The most you can do is help a student develop their skill. Skill is something that comes from the way your brain is wired. If you don't have it, no amount of learning will give it to you.
There are a lot of people with advanced degrees and little skill.
If you read the words carefully, you'll see it's an appeal for you to act maturely. There are indeed some people who see an appeal for maturity as a brazen attempts to unfairly silence you. There are even a few people over 12 who see it that way.
Make sure you have the right to port that program. No problem if you're the copyright holder. Note that there is a copyright issue regarding porting GPLed KDE programs to commercial Qt on Windows. At the least, you should get written permission from all copyright holders.
It is likely that this virus has been assembled for the
purpose of defaming the Linux developers by spammers, SCO, or
others. Your behavior will influence whether or not it succeeds in
this mission.
Thus, I urge all persons who have sympathy for Free Software, Open
Source, and Linux:
Do not cheer on attacks on the SCO
site. By doing so, you falsely implicate our community in
the attacks, in the eyes of outsiders who read your words. Our
community believes in freedom of speech, not silencing our
opponent's speech through net attacks. We will defeat SCO using the
truth, not by gagging them.
Publicly deplore the attacks as an attempt to defame us, and not
an effort of our community. Show others this notice.
Continue to fight SCO, using all
legal means at your disposal. Show others the analysis of
SCO's ongoing fraud at Groklaw.net and elsewhere, and
explain to them your own experience as a participant in the Free
Software community.
Continue the visible presence of
Free Software as a force for good in the world by producing
excellent original software for everyone's free use and deploying
it wherever possible. Promote these projects to the press and
public as you carry them out. Do what you can for other public-good
projects such as schools and non-profit organizations. FreeGeek.org is an excellent example
of how to carry this out.
Show others by example that our
side always takes the high road. When they see a low-road
sort of action like denial-of-service, spam, or stock fraud,
they'll know who to blame.
Remember that your actions count. You are ambassadors of our
community.
Yes, 10 years for me, now, running "unstable" on my main systems. I had a down day once. And they broke GNOME pretty badly for a while, so I switched to KDE for a few weeks.
I think he meant all sorts of users, rather than all sorts of hardware.
But it does a lot for the quality of a distribution to release it on all sorts of hardware. A lot of flaky intermittent bugs turn solid on one of those architectures.
The text of book is under an Open Source license, as with all books in my series. A few months after publication, both source and unencrypted PDF will be uploaded.
It's not the policy of my series to publish proprietary software on the accompanying CD. But there is some Borland stuff and a copy of Windows Qt on the CD. This is due to a mis-communication with my publisher. I found out about it very late in the process (as I was reading a galley proof), and decided to allow the deviation from policy this time rather than cause a tremendous hassle for Troll Tech. The book had already been advertised, and orders had been booked from stores, etc.
Re-printed here to save my server some load:-) - Bruce
Message to the Linux and Free Software Community Regarding the SCO
Denial-of-Service Virus
Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> (U.S.) 510-526-1165
Version 2, January 27, 2004.
The master version of this notice is at http://perens.com/Articles/SCO/DOS/
Please check that location for a more recent version. You may
re-publish this material. You may excerpt it, reformat it and
translate it as necessary for your presentation. You may not edit
it to deliberately misrepresent my opinion.
On January 26, 2004, a new virus became rampant. I have read reports
that the virus payload has two purposes: to install a remote-execution
back-end of a type commonly used by spammers to redistribute email, and
to perform a denial-of-service attack on SCO's web site.
Denial-of-service attacks via virus have been a common trick of
email spammers. They were first used to take out some of the
anti-spam blacklist sites. Several of those sites had their
(non-spam-related) business so heavily disrupted that they closed
the doors of their anti-spam projects rather than be attacked
again.
The Open Source developers are a target of spammers. We are the
creators of most high-profile anti-spam technology. For example,
SpamAssassin started out as, and remains today, an Open Source
project. The predominant mail delivery programs of the Internet are
Open Source projects such as Sendmail and Postfix, and thus most
efforts to spam-proof those programs are Open Source as well. This
is important, because it gives spammers a reason to defame
us.
SCO also has a reason to defame us, as part of their stock-kiting
scheme. We have assembled ample evidence that they have lied under
oath in court. Such a company would not balk at attacking their own
site in order to paint their opponents in a bad light.
Thus, it is likely that this virus has been assembled for the
purpose of defaming the Linux developers by spammers, SCO, or
others. Your behavior will influence whether or not it succeeds in
this mission.
Thus, I urge all persons who have sympathy for Free Software, Open
Source, and Linux:
Do not cheer on attacks on the SCO
site. By doing so, you falsely implicate our community in
the attacks, in the eyes of outsiders who read your words. Our
community believes in freedom of speech, not silencing our
opponent's speech through net attacks. We will defeat SCO using the
truth, not by gagging them.
Publicly deplore the attacks as an attempt to defame us, and not
an effort of our community. Show others this notice.
Continue to fight SCO, using all
legal means at your disposal. Show others the analysis of
SCO's ongoing fraud at Groklaw.net and elsewhere, and
explain to them your own experience as a participant in the Free
Software community.
Continue the visible presence of
Free Software as a force for good in the world by producing
excellent original software for everyone's free use and deploying
it wherever possible. Promote these projects to the press and
public as you carry them out. Do what you can for other public-good
projects such as schools and non-profit organizations. FreeGeek.org is an excellent example
of how to carry this out.
Show others by example that our
side always takes the high road. When they see a low-road
sort of action like denial-of-service, spam, or stock fraud,
they'll know who to blame.
Remember that your actions count. You are ambassadors of our
community.
