Is M$ obtaining NUX one of Gates priorities, it would be interesting if this outcome occurs. From SCOs desparate nuttiness, one outcome could be the shutting down of all NUX licences and merging of Windbloze with what Gates cut his teeth on UNIX. At that point you would see a complete devotion to Bsd Gnu and Linux by IBM, Apple, Sun and the remainder of the computing world other than Intel. This outcome could be a good thing. Imagine SCO code mixed in with Windowese, and visual basic! The cheese that would result would be very Swiss indeed. The script kiddies would be in hacker heaven. Sales of Norton Utilities and anti virus would actually surpass the Os they were designed to fiddle with. Windows UNIXP? Servival of the shittiest? This is getting a little too Darwinian for me. Let us pray...
If they are right it would suggest that someone in the open source community really knows how to reverse C code. This is highly unlikely as the suggestion that C is the reason why Unix works at all is spurrious. It is more likely the case that IBM Suse and RedHat have a million monkeys sitting at vax terminals, and the resulting a.out gets better results than SCO.
It is not only Microsoft that tries logic bombs to date its software, I have seen db inventory software that has a 3 year life span then mysterously starts to screw up. The problem with software licences is there is no particular clause in them that prohibits logic bombs. As a matter of fact alot db linked accounting/billing software seems to get buggy just about the time the given software company issues a new release.
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Is M$ obtaining NUX one of Gates priorities,
it would be interesting if this outcome occurs. From SCOs desparate nuttiness, one outcome could be the shutting down of all NUX licences and merging of Windbloze with what Gates cut his teeth on UNIX. At that point you would see a complete devotion to Bsd Gnu and Linux by IBM, Apple, Sun and the remainder of the computing world other than Intel. This outcome could be a good thing. Imagine
SCO code mixed in with Windowese, and visual basic!
The cheese that would result would be very Swiss indeed. The script kiddies would be in hacker heaven. Sales of Norton Utilities and anti virus
would actually surpass the Os they were designed to fiddle with. Windows UNIXP? Servival of the shittiest?
This is getting a little too Darwinian for me.
Let us pray...
If they are right it would suggest that someone in the open source community really knows how to reverse C code. This is highly unlikely as the suggestion that C is the reason why Unix works at all is spurrious. It is more likely the case that IBM Suse and RedHat have a million monkeys sitting at vax terminals, and the resulting a.out gets better results than SCO.
It is not only Microsoft that tries logic bombs to date its software, I have seen db inventory software that has a 3 year life span then mysterously starts to screw up. The problem with software licences is there is no particular clause in them that prohibits
logic bombs. As a matter of fact alot db linked accounting/billing software seems to get buggy just about the time the given software company issues a new release.