The UN, in general, is the largest collection of unchecked egos you will find pretty much anywhere. Even in the Us government, you have to produce something for someone in order to stay around. Name me one thing the UN has produced beyond useless and baseless resolutions?
And now, someone wants to turn over the internet to these fools? This is a simple matter of the UN wanting to control how information is spread over the world. Despots do not like information, the UN for sure qualifies as such.
Why can't ICANN just say no? Even better, why can't we just say go right the hell ahead and get on I2?
Let the unwashed have the internet. Let them wallow in bandwidth hell. We need to get to IPv6 and on a new net and let these fools fight over the chaff. If we do not, they will keep fighting to control us. We have our freedom, not due gurentees set forth in any laws, but by the very fact that the geeks have been able to stay one step ahead. We are losing that edge...
Is there a DDOS on against sco.com, or did they just all the sudden diwsappear from the face of the earth in light of what has happened the last few days (weeks). Well, this seems to explain why Boies did not show up for court on Friday. So recap sco's week so far: - Cannot pay lawyer (who has been thier meal ticket so far BTW) - Shows up to court with CEO's brother in tow (which leads Wall St. to comment on how brilliant Boies in for not showing up and thereby confusing IBM...so much for that idea...) - Gets ass kicked to hell and back by IBM. - Issues a poorly worded and thought out debacle on how the GPL is going to ruin the free world. - Gets ass kicked by Wall St. - Wakes up on the moring after to find that thier biggest public investor has put PAID on the tab in a big way. So now they cannot sell, cannot pay BOies et. al. and cannot run the "We Own Linux!" flag up the pole. I propose we put Darl in the Deathpool.
So what DID happen to sco.com today?
(this post was not spell checked..I know I cannot spell, so don't bother...)
Tell your buddys to not to forget to leave me out of the next lawsuit. I am sure you will get an A in your How to Make Good PR class at UVSU. Now go back to getting Daryl and the boys Krispy Kreams and filling up thier cars at the Happy Clown...
Every attempt to lock down ID's, every attempt at DRM, every attempt at hardware ID (remeber Intel's great Proc Id idea?) has failed.
Not only has it failed, but the backlash they have caused has made the problem they were to solve worse. True, this is a real threat to peace, love and freedom, but in the end, the consumer decides, and while the unwashed are unwashed, if you piss them off enough, they will find something else, and the tend to find it with a speed that is previsouly to be unthought of (remember Napster?).
Does that preclude us fighting these type of initiatives? No, but at the same time announcing the End Of The World is a bit rash...
What's Next - Scheduled Meetings Thursdays 2600 GMT
OK kids, sit down and let uncle bubba explain this one for you. One, if you see something once, it might be a coincidence. Twice means that maybe lighting is hitting the outhouse twice. This is the third one of these, and with each successive version, the methods and operations of the virus are getting more effective and efficient. That means at least two developers were able to reverse engineer and increase the efficiency of the payload of the virus, OR someone is monitoring what is going on and making improvements. Tell you what, I will let you think about that one for a sec...
We also have the comments from the spammers themselves. Many have come out into the open and said that anti-spam orgs declared war on them, and that they would fight back. Do you honestly think that this is just a chance happening?
I guess it could be, I mean, you could have some slashdotter waging a disinformation campaign targeting anti-spammers to piss everyone off...
Oh, and too the nuts want to sue Microsoft under the same pretenses as suing gun manufactures...dude, spammers are equal opportunity abusers...they are abusing open protocols as much as they are using OS holes to propagate this crap. So unless you want to sue Berkley or something like that...
"We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Have you ever mentioned the phrase overclocking? Have you ever mentioned the speed of the latest and greatest? Have you ever mentioned how you replaced one part on your machine and it ran so much better/faster?
