'They say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.'
Depends on how loudly, and in what company. Do that to enough seniors with heart problems, and you could find yourself on trial for mass murder;)
"Darl McBride now claims ownership of the new Finder in Panther, and Final Cut Pro."
In other news, SCO is planning on bringing suit with God next. "This God person," SCO CEO Darl McBride is quoted as saying, "has used stolen SCO code repleatedly in the design of Creation."
Since Darl likens Linux users to drug users, and Darl wants to license Linux to said users, what does that say about Darl? Druglord! I knew it!
Ok. I'll admit it. I'm a user. It started back in the early 90's when I discovered an old, version.96 or.97, of Slackware's series A disks on a local BBS. I needed more. As a technology junky, I just *had* to have the series N disks to hook up to the internet. There, I discovered crack. Soon, I was making deals with SATAN to keep my addiction going. And where would a true addict be if he didn't snort? But, in the past 10 or so years, I can honestly say, I didn't inhale any of it:P
"...announced their compensation (so far) from SCO: $1 million USD in cash, and $8 million in SCO stock. "
"So that would be $1 million then;0"
No, that would be $1 million cash and $8 million in toilet paper.
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"When (The Santa Cruz Operation) sold us the property, included in the property was a non-compete," McBride told IDG News Service. "Last time I checked, Linux was intended to compete with our core products."
SCO has a core product?! Santa Cruz Operation had a product. SCO has litigation. The difference between the two reminds me of the old anti-drug commercial. Picture of Santa Cruz Operation's upper management, with a voice-over "This is SCO" followed by a pic of Darl McBride and Company, "This is SCO on drugs... Any questions?"
Apparently, the theatres in my area can't make up their mind if they are pro or anti piracy. The last two movies I have seen have had, during their advertising slideshow before hand, have advertised SBC/Yahoo! DSL with the slogan "Download a movie faster than you can watch one" or something along those lines. So, does this mean the theatre is promoting piracy? Kinda ironic, especially since it was the last slide on the screen, immediately followed by the respectcopyrights ad.
My guess is that this is the latest tactic by SCO to pump their stock. You see, Darl McBride plans on a press conference later announcing that the recent solar activity is a result of that viral GPL, and should be enough proof for anyone that GNU/Linux contains SCO's IP and is therefore a derivitave work. Furthermore, it is proof that the GPL is invalid, and all works under it are therefore in the public domain. When it's pointed out that if the GPL is invalid then GPL'ed code reverts back to standard copyright, he'll point to his newly found addenum to the original GPL that was stuck to the bottom of a filing cabinet somewhere which states "... except during abnormal periods of solar activity" and said addenum will be found to contain the signatures of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Darl McBride, Linus Tolvards, Richard Stallman, and, of course, Satan himself. So, you see, we should just all give up and let SCO have their way with GNU/Linux because the solar activity is just the proof they need!
So, if I'm a Caldera customer and agree to their more restrictive license, is SCO going to be a hypocrite and refuse to offer me indemnity in case Redhat or IBM decides to sue me? I mean, it's only fair that if they complain that other companies won't indemnify their customer against SCO's lawsuits, that they offer the same thing theirselve, right? Oh, that's right, their defense to that reads something along the lines of a Monty Python sketch:
SCO: He turned me into a GNU. IBM: A GNU? SCO: I got better.
Does this mean that we can call Gator "spyware" again, as long as we're sure to refer to Claria as "adware" instead? Adware, spyware, it's all the same thing. The only difference between it and viruses is that viruses don't hide behind the fine print of a EULA. That, and they don't annoy me quite as bad
Stowell advised small and medium-sized businesses interested in the Linux license to wait for SCO to contact them. However, customers that contact SCO before the Nov. 1 deadline will be eligible for the $699 per processor rate even if they can't actually purchase the license by that date, he said.
