Stock is a little more complex, stock does not rise or fall on the success of any venture. One can still make some money off their stock even if one beleives they are going to lose the trial. SCO is going to lose, most see that now, but one can still sell it and that is ultimatly all that matters in the stock market. People are just trying to profit from it. Think about it, if I buy their stock at $2.00 and it goes up to $2.50 or $3.00 depending on how much I buy, I can make a pretty penny off of SCO's stock.
The stock market is not all about success or performance of the company, it is about the ability to sell stock higher than one bought it. If the stock market was an indication of the success of the company, then we would have seen less of companies like LinuxOne. There are absurd situations where company stock keeps going up and up and up even though it does not produce a single product or profit. In some cases growth of a company increases the value of a stock, not its profitability. Hell even Amazon told their stock holders that for some time they expect to not make a profit, guess what they are still here. One should not take the ups and downs of a company stock as an indictation of trust in the company or success of the company. If I buy stock, all I care about is selling it higher than I bought it. I do not really care how the company is really doing.
It is true that the profitability of a company, its image, and its success is an indication of how high or low the stock will go. One should buy stock because they beleive they can sell it for more. So long as the company is not going out of busniess, one can make a profit off it. SCO is not going out of busness (yet), and while one may not buy their stock now, it has been profitable in the past because one was able to sell the stock for more then they bought it.
While I agree that people should RTFM when running FreeBSD, Gentoo, which are operating systems that are not designed for non-techies use. The people I know, non-techie users, do not need to RTFM Fedora 5 for most things they want to do or have/get running ( i.e. DMA). In most cases it is easy to figure out and when it is not, I show were they can find it with page/link references. I do not tell them it is easy to find without showing them were they can find it. It maybe easy to you but they may not know were to look.
So if every response to someone havig a problem is RTFM, then FreeBSD has its work cut out for it if it wants to challange Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu on the desktop.
If you want to be helpful, tell them to RTFM but also give page/link refernce for them. You seem to know what you are doing, but they being on a strange system do not.
Don't believe me, well take it from Harper Colins version. Which they say in Note on the Text, right at the begin.
The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy when in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus a appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.
Sorry just had to get that off my chest
Last i checked we don't call cars firestorm/Ford (insert vehicle here). Now I don't know anything about cars, but if it has a ford engine then it is usally is considered a ford car ( or at least a ford company ).
I use GNU, BSD, X11 software, which is part of the "vehicle".
If i really wanted to i could replace GNU software with BSD or the like and use the Linux kernel.
So why should i call it GNU/Linux when it is only part of the vehacle, maybe i should call it GNU/X11/BSD/.../Linux, but then again that is a little winded so i shorten it to Linux (the engine).
i do not use or ever have, but because there market share is droping does not mean they are dieing, it just means that they are not growing as fast as other operating systems like windows and linux
Kids go out of there way to see R rated movies friends let them in, the sneak in. So how are you going to enforce games? We already have a problem of pirating video games.
When I have kids, I would want my kids to be able to play these games, it would be my responsibility to teach them the diffrents between reality and fantasy, right and wrong. I want to teach my kids the way my parents taught me.
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Stock is a little more complex, stock does not rise or fall on the success of any venture. One can still make some money off their stock even if one beleives they are going to lose the trial. SCO is going to lose, most see that now, but one can still sell it and that is ultimatly all that matters in the stock market. People are just trying to profit from it. Think about it, if I buy their stock at $2.00 and it goes up to $2.50 or $3.00 depending on how much I buy, I can make a pretty penny off of SCO's stock.
The stock market is not all about success or performance of the company, it is about the ability to sell stock higher than one bought it. If the stock market was an indication of the success of the company, then we would have seen less of companies like LinuxOne. There are absurd situations where company stock keeps going up and up and up even though it does not produce a single product or profit. In some cases growth of a company increases the value of a stock, not its profitability. Hell even Amazon told their stock holders that for some time they expect to not make a profit, guess what they are still here. One should not take the ups and downs of a company stock as an indictation of trust in the company or success of the company. If I buy stock, all I care about is selling it higher than I bought it. I do not really care how the company is really doing.
It is true that the profitability of a company, its image, and its success is an indication of how high or low the stock will go. One should buy stock because they beleive they can sell it for more. So long as the company is not going out of busniess, one can make a profit off it. SCO is not going out of busness (yet), and while one may not buy their stock now, it has been profitable in the past because one was able to sell the stock for more then they bought it.
While I agree that people should RTFM when running FreeBSD, Gentoo, which are operating systems that are not designed for non-techies use. The people I know, non-techie users, do not need to RTFM Fedora 5 for most things they want to do or have/get running ( i.e. DMA). In most cases it is easy to figure out and when it is not, I show were they can find it with page/link references. I do not tell them it is easy to find without showing them were they can find it. It maybe easy to you but they may not know were to look.
So if every response to someone havig a problem is RTFM, then FreeBSD has its work cut out for it if it wants to challange Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu on the desktop.
If you want to be helpful, tell them to RTFM but also give page/link refernce for them. You seem to know what you are doing, but they being on a strange system do not.
Its there, I have it in my setup
I live in calgary, I do not have UPN, and I watched it on Global on Tuesday
me and my friend have watched both, but the one that gets us talking about the issues brought up in a episode is always Star Trek.
why do i care, i don't know. I am just picky
Don't believe me, well take it from Harper Colins version. Which they say in Note on the Text, right at the begin.
The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy when in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus a appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.
Sorry just had to get that off my chest
no independents this election, John did not win a seat this election
Last i checked we don't call cars firestorm/Ford (insert vehicle here). Now I don't know anything about cars, but if it has a ford engine then it is usally is considered a ford car ( or at least a ford company ). I use GNU, BSD, X11 software, which is part of the "vehicle". If i really wanted to i could replace GNU software with BSD or the like and use the Linux kernel. So why should i call it GNU/Linux when it is only part of the vehacle, maybe i should call it GNU/X11/BSD/.../Linux, but then again that is a little winded so i shorten it to Linux (the engine).
i do not use or ever have, but because there market share is droping does not mean they are dieing, it just means that they are not growing as fast as other operating systems like windows and linux
Kids go out of there way to see R rated movies friends let them in, the sneak in. So how are you going to enforce games? We already have a problem of pirating video games. When I have kids, I would want my kids to be able to play these games, it would be my responsibility to teach them the diffrents between reality and fantasy, right and wrong. I want to teach my kids the way my parents taught me.
The letter was well done, explained the GPL, and did not have a negative tone to it.
also to note, most of the operating systems of this millennium do not yet have all features that we took for granted 20 years ago.