If you answered yes to any of the above, then she probably equates you with tech magic. Happens to me all the time, as I am alsways tweaking and upgrading my home machine and pawn off the old parts to various locals. My family is aways bitching about how thier machines do not run as fast as mine. My brother in law actually said that I owe him an explanation as to why the machine I built for his family out of MY OWN PARTS did not run as fast as mine. Rather then rip his head off or have him over clock it by switching the power supply to a higher voltage, I took him to my machine, pointed at the water cooler attached to it and said, "Do you know what that is?" "No." "Until you do, you do not need to worry about why yours is not faster then mine."
I do not mind helping, or explaining or even adding onto my family and friends, BECUASE they are family and friends, and I would like to think I can protect them from an OEM that wants to screw them. However, sometimes, just like with everything else in life, you have to say no, and if someone don't like that, they can deal with it, or they can pay my customary fee or 100 an hour.
Just about every company that I have been with over the past four years has at some point decided to take dev and/or support to an outsourcer in India. In every case, and I do mean every one, they end up moving the critical components of the dev cycle back to the United States.
This seems to be due to cultural and communication issues. The culture of India is one where saving face can (and notice the use of the word can here) lead to a group of unsupervised programmers to do things their way no matter what the company wants. In all of these cases, deadliness were missed due to the fact that once we got the code and saw that it would either not fit into the parameters of the overall program or it was not optimized correctly, leading to slow operation.
The other issue is one of communication. It is really easy to look racist on this one, however it cannot be ignored that if your customers cannot talk to you about what is going on, and those are not being communicated back to those that can fix it, then you have reason to have a support department to begin with. Support is not only key to customer satisfaction, which to a company like Dell is a huge thing, but it is also the front line of the war against defect and defect tracking. Properly used support and properly utilized support can make the difference in releasing a product that is alright or releasing a product that fixes your customers issues. I can guarantee that these issues were not being reported to Dell in the manner that they needed for proper and timely utilization.
This is a real hot button issue within the community right now. I would hope that we can look at this issue from the point of view of pro con and not just from the POV of them thar Injuns are taking our jobs. The former will work to the upper level muckeety mucks. The later just makes us look like every other UAW worker that ever bitched about a Honda.
Remember Rambus v. World? The same thing happened to them. They tried to sue the world, and lost. In middle of it, Gartner said basically the same thing.
This is a HUGE blow to SCO, to have as respected a group as Gartner say these things about the case. They have basically had all of what they have done over the past 6 months ripped out. No one will pay them for nothing, and even worse, they now have the real possibility of losing alot of their current customers.
This is a great example of how to think like the enemy.
If you have a $300 lock on a $200 door surronded by $10 wall panel, what are going to take the sledgehammer to?
This also leads to another point, if you do security well and nothing happens, then no one knows, but you end up pissing every one off. If you do not do it right, no one is pissed until something happens, then everyone knows.
User obliteration is the only way that I know of to remove insecure nodes from a network.
"The abacus will always be the standard of mathamatical reconing for the future..."
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Looking at past attempts by Novell to use Linux it would lead me to believe that Linux will be controlling kernel with everything else running on Netware partitions. Now SCO is going to have to argue "We own Linux kernel, therefore we own you." Netware has had the ability to read EXT drives, along with having the ability to use POSIX based add on's for a while now. the non-compete agreement is in regards to anything that is a DIRECT derivative from SysV, which is why (and think about this kids) Novell has not had any alliances with BSD or Solaris (thought Novell does have a relationship with Sun in regards to Java and good one at that).
The bottom line is that this is a laughable notion to say the least. Novell is not dumb enough to get into a public pissing match with Morons from Utah. This is just what SCO wants, as any outcry from anyone that they are running naked in front of will give them the aura of their claim having legitimacy to those on Wall Street. The "victims" of these attacks are smart enough to know that big dogs do not need to make any noise, and doing so only makes the little dogs and those watching the fight think that there really might be something going on.
I use Linux...sue me.
I think McBride is moron...sue me.
