From the Article, Quote by Chris Sontag: (about 4/5th down the page): Later some of the Linux people said that code shouldn't have been there, Bruce Perens said it was development problem and 'we've taken it out.' My analogy is [that's] like a bank robber with posse in pursuit swinging back by the bank and throwing the money back in...
From Bruce Perens website: of the two examples, one isn't SCO's property at all, and the other is used in Linux under a valid license. If this is the best SCO has to offer, they will lose.
Where did Bruce Perens say "we've taken it out"? On the contrary, he points out that SCO didn't own one block of code and the other is under a valid license.
It is also the technology that will be the foundation of the next generation of gaming consoles from Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp., which IBM is working on, he said.
So is Sony & Nintendo's usage of this chip the reason why Microsoft is switching away from Intel? With such vast speed improvements and the portability of Linux, could we see a paradigm shift in computer hardware soon?
"It's a very important technical advance," says Gerald Rubin, a molecular geneticist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "You can envision the day when one could sit down at a computer, design a genome and then build it. We're still inventing the tools to make that happen, and this is an important one."
Now imagine the parallels between modern computing and modern genetics & biology. I'm sure there will be DMCA-like legislation put in place to thwart attempts to infringe on corporate interests.
The problem with guarding knowledge is it prevents being able to "build on the shoulders of giants", like Linus Torvalds and others have done. Copyright laws need to change to not only protect the short-term financial gains that are necessary for companies to invest in new ideas, but release those ideas back into the public so that they can be built back upon.
Torvalds received a subpoena during dinner Wednesday night and says now he'll need to hire a lawyer.
So, Linus, where should I send my PayPal donation towards your legal defense fund? Or will the EFF hire a gaggle of lawyers to cover Linus, RMS and any other contributors of code who have done nothing more than given years of hard work for nothing.
SCO should be drawn and quartered and made an example of so that any other corporations will think twice before indiscriminately suing innocent people.
"It says we don't care if anybody got any of these copies," Jaszi said. "We're going to conclude that at least 10 people did. It relieves the copyright owner of having to prove that any violation of their rights actually happened."
This bill simply will not pass. Laws simply are not made to be enforced when a crime has not been committed.
What this bill _probably_ will do is pave the way for another bill that trades off on the "having to prove a violation" part, that gives MPAA/RIAA the ability to threaten jailtime. It's a common negotiating tactic to throw out a red herring so that you can trade it for something you really want.
SCO said Wednesday that it has filed subpoenas with the U.S. District Court in Utah, targeting six different individuals or organizations. Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation
I don't know. Maybe they'll get them in a room, tie them to a chair with their eyes propped open like in A Clockwork Orange and force them to read their code without signing their NDA. Then any future development of Free/Open Source Software will fall under SCO's control because they were influenced by SCO's source. Things couldn't get any weirder.
More than a dozen offshore gambling sites serving the US market were hit by the so-called Distributed Denial of Service attacks and extortion demands in September and the tactic is now spreading. Sites have been asked to pay up to $50,000 to ensure they are free from attacks for a year.
Offshore gambling sites? Almost as if one gang who run the casinos are being hit by other gangs. I wonder who the Cyber-Godfathers are?
The book is written for people in the "Windows world" who want to take a look into the services and possibilities Samba offers for them.
We need more books that help Windows users make the change to Linux. Although I probably wouldn't benefit from this book since I'm now used to reading the documentation myself, I would have appreciated such a text a few short years ago.
Making the transition from Windows to Linux can be a lot like learning to ski. Windows is all about bunny hills, where you can learn to snow plow quickly and initially have some fun, but it gets boring fast. Linux, on the other hand, is like a full mountain without proper directions. Some people start with Linux and find the green runs and have fun. Others end up beginning on a double diamond run, and hate it because it was such a harrowing and confusing experience.
Books like these help those bunny hill Windows users find the Linux green runs, and help them advance to the blue and black diamond aspects of Linux at a controlled pace.
And, the model A760 is ideal for execs on the move with secure and instant access to corporate e-mail and database applications. Everyone loves a multi-tasker.
