Management replaced all who walked out. Six months later there was another walkout and Management was fired. However, no one who walked out was allowed back.
It makes me feel good to know that the government is going to give the average person a new tax. Unlike the neglected wealthy who are having their taxes taken away.
Getting something new makes me feel good. Don't you feel good about this? I doâ¦
I think points should be awarded for cheat resistance. Cheating is ruining on-line gaming.
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I understand your position regarding innovative software algorithms but I can't agree. I think that software patents can do more harm than good for some of the reasons that you mentioned. I also don't think that the processes that chemical or manufacturing companies use should be patentable. They can patent the outcome of those processes. I.E. the new drug etc.
Oh well, at least congress hasn't started extending the length of patents like they have with copyrights. (End running the Constitution. Another subject that really burns me.)
I'm not convinced about software patents.
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Why should a set of instruction dictating how to do something be patentable? Should I be able to patent my grocery list? "Buy these items: Bread, milk, and a six-pack of Mountain Dew." Now anyone who wants to buy these things had better not write them down!
I think that software is more like speech and should be covered by a copyright but not a patent. Patenting how to do things is just a bad idea that has already gone way too far.
"Bugbear.B, a variant of a worm released last year, installs keylogging software, back-door software, and in some cases even attempts to control infected computers' modems. "
I always have to smile when people make this statement. It's true that Linux is very different under the hood but when using KDE or GNOME those differences are minimized.
I still open my word processor by clicking on an icon. My CD and floppy are auto mounted for me. I have a "start" button that displays lists of programs that I can run by clicking on the choice.
Not so very different and not rocket science. The average user will not see anything that would "stop the show."
"The two companies also set a seven-year licensing agreement that allows AOL Time Warner to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsing technology in its flagship Internet service provider service without having to pay royalties. AOL Time Warner is the parent of CNN/Money."
Microsoft is known for lowering prices or even giving its software away when faced with loosing to open source. This doesn't mean that AOL asked for that part of the deal or even that they will take advantage of it. Why should they? Microsoft is trying to compete with them via MSN. It seems to me that using IE would be playing into Microsoft's hands.
First of all I'm not convinced that there is any offending code. But if there is then buy knowing about the code and distributing it they may have in effect been saying that the code was now under the GPL.
"The development process has no one that is ensuring that inappropriate code is not getting into Linux. All that's there is an honor system, and obviously there are a few, at least, that have broken that honor."
It also has the advantage of being open for all to examine. Quite a deterrent to anyone thinking of adding stolen code and protecting open source developers from unscrupulous, dying companies who are stupid enough to claim IP rights where no IP rights exist.
I wonder how much "inappropriate" code gets introduced into closed source projects? Wasn't there a stink awhile back about Microsoft stealing code? At least in open source projects an offense is likely to come to light unlike code that is hidden in proprietary works.
"I would suspend any new Linux-related activities until this is all sorted out. But first get that opinion of your legal counsel. If they say there is no problem and no issue, then you probably have nothing to worry about. But I doubt there is any attorney worth his salt that is going to say there is no potential of an issue here. There is a big issue."
Yes Chris. There is a big issue. The issue is that your company is dying and you would do anything to extort money from IBM and other targets and to try to get people who are using Linux to switch to a substandard product like that which SCO puts out. The mob used guns, bombs and baseball bats where your company uses lawyers.
"Novell Inc. says the 1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of Unix System V from Novell doesn't convey copyrights. What's your response? We certainly have a point of contention regarding their interpretation of that contract. We have statements from all the major parties that were involved in that contract that all the business and IP-related property of Unix and UnixWare was transferred to SCO. I think this is just a desperate act on their part to curry favor with the Linux community."
