Ooh look!
A real live Microsoft astroturfer...
Nice one....
Hah - it makes me laugh to read it! They say "The GPL is a complicated agreement" - have you ever read the never ending Microsoft EULA?
David
Erm......Slashdot doesn't get slashdotted.....
and it runs MySQL... hmm...
You don't think it might be the fact that they need to turn up the Maximum Concurrent Connections option? Maybe?
David
I hope that's 'funny'. You don't HAVE to make it possible to boot into single user mode, you know! Set a bios password and disable booting from floppy/cdrom, and set a grub password to stop people passing kernel params ie init=/bin/bash.
Done!
David
What about the download accelerator program Go'Zilla?
It's even closer to the name than Mozilla is! Surely they'd be better off having a shot at that (anything to get rid of a horribly inefficient piece of spyware!)
Actually, this sounds remarkably like the Hong Kong Octopus system - in fact, the contact pads being installed onto the London Underground ticket barriers ARE almost identical.
That was discussed on slashdot a while back, along with its implications.
The HK system works extremely well, and isn't as such IMHO an invasion of privacy. The cards are numbered, but that number is not linked to you personally. Also, the cards do work without having to take them out of your wallet - you just wave your wallet/bag over the reader, and you're through.
The office here has similar principle cards, but the range is so small that you DO have to take the card out of your wallet in order for the reader to register it properly!
What I want to know is this....
A while back there was a large debate about Lineo patenting a lot of things related to embedded Linux, which many people said shouldn't have been patentable. Regardless, I was wondering what happens to these patents when the company goes tits up... Do they belong to the company creditors, or do they just disappear?
David
"We consider it to be quite important that fundamental technology specifications such as RDF should be able to be implemented on a royalty-free basis," he said.
It looks like all the comments they got in response to their RAND licensing proposal made them decide to stay with the royalty free clause:)
Hooray slashdot!
David
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This has parallels with the IT industry in the 1960/70s, when IBM didn't sell hardware, but would only lease it to customers.
In the end, the government came along and straightened it out, and IBM slowly lost ground to its more nimble competitors.
Deja Vu, perhaps?
David
Ooh look! A real live Microsoft astroturfer... Nice one.... Hah - it makes me laugh to read it! They say "The GPL is a complicated agreement" - have you ever read the never ending Microsoft EULA? David
Erm......Slashdot doesn't get slashdotted..... and it runs MySQL... hmm... You don't think it might be the fact that they need to turn up the Maximum Concurrent Connections option? Maybe? David
I hope that's 'funny'. You don't HAVE to make it possible to boot into single user mode, you know! Set a bios password and disable booting from floppy/cdrom, and set a grub password to stop people passing kernel params ie init=/bin/bash. Done! David
What about the download accelerator program Go'Zilla?
It's even closer to the name than Mozilla is! Surely they'd be better off having a shot at that (anything to get rid of a horribly inefficient piece of spyware!)
David
Actually, this sounds remarkably like the Hong Kong Octopus system - in fact, the contact pads being installed onto the London Underground ticket barriers ARE almost identical.
That was discussed on slashdot a while back, along with its implications.
The HK system works extremely well, and isn't as such IMHO an invasion of privacy. The cards are numbered, but that number is not linked to you personally. Also, the cards do work without having to take them out of your wallet - you just wave your wallet/bag over the reader, and you're through.
The office here has similar principle cards, but the range is so small that you DO have to take the card out of your wallet in order for the reader to register it properly!
David
What I want to know is this.... A while back there was a large debate about Lineo patenting a lot of things related to embedded Linux, which many people said shouldn't have been patentable. Regardless, I was wondering what happens to these patents when the company goes tits up... Do they belong to the company creditors, or do they just disappear? David
"We consider it to be quite important that fundamental technology specifications such as RDF should be able to be implemented on a royalty-free basis," he said. It looks like all the comments they got in response to their RAND licensing proposal made them decide to stay with the royalty free clause :)
Hooray slashdot!
David