In 100 years, will all the anti-competitive crimes of Microsoft have been forgotten? and will Bill Gates be "remembered" as the "inventor" of so many key parts of computer systems?
Why wait 100 years? It's being revised now. On Law&Order a few eps ago, one of the DA's got something off the Net, and the head DA (Fred Thomson) comments, "Somehow, I doubt that this is what Bill Gates intended."
I recall playing with a Rs-232 interfaced biofeedback system in the early 90s. The sample app was a skiing race game.
We were investigating it for hands free operation of some soldier mounted equipment, but determined it was too distracting, and wouldn't work well in combat situations (duh!).
The industry's point of view (and backed up by law) is not that they've sold you something, but that you've bought a license. Which means that they get to tell you the terms by which you can use it.
WARNING: the following is a straw man
BEGIN SAMPLE AD Get [Disney's video of the month] on DVD! Own it today! END SAMPLE AD
Now, the actual wording of the ads is different from above, but they never say "license it today!" It seems that either we own the disk, or there's a very heavy false advertising suit that can be filed against any MPAA member that sells movies on DVD.
Is it patent, copyright, or trade secret infringement?
If it's patent or copyright, they don't hold it (see Novell's comments). If it's trade secret, then the grandparent post does make sense. Trade secrets are defend or lose.
SCO's (or anyone elses) letigious thuggary and barratry.
Oooh! There's a good one! IANAL. Does someone who IAL know if barratry is a civil offense (lawsuit) or criminal offense (prosecutable)?
If Novell's IP claims stand up, these vague threats against everyone except IBM (they may have a breach of contract suit there) would seem to be barratry.
Keep your shotgun handy though, as they are more than likely going to open up a portal into another dimension and all sorts of nasties are going to come pouring out.
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There can be only one!
You had VT-100s? We had to settle for ADM3A's at 300bps!
Shut up, Cartman!
No, you can do it...
A Beowulf cluster of those Beowulf clusters! See, it's easy!
Nope. The kernel, which is the part in question, is Linux. I believe that even RMS agrees to that. GNU/Linux is the whole system, not just the kernel.
The Windows kernel is programmed in C, not C++. They didn't want the runtime overhead in there.
In 100 years, will all the anti-competitive crimes of Microsoft have been forgotten? and will Bill Gates be "remembered" as the "inventor" of so many key parts of computer systems?
Why wait 100 years? It's being revised now. On Law&Order a few eps ago, one of the DA's got something off the Net, and the head DA (Fred Thomson) comments, "Somehow, I doubt that this is what Bill Gates intended."
I recall playing with a Rs-232 interfaced biofeedback system in the early 90s. The sample app was a skiing race game.
We were investigating it for hands free operation of some soldier mounted equipment, but determined it was too distracting, and wouldn't work well in combat situations (duh!).
Were the people who do own that car (that you don't own) upset that it was in your couch?
The industry's point of view (and backed up by law) is not that they've sold you something, but that you've bought a license. Which means that they get to tell you the terms by which you can use it.
WARNING: the following is a straw man
BEGIN SAMPLE AD
Get [Disney's video of the month] on DVD! Own it today!
END SAMPLE AD
Now, the actual wording of the ads is different from above, but they never say "license it today!" It seems that either we own the disk, or there's a very heavy false advertising suit that can be filed against any MPAA member that sells movies on DVD.
As did NASA, apparently.
So what happened in Feb 2002?
You found a car in your couch? Damn, that's one big couch!
Until you actually have citizens being executed or imprisoned for their entire lives for infringing on an author's copyright,
Two words: Dmitry Sklyarov
the consumption of inordinate quantities of n-dimensional beans
So that's what causes nebulae!
Sounds pretty awesome
Not if you happen to live there....
Just what is SCO alleging anyways?
Is it patent, copyright, or trade secret infringement?
If it's patent or copyright, they don't hold it (see Novell's comments).
If it's trade secret, then the grandparent post does make sense. Trade secrets are defend or lose.
SCO's (or anyone elses) letigious thuggary and barratry.
Oooh! There's a good one! IANAL. Does someone who IAL know if barratry is a civil offense (lawsuit) or criminal offense (prosecutable)?
If Novell's IP claims stand up, these vague threats against everyone except IBM (they may have a breach of contract suit there) would seem to be barratry.
100%.
Keep your shotgun handy though, as they are more than likely going to open up a portal into another dimension and all sorts of nasties are going to come pouring out.
Call Buckaroo Banzai!
Or even...
One Kilogram is defined as
The mass of one atom of Carbon-12 * N(A) * 1000 / 12, where N(A) is Avogadro's Number.
OK, the second is defined as some large number of the cycles of a cesium atom. I believe the meter is defined in terms of the speed of light.
Why not have the kilogram be defined as [Some Large Number] * (the equivalent rest mass of the energy defined by a beam of light with frequency Y)?
GPS provides a time hack as well. The whole GPS concept relies on accurate clocking.
Of course it is! Didn't you see Armageddon?
So, we could hook the EKG up to his server, and watch it flatline?