Oh please! Give me a break! Your flippin' contracts do not transfer Unix IP to you. End of story. You are not defending you IP rights. You are just trying to intimidate IBM into paying top dollar to buy your dying company. Please IBM, crush this pathetic parasite. "Why did Microsoft get a license from you? Completely unrelated. Microsoft has been adding more and more Unix compatibility and Unix interoperability into their products. We got in contact with them early this year to let them know that we had concerns about if they had all the appropriate intellectual property necessary to be providing that Unix capability." You had "concerns about if they had all the appropriate intellectual property necessary?" So you're saying that you believe that Microsoft was ripping off Novell's IP prior to giving your company millions of dollars? Now that Microsoft has padded you attack fund at the oddly coincidental time do you still have concerns that Microsoft may be using IP that belongs to Novell?
"We just announced our second quarter, and our financials are in very good position. The company is profitable. It is the first time in the history of the company, in almost seven years of existence, that it has been profitable. The point is we're really only recently seeing significant moves by many players, specifically IBM, to come out and state that they are moving wholesale to Linux."
No doubt the millions of dollars that Microsoft donated to you helped put you in the black for "for the first time in the history of the company." Oh and the last part of your statement tells it all. This is a move against Linux in a thinly veiled attempt to salvage you failing company.
"n which case it could be looked at as a great deal from the Munich government's prospective because they could always make the switch to Linux later if MS starts trying to tie them down."
My department is 100% Microsoft. We have hundreds of Word macros that talk to our Microsoft SQL server etc. If we wanted to switch it would take use several years to phase out Microsoft. It would be ugly. Worth it in the long run in my opinion but ugly getting there.
Interesting but not a good idea. . .
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Accessing code that is not exposed to the programmer is asking for your code to break when the classes or libraries change.
Not to worry. Our email, posts and other on-line transmissions will be monitored for key phrases like "kill the President" but this information won't be abused. I mean the government agencies that will use this information don't hire complete idiots now do they.
I mean if I mention blowing up a building, they will look at my message in context before... Oops, a knock at the door... I'll be right back...
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Late Sunday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said acquiring the license from SCO "is representative of Microsoft's ongoing commitment to respecting intellectual property and the IT community's healthy exchange of IP through licensing. This helps to ensure IP compliance across Microsoft solutions and supports our efforts around existing products like services for Unix that further Unix interoperability."
If Microsoft has a "commitment to respect intellectual intellectual property and the IT community's healthy exchange of IP through licensing" then why did they use other's IP for years before paying for a license? You are correct, this is part of a smear campaign.
to free market pressures. This is far different from the non-reaction that can be expected from an evil monopolistic empire. Having over 90% of the OS market share Microsoft is in a position to ram DMR down its customer's throats. Like it or lump it!
For people who believe that no one should dictate to Microsoft how it should do business take a good look at how ineffective free market pressures are on a non-monopoly vs a monopoly. A free market only works on a level playing field.
Not really a "spammer" prosecution.
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"EarthLink VP of law and public policy Dave Baker applauded the decision by the N.Y. attorney general's office to arrest Carmack. "Howard Carmack's arrest demonstrates that spamming has both civil and criminal consequences. Simply put, spammers who brazenly disregard the law will wind up in jail," Baker said in a statement."
Ummmm.. Although he is a spammer, I think the fact that he stole people's credit cards and identities may be the real motivation for the prosecution.
If you live in states with anti-spamming laws you may be able to sue the spammers. Not for millions of dollars however.
In Washington state we are allowed to sue for up to $500.00 per spam. However, the spammer must do something like give a false return address or misleading subject line.
Hitting spammers in their pocket books is the only thing that will stop them. The awards must exceed the amount that they make though spamming.
Earthlink should not allow these spammers not to pay either. They need to take everything the spammer owns. Don't even leave them a bucket to piss into.
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I think you give the SCO too much credit. A football humping a monkey might be closer.
The ones that say: I work for SCO because I are smart.
Maybe Microsoft wouldn't be so arrogant if their CEO had to spend a few quality evenings with Bubba the Butt Fucker in the local jail.
Oh, but I forgot this was only a civil action. To bad...
Management replaced all who walked out. Six months later there was another walkout and Management was fired. However, no one who walked out was allowed back.