I think the management of canopy is biggest collection of buffoons and clueless imbeciles that you could possibly assemble to "manage" a company...sue me.
This is just another attempt to get noticed by Wall Street folk, and guess what, wolf has been cried too much and now no one is listening.
The flame out factor here is huge, lets enjoy the warmth and glow of the fire as SCO is pushed into the depths of hell.
while there seems to an outpouring of support for Linus, the idea of contributing to a defense fund would actually hurt him. As opposed to RMs, who as an idealist and catalyst of social change makes his way through life via his supporters, Linus "works" for a living. Having OSDL and the various companies that support it come to his support gives the man, and therefore his product, an air of legitimacy that would not be had if his defense was being funded by OSS supporters. In this case, both methods of paying for their defense works, as RMS is supported by the people and Linus is not (from a monetary POV people).
Secondly is the screaming by those asking why the hell he needs a defense. In the case of both RMS and Linus they both are responsible for the two major things that makes Linux what it is today, free and strongly coded. SCO is attacking both the freedom we have in distributing code and the underlying source of the strength of it's code, ergo it is imperative for them to prove to the court that both of these things are not permissible under the law.
This is not just a test of the GPL and Linux. This is a coordinated attack meant to gauge the underlying strength of the OSS community and those that (corporate and private) that support it. The bet was made with the thought that after a little law action, one of the players would pull out making the house of cards fall.
Oppps.
Now they are faced with something they never thought they would have, the beginnings or a tighter conglomerate of users and corps that are ready and willing to defend our right to code and not have it stolen, and our right to distribute that code without interference from companies hell bent on stealing for a living. I have said before that this is not the last of this ordeal, and I truly thing that we are in for a rough 2 to 4 years here in regards to challenges on the GPL and the community in general, but seeing things like this makes believe even more that good things are all that can come of this.
Mr. Szulik, A report today mentioned that Red Hat has been pushing Linux on the desktop in Australia. Red Hat is also pushing Linux on the desktop in the UK in order to get UK government contracts from Microsoft.
However, your position is that Linux is not ready for the desktop in the US.
This contradiction is a source of much confusion in community. You have taken away the solution most widely used for SOHO and private uses, said that it was not ready for the desktop, then turned around and said that it IS ready for the desktop (unless you live in North America). So if Linux is ready for the desktop in the UK, and in Australia, why is it not ready to use in the US, and if that is the case, why is the definition for "ready for the desktop" different for the US?
I belive in the UK this is called bloody mindedness.
SCO kicks out 1 mil of scanned pages. All they had to do was scan and send. IBM kicks back 100K pages. These are pages of analysis.
If I got 100K pages of analysis from someone I was trying to blackmail money from, I would be scared shitless. Picture the reaction to that in Lindon!
McBribe and Sonyatag were rapidly downloadinf brownware when they saw that. And to make matters worse, I think it hit them just then as to size of the shitstorm heading thier way.
SCO is going to get the legel enema of the century.
"A 300 dollar lock is on a 200 dollar door sorronded by 10 dollar wallpanel...what do you take the sledgehammer to first?"
Satalites for your car is bad enough. Just thinking about the average soccer mom rolling around in her SUV while trying to whatch some chick flick bring me shivers. Oh, but wait!!! Now I have to worry about teen-agers and geeks playing donkey kong on thier cell phone! This will last until the first lawsuite by some moron who was playing a hacked game on thier phone and runs into someone...you know it will happen.:)
An external DVD=R/RW that runs on USB2.0 or Firewire would be a better archiving choice. It might be slower then an internal, but it would still be plenty quick and it would give you additional bonus of being able to be used on move then one box.
The ethics of selling such equipment and supplies to such governments is not in doubt by any means. That is not a point that I am going to argue. Neither can I argue the point of the ethics of the SCO case based upon the claims of the company. However, I would like to bring up some points, as I feel they are valid and , while I may not feel for them, that does not release me from consideration of such.
