If the judge buys their definition of derivative work, then the computing industry will collapse since OS manufacturers would then in theory own any code developped in their platforms.
On or two idiotic companies have taken thei generous offer, with who knows which ulterior motives unknown to us.
All the rest of the Linux community is just ignoring them and waiting for the legal outcome which most certainly will mean their end as a company and the complete and irreperable tarnishing of the reputation of the individuals and companies involved in this scam.
Frankly I don't see how they are pulling it off. It is only the legal passivity of the Linux hackers what is allowing this to go as far as it has.
I am educated to MSc level, but my native language is not English. I commit multitude of mistakes when writing in a hurry, I check them later and oh boy, theu look bad, the medium also influences how the message is delivered.
Thankfully I am not one costumer of this company, I would feel betrayed to the point I would be terminating business as soon as practically possible.
Talk about ignorance.
Even in the hypothetical case in which SCO would win their fishing expedition, still EV1's customers have no relationship with SCO, legal, commercial or otherwise.
Even in the worst case scenario, costumers of this company have no legal obligation whatsoever with SCO.
Why people supposedly intelligent and business wise fail so miserably to see this is beyond me.
If I was a dishonest person I would claim tomorrow that I own IP that found its way into MS software. I know which company's door I would be knocking tomorrow with a generous offer to protect against legal action from my part.
The country hypotetically losing jobs (and here I want to remark: hypotetically) has now to offer surplus of workforce, that means people have to demand lower salaries to become competitive.
This is not a bad thing, most rich countries live a culture of consumerism and senseless wastage. Obscenily overweight people and SUVs clearly show that people in some rich countries can afford to demand subtantially lower amounts of money if they take responsibility of how they are spending it, that way they can become more competitive and make use of their experience at being more productive.
Computers got cheaper, the countries that better used cheap computing technology became more productive during the 90s raising the level of life there.
The closer you get to retirement the more of your investments should move to safer alternatives like bonds and cash.
If you reach retirement age and all or most of your portfolio is in the stockmarket you deserve every bit of bad luck you may get.
People that made their homework or got their fat arses to the office of a good financial adviser did not have any problems because if they were on the age of retirement they were not exposed, if they were young they were on this for the long term which so far has proven more redituable.
If you were especulating, you knew the risks: suck it up and bag it as experience (i.e. you were 35 and all your savings were in a single company that happened to be a dot.bomb).
In any case the former scheme in which working people payed for the pensions of old people does not wor anymore because pensioners will outnumber working people in the near future. People with far left political inclinations have yet to explain how we are going to pay for pensions if people are not forced to take care for themselves.
The only solution is people taking care of their own pension arrangements.
If people do not take any interest on their finances they deserve to struggle. It is not black magic, it is basic arithmetic, a bit of understanding compound interest (hardly rocket science) and a basic understanding of why some investments are riskier than others.
It is not like there is no information out there, the Economist or the Financial Times are cheap (stop smoking, that is enough to buy these or other fine publications). Thanks to them I have feared pretty well, forseeing things like the Euro appreciation and the dollar devaluation and managing no too bad during the dot.bomb (hint: I had my eggs in many baskets, not only IT ones).
I am not an economist, but for goodness sakes, encourage people to take responsibility and learn about how to handle their own money.
It would seem like corporations employ, invest and sell stuff to Gremilins or Hobbits. Nah, to Orcs, otherwise they would be too good.
People? Nope, they don't get money via salaries (me looks at payslip), shares (me looks at certificates), or pensions (looks at pension certificate), they don't provide services for the megacorps (me thinks about previous contracting gig with big megacorp). Nope, in spite of every single economic measure showing that people in developped countries get richer thanks to corps based on their countries, we have still the "insightful" commentary of people that would not see the benefit of free trade because their dogmatism clouds any logical thinking. They will be only satisfied when their countries go back to the backwardness and living standards of 50 or 100 years ago.
One thing is to rightly recognize people that excel in an important artistic endeavour.
What is questionable is when people devote somuch time and money to inspect with minute detail what these people do every minute of their lives. That is frankly sickening.
In Mexico you can build your basement fine, it is all yours (not that it is common, in such a highly seismic land like Mexico, the last place you want to be is in a basement).
If you find oil, archeologic artifacts, uranium or wahtever, under your property the goverment is owner by law, they would buy your property for peanuts and will take over from you to exploit the natural resources.
We have been hearing this nonsense since Linux was not more than a toy OS.
Around the time I began to use Linux in a professional commercial environment (1996) the "specialized" press was speculating how long would it be before Windows NT was going to make UNIX obsolete.
