> I'm telling you - we need to see SCO's "closed source" product code - for > there, you will see that they have been going what they have accuesed > everyone else of doing.
What do you suggest? A BSA type raid on their headquarters for a GPL licence compliance audit, perhaps using ESR's shredder SW on their source code?
He already stated that they would licence the technology to Mozilla for free, and that he didn't want to see a browser monoculture.
The fact that this is being done shows how much clout MS really has - even if you are legally in the right in taking them on, (whether he is morally right is certainly a matter of debate) they can simply get the law changed in their favour. Scary, isn't it?
Wouldn't it be incumbant on the medical centre to make all reasonable efforts to protect patient data? If they choose to outsource operations, then it is their responsibility to ensure that the ousourcing agency takes the necessary steps to preserve confidentiality, or it is their legal A$$ that is on the line.
Ok, it is wishful thinking, but wouldn't it be damned nice to have a high performance royalty free 64 compiler friendly CPU core, as a hedge against the onslaught of "trusted computing"?
GPL software is licenced according to specific terms and conditions. Don't like it - don't use it, simple as that. Use BSD code or rewrite from scratch.
How to you think MS or Oracle would react if they found out you were incorporating some of their code in your product with stripped out copyright notices? If it doesn't bother them to adhere to proprietary licences, (which are much more restrictive in your rights) then why do they think they can violate the terms of free software licences at will?
When the issue of idemnification came up, he should have asked how SCO plans to idemnify their customers against claims related IBM's patent claims, in the (almost certain) event SCO loses! (Best asked in the presence of as many reporters and potential or current SCO customers as possible) If you can, squeeze in a follow up question about how they intend to deal with copyright lawsuits from the developers who wrote the rest of the Linux kernel, and if they intend to idemnify their linux customers against this as well.
These four patents are something SCO's FUD machine cannot explain away, especially since they are jumping up and down about their own so called intellectual property.
How hard would it be to have software process the film, look for large swaths of colours approximately matching the splotches, and remove them? Seems almost trivial image processing to me, although there is a lot of data to crank through.
Actually, the main reasons electric cars are not more popular are:
1) Lengthy refuelling time 2) Limited cruising range 3) Cost is not competitive - either the vehicle is prohibitively expensive (as in this case) or the batteries need to be replaced after a relatively small number of charge cycles, and the cost of electricity to charge the vehicle is not competitive with gasoline or diesel.
Solve all of these problems at the same time, and you will be wealthier than Billy G. (And less resented for your wealth) I won't hold my breath though, barring some revolution in battery technology, I put my best hopes for an alternative energy vehicle in fuel cells.
It has long been possible to get good acceleration out of an electric car, I remember a 1970's popular science article describing an electric vehicle with regular lead acid batteries that used an energy storage flywheel that recovered braking energy and fed it back into the transmission when you hit the accelerator for quick takeoffs. While you were idling at a stoplight, the battery would gradually be topping up the flywheel velocity, ready for a jackrabbit getaway on the green light.
Kateeb Microsoft has run a steady course even as the Middle East IT sector passed through one of its toughest periods in more than a decade.
Its.NET platform snagged some major enterprise wins in the Gulf, thus building up momentum for an IT infrastructure solution that could become as pervasive as one of Microsoft's earlier Windows operating systems.
Gains are also being made in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) space, where until recently Microsoft had only a marginal presence at best.
With the IT sector coming out of its blues, it is as good a time as any to listen to what Mohammed Kateeb, regional director of Microsoft Middle East, has to say about some of the initiatives that will leave their stamp on the IT roadmap.
Gulf News: You have been a very vocal proponent of the.NET. How far have the Middle East markets taken to it? Mohammed Kateeb: When we announced.NET during the Internet hype, the media wrote stories from the consumer perspective which was to do with buying and selling goods and services on the Web.