At this point I might bring up the fact that even murders rapists and the like are represented in court by the lawyers. While we might feel that those representing them are doing a disservice to society, it must be realized that under the laws of the land these folk have the right to representation in their case. That representation places the onus of proof upon those making the charges, and ensures that the proper procedures and methods are followed in the pursuit of prosecution.
From Dave's perspective, this is a an open and shut deal. SCO will get someone to rep them under the law. In most cases that he would take like this he would see no money unless the client wins. This provision is set there to ensure that a lawyer does not throw a case a to try to win a judge/prosecutor/potential client over. In this case though, Dave and his firm are going to have all up front costs covered, he gets a little piece of the action in what might be the most high profile IP law case of the century (certainly one that will decide matters on many fronts for the next 5 to 10 years) and even better, free pub.
Now on to the next question....is this ethical. Let us compare an contrast. Is murder ethical. No. Is defending a murderer ethical? Good question, and one that could spark quite the debate. Is what SCO is doing ethical? Hell no. Is representing SCO ethical? Once again, that is up for debate? Is the working grunt who works for SCO and been there since '97 supposed to just up and quite his job in protest and fling himself on the mercy of the current job market? If he does not, does that not put the label of "unethical" on this person also?
There is a far cry, at least to those that set the standard of such things, between torture equipment, WMD's and taking dosh for a lawsuit. Accordingly, the items mentioned in you poor example above have been of an illicit nature and have always been so in the eyes of both US and international law. While what is going on with SCO is disturbing, it is legal in the eyes of the law, and therefore, if your business and livelihoods are in that area, and your company is one that depends on this type of business to succeed, then it becomes a matter of fiscal responsibility to do accept such a ludicrous offer. Dave is smart enough to know he cannot win this, but is also smart enough to negotiate a position that he make sure that he gets something for efforts.
And here come the cries from those that say "What about ?!" Well, this is not a pretty thing to say the least. The SCO grunts are screwed, that much is for certain. Hopefully stories like this on Slashdot and other news sources will filter out to investors looking at SCO. As long as they do their homework, they will come out fine (wait till it hits 20 then short the bitch).
And then there is Linux. And since you are SO into international dealings I will give you a final thought for the day. Hope you can handle this one...
What is the potentially more dangerous scenarios for Linux, a SCO law suit that ends in IBM kicking their ass...or a nice little country on the other side of the world that goes by the name of CHINA who announced yesterday that they are going to use Linux as the official operating system of the state. They are doing this to "guard state secrets and protect state networks" which sounds just fine until that thought crosses your mind that any network in China is a "state network" and anything you say could be a "state secret." So now, the one project that has always represented freedom and choice is going to be used for oppression and censorship. Oh, and what happens if they violate the GPL, and does the OSS community have to support patches that come from a country that is knowing developing cyber attack squads.
Everyone is going to hate me for this. Just note that I have been scathing at SCo and what they are trying to do with OSS.
In this case, I cannot say I blame the lawyers. If they did not take that kind of an offer, another firm would, and if you get 3B out of IBM (snowballs chance in hell I know) and you get the typical 40% out of it...damn...
then again, the paranoid in me sees this as being a nice payback to Dave from MS. Make a little dosh, take a crack at being set for life, and oh, if you start to lose we will buy the company at an inflated price, meld all of the IP claims into our own, let the memory of this fade away and try again in a another couple of years. Thanks for the surrender Dave! We love you!
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The UN, in general, is the largest collection of unchecked egos you will find pretty much anywhere. Even in the Us government, you have to produce something for someone in order to stay around. Name me one thing the UN has produced beyond useless and baseless resolutions?
And now, someone wants to turn over the internet to these fools? This is a simple matter of the UN wanting to control how information is spread over the world. Despots do not like information, the UN for sure qualifies as such.
