They are mostly threatening to sue people who make money with this software (consultants, trainers etc.). Those who advertise their service on www.samba.de.
As a sidenote: everybody here over at./ seems to think that free software is just fun and all, but you know what: it's a big business nowadays (and not just for Red Hat and SuSE et al). I happen to earn my money solely with free software (and its not some small change, I can tell you!)
Money is well being made from SAMBA (consultants, trainers, etc). They (I, bit don't tell CMG) advertise that they can implement/train on SAMBA, thus make money from it.
Adidas are in a completely different product category.
CMG (those who threaten with lawsuits) have registered SAMBA in computer-related products, so they cannot sue sportswear manufacturers (or dancing schools for that matter)
Yeah, and the CCIE will cost you BIG BUCKS, like $30-50k. But it's a great thing, one of my colleagues is CCIE and he really "gets" it (things like EGP and BGP). Those guys can command at least 80-120k Euro/year, and earn every cent of it (the one I know, at least).
Thanks for your words, I wanted to say something along those lines myself.
If you work as a consultant & trainer like me (located in Germany) in the business area, you have to bring up SOLUTIONS that work and defend your ideas in front of some PHB, who really doesn't know jack about computers. Now, I'm certified as MCSE+I and soon MCT, although I'm earning my money primarily with Linux. If I tell them "hey, let's use Linux, it is [insert your favorite advantage here]", I can back it up, since I know NT4 in & out and can show it to those guys with my cert.
Face it: people are lazy, so if they see some cert, they will think: "ohh, he knows what he is doing". No matter how good/bad the cert is. And the MCSE track is not THAT easy (ever taken that damned IEAK test?).
Yeah, great idea. Except... there are already two efforts underway to deliver exactly what you propose: certification. First, there is SAIR Linux and GNU, some guy named Tobin Maginnis (sp?) who provides quite good training material and a certification to go with. (IIRC They were recently acquired by Wave Technologies, one of the largest (world-wide!) training companies around). (ok, ok, I'm affiliated with them somehow).
But wait, there's more. Doing it "the Linux way"(tm) is, what the guys over at LPI (Linux Professional Institute) are doing: an open process to create and review certification questions based on a community process in identifying objects and areas of interest. They are also the ones who are backed by the big boys (SuSE, IBM, Caldera)
But... the market is still young. If you can throw $2-5M at developing and marketing (that's most important, imho) a certification, you have a great chance for your upcoming IPO.
If you look at it, you will see NDS is in v.8 now. It's been getting better from version to version, in fact it was unusable in its first incarnations. A directory service should better be reliable (since you have just created some single point of failure). On the other hand, you will only get a DS if you have many clients (and servers) to support (it's pretty expensive), so it better be scalable. Novell has already showed a Tree with > 1 Billion (!) Objects in it.
How can anybody think, MS will get it right for the first time? Do you think any reasonably sized company will switch from NDS v8 to AD 1.0? Nobody wants to lose his/her job, so...
You know, just as you can have Navigator without mail/news (branded as Navigator) or with (branded Communicator). If you are able to compile Mozilla yourself (pun intended), just use configure --without-mail-news (just from memory, dont't quote me on that).
I think most posts here miss the point... as is mentioned at the end of the USENET-Post the problem is this:
FBI-People are in the IETF-WGs
come think of it: the standards are being made with the participation (but not stated and made public) of some anti-democratic government agency. The IETF is supposed to be an international standards body, but gets votes from hidden FBI-Advocates, and everything said in those meetings gets reported to the FBI.
Just make a bad joke (in addition to the legitimate discussions) about exporting encryption... and boom you get prosecuted for treason. bad luck.
Implying that I come from a communist country is wrong -- I don't (I live in Germany).
That said, I think that capitalism is responsible for many bad things in today's world. Just think about South America. Yes, I know Cuba is a thorn in USA's ass but how many people are starving (and dying from that) in the capitalist countries of South America compared to Cuba? How is the rate of education in all those great capitalist (you would probably say democratic, capitalist is what you really mean) countries compared to Cuba? How has the quality of life improved in the eastern European countries since the great turnover for the average population? Just take a look: many people have been set off (rates of 80% are quite common), they don't have a life as good as before.
