Actual, genuine high seas piracy is still a very serious problem in many parts of the world, particuarly the Persian gulf, SE Asia, and thanks the the drug trade, parts of the Caribbean.
Intuit has plenty of competition, there are many equivalent DRM free SW packages that can produce the same results.
Hollywood has no serious competition, even less than MS. Nobody can match their global marketing prowess and astronomical budgets. Certainly none can match their political clout either, the lobbying power of the RIAA is but a shadow of the MPAA.
MS is not buying SCO simply because it will set them up as a fat target for countersuits when SCO crashes and burns in court. Filing a countersuit against what is left of SCO when their lawsuit fails would be would not be worth the time and trouble. MS wants to feed them enough keep them alive to hurl FUD, (thus the licencing agreeement) but at enough of an arms length to ensure they can wash their hands of the whole affair when SCO dies and ugly death.
Actually, despite some people here thinking I am an anti-MS fundster, I still give MS their due - I like most of their hardware - I am using a MS optical mouse right now. The X box hackers must agree with me, or why would they bother? They want the MS hardware, plus the freedom to do what they want with it. MS office suites are quite good, and WinXP is a lot more stable than Win9x. I just don't like their product licencing and the lack of freedom that goes along with it. Also, I wouldn't dream of using WinCE on any embedded SW project. Absolutely the wrong tool for the job.
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But there won't be anything left to sue, and SCO knows it. If SCO loses, you can expect an immediate chapter 11 declaration. There won't be any meat to pick off the carcass. SCO has quite literally bet the farm on this one.
So the initial report was wrong, but, you didn't read down further in the link you provided:
> According to previous reports, BMW recalled 15,000 iDrive-equipped 7-series > cars, one of its most luxurious sedans, globally last May and 286 more in > Korea two months after. Linux proponents have said that BMW engineers may be >turning to embedded Linux as an alternative operating system.
That particular initial report was in error, (honest mistake) but the problems with those computers are well documented, including an earlier slashdot article:
Given that the Thai finance minister had to be rescued from his BMW with sledgehammers after his WinCE powered iDrive computer crashed, methinks I would prefer to fly on open source software.
It looks like we have our first ever corporate suicide bomber. Hell bent to blow themselves out of existance and take as many firms as possible down with them.
I live in Canada, and it is a little known fact (even among Canadians) that failing to answer a Stats Can survey can net you a lengthy jail term. Don't believe me?
From the statistics act: http://www.statcan.ca/english/about/statact.htm
False or unlawful information
31. Every person who, without lawful excuse,
(a) refuses or neglects to answer, or wilfully answers falsely, any question requisite for obtaining any information sought in respect of the objects of this Act or pertinent thereto that has been asked of him by any person employed or deemed to be employed under this Act, or
(b) refuses or neglects to furnish any information or to fill in to the best of his knowledge and belief any schedule or form that the person has been required to fill in, and to return the same when and as required of him pursuant to this Act, or knowingly gives false or misleading information or practises any other deception thereunder
is, for every refusal or neglect, or false answer or deception, guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both. 1970-71-72, c. 15, s. 29.
I think this was a subtle form of protest. You should see the stuff I told them the last time they chose me. My NYT mandatory registration lists me as a 13 year old lawyer from Afghanistan who makes USD $150,000 a year. Let's see what the marketing Noobs make of that one, LOL... And I resent the government doing this sort of thing even more. BTW, even though they don't identify individuals, localized statistical data is available right down to your postal code, which is a tax subsidized godsend to direct marketing agencies.
I believe the apollo astronauts knew that there was a significant risk of catastrophic failure. I am sure everybody around them knew of these risks as well. I remember a TV interview of one manager who was in mission control at the time of the first landing, talking about the master computer overload alarms that kept popping up as they were landing. He said he had estimated beforehand that it was 50-50 as to whether or not they would acutally be able to complete the mission. Apollo 13 came hairline close to catastrophic failure.
I remember seeing a film clip of a man testing a prototype parachute off the eiffel tower in 1900. His prototype chute didn't open, and the unfortunate man met his end at the base of the tower. Fortunately, this didn't dissuade others from repeating his tragic experiment.
We all have to go sometime, might as well make it for a meaningful cause.
Hopefully he charges astronomical licence fees for both "innovations" retroactive to the day he filed. Hopefully that will be the nail in the coffin that drives these scourges off the desktop.
They're not even within 100 miles of the moon. They are not in any place. They hold no place in lunar space. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
Please, please! The Americans are relying on what I called yesterday a desperate and stupid method!