Why can't ICANN just say no? Even better, why can't we just say go right the hell ahead and get on I2?
Let the unwashed have the internet. Let them wallow in bandwidth hell. We need to get to IPv6 and on a new net and let these fools fight over the chaff. If we do not, they will keep fighting to control us. We have our freedom, not due gurentees set forth in any laws, but by the very fact that the geeks have been able to stay one step ahead. We are losing that edge...
War TUX!!!
Is there a DDOS on against sco.com, or did they just all the sudden diwsappear from the face of the earth in light of what has happened the last few days (weeks).
Well, this seems to explain why Boies did not show up for court on Friday. So recap sco's week so far:
- Cannot pay lawyer (who has been thier meal ticket so far BTW)
- Shows up to court with CEO's brother in tow (which leads Wall St. to comment on how brilliant Boies in for not showing up and thereby confusing IBM...so much for that idea...)
- Gets ass kicked to hell and back by IBM.
- Issues a poorly worded and thought out debacle on how the GPL is going to ruin the free world.
- Gets ass kicked by Wall St.
- Wakes up on the moring after to find that thier biggest public investor has put PAID on the tab in a big way.
So now they cannot sell, cannot pay BOies et. al. and cannot run the "We Own Linux!" flag up the pole.
I propose we put Darl in the Deathpool.
So what DID happen to sco.com today?
(this post was not spell checked..I know I cannot spell, so don't bother...)
Tell your buddys to not to forget to leave me out of the next lawsuit. I am sure you will get an A in your How to Make Good PR class at UVSU. Now go back to getting Daryl and the boys Krispy Kreams and filling up thier cars at the Happy Clown...
Ok, repeat after me...
Every attempt to lock down ID's, every attempt at DRM, every attempt at hardware ID (remeber Intel's great Proc Id idea?) has failed.
Not only has it failed, but the backlash they have caused has made the problem they were to solve worse. True, this is a real threat to peace, love and freedom, but in the end, the consumer decides, and while the unwashed are unwashed, if you piss them off enough, they will find something else, and the tend to find it with a speed that is previsouly to be unthought of (remember Napster?).
Does that preclude us fighting these type of initiatives? No, but at the same time announcing the End Of The World is a bit rash...
What's Next - Scheduled Meetings
Thursdays 2600 GMT
Cannot resist this one...
OK kids, sit down and let uncle bubba explain this one for you. One, if you see something once, it might be a coincidence. Twice means that maybe lighting is hitting the outhouse twice. This is the third one of these, and with each successive version, the methods and operations of the virus are getting more effective and efficient. That means at least two developers were able to reverse engineer and increase the efficiency of the payload of the virus, OR someone is monitoring what is going on and making improvements. Tell you what, I will let you think about that one for a sec...
We also have the comments from the spammers themselves. Many have come out into the open and said that anti-spam orgs declared war on them, and that they would fight back. Do you honestly think that this is just a chance happening?
I guess it could be, I mean, you could have some slashdotter waging a disinformation campaign targeting anti-spammers to piss everyone off...
Oh, and too the nuts want to sue Microsoft under the same pretenses as suing gun manufactures...dude, spammers are equal opportunity abusers...they are abusing open protocols as much as they are using OS holes to propagate this crap. So unless you want to sue Berkley or something like that...
Spammers evil...viruses evil...censorship evil...censoring spam ev...WAIT!...good...
"We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Have you ever mentioned the phrase overclocking?
Have you ever mentioned the speed of the latest and greatest?
Have you ever mentioned how you replaced one part on your machine and it ran so much better/faster?
If you answered yes to any of the above, then she probably equates you with tech magic. Happens to me all the time, as I am alsways tweaking and upgrading my home machine and pawn off the old parts to various locals. My family is aways bitching about how thier machines do not run as fast as mine. My brother in law actually said that I owe him an explanation as to why the machine I built for his family out of MY OWN PARTS did not run as fast as mine. Rather then rip his head off or have him over clock it by switching the power supply to a higher voltage, I took him to my machine, pointed at the water cooler attached to it and said, "Do you know what that is?"
