The good lady says she's recommending that companies using AIX or Linux systems from IBM check the fine print in their contracts to see how well they're covered against potential claims from SCO Group. "Then I'd talk to IBM and say, 'How are you going to help me out?'"
As I said yesterday, #6127897 it't time for Big Blue to step up and take action to stop SCO's momentum.
I have followed this story since it broke. Right now, I'm none the wiser. The publication of the NDA is not really revealing - it's what you'd expect given the rhetoric.
Nor is SCO's suit against Novell the real issue. IMHO, what's needed is for one of the 1,500 leading companies to whom SCO sent their "Stop Using Linux Or Else" messages to pony up, get some quality IP attorneys and throw it right back at SCO.
Picture it. Acme Widgets Inc respond to SCO with a clear message that they will NOT stop using Linux unless SCO can provide evidence of their claim.
Now, bluff firmly called, SCO have to put up or shut up. Acme Widgets Inc have to convince a judge to force SCO to identify the code they claim (not trivial). And somehow (and IANAL) this has GOT to get into the public domain - not SCO's code but the GPL's Linux Kernel sections claimed by SCO.
Once this happens, the uber-geeks who gave us Linux can replace the SCO sections with newly-developed code and we can all go about our business. Given the community's sparkling record on patch turnaround time, this could be concluded rapidly enough to offer Acme grounds for a dismissal.
C'mon Acme - go for it!
I believe SCO are trying to protect their IP - it's their methods which are truly offensive. Even if this case blows over, does the Open Source community want contributions from people like this?
The same might be said for IBM's silence on the issue - as Edmund Burke (IIRC) put it "evil will prevail when good men do nothing".
"Today, broadband is email; but it enables voice. That's why it's so exciting. We want to get everybody a little excited, a little bit edgy."
WTF?
I suggest he really wants to get everybody a little bit confused. Easily achieved with consumers having to listen to BS such as this.
Confusion among consumers is the key to ensuring small-print laden service contracts and complex tariff structures maximise revenues. Drive the demand with sexy marketing slogans but gouge the poor consumer with the small print.
Cynical? Maybe. But "Broadband is email" oh puh-LEASE!!
And where can I get certified to become "Chief Zones Officer"??
I will get my plastic out and contribute to a legal defense fund for Linus.
SCO-SCHMO - with any luck, they'll be beyond Chapter 11 by the time it gets to court.
If their share price drops low enough, maybe we can all buy up their penny-stocks, call a shareholders meeting and fire the PHB's. Then appoint Linus as CTO. That would be sweet.
When I travel abroad, I send e-mail with my own home e-mail address as the sender through the foreign ISP's SMTP server (and collect mail with POP3 from my home ISP as usual).
I have set my SMTP server to the SMTP mail server on the site which hosts my domain. It requires authentication (okay, simple username/password combination but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick) and can sometimes be a little sluggish. But I have total global roaming with my email client and I don't have to fiddle with those pesky SMTP settings every time.
RMX is just another brick in the wall being assembled globally to stop the sheer deluge of Spam. God Bless 'em every one.
This is arrogant. Here in Guyana, someone donated a bunch of AppleBooks to Amerindian villages in the hinterland. When problems arose, there was (and remains) NO Apple vendor to provide hardware or support. So the machines fell out of use.
Think, before you donate, about support and sustainability of the project.
Now, where's that link about the bicycle powered PC's in Vietnam?
I came to Guyana, South America in 1995, having worked in telecoms for 6 years. They had no internet access - not a single link. I used to dial Barbados and collect my email. Surfing was an expensive luxury. Still, managed to get the newspaper I was working for on the web (now Stabroek News).
The O'Reilly article is wonderful - clearly shows that the digital divide will not be bridged by IBM or Micro$oft and that hardware is not the answer - skill transfer is. Also shows how reliable power is not a given in developing countries (and, of course post-Enron California...
Now we have ADSL, satellite, fibre (Americas II). Still regular blackouts though.
Check out the Guyana SDNP, the UNDP Digital initiative.
It's not about billing adress. It's about legislations governing copyrights and distribution agreements
The issues of copyright and distribution licences does NOT arise if I walk into a record store in Manhattan with my UK Visa Card and my South American home address. Why should it arise on the Internet?
I figured I would try to find some old Tears For Fears music
This, IMHO, is the key to the success of online music. I have NO intention of ever buying a Tears For Fears CD. But I would pay 99cents each for a couple of their tracks.
If everyone slowly builds up their personal "Greatest Hits of My Life", in this manner, the industry will continue to rake in the cash required to support the development of the next generation of Britney the like.
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All it does is PISS THEIR BOSS OFF Not necessarily - it depends on the Boss and on the frequency with which the cc: weapon is deployed. Used sparingly, it can get results. Used all the time, any Boss will glaze over and ignore. The best place for CC: is in paper documentation - that way, your intended victim BELIEVES that the Boss is getting a copy. But you don't bother to actually send the hard copy to the boss. I recently used this when I wrote the Customer Service Manager of a recalcitrant Telco. I put CC: CEO and showed that I had the CEO's email address on a paper letter. I had FOUR phone calls from senior Telco staff addressing (and, Hurrah!) solving my problem the same day.