Now, OSS is the backbone of the Internet, small and medium sized companies don't blink an eyelid if offered backoffice solution based in OSS and big companies (banks, oil companies, the two I am aware of) have big chunks of their IT infrastrucutre based on OSS.
But 9 years ago all the nay sayers where not even considering the posssibility that the toy OS, that the software wants to be free philosophy, would be a major factor in the IT industry.
OSS is playing catchup? If you say so so be it, I have not used anything but OSS software at home for the last 6 years, and when I compare my computing experience with what happens in the office (the occasions I have been forced to deal with Windows) I frankly don't miss anything. Viruses, freezes, reboots, vulnerabilities, clunky user interfaces that are no configurable, lack of powerful automatization tools.
No thanks, I prefer to continue "catching up", it feel pretty good to be so "backwards".
OSS sucks because after investing a minimal amount of time on learning it it does not work as the application I have used for months or years.
Yeah, give me a brake.
No software is intuitive or user firendly. The best testament to that is the palafernalia of books and courses that aim to help Windows users, the supposedly user friendly environment.
But that is not the fault of the different software manufacturers, they can't change human nature even if they intended too, who should be blamed for this search of the holly grail of usability are people that claim one solution is best than other when in reality what is happening is that people are showing they are reluctant to learn new tricks or learn new ways.
The Gimp interface is not perfect, has its ideosyncratics, but ther is absolutely no objective way which UI is better than other.
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Mine says 35 hours a week.
And that is what my employer gets.
If more people were more serious about the contracts they are signing they would no be thorn by giving priority to work or family.
If the judge buys their definition of derivative work, then the computing industry will collapse since OS manufacturers would then in theory own any code developped in their platforms.
We are pass that phase of Linux adoption by at least one year, maybe two.
If your boss needs this kind of eye opener I suugest that he doe not have his eyes on the happening in the IT world.
.... which big company today is lacking IT at its core?
On or two idiotic companies have taken thei generous offer, with who knows which ulterior motives unknown to us.
All the rest of the Linux community is just ignoring them and waiting for the legal outcome which most certainly will mean their end as a company and the complete and irreperable tarnishing of the reputation of the individuals and companies involved in this scam.
Frankly I don't see how they are pulling it off. It is only the legal passivity of the Linux hackers what is allowing this to go as far as it has.
I am educated to MSc level, but my native language is not English. I commit multitude of mistakes when writing in a hurry, I check them later and oh boy, theu look bad, the medium also influences how the message is delivered.
... legitimizing a racketeering scheme.
Thankfully I am not one costumer of this company, I would feel betrayed to the point I would be terminating business as soon as practically possible.
Talk about ignorance.
Even in the hypothetical case in which SCO would win their fishing expedition, still EV1's customers have no relationship with SCO, legal, commercial or otherwise.
Even in the worst case scenario, costumers of this company have no legal obligation whatsoever with SCO.
Why people supposedly intelligent and business wise fail so miserably to see this is beyond me.
If I was a dishonest person I would claim tomorrow that I own IP that found its way into MS software. I know which company's door I would be knocking tomorrow with a generous offer to protect against legal action from my part.
What a bad joke.
nothing else to say...
Give me a brake. You obviously have not been to Malaysia, specially the capital, Kuala Lumpur, or the coastal towns.
And China has been growing faster than India and has a higer GDP.
Talk about ignorance.
The country hypotetically losing jobs (and here I want to remark: hypotetically) has now to offer surplus of workforce, that means people have to demand lower salaries to become competitive.
This is not a bad thing, most rich countries live a culture of consumerism and senseless wastage. Obscenily overweight people and SUVs clearly show that people in some rich countries can afford to demand subtantially lower amounts of money if they take responsibility of how they are spending it, that way they can become more competitive and make use of their experience at being more productive.
Computers got cheaper, the countries that better used cheap computing technology became more productive during the 90s raising the level of life there.
The "grand-faher" post argued that normal people do not benefit from globalization.
They do, amongst other things, pension funds.
The closer you get to retirement the more of your investments should move to safer alternatives like bonds and cash.
If you reach retirement age and all or most of your portfolio is in the stockmarket you deserve every bit of bad luck you may get.
People that made their homework or got their fat arses to the office of a good financial adviser did not have any problems because if they were on the age of retirement they were not exposed, if they were young they were on this for the long term which so far has proven more redituable.
If you were especulating, you knew the risks: suck it up and bag it as experience (i.e. you were 35 and all your savings were in a single company that happened to be a dot.bomb).
