If everyone asks them to quote for N licenses, M for such and such grade machines. Do they have site licenses? What insurance do they offer against counter suits? etc. etc. etc.
Re:Barely about Perl. Certainly not essential.
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Perl 6 Essentials
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perl5 isn't too pretty inside the bowels.
Neither are you mate, no, not pretty at all, at all.
Re:This review needs a Disclaimer
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It's all wrong anyway. The girls like babies. Just try it. Walk around a shopping mall with a cute little baby and see how they come a flocking. I speak from experience. Ignore scars, big motors, money.
Babies. The cuter, the smaller, the better. If you show some willingness and ability at changing stinky nappies the higher you rate.
I don't think that claims that the Canopy Group is not behind this one will not hold up now.
Now my fellow "crunchies", (the insulting name M$ friendly Forbes gives us), for the million dollar question, where does this money trail lead? I'll bet it doesn't stop at the Canopy.
I would strip search and check my opponents weapons and clips for real ammo _twice_ before I took part in any such game.
Like my brother, he was in a training maneuver where the officers said that they would come under fire from guys using blanks.
The fact that there are no such thing as "blank tracers" lent their feet wings and it was several hours before the brain dead @#$#! ossifers could find them all again..
Both are copied from a common third source.
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How many lines of code in the Linux kernel are a direct copyright violation? It's very extensive.
The next question is.....
Can they prove that those lines originate from their proprietary source, and not from some common (shared) free source?
eg. A text book, magazine, a HowTo, a chip manufacturers tutorial sheet, or some other code source.
The onus must be on them to prove that they did in fact create that code and not copy it from some other source.
Richard Stallman of the Free
Software Foundation devised, in addition to some marvelous
software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or
the CopyLeft it is sometimes called.
It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright"
tool to to protect your right to use free software.
Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot
like using a Jackal to guard the hens.
In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted
in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public
License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public
License)
I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will
occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawyers), actually get
to test the GPL in court for the first time.
Thus enter my version.
Its very simple.
Entirely consistent.
Completely unrestrictive.
Easy to apply.
The "No problem Bugroff" license is as follows...
The answer to any and every question relating to the copyright,
patents, legal issues of Bugroff licensed software is....
Sure, No problem. Don't worry, be happy. Now bugger
off.
All portions of this license are important..
"Sure, no problem." Gives you complete freedom. I mean
it. Utterly complete. A bit of a joke really. You have
complete freedom anyway.
"Don't worry, be happy." Apart from being good advice and a
good song, it also says:- No matter what anyone else says or
does, you still have complete freedom.
Now bugger off. The only way to get rid of pushy Jackals is
to ignore them and not feed them. The GPL is just begging
somebody to take it to court. Can't you just see it. Exactly
the same thing that happened when some twit (not Linus)
registered Linux as his own personal trademark. People got
upset, started a fund, and hired, off all ruddy things, a
Jackal to try and defend the chicken! Who really benefits from
this trademark / patent / copyright thing anyway? The
lawyers. Who made it up in the first place? The lawyers.
OK so the last part of the license sounds a bit harsh, but
seriously folks, if you are a:-
Lawyer asking these legalese questions... You should go off
and learn an honest trade that will actually contribute to
life instead of draining it.
Programmer asking these legalese questions... You have
amazingly powerful tools in your hands and mind, use them to
ask and answer the worthwhile questions of life, the universe
and everything. Stop mucking about with such legal nonsense
and get back to programming.
User/reader asking these question... Don't worry. Go off
and be happy. Have fun. Enjoy what has been created for
you.
But SCO? It's nailed to the perch and been so for ages now. It's part of hell's choir eternal. It would push up Daisies but the little flowers keep falling back withered and blighted.
Track the money trail back and lash out at those who hold the purse strings.
Try this guess. The whole mess is at the instigation of M$. SCO creates legal FUD on Linux M$ wins.
Maybe deep in the mess legal bumpf SCO does have an axe in the heart of Linux. Maybe something like the backing store debacle.
Step 1. SCO Creates Legal FUD against Linux, creating _huge_ bad PR for itself.
Step 2. M$ insures itself against the "axe" by licensing it.
Step 3. SCO crumbles (everybody hates them), but surprised surprise, the legal axe somehow ends up held (maybe via a proxy) in M$'s greasy paws.
Step 4. M$, who orchestrated the whole sick mess, comes out smelling roses, its main enterprise level competitor dead, its Market share blooming, its PR all fresh and glowing.
Slashdot Mirror
I take it Singapore will be the test site....
Or are you on the other side of that one?
Designing the big one for armageddon...
If everyone asks them to quote for N licenses, M for such and such grade machines. Do they have site licenses? What insurance do they offer against counter suits? etc. etc. etc.
Nah! It's neither and has never been.
It's pure Micro$oft funded and fueled fud.
Plain and simple.