A client of mine has had a Netware 3.11 server for 8 (read eight) years now. It has migrated to newer, faster, bigger hardware and has seen the introduction of TCP/IP. In all the eight years it only fell over three times - once because of a hard disk failure.
Don't sneer at Novell Netware. Their web support was fantastic - long before MS got their KB act together.
The computer business wants to be really hot and sexy. It's like eavesdropping on a rich kid's affair with a supermodel. He's the user, he's the customer. He's eager, he's gullible. But she'd better be taut, hot, and totally glittering, or he'll pitch her right off the edge of the loading dock.
Say what you like about Sterling's content, but his form is pure fresh air. If Hunter S. Thompson had been born 20 years later, his prose would have been much like Sterling's speech - inciteful (now THERE's a Moderation category), funny, testing a limit by exceeding it.
Thanks Bruce.
Inspired. Will do it in Guyana with Satellites...
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Wonderful stuff. Planning to do something like this when TwoTomCats take to the Guyana interior in October.
But since we'll be some distance (!) from a cellular network, we'll have to use satellite dishes. They'll be mounted on top of the trucks and will give us somewhat more bandwidth than a cellphone. If this come's off, I'll post to/. from Dadanawa Ranch.
Now,I'll need a bit more than 150 watts of AC power to get all this running. Maybe a small diesel genset atop the truck...
Absolutely. Here's a snip from one of the comments (admittedly about a 1980 issue rather than 2000 issue): about mid-1979 started printed warnings on the console of what would happen come new year. Then the systems analyst and I got new jobs. This is known as stepwise interactive development.
This is also known as 'get out while you're still ahead'.
How many have done or witnesses this approach?
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The good lady says she's recommending that companies using AIX or Linux systems from IBM check the fine print in their contracts to see how well they're covered against potential claims from SCO Group. "Then I'd talk to IBM and say, 'How are you going to help me out?'"
As I said yesterday, #6127897 it't time for Big Blue to step up and take action to stop SCO's momentum.
I have followed this story since it broke. Right now, I'm none the wiser. The publication of the NDA is not really revealing - it's what you'd expect given the rhetoric.
Nor is SCO's suit against Novell the real issue. IMHO, what's needed is for one of the 1,500 leading companies to whom SCO sent their "Stop Using Linux Or Else" messages to pony up, get some quality IP attorneys and throw it right back at SCO.
Picture it. Acme Widgets Inc respond to SCO with a clear message that they will NOT stop using Linux unless SCO can provide evidence of their claim.
Now, bluff firmly called, SCO have to put up or shut up. Acme Widgets Inc have to convince a judge to force SCO to identify the code they claim (not trivial). And somehow (and IANAL) this has GOT to get into the public domain - not SCO's code but the GPL's Linux Kernel sections claimed by SCO.
Once this happens, the uber-geeks who gave us Linux can replace the SCO sections with newly-developed code and we can all go about our business. Given the community's sparkling record on patch turnaround time, this could be concluded rapidly enough to offer Acme grounds for a dismissal.
C'mon Acme - go for it!
I believe SCO are trying to protect their IP - it's their methods which are truly offensive. Even if this case blows over, does the Open Source community want contributions from people like this?
The same might be said for IBM's silence on the issue - as Edmund Burke (IIRC) put it "evil will prevail when good men do nothing".
"This deal's not about taking a game and turning it into a TV show; it's about creating new entertainment franchises." Fox Exec
Do people in Hollywood really talk like this?
Should increase his chances of winning the Americas Cup too.
But only if they throw in a couple of SLCMs to take out the opposition.
Come to think of it, how would he get it to Lake Geneva?
Thus spoke "Chief Zones Officer" at MyZones:
"Today, broadband is email; but it enables voice. That's why it's so exciting. We want to get everybody a little excited, a little bit edgy."
WTF?
I suggest he really wants to get everybody a little bit confused. Easily achieved with consumers having to listen to BS such as this.
Confusion among consumers is the key to ensuring small-print laden service contracts and complex tariff structures maximise revenues. Drive the demand with sexy marketing slogans but gouge the poor consumer with the small print.
Cynical? Maybe. But "Broadband is email" oh puh-LEASE!!
And where can I get certified to become "Chief Zones Officer"??
one of the best interviews Ive read on /.
Absolutely. Full marks - great questions and WONDERFUL answers!
I'm off now to clear my schedule for 12 months so I can implement all his suggestions.
Seriously, when's someone with standing going to countersue?
Erm, I didn't think anyone had sued in the first place (I'm referring to Linux/Linus, not IBM).
Wait until SCO actually sues, then counter sue.
Unless maybe Novell would do us all the courtesy of slapping a writ on the SCOm?
exactly
I will get my plastic out and contribute to a legal defense fund for Linus.
SCO-SCHMO - with any luck, they'll be beyond Chapter 11 by the time it gets to court.