That said, I don't believe in communism -- at least not how it was implemented in all those countries like SU, GDR et al. Those were not really communist countries but IMO state-capitalistic with some people having control (and privileges and money and...). So calling something communist (or capitalist for that matter) doesn't make it like that.
This has been an unsponsored and uneducated rant. Flame away.
I don't think that was uneducated - to the contrary it's more educated than what you can read in popular media mostly. I won't flame but totally agree - congrats for some really good points you made
Yes, the WTO is supposed to benefit developing countries - but look at the effects it has. The WTO is a tool of the capitalist countries to force their economical model (capitalism, of course) on those countries e.g. by coupling the payout (don't know the right word here, English is not my native lang) of credits to certain actions by the respective government like opening their markets towards US (or, for that matter EU) firms. So IMNSHO the WTO is not here to benefit the developing countries but to stabilize the current state of affairs (developing countries dependant on developed countries).
I suppost the tariffs are a percentage of the price (like most taxes are), so you don't have to pay for free software - another point in favor of taxes on ecommerce.
The FBI (unlike the NSA and CIA) still operates under the legal system of the united states. And that means all those pesky rights on that old parchment still apply.
oh yes, killing people and things is allowed under the us's legal system (see black panthers and many other cases).
Yes, WinFrame is NT 3.51 only, but Citrix has now MetaFrame out, that runs on top of NT 4 (I don't know the real differences to NT TSE, but MetaFrame provides Clients not only for Win9x/NT but UNIX (not Linux though)).
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Just do the math:
1 yr = 24 * 365 h = 8760 h
99.9% reliability => 8760h * 0.999 uptime = 8751.24 hours uptime or 8.67 hours downtime similarly 99.99% leads to 0.867 hours downtime = 52.56 minutes
you're off by one magnitude!
pffft
for those really wanting to learn, you omitted
the answers to 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13.
my bet:
1, 2, 4 (unsure about usage, but surely not the best language use), 5, 11, 13(unsure, see 4) - wrong
10 - right
hensley (non-native speaker)
P.S.: finale will be Germany-Turkey in 11m-Shooting (this word is missing in my dict): 4:5
The Chrysler Voyager is produced in Austria (at least for the european market)
But have you ever smoked soybeans? Blah!
I have on (Visor Deluxe). It works great (especially with USB, though I have to use a 2.4-Kernel, not that that would be a bad thing)
They are mostly threatening to sue people who make money with this software (consultants, trainers etc.). Those who advertise their service on www.samba.de.
./ seems to think that free software is just fun and all, but you know what: it's a big business nowadays (and not just for Red Hat and SuSE et al). I happen to earn my money solely with free software (and its not some small change, I can tell you!)
As a sidenote: everybody here over at
You overlook one thing:
Money is well being made from SAMBA (consultants, trainers, etc). They (I, bit don't tell CMG) advertise that they can implement/train on SAMBA, thus make money from it.
Um, no.
Adidas are in a completely different product category.
CMG (those who threaten with lawsuits) have registered SAMBA in computer-related products, so they cannot sue sportswear manufacturers (or dancing schools for that matter)
Yeah, and the CCIE will cost you BIG BUCKS, like $30-50k. But it's a great thing, one of my colleagues is CCIE and he really "gets" it (things like EGP and BGP). Those guys can command at least 80-120k Euro/year, and earn every cent of it (the one I know, at least).
You can get Linux Certification from SAIR and from LPI. And RedHat is doing their own stuff, RHCE.
Thanks for your words, I wanted to say something along those lines myself.
If you work as a consultant & trainer like me (located in Germany) in the business area, you have to bring up SOLUTIONS that work and defend your ideas in front of some PHB, who really doesn't know jack about computers. Now, I'm certified as MCSE+I and soon MCT, although I'm earning my money primarily with Linux. If I tell them "hey, let's use Linux, it is [insert your favorite advantage here]", I can back it up, since I know NT4 in & out and can show it to those guys with my cert.
Face it: people are lazy, so if they see some cert, they will think: "ohh, he knows what he is doing". No matter how good/bad the cert is. And the MCSE track is not THAT easy (ever taken that damned IEAK test?).
