The knowledge that su suffers from stack overflow is sufficient to allow the malicious to gain root access, without the source code - of which there appears to be three versions floating around. Squashing one doesn't appear sufficient to stop even the skiddies. I have one of those free-to-individuals Tru64 UNIX licenses, and guess what? Root access denial is not effective in preventing me from copying anything. If HP allows backups of this nebulous copyrighted information, then they have already subscribed to root access circumvention. Wait a minute, the CDROMs that Tru64 UNIX comes on aren't protected either, and mounted CDs don't default to root read only...
Maybe the best thing that could happen would be for HP/Compaq to file suit under the DMCA. Not the best thing for the DMCA mind you...
I implemented the encoder/decoder in the first CLI video compression system (VTS1.5). On a trip back to CLI after reading about MPEG in EETimes, I asked their Chief Scientist Dr. Wen Chen how MPEG could implement the coding scheme used in the Scene Adaptive Coder. He told me that the patents covering it had been no-fee licensed for MPEG. MPEG was based on 8x8 tiles but did use the orignal CLI Huffman table.
I'd think that the patent claimed for JPEG is not the same as that used for MPEG. They had lots of other compression patents. Most of those used for video compression have since expired or are about to. I worked there from 1982 to 1984.
I've met Bill Gates once upon a time, when he used to sell Microsoft Basic personally.
If a link between the Alexis de Touqueville Institution and Microsoft can be shown (and it sounds like it can), he might find this poorly written piece personally embarrassing, it reflects very poorly on Microsoft if this is as good as their advocacy gets.
It's after close of business and the link to the "new" paper is still not up
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The knowledge that su suffers from stack overflow is sufficient to allow the malicious to gain root access, without the source code - of which there appears to be three versions floating around. Squashing one doesn't appear sufficient to stop even the skiddies. I have one of those free-to-individuals Tru64 UNIX licenses, and guess what? Root access denial is not effective in preventing me from copying anything. If HP allows backups of this nebulous copyrighted information, then they have already subscribed to root access circumvention. Wait a minute, the CDROMs that Tru64 UNIX comes on aren't protected either, and mounted CDs don't default to root read only...
Maybe the best thing that could happen would be for HP/Compaq to file suit under the DMCA. Not
the best thing for the DMCA mind you...
I implemented the encoder/decoder in the first CLI video compression system (VTS1.5). On a trip back to CLI after reading about MPEG in EETimes, I asked their Chief Scientist Dr. Wen Chen how MPEG could implement the coding scheme used in the Scene Adaptive Coder. He told me that the patents covering it had been no-fee licensed for MPEG. MPEG was based on 8x8 tiles but did use the orignal CLI Huffman table.
I'd think that the patent claimed for JPEG is not the same as that used for MPEG. They had lots of other compression patents. Most of those used for video compression have since expired or are about to. I worked there from 1982 to 1984.
There is anecdotal evidence that Windows 2000 is the
r ar y/l-rt4/index.html?dwzone=linux
best of a bad litter as far as actual performance
as a computer operating system.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/lib
So just what is important from Microsofts point of
view for a computer operating system?
(Besides maximizing profits.)
I've met Bill Gates once upon a time, when he used to sell Microsoft Basic personally.
If a link between the Alexis de Touqueville Institution and Microsoft can be shown (and it sounds like it can), he might find this poorly written piece personally embarrassing, it reflects very poorly on Microsoft if this is as good as their advocacy gets.
It's after close of business and the link to the "new" paper is still not up
The defining point for desktop acceptance of
Linux may be when you can run TurboTax for
Linux(tm).