That's all very nice, but it makes the assumption that it had any soverenty to start with--especially when it's not even an island. Not even an artificial island built with land-fill.
It reminds me of the end of Monty Python and the Holy Grail when King Arthur and his knights were suddenly arrested and then the camera straight-armed. The End.
Sealand's soverenty will last only until they cross over a line. And the line has shifted a lot closer since 9/11, Afganistan and Iraq. He's certainly no terrorist, but if he annoys someone or some company, they just have to get a court order and send the police over to arrest him. The British love an excentric, but that only goes so far.
more importantly, we could keep the original Bob intact which is something we needed to do. We had a plan...
Since it'll probably be tommorow before I can read the site to see if there's more, anyone know why they had to keep it intact, and what was the plan?
The text was long on planning and development, but short on installation and use. What happened when the first unsuspecting person activated Evil Bob? What were some of the "personalities" used? The people factor, that's where the real story is!
In patent hissy-fights, don't the lower courts tend to judge on basis of facts? ie. Did RIM violate the patent? Yes. And isn't it usually the higher courts that ask "Is this a really stupid patent or what?"
That way they could settle the facts before using the higher court's time.
In Canada in 1980, amateur packet radio used a CDMA method with random delay after collision. It did suffer from hidden transmitter problems, but the protocol did muddle through. (Not sure how well under high load.) Also they usually routed through Digipeters in high central places. Montreal had Mont Royal, not sure what they did in Ottawa.
Some friends turned their hobby into a company (You might recognize the little Mars skate-board in the lower right.)
Not sure how this relates to what the patents claim, but I suspect it probably involves some quibble ("Lemon fresh improved email"). RIM hasn't been very nice with their patents, but I had to see anyone nailed with these things.
If SCO gets squashed in court, I wonder what will happen to the IP that they do own? Eventually somebody will end up with them. Hopefully the ability to cause trouble with them would be reduced after a court loss, but somebody could aquire them with more mischief in mind.
As other posts have pointed out, someone always owns the remaining assets, including IP. Those UNIX IPs are going to be kicked around for sometime. (Baring some nice company releasing it under the GPL.)
Seems like revenge for Linux cutting into a market that SCO folks thought they had all locked up and licen$ed to them.
I doubt it was revenge, they weren't around. The vulture capital guys who bought up Caldera/SCO did it, what, two years ago? They probably had this whole scheme in mind back then as a backup for selling out for the highest bidder. That's what those guys do: buy up cheap companies with IP, then turn them into litigation machines. Loot, pillage, burn, sell, then on to the next one.
No no--A Roger Rabbit Clippy. "Pu-pu-please let me help you!" For some reason Clippy is a dumbed-down MS Agent without text-to-speech or voice commands. I have a morbid urge to install a talking Agent in Word. (Registry tweek from the looks of it.)
You can also do the reverse and use Clippy in your own software, but why the fsck would anyone want to do that? (Unless they hated their users...)
And the certification process can take a long time, which is a pain when you can't change any of the hardware (boards, cards, drives, etc) for years. In 1989 I saw a Tempest-rated system. A clunky old 8088 or 286 running MS-DOS 2.0. (The fiber-optic keyboard and monitor cables were pretty cool. Too bad the person who took it apart didn't realise that when he cut the monitor cable to get it off.:^)
If Red Hat wants to get certified, they're going to have to cut a deal with a box maker. That could be interesting.
Government security certification is a long process with much paperwork. I'm not sure about these certification levels, but they used to take your hardware/software and test it. If it didn't pass, all you were told was that failed, not why. Fun fun fun! I was rolling on floor when Microsoft claimed that NT had passed B2. The slightest change/patches and you had to start all over again.:^)
IBM probably started the process years ago. Note that it's only the IBM/SuSE distro that's certified (I'm guessing). Other companies should probably look into it. The article doesn't say how much it cost IBM, but I bet it wasn't cheap!
Well, no. These were built-from-kit systems. My Explorer 85 did have an option for MS BASIC ROMs, but I never bought that. (Tiny BASIC and BASEX, the OSS of their day. And FORTH of course.)
Hmm, I do have an MC-10 Micro-Coco with MS BASIC, but I view that as more of a 6803 contoller gizmo. And to think that Apple Z80 CP/M cards were once the primo part of Micro*Soft's product line...
Kentucky Fried Computing, Intergalactic something or other, ProcessorTech, Baby!, Silcon Gulch Gazette, it's all down to names.