If I make several assumptions (ok, Sammual L Jackson already pointed it out. That can make an ass out of you and umption) and SCO manages to will their cases, declare the GPL invalid, and manage to rule every program everywhere ever written a derivitive work of their source code, then why do they want me to wait to contact them? So they can charge double the ammount? Yeah, like anyone who thought they had a chance would wait at that rate.
I also need a little clarification of the word contact. What do you mean a DOS doesn't count as contact?!?!?!? (note for the humor impared: author of this comment does not advocate, and would never initiate, a DOS)
This is the first problem I've heard about them. I've been fortunate in my dealings with them, as have the people I know who use them. I'm sure isolated incidents can occur with anyone. Verisign has shown repeatedly why they don't deserve to administer *any* TLD, much less com and net. This is the first incident I've ever heard of with GoDaddy, so I'm not ready to put them in the same boat as Verisign yet.
I'm sure that others have pointed this out, but MSN has a similar "service" built in to IE and turned on by default. If I mistype a domain, and MSN search page comes up with possible valid alternatives. However, since Microsoft implements this via the browser, it doesn't bloody break the internet!
The problem with this is that it is a person's right to abstain from voting if he/she chooses. You can talk all you want about civic duty and all that, but not voting is still a choice, the last I checked.
That said, what's more frightening is that voter turnout is usually measured by registered voters. It usually does not account for people who are eligible but did not register. I would view those ones as the apathetic ones. The 50% who registered but didn't vote could be making just as loud of a political statement as the 50% who did. Kinda reflects the poor state of affairs the US is in, IMHO.
According to this article Sharman Networks is sueing the RIAA for copyright violation for using Kazaa Lite instead of Kazaa to access its network. I submitted it, but, sadly, it was rejected. Thought people interested in the whole RIAA mess might get a kick out of it, though.
Why don't they start bombing, say, SCO HQ? That would be a nice change of pace.
Oh sure, blowing up SCO would really strike fear in the hearts of Linux users everywhere. First rule of terrorism, never *help* the people you are trying to terrorize.
No, no, no. The kettle is *grey*, or even gray, if you prefer! No one has said that open source is 100% secure. It's just more likely that there will be more timely patches, since the code is out in the open. No code is 100% secure if it's anything beyond trivial. And the blame is not the OS. It's the people who don't apply patches, whether they run Mac, Linux, BSDi, or MS is irrelevant.
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I'd agree about the redirection, but I think I like the explanation from Linux better:)
...but I put it in a secret hiding place somewhere inside of SCO's office building.
I'm sorry, I can't divulge the location of the $32 at this time. I am willing to provide a set of scavenger hunt clues to selected, disinterested parties who are willing to sign an NDA, though...
Don't sign the NDA! I know where it's at! I found it while shoving my $699 up Darl McBribe's ass!
Ok, but there's Buymusic.com or whatever that car wreck is. That's got 95% of the market or whatever can use. Bad example with iTMS but I'm a recent convert to the mac platform and wonder why the hell I didn't do that a long time ago.
I'd put it more along the lines of train wreck, but that's just me;)
You are probably in the minority, and you use p2p to pick what you own. I've seen kids (12 - 17) and adults (21+) that get every p2p file they can find and use it to populate their CD players, their MP3 players.
I know I'm in the minority. If I weren't, the RIAA may have taken an "embrace and extend" attitude towards p2p instead of their current stance.
The RIAA doesn't help themselves, though. They consider every download a lost sale, which in my case it's a potential (and likely) sale instead. They also apparently don't see any flaw in the logic of raising prices during a down economy, with CD's considered luxary items by most.
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This is just what SCO wanted, they probably planted this "leak" to get more attention and a new batch of Greater Fools to buy stock.
All "wolf! wolf! wolf" and lots of crying. No "bite! bite! bite"
I'll go ahead and leak Google's response: "Bite me."
'They say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.'
;)
Depends on how loudly, and in what company. Do that to enough seniors with heart problems, and you could find yourself on trial for mass murder
"Darl McBride now claims ownership of the new Finder in Panther, and Final Cut Pro."
