I run KDE and as such I prefer applications that use QT. However, there are plenty of good, useful applications that use GTK (Gimp comes to mind) and I don't want people to waste their time on making equivalent applications with QT nor do I want QT frontends to these apps. I can live with two toolkits, but...
I run a pretty lean Debian installation, still I have to have a few extra toolkits installed. Tk for example, I hate it, it's ugly as hell, but quite a lot of useful apps use it.
The big problem is that these extra toolkits will bloat your system. Not only do they use up disk space, but they will use up lots of memory when you use that one app that needs them. It's pretty pointless to have a shared toolkit library when only one or two apps use it.
In other words, it has got to be one hell of a great application for me to install yet another toolkit!
Whichever you choose, be extreme! Pull no punches, there can be no middle ground! If you follow these easy steps, your article is sure to be picked up by every Linux related news site and probably many non-linux sites.
What you have to say is not important, just stress that you have used and written about computers since the dawn of man kind and that you love/hate Linux. You'll be sure to have a syndicated column within a couple of days!
Finally the SCO suit is showing some effect! Linux's leader is abdicating and fleeing the scene. Exactly as the nazis left Germany and took up hiding in South America.
I guess that this means we can all get back to conducting serious business based on SCO Unix - the bread and butter of many a development company.
(In 20 years time we'll probably see Torvalds daughter marrying the Swedish king!)
All (hmmm?) Caldera customers ought to band together and initiate a class action suit against SCO for providing them with a product which SCO hadn't screened for IP violations. In doing so they are endangering their customer's businesses. If they *did* screen the code, noticed that there was copyright and IP infringements within Caldera, it might also be argued that they have maliciously marketed a "trojan horse" in the knowledge that they can "black mail" said customers for additional "surprise" fees/licenses later on.
If so - can't we just give them what they wanted to give Linus?
OK, so perhaps they borrowed some code from Linux, but I'm sure they returned it by now. It might be a little overdue, but I'm pretty sure the source is in the same condition as when they borrowed it!
Especially as we have 80 lines of identical code including comments which is the real kicker.
First of all, have you considered that this might be 80 lines from something that is based on a reference implementation? Stuff like tcp/ip stacks, device drivers and so on are often based on reference source released by device manufacturers or standard groups. br
Secondly, 80 lines isn't much and considering how bad some programmers are at writing comments, I'm not surprised if there are similiar comments:-)
It's difficult for them to argue that "we didn't mean to release that mythical code" when they, in fact, have already done so.
It will be very difficult for them to say that other companies should have discovered the IP breaches and ceased distributing Linux, when they themself didn't "discover" this fact until years after they begun distributing Linux. If they aren't able to take stock of what's in the Linux kernel that they ship and if they aren't able to stand 100% behind their own Linux product, they shouldn't be selling/distributing it. If they aren't able to uphold the very same standards for code inspection and IP/copyright verifications that they require from IBM, then they really don't have a case. If there is "stolen" code in the kernel and SCO has been distributing this, then they are just as much in the wrong as any other vendor. It is their job to make sure that their customers recieve a trust worthy product. By their complaint, they are only showing that they have been distributing a product without any knowledge of what it contains. A very poor qualitity process indeed! I wonder what stuff have wound up in the UNIX code, without SCO's "knowledge".
Back in Christ's days the romans awarded you 30 silvers when you betrayed someone. Today the romans buy a perpetual license of your product. Now that's progress!
Regarding your recent lawsuit against the so-called Linux operating system. Linux is only the kernel, the whole system should be refered to as GNU/Linux. I would really appreciate it if you change all Linux references to GNU/Linux in all your legal documents. Thank you!
I'm afraid your government did more than self-defence. Did you know that your government routinely demolish homes of innocent civilians? Murder innocent woman and children without cause?
You shouldn't be to hard on the Americans! Sure, the US is killing people all over the middle east, without ever being able to get the people they say they are after (Saddam, Bin Lade, Stallman, and so on.) However, something had to be done in Iraq and even if I had prefered the UN to have been behind the attack, I'm still glad that Iraq is being liberated.
Does AJ show pics and video of Iraqi troops hiding among civilians and using them as shields? No
There's still no proof that this is actually happening. The only source of this information is from the American military.
It's quite likely that the so called soldiers in civilian clothing are militia or civilians with weapons. Something that the people from the USA should appreciate. One of the main reasons for the "right to bear arms" was so that everyone could help out and kick some brittish butt. It's quite likely that some civilian iraqis have the same sentiment - that they've the right to help out and defend their country against invaders.
Now, I think this is stupid and that it puts other civilians at peril. But when americans arm themself and join militias and similar militant (non govermental) organizations, then it's lauded as being a great boone to the country and that they are employing their freedoms to oppose those who are against the American way (often they have very strange opinions as to what the American way actually is)...
Look kiddo, just 'cause your warez elijte d00de palz have told you something is hard, doesn't really make it so. So just chill 'til you're old enuff to kode youzelf...
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I run KDE and as such I prefer applications that use QT. However, there are plenty of good, useful applications that use GTK (Gimp comes to mind) and I don't want people to waste their time on making equivalent applications with QT nor do I want QT frontends to these apps. I can live with two toolkits, but... I run a pretty lean Debian installation, still I have to have a few extra toolkits installed. Tk for example, I hate it, it's ugly as hell, but quite a lot of useful apps use it. The big problem is that these extra toolkits will bloat your system. Not only do they use up disk space, but they will use up lots of memory when you use that one app that needs them. It's pretty pointless to have a shared toolkit library when only one or two apps use it. In other words, it has got to be one hell of a great application for me to install yet another toolkit!
