Actually, 9/11 was also Dylan Klebold's birthday. I suspect Osama intended to "honor" Dylan, rather than your unknown coworker.
Oddly enough, 4/9 (the day of the downfall of the Saddam regime in Iraq) was Eric Harris' birthday. Good timing Dubya, not only did you win the war, but you managed to score your victory on a symbolic date!
Perhaps when my mail server starts getting bogged down, I can ask all my users to attach a large virus to every one of their emails, so it will run more smoothy.
This may indeed help. While the window's user's PC's are down for virus removal, they won't bog down the mail servers with their chain letters, flash animation attachments, screen saver attachments, and various hoaxes. Thanks for the idea; I'll try it out next time a luser attempts to send a 34 Megabyte Word document...
It only affects Microsoft systems, just like every other friggin' virus on the face of the planet.
Nope, there are also viruses affecting Macs. And worms affecting Apples. For example, yesterday at the cafeteria, I had an apple whose security had been breached by a worm.
What's the point of the back up copy then? Just because the physical media is gone, you still have a license to the music.
My remarks were more or less tongue in cheek... to show to what conclusions we can come if we start faulting users for unintentionnally allowing "sharing" to happen.
And (if I may continue to play RIAA's advocate...), the physical media didn't just dissolve in thin air, but found a new "owner". It's not as if the media had been destroyed, or became unreadable due to wear. It's still there, just at a different place.
Thus what started out as a backup copy (held by the same person than the original) has now become a pirate copy (held by a different person that the original)
So if you leave your windows open in your car I can take the CDs out of it and it's your fault?
No, only if the thief makes a copy of the CD's, and then returns them;-)
Or more seriously: only if you made a backup copy of your own CDs before they were stolen, and failed to destroy said copy after you noticed the theft...
If no copy occured, it is merely theft, not copyright infringment, and you are not at fault.
However, for drugs, I can perfectly understand it is illegal to sell them. Basically you make someone addicted to your product, and than increase the price.
Could you remember a joke in some code you read in a foreign language, while some lawyer is breathing down your neck?
Well, he had enough understanding of the foreign language to notice that it was a joke.
Maybe because he is afraid SCO will sue him if he does this?
Well, no need to fear anything on that front. Due to some clerical error, they forgot to ask him to sign an NDA... So he is not bound by an NDA...
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I presume that it means, this German guy didn't see the "raw" SCO evidence, but he saw SCO's presentation/interpretation/summary of the "evidence"
Reminds me of Bush's presentation of his evidence before the UN. Was also not the "raw" evidence. Because there was no raw evidence. It was all just hot air (...errm, sorry,
hydrogen...)
No one is forcing the Bhutanese to change. They are making the changes themselves. The Bhutanese people have been exposed to the Western lifestyle, and they are finding that they like it. It's not like we are marching in with tanks and forcing people to watch "The Simpsons" at gunpoint.
Nope. That's what we are doing in Iraq. Bhutan doesn't have petrol.
Otherwise, your visitors will be redirected to that page every time they try to visit any page in your site, and will never be able to access anything.
Nope, they will only be redirected if they use an obsolete browser running on their Mac.
Of course, this might change in the near future, with the new European 'Constitution', but it will probably change for the better, by making sure more intelligent people are elected.
The current situation is made worse by certain countries' tendancy to hold national elections on the same day as the European elections. Most candidates run in both polls... and only the losers (those who lose the national elections, which are deemed more important) go to Strasbourg.
This would require a reimplementation of the libc, the rendering toolkit, all required libraries
Wrong. The libc falls under the LGPL (lesser general public license, or formerly known as the library general public license), which explicitely allows linking. Many libraries are covered by the LGPL for exactly the reason you state: allow people to actually use it (i.e. link programs against it), even in a proprietary setting.
Even programs which are covered by the GPL may be used in a proprietary setting, if done right: put the GPL'ed codes and the proprietary codes into different address spaces (which communicate with each other using pipes, command parameters or network sockets), or define a plugin-based architecture. Now the only sources that would need to be published would be the "wrapper" code that transforms the code into a plugin, or that allows the code to communicate with the proprietary parts.
Equally however, this could be a cleverly designed ploy to increase the profile of Lindows.
Exactly. Tell the customer: "buy Lindows for $50, then buy XP for $50, throw your Lindows into the trash, and notice how you've only paid $100 for your XP rather than $200"!
