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XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Little Rock, AR 72204
May 9, 2004
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Dear [recipient name was inserted here],
I am writing to ask you to support H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumer Rights Act.
I am a consumer and DRM technology aims to limit my choice and rights as a consumer. Private industry special interest groups should not be allowed to dictate the rights of the citizens of this country.
I'm a Dish Network customer too, and I appreciate the lower rates.. However, if I go from having 60 channels to 50 because these disappear then they better replaced them with some from the next tier.. or lower my rate (which they raised when they went from America's Top 50 to America's Top 60).
And BTW... I swear 20 of my channels are Religious and Home Shopping channels.
So turn off your PC, pop a bag of Kettle Corn or Pop Secret into the microwave and spend part of your Sunday popping kernals... and the rest watching movies.
Okay, what happened to the whole AT&T Memo which clarified that AT&T didn't own or have any claim to derivative works... I've not seen anything in the press about it blowing SCO's case out of the water since it was released on Groklaw...
Their claims are A. Unsubstantiated, and B. Even if they were substantiated they have no claim to the derivative works that IBM contributed.
The fact that they continue to pursue licensing where currently their legal standing has not been established is insane.
I hope IBM, and Redhat intend to countersue the executives and board of SCO, and the Canopy group for the FUD they have been spreading once this case is closed in favor of IBM.
We're still using Office 97 where I work. There's nothing to stop us from switching to Open Office except for the lack of a replacement for Access.. and not everyone in our company uses Access.. I'd bet on 85 to 90% of the desktops we could switch without any issues.
Sorry, but you're wrong. I'm running Mozilla on Linux.. They play for me, but here's the problem. They're resource hogs, they blow up to full screen and run very slowly.
I don't have broadband for commercials. I have it for speed. Any company advertising in this manner won't get my business, and they'll also get a nice letter from me telling them so.
My tech purchases have to be approved by my wife, who does the accounting in the family. Most of our tech purchases in the last year have been initiated by her anyway, or had to be approved by her... So I'd agree with this information in my personal experience.:-)
As far as I'm concerned, that's fine... I ended my support of Microsoft about 9 months ago when I 'switched' to Linux as my primary operating system at home.
6 months or so prior to that I'd abandoned Microsoft Works for Open Office, and switched from using IE to Mozilla.
When I do boot to a Windows partition it's rarely for anything other than to keep my virus definitions up to date (a free antivirus program I might add) or play old 'legacy' games which don't run under versions of Windows past 98se..
Donated money is better spent donating to an Open Source project of some sort or a charity of your choice rather than her legal fund.
She runs Nebraska Coeds according to all the press she's been getting since this hit fark yesterday, I would think that she could use her funds from that venture to pay her own legal fees, or that an adult magazine would be happy to foot the bill (she should call Larry Flynt).
She's trying to play this off as if she's an innocent young woman who has been unfairly entrapped by the law. Granted the photos that are available don't really show anything distinguishing the establishment from any other bar, but perhaps the ones in her members area do...
The lines to get into this place literally go around the block. When I was in Washington in October we had taken the Metro to Chinatown for lunch, and literally ran into this place while walking around.
It looked alot like people lined up waiting to get into a nightclub. Buy your tickets in advance, online... and expect it to be packed like the Smithsonian's on Saturday or Sunday.
If they build this into Outlook, a spammer using Windows will just switch to another e-mail program.
If they build this into Exchange Servers, will it comply with e-mail standards so that my co-workers will still get e-mail I send from my Linux box at home, or will it lock out e-mails sent from any non-Microsoft box?
If so then this is another example of closed source/proprietary technology being created in opposition to already existing standards.
Why is there any difference between republishing the other content of a magazine (editorials and news articles) versus the photos?
Shouldn't the standard for the articles apply for the photographs... or is it the fact that their photos are now in a digital format that scares the photographers.
After all, these are the guys who use all kinds of javascript on their sites to try and prevent people from saving their images typically... disabling right-click, etc...
Alot of photographers are still very upset about the digital age, while alot of them are also embracing it.
If every 'Average' person becomes a frycook at McDonalds, or a checker at Walmart, or a sandwich specialist at Subway, or a wiper at the local carwash, etc... then these people won't be able to afford the products that companies are selling... Wireless phones, HD televisions, automobiles, appliances, etc...
