And now there are some options in which you connect a little key, similar to memory sticks, to your USB port that communicates with your kb and/or mouse, no cables anymore.
When you have a printer, scanner, mouse, keyboard, phone, organizer, camera and who knows what else, the less cables the better.
I did a few checks and can't find anything to substantiate this.
This organization (of which I have never heard anything before) seems to have influential backers, (please look at on of my other comments to this thread), it paints very badly if this group of big boys do not document properly how did they get this letter in the first place.
Basically this is a lobby group backed by Sun, Red Hat, Yahoo, Kodak, TimeWarner and several others claiming that SCO is lobbying the US congress against OSS. It is not a sin to let the people know, thus they should come clean and explain how they got hold of this document.
COntact their local authority complaining about price gauging from the part of the EU.
Let China raise a complaint in the WTO.
Small companies, and individuals should try top leverage the weight of their goverments in this kind of disputes, specially when clearly the BPI is in the wrong (UK people should not the dissatisfaction with them and perhaps with the corresponding branch of the goverment. This stinks of monopolistic behaviour).
After the initial frustration and perplexity I thought "this can't be true".
I remembered reading the alleged letter and the first thing that surpirsed me is that it was not addressed to any person in particular. Strange in my book.
Although I did not read the full thing (it made me physically sick, as other/.er also noted) it sounded as a plausible thing for Dear SCO's Leader Darl to put in writing (indeed I recollect he has said more or same the same stuff in diverse occassions, he is nuts) as anything else he has ejaculated before.
But this morning I thought, who are these OSAIA guys? I went to their website and apart from their grandiose home page statement (" The Open Source & Industry Alliance (OSAIA) represents the interests of the broad array of companies, organizations, and individuals that comprise the open source community. We are our members' eyes, ears and voice in legislative, executive and judicial forums throughout the world") I could find very precious little.
Well, then where is a membership list? Nowhere to be found.
The forums? All empty.
The topics? All empty.
Explanation about the source of the fax? Nowhere to be found.
Then I decided to dig a bit more:
Part of the WHOIS search: Domain ID:D96754855-LROR Domain Name:OSAIA.ORG Created On:23-Apr-2003 19:31:13 UTC Last Updated On:17-Sep-2003 20:17:44 UTC Expiration Date:23-Apr-2005 19:31:13 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:R91-LROR Status:OK Registrant ID:GODA-02937029 Registrant Name:Edward Black Registrant Organization:CCIA Registrant Street1:666 11th St., NW Registrant Street2:Suite 600 Registrant City:Washington Registrant State/Province:District of Columbia Registrant Postal Code:20001 Registrant Country:US Registrant Phone:+1.2027830070 Registrant Email:eblack@ccianet.org
Now go to ccianet.org and look at the membership: Read Hat, Sun, Oracle, Kodak, Yahoo and somehow mistifyingly Time Warner
So I googled for OSAIA and found this. Vapourware organization?
I will email them later on tonight in order to try to confirm where did they get the letter, but this certainly looks very interesting. If these people are in the side of OSS it is good news, but I wish they will be more careful about how they go about debunking SCO. Publicizing letters out of thin air without proper attribution or explanation is not a good tactic IMHO.
You have got in this comment a very insightful view about why people feel so pasionetely about OSS.
Please I urge you to use this as the foundation for a letter for your representative in goverment in the US. Companies can looby politicians, but politicians will also listen if big amounts of commited people put forward their side of the argument (don't worry about unmasking SCO, that will be taken care of by others in the community, what I like about your comment is that it makes it personal and put the issue in the right light).
People that worked with one flavour or other of UNIX wanted to have similar functionality on a system for which they did not have to pay their first newborn child.
Then what you do is look at the input of a utility, the output and you build from scratch waht is in the middle, a process that is perfectly legitimate.
-iTunes is not available where I live. -I have all my music collection in OggVorbis format. -I don't use any of the major desktop OS. -I don't need a replacement for my PDA. -I don't think it is cool (it looks plasticky, like a toy).
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2 cables less in your desk are two cables less.
And now there are some options in which you connect a little key, similar to memory sticks, to your USB port that communicates with your kb and/or mouse, no cables anymore.
When you have a printer, scanner, mouse, keyboard, phone, organizer, camera and who knows what else, the less cables the better.
And by know his biases are pretty clear.
So what exactly is your point?
OSS is about freedom.
People should not be forced to "chose" between unfair software lock up and freedom.
Any sensible person understands what part of the allegoric comparison applies and which one does not.
I wish less people will try to insult our intelligence in this patronizing way.
They are convicted abusers of their legally recognized monopolic position.
What else do you need to get over it?
Do not be an ass
Slashdot is read in office
one must tpye fats, eh?
Yeah:
We the furryeingners
would beat USian asses fast
with our Perl wisdom.
Maybe it is time
to outsource haiku contests
to India,China.
Like if they did not have enough time in advance to plan for that little contingency:
"Oh look, we found life! What do we do now?"
Unlikely....
At least that confirms that I am not crazy and I am not imagining this full chapter of madness.
I did a few checks and can't find anything to substantiate this.
