Bio technology is not, never has been, and never will be something accessible to small companies or even individuals. The equipment investments are just too large for people with small pockets.
Software development on the other hand is something that anyone with a $298 computer can start. Maybe not to invent something great and patentable, but to implement anything that strikes your fancy. The big problem is that there is absolutely no way to know that you are stepping on someone's software patent if you write something at home.
Quick example. I designed a neat little hand-held GPS logger, capable of recording NMEA sequences and playing it back. I've built two, and I may even build more if there's demand. Now I'm almost certain that someone out there will have patented a "methode to store and retrieve locator information" or something along those lines. But how am I to find out? And what's the impact of me finding out? I simply don't know. If I happen to be successful with it, I may sell 100. How am I to prevent *BigCorp Inc* from hunting me down for "billions in lost revenue"?
I'm sure you don't really care, but as a Dutch citizen, rule number 2 doesn't do me much good. For my personal mail account it's easier to throw anything out that *is* in english;-)
Unless of course they obtain the right to distribute under some other license. If the author (who holds the copyright) grants them redistribution rights without adhering to the GPL, then that's the author's good right.
Me thinks no author in their right mind would want to grant anything to SCO, but it's a theoretical possibility
They explicitely mentioned that the GPL is not a valid license scheme. That being stated, the fallback is copyright. If the copyright owner doesn't allow SCO to distribute the copyrighted work, then SCO better comply...
There's multiple options to choose from in The Nethherlands. Cable has two or three major suppliers, prices range from E22.95 for a 400Kb/s down / 64Kb/s uplink to E79.95 for 3Mb/s down / 384 up.
There's also a huge number of ADSL/SDSL suppliers ranging from E14.95 for 256/64Kb/s connections to E99.95 for 8Mb/1024Kb. The cheap ones employ huge overcommit rates (20:1 or so). You get what you pay for..
If you have real money to spend you can also opt for SDSL, about E250 for 2Mb/s both ways.
Any of the above are available in about 90% of the country.
This may end in a way that only happens in Disney movies... Before we know it, Novell will send SCO a mandate to Cease and Desist all further activities including sales and marketing of Unixware, because it infringes on Novell's ownership. BROOOHAAAHAAAA!!!
It was an appeal case. He was tried before a lower court first. Okokrim appealed before a higher court and lost again. They could have appealed once more but didn't.
Just wondering... Suppose there *is* life on Mars, what gives us the right to drop all sorts of space junk on their planet? Let's face it, if alien probes were to crash on Earth, everyone would be up in arms...
I had a conversation with one of their licensing officers as I was afraid my 10-a-year GPS logger project was in danger. He explained this was an encouragement to have everyone implement FAT32 and LFN the same way, by using their reference design. All this to prevent incompatible implementations down the road.
Microsoft's fear is that a large camera or MP3 player manufacturer 'gets it wrong' and MS is blamed for things not working correctly. MS then has to invest in a work-around, handle patches, bad press etc..
The license comes with source code for a reference implementation, so it will save manufacturers time and R&D cost.
That's all fine and dandy, and compliments to you for doing the right thing, but how many penis pill / viagra / date-a-virgin/goatse.cx companies do you think will fall in the 'responsible corporate citizens' group??
Solaris x86 is pretty limited wrt hardware support, especially when you're used to Linux, Windows or *BSD. Also the installer is very very nasty indeed. I just spent 2 days to get this to run on an AMD system for all sorts of reasons, and couldn't get it to run on a Dell Precision 410 at all.
Worse yet, I paid $20 for the download about 2 weeks ago 8-(((
Great... So now SCO group has the entire list of e-mail addresses of all/. regulars. Guess what will be in your stocking this year? Your choise of a law suit, a C&D letter or a voucher for $5 off on a Linux license.
.. doesn't make $10/Gallon over-inflated in the view of others.
Regular auto gas where I live (The Netherlands) is about 1.10 Euro per Litre, the 100LL aviation gas required by his RV is about 2 Euro per litre. That's pretty close to $10 per gallon already...
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Packet Radio has been providing free digital links across the globe for decades. Nothing new about this..
Bio technology is not, never has been, and never will be something accessible to small companies or even individuals. The equipment investments are just too large for people with small pockets.
Software development on the other hand is something that anyone with a $298 computer can start. Maybe not to invent something great and patentable, but to implement anything that strikes your fancy. The big problem is that there is absolutely no way to know that you are stepping on someone's software patent if you write something at home.
