Considering the price of converting every computer in the world to open-source, it's an even more compelling reason to not sue Microsoft into non-existance. Easier to keep the status quo than change every computer in the world to Open Source, and probably cheaper too.
In the immortal words of Dr. Julius Hibbert, "Hillbillies prefer to be called 'Sons of the Soil', but it ain't gonna happen. Heh heh."
There is no way that M$ is going to have to pay a trillion dollar fine. It would put the company out of business, and that would essentially render government computers useless. How long could you keep an unpatched windows 2k3 server on the net once an exploit has been released and there's no company to fix it?
Microsoft hitting rock bottom is more related to fantasy than anything else. A company with $40 Billion in the bank is essentially isolated from any kind of market failure, unless it's prolonged over five or so years. Microsoft could easily put everyone on vacation for a year, take a marginal stock hit, and then buy everything back. The company will still be there when everyone comes back, and still would be a good investment.
I think this shows that what they're after is a huge FUD to damage Linux,
Think IBM/Redhat/SuSE/Mandrake countersuit for lost sales during the legal wrangling. It's like playing monopoly. When you knock one player off the board, you get all his stuff.
SCO's crappy IP would become opensource, and that would be a shiner to BillG, he has open source tech in his OS now:)
He's making a reference to the parable of the blind men who touch different parts of an elephant and make a decision of what the animal looks like. One says it's a great snake, one says it's a tree, etc..
Linux graphics drivers seem to be coded after the fact, kind of a "we'll slap this together to make it work" methodology. The companies don't want to put a whole lot of effort into optimizing the drivers because linux is not a gaming platform. It also means that they have to learn another programming interface, and for such a small portion of the market, it's just not worth it.
Now, if Nvidia or ATI were to put some hardcore time into linux, what with the possible fork of X, they could develop a native ATI windowing system, and take over essentially 100% of the linux market.
I actually have an old IBM system 38 at one of the buildings that my company owns. It's still there because we can't get it out without destroying the building. I'll let it go cheap:)
I'll take this point-by-point
# How? (without violating FCC regulations, among others)
Publicly available spectrum, private leased lines, whatever it takes.
# What about privacy and encryption?
What about it?
# What is to keep the corporations from snuffing the second one too?
This time, we own it.
Who is going to come up with the technical methodology and how do you believe this will be implemented?
We have boatloads of RFC's for that. We've solved the technical problems, we can work on the political problems.
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Considering the price of converting every computer in the world to open-source, it's an even more compelling reason to not sue Microsoft into non-existance. Easier to keep the status quo than change every computer in the world to Open Source, and probably cheaper too.
In the immortal words of Dr. Julius Hibbert, "Hillbillies prefer to be called 'Sons of the Soil', but it ain't gonna happen. Heh heh."
There is no way that M$ is going to have to pay a trillion dollar fine. It would put the company out of business, and that would essentially render government computers useless. How long could you keep an unpatched windows 2k3 server on the net once an exploit has been released and there's no company to fix it?
Microsoft hitting rock bottom is more related to fantasy than anything else. A company with $40 Billion in the bank is essentially isolated from any kind of market failure, unless it's prolonged over five or so years. Microsoft could easily put everyone on vacation for a year, take a marginal stock hit, and then buy everything back. The company will still be there when everyone comes back, and still would be a good investment.
There is no way that they could enforce that. You'd have to have your own RFID reader to get the fiver that your buddy owes you.
They'll never notice that you've taken them out.
Micrrowave your cash today!
I think this shows that what they're after is a huge FUD to damage Linux,
:)
Think IBM/Redhat/SuSE/Mandrake countersuit for lost sales during the legal wrangling. It's like playing monopoly. When you knock one player off the board, you get all his stuff.
SCO's crappy IP would become opensource, and that would be a shiner to BillG, he has open source tech in his OS now
He's making a reference to the parable of the blind men who touch different parts of an elephant and make a decision of what the animal looks like. One says it's a great snake, one says it's a tree, etc..
Linux graphics drivers seem to be coded after the fact, kind of a "we'll slap this together to make it work" methodology. The companies don't want to put a whole lot of effort into optimizing the drivers because linux is not a gaming platform. It also means that they have to learn another programming interface, and for such a small portion of the market, it's just not worth it.
Now, if Nvidia or ATI were to put some hardcore time into linux, what with the possible fork of X, they could develop a native ATI windowing system, and take over essentially 100% of the linux market.
They will open source the drivers and DMCA everyones ass into bankruptcy.
This 2 minute rule has got to go...
Once they kill off Nvidia, they will have no excuse not to release open source drivers, there'll be nobody left to copy them.
And make sure that you use a proprietary, non-MS filetype to write your resume in. I suggest Gzipped Koffice documents.
whoops :)
Not early enough.
I guess it all depends on exactly where on the body they are generated.
I actually have an old IBM system 38 at one of the buildings that my company owns. It's still there because we can't get it out without destroying the building. I'll let it go cheap :)
Finally.
You're only on your second serving of government funded assrape? You must be 12!
...competence and effectiveness of the FBI in combatting cybercrime.
Now if only they could get that pesky 'Homeland Security" thingie, they're golden!
That was beautiful! It made me actually want to go to their wedding!
I see now. Thanks Grub. I'll gear up for next friday. I'd better start building up Karma.
This just means I don't have to test all my servers. Someone will let me know. Man, andministrating my home network just got easier!
How exactly do Karma Burn Fridays work? Do I post logged in and hope I get modded down as offtopic or redundant? Or is it something more sinister?
They also have IR sensors to detect obstacles, for an extra fee, of course.
...and you had say, a lawn-mowing robot. Would you let it go outside on its own? No! Someone would definitely steal it.
That's because you didn't get the robotic sentry with anti-personnel artillery. Quit being so cheap!
I'll take this point-by-point # How? (without violating FCC regulations, among others) Publicly available spectrum, private leased lines, whatever it takes. # What about privacy and encryption? What about it? # What is to keep the corporations from snuffing the second one too? This time, we own it. Who is going to come up with the technical methodology and how do you believe this will be implemented? We have boatloads of RFC's for that. We've solved the technical problems, we can work on the political problems.