You violated Bruce's copyright! That license was not binding, and you did not have the full legal right to make an unauthorized copy. In addition, pasting it into a discussion forum does not meet Bruce's definition of publishing.
Further, you have diluted the trademarks of SCO, Microsoft, and countless other companies by failing to indicate that they are a trademark, the ownership of the trademark, and that they were used without permission.
Right now, Bruce is preparing to evaluate taking action on this situation. Please contact him immediately with an offer, and I'm sure he'll let you off the hook for only $600.
Caldera Bankruptcy! Posted by brian on Wed August 20, 01:09 PM
Even with the recent gyrations in the stock market it was pretty surprising to see that Caldera had to file for bankruptcy protection. We all know their foray into fractal geometry was a disaster, but apparently it hurt them more financially than we thought. There had been rumors that possibly Corel wuold rescue them, but talks fell apart at the eleventh hour. I never used any of their products anyway so I won't be missing them in the least.
The basic idea was that I was giving a presentation on my ISP's shell accounts at a university (circa 1995 when the net was just starting to sizzle). Somehow, and don't laugh, a non-technical type confused the overhead slides of a telnet session with an actual telnet session. Then proceeded to inform the University's MIS department and anyone that would listen that I had hacked their network and done a live demonstration in front of the audience.
Actually, I had planned to have given a live presentation by dialing in over a modem. But the phone line was dead, so the overhead slides were my backup plan.
Boy, were the university drones all over us the next day!
This window between major releases of Microsoft operating systems is a major weak point for them. This certainly helps fill in the gap, at a time when they are most vulnerable.
Has anyone noticed a pattern here? Every time that SCO gets a major slap-down, they churn out a new press release with some sort of new angle to temporarily bolster their position until the next slap-down? You can practically time the when press releases roll out the factory, folks.
I don't think there isn't anything illegal in that, per se, but in my mind, it kind of points to a goal in all of this. But then again, I could be tying the generation of a 'fear buzz' with the stock price. They are doing an excellent job of keeping the fear buzz going.
I too have to disagree. (Or was this a straw man argument?) Allegedly, they were carefully guarding this critical evidence that Linux source was copied from them. When exposed to the light, that claim was shown to be a fraud.
This raises the bar, at least in the court of public opinion, of what they need to do in order to make a credible claim. Their latest claim, that millions of lines of code are copied, seems to be like a legal tactic of piling on every possible accusation you can make, credible or not.
For example, I think it is likely that they went through all the lines of the SCO source and grepped for them in a Linux tree. "Oh, look! We have millions of lines of stolen intellectual property!!!"
I like the theory.... it is very inviting. However, you're assuming that they've got a brilliant master plan, which they don't. I know it is hard to believe, but their claims REALLY ARE as poor as it seems. It is like some sort of street theater performance where they're committing suicide in the most entertaining and dramatic way possible.
To make it even better, the ESA won't tell you what the infringing item(s) are. But, instead, they're willing to license that content to you for only $100,000. That easily is far less that you'd pay in litigation and damages over the offending material. They're doing you a favor!
I thought part of the DMCA process is that the company making the claim has to swear (not the right word... what is it?) that they are the proper owner of the item, and they have the full right to ask for it to be taken down.
At which point, the hosting provider can take it down with immunity.
But if the initial claim is bogus, doesn't that open the door to damages to the person making the false DMCA claim? Obviously, they're at least demonstrating negligence and reckless disregard if they're going on the output of a bot.
There was MidNet. They provided Internet service (or NFSnet service, pardon my commerialism) to the central US. Then, one day, there was some flooding somewhere in Nebraska. The Central US was without Internet access while someone was pumping water out of their basement.
Of course, back then, running an operation like that was almost acceptable!
I've seen.AVIs of vector games on scopes. And lower resolution pictures. It isn't scientific, but you can get a feel for the actual resolution of a screen in those circumstances. For example, I've seen images of Star Wars on a scope.
Maybe part of it was just the scale of the items? The playfield looked very small... perhaps because all of the items were oversized and were very simple vectors? The maneuvering room looked awfully small. It made the real Asteroids look spacious.
> This is vaporware. Those pictures are 3d rendered, not photos.
Except for the actual photos. And the actual.AVI files showing some basic Asteroid vector gameplay on a scope. How did you get a +4 mod on that comment?
But it is vaporware in the sense that it is not a production device, certainly. But it does exist.