The **AA are at war. They are going to use every trick, every tool in the box to sew fear and uncertainty in all those who would act against their survival. The idea of course, is to put the fear of god into anybody who might finance a startup venture that would break their business model.
I live in Canada - TiVo is not supported here, for love or money. Besides, I would prefer a totally DRM free and open, networkable appliance. I am really looking forward to seeing HDTV and time-shifting support.
I wish these open source projects would pool their efforts - I hate to see duplication of effort between Myth TV and Freevo.
I was able to do almost everything on my thesis using open source tools, LaTeX on Linux, except when it came to data reduction - I was forced to use the crippled student version of SPSS. I would love to see a GNU clone of this functionality the way they have cloned Matlab.
You forgot to mention the accursed dongle, which (fortunately) has for the most part disappeared from common use.
Have you evern seen a PC with a big chain of those stupid things hanging out the back of the parallel port? Remember trying to figure out how to arrange them, so they don't interfere with each other?
I read that the Smithstonian museum was actually trying to preserve food like Big Macs for posterity. Imagine, 1000 years from now future generations might not have a clue what a Big Mac or a can of coke looked like. Everyday objects like vaccum tube radios and LPs vanish almost before you notice.
And has been for about a year. Not that there has been too much to write about, w.r.t corel for the past year or so. The last time I looked, it was all blue, (ugly) but even that one seems to have now vanished from the scene, if you go to the corel.com home page. I will have to check what is up front on the corel centre, (http://www.corelcentre.com) next time I swing by Ottawa. If this keeps up, they will have to put up the logos on the front of the building with velcro. This company is something of a chameleon. (Was a fun stock to own during the dot com heyday though)
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You are too far from reality!
As long as it doesn't try to mate with my leg, as I have seen a real dog try to do.
>The GPL has never been tested in court, after all, and that's already
> something of a concern about it for enterprise level customers.
Then maybe it is finally time for the GPL to have its day in court and do or die. And this looks like an excellent test case.
Actual, genuine high seas piracy is still a very serious problem in many parts of the world, particuarly the Persian gulf, SE Asia, and thanks the the drug trade, parts of the Caribbean.
http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/weekly_pir
Intuit has plenty of competition, there are many equivalent DRM free SW packages that can produce the same results.
Hollywood has no serious competition, even less than MS. Nobody can match their global marketing prowess and astronomical budgets. Certainly none can match their political clout either, the lobbying power of the RIAA is but a shadow of the MPAA.
MS is not buying SCO simply because it will set them up as a fat target for countersuits when SCO crashes and burns in court. Filing a countersuit against what is left of SCO when their lawsuit fails would be would not be worth the time and trouble. MS wants to feed them enough keep them alive to hurl FUD, (thus the licencing agreeement) but at enough of an arms length to ensure they can wash their hands of the whole affair when SCO dies and ugly death.
Actually, despite some people here thinking I am an anti-MS fundster, I still give MS their due - I like most of their hardware - I am using a MS optical mouse right now. The X box hackers must agree with me, or why would they bother? They want the MS hardware, plus the freedom to do what they want with it. MS office suites are quite good, and WinXP is a lot more stable than Win9x. I just don't like their product licencing and the lack of freedom that goes along with it. Also, I wouldn't dream of using WinCE on any embedded SW project. Absolutely the wrong tool for the job.
But there won't be anything left to sue, and SCO knows it. If SCO loses, you can expect an immediate chapter 11 declaration. There won't be any meat to pick off the carcass. SCO has quite literally bet the farm on this one.
So the initial report was wrong, but, you didn't read down further in the link you provided:
> According to previous reports, BMW recalled 15,000 iDrive-equipped 7-series > cars, one of its most luxurious sedans, globally last May and 286 more in
> Korea two months after. Linux proponents have said that BMW engineers may be >turning to embedded Linux as an alternative operating system.
That particular initial report was in error, (honest mistake) but the problems with those computers are well documented, including an earlier slashdot article:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/12/221
See also:
http://www.hotbimmer.net/forum/topic.asp?T
Damned shamed actually - I actually like the looks of it, once they get the bugs out. (Saw one at work the other day)
Given that the Thai finance minister had to be rescued from his BMW with sledgehammers after his WinCE powered iDrive computer crashed, methinks I would prefer to fly on open source software.
It looks like we have our first ever corporate suicide bomber. Hell bent to blow themselves out of existance and take as many firms as possible down with them.