The CIA has put David Kay, a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, in charge of the search for illegal weapons. Wolfowitz said Kay told him during a meeting Sunday that U.S. officials were having difficulty getting Iraqi prisoners to tell what they know about Saddam Hussein's chemical, biological or nuclear programs. The Iraqi government claimed prior to the war that it had destroyed all the weapons of mass destruction it once held, and U.N. inspectors were unable to find evidence of any. "I pushed him (Kay) a bit on why aren't these people talking. Why don't you, in effect, plea bargain with them," Wolfowitz said. "He said there is no concept of plea bargaining in this place. If you confessed you just got executed faster or tortured less." See for info on who this David Kay is.
Neither are you mate, no, not pretty at all, at all.
Babies. The cuter, the smaller, the better. If you show some willingness and ability at changing stinky nappies the higher you rate.
Drive around in one of those things for a day and everything is just _so_ quiet.
No need for hush boxes, melamine roofing tiles, low speed fans. Just peace, glorious deafness.
So I slipped it in a comment, now the editors wake up.
Oh well, that's life.
Crunchies they call us. Linux loving Crunchies. They do not have the wisdom of the fortune program behind them....
"Do not meddle in the affairs of (Linux) wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
I don't think that claims that the Canopy Group is not behind this one will not hold up now.
Now my fellow "crunchies", (the insulting name M$ friendly Forbes gives us), for the million dollar question, where does this money trail lead? I'll bet it doesn't stop at the Canopy.
Comic relief is needed. Shortcrust pastry and whipped cream.
Cream pie in the face.
Oh that I'm on the far side of the world!
Can someone puleeze, one for McBride and one for the lawyer?
All such headlines should read... "XXX sues YYY, both XXX and YYY and their respective lawyers get cream pie in face."
I would pay good money to see that happen.
- Is XML dying?
- Is slashdot dying?
- Are there no good XML tools?
- Are the trolls sleeping?
Anyway psgml mode under Emacs does a fairly good job. Add in nsgmls and xmlint and things are fairly good.I have bookmarked.... SCO
Curiouser and Curiouser
Stake
WMD
Anthrax
Trying to prove which code SCO actually wrote and which was from some free third party source will take years.
The Lawyer's know this and are egging SCO on towards their doom. They even got M$ to guarantee their fees...
Perhaps if these "Dark Lords" had a public face, they may feel a little more shy...
Like my brother, he was in a training maneuver where the officers said that they would come under fire from guys using blanks.
The fact that there are no such thing as "blank tracers" lent their feet wings and it was several hours before the brain dead @#$#! ossifers could find them all again..
The next question is.....
Can they prove that those lines originate from their proprietary source, and not from some common (shared) free source?
eg. A text book, magazine, a HowTo, a chip manufacturers tutorial sheet, or some other code source.
The onus must be on them to prove that they did in fact create that code and not copy it from some other source.
I wish I didn't see the future so clearly sometimes, but I wrote the following a good few years back...
The "No problem Bugroff" license.
Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation devised, in addition to some marvelous software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or the CopyLeft it is sometimes called.
It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright" tool to to protect your right to use free software.
Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot like using a Jackal to guard the hens.
In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public License)
I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawyers), actually get to test the GPL in court for the first time.
Thus enter my version.
Its very simple.
Entirely consistent.
Completely unrestrictive.
Easy to apply.
The "No problem Bugroff" license is as follows...
The answer to any and every question relating to the copyright, patents, legal issues of Bugroff licensed software is....
Sure, No problem. Don't worry, be happy. Now bugger off.
All portions of this license are important..
OK so the last part of the license sounds a bit harsh, but seriously folks, if you are a :-
Sure all the above are great handy standards. And if you read the article you would see that these nifty standards are the sort he is talking about.
These were de facto working standards long before they became paper standards.
But if the innovators of those days were so hung up on paper standards we would still be measuring things in pints and gallons.
Oh wait! Those fool yankees still are!
Stop flogging it.
Flog the blighters that own it.
Flog their partners and associates.
But SCO? It's nailed to the perch and been so for ages now. It's part of hell's choir eternal. It would push up Daisies but the little flowers keep falling back withered and blighted.
Track the money trail back and lash out at those who hold the purse strings.
Not a chance. All the buggers have gone off to the first world to make Big Buck$.
Baking bread just plain smells nice. Yum!
Excuse? Excuse! Pretend!? Mere mortal, just as soon as I got the carbon content and temperatures right thou shalt utterly regret that statement...
What truly ghastly punishment can I devise for you? Hmm. That Elderberry wine from last year should about do the job.
Maybe deep in the mess legal bumpf SCO does have an axe in the heart of Linux. Maybe something like the backing store debacle.
Step 1. SCO Creates Legal FUD against Linux, creating _huge_ bad PR for itself.
Step 2. M$ insures itself against the "axe" by licensing it.
Step 3. SCO crumbles (everybody hates them), but surprised surprise, the legal axe somehow ends up held (maybe via a proxy) in M$'s greasy paws.
Step 4. M$, who orchestrated the whole sick mess, comes out smelling roses, its main enterprise level competitor dead, its Market share blooming, its PR all fresh and glowing.