If the main developper dies, or scraps his box and all his backups, the whole project is sent to/dev/null.
All right, other developpers may have the source code but how many of them? Five? If two of them get children and stop working on SkyOS, another one dies, another gets arrested and the last one simply switches to another project, well... SkyOS will be pinin' for the fjords. Too risky for a big project like that.
Frankly, I just don't see why some developpers, especially with an OS project like this one, release softwares for free but not the source code. Call me paranoid but I wouldn't be surprised if huge chunks of GPL'd code is ever find in SkyOS.
SCO Responds to OSDL Monday January 12, 1:30 pm ET
LINDON, Utah, Jan. 12/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As a publicly traded company, SCO (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) has a fiduciary responsibility to protect our intellectual property and pursue legal recourse if it has been infringed. SCO's intellectual property is being found in Linux. As a company, we have been forthright with Linux end users to help them understand the gravity of these intellectual property violations. On November 18, SCO announced that it had expanded its relationship with David Boies of Boies, Schiller and Flexner to represent SCO in end user lawsuits, which the company indicated would begin taking place by the middle of February 2004. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990421/SCOLO GO ) The actions of these vendors today doesn't change the fact that SCO's intellectual property is being found in Linux. Commercial end users of Linux that continue to use SCO's intellectual property without authorization are in violation of SCO's copyrights. SCO continues to publicly show evidence of this infringement. We invite interested parties to view some of this evidence for themselves at www.sco.com/scosource.
"If vendors feel so confident with the intellectual property foundation under their massive contributions into Linux, then they should put their money where their mouth is and protect end users with true vendor-based indemnification," said Darl McBride, president and CEO, The SCO Group, Inc.
And "Internet Protocol Address Verifier"? Woah! Sounds like a tool in the Uplink game. Never heard of it though. A quick search on Google didn't return anything relevant.
And Grenada? This "war" is still the funniest joke in all US history, a monumental FLOP. SEALs invading college dorms full of students... Oh my! US were not retaliating. US were making fools of themselves.
Shhh! Don't tell these poor artists that the company advertising them is American and that why they're paid only $0.50 for every sold CD is because they're big fat unethical corporations. Better think it's piracy. Here is Quebec, I saw a young-and-stupid-but-well-known singer *cry on TV* because people were sharing his songs before his CD was out for sale. He just won the Quebecer equivalent of American Idol, dammit! Does he think he'll make millions selling CDs?
You won't have to pay duties if it's for your own use. Frankly, would you declare that you bought it in the US? Better just say, if they ever ask you, that you got it in Canada. GST (and PST in some cases) only applies to imported goods, for commercial use.
Are you sure Us customers pay GST on products bought in Canada? I don't know because I'm Canadian but I work in the import dept. here and we DO pay GST on products bought from US. I'm also 100% sure US doesn't pay GST on Canadian goods. But I could be wrong.
But let's say it takes "average" people 2 seconds to open an email and figures it's spam. Well, you just saved 2000 wasted seconds from innocent people! Wooo! This should be a Scout Badge!:)
Then install Bubblegum Proxypot, which is a Proxy Honeypot, doing the same thing as Spamhole but for ports 3128, 1080, 8080, etc. I'm getting hundreds of probes every day on ports 3128, trying to connect to other proxies or open relays.
But still, that's 1,000 spam emails into/dev/null. Making the spammers waste a few thousands emails every day due to spamholes is still a small victory.
That story reminds me of Orwell's 1984, where top-10 songs are written by machines. They're all cheesy man-meets-woman-falls-in-love-leave-cry clicheful songs. Winston Smith, the main character, knows the songs are made automatically by machines but the peons don't care and listen to the radio.
The interface seems to be coming along very well, it looks nice. It also appears as though they are going to integrate the most common desktop applications into one panel (IM, address book, email, etc). It is, however, all ultimately irrelevant.
Just wait to see the nice new purple/green/blue 3D Flash BSoD they'll have for you. I mean, users will WANT to crash their computers. At least they are trying to fill a niche in this saturated market. Yummy BSoD.
I find this amazing, especially considering that SCO's latest 10Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that "revenue from international customers accounted for 48 percent of operating system platform revenue."
I'd like to hear more on that if anyone has real numbers and country names.
