Who is to say that this wasn't done deep inside IBM or Novell? Why would it automatically be presumed this was written by some "Linux zealot". Hell, it was probably done by someone with too much time on their hands and for no other reason than "Because I can".
I hope your first fax after the court appearance included some details of the case, like the name of the lawyer and the judge (it sounds like you were in a fairly small area).
That is right, except for the "Fax.com is providing a valuable service to humanity" part.
However, the advertising on television, radio, print and web doesn't represent a direct cost to the receiver.
Spamming and BlastFaxing(?) does. Bandwidth in the case if e-mail spamming and telephone line, toner and paper in the case of faxing. This also includes the time and lost productivity and the intereference with legitimate business.
This week, I had a developer log a reply in our bug tracking system as "... maybe because I am a developer it is 'intuitive' to me".
This was in response to an issue raised on a pop-up calendar with no less than 9 functional elements and 2 invocations to change a date field on a web page.
That's excatly the point. The GPL is not a software licence, but rather a copywrite agreement.
You can use it, linking to it in it's unmodfied format and making the source available, you can make a call to another program that uses it, or if you use it in a modified format you have to open the source to that program because the copywrite agreement stipulates this condition.
The reason that challenges fail is that in it's simple statment of limitations, the GPL is rigid, legally speaking.
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Or is he just pulling this out of his ass?
Darl is the goatse guy?
Sorry goatse guy, just kidding.
They're going to be called "MyDoom" blooms.
Watch for them in an e-mail real soon.
"You'll need to patch people."
Were it only so easy...
Who is to say that this wasn't done deep inside IBM or Novell?
Why would it automatically be presumed this was written by some "Linux zealot".
Hell, it was probably done by someone with too much time on their hands and for no other reason than "Because I can".
That's " Sir " Bill, to you...
"And could we then drink enough to get rid of that icky feeling that we had actually purchased SCO stock?"
Even I can't drink that much.
I'd rather see them forced to try to make their case based on what they have now. Which is ....???
All that being said, isn't SCO's whole problem with Linux over the code from SysV in the Kernel that they, themselves, distributed under the GPL?
"Are people really this stupid?"
Yes.
Sometimes my land line rings and I think "there is noone I really want to talk to right now and I just ignore it.
It is quite simple, really.
Well, there goes the mouseball joke.
... no harder to use than off the launchpad. Too many G's and their balls get stuck.
I hope your first fax after the court appearance included some details of the case, like the name of the lawyer and the judge (it sounds like you were in a fairly small area).
That is right, except for the "Fax.com is providing a valuable service to humanity" part.
However, the advertising on television, radio, print and web doesn't represent a direct cost to the receiver.
Spamming and BlastFaxing(?) does. Bandwidth in the case if e-mail spamming and telephone line, toner and paper in the case of faxing. This also includes the time and lost productivity and the intereference with legitimate business.
So these are the obnoxious fuckers that leave empty messages, dead air, and fax tones on my voice mail?
Why isn't this considered electronic trespass or hacking?
Yep, they'd be the ones.
As for why this isn't considered hacking?
Because they are a business.
If you or I did something similar we'd be accused of attempting to break in to their electronic system or some such crime.
Post your e-mail address here and we'll let you know when we find out.
That's the 'net equivalent of "Rock-Paper-Scissors"
"Condescending" is in the eye of the reader.
This week, I had a developer log a reply in our bug tracking system as "... maybe because I am a developer it is 'intuitive' to me".
This was in response to an issue raised on a pop-up calendar with no less than 9 functional elements and 2 invocations to change a date field on a web page.
Now that's condescending.
"Wait till they get a load of me!" - Joker, Batman the Movie
..and I thought that was Ron Jeremy...
Maybe it is because of an LOTR overload, but all I could think of after reading this thread was:
Nasty hobbiestesess
You don't have to OCR PDFs. Just use XPDF.
SN (Side Note): "OCR PDFs" . WTF? OMFG! NITIA!! (Now I'm Thinking In Acronyms!!)
I prefer the phrase "The defication definitely contacted the rotary oscillator" (The **it really hit the fan).
I was envisioning triple the price.
It is a short link but it says a lot.
That's excatly the point. The GPL is not a software licence, but rather a copywrite agreement.
You can use it, linking to it in it's unmodfied format and making the source available, you can make a call to another program that uses it, or if you use it in a modified format you have to open the source to that program because the copywrite agreement stipulates this condition.
The reason that challenges fail is that in it's simple statment of limitations, the GPL is rigid, legally speaking.