It's a vicious cycle. Companies lay off well paid people, hire lower paid people, and then wonder why people aren't buying their products, why sales are down... because those workers they laid off now are working lower paid jobs and cannot afford those products.
Linus could easily send a cease and decist to SSC for filing to register a trademark containing Linux, for which he owns the trademark.
If I went out and created a website called MicrosoftJournal, or MicrosoftGazette, etc... not only would I likely get a cease and decist for using Microsoft in the name, but I'd probably also get sued for attempting to register that as a trademark as it's a derivative of an existing trademark.
Agreed, if this farce continues though it's likely that a letter like this will go out at some point, where they replace Linux with Mac OS X.
----->
Sometime in the Future
Mr. Steve Jobs Apple 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 USA
Dear Steve:
SCO holds the rights to the UNIX operating system software originally licensed by AT&T to approximately 6,000 companies and institutions worldwide (the "UNIX Licenses"). The vast majority of UNIX software used in enterprise applications today is a derivative work of the software originally distributed under our UNIX Licenses. Like you, we have an obligation to our shareholders to protect our intellectual property and other valuable rights.
In recent years, a UNIX-like operating system has emerged and has been distributed in the enterprise marketplace by various software vendors. This system is called Mac OS X. We believe that Mac OS X is, in material part, an unauthorized derivative of UNIX.
As you may know, the development process for Mac OS X has differed substantially from the development process for other enterprise operating systems. Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers working to build proprietary, secure software. This process is designed to monitor the security and ownership of intellectual property rights associated with the code.
By contrast, much of Mac OS X has been built from contributions by numerous unrelated and unknown software developers, each contributing a small section of code. There is no mechanism inherent in the Mac OS X development process to assure that intellectual property rights, confidentiality or security are protected. The Mac OS X process does not prevent inclusion of code that has been stolen outright; or developed by improper use of proprietary methods and concepts.
Many Mac OS X contributors were originally UNIX developers who had access to UNIX source code distributed by AT&T and were subject to confidentiality agreements, including confidentiality of the methods and concepts involved in software design. We have evidence that portions of UNIX System V software code have been copied into Mac OS X and that additional other portions of UNIX System V software code have been modified and copied into Mac OS X, seemingly for the purposes of obfuscating their original source.
As a consequence of Mac OS X's unrestricted authoring process, it is not surprising that Mac OS X distributors do not warrant the legal integrity of the Mac OS X code provided to customers. Therefore legal liability that may arise from the Mac OS X developments process may also rest with the end user.
We believe that Mac OS X infringes on our UNIX intellectual property and other rights. We intend to aggressively protect and enforce these rights. Consistent with this effort, on INSERT FUTURE DATE HERE, we initiated legal action against Apple for alleged unfair competition and breach of contract with respect to our UNIX rights. This case is pending in Utah Federal District Court. As you are aware, this case has been widely reported and commented upon in the press. If you would like additional information, a copy of the complaint and response may be viewed at our web site at www.sco.com/scosource.
Similar to analogous efforts underway in the music industry, we are prepared to take all actions necessary to stop the ongoing violation of our intellectual property or other rights.
SCO's actions may prove unpopular with those who wish to advance or otherwise benefit from Mac OS X as a system for use in enterprise applications. However, our property and contract rights are important and valuable: not only to us, but to every individual and every company whose livelihood depends on the continued viability of intellectual and intangible property rights in a digital age.
Yep... You're right... They need to send something up with the 40 million that will push Mir off into space.. Toss it at the moon or something. The stupid fungus is originally from Earth and has mutated from all the radiation. I sincerely doubt that the heat is going to kill all of it from reentry.
When it hits the ocean, either the salt water is going to kill it... or it's going to flourish... If it lands in deep water... Geeze.. Do you want that growing on the bottom of the ocean.. I mean.. it had no problems growing in space...
Maybe it'll take over small lakes and ponds.. Like in Creepshow.. Go swimming and the green rug eats you.
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Message text follows:
XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Little Rock, AR 72204
May 9, 2004
[recipient address was inserted here]
Dear [recipient name was inserted here],
I am writing to ask you to support H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumer
Rights Act.
I am a consumer and DRM technology aims to limit my choice and rights as
a consumer. Private industry special interest groups should not be allowed
to dictate the rights of the citizens of this country.
Please support H.R. 107.