In any case the former scheme in which working people payed for the pensions of old people does not wor anymore because pensioners will outnumber working people in the near future. People with far left political inclinations have yet to explain how we are going to pay for pensions if people are not forced to take care for themselves.
The only solution is people taking care of their own pension arrangements.
If people do not take any interest on their finances they deserve to struggle. It is not black magic, it is basic arithmetic, a bit of understanding compound interest (hardly rocket science) and a basic understanding of why some investments are riskier than others.
It is not like there is no information out there, the Economist or the Financial Times are cheap (stop smoking, that is enough to buy these or other fine publications). Thanks to them I have feared pretty well, forseeing things like the Euro appreciation and the dollar devaluation and managing no too bad during the dot.bomb (hint: I had my eggs in many baskets, not only IT ones).
I am not an economist, but for goodness sakes, encourage people to take responsibility and learn about how to handle their own money.
Nothing more to say honestly.
It would seem like corporations employ, invest and sell stuff to Gremilins or Hobbits. Nah, to Orcs, otherwise they would be too good.
People? Nope, they don't get money via salaries (me looks at payslip), shares (me looks at certificates), or pensions (looks at pension certificate), they don't provide services for the megacorps (me thinks about previous contracting gig with big megacorp). Nope, in spite of every single economic measure showing that people in developped countries get richer thanks to corps based on their countries, we have still the "insightful" commentary of people that would not see the benefit of free trade because their dogmatism clouds any logical thinking. They will be only satisfied when their countries go back to the backwardness and living standards of 50 or 100 years ago.
You are an smoker...
One thing is to rightly recognize people that excel in an important artistic endeavour.
What is questionable is when people devote somuch time and money to inspect with minute detail what these people do every minute of their lives. That is frankly sickening.
... until yesterday.
Why should one care that much about all the ridiculous minutae around movi making?
That is why it is embarrasing.
The use of the wood flute in movies is so overused and unoriginal that it is no longer funny.
Sorry, speaking as a professional musician, I guess that makes me somebody somehow pretentious, although knowledgable, about this subject.
http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=387266&qu ery=crusades&ct=gen1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade
There, religion plastered all around the place to hopefully satiate your obvious need of deeper knowledge.
The GPL should be broken to allow for integration.
Lets brake matters of principle to allow for a bit of convenience. And to get a pat in the back from MS?
Yeah, way to act, honest to goodness, it is heart warming that there are people out there ready to compromise principles no matter what.
... is that are far too many clueless MSofties that just don't get it and keep arguing about it.
In Mexico you can build your basement fine, it is all yours (not that it is common, in such a highly seismic land like Mexico, the last place you want to be is in a basement).
If you find oil, archeologic artifacts, uranium or wahtever, under your property the goverment is owner by law, they would buy your property for peanuts and will take over from you to exploit the natural resources.
We have been hearing this nonsense since Linux was not more than a toy OS.
Around the time I began to use Linux in a professional commercial environment (1996) the "specialized" press was speculating how long would it be before Windows NT was going to make UNIX obsolete.
Now, OSS is the backbone of the Internet, small and medium sized companies don't blink an eyelid if offered backoffice solution based in OSS and big companies (banks, oil companies, the two I am aware of) have big chunks of their IT infrastrucutre based on OSS.
But 9 years ago all the nay sayers where not even considering the posssibility that the toy OS, that the software wants to be free philosophy, would be a major factor in the IT industry.
OSS is playing catchup? If you say so so be it, I have not used anything but OSS software at home for the last 6 years, and when I compare my computing experience with what happens in the office (the occasions I have been forced to deal with Windows) I frankly don't miss anything. Viruses, freezes, reboots, vulnerabilities, clunky user interfaces that are no configurable, lack of powerful automatization tools.
No thanks, I prefer to continue "catching up", it feel pretty good to be so "backwards".
Sure, give me a brake.
OSS sucks because after investing a minimal amount of time on learning it it does not work as the application I have used for months or years.
Yeah, give me a brake.
No software is intuitive or user firendly. The best testament to that is the palafernalia of books and courses that aim to help Windows users, the supposedly user friendly environment.
But that is not the fault of the different software manufacturers, they can't change human nature even if they intended too, who should be blamed for this search of the holly grail of usability are people that claim one solution is best than other when in reality what is happening is that people are showing they are reluctant to learn new tricks or learn new ways.
The Gimp interface is not perfect, has its ideosyncratics, but ther is absolutely no objective way which UI is better than other.
Great to see that MS is implementing administration ideas that have been used since I care to remember in the UNIX and Mcintosh world.
When was networking introduced to MS OSes?
Yeah, hurrah to innovation.