In other news, SCO is planning on bringing suit with God next. "This God person," SCO CEO Darl McBride is quoted as saying, "has used stolen SCO code repleatedly in the design of Creation."
Since Darl likens Linux users to drug users, and Darl wants to license Linux to said users, what does that say about Darl? Druglord! I knew it!
Ok. I'll admit it. I'm a user. It started back in the early 90's when I discovered an old, version .96 or .97, of Slackware's series A disks on a local BBS. I needed more. As a technology junky, I just *had* to have the series N disks to hook up to the internet. There, I discovered crack. Soon, I was making deals with SATAN to keep my addiction going. And where would a true addict be if he didn't snort? But, in the past 10 or so years, I can honestly say, I didn't inhale any of it :P
" ...announced their compensation (so far) from SCO: $1 million USD in cash, and $8 million in SCO stock. "
;0"
"So that would be $1 million then
No, that would be $1 million cash and $8 million in toilet paper.
"When (The Santa Cruz Operation) sold us the property, included in the property was a non-compete," McBride told IDG News Service. "Last time I checked, Linux was intended to compete with our core products."
SCO has a core product?! Santa Cruz Operation had a product. SCO has litigation. The difference between the two reminds me of the old anti-drug commercial. Picture of Santa Cruz Operation's upper management, with a voice-over "This is SCO" followed by a pic of Darl McBride and Company, "This is SCO on drugs... Any questions?"
Apparently, the theatres in my area can't make up their mind if they are pro or anti piracy. The last two movies I have seen have had, during their advertising slideshow before hand, have advertised SBC/Yahoo! DSL with the slogan "Download a movie faster than you can watch one" or something along those lines. So, does this mean the theatre is promoting piracy? Kinda ironic, especially since it was the last slide on the screen, immediately followed by the respectcopyrights ad.
" My guess would be... TERRORISM."
My guess is that this is the latest tactic by SCO to pump their stock. You see, Darl McBride plans on a press conference later announcing that the recent solar activity is a result of that viral GPL, and should be enough proof for anyone that GNU/Linux contains SCO's IP and is therefore a derivitave work. Furthermore, it is proof that the GPL is invalid, and all works under it are therefore in the public domain. When it's pointed out that if the GPL is invalid then GPL'ed code reverts back to standard copyright, he'll point to his newly found addenum to the original GPL that was stuck to the bottom of a filing cabinet somewhere which states "... except during abnormal periods of solar activity" and said addenum will be found to contain the signatures of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Darl McBride, Linus Tolvards, Richard Stallman, and, of course, Satan himself. So, you see, we should just all give up and let SCO have their way with GNU/Linux because the solar activity is just the proof they need!
So, if I'm a Caldera customer and agree to their more restrictive license, is SCO going to be a hypocrite and refuse to offer me indemnity in case Redhat or IBM decides to sue me? I mean, it's only fair that if they complain that other companies won't indemnify their customer against SCO's lawsuits, that they offer the same thing theirselve, right? Oh, that's right, their defense to that reads something along the lines of a Monty Python sketch:
SCO: He turned me into a GNU.
IBM: A GNU?
SCO: I got better.
Does this mean that we can call Gator "spyware" again, as long as we're sure to refer to Claria as "adware" instead? Adware, spyware, it's all the same thing. The only difference between it and viruses is that viruses don't hide behind the fine print of a EULA. That, and they don't annoy me quite as bad
"And soon, Amazon will have a patent on "$3.50 less" too."
Damn. Amazon must be run by lockness monsters.
From the atricle:
Stowell advised small and medium-sized businesses interested in the Linux license to wait for SCO to contact them. However, customers that contact SCO before the Nov. 1 deadline will be eligible for the $699 per processor rate even if they can't actually purchase the license by that date, he said.
