I've been a member for a long time, and the content seems to be degenerating into a groupthink zealot factory with its own set of dogmas and censors.
I don't think this is the fundemental problem. This case needs to be talked about rationally and I think Groklaw (and in a way Slashdot) are providing a forum for this.
The problem to me is that SCO is obviously using the publicity to their advantage, both bad and good. Every time SCO is mentioned in the press, for good or ill, their stock starts climbing. And that's clearly what they are after. Everybody, including McBride, Yarro and their minions know the case is a fraud, but while the stock keeps climbing, it doesn't matter to them.
What we need to avoid is to talk about SCO just for the "tabloid" value inside the Linux community. You may have a point that some of this discussion borders on that, but as long as we keep to the purpose of revealing SCO's true intentions, then talking about SCO here is a good thing.
You assume that what we have in the industrialized world is capitalism. It is not. It is the accumulation of capital in few hands. This is plutocracy. Real capitalism should always try put to as much capital in as many hands as possible.
There's no reason to settle for a "least bad" option. There is a good one and it is called distributivism.
Yup. I was going to say the same thing. The only moderately interesting thing, I must confess, was the guy who recovered his wife's infidelities from their PC - if only for base, prurient reasons. Guess I haven't had enough Swartzenegger news for today
Professional spammers have gone beyond open relays to planting trojans on cracked Win boxes. Rather than rely on a Russian roulette approach of finding an open relay, they just hack a Win box on broadband and they have their own server that they control.
Yes, you might send some spam to/dev/null with this approach, but it would be only hurt the clueless to amateur spammer and the quantity wouldn't be that much.
This is one of those anecdotical non-news things that I suppose the MS people think is earth shattering. These factoids are downright annoying really because they essentially blow up something very insignificant to make it look like it actually means something and it doesn't. Linux+Apache is on something like 60% of Internet servers and that's a big number. If a couple of Win2003 boxes happen to creep in there - big deal. Essentially shovelling the proverbial fecal material against the tide
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The mystery is why people listen to this guy. I have never found one thing he's said to be the least bit insightful. This 99.9 == 100% boilerplate hype.
Not new at all. Even the Inquirer linked to this page of the Compaq FAQ via a photo of Carly Fiorina about a month ago. One of those photos they put on the home page that goes someplace somewhat related to the person.
Microsoft always has to be number one. The whole company should sit down with a psychiatrist (or at least Gates and Ballmer).
You take a company like Branson's Virgin and you see that they like a certain sector and they go into it and they try to offer an alternative product in a fun way - music, airlines, cola, mobile phones, investment services.
But Microsoft is totally the opposite. They have some kind of a corporate neurosis about owning and dominating it all. I associate no sense of fun with them. They are sort of like Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life. Now when I hear that they want to put Google out of business, it only confirms what George Bailey said of Mr. Potter, how warped and frustrated they are.
I would assume there is a great abundance of them. In the region where I live, there is a lot of almond trees and production of candy primarily from these almonds. Of course, the shell is thrown away. Most of the metal, carpentry shops and other small warehouses burn the shell of the almond to heat these places in the winter. The setup is a very tall triangular shaped bin that lets the almond shells fall by gravity into a burner.
The shells burn very hot and it's very efficient, or so I am told.
When I was living in the States, there was a commercial with almond growers literally swimming in almonds so I suppose that where there is a lot of growing of nuts (almond, macadamia etc) there is a potential small scale energy source there that is probably unexploited.
I actually feel sorry for McBride in a way. Not *really* sorry, of course. I say this because, as far as I know, he has not sold off any stock. All the people around him are making 6 figures off of it and he basically can't sell anything. He is the pillar holding up the house of cards for the Canopy Group and whoever else is making money off this (Microsoft??). This guy is essentially the bag boy - he's the one who's job it is to make his asinine claims while everybody else just sits back and laughs. (ie - the open source people laughing at the claims and the SCO stockholders laughing all the way to the bank). If you think about it, when this is over, good ole Darl's going to have worthless stock and essentially a very, very bad name. I would imagine that they (the Canopy Group) have planned to provide compensation to him some
other way.
Absolutely. I read an article a while back but I don't remember exactly where I saw it - I think it was in The Guardian - but it said we're now entering a period where inventors are producing stuff that has dubious value for society. It talks about how companies are now putting a great deal of effort into providing features for things - I think they mentioned cell phones - and they know that people don't use these features. The article points out that instead of making the phone better in other ways - they take surveys to find out why people aren't using the features. Here we have another example of this kind of misplaced creativity. The inventor actually says this:
Whilst it's not necessarily very efficient, in many ways it's very pragmatic...