It makes me feel good to know that the government is going to give the average person a new tax. Unlike the neglected wealthy who are having their taxes taken away.
Getting something new makes me feel good. Don't you feel good about this? I doâ¦
Time wounds all heals...
I think points should be awarded for cheat resistance. Cheating is ruining on-line gaming.
I understand your position regarding innovative software algorithms but I can't agree. I think that software patents can do more harm than good for some of the reasons that you mentioned. I also don't think that the processes that chemical or manufacturing companies use should be patentable. They can patent the outcome of those processes. I.E. the new drug etc.
Oh well, at least congress hasn't started extending the length of patents like they have with copyrights. (End running the Constitution. Another subject that really burns me.)
Why should a set of instruction dictating how to do something be patentable? Should I be able to patent my grocery list? "Buy these items: Bread, milk, and a six-pack of Mountain Dew." Now anyone who wants to buy these things had better not write them down!
I think that software is more like speech and should be covered by a copyright but not a patent. Patenting how to do things is just a bad idea that has already gone way too far.
"Bugbear.B, a variant of a worm released last year, installs keylogging software, back-door software, and in some cases even attempts to control infected computers' modems. "
:-)
It slices, it dices....
"...and linux is very different than windows"
I always have to smile when people make this statement. It's true that Linux is very different under the hood but when using KDE or GNOME those differences are minimized.
I still open my word processor by clicking on an icon. My CD and floppy are auto mounted for me. I have a "start" button that displays lists of programs that I can run by clicking on the choice.
Not so very different and not rocket science. The average user will not see anything that would "stop the show."
"The two companies also set a seven-year licensing agreement that allows AOL Time Warner to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsing technology in its flagship Internet service provider service without having to pay royalties. AOL Time Warner is the parent of CNN/Money."
Microsoft is known for lowering prices or even giving its software away when faced with loosing to open source. This doesn't mean that AOL asked for that part of the deal or even that they will take advantage of it. Why should they? Microsoft is trying to compete with them via MSN. It seems to me that using IE would be playing into Microsoft's hands.
First of all I'm not convinced that there is any offending code. But if there is then buy knowing about the code and distributing it they may have in effect been saying that the code was now under the GPL.
"The development process has no one that is ensuring that inappropriate code is not getting into Linux. All that's there is an honor system, and obviously there are a few, at least, that have broken that honor."
It also has the advantage of being open for all to examine. Quite a deterrent to anyone thinking of adding stolen code and protecting open source developers from unscrupulous, dying companies who are stupid enough to claim IP rights where no IP rights exist.
I wonder how much "inappropriate" code gets introduced into closed source projects? Wasn't there a stink awhile back about Microsoft stealing code? At least in open source projects an offense is likely to come to light unlike code that is hidden in proprietary works.
"I would suspend any new Linux-related activities until this is all sorted out. But first get that opinion of your legal counsel. If they say there is no problem and no issue, then you probably have nothing to worry about. But I doubt there is any attorney worth his salt that is going to say there is no potential of an issue here. There is a big issue."
Yes Chris. There is a big issue. The issue is that your company is dying and you would do anything to extort money from IBM and other targets and to try to get people who are using Linux to switch to a substandard product like that which SCO puts out. The mob used guns, bombs and baseball bats where your company uses lawyers.
"Novell Inc. says the 1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of Unix System V from Novell doesn't convey copyrights. What's your response? We certainly have a point of contention regarding their interpretation of that contract. We have statements from all the major parties that were involved in that contract that all the business and IP-related property of Unix and UnixWare was transferred to SCO. I think this is just a desperate act on their part to curry favor with the Linux community."
Oh please! Give me a break! Your flippin' contracts do not transfer Unix IP to you. End of story. You are not defending you IP rights. You are just trying to intimidate IBM into paying top dollar to buy your dying company.
Please IBM, crush this pathetic parasite.