But with the hype settling down, we have moved towards a better understanding of what.NET is all about. We finally focused on the basics of.NET, which is connectivity. To connect the world, you have to start with the inside of the organization and before you connect the organizations you connect the people within the organisation.
Today,.NET in the Middle East is at a level where we are going and working with all those companies trying to get connected internally to generate a profile of their customers and their partners. Once you have connected the organization internally, then you can connect externally.
As far as.NET is concerned, the external part is still in the infancy stage in the region. On the internal part, I am happy to say that most of our customers have projects going connecting the internal systems, thus making sure that there is no island of information within the organization.
You will see some aggressive companies in the region that will have projects for the external connectivity over the next two or three years.
To summarize, we are on the road towards achieving what we planned to achieve with.NET. We have taken the basic steps first and we are doing a good job of it.
The regional IT market has been suggesting a very good financial year for Microsoft in the region. What is your verdict? Due to the political situation, for instance the short war in Iraq, we had to recalculate our estimates and forecasts. But the governments in the Middle East understand that these problems are not going to be solved in a day, and are of the opinion that business is not affected.
Therefore, even during the midst of the war there were many major projects that we undertook in the region. While I cannot provide any numbers, I believe we had a very good year and our growth was really healthy. It exceeded all our expectations.
There's been a lot of buzz surrounding the Bahrain e-Government project with which you are closely involved. Could you give us a look in? There will be a lot of exciting information coming out of Bahrain in the next 30 days. We have been working closely with a lot of the Ministries and are coming to an understanding of their needs.
And Iraq would be next? We have already started work in Iraq, and have identified a team for it. Iraq will be one of the top three economies in the Middle East within the next five years and we are taking this market very seriously.
The only thing is the security issue. This is slowing down our operations in Iraq. We are looking forward to working with the authorities in developing Iraq.
The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector space is another of your priorities. Where does Microsoft stand right now
An example of the kind of damage being done
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Here is an interview with the MS rep in the persian gulf area. It may initially seem off topic, but if you read through it, he starts using the SCO lawsuit as an example of why how linux users don't respect IP. (Funny, no mention of the Eolas patents as an example of how MS respects the IP of others)
(This interview is worthy of a story submission in itself, but I have given up submitting stories to/.)
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?Artic le ID=97436
To the 1950's, 1960's, and early '70s where computers had rows and rows of blinking lights and switches Anywbody remember the PDP 11's? Or the early Altairs?
Now we just need an excuse to add dozens of little toggle switches to the side of the case.
This Las Vegas chicanery is certainly going to come out in court, and I doubt it will impress the presiding judge very much. A lot of this will hinge on credibility, the appearance of clean hands, and conduct beyond reproach.
Sure, SCO has won a few lawsuits recently. But this is kid stuff, compared to what they now face. They are like the schoolyard bully thinking because you managed to kick the stuffing out of a few 98 pound weaklings, that he can take on the world heavyweight champion. IBM doesn't like to air dirty laundry in public, but behind the scenes their lawyers are gridingly thorough. Every time McStupid opens his big mouth, or they issue another insane claim, (including the Las Vegas dog and pony show) they are building evidence against themselves. I have no doubt IBM lawyers are quietly collecting the ammunition SCO is providing them, to be used at the appropriate moment. Some fools interpret their relative silence as an indication they have no defence. Far from it! IBM and Red Hat are not ranting and raving. Court can be like a card game in that you don't want to reveal your cards or strategy until it is time to lay them down. IBM is being very slow and careful. If history is any guide, IBM will be grindingly thorough, leaving no stone unturned. SCO's only hope is an idiot jury, but then that only guarantees an appeal.
Saddam stomped out Kuwait back in 1992, but the results were decidedly different when he was facing a superpower. (I could also use the analogy of another megalomanic dictator back in 1939, but I don't want to bring Goodwin's law into it.) Except in the legal battlefield, there is no lightning war, everything plays out in slow motion. SCO won't be dealt a sudden death blow, instead they will be bulldozed under. Actually, there is a certain scene near the end of "A fish called Wanda" that comes to mind. Those who have seen the movie will know what I am talking about.
