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  1. Re:Anti free trade on US Lawmakers to Keep Google Out of China? · · Score: 1

    I doubt this had much to do with the embargos.

    The biggest single reason for the change was the preasure from within the country.

    The second biggest reason was the fall of communism.

  2. Read what Linus has to say on Linux Trademark Fun Continues · · Score: 1

    Here, and be careful he might be reading what you say.

  3. Re:Worried? Why? on Sun's Linux Killer Examined · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean GNU/Solaris is free.

  4. Re:FYI... on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    And those of us at the office in London have been warned not to go out the building. The canteen had seen its biggest single trading day all year.

  5. What's in a name on Netbeans 4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    The other reason is that Sun does not like the name. The name was chosen specifically to appose Sun (i.e. eclipse of the sun).

  6. Re:SP2 soon to be FORCED upon us... on Survey Shows Admins Avoiding SP2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually there is a way to fix it http://www.lvllord.de/?url=tools

  7. Re:Fall stock price Fall! on Germany Muzzles SCO · · Score: 2, Informative
  8. Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee on Microsoft Holds Off on Eolas Patent Changes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would hope to think that Tim Berners-Lee was more significant than Microsoft in fighting this.

    After all, if he said it was prior art, then it was prior art.

  9. Re:Sun did themselves in on Merrill Lynch Rips Sun · · Score: 1

    You have it wrong. Apache market share is growing and IIS is on the way down Latest Netcraft Servey

  10. Re:It makes sense ... on Opensource Code More Refined Than Closed? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You will get the proof when people send in bug fixes (patches).

    To ensure your program has a high level of contribution make sure that it is extremely useful to developers (e.g. IDE/profiler/debugger etc) and it has a number of annoying but easy to fix bugs.

  11. Re:SCO -5; Nuisance on Darl McBride Interview · · Score: 0

    They will stop reporting them just as soon as you stop reading/replying to them.

  12. Re:Key quote. My question: how to remedy? on Today's SCO News · · Score: 1

    They are obvioulsy referring to Linux as a whole and not just the kernel. In fact there original suggestion was that none of the coppied code was in the kernel. If this is the case then there is probibly aso copywrite code in *DSD and OSX.

  13. Re:Open Source Question on Sun 'Calls JBoss bluff' on J2EE compliance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem is that many people allready use JBOSS. Probably more than use WebSphere and BEA combined.

    I agree that you should try to conform to standards but if the stardards authority deliberatly tries to shut you out then there isn't much you can do.

    The same thing happened between UNIX/Linux and X/XFree. Linux and XFree are now becomming the defacto standards. Sun is scared that the same thing will happen with JBOSS.

  14. Re:Who cares what Linus thinks? on Linus Comments on SCO v IBM · · Score: 1

    What they are claiming is that IBM violated a contract.

    When IBM first created AIX they licenced some of the technology from SCO (or whoever owned the unix IP at the time). I assume one of the conditions of the licencing was an NDA which prevented IBM from sharing the technology with third parties.

    SCO is now claiming that the improvments that IBM are making in Linux is derived from the original IP and thus violating that contract. This is how they can threatening to stop the distribution of AIX.

  15. Re:My random crappy question: on Tech-Interview Riddles · · Score: 1

    No, you are thick mate.

    Time taken to lap a 1 mile track at 30mph = 2 mins.

    If you want to average 60mph over 2 laps then you would need to complete the 2 laps in 2 mins, but because you have already been driving for 2 mins you would need to complete the second lap in 0 seconds (impossible).

  16. Re:Why they can't have the .ZA domain on South Africa Wants Control of .za · · Score: 1

    Zuid is not an Afrikaans word, its German.Suid is the Afrikaans word (as in Suid Afrika) but SA was already being used by Saudi Arabia.

  17. Re:"X"Free86 on XFree86 10 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Could be true if N=1

  18. Did Microsott start Dell Linux ? on More on Dell Dropping Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Dell started announcing Linux pre-installed at about the start of the anti-trust case. The must have been benificial to microsoft in showing that there was compitition around.

    Now that MS is off the hook, an announcement saying Dell is dropping Linux because lack of demand is perfect for MS.

    Could Dell is nothing more than a Microsoft puppet?

  19. Re:Why did it take so many posts? on Abusing the GPL? · · Score: 1

    The GLP gives you rights that you would not normally have. i.e. You would not normally be able to take someones source code and modify it to use for your own purposes (copyright infringement).

    EULA takes rights away from you.

  20. Re:The problem is.. on Linux On the Desktop: 0.24 Percent? · · Score: 1

    You mean small little servers like google and amazon.

  21. Re:Great.... on Microsoft Runs Out Of Windows XP Family Licenses · · Score: 1

    If I was a windows user I would worry about when the next version of windows arrives. Will they still be happy to re-activate your software when you update your (by now 1/2 year old computer).

    What happens to the unfortunaly people who live in a country that does not have a convenient Microsoft 0800 number to call when product activation foes pair shaped.

  22. Re:Unbreakable copy protection! on More Copy Protected CDs? · · Score: 1

    Actually you are sould be using:

    [ $# -ne 1 ] && echo "Usage: $0 " >&2 && exit 1

  23. Re:sensation seekers on Linus And Alan Settle On A New VM System · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Read about the big news on 5/6 Nov. Alan is installing windows. Alan's diary

  24. Re:Tabbed Interface on Mozilla 0.9.5 · · Score: 1

    Add this line to you prefs.js file.

    user_pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick", true);

  25. Re:Consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds on Mozilla's 100,000th Bug · · Score: 1

    I submitted bug #99832. It spite of my best effort in research it turned out to be a duplicate of #99057, #98355 and #95957.