Thanks,
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Several states are looking to tax satellite companies, here's a page from Dish Network.
http://www.stopsatellitetax.com/stoptax/
I'd be perfectly happy with the Mystery Channel, and BBC American in exchange for the Nick Channels.
I'm a Dish Network customer too, and I appreciate the lower rates.. However, if I go from having 60 channels to 50 because these disappear then they better replaced them with some from the next tier.. or lower my rate (which they raised when they went from America's Top 50 to America's Top 60).
And BTW... I swear 20 of my channels are Religious and Home Shopping channels.
So turn off your PC, pop a bag of Kettle Corn or Pop Secret into the microwave and spend part of your Sunday popping kernals... and the rest watching movies.
And patch your kernel another day.
Okay, what happened to the whole AT&T Memo which clarified that AT&T didn't own or have any claim to derivative works... I've not seen anything in the press about it blowing SCO's case out of the water since it was released on Groklaw...
Their claims are A. Unsubstantiated, and B. Even if they were substantiated they have no claim to the derivative works that IBM contributed.
The fact that they continue to pursue licensing where currently their legal standing has not been established is insane.
I hope IBM, and Redhat intend to countersue the executives and board of SCO, and the Canopy group for the FUD they have been spreading once this case is closed in favor of IBM.
"I never had taikonaut but its probably good..."
With two you get eggroll!
I'm going to move to India and open a Gas Station/Convienience Store..
Don't forget, household, industrial, and commercial robots will have put the other 10% out of work.
One Word: Automation...
Probably a highly automated plant.
We're still using Office 97 where I work. There's nothing to stop us from switching to Open Office except for the lack of a replacement for Access.. and not everyone in our company uses Access.. I'd bet on 85 to 90% of the desktops we could switch without any issues.
Sorry, but you're wrong. I'm running Mozilla on Linux.. They play for me, but here's the problem. They're resource hogs, they blow up to full screen and run very slowly.
I don't have broadband for commercials. I have it for speed. Any company advertising in this manner won't get my business, and they'll also get a nice letter from me telling them so.
My tech purchases have to be approved by my wife, who does the accounting in the family. Most of our tech purchases in the last year have been initiated by her anyway, or had to be approved by her... So I'd agree with this information in my personal experience. :-)
This was linked to on Fark early this morning, hence the slashdot effect actually happened prior to it appearing on slashdot.
As far as I'm concerned, that's fine... I ended my support of Microsoft about 9 months ago when I 'switched' to Linux as my primary operating system at home.
6 months or so prior to that I'd abandoned Microsoft Works for Open Office, and switched from using IE to Mozilla.
When I do boot to a Windows partition it's rarely for anything other than to keep my virus definitions up to date (a free antivirus program I might add) or play old 'legacy' games which don't run under versions of Windows past 98se..
I agree...
Donated money is better spent donating to an Open Source project of some sort or a charity of your choice rather than her legal fund.
She runs Nebraska Coeds according to all the press she's been getting since this hit fark yesterday, I would think that she could use her funds from that venture to pay her own legal fees, or that an adult magazine would be happy to foot the bill (she should call Larry Flynt).
She's trying to play this off as if she's an innocent young woman who has been unfairly entrapped by the law. Granted the photos that are available don't really show anything distinguishing the establishment from any other bar, but perhaps the ones in her members area do...
The International Spy Museum is very cool...
The lines to get into this place literally go around the block. When I was in Washington in October we had taken the Metro to Chinatown for lunch, and literally ran into this place while walking around.
It looked alot like people lined up waiting to get into a nightclub. Buy your tickets in advance, online... and expect it to be packed like the Smithsonian's on Saturday or Sunday.
If they build this into Outlook, a spammer using Windows will just switch to another e-mail program.
If they build this into Exchange Servers, will it comply with e-mail standards so that my co-workers will still get e-mail I send from my Linux box at home, or will it lock out e-mails sent from any non-Microsoft box?
If so then this is another example of closed source/proprietary technology being created in opposition to already existing standards.
Why is there any difference between republishing the other content of a magazine (editorials and news articles) versus the photos?
Shouldn't the standard for the articles apply for the photographs... or is it the fact that their photos are now in a digital format that scares the photographers.
After all, these are the guys who use all kinds of javascript on their sites to try and prevent people from saving their images typically... disabling right-click, etc...
Alot of photographers are still very upset about the digital age, while alot of them are also embracing it.