If I make several assumptions (ok, Sammual L Jackson already pointed it out. That can make an ass out of you and umption) and SCO manages to will their cases, declare the GPL invalid, and manage to rule every program everywhere ever written a derivitive work of their source code, then why do they want me to wait to contact them? So they can charge double the ammount? Yeah, like anyone who thought they had a chance would wait at that rate.
I also need a little clarification of the word contact. What do you mean a DOS doesn't count as contact?!?!?!? (note for the humor impared: author of this comment does not advocate, and would never initiate, a DOS)
This is the first problem I've heard about them. I've been fortunate in my dealings with them, as have the people I know who use them. I'm sure isolated incidents can occur with anyone. Verisign has shown repeatedly why they don't deserve to administer *any* TLD, much less com and net. This is the first incident I've ever heard of with GoDaddy, so I'm not ready to put them in the same boat as Verisign yet.
I've had good luck with GoDaddy.com for my domains.
I'm sure that others have pointed this out, but MSN has a similar "service" built in to IE and turned on by default. If I mistype a domain, and MSN search page comes up with possible valid alternatives. However, since Microsoft implements this via the browser, it doesn't bloody break the internet!
.. making people IN the country vote?
last vote less than 50% or something voted
what about fixing that problem first?
The problem with this is that it is a person's right to abstain from voting if he/she chooses. You can talk all you want about civic duty and all that, but not voting is still a choice, the last I checked.
That said, what's more frightening is that voter turnout is usually measured by registered voters. It usually does not account for people who are eligible but did not register. I would view those ones as the apathetic ones. The 50% who registered but didn't vote could be making just as loud of a political statement as the 50% who did. Kinda reflects the poor state of affairs the US is in, IMHO.
Ah, and when I post the story when it goes out on the AP wire, it gets rejected :(
According to this article Sharman Networks is sueing the RIAA for copyright violation for using Kazaa Lite instead of Kazaa to access its network. I submitted it, but, sadly, it was rejected. Thought people interested in the whole RIAA mess might get a kick out of it, though.
Why don't they start bombing, say, SCO HQ? That would be a nice change of pace.
Oh sure, blowing up SCO would really strike fear in the hearts of Linux users everywhere. First rule of terrorism, never *help* the people you are trying to terrorize.
No, no, no. The kettle is *grey*, or even gray, if you prefer! No one has said that open source is 100% secure. It's just more likely that there will be more timely patches, since the code is out in the open. No code is 100% secure if it's anything beyond trivial. And the blame is not the OS. It's the people who don't apply patches, whether they run Mac, Linux, BSDi, or MS is irrelevant.
I'd agree about the redirection, but I think I like the explanation from Linux better :)
So, when did Darl McBride become head of the RIAA?
Akron, OH 44333
Not much of a drive for me! WEG
...but I put it in a secret hiding place somewhere inside of SCO's office building.
I'm sorry, I can't divulge the location of the $32 at this time. I am willing to provide a set of scavenger hunt clues to selected, disinterested parties who are willing to sign an NDA, though...
Don't sign the NDA! I know where it's at! I found it while shoving my $699 up Darl McBribe's ass!
Ok, but there's Buymusic.com or whatever that car wreck is. That's got 95% of the market or whatever can use. Bad example with iTMS but I'm a recent convert to the mac platform and wonder why the hell I didn't do that a long time ago.
;)
I'd put it more along the lines of train wreck, but that's just me
You are probably in the minority, and you use p2p to pick what you own. I've seen kids (12 - 17) and adults (21+) that get every p2p file they can find and use it to populate their CD players, their MP3 players.
I know I'm in the minority. If I weren't, the RIAA may have taken an "embrace and extend" attitude towards p2p instead of their current stance.
The RIAA doesn't help themselves, though. They consider every download a lost sale, which in my case it's a potential (and likely) sale instead. They also apparently don't see any flaw in the logic of raising prices during a down economy, with CD's considered luxary items by most.