I hope the decide to give this some decent coin-op support, or maybe a good coin-op module. It is a bit primitive, but there could certainly be some interesting things done with it. Be it commercial games, or 'customized games for people', or your homebrew arcade cabinet kind of thing.
BTW... that Asteroids looked decidedly low-resolution for vector. Like an equiv 640x480 resolution, verses a typical 1024x768 equiv vector resolution. Is there a hardware limitation in the vector DACs, or what is the story here?
The local Spencer's Gifts carried it. Don't know if they still do. It is an interesting contraption. But it definately has a novelty factor that can wear thin. I don't think I've used it since February? Really interesting to play with, though.
PS: Some people will like the cherry scented smoke. Others will hate it. Animals seem to find it as a form of smelly attack.
It is true. It was 1995ish. I was the SA for the area's first ISP. I was doing a shell account demonstration at the college. Their analog outbound lines were too noisy, so I went to my backup plan: overhead projector and slides.
Somehow, some clueless person (who knows... looking back, maybe it was actually a spiteful competitor?) confused overhead projector slides of a telnet session with an actual telnet session. They ran and got the entire IT department up-in-arms. "He hacked into the network! He had a live demonstration going!"
They were dead serious in going after me. Until I pulled out the slides. I think the ISP's owner actually caught the lie spreader at the university... one of those low-ranking manager IT types. But it made for an interesting low-tech hack story. (Social engineering would have been more probably with those tools than network hacking would have been.)
There IS a book in here somewhere. I hope an executive admin or someone else is taking notes. They could be very rich when they write the book about the great attack on Linux that failed, as an insider's view.
Indeed! They are unfairly capitalizing on the fame of an operating system that is based on their stolen code! Why, Slashdot is going to be hit even harder!:)
Slashdot Mirror
You made me laugh something rotten.
Thanks for reacquainting me with the carpet.
You violated Bruce's copyright! That license was not binding, and you did not have the full legal right to make an unauthorized copy. In addition, pasting it into a discussion forum does not meet Bruce's definition of publishing.
Further, you have diluted the trademarks of SCO, Microsoft, and countless other companies by failing to indicate that they are a trademark, the ownership of the trademark, and that they were used without permission.
Right now, Bruce is preparing to evaluate taking action on this situation. Please contact him immediately with an offer, and I'm sure he'll let you off the hook for only $600.
In other news...
Caldera Bankruptcy!
Posted by brian on Wed August 20, 01:09 PM
Even with the recent gyrations in the stock market it was pretty surprising to see that Caldera had to file for bankruptcy protection. We all know their foray into fractal geometry was a disaster, but apparently it hurt them more financially than we thought. There had been rumors that possibly Corel wuold rescue them, but talks fell apart at the eleventh hour. I never used any of their products anyway so I won't be missing them in the least.
Prepare to surrender!
Prepare to fire the Death Ray!
Isn't that what the villians always say to the good guys, just before things stop going their way?
You have yourself one *very apt* analogy!
Nice.
Its out here *somewhere*.
The basic idea was that I was giving a presentation on my ISP's shell accounts at a university (circa 1995 when the net was just starting to sizzle). Somehow, and don't laugh, a non-technical type confused the overhead slides of a telnet session with an actual telnet session. Then proceeded to inform the University's MIS department and anyone that would listen that I had hacked their network and done a live demonstration in front of the audience.
Actually, I had planned to have given a live presentation by dialing in over a modem. But the phone line was dead, so the overhead slides were my backup plan.
Boy, were the university drones all over us the next day!
This window between major releases of Microsoft operating systems is a major weak point for them. This certainly helps fill in the gap, at a time when they are most vulnerable.
Has anyone noticed a pattern here? Every time that SCO gets a major slap-down, they churn out a new press release with some sort of new angle to temporarily bolster their position until the next slap-down? You can practically time the when press releases roll out the factory, folks.
I don't think there isn't anything illegal in that, per se, but in my mind, it kind of points to a goal in all of this. But then again, I could be tying the generation of a 'fear buzz' with the stock price. They are doing an excellent job of keeping the fear buzz going.
Shouldn't SCO go after HP next? (I don't mean from a logical perspective, more from a SCO Corporate perspective.)
I too have to disagree. (Or was this a straw man argument?) Allegedly, they were carefully guarding this critical evidence that Linux source was copied from them. When exposed to the light, that claim was shown to be a fraud.
