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The company will explain that it's nothing personal, it's only about survival, and they need to do this to assure their finances.
Leave without being mean. Explain that it's nothing personal; you're just looking out for yourself, and you can't spend any more time helping the company because it's smarter for you to move on immediately to somewhere where you have a future, etc...
If they REALLY need you to train the guy, come back as a consultant (at a huge rate increase) to do it.
Also, depending on the place where you live, you might still be able to get unemployment benefits.
But lastly, don't base your actions on "I HAVE to do this or I get screwed"
Make your OWN options. An attitude like that sells you a lot quicker on the job-market than an "I'm a victim, please give me pity/handouts" will.
>They haven't been spreading much FUD recently, so why has their stock been going up?
Simple, it is public knowledge that Microsoft has put aside about 80 million dollars for this, so they're obviously artificially keeping SCO's stock high by buying shares.
I had a friend who owned two electric guitars. Both guitars were made by the same manufacturer. One guitar was made from pieces of whole wood, and the other guitar's neck was made of a kind of pulp-wood.
Even with NO amplification at all, if you put your ear against the neck of the guitars while strumming chords on them, you noticed that the one carved out of a natural block of wood sounded much warmer and richer than the other.
Extending my analogy, I'd expect the sound coming out of wood-cone speakers to be much more natural sounding that sound coming out of a pulp-paper cone...
Of course people say cone made from composite materials should give an ever MORE realistic sound, since the have even lower latency and add less coloration.
I predict that SCO's stock WON'T descend so quickly.
The newly leaked internal MS memos seem to be saying that MS has earmarked x millions for uses such as this; artificially maintaining SCO's stock high.
The problem is the typical investor can't see that going on and will simply believe there really is some interest in SCO's stock.
It's a doomed tactic, but MS are more interested in causing harm than actually winning at this point.
>as a pirate, you are violating copyright laws and contributing to the decline of quility programming on TV.
I feel *so* guilty thinking that the networks soon won't be able to produce shows like Survivor, the Bachelor, Train 48 and that show with the toupeee guy... Donald Trump.
I like having the Windows virus contained right in that one spot.
And anyway, look at Id, they're able to make just about ALL their games run great on Linux, That's testimony to what can be done, and what we can expect when people embrace Linux more.
The MARKET will decide the issue.
>>Too many people take the attitude of "If we let NVidia get away with it..."
I don't know if NVidia realize what an incredible oportunity is before them; They could pick up the entire Linux market if they just completely open-sourced their drivers.
People would flock to that solution and buy their hardware because of it.
It doesn't prevent them from writing Windows drivers either, but come on, is that their real business model anyway? Writing software or selling hardware?
>>The "if you want to game electronically, get a console" attitude is infectious and plays to the native elitism of Linux in general.
Remember the first really cool unix workstations? They had crazy risc processors and the ability to generate and draw 3D objects in real-time.
Simulation has always been a core engineering concern. 3D Games are just an extension of that.
>>The "you can always dual boot" attitude.
I DON'T advise going this route: a Windows machine on any network where other Windows machines can reach it is a security problem.
Dual-booting to Windows REALLY wouldn't work for the typical home setup; a lot of those computers run Windows and are connected directly to the Internet, so the minute you boot Windows in a situation like that, you're wide open to the first connection requests and exploits on those 'unclosable' Windows service ports.
That's a sure-fire infection if you haven't patched recently, and let's face it; you CAN'T because Microsoft refuses to close the exploits.
Give me Linux: runs for months wihout having to restart and comes up with all ports CLOSED by default.
So in closing, I'm predicting more and more migrations away from Windows to Linux.
I just think that it's really every bit as good. And then some.
But what I was getting at is that i believe Microsoft's strategy in this is not to make money, but to kill Linux. And if they have to send X millions down the crapper to do it, so be it.
Also, is there really a way to know precisely WHO is buying SCO's stock?
How hard would it be for MS to buy it through a shell corporation?
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>"The Spam Code" I'm sure we can sell more than the "Bible Code" Somebody mass-mail the news!
That's exactly what I did, and someone bombed my house!
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>It's from your girlfriend. She says she's unsatisfied with your love life.
Things are looking up, he doesn't HAVE a girlfriend!
The company will explain that it's nothing personal, it's only about survival, and they need to do this to assure their finances.
Leave without being mean. Explain that it's nothing personal; you're just looking out for yourself, and you can't spend any more time helping the company because it's smarter for you to move on immediately to somewhere where you have a future, etc...
If they REALLY need you to train the guy, come back as a consultant (at a huge rate increase) to do it.
Also, depending on the place where you live, you might still be able to get unemployment benefits.
But lastly, don't base your actions on "I HAVE to do this or I get screwed"
Make your OWN options.
An attitude like that sells you a lot quicker on the job-market than an "I'm a victim, please give me pity/handouts" will.
>They haven't been spreading much FUD recently, so why has their stock been going up?
Simple, it is public knowledge that Microsoft has put aside about 80 million dollars for this, so they're obviously artificially keeping SCO's stock high by buying shares.