Crying foul and they actually believe it. The 'we dominate the software world' mentality is so thick at Microsoft you can cut it with the knife. The genuinely scary thing about this is when they say this is unfair they actually believe it. Microsoft believes it should be able to mandate the use of their product in any country, under any circumstances and under any conditions. Take Spain for example. Some Spanish provincial governments and municipalities are producing their own Linux distributions. Well, Microsoft doesn't like this and went right in and made a deal with Spain's Minister of Industry to put Microsoft's in the national school system - 20+ million Euro worth of software for free. Now you have to ask yourself: If Exxon-Mobil had gone in to Spain and said: Here - we'll put free gas in your government owned vehicles for a year. What would Shell Oil and other competitors have said? But Microsoft can do this stuff without even anybody batting an eyelash - and why? Because they are a monster monopoly. Now when Japan, China, etc- say they've had it - now Microsoft cries foul.
In was really the saddest day on Earth when Judge Penfield Jackson of the MS monopoly trial opened his mouth. We've been paying for it ever since.
I know this kind of desktop is supposed to give MS refugees a warm, fuzzy feeling, but I am so sick of the Start/Launch/[Whatever] button. Sheesh! Free yourselves from this Microsoft cloning and get something like Fluxbox.
I remember seeing an episode of Quincy (Jack Klugman was a forensic pathologist) when I was in high school where he reconstructed a guy from a femur, IIRC. I don't think we actually believed that could be done at the time but I do remember afterwards people saying that it was based on fact. This was the early 80's. Now with 3d imaging, and the powerful CPUs we have today, I'm not surprised they can get someone's features from a skull.
It may not have been about the GPL in the beginning, but it has evolved into a case about the GPL, probably due to MS's insistence. That was probably the payback for the 10M license they bought from SCO.
SCO originally thought it was going to raise a stink, get IBMs attention and get bought off or bought out. That didn't happen. Microsoft got into the fray with their purchase of a license and that, interestingly was the point where the thing started to go out of control. Originally there was no talk from SCO about the GPL or going after Linux companies or users.
SCO now knows that it is out of control. You can thank Microsoft for this. They must be having a good laugh. They got what they wanted. A famous test case for the GPL.
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I don't think this is the fundemental problem. This case needs to be talked about rationally and I think Groklaw (and in a way Slashdot) are providing a forum for this.
The problem to me is that SCO is obviously using the publicity to their advantage, both bad and good. Every time SCO is mentioned in the press, for good or ill, their stock starts climbing. And that's clearly what they are after. Everybody, including McBride, Yarro and their minions know the case is a fraud, but while the stock keeps climbing, it doesn't matter to them.
What we need to avoid is to talk about SCO just for the "tabloid" value inside the Linux community. You may have a point that some of this discussion borders on that, but as long as we keep to the purpose of revealing SCO's true intentions, then talking about SCO here is a good thing.
I do, so there! [sticks out tongue]
Don't you mean: Also remember to specify yer english.
There's no reason to settle for a "least bad" option. There is a good one and it is called distributivism.
And this agenda is: Keep SCO in the news at all costs
Yes, you might send some spam to /dev/null with this approach, but it would be only hurt the clueless to amateur spammer and the quantity wouldn't be that much.
You take a company like Branson's Virgin and you see that they like a certain sector and they go into it and they try to offer an alternative product in a fun way - music, airlines, cola, mobile phones, investment services.
But Microsoft is totally the opposite. They have some kind of a corporate neurosis about owning and dominating it all. I associate no sense of fun with them. They are sort of like Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life. Now when I hear that they want to put Google out of business, it only confirms what George Bailey said of Mr. Potter, how warped and frustrated they are.
When I was living in the States, there was a commercial with almond growers literally swimming in almonds so I suppose that where there is a lot of growing of nuts (almond, macadamia etc) there is a potential small scale energy source there that is probably unexploited.
Whilst it's not necessarily very efficient, in many ways it's very pragmatic ...
That's a pretty telling statement.
Sex scandals? Clinton isn't the president anymore. Now we have George W. Bush and financial and missing WMD quasi scandals.
In was really the saddest day on Earth when Judge Penfield Jackson of the MS monopoly trial opened his mouth. We've been paying for it ever since.
SCO originally thought it was going to raise a stink, get IBMs attention and get bought off or bought out. That didn't happen. Microsoft got into the fray with their purchase of a license and that, interestingly was the point where the thing started to go out of control. Originally there was no talk from SCO about the GPL or going after Linux companies or users.
SCO now knows that it is out of control. You can thank Microsoft for this. They must be having a good laugh. They got what they wanted. A famous test case for the GPL.