From the story: ---- A space elevator would make rockets redundant by granting cheaper access to space. At about a third of the way along the cable - 36,000km from Earth - objects take a year to complete a full orbit. If the cable's centre of gravity remained at this height, the cable would remain vertical, as satellites placed at this height are geostationary, effectively hovering over the same spot on the ground. ------
Actually, at 36,000 km from earth, objects take a day, not a year to complete a full orbit. The moon takes about 28 days to complete an orbit, (one lunar cycle) and any object far enough out from the earth to require a year in order to complete an orbit would passed the instability limit, where it would be captured away by the sun's gravity, and would no longer orbit earth.
From the article... "Even these clumsy, expensive, painfully disruptive approaches might not satisfy the patent holder. If they do not, then where rich media is concerned, the web could soon look like 1993 all over again."
If everybody had to do this, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing. Most of the fancy flash animations are just annoying ads that consume vast amounts of bandwidth anyway. I would love the web to be blindingly fast again. (And I have DSL, I can't imagine what this is like with dial-up anymore.)
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Gooood Morning Deb-I-an!
> I'm telling you - we need to see SCO's "closed source" product code - for
> there, you will see that they have been going what they have accuesed
> everyone else of doing.
What do you suggest? A BSA type raid on their headquarters for a GPL licence compliance audit, perhaps using ESR's shredder SW on their source code?
He already stated that they would licence the technology to Mozilla for free, and that he didn't want to see a browser monoculture.
The fact that this is being done shows how much clout MS really has - even if you are legally in the right in taking them on, (whether he is morally right is certainly a matter of debate) they can simply get the law changed in their favour. Scary, isn't it?
Call 1-800-ISUE-BIG
Wouldn't it be incumbant on the medical centre to make all reasonable efforts to protect patient data? If they choose to outsource operations, then it is their responsibility to ensure that the ousourcing agency takes the necessary steps to preserve confidentiality, or it is their legal A$$ that is on the line.
Gator is SPYWARE
Gator is SPYWARE
Gator is SPYWARE
Hey Mr. Gator - tell your lawyers to come and get some!
Create a chain mail letter saying this must be forwarded to five of your friends, and set the controls to prevent it from being forwarded.
Should be good for a chuckle or two.
Ok, it is wishful thinking, but wouldn't it be damned nice to have a high performance royalty free 64 compiler friendly CPU core, as a hedge against the onslaught of "trusted computing"?
GPL software is licenced according to specific terms and conditions. Don't like it - don't use it, simple as that. Use BSD code or rewrite from scratch.
How to you think MS or Oracle would react if they found out you were incorporating some of their code in your product with stripped out copyright notices? If it doesn't bother them to adhere to proprietary licences, (which are much more restrictive in your rights) then why do they think they can violate the terms of free software licences at will?
When the issue of idemnification came up, he should have asked how SCO plans to idemnify their customers against claims related IBM's patent claims, in the (almost certain) event SCO loses! (Best asked in the presence of as many reporters and potential or current SCO customers as possible) If you can, squeeze in a follow up question about how they intend to deal with copyright lawsuits from the developers who wrote the rest of the Linux kernel, and if they intend to idemnify their linux customers against this as well.
These four patents are something SCO's FUD machine cannot explain away, especially since they are jumping up and down about their own so called intellectual property.
How hard would it be to have software process the film, look for large swaths of colours approximately matching the splotches, and remove them? Seems almost trivial image processing to me, although there is a lot of data to crank through.
Maybe the guys who did it to Valve are already hard at work on this!
http://www.oddtodd.com/cartoons.html
Watch a day in a life (Laid off Land)
I nearly laughed myself sick! This was acutually made by a laid off dot bomber.
(It is worth the wait, and reminded me that flash is useful for more than just annoying ads)
That would certainly create a lot of wealth according to Darling Darl et al.