If their share price drops low enough, maybe we can all buy up their penny-stocks, call a shareholders meeting and fire the PHB's. Then appoint Linus as CTO. That would be sweet.
When I travel abroad, I send e-mail with my own home e-mail address as the sender through the foreign ISP's SMTP server (and collect mail with POP3 from my home ISP as usual).
I have set my SMTP server to the SMTP mail server on the site which hosts my domain. It requires authentication (okay, simple username/password combination but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick) and can sometimes be a little sluggish. But I have total global roaming with my email client and I don't have to fiddle with those pesky SMTP settings every time.
RMX is just another brick in the wall being assembled globally to stop the sheer deluge of Spam. God Bless 'em every one.
Bill (and Missus) Gates received and deserved praise for their significant contribution to the eradication of malaria.
At face value, the donation of expensive software to not-for-profit organisations is a good thing.
On reflection, however, this is how they destroyed Netscape - they gave away Internet Explorer free, as in beer (okay, TCO budgets aside).
Verdict? Too soon to say. Applaud the effort, monitor the effects.
And no.. PCs are not welome :)
This is arrogant. Here in Guyana, someone donated a bunch of AppleBooks to Amerindian villages in the hinterland. When problems arose, there was (and remains) NO Apple vendor to provide hardware or support. So the machines fell out of use.
Think, before you donate, about support and sustainability of the project.
Now, where's that link about the bicycle powered PC's in Vietnam?
I came to Guyana, South America in 1995, having worked in telecoms for 6 years. They had no internet access - not a single link. I used to dial Barbados and collect my email. Surfing was an expensive luxury. Still, managed to get the newspaper I was working for on the web (now Stabroek News).
The O'Reilly article is wonderful - clearly shows that the digital divide will not be bridged by IBM or Micro$oft and that hardware is not the answer - skill transfer is. Also shows how reliable power is not a given in developing countries (and, of course post-Enron California...
Now we have ADSL, satellite, fibre (Americas II). Still regular blackouts though.
Check out the Guyana SDNP, the UNDP Digital initiative.
The issues of copyright and distribution licences does NOT arise if I walk into a record store in Manhattan with my UK Visa Card and my South American home address. Why should it arise on the Internet?
Big Brethern is watching...
This, IMHO, is the key to the success of online music. I have NO intention of ever buying a Tears For Fears CD. But I would pay 99cents each for a couple of their tracks.
If everyone slowly builds up their personal "Greatest Hits of My Life", in this manner, the industry will continue to rake in the cash required to support the development of the next generation of Britney the like.
"Will eat fries for bandwidth"
and on the back:
"Wife and cardiologist to support"
All it does is PISS THEIR BOSS OFF
Not necessarily - it depends on the Boss and on the frequency with which the cc: weapon is deployed.
Used sparingly, it can get results. Used all the time, any Boss will glaze over and ignore.
The best place for CC: is in paper documentation - that way, your intended victim BELIEVES that the Boss is getting a copy. But you don't bother to actually send the hard copy to the boss. I recently used this when I wrote the Customer Service Manager of a recalcitrant Telco. I put CC: CEO and showed that I had the CEO's email address on a paper letter. I had FOUR phone calls from senior Telco staff addressing (and, Hurrah!) solving my problem the same day.
With palladium security will be a non issue
I'll bet $100 in any currency that this will be proved wishful thinking in a matter of days - a bit like Oracle's "Unbreakable" claim.
Good luck with Palladium...
Agree 100 percent.
A client of mine has had a Netware 3.11 server for 8 (read eight) years now. It has migrated to newer, faster, bigger hardware and has seen the introduction of TCP/IP. In all the eight years it only fell over three times - once because of a hard disk failure.
Don't sneer at Novell Netware. Their web support was fantastic - long before MS got their KB act together.
Because I can't pronounce Exegesis. I can pronounce Perl.
Sorry!
If I overnight at the Ritz Carlton I'm a guest.
If I buy a jock-strap at Target, I'm a CUSTOMER.
Sheesh.
Say what you like about Sterling's content, but his form is pure fresh air. If Hunter S. Thompson had been born 20 years later, his prose would have been much like Sterling's speech - inciteful (now THERE's a Moderation category), funny, testing a limit by exceeding it.
Thanks Bruce.
But since we'll be some distance (!) from a cellular network, we'll have to use satellite dishes. They'll be mounted on top of the trucks and will give us somewhat more bandwidth than a cellphone. If this come's off, I'll post to /. from Dadanawa Ranch.
Now,I'll need a bit more than 150 watts of AC power to get all this running. Maybe a small diesel genset atop the truck...
Absolutely. Here's a snip from one of the comments (admittedly about a 1980 issue rather than 2000 issue):
about mid-1979 started printed warnings on the
console of what would happen come new year. Then the systems analyst and I got new jobs. This is known as stepwise interactive development.
This is also known as 'get out while you're still ahead'.
How many have done or witnesses this approach?
Their website came up blank in Opera. So I can't even see what f#$king email address to send my complaint to.
Poor choice of hotel, if you ask me.