I gotta think that Java operates at a loss for them
Really? Have you looked at a mobile phone recently? Every new phone comes with Java. That suggests almost every new phone means a royalty payment to Sun. Mobile phone sales are back on the up thanks to mobile multimedia content - mostly delivered through Java. I suspect Sun are raking it in.
Losing nmap is unlikely to hurt SCO - anyone that needs nmap is going to be smart enough to download th gzip
Where it would get really interesting is if any other big projects pulled the plug. Imagine no Apache for SCO? (okay we should probably resolve the existing fight over the apache license before starting another) but what about no Samba?
I'm not entirely convinced that it's the right approach - I'd rather just see SCO beaten, but it'd sure hurt them if they lost some big pieces of software.
I suspect the marketing element is they cna now sell computers at $50 less than their competitors with no software pre installed. Students then buy the box, go home and install the latest superduper everything from that CD of stuff their classmate downloaded.
There's no radio license in the UK.
The BBC channels are funded by the Television License. As the name suggests, You only need one of those if you own a TV.
He is five foot two,
anbd he's six feet four,
he fights with missiles and with spears,
he is all of thirty-one,
and he's only a seventeen,
's been a soldier for thousands years.
He's a Catolic, a Hindy,
an atheist, A Chein,
A Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew,
and he knows, he shouldn't kill,
and he knows, he always will,
care for me, my friend, and I will care for you.
And he's fighting for Canada,
he's fighting for France,
he's fighting for the USA
and he's fighting for the Russains,
he's fihgting for Japan,
and he thinks we put an end to war this way.
And he's fighting for democrazy,
he's fighting for the Reds,
he says it's for the peace of all,
he's the one who must decide,
who's to live and who's to die,
and he never sees the writing on the wall.
And without him, how would Hitler
kill the people at Dachau,
without him Cesar would have stood alone,
he's the one, who gives his body
as a weapon of the war,
and without him always killing can't go on.
He's the universal soldier,
and he really is to blame,
his orders came from far away, no more,
they came from here and there,
and you and me ain't brothers,
can't you see,
this is not the way we put an end to war.
I have received two new drives without any hazzles what so ever. Impressive actually, considering the trouble I've had trying to get replacement ASUS Graphic cards etc
Have you thought about buying an anti-static wrist strap, that sure seems like a lot of repalcements:)
does this mean that http://freecache.org/http://www.frozentech.com/con tent/livecd.php should help
From the Freecache FAQ:
What files are being served by FreeCache?
FreeCache can only serve files that are on a web site. If the link to a file on that web site goes away, so will the file in the FreeCaches. Also, there is a minimum size requirement. We don't bother with files smaller than 5MB, as the saved bandwidth does not outweight the protocol overhead in those cases.
So if he were hosting the distros, rather than links to the distros it would help. As it is, his page is way too small for freecache to get involved.
Mcrosoft already make software available in Welsh, and have reacted favourably to including Scots Gaelic, spoken by less than 60,000 people, in their language dictionaries.
They do this by making those that are interested fund the development. For example the Linguistics Institute of Ireland worked on the Irish Gaelic spell checker. The Welsh work was undertaken by the University of Wales and the Welsh Language Board.
following the EU's decision to let Microsoft off on a good behaviour bond, the EU will deploy 50,000 Windows clients and 800 Windows 2k3 servers in a five year deal with Microsoft. Terms could not be disclosed on grounds of commercial confidentiality. Microsoft will also be providing five free copies of Office XP to schools throughout the EU.
Whatever Microsoft is guilty of, I don't recall it using patent violations as a tactic.
You what? Have you read this? Microsoft are using patents - and even the claim that they might have patents - to prevent Open Source software maintaining file compatibilty with MS Office.
Microsoft have never been shy about hinting to businesses thinking of adopting Linux that they may be left open to IP infringment lawsuits.
I'm sure the thing that's annoyed Microsoft most about this case is that they never thought about lodging the patent first.
Is it just me or are people becoming less critical about what a valid news sources is?
'Someone told me...' on a 'blog'?
Sheesh, some folk are never happy. The source is pointed out to us, proving that the Slashdot Editor did actually read the article, and now you want them to be fussy over the sources too. Next thing we know you'll be complaining again tomorrow when this story gets duped.
Joel might think it's c00l to rant and use international accents all over the place, but littering his HTML with 8 bit characters is asking for someone to rant right back. If he wants an accent in the word resume he should use & eacute; without the space that/. doesn't like rather than copying and pasting his blog text from Word.