Yeah, great idea. Except... there are already two efforts underway to deliver exactly what you propose: certification. First, there is SAIR Linux and GNU, some guy named Tobin Maginnis (sp?) who provides quite good training material and a certification to go with. (IIRC They were recently acquired by Wave Technologies, one of the largest (world-wide!) training companies around). (ok, ok, I'm affiliated with them somehow).
But wait, there's more. Doing it "the Linux way"(tm) is, what the guys over at LPI (Linux Professional Institute) are doing: an open process to create and review certification questions based on a community process in identifying objects and areas of interest. They are also the ones who are backed by the big boys (SuSE, IBM, Caldera)
But... the market is still young. If you can throw $2-5M at developing and marketing (that's most important, imho) a certification, you have a great chance for your upcoming IPO.
go figure.
If you look at it, you will see NDS is in v.8 now. It's been getting better from version to version, in fact it was unusable in its first incarnations. A directory service should better be reliable (since you have just created some single point of failure). On the other hand, you will only get a DS if you have many clients (and servers) to support (it's pretty expensive), so it better be scalable. Novell has already showed a Tree with > 1 Billion (!) Objects in it.
How can anybody think, MS will get it right for the first time? Do you think any reasonably sized company will switch from NDS v8 to AD 1.0? Nobody wants to lose his/her job, so...
You know, just as you can have Navigator without mail/news (branded as Navigator) or with (branded Communicator). If you are able to compile Mozilla yourself (pun intended), just use configure --without-mail-news (just from memory, dont't quote me on that).
Two ways:
/usr/src/linux
/usr/src (or wherever your patches are)
/usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel to apply all patches in the current directory)
cd into
patch -p1 (for both two patches)
or, easier and automated:
cd into
you're not the first...
/usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel (or wherever your kernel sources are).
just change into your dir with the patch files and run
here (at least in part)
FBI-People are in the IETF-WGs
come think of it: the standards are being made with the participation (but not stated and made public) of some anti-democratic government agency. The IETF is supposed to be an international standards body, but gets votes from hidden FBI-Advocates, and everything said in those meetings gets reported to the FBI.
Just make a bad joke (in addition to the legitimate discussions) about exporting encryption... and boom you get prosecuted for treason. bad luck.
That said, I think that capitalism is responsible for many bad things in today's world. Just think about South America. Yes, I know Cuba is a thorn in USA's ass but how many people are starving (and dying from that) in the capitalist countries of South America compared to Cuba? How is the rate of education in all those great capitalist (you would probably say democratic, capitalist is what you really mean) countries compared to Cuba? How has the quality of life improved in the eastern European countries since the great turnover for the average population? Just take a look: many people have been set off (rates of 80% are quite common), they don't have a life as good as before.
That said, I don't believe in communism -- at least not how it was implemented in all those countries like SU, GDR et al. Those were not really communist countries but IMO state-capitalistic with some people having control (and privileges and money and ...). So calling something communist (or capitalist for that matter) doesn't make it like that.
I don't think that was uneducated - to the contrary it's more educated than what you can read in popular media mostly. I won't flame but totally agree - congrats for some really good points you made
Yes, the WTO is supposed to benefit developing countries - but look at the effects it has. The WTO is a tool of the capitalist countries to force their economical model (capitalism, of course) on those countries e.g. by coupling the payout (don't know the right word here, English is not my native lang) of credits to certain actions by the respective government like opening their markets towards US (or, for that matter EU) firms.
So IMNSHO the WTO is not here to benefit the developing countries but to stabilize the current state of affairs (developing countries dependant on developed countries).
I suppost the tariffs are a percentage of the price (like most taxes are), so you don't have to pay for free software - another point in favor of taxes on ecommerce.
The FBI (unlike the NSA and CIA) still operates under the legal system of the united states. And that means all those pesky rights on that old parchment still apply.
oh yes, killing people and things is allowed under the us's legal system (see black panthers and many other cases).
Yes, WinFrame is NT 3.51 only, but Citrix has now MetaFrame out, that runs on top of NT 4 (I don't know the real differences to NT TSE, but MetaFrame provides Clients not only for Win9x/NT but UNIX (not Linux though)).