If every 'Average' person becomes a frycook at McDonalds, or a checker at Walmart, or a sandwich specialist at Subway, or a wiper at the local carwash, etc... then these people won't be able to afford the products that companies are selling... Wireless phones, HD televisions, automobiles, appliances, etc...
It's a vicious cycle. Companies lay off well paid people, hire lower paid people, and then wonder why people aren't buying their products, why sales are down... because those workers they laid off now are working lower paid jobs and cannot afford those products.
...Microsoft Windows right??
Because they surely couldn't mean Windows as in a generic term because that would be great evidence to use against them for the Lindows.com case.
Linus could easily send a cease and decist to SSC for filing to register a trademark containing Linux, for which he owns the trademark.
If I went out and created a website called MicrosoftJournal, or MicrosoftGazette, etc... not only would I likely get a cease and decist for using Microsoft in the name, but I'd probably also get sued for attempting to register that as a trademark as it's a derivative of an existing trademark.
Agreed, if this farce continues though it's likely that a letter like this will go out at some point, where they replace Linux with Mac OS X.
----->
Sometime in the Future
Mr. Steve Jobs
Apple
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
USA
Dear Steve:
SCO holds the rights to the UNIX operating system software originally licensed by AT&T to approximately 6,000 companies and institutions worldwide (the "UNIX Licenses"). The vast majority of UNIX software used in enterprise applications today is a derivative work of the software originally distributed under our UNIX Licenses. Like you, we have an obligation to our shareholders to protect our intellectual property and other valuable rights.
In recent years, a UNIX-like operating system has emerged and has been distributed in the enterprise marketplace by various software vendors. This system is called Mac OS X. We believe that Mac OS X is, in material part, an unauthorized derivative of UNIX.
As you may know, the development process for Mac OS X has differed substantially from the development process for other enterprise operating systems. Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers working to build proprietary, secure software. This process is designed to monitor the security and ownership of intellectual property rights associated with the code.
By contrast, much of Mac OS X has been built from contributions by numerous unrelated and unknown software developers, each contributing a small section of code. There is no mechanism inherent in the Mac OS X development process to assure that intellectual property rights, confidentiality or security are protected. The Mac OS X process does not prevent inclusion of code that has been stolen outright; or developed by improper use of proprietary methods and concepts.
Many Mac OS X contributors were originally UNIX developers who had access to UNIX source code distributed by AT&T and were subject to confidentiality agreements, including confidentiality of the methods and concepts involved in software design. We have evidence that portions of UNIX System V software code have been copied into Mac OS X and that additional other portions of UNIX System V software code have been modified and copied into Mac OS X, seemingly for the purposes of obfuscating their original source.
As a consequence of Mac OS X's unrestricted authoring process, it is not surprising that Mac OS X distributors do not warrant the legal integrity of the Mac OS X code provided to customers. Therefore legal liability that may arise from the Mac OS X developments process may also rest with the end user.
We believe that Mac OS X infringes on our UNIX intellectual property and other rights. We intend to aggressively protect and enforce these rights. Consistent with this effort, on INSERT FUTURE DATE HERE, we initiated legal action against Apple for alleged unfair competition and breach of contract with respect to our UNIX rights. This case is pending in Utah Federal District Court. As you are aware, this case has been widely reported and commented upon in the press. If you would like additional information, a copy of the complaint and response may be viewed at our web site at www.sco.com/scosource.
Similar to analogous efforts underway in the music industry, we are prepared to take all actions necessary to stop the ongoing violation of our intellectual property or other rights.
SCO's actions may prove unpopular with those who wish to advance or otherwise benefit from Mac OS X as a system for use in enterprise applications. However, our property and contract rights are important and valuable: not only to us, but to every individual and every company whose livelihood depends on the continued viability of intellectual and intangible property rights in a digital age.
Yours truly,
THAT SCO COMPANY
By: Some Raving Lunatic
President and CEO
Yep... You're right... They need to send something up with the 40 million that will push Mir off into space.. Toss it at the moon or something. The stupid fungus is originally from Earth and has mutated from all the radiation. I sincerely doubt that the heat is going to kill all of it from reentry. When it hits the ocean, either the salt water is going to kill it... or it's going to flourish... If it lands in deep water... Geeze.. Do you want that growing on the bottom of the ocean.. I mean.. it had no problems growing in space... Maybe it'll take over small lakes and ponds.. Like in Creepshow.. Go swimming and the green rug eats you.