We're about the last people who would be out writing Windows viruses. This was probably done to defame us. Or possibly the source of the virus is the usual one - spammers - since it has mass-mailing capability, and the SCO DOS is just misdirection aimed at the community that has produced so many spam-blocking techniques.
I get more done becuase of my chutzpah and sometimes, I admit, arrogance. You gotta get attention for ideas to get them done.
UserLinux targets both desktop and server. Users employ servers too, just remotely.
We can get Oracle on board. It might take some time, but we can get their customers to bring them there.
Bruce
Re:The replacement is already here
on
United Linux Dead
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
Some of them have communicated with me privately. Their main request was "make us a path out of this mess and into getting the job done". I believe their attachment was more to Linux and the GNU System than to a commercial alliance created to market against Red Hat.
Thanks
Bruce
The replacement is already here
on
United Linux Dead
·
· Score: 5, Informative
The UserLinux project is United Linux done right. Debian base, broad membership rather than just 4 companies, equal partnership for all, nobody locked out. Please check out the planning wiki at http://userlinux.com/ . We will coordinate our release with that of Debian "Sarge".
Thanks
Bruce
IBM makes $1.5 Billion/year on patent licensing
on
Perens on Patents
·
· Score: 5, Interesting
IBM is shooting for $2B revenue per year from licensing and is heavily lobbying in Europe for software patenting. We can't count on their benevolence, or that of thousands of other companies.
We need to be asking our friends like IBM what they will do to help us. Our customers and users need to ask, as well. Many of them are IBM (and HP, etc.) customers too.
Slashdot Mirror
Bruce
The most you can do is help a student develop their skill. Skill is something that comes from the way your brain is wired. If you don't have it, no amount of learning will give it to you.
There are a lot of people with advanced degrees and little skill.
Bruce
What? You haven't been to groklaw to read the evidence? Perhaps you should do your homework.
If you read the words carefully, you'll see it's an appeal for you to act maturely. There are indeed some people who see an appeal for maturity as a brazen attempts to unfairly silence you. There are even a few people over 12 who see it that way.
Make sure you have the right to port that program. No problem if you're the copyright holder. Note that there is a copyright issue regarding porting GPLed KDE programs to commercial Qt on Windows. At the least, you should get written permission from all copyright holders.
Thanks
Bruce
phptr.com/perens
It is likely that this virus has been assembled for the purpose of defaming the Linux developers by spammers, SCO, or others. Your behavior will influence whether or not it succeeds in this mission.
Thus, I urge all persons who have sympathy for Free Software, Open Source, and Linux:
Remember that your actions count. You are ambassadors of our community.
Bruce
But it does a lot for the quality of a distribution to release it on all sorts of hardware. A lot of flaky intermittent bugs turn solid on one of those architectures.
Bruce
Bruce
Nobody has told me. Please ask Troll Tech.
Thanks
Bruce
Bruce
It's not the policy of my series to publish proprietary software on the accompanying CD. But there is some Borland stuff and a copy of Windows Qt on the CD. This is due to a mis-communication with my publisher. I found out about it very late in the process (as I was reading a galley proof), and decided to allow the deviation from policy this time rather than cause a tremendous hassle for Troll Tech. The book had already been advertised, and orders had been booked from stores, etc.
Thanks
Bruce
I don't have a thing to say about what you do in the privacy of your own home. Just keep it off the net.
Bruce
Bruce
Message to the Linux and Free Software Community Regarding the SCO Denial-of-Service Virus
Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> (U.S.) 510-526-1165
Version 2, January 27, 2004.
The master version of this notice is at http://perens.com/Articles/SCO/DOS/
Please check that location for a more recent version. You may re-publish this material. You may excerpt it, reformat it and translate it as necessary for your presentation. You may not edit it to deliberately misrepresent my opinion.
On January 26, 2004, a new virus became rampant. I have read reports that the virus payload has two purposes: to install a remote-execution back-end of a type commonly used by spammers to redistribute email, and to perform a denial-of-service attack on SCO's web site.
Denial-of-service attacks via virus have been a common trick of email spammers. They were first used to take out some of the anti-spam blacklist sites. Several of those sites had their (non-spam-related) business so heavily disrupted that they closed the doors of their anti-spam projects rather than be attacked again.
The Open Source developers are a target of spammers. We are the creators of most high-profile anti-spam technology. For example, SpamAssassin started out as, and remains today, an Open Source project. The predominant mail delivery programs of the Internet are Open Source projects such as Sendmail and Postfix, and thus most efforts to spam-proof those programs are Open Source as well. This is important, because it gives spammers a reason to defame us.
SCO also has a reason to defame us, as part of their stock-kiting scheme. We have assembled ample evidence that they have lied under oath in court. Such a company would not balk at attacking their own site in order to paint their opponents in a bad light.
Thus, it is likely that this virus has been assembled for the purpose of defaming the Linux developers by spammers, SCO, or others. Your behavior will influence whether or not it succeeds in this mission.
Thus, I urge all persons who have sympathy for Free Software, Open Source, and Linux:
Remember that your actions count. You are ambassadors of our community.
Bruce
It'll work, I promise. And there will be people who want to support you.
Bruce
I get more done becuase of my chutzpah and sometimes, I admit, arrogance. You gotta get attention for ideas to get them done.
UserLinux targets both desktop and server. Users employ servers too, just remotely.
We can get Oracle on board. It might take some time, but we can get their customers to bring them there.
Bruce
Thanks
Bruce
Thanks
Bruce
We need to be asking our friends like IBM what they will do to help us. Our customers and users need to ask, as well. Many of them are IBM (and HP, etc.) customers too.
Bruce
It had a solar panel and a primary battery. It was only meant to run for a few days.
Bruce