Re:There's lots of BSD code in AT&T Unix
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Good analysis, which was certainly created from reading the Open Group paper on the issue. If you read further into it though, the Open Group paper states that the records pertaining to the contest between AT&T/Novell and Berkley were sealed by the courts. A direct quote from the paper:
"The exact terms of final settlement, and much of the judicial record, were sealed at Novell's insistence."
So the true outcome really isn't known by anyone except for the two involved parties. Therefore saying that BSD code is still in AT&T UNIX cannot be confirmed. For all we know, SCO/Novell could have removed the BSD code as BSD removed the three magical AT&T files...
... if they would have showed the actual center or origin point. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is there not suppose to be a pulsar left over by the explosion?
Looking at the larger pictures, its difficult to tell where the pulsar is...
>> Adobe has no authority or ability to get >> Sklyarov out of prison. He is charged with a >> crime, charged by the United States, and Adobe >> has no say in whether or not he goes to prison >> for it. The U.S. can order Adobe to testify at >> trial and Adobe cannot refuse.
Yup. The damage has been done already, Adobe is out of it. Adobe just threw gas on the fire by setting things in motion. If you think about it, the presentation was done to a few thousand people. It probably would have ended there, fairly quietly.
Adobe could have sat back, fixed the weakness, and 98% of the population would have been none-the-wiser. Instead they started with the threats to the software company, contacted their isp, yada yada; the list goes on. Now its hitting the major headlines.
Oh well, they're gonna have a tough time fixing this one I think...
Indeed, my thoughts exactly. Oh, isn't that sweet? M$ is replacing a piece of software containing "alot of code" with another behind-the-scene piece of bloatware that will probably only only work half-assed anyway.
Kinda makes you wonder about this plug-in; why doesn't M$ just include it in the o.s. at shipping? Why do they want you to connect to their site to pull it down? Is there something else that's happening behind the download???
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Good analysis, which was certainly created from reading the Open Group paper on the issue. If you read further into it though, the Open Group paper states that the records pertaining to the contest between AT&T/Novell and Berkley were sealed by the courts. A direct quote from the paper:
"The exact terms of final settlement, and much of the judicial record, were sealed at Novell's insistence."
So the true outcome really isn't known by anyone except for the two involved parties. Therefore saying that BSD code is still in AT&T UNIX cannot be confirmed. For all we know, SCO/Novell could have removed the BSD code as BSD removed the three magical AT&T files...
... if they would have showed the actual center or origin point. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is there not suppose to be a pulsar left over by the explosion?
Looking at the larger pictures, its difficult to tell where the pulsar is...
Oops! My fault for not previewing my post.
>> Adobe has no authority or ability to get >> Sklyarov out of prison. He is charged with a >> crime, charged by the United States, and Adobe >> has no say in whether or not he goes to prison >> for it. The U.S. can order Adobe to testify at >> trial and Adobe cannot refuse. Yup. The damage has been done already, Adobe is out of it. Adobe just threw gas on the fire by setting things in motion. If you think about it, the presentation was done to a few thousand people. It probably would have ended there, fairly quietly. Adobe could have sat back, fixed the weakness, and 98% of the population would have been none-the-wiser. Instead they started with the threats to the software company, contacted their isp, yada yada; the list goes on. Now its hitting the major headlines. Oh well, they're gonna have a tough time fixing this one I think...
Yeah, its down alright. Perhaps the authors made a typo and the real price was $50,000. And to think I was going to purchase ten of them...
Indeed, my thoughts exactly. Oh, isn't that sweet? M$ is replacing a piece of software containing "alot of code" with another behind-the-scene piece of bloatware that will probably only only work half-assed anyway.
Kinda makes you wonder about this plug-in; why doesn't M$ just include it in the o.s. at shipping? Why do they want you to connect to their site to pull it down? Is there something else that's happening behind the download???