"No."
"Until you do, you do not need to worry about why yours is not faster then mine."
I do not mind helping, or explaining or even adding onto my family and friends, BECUASE they are family and friends, and I would like to think I can protect them from an OEM that wants to screw them. However, sometimes, just like with everything else in life, you have to say no, and if someone don't like that, they can deal with it, or they can pay my customary fee or 100 an hour.
Just about every company that I have been with over the past four years has at some point decided to take dev and/or support to an outsourcer in India. In every case, and I do mean every one, they end up moving the critical components of the dev cycle back to the United States.
This seems to be due to cultural and communication issues. The culture of India is one where saving face can (and notice the use of the word can here) lead to a group of unsupervised programmers to do things their way no matter what the company wants. In all of these cases, deadliness were missed due to the fact that once we got the code and saw that it would either not fit into the parameters of the overall program or it was not optimized correctly, leading to slow operation.
The other issue is one of communication. It is really easy to look racist on this one, however it cannot be ignored that if your customers cannot talk to you about what is going on, and those are not being communicated back to those that can fix it, then you have reason to have a support department to begin with. Support is not only key to customer satisfaction, which to a company like Dell is a huge thing, but it is also the front line of the war against defect and defect tracking. Properly used support and properly utilized support can make the difference in releasing a product that is alright or releasing a product that fixes your customers issues. I can guarantee that these issues were not being reported to Dell in the manner that they needed for proper and timely utilization.
This is a real hot button issue within the community right now. I would hope that we can look at this issue from the point of view of pro con and not just from the POV of them thar Injuns are taking our jobs. The former will work to the upper level muckeety mucks. The later just makes us look like every other UAW worker that ever bitched about a Honda.
Remember Rambus v. World? The same thing happened to them. They tried to sue the world, and lost. In middle of it, Gartner said basically the same thing.
This is a HUGE blow to SCO, to have as respected a group as Gartner say these things about the case. They have basically had all of what they have done over the past 6 months ripped out. No one will pay them for nothing, and even worse, they now have the real possibility of losing alot of their current customers.
Is this why IBM has been so quiet?
Duhryl must be crying in his Jello salad today.
Thank you for comming! See you in hell!
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This is a great example of how to think like the enemy.
If you have a $300 lock on a $200 door surronded by $10 wall panel, what are going to take the sledgehammer to?
This also leads to another point, if you do security well and nothing happens, then no one knows, but you end up pissing every one off. If you do not do it right, no one is pissed until something happens, then everyone knows.
User obliteration is the only way that I know of to remove insecure nodes from a network.
isnt ain't a word either... :)
WAR TUX!
"The abacus will always be the standard of mathamatical reconing for the future..."
Looking at past attempts by Novell to use Linux it would lead me to believe that Linux will be controlling kernel with everything else running on Netware partitions. Now SCO is going to have to argue "We own Linux kernel, therefore we own you." Netware has had the ability to read EXT drives, along with having the ability to use POSIX based add on's for a while now. the non-compete agreement is in regards to anything that is a DIRECT derivative from SysV, which is why (and think about this kids) Novell has not had any alliances with BSD or Solaris (thought Novell does have a relationship with Sun in regards to Java and good one at that).
The bottom line is that this is a laughable notion to say the least. Novell is not dumb enough to get into a public pissing match with Morons from Utah. This is just what SCO wants, as any outcry from anyone that they are running naked in front of will give them the aura of their claim having legitimacy to those on Wall Street. The "victims" of these attacks are smart enough to know that big dogs do not need to make any noise, and doing so only makes the little dogs and those watching the fight think that there really might be something going on.
I use Linux...sue me.
I think McBride is moron...sue me.