My dream compiler, back in the days when I was doing high school CS assignments using mark sense cards on an IBM 370. (Aaah, those were the days)
l il ty.htm
I quick google search revealed that a native 8086 version of it is now freely available at:
http://digilander.libero.it/saracos/Download/ut
Funny how a University of Waterloo compiler would wind up in Italy. Now, if I can just spark up an old PC-XT somewhere...
But first they have to sign a NDA to read it!
Actually, the main reasons electric cars are not more popular are:
1) Lengthy refuelling time
2) Limited cruising range
3) Cost is not competitive - either the vehicle is prohibitively expensive (as in this case) or the batteries need to be replaced after a relatively small number of charge cycles, and the cost of electricity to charge the vehicle is not competitive with gasoline or diesel.
Solve all of these problems at the same time, and you will be wealthier than Billy G. (And less resented for your wealth) I won't hold my breath though, barring some revolution in battery technology, I put my best hopes for an alternative energy vehicle in fuel cells.
It has long been possible to get good acceleration out of an electric car, I remember a 1970's popular science article describing an electric vehicle with regular lead acid batteries that used an energy storage flywheel that recovered braking energy and fed it back into the transmission when you hit the accelerator for quick takeoffs. While you were idling at a stoplight, the battery would gradually be topping up the flywheel velocity, ready for a jackrabbit getaway on the green light.
While we are on the topic of SCO:
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The contents of their motion to dismiss the Red Hat suit is online at:
http://www.groklaw.com/article.php?story=200
I submitted this as a separate story, but it is likely to be rejected or claimed by somebody else, so you can read it first here...
I tried to copy paste the article, but it is too long for submission here.
Fire everybody and hire them back as paid consultants!
Text of article: (SCO stuff is midway down)
.NET platform snagged some major enterprise wins in the Gulf, thus building up momentum for an IT infrastructure solution that could become as pervasive as one of Microsoft's earlier Windows operating systems.
.NET. How far have the Middle East markets taken to it? .NET during the Internet hype, the media wrote stories from the consumer perspective which was to do with buying and selling goods and services on the Web.
.NET is all about. We finally focused on the basics of .NET, which is connectivity. To connect the world, you have to start with the inside of the organization and before you connect the organizations you connect the people within the organisation.
.NET in the Middle East is at a level where we are going and working with all those companies trying to get connected internally to generate a profile of their customers and their partners. Once you have connected the organization internally, then you can connect externally.
.NET is concerned, the external part is still in the infancy stage in the region. On the internal part, I am happy to say that most of our customers have projects going connecting the internal systems, thus making sure that there is no island of information within the organization.
.NET. We have taken the basic steps first and we are doing a good job of it.
Kateeb
Microsoft has run a steady course even as the Middle East IT sector passed through one of its toughest periods in more than a decade.
Its
Gains are also being made in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) space, where until recently Microsoft had only a marginal presence at best.
With the IT sector coming out of its blues, it is as good a time as any to listen to what Mohammed Kateeb, regional director of Microsoft Middle East, has to say about some of the initiatives that will leave their stamp on the IT roadmap.
Gulf News: You have been a very vocal proponent of the
Mohammed Kateeb: When we announced
But with the hype settling down, we have moved towards a better understanding of what
Today,
As far as
You will see some aggressive companies in the region that will have projects for the external connectivity over the next two or three years.
To summarize, we are on the road towards achieving what we planned to achieve with
The regional IT market has been suggesting a very good financial year for Microsoft in the region. What is your verdict?
Due to the political situation, for instance the short war in Iraq, we had to recalculate our estimates and forecasts. But the governments in the Middle East understand that these problems are not going to be solved in a day, and are of the opinion that business is not affected.
Therefore, even during the midst of the war there were many major projects that we undertook in the region. While I cannot provide any numbers, I believe we had a very good year and our growth was really healthy. It exceeded all our expectations.