Last time I tried to join one of their conference (it was too late), a woman asked me what was the code. Maybe you have to type it in when you call before the conference, dunno. And it was in my original post anyway.;)
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If the main developper dies, or scraps his box and all his backups, the whole project is sent to /dev/null.
All right, other developpers may have the source code but how many of them? Five? If two of them get children and stop working on SkyOS, another one dies, another gets arrested and the last one simply switches to another project, well... SkyOS will be pinin' for the fjords. Too risky for a big project like that.
Frankly, I just don't see why some developpers, especially with an OS project like this one, release softwares for free but not the source code. Call me paranoid but I wouldn't be surprised if huge chunks of GPL'd code is ever find in SkyOS.
I hope the guy will still send the info to 2600.
And "Internet Protocol Address Verifier"? Woah! Sounds like a tool in the Uplink game. Never heard of it though. A quick search on Google didn't return anything relevant.
And Grenada? This "war" is still the funniest joke in all US history, a monumental FLOP. SEALs invading college dorms full of students... Oh my! US were not retaliating. US were making fools of themselves.
Shhh! Don't tell these poor artists that the company advertising them is American and that why they're paid only $0.50 for every sold CD is because they're big fat unethical corporations. Better think it's piracy.
Here is Quebec, I saw a young-and-stupid-but-well-known singer *cry on TV* because people were sharing his songs before his CD was out for sale. He just won the Quebecer equivalent of American Idol, dammit! Does he think he'll make millions selling CDs?
Well, er, yes, I guess he does.
You won't have to pay duties if it's for your own use. Frankly, would you declare that you bought it in the US? Better just say, if they ever ask you, that you got it in Canada. GST (and PST in some cases) only applies to imported goods, for commercial use.
Are you sure Us customers pay GST on products bought in Canada? I don't know because I'm Canadian but I work in the import dept. here and we DO pay GST on products bought from US. I'm also 100% sure US doesn't pay GST on Canadian goods. But I could be wrong.
But let's say it takes "average" people 2 seconds to open an email and figures it's spam. Well, you just saved 2000 wasted seconds from innocent people! Wooo! This should be a Scout Badge! :)
Yes, if the ticket costed you $0.05. ;)
Then install Bubblegum Proxypot, which is a Proxy Honeypot, doing the same thing as Spamhole but for ports 3128, 1080, 8080, etc. I'm getting hundreds of probes every day on ports 3128, trying to connect to other proxies or open relays.
But still, that's 1,000 spam emails into /dev/null. Making the spammers waste a few thousands emails every day due to spamholes is still a small victory.
Ooooh, an Amelie Poulain reference! On Slashdot! I can now die in peace. :)
That story reminds me of Orwell's 1984, where top-10 songs are written by machines. They're all cheesy man-meets-woman-falls-in-love-leave-cry clicheful songs.
Winston Smith, the main character, knows the songs are made automatically by machines but the peons don't care and listen to the radio.
No, it's a metaphor.
Hey! I just bought a subscription after reading that story, don't spoil the fun, dammit!
Just wait to see the nice new purple/green/blue 3D Flash BSoD they'll have for you. I mean, users will WANT to crash their computers. At least they are trying to fill a niche in this saturated market. Yummy BSoD.
I find this amazing, especially considering that SCO's latest 10Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that "revenue from international customers accounted for 48 percent of operating system platform revenue."
I'd like to hear more on that if anyone has real numbers and country names.
So he's claiming one billion dollars. Right. He shouldn't worry about that pesky $65M then.
Well, a lot of stupid shit like we all already know.
I do remember the CEO saying that they will start enforcing license contracts and revoking AIX licenses, when necessary, on June 16th.
We're at least two then. :)
It started now... God, those investors sure like licking boots.
It took me 15 minutes to get an operator. I guess we can say it was slashdotted. :)
Usually, the playback is available (same number, same code) like a week after the conference. I never listened to one anyway.
Last time I tried to join one of their conference (it was too late), a woman asked me what was the code. Maybe you have to type it in when you call before the conference, dunno. ;)
And it was in my original post anyway.
The teleconference is at 12:00PM (EST). Be sure to join in!
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This time, I won't miss it!
I heard Fyodor is fiancee with Trinity.