There are proprietary forms of software with disclosed source code but without Open Source licensing. Microsoft calls this Shared Source, Sun calls it Community Source, I just call it "Disclosed Source-Code". It's important to note that Open Source relates to the rights attached to the code, not just the presence of source code.
No, this is a get them going document. Once their membership gets more deeply into Open Source, they should be able to determine their own direction - although I will be around if they need help.
Regarding the "Sorry vendors", there are a few more inflamatory lines in there to keep people awake. The one about having to change their name, and I pretty much blast strategic marketing in tech companies.
According to European and US economic data, a minority of software jobs are connected with retail software. Most software is not written to be sold. Instead, software is a cost-center within a company that does something else for its profit-center. Internal software is often a non-differentiating (doesn't make your company different from the competition) but necessary. This is all perfect for Open Source collaboration.
So, to the question "will Open Source kill my job?", the answer is generally "no". India will kill your job (well, those of you who are not in India). And I don't know what you should do about that.
I think SCO is a member, too. Open Group is not vendor-dominated, as far as I can tell. They have lots of large corporate users in their membership, some government agencies (including DOD/DISA), etc.
And regarding Sun, specifically, Sun has a multiple-personality disorder where Free Software is concerned. They help us with one hand and hurt with the other. This is also true for IBM, Intel, and HP. They have an internal conflict of interest that they won't be able to resolve in this decade. The best we can do is live with it.
Nope, the Computer Museum went from DEC, to Boston harbor, to Moffet Field in Sunnyvale, and finally got a budget and morphed into the Computer History Museum.
Sometime between 1981 and 1983, a group of us from the NYIT Computer Graphics Lab visited DEC for a day. At that time, DEC had its own helicopter fleet that they used to promote face-to-face meetings of employees across the company. We took the air shuttle to Boston, and then they picked us up in a DEC helicopter.
After an aerial tour of the DEC facilities, we landed and Ken Olsen, then president of DEC, greeted us.
The high point of that day for me was the private dinner with Gordon and Gwen bell on the floor of the Computer Museum, then located at DEC, after hours. That day, Gordon had caught the fish that they served us for dinner.
I wasn't even supposed to be on that trip, being just a junior systems programmer at the time. One of the senior scientists had to cancel, and I got his place. I don't think I ever met Gordon or Gwen again, but I won't ever forget that day.
Change the Cat5?!?!!? Why aren't you running heartbeat? You need never drop a single packet.
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Doctors try hard. They work harder than most people in U.S. society. But they are like auto mechanics, in that they are in the business of fixing something that they don't fully understand.
I went on chemotherapy for a platelet proliferation disorder in 1995 or so. It is called malignant by some doctors and benign by others, but definitely isn't metastatic. I researched my condition, found the expert researcher in the field, and made an appointment with him at the Mayo clinic. When I got back from there with a recommendation to go off chemo, my hematologist in Berkeley took his other three patients with the condition off of chemo as well. I am still symptom-free today. And I am a father now, but would probably have gone sterile if I stayed on chemo.
And this is just one of my three medical horror stories, another of which is a hyperactivity diagnosis in my youth with which I would take issue today, and the third of which is a motor speech and movement deficit that it took until I was 18 years old for me to beat. But I have beat all of these things.
You must fully engage in your medical care, and be the main person driving it. Not your doctor, you.
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You are correct. And there are few nastier things in the world. shudder
Consider all the places where we handle this in Free Software. Ghostscript and the various PDF viewers don't abuse the Adobe PostScript trademark, for example. There must be dozens more.
A standard way to determine if something is fair is to turn it on its head, to see what it would be like if reversed. Given that, how much do you think Apple Computer Inc. would want per year for the right to call a computer "Apple"? I bet it would be more than $110K:-)
The goal of the lawsuit is to maintain the Unix Standard. Not a bad thing. The Open Group owns the definition of Unix and the test suite, and of course the trademark. Things that don't certify to the standard can call themselves anything but "Unix". This sort of certification bound with a trademark is compatible with Open Source, and is a way that Open Source proponents have generally recommended that business people protect their brand and trademark.
Neither Linux nor the BSDs infringe upon this trademark, and of course the Open Group has made significant contributions to the Linux Standard Base (about 95% of the test-suite software, I'm told) and has been working on an Open Source Strategy with me since last year. You'll like it. It's in internal review now.
If you would like to send a message to the Open Group,
I would not be a bad intermediary to use. Please write to me at bruce @ perens.com . I am on the road right now and will not be able to engage in a long debate on Slashdot, so email will be best.
It's possible. I would leave it to a larger Linux business to pursue that. I think I can nail these guys to the floor without approaching a court room.
You can generally get disclosures of insider trading on the web. I think I used to do it at quicken.com . When I worked for HP, I watched Carly's trades and those of other executives.
SCO does not own 117 patents. Maybe they are mentioned in 117 patents, as an example of a Unix system. Mind your search parameters. They own only a handful of patents, and no significant ones.
This is by far the most irrational thing I've seen from SCO. Go to
www.uspto.gov and search the patent collection online. Look for "Santa Cruz
Operation", "SCO", and "Caldera" as patent owner. They were granted one patent
last month, and not a significant one. There isn't much else there.
A lot of patents owned by other people mention SCO as an example of a Unix
system. That is by far the largest source of mentions of their company name in the patent database.