I think the management of canopy is biggest collection of buffoons and clueless imbeciles that you could possibly assemble to "manage" a company...sue me.
This is just another attempt to get noticed by Wall Street folk, and guess what, wolf has been cried too much and now no one is listening.
The flame out factor here is huge, lets enjoy the warmth and glow of the fire as SCO is pushed into the depths of hell.
Dang, forgot to check my grammer...oh deer....
while there seems to an outpouring of support for Linus, the idea of contributing to a defense fund would actually hurt him. As opposed to RMs, who as an idealist and catalyst of social change makes his way through life via his supporters, Linus "works" for a living. Having OSDL and the various companies that support it come to his support gives the man, and therefore his product, an air of legitimacy that would not be had if his defense was being funded by OSS supporters. In this case, both methods of paying for their defense works, as RMS is supported by the people and Linus is not (from a monetary POV people).
Secondly is the screaming by those asking why the hell he needs a defense. In the case of both RMS and Linus they both are responsible for the two major things that makes Linux what it is today, free and strongly coded. SCO is attacking both the freedom we have in distributing code and the underlying source of the strength of it's code, ergo it is imperative for them to prove to the court that both of these things are not permissible under the law.
This is not just a test of the GPL and Linux. This is a coordinated attack meant to gauge the underlying strength of the OSS community and those that (corporate and private) that support it. The bet was made with the thought that after a little law action, one of the players would pull out making the house of cards fall.
Oppps.
Now they are faced with something they never thought they would have, the beginnings or a tighter conglomerate of users and corps that are ready and willing to defend our right to code and not have it stolen, and our right to distribute that code without interference from companies hell bent on stealing for a living. I have said before that this is not the last of this ordeal, and I truly thing that we are in for a rough 2 to 4 years here in regards to challenges on the GPL and the community in general, but seeing things like this makes believe even more that good things are all that can come of this.
I like The registers take on that...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Karma dogma, mama, tata!!!!
Mr. Szulik,
A report today mentioned that Red Hat has been pushing Linux on the desktop in Australia. Red Hat is also pushing Linux on the desktop in the UK in order to get UK government contracts from Microsoft.
However, your position is that Linux is not ready for the desktop in the US.
This contradiction is a source of much confusion in community. You have taken away the solution most widely used for SOHO and private uses, said that it was not ready for the desktop, then turned around and said that it IS ready for the desktop (unless you live in North America). So if Linux is ready for the desktop in the UK, and in Australia, why is it not ready to use in the US, and if that is the case, why is the definition for "ready for the desktop" different for the US?
I belive in the UK this is called bloody mindedness.
SCO kicks out 1 mil of scanned pages. All they had to do was scan and send. IBM kicks back 100K pages. These are pages of analysis.
If I got 100K pages of analysis from someone I was trying to blackmail money from, I would be scared shitless. Picture the reaction to that in Lindon!
McBribe and Sonyatag were rapidly downloadinf brownware when they saw that. And to make matters worse, I think it hit them just then as to size of the shitstorm heading thier way.
SCO is going to get the legel enema of the century.
"A 300 dollar lock is on a 200 dollar door sorronded by 10 dollar wallpanel...what do you take the sledgehammer to first?"
too laizww two spehl cex...
Satalites for your car is bad enough. Just thinking about the average soccer mom rolling around in her SUV while trying to whatch some chick flick bring me shivers. Oh, but wait!!! Now I have to worry about teen-agers and geeks playing donkey kong on thier cell phone! This will last until the first lawsuite by some moron who was playing a hacked game on thier phone and runs into someone...you know it will happen. :)
An external DVD=R/RW that runs on USB2.0 or Firewire would be a better archiving choice. It might be slower then an internal, but it would still be plenty quick and it would give you additional bonus of being able to be used on move then one box.
October 32nd?
Don't you know that AL invented the Blackberry, the RIM, the PDA, the PC and the internet, all on one day and without violating any patents?
