That should be at least as much a worry for SCO, though. As numerous people have pointed out, RedHat has a lot more cash than SCO does, and their basic business is burning through that cash a lot more slowly, so that if the lawsuit comes down to being a battle of attrition than RedHat is likely to win.
I think this holds true unless M$ leaps in with another handfull of $$$.
At least in Germany, not the Propellant but the Energy of the projectile is relevant. If I recall right the limit is 7.5J. Even posession of an Airgun or a Crossbow with higher energy is to be licenced, not to mention the carrying.
And I think that this is right. Nobody should be allowed to possess or carry a weapon without proving the necessity. If this would be law all over the world, the world would be a nicer place to live.
>Warranties -- in Germany electronic goods are required to be warrantied against >failure for 3 years. If you read through one of those warranty books that is >printed in several languages, and you are multi-lingual, you'll notice that the >warranties have contents which vary by language. Some companies don't make their >goods to last 3 years, and as such don't want to be subject to warranty law in >Germany. These companies don't sell their goods in Germany. I imagine that a lot >countries have highly varying warranty law. If I were a business person, I >wouldn't be willing to go blind into that potential mine field. I would either >choose not to go, or hire someone who knows the territory.
The warranty period in Germany is NOT 3 Years but since 2003 it is 2 years. In the first half year the merchant has to prove that the good was ok at time of sale and any failure within this half year was due to misuse by the buyer.
BTW this applies to whole EU because the german laws were harmonized with EU Laws.
Tis is just unlawful (in Germany) We have a law on worktime and it states explicitely: The maximum daily worktime is 10 hours. No exception allowed. The regular time of work per week is 48 hours on 6 days. Everything over 8 hours is overtime which must be compensated in money or offtime.
Work on Sunday is only allowed for the usual services like Healthcare Gastronomy Fuelstations etc. and Plants that cannot be interrupted like Powerplants Steelworks etc.
As the author of the article stated himself: As long as there are no original sources available where nothing is altered or deleted - especially the dates - and as long as SCO does not give any evidence that the sources under scrutiny are unaltered, all there allegations are simply said bullshit. I think at least in Germany they can be sued for misuse of the court and up to now they can be sued for damaging IBM and everybody who sells and supports LINUX.
Hi, could you explain a bit more how you think to manage such a scenario? I'd also like to get my net access for free - but I cannot imagine who should pay the infrastructure.
This is true, the VAT is charged on the eBay fees, which are a service. You would be amazed, however, at the number of VAT-registered people who sell goods on eBay and charge VAT on all of them, even the second hand ones. This is technically known as fraud.
If they do it as business it's not fraud but the normal thing. If you do business you have to pay VAT . At least in Germany. There are only very few businesses which are exempt from VAT like MDs and lawyers.
> But then we'd all have browsers that say >"NIE!"....and there'd be the shrubbery....
^^^ NIE in German means 'Never' so I would reconsider using a thingie called NEVER;-)
This 'service' seems to me like shit. The principle of the challenge looks nice. OTOH you trade in Spam from all over the world to Spam from Mailblocks and their bizpartners. If I should pay even 1 ct, I don't accept any spam from the service provider. The only messages I would accept must relate to the service itself and must be opt-in.
There is a simple way to reduce your daily load of spam. It requires a little interaction from time to time but it should work. All you need is mailclient which is able to filter by headers. Kmail since 3.0 from KDE is an example. You can set filters which work on the POP3 server.
Where is the problem for typing papers in labs? The pplications are there and they can handle even the most actual formats from Redmont perfectly well. Example OpenOffice. What else do you need? There is a workalike there.
Very good idea, If every studen would be given a full commercial distribution, there would be leftover 1.7 M$ for hardware and consulting. But as I know there are educational and mass discounts from the distributors. As it is a college, it should not be too difficult to do most of the consulting in projects so that it's learning by itself. Furthermore you don't need to migrate every two to three years on the command from Redmont. 800k$ pa are a lot of money for keeping the systems up to date. Remember: for the update you pay only the internet traffic. So I wish I would have been at a college with supporters with so good ideas.