SuSE got it's EAL 2 certification on IBM hardware and as far as I know that was funded by IBM - I don't know if Novel had anything to do with this EAL 3 certification, but given the time certification takes I suspect that's unlikely.
More likely would be further IBM involvement as a company well placed to benefit from being able to sell more hardware deeper into government.
any first-year EE student can tell you that mains cable is no good for signalling on, even at modest frequencies.
So if it's no good for signalling on, why are there commercially deployed Broadband over Power Line projects in mainland Europe and Commercial trials in Scotland and England offering 1Mb symmetrical connections.
As others have pointed out, the Republic of Ireland is an Independent Country. I intentioanlly missed out Northern Ireland because it's a bit more complicated. It has its own courts, but its laws are made in the UK Parliament in England and have much in common with those covering England and Wales. Most of the legal differences are associated with terrorism and not computers.
Great Britain has two legal systems, one covering England and Wales, the other covers Scotland.
In Scotland, Extortion (the obtaining of money or goods by means of illegitimate threats or demands) is a criminal offence. As a result, such practises as private firms clamping your car for parking on private property then demanding money to release it is illegal in Scotland but not in England. As a result, any Scottish company receiving one of these demands may wish to request a copy of the infringing source and if it's not forthcoming deem the request as an illegitimate threat and report SCO to the police.
In addition the new Proceeds of Crime Act gives police the power to seize all assets belonging to criminals participating in the practise of extortion. Such assets could include cars, houses, boats and bank accounts.
I suspect if any Linux distro had the installed user base of Windows 98 the companies would be in a fiscal position to offer eight years of support. Especially when it's paid phone support - lots of suers + paid phone support probably means Microsoft can actually cover their costs on this one.
As others have said, MS probably have other reasons for this move, including not wanting to encourage folk to switch to Linux.
None of that is to dis Microsoft in any way - offering the security updates is going to help a lot of folk who haven't yet made the switch.
Then almost all voip and h323 software is "obsolete". Alternatively, perhaps you jsut don't know much about the protocols and why they're difficult to route over NAT. Don't you think is you could easily design coip to run through NAT everyone would be doing it? Even skype needs a non NAT box to work - if neither client can be used it'll use someone else in the middle.
As has been pointed out, what we really need are easier solutions such as port forwarding - you could turn the port into an extention number. So your voip could be slashdot.org:5 and then a bit like VNC have traffic routed to slashdot.org port xxxx + 5. For that to work we'd need cooperation from router manufacturers.
The other alternative is IPv6. VoIP might just be the driving force needed to see IPv6 deployed in the real world.
With rumours of an imminent IPO flying round the Internet and in the financial press, you have to wonder how Google's execs will react to an SCO approach. Any pending litigation could put a dent in their offer price - even a few percent makes a big difference when you value the company at $12 billion.
Google have over 10,000 linux servers in their cluster. That's a licensing fee of $7 million. It might be a lot easier for them just to write the cheque.
Assuming the Google execs will also have a significant share in the company, any reduction in the company value could hit them in the pocket personally.
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Really? Have you looked at a mobile phone recently? Every new phone comes with Java. That suggests almost every new phone means a royalty payment to Sun. Mobile phone sales are back on the up thanks to mobile multimedia content - mostly delivered through Java. I suspect Sun are raking it in.
You mean like .us ? That's the top level domain for the United States. There's a list here
Where it would get really interesting is if any other big projects pulled the plug. Imagine no Apache for SCO? (okay we should probably resolve the existing fight over the apache license before starting another) but what about no Samba?
I'm not entirely convinced that it's the right approach - I'd rather just see SCO beaten, but it'd sure hurt them if they lost some big pieces of software.
I suspect the marketing element is they cna now sell computers at $50 less than their competitors with no software pre installed. Students then buy the box, go home and install the latest superduper everything from that CD of stuff their classmate downloaded.
There's no radio license in the UK. The BBC channels are funded by the Television License. As the name suggests, You only need one of those if you own a TV.
DONOVAN - UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
He is five foot two,
anbd he's six feet four,
he fights with missiles and with spears,
he is all of thirty-one,
and he's only a seventeen,
's been a soldier for thousands years.
He's a Catolic, a Hindy,
an atheist, A Chein,
A Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew,
and he knows, he shouldn't kill,
and he knows, he always will,
care for me, my friend, and I will care for you.