To get back on topic, one of the first programs for my Explorer 85 was a text to Morse trainer. Didn't help enough for the 12 wpm test. (I learned a lot about packet radio in the meantime. Friends founded the company that did the Mars rover base-link. It's a funny old solar system.)
*cough* Back in the day, one of the "largest" board makers for S-100 (Altair) boxes was Smoke Signal Broadcasting. (Thought I had a 2S+2P card from them, but it was Solid State Music.)
And people wonder why early micro-makers went bust. Names!
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The bit-width of the Jaguar was a bit tricky to figure out. Scroll down a little to "Q. Was the Jaguar really a 64-bit system?"
That's all very nice, but it makes the assumption that it had any soverenty to start with--especially when it's not even an island. Not even an artificial island built with land-fill.
Sealand's soverenty will last only until they cross over a line. And the line has shifted a lot closer since 9/11, Afganistan and Iraq. He's certainly no terrorist, but if he annoys someone or some company, they just have to get a court order and send the police over to arrest him. The British love an excentric, but that only goes so far.
Is the Barbie Liberation Front still in business? Yup, seems to be
Since it'll probably be tommorow before I can read the site to see if there's more, anyone know why they had to keep it intact, and what was the plan?
The text was long on planning and development, but short on installation and use. What happened when the first unsuspecting person activated Evil Bob? What were some of the "personalities" used? The people factor, that's where the real story is!
That way they could settle the facts before using the higher court's time.
Some friends turned their hobby into a company (You might recognize the little Mars skate-board in the lower right.)
Not sure how this relates to what the patents claim, but I suspect it probably involves some quibble ("Lemon fresh improved email"). RIM hasn't been very nice with their patents, but I had to see anyone nailed with these things.
As other posts have pointed out, someone always owns the remaining assets, including IP. Those UNIX IPs are going to be kicked around for sometime. (Baring some nice company releasing it under the GPL.)
Hmm, Looks like they changed it. It was clearly Linux back when they started this. I wonder if they really changed it or just the string?
I doubt it was revenge, they weren't around. The vulture capital guys who bought up Caldera/SCO did it, what, two years ago? They probably had this whole scheme in mind back then as a backup for selling out for the highest bidder. That's what those guys do: buy up cheap companies with IP, then turn them into litigation machines. Loot, pillage, burn, sell, then on to the next one.
No no--A Roger Rabbit Clippy. "Pu-pu-please let me help you!" For some reason Clippy is a dumbed-down MS Agent without text-to-speech or voice commands. I have a morbid urge to install a talking Agent in Word. (Registry tweek from the looks of it.)
You can also do the reverse and use Clippy in your own software, but why the fsck would anyone want to do that? (Unless they hated their users...)
If would be nice if Adobe ported a native version of Photoshop. Of course, I tend to doubt that they'd go open source on the release. :^)
If Red Hat wants to get certified, they're going to have to cut a deal with a box maker. That could be interesting.
Ironic, that saying used to be "No-one ever got fired for choosing IBM".
IBM probably started the process years ago. Note that it's only the IBM/SuSE distro that's certified (I'm guessing). Other companies should probably look into it. The article doesn't say how much it cost IBM, but I bet it wasn't cheap!
You could try this for loads of Futhark rune fonts One of them might be close to what you're looking for.
I would have figured APL for black speech, there was definitely dark arts involved. (Now there was a font set!)
But I'd really be impressed if someone did scanner software to read Elvish!
OE-Quotefix does a good job of fixing QE's quirks. Now if it removed the lines in the header identifing it as OE, life would good.
Oook?
Hmm, I do have an MC-10 Micro-Coco with MS BASIC, but I view that as more of a 6803 contoller gizmo. And to think that Apple Z80 CP/M cards were once the primo part of Micro*Soft's product line...
Kentucky Fried Computing, Intergalactic something or other, ProcessorTech, Baby!, Silcon Gulch Gazette, it's all down to names.
To get back on topic, one of the first programs for my Explorer 85 was a text to Morse trainer. Didn't help enough for the 12 wpm test. (I learned a lot about packet radio in the meantime. Friends founded the company that did the Mars rover base-link. It's a funny old solar system.)
And people wonder why early micro-makers went bust. Names!
Or far beyond from what I recall. I never did pass the 12 wpm Morse portion of the test. (Aced theory and regs, just call me VE2/3rds. :^)
CQ CQ CQ de 64.229.165.115...
But when it comes to Morse, do you have a good fist? :^P
Total protonic reversal...