This raises the bar, at least in the court of public opinion, of what they need to do in order to make a credible claim. Their latest claim, that millions of lines of code are copied, seems to be like a legal tactic of piling on every possible accusation you can make, credible or not.
For example, I think it is likely that they went through all the lines of the SCO source and grepped for them in a Linux tree. "Oh, look! We have millions of lines of stolen intellectual property!!!"
I like the theory.... it is very inviting. However, you're assuming that they've got a brilliant master plan, which they don't. I know it is hard to believe, but their claims REALLY ARE as poor as it seems. It is like some sort of street theater performance where they're committing suicide in the most entertaining and dramatic way possible.
These kinds of things are also online. In fact, you can browse through a TON of house plans online.
To make it even better, the ESA won't tell you what the infringing item(s) are. But, instead, they're willing to license that content to you for only $100,000. That easily is far less that you'd pay in litigation and damages over the offending material. They're doing you a favor!
I thought part of the DMCA process is that the company making the claim has to swear (not the right word... what is it?) that they are the proper owner of the item, and they have the full right to ask for it to be taken down.
At which point, the hosting provider can take it down with immunity.
But if the initial claim is bogus, doesn't that open the door to damages to the person making the false DMCA claim? Obviously, they're at least demonstrating negligence and reckless disregard if they're going on the output of a bot.
Typo: Not NFSnet. NSFnet.
Here. Read their AUP (acceptable use policy) for a giggle or two.
There was MidNet. They provided Internet service (or NFSnet service, pardon my commerialism) to the central US. Then, one day, there was some flooding somewhere in Nebraska. The Central US was without Internet access while someone was pumping water out of their basement.
Of course, back then, running an operation like that was almost acceptable!
I've seen .AVIs of vector games on scopes. And lower resolution pictures. It isn't scientific, but you can get a feel for the actual resolution of a screen in those circumstances. For example, I've seen images of Star Wars on a scope.
Maybe part of it was just the scale of the items? The playfield looked very small... perhaps because all of the items were oversized and were very simple vectors? The maneuvering room looked awfully small. It made the real Asteroids look spacious.
> This is vaporware. Those pictures are 3d rendered, not photos.
.AVI files showing some basic Asteroid vector gameplay on a scope. How did you get a +4 mod on that comment?
Except for the actual photos. And the actual
But it is vaporware in the sense that it is not a production device, certainly. But it does exist.
I hope the decide to give this some decent coin-op support, or maybe a good coin-op module. It is a bit primitive, but there could certainly be some interesting things done with it. Be it commercial games, or 'customized games for people', or your homebrew arcade cabinet kind of thing.
BTW... that Asteroids looked decidedly low-resolution for vector. Like an equiv 640x480 resolution, verses a typical 1024x768 equiv vector resolution. Is there a hardware limitation in the vector DACs, or what is the story here?
The local Spencer's Gifts carried it. Don't know if they still do. It is an interesting contraption. But it definately has a novelty factor that can wear thin. I don't think I've used it since February? Really interesting to play with, though.
PS: Some people will like the cherry scented smoke. Others will hate it. Animals seem to find it as a form of smelly attack.
> BM is seeking unspecified monetary damages...
Wait a second. Did you just call them a "B.M."?
It is true. It was 1995ish. I was the SA for the area's first ISP. I was doing a shell account demonstration at the college. Their analog outbound lines were too noisy, so I went to my backup plan: overhead projector and slides.
Somehow, some clueless person (who knows... looking back, maybe it was actually a spiteful competitor?) confused overhead projector slides of a telnet session with an actual telnet session. They ran and got the entire IT department up-in-arms. "He hacked into the network! He had a live demonstration going!"
They were dead serious in going after me. Until I pulled out the slides. I think the ISP's owner actually caught the lie spreader at the university... one of those low-ranking manager IT types. But it made for an interesting low-tech hack story. (Social engineering would have been more probably with those tools than network hacking would have been.)
There IS a book in here somewhere. I hope an executive admin or someone else is taking notes. They could be very rich when they write the book about the great attack on Linux that failed, as an insider's view.
Indeed! They are unfairly capitalizing on the fame of an operating system that is based on their stolen code! Why, Slashdot is going to be hit even harder! :)
Actually, it did: "The $32 fee applies to any embedded system regardless of whether it is a Tivo set-top box which uses embedded Linux or..."