>...in their ongoing litigation alleging that > Linux violates the intellectual property rights > they claim to hold on UNIX.
While The SCO Group has repeatedly made such allegations in the press they have never done so in any litigation. Their statements to the contrary are lies.
I work at home and don't have a TV. I will turn the radio off, of course, but that may not be enough. I know I must avoid the news sites, but will it be safe to visit Slashdot?
> Big corporate media also likes to use the DMCA > to shut down web sites.
Copyright owners could send cease and desist letters in the absence of the DMCA. The difference is that without the DMCA they could also sue the site operator even if he took the purportedly infringing material down immediately.
The individual Rackspace employees in London are not subject to US law, and could have defied instructions from headquarters to pull the drives with impunity. Rackspace headquarters, however, is in the US.
Rackspace might have been able to successfully fight the subpoena, but why would they try?
> So here, we've got a focal length of 10,000 > miles.
No you don't. A pinhole doesn't focus.
Forget the "pinhole camera" red herring. This is not a camera or telescope of any kind. As the article says, it is a _starshade_. The angular diameter of the hole from 10,000 miles back is not much larger than the angular diameter of a planet 100 light-years away. Thus viewing the planet through the hole from 10,000 miles back blocks out the light of the star the planet is orbiting.
I'm aware that he was quoting another source: OSRM to be exact. My point is that _any_ software project of any substantial size is certain to be infringing many patents. Linux differs in that someone actually went through and systematically identified all the likely candidates (I'm sure the missed some, of course.)
> A software developer at MySQL claims 'Linux > violates 283 U.S. software patents.
Linux _may_ infringe some of 283 U.S. software patents. And MySQL? Are they willing to tell us how many they may be infringing? Do they know? You can be damn sure they are infringing some.
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> I was was not brave enough to try it without
> water purification tablets though.
Why? Were you afraid you would catch a disease from yourself?
> If this is the case, then how is Sun going to be
> able to Open Source Solaris 10?
The same way that UC Open Sourced BSD.
> ...in their ongoing litigation alleging that
> Linux violates the intellectual property rights
> they claim to hold on UNIX.
While The SCO Group has repeatedly made such allegations in the press they have never done so in any litigation. Their statements to the contrary are lies.
And then there are the things we know that aren't true...
> Is Microsoft opening itself to defending
> thousands of lawsuits against their customers?"
No. They are revealing that they know that there is no significant risk of end-users of software being sued.
> Looks like new evidence that the U.S. Patent
> Office is hiring monkeys to bulk-approve new
> patents.
Not monkeys: very efficient clerks. It takes skill to wield a rubber stamp that fast.
I (accidently) tried this at home and it knocked me down. Maybe that was because I used an electric fence charger?
A listserv may not count as a "printed publication".
I work at home and don't have a TV. I will turn the radio off, of course, but that may not be enough. I know I must avoid the news sites, but will it be safe to visit Slashdot?
A line of luxury leather passport holders lined with rf-absorbent cloth will soon be available. Wallets and handbags will follow.
That's quite an image you call up there.
A lot. They are talking about interferometry, not mere binocular vision. Look it up.
If I was setting up public workstations I'd make sure *everything* was wiped and reloaded between users.
In any case, only a fool would put anything "sensitive" on a public workstation.
Sure, if it was reliable and more cost-effective than running my own furnace and water heater.
Oh. You mean some game? No.
> Big corporate media also likes to use the DMCA
> to shut down web sites.
Copyright owners could send cease and desist letters in the absence of the DMCA. The difference is that without the DMCA they could also sue the site operator even if he took the purportedly infringing material down immediately.
The individual Rackspace employees in London are not subject to US law, and could have defied instructions from headquarters to pull the drives with impunity. Rackspace headquarters, however, is in the US.
Rackspace might have been able to successfully fight the subpoena, but why would they try?
> now i'm no legal expert...
...you were innocent until proven guilty and
This is clear.
> but i was under the distinct impression that,
> with a few exceptions like threatening the
> president...
I know of no such exception.
>
> had the right to defend yourself. have i missed
> something?
Yes. You have missed the fact that this has to do with seizure of property, not criminal prosecution.
Too bad about the hideous name.
> So here, we've got a focal length of 10,000
> miles.
No you don't. A pinhole doesn't focus.
Forget the "pinhole camera" red herring. This is not a camera or telescope of any kind. As the article says, it is a _starshade_. The angular diameter of the hole from 10,000 miles back is not much larger than the angular diameter of a planet 100 light-years away. Thus viewing the planet through the hole from 10,000 miles back blocks out the light of the star the planet is orbiting.
It's sort of the inverse of an occultation disk.
I'm aware that he was quoting another source: OSRM to be exact. My point is that _any_ software project of any substantial size is certain to be infringing many patents. Linux differs in that someone actually went through and systematically identified all the likely candidates (I'm sure the missed some, of course.)
Not in the US.
> A software developer at MySQL claims 'Linux
> violates 283 U.S. software patents.
Linux _may_ infringe some of 283 U.S. software patents. And MySQL? Are they willing to tell us how many they may be infringing? Do they know? You can be damn sure they are infringing some.
I don't use a search engine in order to have an "experience". I use it in order to get results.
I had trouble with their DNS service when I was using them a few years back.
> Cut down on the amount of money floating around
> in the legal system, and you return sanity to
> the consumer world.
You've been suckered by insurance industry propaganda. There is no "liability crisis".