I've used multiple Linux distribution and all Windows versions besides XP. Yes, Windows, even older versions, is usually in need of reboot every week with moderate usage. Yes, Linux machine has a longer *average* uptime. But months and months... no. If the machine is actually *used*, it will not last for months. Memory leaks, zombie processes, kernel panic, other strange events... I wouldn't claim more than a month on average...
Linux Servers are running without reboot for years. If a Process has a memory leak, just kill this process and reboot. That's it. This also holds true for Linux desktops.
Rebooting is for changing hardware or Kernel release. CU
at least in germany those clauses are void. The former company Nixdorf, now part of Siemens was forced to allow transfer of Software some 20 years ago. AFAIK there has been no other ruling ever since.
According to an interview with Mr. Fongern, head of 'Vereinigung Cockpit' the german Trade Union of Airline Pilots ('Lufthansa', 'German British Airways' and others) it is possible to fly a big plane precisely into targets like the WTC and the Pentagon when you have the knowledge of an instrument flight rating. If you spend some 5000$ you can easily get access to a simulator for every major plane type. Most Airlines in the world who operate them do offer it. That are those types of simulators which are used by the airlines to practice behavior in extraordinary situations which can not be practiced with real planes. For the navigational training it is sufficient to get the education for PPL.
The final approach you can practice on MS-FS with a very realistic cockpit of the used planes.
The Cargolifter also will not compete with freight planes but with the people moving exceptionally big loads like reactors for chemical plants, constructional parts up to 160 t and so on.
It will move them at around 80 mph and deploy them to every point around the world from house to house without the need for infrastucture (roads and the like). It will only need the possibility to tow it down with 40 t force while loading and unloading.
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I think this holds true unless M$ leaps in with another handfull of $$$.
CU
At least in Germany, not the Propellant but the Energy of the projectile is relevant.
If I recall right the limit is 7.5J. Even posession of an Airgun or a Crossbow with higher energy is to be licenced, not to mention the carrying.
And I think that this is right. Nobody should be allowed to possess or carry a weapon without proving the necessity.
If this would be law all over the world, the world would be a nicer place to live.
The article was not on technical but organizational topics.
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>Warranties -- in Germany electronic goods are required to be warrantied against >failure for 3 years. If you read through one of those warranty books that is >printed in several languages, and you are multi-lingual, you'll notice that the >warranties have contents which vary by language. Some companies don't make their >goods to last 3 years, and as such don't want to be subject to warranty law in >Germany. These companies don't sell their goods in Germany. I imagine that a lot >countries have highly varying warranty law. If I were a business person, I >wouldn't be willing to go blind into that potential mine field. I would either >choose not to go, or hire someone who knows the territory.
The warranty period in Germany is NOT 3 Years but since 2003 it is 2 years. In the first half year the merchant has to prove that the good was ok at time of sale and any failure within this half year was due to misuse by the buyer.
BTW this applies to whole EU because the german laws were harmonized with EU Laws.
Tis is just unlawful (in Germany) We have a law on worktime and it states explicitely: The maximum daily worktime is 10 hours. No exception allowed. The regular time of work per week is 48 hours on 6 days.
Everything over 8 hours is overtime which must be compensated in money or offtime.
Work on Sunday is only allowed for the usual services like Healthcare Gastronomy Fuelstations etc. and Plants that cannot be interrupted like Powerplants Steelworks etc.
CU
As the author of the article stated himself:
:)
As long as there are no original sources available where nothing is altered or deleted - especially the dates - and as long as SCO does not give any evidence that the sources under scrutiny are unaltered, all there allegations are simply said bullshit.
I think at least in Germany they can be sued for misuse of the court and up to now they can be sued for damaging IBM and everybody who sells and supports LINUX.
Well - let us sue them into oblivion
CU
Hi,
could you explain a bit more how you think to manage such a scenario?
I'd also like to get my net access for free - but I cannot imagine who should pay the infrastructure.
This is true, the VAT is charged on the eBay fees, which are a service. You would be amazed, however, at the number of VAT-registered people who sell goods on eBay and charge VAT on all of them, even the second hand ones. This is technically known as fraud.
If they do it as business it's not fraud but the normal thing. If you do business you have to pay VAT . At least in Germany.
There are only very few businesses which are exempt from VAT like MDs and lawyers.