Quick example. I designed a neat little hand-held GPS logger, capable of recording NMEA sequences and playing it back. I've built two, and I may even build more if there's demand. Now I'm almost certain that someone out there will have patented a "methode to store and retrieve locator information" or something along those lines. But how am I to find out? And what's the impact of me finding out? I simply don't know. If I happen to be successful with it, I may sell 100. How am I to prevent *BigCorp Inc* from hunting me down for "billions in lost revenue"?
I'm sure you don't really care, but as a Dutch citizen, rule number 2 doesn't do me much good. For my personal mail account it's easier to throw anything out that *is* in english ;-)
"Police and fire officials said yesterday that they had no reports of injuries during the 911 failure".
Duhhh...
.. I think this stinks..
Yeah... By the time this is over, anyone searching for 'Mark' or 'CPA' will see this as Google suggestion:
"Did you mean: Mark Maughan, the litigous bastard who tried to sue us?"
I write diagnostics tools for a living. All command line based. Same source tree compiles on Solaris, Win32, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, AIX and MacOS-X.
Too bad, users of MacOS-X are the *only* ones who need handholding to operate the tools.
I find it amazing how many computer "experts" are dead in the water when the mouse doesn't work or the GUI doesn't come up as expected.
Too bad only the "old-timers" seem to appreciate the power of the keyboard.
Unless of course they obtain the right to distribute under some other license. If the author (who holds the copyright) grants them redistribution rights without adhering to the GPL, then that's the author's good right.
Me thinks no author in their right mind would want to grant anything to SCO, but it's a theoretical possibility
They explicitely mentioned that the GPL is not a valid license scheme. That being stated, the fallback is copyright. If the copyright owner doesn't allow SCO to distribute the copyrighted work, then SCO better comply...
I doubt this will fix the issue of drivers with a 360 degree blind spot...
... Guess that means they aren't running Linux then ;-)
Next time they try cleaning those mussels off a large ship, the ship desintegrates too. Same glue, sorry...
There's multiple options to choose from in The Nethherlands. Cable has two or three major suppliers, prices range from E22.95 for a 400Kb/s down / 64Kb/s uplink to E79.95 for 3Mb/s down / 384 up.
There's also a huge number of ADSL/SDSL suppliers ranging from E14.95 for 256/64Kb/s connections to E99.95 for 8Mb/1024Kb. The cheap ones employ huge overcommit rates (20:1 or so). You get what you pay for..
If you have real money to spend you can also opt for SDSL, about E250 for 2Mb/s both ways.
Any of the above are available in about 90% of the country.
This may end in a way that only happens in Disney movies... Before we know it, Novell will send SCO a mandate to Cease and Desist all further activities including sales and marketing of Unixware, because it infringes on Novell's ownership. BROOOHAAAHAAAA!!!
It was an appeal case. He was tried before a lower court first. Okokrim appealed before a higher court and lost again. They could have appealed once more but didn't.
Just wondering... Suppose there *is* life on Mars, what gives us the right to drop all sorts of space junk on their planet? Let's face it, if alien probes were to crash on Earth, everyone would be up in arms...
I had a conversation with one of their licensing officers as I was afraid my 10-a-year GPS logger project was in danger. He explained this was an encouragement to have everyone implement FAT32 and LFN the same way, by using their reference design. All this to prevent incompatible implementations down the road.
Microsoft's fear is that a large camera or MP3 player manufacturer 'gets it wrong' and MS is blamed for things not working correctly. MS then has to invest in a work-around, handle patches, bad press etc..
The license comes with source code for a reference implementation, so it will save manufacturers time and R&D cost.
..are in the header file but obviously you can't show those as they are belong to SCO...
That's all fine and dandy, and compliments to you for doing the right thing, but how many penis pill / viagra / date-a-virgin /goatse.cx companies do you think will fall in the 'responsible corporate citizens' group??
Guess they turned a profit, I paid $20 a few weeks back too 8-(
Solaris x86 is pretty limited wrt hardware support, especially when you're used to Linux, Windows or *BSD. Also the installer is very very nasty indeed. I just spent 2 days to get this to run on an AMD system for all sorts of reasons, and couldn't get it to run on a Dell Precision 410 at all.
Worse yet, I paid $20 for the download about 2 weeks ago 8-(((
Great... So now SCO group has the entire list of e-mail addresses of all /. regulars. Guess what will be in your stocking this year? Your choise of a law suit, a C&D letter or a voucher for $5 off on a Linux license.
.. doesn't make $10/Gallon over-inflated in the view of others.
Regular auto gas where I live (The Netherlands) is about 1.10 Euro per Litre, the 100LL aviation gas required by his RV is about 2 Euro per litre. That's pretty close to $10 per gallon already...
"I wonder what kind of FAA regulations there would be for such a vehicle"
Simple... Grounded!