If I set up a chemical lab to manufacture free crack and give it away and I could only make one gram a month because I didn't have enough money to make more and a foreign goverment started paying me money so I could make more crack could I really say I'm not working for them?
The article said they were trying to replace operators. Those are the people who mount tapes and printer paper.
A study last year by Meta Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn., found that 55% of IT workers with mainframe experience are over 50 years old. Conference attendees, such as Gerald Tucker, the data center operations manager at Foster Farms Inc., one of the largest poultry operations in the U.S., readily agreed with that finding. But he isn't sure what to do to fix the problem.
Tucker has two mainframe operators with 20-plus years of experience who will be retiring in six or so years, and finding replacements could be a problem. "The solution could be an outsourcing possibility at that time," he said.
The Livingston, Calif.-based company needs to find people with a unique set of characteristics: They must have good technical skills and be comfortable dealing with repetitive and mundane tasks, said Tucker. "They are usually one or the other," he said.
The "little green men" might be from a very powerful, very ancient very wise civilzation which would know enough to destroy us quickly before we become a threat to them. After all they have been around for a long time and seen many puny upstarts like us cause them grief.
Are you really doing your taxes by hand or are you using a spreadsheet? I remember watching my dad do his taxes in the 1970's without even a calculator. I remember him bringing home a huge electronic calculator that he borrowed from the US gubment one tax year. That was the first calculator I ever saw.
Here's the quote from the complaints that uses the term "hooks"
38. The shared libraries of all operating systems are designed with "hooks." These "hooks" are computer code that trigger the operation of certain routine functions. A software developer can shorten the development effort for any new software program and create a more efficient code base by writing programs that access the various "hooks" of the operating system, and thereby use a shared set of code built into the operating system to perform the repetitive, common functions that are involved in every program.
Yeah but MicroSoft was so clearly wrong in the DR-DOS case. There was CP/M code in MS-DOS, not just CP/M ideas.
This case says that even if there are no lines of SCO code in Linux they can sue over copied techniques. That is a much weaker case unless they have patents to back it up.
1. Buy dying products 2. Sue other companies 3. Lose 4. ??? 5. Profit?
Seems to me that you owe royalties when you sell a product with patented components or ingrediants, etc. If that is so then when you make something with the Timeline tool and sell it you are violating the patent but if you make something with it and use it you'd be safe. IANAL.
The latest SQL Server migration I've seen is to Oracle, not Open Source.
How is it that you see this as a problem for Open Source and not a victory? It may not be as great as going from MS-SQL to MySQL but Oracle is competing fairly with OSS/Free Software and MS does not compete fairly with anyone or anything.
The dispute goes back to about 1999, when Microsoft asked the Washington court to affirm that under the terms of its licensing agreement with Timeline, Microsoft's customers and partners are entitled to sublicense Timeline's patented technology at no charge to develop their own applications.
Timeline offered the court a different interpretation of the license. It argued at the time that the agreement "clearly distinguishes between users of Microsoft products who may employ Timeline technology, and certain third party software developers to whom Microsoft may not sublicense."
The technology in question relates to the design and use of data marts and data warehouses and is protected by three U.S. patents, according to Timeline.
Last week's judgement confirms that Microsoft's right to sublicense Timeline's technology is "substantially limited," and means that some SQL Server users may be liable to pay Timeline for use of its technology, according to Timeline's Osenbaugh. The company didn't offer a clear estimate of how many users may be affected, saying only that it believes that "some" are.
In addition, the Bells will no longer be required to lease high-frequency portions of their copper lines to DSL providers under so-called line-sharing arrangements, a measure that could boost costs for companies that currently rely on such deals.
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# pkg_add openoffice-1.0.1_4.tgz
pkg_add: can't stat package file 'openoffice-1.0.1_4.tgz'
Oh well, guess it takes more.
Are there legal problems with binary releases? I can't seem to find a tarball.
PORTROOT=ftp://ftp.???.???/pub/FreeBSD/ports pkg_add -r openoffice
would be nice.
that made me LOL. I wish I had a mod point for you.
Cygwin on WINE? :)
If I set up a chemical lab to manufacture free crack and give it away and I could only make one gram a month because I didn't have enough money to make more and a foreign goverment started paying me money so I could make more crack could I really say I'm not working for them?
Watch for Sun phasing out the blade-style systems next.
:-P
Darn, and I just installed Sun Linux on my blade server.
Why bother when there's ReactOS?
Lies, damn lies, and "mainframes are peerless"
http://www.sun.com/datacenter/mainframe/
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'Ubound'
called GNUnet
The "little green men" might be from a very powerful, very ancient very wise civilzation which would know enough to destroy us quickly before we become a threat to them. After all they have been around for a long time and seen many puny upstarts like us cause them grief.
Are you really doing your taxes by hand or are you using a spreadsheet? I remember watching my dad do his taxes in the 1970's without even a calculator. I remember him bringing home a huge electronic calculator that he borrowed from the US gubment one tax year. That was the first calculator I ever saw.
But if IBM buys SCO won't they own UNIX[tm]?
Who would have thought that IBM would own UNIX[tm]?
Here's the quote from the complaints that uses the term "hooks"
UNIX was developed by Ken Thomson in the 1960's. There was no AT&T USL in the 1960's.
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Yeah but MicroSoft was so clearly wrong in the DR-DOS case. There was CP/M code in MS-DOS, not just CP/M ideas.
This case says that even if there are no lines of SCO code in Linux they can sue over copied techniques. That is a much weaker case unless they have patents to back it up.
1. Buy dying products
2. Sue other companies
3. Lose
4. ???
5. Profit?
Seems to me that you owe royalties when you sell a product with patented components or ingrediants, etc. If that is so then when you make something with the Timeline tool and sell it you are violating the patent but if you make something with it and use it you'd be safe. IANAL.
How is it that you see this as a problem for Open Source and not a victory? It may not be as great as going from MS-SQL to MySQL but Oracle is competing fairly with OSS/Free Software and MS does not compete fairly with anyone or anything.
My ST336918N claims 800,000 hour MTBF.
Can ATA deliver that?
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