And he's fighting for Canada,
he's fighting for France,
he's fighting for the USA
and he's fighting for the Russains,
he's fihgting for Japan,
and he thinks we put an end to war this way.
And he's fighting for democrazy,
he's fighting for the Reds,
he says it's for the peace of all,
he's the one who must decide,
who's to live and who's to die,
and he never sees the writing on the wall.
And without him, how would Hitler
kill the people at Dachau,
without him Cesar would have stood alone,
he's the one, who gives his body
as a weapon of the war,
and without him always killing can't go on.
He's the universal soldier,
and he really is to blame,
his orders came from far away, no more,
they came from here and there,
and you and me ain't brothers,
can't you see,
this is not the way we put an end to war.
Have you thought about buying an anti-static wrist strap, that sure seems like a lot of repalcements :)
From the Freecache FAQ:
So if he were hosting the distros, rather than links to the distros it would help. As it is, his page is way too small for freecache to get involved.
They do this by making those that are interested fund the development. For example the Linguistics Institute of Ireland worked on the Irish Gaelic spell checker. The Welsh work was undertaken by the University of Wales and the Welsh Language Board.
or am I the only one who feared someone was claiming a patent on Cascading Style Sheets?
newsonline.complaints@bbc.co.uk
following the EU's decision to let Microsoft off on a good behaviour bond, the EU will deploy 50,000 Windows clients and 800 Windows 2k3 servers in a five year deal with Microsoft. Terms could not be disclosed on grounds of commercial confidentiality. Microsoft will also be providing five free copies of Office XP to schools throughout the EU.
Sure. How about reading this
You what? Have you read this? Microsoft are using patents - and even the claim that they might have patents - to prevent Open Source software maintaining file compatibilty with MS Office.
Microsoft have never been shy about hinting to businesses thinking of adopting Linux that they may be left open to IP infringment lawsuits.
I'm sure the thing that's annoyed Microsoft most about this case is that they never thought about lodging the patent first.
Sheesh, some folk are never happy. The source is pointed out to us, proving that the Slashdot Editor did actually read the article, and now you want them to be fussy over the sources too. Next thing we know you'll be complaining again tomorrow when this story gets duped.
Joel might think it's c00l to rant and use international accents all over the place, but littering his HTML with 8 bit characters is asking for someone to rant right back. If he wants an accent in the word resume he should use & eacute; without the space that /. doesn't like rather than copying and pasting his blog text from Word.
In the US, however, doesn't this make them terrorists and entitled to a free, one way, all expenses paid trip to Cuba?
More likely would be further IBM involvement as a company well placed to benefit from being able to sell more hardware deeper into government.
score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 5
to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
So if it's no good for signalling on, why are there commercially deployed Broadband over Power Line projects in mainland Europe and Commercial trials in Scotland and England offering 1Mb symmetrical connections.
As others have pointed out, the Republic of Ireland is an Independent Country. I intentioanlly missed out Northern Ireland because it's a bit more complicated. It has its own courts, but its laws are made in the UK Parliament in England and have much in common with those covering England and Wales. Most of the legal differences are associated with terrorism and not computers.
In Scotland, Extortion (the obtaining of money or goods by means of illegitimate threats or demands) is a criminal offence. As a result, such practises as private firms clamping your car for parking on private property then demanding money to release it is illegal in Scotland but not in England. As a result, any Scottish company receiving one of these demands may wish to request a copy of the infringing source and if it's not forthcoming deem the request as an illegitimate threat and report SCO to the police.
In addition the new Proceeds of Crime Act gives police the power to seize all assets belonging to criminals participating in the practise of extortion. Such assets could include cars, houses, boats and bank accounts.
As others have said, MS probably have other reasons for this move, including not wanting to encourage folk to switch to Linux.
None of that is to dis Microsoft in any way - offering the security updates is going to help a lot of folk who haven't yet made the switch.
As has been pointed out, what we really need are easier solutions such as port forwarding - you could turn the port into an extention number. So your voip could be slashdot.org:5 and then a bit like VNC have traffic routed to slashdot.org port xxxx + 5. For that to work we'd need cooperation from router manufacturers.
The other alternative is IPv6. VoIP might just be the driving force needed to see IPv6 deployed in the real world.
Google have over 10,000 linux servers in their cluster. That's a licensing fee of $7 million. It might be a lot easier for them just to write the cheque.
Assuming the Google execs will also have a significant share in the company, any reduction in the company value could hit them in the pocket personally.