This organization (of which I have never heard anything before) seems to have influential backers, (please look at on of my other comments to this thread), it paints very badly if this group of big boys do not document properly how did they get this letter in the first place.
Basically this is a lobby group backed by Sun, Red Hat, Yahoo, Kodak, TimeWarner and several others claiming that SCO is lobbying the US congress against OSS. It is not a sin to let the people know, thus they should come clean and explain how they got hold of this document.
COntact their local authority complaining about price gauging from the part of the EU.
Let China raise a complaint in the WTO.
Small companies, and individuals should try top leverage the weight of their goverments in this kind of disputes, specially when clearly the BPI is in the wrong (UK people should not the dissatisfaction with them and perhaps with the corresponding branch of the goverment. This stinks of monopolistic behaviour).
After the initial frustration and perplexity I thought "this can't be true".
/.er also noted) it sounded as a plausible thing for Dear SCO's Leader Darl to put in writing (indeed I recollect he has said more or same the same stuff in diverse occassions, he is nuts) as anything else he has ejaculated before.
I remembered reading the alleged letter and the first thing that surpirsed me is that it was not addressed to any person in particular. Strange in my book.
Although I did not read the full thing (it made me physically sick, as other
But this morning I thought, who are these OSAIA guys? I went to their website and apart from their grandiose home page statement (" The Open Source & Industry Alliance (OSAIA) represents the interests of the broad array of companies, organizations, and individuals that comprise the open source community. We are our members' eyes, ears and voice in legislative, executive and judicial forums throughout the world") I could find very precious little.
Well, then where is a membership list? Nowhere to be found.
The forums? All empty.
The topics? All empty.
Explanation about the source of the fax? Nowhere to be found.
Then I decided to dig a bit more:
Part of the WHOIS search:
Domain ID:D96754855-LROR
Domain Name:OSAIA.ORG
Created On:23-Apr-2003 19:31:13 UTC
Last Updated On:17-Sep-2003 20:17:44 UTC
Expiration Date:23-Apr-2005 19:31:13 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R91-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:GODA-02937029
Registrant Name:Edward Black
Registrant Organization:CCIA
Registrant Street1:666 11th St., NW
Registrant Street2:Suite 600
Registrant City:Washington
Registrant State/Province:District of Columbia
Registrant Postal Code:20001
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.2027830070
Registrant Email:eblack@ccianet.org
Now go to ccianet.org and look at the membership: Read Hat, Sun, Oracle, Kodak, Yahoo and somehow mistifyingly Time Warner
So I googled for OSAIA and found this. Vapourware organization?
I will email them later on tonight in order to try to confirm where did they get the letter, but this certainly looks very interesting. If these people are in the side of OSS it is good news, but I wish they will be more careful about how they go about debunking SCO. Publicizing letters out of thin air without proper attribution or explanation is not a good tactic IMHO.
You have got in this comment a very insightful view about why people feel so pasionetely about OSS.
Please I urge you to use this as the foundation for a letter for your representative in goverment in the US. Companies can looby politicians, but politicians will also listen if big amounts of commited people put forward their side of the argument (don't worry about unmasking SCO, that will be taken care of by others in the community, what I like about your comment is that it makes it personal and put the issue in the right light).
And follows the same industry wide standards.
People that worked with one flavour or other of UNIX wanted to have similar functionality on a system for which they did not have to pay their first newborn child.
Then what you do is look at the input of a utility, the output and you build from scratch waht is in the middle, a process that is perfectly legitimate.
If Darl does not go to jail, his next gig will be a lobbyst for MS. Trying to ban, what? Charitable software work?
Head hurts, honestly, even a paranoid schizophrenic makes more sense that this insane "company"...
But I have a basic level of organization that is obviously saving me a good deal of money in fancy music players :-).
The legitimate fight is promoting quality, not incentivaiting bad companies that happen to wrap itselves in the glorious US flag...
tar ... | compress ,but tar is not part of Linux.
/dev/random.
The compiler is not part of Linux.
ssh is not part of Linux.
The only point you may have is
.... tell us something Linux has that any of the major UNIXes don't....
It works like a charm.
How do you manage to listen to "a few dozen of albums" in any meaningful short space of time.
Lets say a few dozen albums=4 dozen, that is 48 albums.
if 1 album= 1CD then you are talking about roughly 48 hours of music.
Dividing that evenly accros a week that is almost 7 hours a day of music.
I would be damned if I would be hooked ot a player for that lenght of time.
Even at the more modest (bust still high) 1 hour per day of music it would take 48 days, that is 1 month and a half to listen to all that.
So I don't believe all this rubish that you need that much music, it is simply physically impossible to listen to all of it.
It is much cheaper and wait for the 2GB to go down in proce.
... is to endorse subsidies at the expense of local consumers.
Think a bit about that one every time you ennact your little boycot.
It is good tiome people would have learn some basics about global economics, but no, the protectionist bug will not be put to rest...
-iTunes is not available where I live.
-I have all my music collection in OggVorbis format.
-I don't use any of the major desktop OS.
-I don't need a replacement for my PDA.
-I don't think it is cool (it looks plasticky, like a toy).
... if I don;t want one?
This device approaches what I would like.