Cell phones are the battleground where Linux will defeat Microsoft for world domination in the OS war. When executives who buy Linux-based phones note how reliable the OS is on their phone, it's a short mental leap to see it's reliability on the internet, servers, phone systems, and eventually the growing server and desktop.
Many techs think this is naive, but just ask a suit. You'll be surprised to hear the phrase "I thought Linux was dead". Executives are like salespeople; they only believe what they see, and what they see is the end product.
The auction was "Powered by eBay Turbo Lister". Aren't they being a bit optomistic that they'll sell a lot of these on eBay to need the use of a bulk listing tool?:-)
From the article: This is also the reason Linux was not a good choice for our system -- it doesn't make sense to put XFS/ext3/ReiserFS drives into a USB2.0/Firewire external box. Since we anticipate going through 2 TB of data every year, this setup allows for that flexibility without a significant cost penalty
I just flat out don't understand this statement. Can someone shed some light on this?
Even though the content of this book is relevant and probably useful, the title should have been change to reflect more the Mandrake/Fedora Linux distributions. The fact that Red Hat will now be synonymous with their expensive Red Hat Enterprise edition, this will probably limit the audience and sale of this book.
From the FAQ: "Q: What benefits are available under the settlement?
A: You will receive vouchers redeemable for cash after the purchase of a wide variety of software and computer hardware products.
Sort like "Hey, you tried to poison me with your product!", so they respond "Oh, I'm so sorry sir. Here's a coupon for a credit towards a fresh batch of our new poison".
Some people say I hate Microsoft. I don't, I'm a cynic. Justice has not been served against Bill Gates' company. He's a liar and a thief, as are some of his employees (note I said some - there are thousands of good, honest hard-working people at Microsoft, but their leaders are just foul). Microsoft has benefitted greatly from their dishonest gains, and giving away vouchers is really just another way to continue their march towards total dominance in the software world.
Call me a fanatic, laugh at my naive idealism, or even mod me down into the basement. But what of my above statement isn't an accurate statement of the truth?
Until the public receives true justice by punishing Microsoft for their evil deeds, cynics like me will continue to not shut-up.
Oh, and I'm using Linux...hmmm, guess pop-ups are completely foreign to me. I can see why I misunderstood the article.
One would assume that a person smart enough to be using Linux instead of windows would have likewise had enough of a clue not to have so grossly misunderstood the article in the first place before posting.
Yeah Mark...uh...completely unnecessary jab there. Okay, I made a mistake, but what the hell's the point of your post?
Maybe the Windows folks are right about the Linux and Slashdot crowd "come, laugh, learn...come join the love of Open So.... OH YOU F*@#ING MORON! HOW COULD YOU HAVE SCREWED UP CONFUSING SUCH A BASIC TECHNICAL DETAIL!??!? Everyone, shun this guy".
Be a little nicer to errors, folks. That's what moderation is for. Keep the barbs to yourself, because it doesn't help anyone.
"They should not have taken part -- not even as extras or cameos -- in pornographic films, shows or plays nor have made statements... in any way out of tune with the moral spirit of the competition," organizers said.
It will support MP3, AAC and Sony's own ATRAC3 sound formats.
Anyone notice the lack of WMA support? Obviously Sony is out to compete hard against Microsoft (who recently dropped to #3 in the console wars. Sony's still #1). And with the PS3 slated to include Linux support, maybe the PSP will be hackable too.
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From the article:
The SCO-IBM case is slated to hit a Utah courtroom in 18 months
18 months?! Wow, just enough time to confuse the masses long enough from investing in Linux to hail the arrival of...the arrival of...
Gee...what's supposed to ship sometime around mid-2006?
From the Article, Quote by Chris Sontag: (about 4/5th down the page):
Later some of the Linux people said that code shouldn't have been there, Bruce Perens said it was development problem and 'we've taken it out.' My analogy is [that's] like a bank robber with posse in pursuit swinging back by the bank and throwing the money back in...
From Bruce Perens website:
of the two examples, one isn't SCO's property at all, and the other is used in Linux under a valid license. If this is the best SCO has to offer, they will lose.
Where did Bruce Perens say "we've taken it out"? On the contrary, he points out that SCO didn't own one block of code and the other is under a valid license.
So is Chris Sontag lying, or am I in error?
