If that's their argument, then they have no business in it. They've slipped articles into their EULAs for years. They've forced vendors to only install their software.
If Microsoft believes Lindows is doing something illegal, it should be taken to a state prosecutor, not to vigilante court.
They're taking all the individual claims, and packing them into one gigantic claim. They can process the claims a lot more efficiently that way. They're not necessarily making a profit at it. It's more of a community service.
I haven't read the terms, but it's possible they're taking a risk, too: They have to sift through the claims to determine if they're valid. For the ones found invalid, they may have already paid the claimer.
Increasing government's power is a natural side-effect of serving in government.
The only people who can resist the temptation to increase their power can't get enough positive attention to get elected. They either focus on specialty issues, or they can't get into debates.
If you know the frequency that the tag responds to/transmits on, you can probably rig a small antenna to provide power, and watch the signal on the antenna with an oscilloscope.
Processor prices decrease very quickly when new releases come out.
I expect it's cheaper to have twin Athlon 2200s in an OpenMOSIX cluster than to have the latest 32-bit Athlon. It's definately cheaper than the latest Pentium 4.
But then, there is the Athlon 64's wholesome 64-bit data and 40/8-bit address space.:)
I have to believe SCO was expecting this response.
Assuming their executives haven't forgotten everything they learned about strategy when getting their MBAs, they must have had something planned for this response.
Some serious effort should go into researching potential legal basises(?) for an effective class action suit.
It need not even be for damages. It could simply be a demand for a public retraction and apology. It would be a much easier demand to have ordered met. Besides, we don't care about the money, anyway, do we?
I suspect IBM has enough vested interest to force the issue.
They could continue with a lawsuit for damages, even if the current suits are dropped. Of course, we'll then see SCO saying "We didn't harm Linux in any way, so IBM must drop the suit."
If you declare there's no such thing as freedom of speech in order to accomplish something that disturbs you, then you risk someone turning around and limiting your speech, because it disturbs them.
That's not something I want to risk in any situation. And, in my opinion, nobody who disagrees with a large number of people on any issue, should want risk it either. To do so is simply careless, and is ignorant of the dynamic nature of culture and history.
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If that's their argument, then they have no business in it. They've slipped articles into their EULAs for years. They've forced vendors to only install their software.
If Microsoft believes Lindows is doing something illegal, it should be taken to a state prosecutor, not to vigilante court.
I believe he did. I remember, because there was a big hoo-rah about it.
Kinda like "This bill is legal tender for all debts, public and private." found on US paper money.
Isn't this a lot like threatening to have a court dismiss the lawsuit?
I see nothing wrong with it.
They're taking all the individual claims, and packing them into one gigantic claim. They can process the claims a lot more efficiently that way. They're not necessarily making a profit at it. It's more of a community service.
I haven't read the terms, but it's possible they're taking a risk, too: They have to sift through the claims to determine if they're valid. For the ones found invalid, they may have already paid the claimer.
That's it! Switzerland must be a rogue state!
About as portable as a generator and a pickup truck.
Not that I'm worried for the short term.
A list of scanner IDs encountered recently?
It would take overhead out of finding out where a person's been recently. It would also allow the device to be checked for tampering.
Increasing government's power is a natural side-effect of serving in government.
The only people who can resist the temptation to increase their power can't get enough positive attention to get elected. They either focus on specialty issues, or they can't get into debates.
If you know the frequency that the tag responds to/transmits on, you can probably rig a small antenna to provide power, and watch the signal on the antenna with an oscilloscope.
So what happens if you work on power transmission lines for a living?
I wonder if putting them next to a commercial radio transmitter might do the trick.
A worker climbs up on the radio tower with his RFID-laced clothing
"And in other news, John Doe registered on all RFID detectors in the county today. And now on to Jan for sports."
lspci works tells me all I need to know about the PCI/AGP bus, and a jaunt through usbfs gives me the names of all my USB devices.
Processor prices decrease very quickly when new releases come out.
:)
I expect it's cheaper to have twin Athlon 2200s in an OpenMOSIX cluster than to have the latest 32-bit Athlon. It's definately cheaper than the latest Pentium 4.
But then, there is the Athlon 64's wholesome 64-bit data and 40/8-bit address space.
Perl 6 is going to have commands that take advantage of SIMD and SMP processing.
Could Linux add a software-mode SIMD command that takes arbitrary amounts of data?
That would scale very well to Hyper-Threading, SMP, clusters and quantum computers.
Just a thought...
That would be the classic movie plot, yes. I've only heard of it happening in reality once.
(A friend of mine runs a karate dojo. In her neighborhood, a 7-year-old was bullying her 5-year old, so the 5-year-old beat the tar out of him.)
No, SCO paper.
IBM is a blowtorch.
I have to believe SCO was expecting this response.
Assuming their executives haven't forgotten everything they learned about strategy when getting their MBAs, they must have had something planned for this response.
With all of IBM's money, and the ability to draw in more help, I'd say you're looking at 16-bit number: 65535...
So what happens when we go to version 3? Do we have to go through all this again?
Will there be a split in the pro-GPL community between progress and the "tried and true" solution?
Some serious effort should go into researching potential legal basises(?) for an effective class action suit.
It need not even be for damages. It could simply be a demand for a public retraction and apology. It would be a much easier demand to have ordered met. Besides, we don't care about the money, anyway, do we?
As a pump and dump scheme, they're still way ahead of the game.
That certainly makes IBM sound like the classic bully, doesn't it?
I wonder what historians will think about this in ten years. Twenty? Fifty?
I suspect IBM has enough vested interest to force the issue.
They could continue with a lawsuit for damages, even if the current suits are dropped. Of course, we'll then see SCO saying "We didn't harm Linux in any way, so IBM must drop the suit."
And water transport in lead pipes.
The introduction of that product shortly preceded the downfall of Rome.
The fundamental flaw in your argument:
If you declare there's no such thing as freedom of speech in order to accomplish something that disturbs you, then you risk someone turning around and limiting your speech, because it disturbs them.
That's not something I want to risk in any situation. And, in my opinion, nobody who disagrees with a large number of people on any issue, should want risk it either. To do so is simply careless, and is ignorant of the dynamic nature of culture and history.