You were paid to produce what you did, the company owns the work.
Why would you degrade yourself by sinking to sabotage?
Better you resign the moment they announce the news to you and find another job as fast as possible.
Yeah, right... Like if MS isn't late AGAIN with the whole concept of blogs!
*sigh* What's next? A patent?
I dunno, seems like some of the best comments get ignored, but eh, who cares? You shouldn't let it bring you down.
>It's all about tortoises!
Actually, it's tortoises all the way down!
Dude, I like The Matrix too, but you're REALLY reaching here.
;-)
Maybe time to go outside and play?
It is.
It is 100% percent faster a whole 1 time faster.
So that makes whatever it was doing twice as fast now, right?
So it's 200% faster or 2x as fast.
eh, still confused/
I had a friend who owned two electric guitars.
Both guitars were made by the same manufacturer.
One guitar was made from pieces of whole wood, and the other guitar's neck was made of a kind of pulp-wood.
Even with NO amplification at all, if you put your ear against the neck of the guitars while strumming chords on them, you noticed that the one carved out of a natural block of wood sounded much warmer and richer than the other.
Extending my analogy, I'd expect the sound coming out of wood-cone speakers to be much more natural sounding that sound coming out of a pulp-paper cone...
Of course people say cone made from composite materials should give an ever MORE realistic sound, since the have even lower latency and add less coloration.
>I saw this movie before.
/Worst movie ever?!?
So did I, only it was called "The Stuff"
http://imdb.com/title/tt0090094/
>SCO now claim that Linux is [like] a Harry Potter rip-off and Vanilla Ice versus David Bowie and Queen."
Sort of like SCO's Unix, huh?
It should also be a punishable offense for a software maker to NOT close exploit holes in a timely manner.
I can see the case being made that leaving exploits open is essentially supporting terrorism, or depraved indifference at least.
War is the greatest sin and abomination a goverment can perpetrate against its own people.
Karma be damned.
I predict that SCO's stock WON'T descend so quickly.
The newly leaked internal MS memos seem to be saying that MS has earmarked x millions for uses such as this; artificially maintaining SCO's stock high.
The problem is the typical investor can't see that going on and will simply believe there really is some interest in SCO's stock.
It's a doomed tactic, but MS are more interested in causing harm than actually winning at this point.
What do you mean?
The Gentoo Portage system was copied from FreeBSD?
>as a pirate, you are violating copyright laws and contributing to the decline of quility programming on TV.
I feel *so* guilty thinking that the networks soon won't be able to produce shows like Survivor, the Bachelor, Train 48 and that show with the toupeee guy... Donald Trump.
>Yeah, so, you still don't want buckyballs to kill you?
When your brain is compromised like that, judgement is the first thing to go.
>> No WINE
What's wrong with Wine? I use it.
I like having the Windows virus contained right in that one spot.
And anyway, look at Id, they're able to make just about ALL their games run great on Linux, That's testimony to what can be done, and what we can expect when people embrace Linux more.
The MARKET will decide the issue.
>>Too many people take the attitude of "If we let NVidia get away with it..."
I don't know if NVidia realize what an incredible oportunity is before them; They could pick up the entire Linux market if they just completely open-sourced their drivers.
People would flock to that solution and buy their hardware because of it.
It doesn't prevent them from writing Windows drivers either, but come on, is that their real business model anyway? Writing software or selling hardware?
>>The "if you want to game electronically, get a console" attitude is infectious and plays to the native elitism of Linux in general.
Remember the first really cool unix workstations? They had crazy risc processors and the ability to generate and draw 3D objects in real-time.
Simulation has always been a core engineering concern. 3D Games are just an extension of that.
>>The "you can always dual boot" attitude.
I DON'T advise going this route: a Windows machine on any network where other Windows machines can reach it is a security problem.
Dual-booting to Windows REALLY wouldn't work for the typical home setup; a lot of those computers run Windows and are connected directly to the Internet, so the minute you boot Windows in a situation like that, you're wide open to the first connection requests and exploits on those 'unclosable' Windows service ports.
That's a sure-fire infection if you haven't patched recently, and let's face it; you CAN'T because Microsoft refuses to close the exploits.
Give me Linux: runs for months wihout having to restart and comes up with all ports CLOSED by default.
So in closing, I'm predicting more and more migrations away from Windows to Linux.
I just think that it's really every bit as good. And then some.
The moment Linux becomes a game platform that is as supported as Windows, console sales will plunge.
Informative.
Kudos, Quila.
That's very interesting and astute.
But what I was getting at is that i believe Microsoft's strategy in this is not to make money, but to kill Linux. And if they have to send X millions down the crapper to do it, so be it.
Also, is there really a way to know precisely WHO is buying SCO's stock?
How hard would it be for MS to buy it through a shell corporation?
Yeah, but I think it will be Microsoft's strategy to come in before the stock dips too much and buy up a lot of the stock.
The recently leaked memo shows that MS has a whole huge budget earmarked for just such an occasion.