It is also the technology that will be the foundation of the next generation of gaming consoles from Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp., which IBM is working on, he said.
So is Sony & Nintendo's usage of this chip the reason why Microsoft is switching away from Intel? With such vast speed improvements and the portability of Linux, could we see a paradigm shift in computer hardware soon?
"It's a very important technical advance," says Gerald Rubin, a molecular geneticist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "You can envision the day when one could sit down at a computer, design a genome and then build it. We're still inventing the tools to make that happen, and this is an important one."
Now imagine the parallels between modern computing and modern genetics & biology. I'm sure there will be DMCA-like legislation put in place to thwart attempts to infringe on corporate interests.
The problem with guarding knowledge is it prevents being able to "build on the shoulders of giants", like Linus Torvalds and others have done. Copyright laws need to change to not only protect the short-term financial gains that are necessary for companies to invest in new ideas, but release those ideas back into the public so that they can be built back upon.
Hopefully our lawmakers will understand this.
Torvalds received a subpoena during dinner Wednesday night and says now he'll need to hire a lawyer.
So, Linus, where should I send my PayPal donation towards your legal defense fund? Or will the EFF hire a gaggle of lawyers to cover Linus, RMS and any other contributors of code who have done nothing more than given years of hard work for nothing.
SCO should be drawn and quartered and made an example of so that any other corporations will think twice before indiscriminately suing innocent people.
"It says we don't care if anybody got any of these copies," Jaszi said. "We're going to conclude that at least 10 people did. It relieves the copyright owner of having to prove that any violation of their rights actually happened."
This bill simply will not pass. Laws simply are not made to be enforced when a crime has not been committed.
What this bill _probably_ will do is pave the way for another bill that trades off on the "having to prove a violation" part, that gives MPAA/RIAA the ability to threaten jailtime. It's a common negotiating tactic to throw out a red herring so that you can trade it for something you really want.
SCO said Wednesday that it has filed subpoenas with the U.S. District Court in Utah, targeting six different individuals or organizations. Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation
Wow, and I didn't think SCO could get any weirder. How can they possibly hope to benefit their case by subpoening Linus and RMS? Linus will just wanna see the code without signing their NDA, and Richard will probably gaze at them and cause them the stare crying.
I don't know. Maybe they'll get them in a room, tie them to a chair with their eyes propped open like in A Clockwork Orange and force them to read their code without signing their NDA. Then any future development of Free/Open Source Software will fall under SCO's control because they were influenced by SCO's source. Things couldn't get any weirder.
"We think Linux is great," he said, adding that competition from the penguin and associates keeps the Microsoft on its toes.
Anyone wanna go ice skating? Hell just froze over.
Oh wait a minute, they didn't mean it. They were hoping I'd hop onto Haydes and be burned to death. Oooo! You are a sly one, Mr. Gates!
More than a dozen offshore gambling sites serving the US market were hit by the so-called Distributed Denial of Service attacks and extortion demands in September and the tactic is now spreading. Sites have been asked to pay up to $50,000 to ensure they are free from attacks for a year.
Offshore gambling sites? Almost as if one gang who run the casinos are being hit by other gangs. I wonder who the Cyber-Godfathers are?
The book is written for people in the "Windows world" who want to take a look into the services and possibilities Samba offers for them.
We need more books that help Windows users make the change to Linux. Although I probably wouldn't benefit from this book since I'm now used to reading the documentation myself, I would have appreciated such a text a few short years ago.
Making the transition from Windows to Linux can be a lot like learning to ski. Windows is all about bunny hills, where you can learn to snow plow quickly and initially have some fun, but it gets boring fast. Linux, on the other hand, is like a full mountain without proper directions. Some people start with Linux and find the green runs and have fun. Others end up beginning on a double diamond run, and hate it because it was such a harrowing and confusing experience.
Books like these help those bunny hill Windows users find the Linux green runs, and help them advance to the blue and black diamond aspects of Linux at a controlled pace.
And, the model A760 is ideal for execs on the move with secure and instant access to corporate e-mail and database applications. Everyone loves a multi-tasker.
Cell phones are the battleground where Linux will defeat Microsoft for world domination in the OS war. When executives who buy Linux-based phones note how reliable the OS is on their phone, it's a short mental leap to see it's reliability on the internet, servers, phone systems, and eventually the growing server and desktop.