Why didn't Gartner issue a warning against Windows when Microsoft was sued by, more or less, the entire USA?
Whichever you choose, be extreme! Pull no punches, there can be no middle ground! If you follow these easy steps, your article is sure to be picked up by every Linux related news site and probably many non-linux sites.
What you have to say is not important, just stress that you have used and written about computers since the dawn of man kind and that you love/hate Linux. You'll be sure to have a syndicated column within a couple of days!
There are no lawful uses for DeCSS and by using it your are sponsoring terrorism.
That's telling them Eric!
Could be first married lesbian queen
She'll be the first lesbian KING, because even if she is a woman her title will be king. Silly but true...
Finally the SCO suit is showing some effect! Linux's leader is abdicating and fleeing the scene. Exactly as the nazis left Germany and took up hiding in South America.
I guess that this means we can all get back to conducting serious business based on SCO Unix - the bread and butter of many a development company.
(In 20 years time we'll probably see Torvalds daughter marrying the Swedish king!)
Nuff said!
/Old timer
Can the open source community sue?
All (hmmm?) Caldera customers ought to band together and initiate a class action suit against SCO for providing them with a product which SCO hadn't screened for IP violations. In doing so they are endangering their customer's businesses. If they *did* screen the code, noticed that there was copyright and IP infringements within Caldera, it might also be argued that they have maliciously marketed a "trojan horse" in the knowledge that they can "black mail" said customers for additional "surprise" fees/licenses later on.
If so - can't we just give them what they wanted to give Linus?
What? A barium enema?
OK, so perhaps they borrowed some code from Linux, but I'm sure they returned it by now. It might be a little overdue, but I'm pretty sure the source is in the same condition as when they borrowed it!
Neither a borrower nor a lender be...
The SCO riddle
Especially as we have 80 lines of identical code including comments which is the real kicker.
:-)
First of all, have you considered that this might be 80 lines from something that is based on a reference implementation? Stuff like tcp/ip stacks, device drivers and so on are often based on reference source released by device manufacturers or standard groups.
br Secondly, 80 lines isn't much and considering how bad some programmers are at writing comments, I'm not surprised if there are similiar comments
It's difficult for them to argue that "we didn't mean to release that mythical code" when they, in fact, have already done so.
It will be very difficult for them to say that other companies should have discovered the IP breaches and ceased distributing Linux, when they themself didn't "discover" this fact until years after they begun distributing Linux. If they aren't able to take stock of what's in the Linux kernel that they ship and if they aren't able to stand 100% behind their own Linux product, they shouldn't be selling/distributing it. If they aren't able to uphold the very same standards for code inspection and IP/copyright verifications that they require from IBM, then they really don't have a case. If there is "stolen" code in the kernel and SCO has been distributing this, then they are just as much in the wrong as any other vendor. It is their job to make sure that their customers recieve a trust worthy product. By their complaint, they are only showing that they have been distributing a product without any knowledge of what it contains. A very poor qualitity process indeed! I wonder what stuff have wound up in the UNIX code, without SCO's "knowledge".
Back in Christ's days the romans awarded you 30 silvers when you betrayed someone. Today the romans buy a perpetual license of your product. Now that's progress!
Dear SCO,
Regarding your recent lawsuit against the so-called Linux operating system. Linux is only the kernel, the whole system should be refered to as GNU/Linux. I would really appreciate it if you change all Linux references to GNU/Linux in all your legal documents. Thank you!
Yours sincerely Richard Stallman
That is; business as usual...
There are sample projects everywhere.
.net project!
You liar! I looked all over my appartment, couldn't find a single
This might not look good as a big poster, but it is quite fun. Bill G Discovers Linux
Don't forget KKK - it's not just the Iraqis who dress up in sheets!
I'm afraid your government did more than self-defence. Did you know that your government routinely demolish homes of innocent civilians? Murder innocent woman and children without cause?
You shouldn't be to hard on the Americans! Sure, the US is killing people all over the middle east, without ever being able to get the people they say they are after (Saddam, Bin Lade, Stallman, and so on.) However, something had to be done in Iraq and even if I had prefered the UN to have been behind the attack, I'm still glad that Iraq is being liberated.
I second the vote. Hudson Hawk is fantastic.
No, acutally the movie sucks. But the fish-song is incredible! I find myself humming and singing it all the time... Or would you rather be a fish?
Does AJ show pics and video of Iraqi troops hiding among civilians and using them as shields? No
There's still no proof that this is actually happening. The only source of this information is from the American military.
It's quite likely that the so called soldiers in civilian clothing are militia or civilians with weapons. Something that the people from the USA should appreciate. One of the main reasons for the "right to bear arms" was so that everyone could help out and kick some brittish butt. It's quite likely that some civilian iraqis have the same sentiment - that they've the right to help out and defend their country against invaders.
Now, I think this is stupid and that it puts other civilians at peril. But when americans arm themself and join militias and similar militant (non govermental) organizations, then it's lauded as being a great boone to the country and that they are employing their freedoms to oppose those who are against the American way (often they have very strange opinions as to what the American way actually is)...
and the best scripting language (Python)
That's a weird way to spell perl!
condoning war crimes
Like supporting Israel's genocide in palestine?
But I though that americans couldn't commit war crimes?
Moron.
Look kiddo, just 'cause your warez elijte d00de palz have told you something is hard, doesn't really make it so. So just chill 'til you're old enuff to kode youzelf...