And most users would be curious enough to keep Lindows around (rather than throwing it away), and might have a look at it one boring Sunday afternoon. In conclusion, this looks like an excellent deal for the customer, for Lindows, and for Linux in general!
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Oddly enough, 4/9 (the day of the downfall of the Saddam regime in Iraq) was Eric Harris' birthday. Good timing Dubya, not only did you win the war, but you managed to score your victory on a symbolic date!
Like, connecting to RedHat, and installing Linux on the infected PC. That way, the PC won't at least be infected by another virus...
This may indeed help. While the window's user's PC's are down for virus removal, they won't bog down the mail servers with their chain letters, flash animation attachments, screen saver attachments, and various hoaxes. Thanks for the idea; I'll try it out next time a luser attempts to send a 34 Megabyte Word document...
Nope, there are also viruses affecting Macs. And worms affecting Apples. For example, yesterday at the cafeteria, I had an apple whose security had been breached by a worm.
Yeah, but Eric Raymond sticks to his guns too, but I like his philosophy better.
Indeed, how are you gonna fight against Microsoft if your only weapon is a cream pie? Guns are much more effective!
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My remarks were more or less tongue in cheek... to show to what conclusions we can come if we start faulting users for unintentionnally allowing "sharing" to happen.
And (if I may continue to play RIAA's advocate...), the physical media didn't just dissolve in thin air, but found a new "owner". It's not as if the media had been destroyed, or became unreadable due to wear. It's still there, just at a different place.
Thus what started out as a backup copy (held by the same person than the original) has now become a pirate copy (held by a different person that the original)
No, only if the thief makes a copy of the CD's, and then returns them ;-)
Or more seriously: only if you made a backup copy of your own CDs before they were stolen, and failed to destroy said copy after you noticed the theft...
If no copy occured, it is merely theft, not copyright infringment, and you are not at fault.
Shouldn't they outlaw Microsoft then?
Hmm, Wexham is in the UK, not int Europe. UK was part of the "coalition of the willing", and you pay in Sterling there...
Yes it can. Just add the word not to your program.
Hey, quite a fitting signature line!
Yes. The so-called "mobile chemical weapons lab" trucks were really just makeing hydrogen for weather balloons...
Well, he had enough understanding of the foreign language to notice that it was a joke.
Maybe because he is afraid SCO will sue him if he does this?
Well, no need to fear anything on that front. Due to some clerical error, they forgot to ask him to sign an NDA... So he is not bound by an NDA...
I presume that it means, this German guy didn't see the "raw" SCO evidence, but he saw SCO's presentation/interpretation/summary of the "evidence"
Reminds me of Bush's presentation of his evidence before the UN. Was also not the "raw" evidence. Because there was no raw evidence. It was all just hot air (...errm, sorry, hydrogen...)
Nope. That's what we are doing in Iraq. Bhutan doesn't have petrol.
Nope, they will only be redirected if they use an obsolete browser running on their Mac.
The current situation is made worse by certain countries' tendancy to hold national elections on the same day as the European elections. Most candidates run in both polls... and only the losers (those who lose the national elections, which are deemed more important) go to Strasbourg.
Wrong. The libc falls under the LGPL (lesser general public license, or formerly known as the library general public license), which explicitely allows linking. Many libraries are covered by the LGPL for exactly the reason you state: allow people to actually use it (i.e. link programs against it), even in a proprietary setting.
Even programs which are covered by the GPL may be used in a proprietary setting, if done right: put the GPL'ed codes and the proprietary codes into different address spaces (which communicate with each other using pipes, command parameters or network sockets), or define a plugin-based architecture. Now the only sources that would need to be published would be the "wrapper" code that transforms the code into a plugin, or that allows the code to communicate with the proprietary parts.
Drived? As in "drivel is a conclusion drived from too little fact?"
Well, this guy did have a parachute, but he bailed by getting rid of it!
Exactly. Tell the customer: "buy Lindows for $50, then buy XP for $50, throw your Lindows into the trash, and notice how you've only paid $100 for your XP rather than $200"! And most users would be curious enough to keep Lindows around (rather than throwing it away), and might have a look at it one boring Sunday afternoon. In conclusion, this looks like an excellent deal for the customer, for Lindows, and for Linux in general!