"Why did Microsoft get a license from you? Completely unrelated. Microsoft has been adding more and more Unix compatibility and Unix interoperability into their products. We got in contact with them early this year to let them know that we had concerns about if they had all the appropriate intellectual property necessary to be providing that Unix capability."
You had "concerns about if they had all the appropriate intellectual property necessary?" So you're saying that you believe that Microsoft was ripping off Novell's IP prior to giving your company millions of dollars? Now that Microsoft has padded you attack fund at the oddly coincidental time do you still have concerns that Microsoft may be using IP that belongs to Novell?
"We just announced our second quarter, and our financials are in very good position. The company is profitable. It is the first time in the history of the company, in almost seven years of existence, that it has been profitable. The point is we're really only recently seeing significant moves by many players, specifically IBM, to come out and state that they are moving wholesale to Linux."
No doubt the millions of dollars that Microsoft donated to you helped put you in the black for "for the first time in the history of the company." Oh and the last part of your statement tells it all. This is a move against Linux in a thinly veiled attempt to salvage you failing company.
"They "could" actually release "microsoft office" for linux. That would be an idea!"
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No! It would come with VBA for Linux and all of the Word viruses would follow!
Oh well, there goes the neighborhood!
NO! It's Microsoft's "flavor" of XML. They're at there old tricks of embrase and extend.
"n which case it could be looked at as a great deal from the Munich government's prospective because they could always make the switch to Linux later if MS starts trying to tie them down."
My department is 100% Microsoft. We have hundreds of Word macros that talk to our Microsoft SQL server etc. If we wanted to switch it would take use several years to phase out Microsoft. It would be ugly. Worth it in the long run in my opinion but ugly getting there.
Accessing code that is not exposed to the programmer is asking for your code to break when the classes or libraries change.
It's a bad practice.
Not to worry. Our email, posts and other on-line transmissions will be monitored for key phrases like "kill the President" but this information won't be abused. I mean the government agencies that will use this information don't hire complete idiots now do they.
I mean if I mention blowing up a building, they will look at my message in context before... Oops, a knock at the door... I'll be right back...
END OF TRANSMISSION.................................
Late Sunday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said acquiring the license from SCO "is representative of Microsoft's ongoing commitment to respecting intellectual property and the IT community's healthy exchange of IP through licensing. This helps to ensure IP compliance across Microsoft solutions and supports our efforts around existing products like services for Unix that further Unix interoperability."
If Microsoft has a "commitment to respect intellectual intellectual property and the IT community's healthy exchange of IP through licensing" then why did they use other's IP for years before paying for a license? You are correct, this is part of a smear campaign.
to free market pressures. This is far different from the non-reaction that can be expected from an evil monopolistic empire. Having over 90% of the OS market share Microsoft is in a position to ram DMR down its customer's throats. Like it or lump it!
For people who believe that no one should dictate to Microsoft how it should do business take a good look at how ineffective free market pressures are on a non-monopoly vs a monopoly. A free market only works on a level playing field.
"EarthLink VP of law and public policy Dave Baker applauded the decision by the N.Y. attorney general's office to arrest Carmack. "Howard Carmack's arrest demonstrates that spamming has both civil and criminal consequences. Simply put, spammers who brazenly disregard the law will wind up in jail," Baker said in a statement."
Ummmm.. Although he is a spammer, I think the fact that he stole people's credit cards and identities may be the real motivation for the prosecution.
If you live in states with anti-spamming laws you may be able to sue the spammers. Not for millions of dollars however.
In Washington state we are allowed to sue for up to $500.00 per spam. However, the spammer must do something like give a false return address or misleading subject line.
You should check your state laws.
Hitting spammers in their pocket books is the only thing that will stop them. The awards must exceed the amount that they make though spamming.
Earthlink should not allow these spammers not to pay either. They need to take everything the spammer owns. Don't even leave them a bucket to piss into.
I must remove Linux from my PC. I understand that to do so I must fsck it...
Hmmm... Sounds dirty.... I'll have to wait until the kids are in bed...