What a guy!
On Faux Gnuz...
The ethics of selling such equipment and supplies to such governments is not in doubt by any means. That is not a point that I am going to argue. Neither can I argue the point of the ethics of the SCO case based upon the claims of the company. However, I would like to bring up some points, as I feel they are valid and , while I may not feel for them, that does not release me from consideration of such.
At this point I might bring up the fact that even murders rapists and the like are represented in court by the lawyers. While we might feel that those representing them are doing a disservice to society, it must be realized that under the laws of the land these folk have the right to representation in their case. That representation places the onus of proof upon those making the charges, and ensures that the proper procedures and methods are followed in the pursuit of prosecution.
From Dave's perspective, this is a an open and shut deal. SCO will get someone to rep them under the law. In most cases that he would take like this he would see no money unless the client wins. This provision is set there to ensure that a lawyer does not throw a case a to try to win a judge/prosecutor/potential client over. In this case though, Dave and his firm are going to have all up front costs covered, he gets a little piece of the action in what might be the most high profile IP law case of the century (certainly one that will decide matters on many fronts for the next 5 to 10 years) and even better, free pub.
Now on to the next question....is this ethical. Let us compare an contrast. Is murder ethical. No. Is defending a murderer ethical? Good question, and one that could spark quite the debate. Is what SCO is doing ethical? Hell no. Is representing SCO ethical? Once again, that is up for debate? Is the working grunt who works for SCO and been there since '97 supposed to just up and quite his job in protest and fling himself on the mercy of the current job market? If he does not, does that not put the label of "unethical" on this person also?
Love the debate BTW...good for musing.
There is a far cry, at least to those that set the standard of such things, between torture equipment, WMD's and taking dosh for a lawsuit. Accordingly, the items mentioned in you poor example above have been of an illicit nature and have always been so in the eyes of both US and international law. While what is going on with SCO is disturbing, it is legal in the eyes of the law, and therefore, if your business and livelihoods are in that area, and your company is one that depends on this type of business to succeed, then it becomes a matter of fiscal responsibility to do accept such a ludicrous offer. Dave is smart enough to know he cannot win this, but is also smart enough to negotiate a position that he make sure that he gets something for efforts.
And here come the cries from those that say "What about ?!" Well, this is not a pretty thing to say the least. The SCO grunts are screwed, that much is for certain. Hopefully stories like this on Slashdot and other news sources will filter out to investors looking at SCO. As long as they do their homework, they will come out fine (wait till it hits 20 then short the bitch).
And then there is Linux. And since you are SO into international dealings I will give you a final thought for the day. Hope you can handle this one...
What is the potentially more dangerous scenarios for Linux, a SCO law suit that ends in IBM kicking their ass...or a nice little country on the other side of the world that goes by the name of CHINA who announced yesterday that they are going to use Linux as the official operating system of the state. They are doing this to "guard state secrets and protect state networks" which sounds just fine until that thought crosses your mind that any network in China is a "state network" and anything you say could be a "state secret." So now, the one project that has always represented freedom and choice is going to be used for oppression and censorship. Oh, and what happens if they violate the GPL, and does the OSS community have to support patches that come from a country that is knowing developing cyber attack squads.
Well, I have things to do and write...
WAR TUX!!!
Everyone is going to hate me for this. Just note that I have been scathing at SCo and what they are trying to do with OSS.
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In this case, I cannot say I blame the lawyers. If they did not take that kind of an offer, another firm would, and if you get 3B out of IBM (snowballs chance in hell I know) and you get the typical 40% out of it...damn...
then again, the paranoid in me sees this as being a nice payback to Dave from MS. Make a little dosh, take a crack at being set for life, and oh, if you start to lose we will buy the company at an inflated price, meld all of the IP claims into our own, let the memory of this fade away and try again in a another couple of years. Thanks for the surrender Dave! We love you!
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