, abysmal sales and so on, many development companies is going out of business and will probably be taken over by another company who will sell another troubled product. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Fact: SCO is dying
I would prefer to see NDS implementations and Novell server integrations than to give MS the fuel to convince IT that Windows is the way to go since Unix only works with AD.
It is official.
Netcraft confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Linux distribution versions. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent Linux distribution study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO UNIX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time developers Simon Baldwin and Andrew Sharpe only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO UNIX project leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO UNIX. How many users of OpenServer are there? Let's see. The number of SCO UNIX versus OpenServer posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenServer users. SCO UNIX posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenServer posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO UNIX. A recent article put SCO UNIX distribution at about 80 percent of the market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SCO UNIX users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of half-baked SCO lawsuits, abysmal sales and so on, many development companies is going out of business and will probably be taken over by another company who will sell another troubled product. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Fact: SCO is dying
I remember reading a rumor that the mozilla team may use firefox for its rendering in Mozilla 2.0.
I wish they would do that.
I do not know if its true.