> But then we'd all have browsers that say >"NIE!"....and there'd be the shrubbery.... ;-)
^^^
NIE in German means 'Never'
so I would reconsider using a thingie called NEVER
This 'service' seems to me like shit. The principle of the challenge looks nice. OTOH you trade in Spam from all over the world to Spam from Mailblocks and their bizpartners.
If I should pay even 1 ct, I don't accept any spam from the service provider. The only messages I would accept must relate to the service itself and must be opt-in.
There is a simple way to reduce your daily load of spam. It requires a little interaction from time to time but it should work. All you need is mailclient which is able to filter by headers.
Kmail since 3.0 from KDE is an example. You can set filters which work on the POP3 server.
My 0,02
Where is the problem for typing papers in labs? The pplications are there and they can handle even the most actual formats from Redmont perfectly well.
Example OpenOffice. What else do you need? There is a workalike there.
CU
Very good idea,
;-)
If every studen would be given a full commercial distribution, there would be leftover 1.7 M$ for hardware and consulting. But as I know there are educational and mass discounts from the distributors.
As it is a college, it should not be too difficult to do most of the consulting in projects so that it's learning by itself.
Furthermore you don't need to migrate every two to three years on the command from Redmont. 800k$ pa are a lot of money for keeping the systems up to date. Remember: for the update you pay only the internet traffic.
So I wish I would have been at a college with supporters with so good ideas.
Greetings from merry old Europe
I've used multiple Linux distribution and all Windows versions besides XP. Yes, Windows, even older versions, is usually in need of reboot every week with moderate usage. Yes, Linux machine has a longer *average* uptime. But months and months... no. If the machine is actually *used*, it will not last for months. Memory leaks, zombie processes, kernel panic, other strange events... I wouldn't claim more than a month on average...
Linux Servers are running without reboot for years. If a Process has a memory leak, just kill this process and reboot. That's it.
This also holds true for Linux desktops.
Rebooting is for changing hardware or Kernel release.
CU
but it has not been related to M$ in 1995. It is NO hoax. I have read it in the original magazine at that time.
CU
It came from a tech satire website. The interview did not take place. You may now put down the pitchforks and torches...
No ! It came from a "FOCUS" article from 1995 and is really took place
cu
Well this Interview was published in the german magazine "FOCUS" which you can compare to "NEWSWEEK" or "TIME MAGAZINE"
CU
At least here in lovely Germany
It's ruling from our equivalent of the Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof)
CU
[...] ...
how about chile, nicaragua, vietnam
cu
They lack one important ingredience :
SPEED
An airship will fly about 150 km/hat best, the jetplane delivers at 800 - 1000 km/h
Also don't I know any airship design capable of climbing to FL 400 (~12000 m)
Every tick of initial speed saves fuel in the launcher as does every meter of launching altitude
Hans-Peter Eck
Hi,
at least in germany those clauses are void. The former company Nixdorf, now part of Siemens was forced to allow transfer of Software some 20 years ago. AFAIK there has been no other ruling ever since.
According to an interview with Mr. Fongern, head of 'Vereinigung Cockpit' the german Trade Union of Airline Pilots ('Lufthansa', 'German British Airways' and others) it is possible to fly a big plane precisely into targets like the WTC and the Pentagon when you have the knowledge of an instrument flight rating. If you spend some 5000$ you can easily get access to a simulator for every major plane type. Most Airlines in the world who operate them do offer it. That are those types of simulators which are used by the airlines to practice behavior in extraordinary situations which can not be practiced with real planes. For the navigational training it is sufficient to get the education for PPL.
The final approach you can practice on MS-FS with a very realistic cockpit of the used planes.
Or remote areas for Z'NT
The Cargolifter also will not compete with freight planes but with the people moving exceptionally big loads like reactors for chemical plants, constructional parts up to 160 t and so on.
It will move them at around 80 mph and deploy them to every point around the world from house to house without the need for infrastucture (roads and the like). It will only need the possibility to tow it down with 40 t force while loading and unloading.
Hi
you're wrong,
it's 2 American billion what resembles to 2000 Millions (i.e. Milliards) in the rest of the world.
The Terminator