Many techs think this is naive, but just ask a suit. You'll be surprised to hear the phrase "I thought Linux was dead". Executives are like salespeople; they only believe what they see, and what they see is the end product.
The auction was "Powered by eBay Turbo Lister". Aren't they being a bit optomistic that they'll sell a lot of these on eBay to need the use of a bulk listing tool? :-)
It's been said many times before, but it bears repeating:
First, they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.
- Mahatma Ghandi
From the article:
This is also the reason Linux was not a good choice for our system -- it doesn't make sense to put XFS/ext3/ReiserFS drives into a USB2.0/Firewire external box. Since we anticipate going through 2 TB of data every year, this setup allows for that flexibility without a significant cost penalty
I just flat out don't understand this statement. Can someone shed some light on this?
Even though the content of this book is relevant and probably useful, the title should have been change to reflect more the Mandrake/Fedora Linux distributions. The fact that Red Hat will now be synonymous with their expensive Red Hat Enterprise edition, this will probably limit the audience and sale of this book.
From the FAQ:
"Q: What benefits are available under the settlement?
A: You will receive vouchers redeemable for cash after the purchase of a wide variety of software and computer hardware products.
Sort like "Hey, you tried to poison me with your product!", so they respond "Oh, I'm so sorry sir. Here's a coupon for a credit towards a fresh batch of our new poison".
Some people say I hate Microsoft. I don't, I'm a cynic. Justice has not been served against Bill Gates' company. He's a liar and a thief, as are some of his employees (note I said some - there are thousands of good, honest hard-working people at Microsoft, but their leaders are just foul). Microsoft has benefitted greatly from their dishonest gains, and giving away vouchers is really just another way to continue their march towards total dominance in the software world.
Call me a fanatic, laugh at my naive idealism, or even mod me down into the basement. But what of my above statement isn't an accurate statement of the truth?
Until the public receives true justice by punishing Microsoft for their evil deeds, cynics like me will continue to not shut-up.
Oh, and I'm using Linux...hmmm, guess pop-ups are completely foreign to me. I can see why I misunderstood the article.
One would assume that a person smart enough to be using Linux instead of windows would have likewise had enough of a clue not to have so grossly misunderstood the article in the first place before posting.
Yeah Mark...uh...completely unnecessary jab there. Okay, I made a mistake, but what the hell's the point of your post?
Maybe the Windows folks are right about the Linux and Slashdot crowd "come, laugh, learn...come join the love of Open So.... OH YOU F*@#ING MORON! HOW COULD YOU HAVE SCREWED UP CONFUSING SUCH A BASIC TECHNICAL DETAIL!??!? Everyone, shun this guy".
Be a little nicer to errors, folks. That's what moderation is for. Keep the barbs to yourself, because it doesn't help anyone.
Informative?! Hey, it was supposed to be funny! Man, the day my jokes begin educating people is the day the world's gone completely to hell.
Microsoft's president Steve Ballmer was seen celebrating the news. Ugh...makes you ill just watching it!
Oh, and I'm using Linux...hmmm, guess pop-ups are completely foreign to me. I can see why I misunderstood the article.
(sigh) Guess I'll go back to my serene computing life.
From the article:
"POP-UP ADVERTISING is a fact of life," said Howard Beales
Uh, no it's not Howard. I use Mozilla with pop-up supression as do thousands of others. $30? Try free.
Check this out...footage of Steve Ballmer enjoying his iPod player.
Maybe he should layoff those Big Macs for awhile.
Maybe instead of calling this change in music distributrion "online music", we should call it "fast tunes" :-)
Okay, mod me down into the basement.
"They should not have taken part -- not even as extras or cameos -- in pornographic films, shows or plays nor have made statements ... in any way out of tune with the moral spirit of the competition," organizers said.
Well that sure limits the field.
It will support MP3, AAC and Sony's own ATRAC3 sound formats.
Anyone notice the lack of WMA support? Obviously Sony is out to compete hard against Microsoft (who recently dropped to #3 in the console wars. Sony's still #1). And with the PS3 slated to include Linux support, maybe the PSP will be hackable too.