I live in Canada, and it is a little known fact (even among Canadians) that failing to answer a Stats Can survey can net you a lengthy jail term. Don't believe me?
From the statistics act: http://www.statcan.ca/english/about/statact.htm
False or unlawful information
31. Every person who, without lawful excuse,
(a) refuses or neglects to answer, or wilfully answers falsely, any question requisite for obtaining any information sought in respect of the objects of this Act or pertinent thereto that has been asked of him by any person employed or deemed to be employed under this Act, or
(b) refuses or neglects to furnish any information or to fill in to the best of his knowledge and belief any schedule or form that the person has been required to fill in, and to return the same when and as required of him pursuant to this Act, or knowingly gives false or misleading information or practises any other deception thereunder
is, for every refusal or neglect, or false answer or deception, guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both. 1970-71-72, c. 15, s. 29.
I think this was a subtle form of protest. You should see the stuff I told them the last time they chose me. My NYT mandatory registration lists me as a 13 year old lawyer from Afghanistan who makes USD $150,000 a year. Let's see what the marketing Noobs make of that one, LOL... And I resent the government doing this sort of thing even more. BTW, even though they don't identify individuals, localized statistical data is available right down to your postal code, which is a tax subsidized godsend to direct marketing agencies.
I believe the apollo astronauts knew that there was a significant risk of catastrophic failure. I am sure everybody around them knew of these risks as well. I remember a TV interview of one manager who was in mission control at the time of the first landing, talking about the master computer overload alarms that kept popping up as they were landing. He said he had estimated beforehand that it was 50-50 as to whether or not they would acutally be able to complete the mission. Apollo 13 came hairline close to catastrophic failure.
I remember seeing a film clip of a man testing a prototype parachute off the eiffel tower in 1900. His prototype chute didn't open, and the unfortunate man met his end at the base of the tower. Fortunately, this didn't dissuade others from repeating his tragic experiment.
We all have to go sometime, might as well make it for a meaningful cause.
Hopefully he charges astronomical licence fees for both "innovations" retroactive to the day he filed. Hopefully that will be the nail in the coffin that drives these scourges off the desktop.
Heck, I wish somebody had patented spam as well!
They're not even within 100 miles of the moon. They are not in any place. They hold no place in lunar space. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
Please, please! The Americans are relying on what I called yesterday a desperate and stupid method!
The **AA are at war. They are going to use every trick, every tool in the box to sew fear and uncertainty in all those who would act against their survival. The idea of course, is to put the fear of god into anybody who might finance a startup venture that would break their business model.
Everybody knows that a Lamborghini, Porsche, or Ferarri is a lot faster than a Firebird anyway. :-)
I live in Canada - TiVo is not supported here, for love or money. Besides, I would prefer a totally DRM free and open, networkable appliance. I am really looking forward to seeing HDTV and time-shifting support.
I wish these open source projects would pool their efforts - I hate to see duplication of effort between Myth TV and Freevo.
I was able to do almost everything on my thesis using open source tools, LaTeX on Linux, except when it came to data reduction - I was forced to use the crippled student version of SPSS. I would love to see a GNU clone of this functionality the way they have cloned Matlab.
You forgot to mention the accursed dongle, which (fortunately) has for the most part disappeared from common use.
Have you evern seen a PC with a big chain of those stupid things hanging out the back of the parallel port? Remember trying to figure out how to arrange them, so they don't interfere with each other?
Actually, those photo stoplights are a crock. The municipal governments tend to cut the yellow light timing and use it as a Ca$h Cow.
Discussing the pain and resentment CIOs are expressing over the new MS licensing scheme.
http://www.cio.com/archive/031503/showdo
I read that the Smithstonian museum was actually trying to preserve food like Big Macs for posterity. Imagine, 1000 years from now future generations might not have a clue what a Big Mac or a can of coke looked like. Everyday objects like vaccum tube radios and LPs vanish almost before you notice.
And has been for about a year. Not that there has been too much to write about, w.r.t corel for the past year or so. The last time I looked, it was all blue, (ugly) but even that one seems to have now vanished from the scene, if you go to the corel.com home page. I will have to check what is up front on the corel centre, (http://www.corelcentre.com) next time I swing by Ottawa. If this keeps up, they will have to put up the logos on the front of the building with velcro. This company is something of a chameleon. (Was a fun stock to own during the dot com heyday though)
That he chose WMA (Windows Media Player) format for his linux kernel animation.