So, where's the ammo in Darl's gun? No patents. No copyrights for the stuff
he said he owned. No trade secrets, as far as I can tell.
And then, to threaten Linus Torvalds as an individual sounds especially whiny.
multi-Million-dollar corporation sues San Jose programmer who has made a life of giving his work
away for free. SCO has descended to playground-bully level.
Karsten Self revealed this interesting tidbit from SCO's 10K report:
The Company has an arrangement with Novell, Inc. ("Novell") in which
it acts as an administrative agent in the collection of royalties for
customers who deploy SVRx technology. Under the agency agreement, the
Company collects all customer payments and remits 95 percent of the
collected funds to Novell and retains 5 percent as an administrative
fee. The Company records the 5 percent administrative fee as revenue in
its consolidated statements of operations. The accompanying October 31,
2002 and 2001 consolidated balance sheets reflect the amounts collected
related to this agency agreement but not yet remitted to Novell of
$1,428,000 and $1,894,000, respectively, as restricted cash and royalty
payable to Novell. The October 31, 2001 balances were reclassified
from cash and equivalents and other royalties payable to conform to the
current year presentation.
This is SCO's admission that Novell owns Unix System V, all revisions - that's
what they mean by "SVRx", and pays Novell 95% of the royalties. SCO gets
to keep 5% as administrative agent.
That proves the Novell allegation.
SCO stock dropped from $9 to $6 today. I'm surprised it closed that high.
Ransom is no longer connected with the company. I'm not sure he was ever the real manager - it sounds as if Canopy group micromanaged the company and Ransom was the face in front of the press.
Novell did this on their own initiative. Although I talk with people there and they are an occassional consulting customer, I can't claim to have motivated them to do this.
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There are proprietary forms of software with disclosed source code but without Open Source licensing. Microsoft calls this Shared Source, Sun calls it Community Source, I just call it "Disclosed Source-Code". It's important to note that Open Source relates to the rights attached to the code, not just the presence of source code.
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If you know of code that they could/should release, this would be a good time to agitate for that.
Bruce
No, this is a get them going document. Once their membership gets more deeply into Open Source, they should be able to determine their own direction - although I will be around if they need help.
Regarding the "Sorry vendors", there are a few more inflamatory lines in there to keep people awake. The one about having to change their name, and I pretty much blast strategic marketing in tech companies.
Bruce
So, to the question "will Open Source kill my job?", the answer is generally "no". India will kill your job (well, those of you who are not in India). And I don't know what you should do about that.
Bruce
And regarding Sun, specifically, Sun has a multiple-personality disorder where Free Software is concerned. They help us with one hand and hurt with the other. This is also true for IBM, Intel, and HP. They have an internal conflict of interest that they won't be able to resolve in this decade. The best we can do is live with it.
Bruce
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After an aerial tour of the DEC facilities, we landed and Ken Olsen, then president of DEC, greeted us.
The high point of that day for me was the private dinner with Gordon and Gwen bell on the floor of the Computer Museum, then located at DEC, after hours. That day, Gordon had caught the fish that they served us for dinner.
I wasn't even supposed to be on that trip, being just a junior systems programmer at the time. One of the senior scientists had to cancel, and I got his place. I don't think I ever met Gordon or Gwen again, but I won't ever forget that day.
Bruce
Change the Cat5?!?!!? Why aren't you running heartbeat? You need never drop a single packet.
I went on chemotherapy for a platelet proliferation disorder in 1995 or so. It is called malignant by some doctors and benign by others, but definitely isn't metastatic. I researched my condition, found the expert researcher in the field, and made an appointment with him at the Mayo clinic. When I got back from there with a recommendation to go off chemo, my hematologist in Berkeley took his other three patients with the condition off of chemo as well. I am still symptom-free today. And I am a father now, but would probably have gone sterile if I stayed on chemo.
And this is just one of my three medical horror stories, another of which is a hyperactivity diagnosis in my youth with which I would take issue today, and the third of which is a motor speech and movement deficit that it took until I was 18 years old for me to beat. But I have beat all of these things.
You must fully engage in your medical care, and be the main person driving it. Not your doctor, you.
Bruce
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Neither Linux nor the BSDs infringe upon this trademark, and of course the Open Group has made significant contributions to the Linux Standard Base (about 95% of the test-suite software, I'm told) and has been working on an Open Source Strategy with me since last year. You'll like it. It's in internal review now.
If you would like to send a message to the Open Group, I would not be a bad intermediary to use. Please write to me at bruce @ perens.com . I am on the road right now and will not be able to engage in a long debate on Slashdot, so email will be best.
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Also, the source to the first two books in my series is now online at phptr.com/perens.
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A lot of patents owned by other people mention SCO as an example of a Unix system. That is by far the largest source of mentions of their company name in the patent database.
So, where's the ammo in Darl's gun? No patents. No copyrights for the stuff he said he owned. No trade secrets, as far as I can tell.
And then, to threaten Linus Torvalds as an individual sounds especially whiny. multi-Million-dollar corporation sues San Jose programmer who has made a life of giving his work away for free. SCO has descended to playground-bully level.
Karsten Self revealed this interesting tidbit from SCO's 10K report:
This is SCO's admission that Novell owns Unix System V, all revisions - that's what they mean by "SVRx", and pays Novell 95% of the royalties. SCO gets to keep 5% as administrative agent.That proves the Novell allegation.
SCO stock dropped from $9 to $6 today. I'm surprised it closed that high.
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