There's been a lot of buzz surrounding the Bahrain e-Government project with which you are closely involved. Could you give us a look in?
There will be a lot of exciting information coming out of Bahrain in the next 30 days. We have been working closely with a lot of the Ministries and are coming to an understanding of their needs.
And Iraq would be next?
We have already started work in Iraq, and have identified a team for it. Iraq will be one of the top three economies in the Middle East within the next five years and we are taking this market very seriously.
The only thing is the security issue. This is slowing down our operations in Iraq. We are looking forward to working with the authorities in developing Iraq.
The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector space is another of your priorities. Where does Microsoft stand right now
Here is an interview with the MS rep in the persian gulf area. It may initially seem off topic, but if you read through it, he starts using the SCO lawsuit as an example of why how linux users don't respect IP. (Funny, no mention of the Eolas patents as an example of how MS respects the IP of others)
(This interview is worthy of a story submission in itself, but I have given up submitting stories to
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?Arti
to try sending Ford an invoice!
Come on Darl!
To the 1950's, 1960's, and early '70s where computers had rows and rows of blinking lights and switches Anywbody remember the PDP 11's? Or the early Altairs?
Now we just need an excuse to add dozens of little toggle switches to the side of the case.
This Las Vegas chicanery is certainly going to come out in court, and I doubt it will impress the presiding judge very much. A lot of this will hinge on credibility, the appearance of clean hands, and conduct beyond reproach.
Sure, SCO has won a few lawsuits recently. But this is kid stuff, compared to what they now face. They are like the schoolyard bully thinking because you managed to kick the stuffing out of a few 98 pound weaklings, that he can take on the world heavyweight champion. IBM doesn't like to air dirty laundry in public, but behind the scenes their lawyers are gridingly thorough. Every time McStupid opens his big mouth, or they issue another insane claim, (including the Las Vegas dog and pony show) they are building evidence against themselves. I have no doubt IBM lawyers are quietly collecting the ammunition SCO is providing them, to be used at the appropriate moment. Some fools interpret their relative silence as an indication they have no defence. Far from it! IBM and Red Hat are not ranting and raving. Court can be like a card game in that you don't want to reveal your cards or strategy until it is time to lay them down. IBM is being very slow and careful. If history is any guide, IBM will be grindingly thorough, leaving no stone unturned. SCO's only hope is an idiot jury, but then that only guarantees an appeal.
Saddam stomped out Kuwait back in 1992, but the results were decidedly different when he was facing a superpower. (I could also use the analogy of another megalomanic dictator back in 1939, but I don't want to bring Goodwin's law into it.) Except in the legal battlefield, there is no lightning war, everything plays out in slow motion. SCO won't be dealt a sudden death blow, instead they will be bulldozed under. Actually, there is a certain scene near the end of "A fish called Wanda" that comes to mind. Those who have seen the movie will know what I am talking about.
From the story:
----
A space elevator would make rockets redundant by granting cheaper access to space. At about a third of the way along the cable - 36,000km from Earth - objects take a year to complete a full orbit. If the cable's centre of gravity remained at this height, the cable would remain vertical, as satellites placed at this height are geostationary, effectively hovering over the same spot on the ground.
------
Actually, at 36,000 km from earth, objects take a day, not a year to complete a full orbit. The moon takes about 28 days to complete an orbit, (one lunar cycle) and any object far enough out from the earth to require a year in order to complete an orbit would passed the instability limit, where it would be captured away by the sun's gravity, and would no longer orbit earth.
From the article...
"Even these clumsy, expensive, painfully disruptive approaches might not satisfy the patent holder. If they do not, then where rich media is concerned, the web could soon look like 1993 all over again."
If everybody had to do this, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing. Most of the fancy flash animations are just annoying ads that consume vast amounts of bandwidth anyway. I would love the web to be blindingly fast again. (And I have DSL, I can't imagine what this is like with dial-up anymore.)