Open source software has many things going for it, but being good for the economy is not one of them! If all software was open source, there would be far less money to be made in the software industry,
But that (less money made in the software industry) would be a good thing, the money could be spent on something more useful.
You know, the funny part of this whole debacle is how it's becoming the "reducto ad absurdam" of the whole IP bullshit.
What the fuck did Novell think they were selling to SCO, and what the fuck did SCO think they were selling to Caldera, and what the fuck did Caldera think they were buying from SCO, and what on earth did SCO think they were buying from Novell?
And all this came from AT&T, who probably had no defendable copyright anyway.
I wonder if any of these geniuses wants to buy a nice bridge?
(And it would be good to get a list of their lawyers, just to be sure never to hire any of them).
Personaly I've never seen Win2K crash without flaky hardware.
That's not stopping me from replacing every Windows desktop in my company with Linux.
The TCO of windows is just too horribly high - all that time installing software on all those machines, the endless upgrade and bugfix problems, the cost of software licenses, etc.
And, to get back on topic, we'll soon be replacing all our SCO UnixWare servers by Linux.
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So only 8 countries in the world are richer than Russia (#1 in the list is "the world").
Russia produces about 2,9% of world GDP.
Rubbish.
You can be picked up for being a vagrant if you don't have ID or a small sum of money (was 50 FRF, don't know how much now) in a public place.
If a cop asks you for ID and you don't have it you'll have to present yourself at a police station within a few days with the ID.
French people don't even have to change their papers when the change address any more. (Us foreign scum still do though).
Yup, just like the UK, Spain, Italy...
The great democratic coalition.
Ok, so I missed a letter. You say you stuck an apostrophe in "wan't" by mistyping? Just exactly what kind of keyboard are you using?
Huh?
Step 1: Write an apostrophe flame in bad html
Step 2: don't bother to use preview
Step 3: ?
Step 4: make a boring slashdot joke.
Some people despise people who can't spell.
:-))
(What do you think the chances are that I've made a stupid misteak in this message?
I, like, so totaly agree with you.
That's why I keep my kids in the cellar.
After all, radiation is radiation, right?
By the way, field != radiation.
Like almost anything.
You think you can Slashdot the BBC? Dream on. Osama bin Laden didn't manage to slashdot the BBC.
(Well, they did go to low-graphics, but after 11/9 any smart news site is prepared to do that automaticaly).
This is yet another attack on our sacred American government by those atheistical Frogs.
Liberate Paris Now!
Are you out of your tiny little minds?
Hint: it's not how many USD you get for one AUD; it's the change in the number of USD's you get for an AUD.
See the inexorable rise in AUD over the last 2 years
of course maybe that's why Linus doesn't want to go to Oz: he can't afford it.
You know, the funny part of this whole debacle is how it's becoming the "reducto ad absurdam" of the whole IP bullshit.
What the fuck did Novell think they were selling to SCO, and what the fuck did SCO think they were selling to Caldera, and what the fuck did Caldera think they were buying from SCO, and what on earth did SCO think they were buying from Novell?
And all this came from AT&T, who probably had no defendable copyright anyway.
I wonder if any of these geniuses wants to buy a nice bridge?
(And it would be good to get a list of their lawyers, just to be sure never to hire any of them).
It's a threat. They're saying they'll shoot if they don't get the money.
Funny, SCO begins to sound more & more like ESR.
SCO fell into the hands of Caldera.
I.E. it's the "friends of linux" who are doing this.
All this is the last gasp of the fools who bought into the linux part of the dotcom booooom.
So don't get hired.
Start your own company.
Why have all the red blooded American Libertarian capitalists turned into whining corporate pinko wage slave drones?
"Submit your resume", pah.
Personaly I've never seen Win2K crash without flaky hardware.
That's not stopping me from replacing every Windows desktop in my company with Linux.
The TCO of windows is just too horribly high - all that time installing software on all those machines, the endless upgrade and bugfix problems, the cost of software licenses, etc.
And, to get back on topic, we'll soon be replacing all our SCO UnixWare servers by Linux.
So, you moved to a country where the fascists now have two seats in the cabinet?
Out of the frying pan into the fire?
The Vergeltungswaffe 1 FZG-76 (V1), known as the Flying Bomb, Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug, was the first modern guided missile used in wartime and the first cruise missile. and V2 rocket.
Nope, V1 = cruise, V2 = ballistic, V3 = big cannon.
The "terrain following" capabilities of a V1 consisted of a timer, when the time ran out the engine was turned off and it fell on whatever was below.
If you could hear the buzzing of the pulse jet engine you were ok. When the sound stopped you knew it was going to fall on you.
The V2 was scary 'cos the first you moment you knew it was coming was when you heard was its 1-ton warhead exploding.