It's very important that Slashdot stays on top of this, so that people in the IT world who *are* following it know that we are very, very seriously concerned about what is going on (and seriously pissed off).
This cannot be a fly by night sort of thing. It has to be, and will be, fought to the death. SCO's death. Hopefully any other companies out there who consider these sort of public FUD tactics will have second thoughts after this is all over. (I'm NOT mentioning any names, they know who they are)
The power of the linux community is not in it's lawyer division, nor even in it's programming expertise; it's in the huge number of users who believe that Open Source Software can and does work. If that sounds religious, so be it (and you can kiss my shiny metal ass, Enderle)
The Ace Hardware down the street still uses SCO OpenServer Release 5 for their POS systems. I was talking to the owner last week and he showed me their new POS they are phasing in....running Windows XP. He didn't have very kind words for SCO tech support.
With the RIAA being in the news so much recently, is it possible that this is simply more people all of a sudden discovering that they *can* share files?
"What? We can do that? Cool. Look, there's links in the article to this software..."
SB
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That's just too good. Whoever you are, you should have posted under your name. You deserve karma for this that can only be measured in scientific notation.
I hope they are reading it, I have a few things to say:
/flame mode on
Jefferson, Adams and Franklin are spinning in their graves fast enough right now to grant them a patent on perpetual motion.
You greedy fascist idiots have managed to fuck this country up to the point where it will take generations to repair the damage. Thanks a lot. I hope there is a hell, because you are going to rot in it. Satan would welcome such as you, you're his kind. Just remember, being a politician in hell, while being an elevated position, is not cupcakes and sweetcream.
If enough people in this country get a whiff of what you're really doing, there will not be a hole deep enough for you to hide in. Remember the members of the Armed Forces who have put their lives on the line, and sacrificed them, for the ideals which made this country great. Remember that there are enough people in this country who own firearms to make this resemble another Vietnam. Remember that, and repent your sins, morons.
You know where to find me, if you want me that badly. Just bring plenty of weapons, because I'm armed and considered seriously patriotic towards the PEOPLE of this country. Fuck you and your goddamn corporate cronies. If you want to play Who Will We Fuck Next, then we'll find a nice little island for you (Bikini Atoll perhaps) and put you all there so you can play your little dominance games with each other until you all die of Terminal Hemorrhoids.
/flame mode off
Damn, I've wanted to vent for a while. Time to go outside now and be with the Three Dimensional People.
Scary, ain't it? That there was the specific reason for search warrants; so that corrupt local police needed an (hopefully) outside party to confirm their actions.
Well put, though. I know several professional librarians and they are all up in arms (figuratively speaking) over this. Madder'n'hell would not be a misrepresentation...
If their network card is borked they need someone there in person to fix it in any case, eh?
Read the rest of my post.
As to the firewalled broadband, you have a point. But that is one of the nice things about Linux of most stripes: firewalls running inside the OS work, unlike crap like zonealarm and the XP "firewall", which are the major reasons a windows machine needs a hardware router/firewall. I can tell G'ma how to disable it over the phone, easily (in Mandrake - control center, shorewall settings, enable the ssh port) or for that matter, with a hardware firewall log in and change the setting.
Again, if the network card is borked, either they have to change it themselves (walk thru over the phone hopefully, if not they need a physical visit from someone anyway).
My *point* was that you don't need to walk G'ma thru recompiling a kernel on the phone, that can be gotten around.
The 10th Amendment has been more or less meaningless since before I was born. Precedent was set for ignoring it back in the 50s, IIRC (can't remember the specific case, but I believe it had something to do with the beginnings of the cold war)
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Mod parent+ up.
It's very important that Slashdot stays on top of this, so that people in the IT world who *are* following it know that we are very, very seriously concerned about what is going on (and seriously pissed off).
This cannot be a fly by night sort of thing. It has to be, and will be, fought to the death. SCO's death. Hopefully any other companies out there who consider these sort of public FUD tactics will have second thoughts after this is all over. (I'm NOT mentioning any names, they know who they are)
The power of the linux community is not in it's lawyer division, nor even in it's programming expertise; it's in the huge number of users who believe that Open Source Software can and does work. If that sounds religious, so be it (and you can kiss my shiny metal ass, Enderle)
SB
and make that McBride well-done, please. I like my Executive burnt.
SB
"I think IBM paid off SCO to start the whole mess."
:-)
You misspelled MS
SB
The Ace Hardware down the street still uses SCO OpenServer Release 5 for their POS systems. I was talking to the owner last week and he showed me their new POS they are phasing in....running Windows XP. He didn't have very kind words for SCO tech support.
SB
With the RIAA being in the news so much recently, is it possible that this is simply more people all of a sudden discovering that they *can* share files?
"What? We can do that? Cool. Look, there's links in the article to this software..."
SB
Mod parent up; mod grandparent up.
SB
/me snorts :-)
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"maybe he's been reading the complete works of S. J. Gould "
*snort*
SB
You made my friends list for that one. :-)
(Ok, it doesn't really matter. WTF. )
SB
I know I commented already, but I have to say it:
Best. Post. Ever.
That's just too good. Whoever you are, you should have posted under your name. You deserve karma for this that can only be measured in scientific notation.
Cheers, AC
SB
You worked on that a while, didn't you? :-)
Funny +++++1
SB
*Bush*
Haven't they already?
SB
How, may I ask the moderators, is pointing out the origin of a quote flamebait?
SB
That childs parents really shouldn't let her read Slashdot :-)
Kidding...really...
SB
I wonder if loading most of the texture and models directories into a ramdisk might not make a difference. I have 768M of ram now...
Don't know how one would do that.
SB
I hope they are reading it, I have a few things to say:
/flame mode off
/flame mode on
Jefferson, Adams and Franklin are spinning in their graves fast enough right now to grant them a patent on perpetual motion.
You greedy fascist idiots have managed to fuck this country up to the point where it will take generations to repair the damage. Thanks a lot. I hope there is a hell, because you are going to rot in it. Satan would welcome such as you, you're his kind. Just remember, being a politician in hell, while being an elevated position, is not cupcakes and sweetcream.
If enough people in this country get a whiff of what you're really doing, there will not be a hole deep enough for you to hide in. Remember the members of the Armed Forces who have put their lives on the line, and sacrificed them, for the ideals which made this country great. Remember that there are enough people in this country who own firearms to make this resemble another Vietnam. Remember that, and repent your sins, morons.
You know where to find me, if you want me that badly. Just bring plenty of weapons, because I'm armed and considered seriously patriotic towards the PEOPLE of this country. Fuck you and your goddamn corporate cronies. If you want to play Who Will We Fuck Next, then we'll find a nice little island for you (Bikini Atoll perhaps) and put you all there so you can play your little dominance games with each other until you all die of Terminal Hemorrhoids.
Damn, I've wanted to vent for a while. Time to go outside now and be with the Three Dimensional People.
SB
Samuel Johnson
April 7, 1775
SB
Replace "agency's" with "agent"...
Scary, ain't it? That there was the specific reason for search warrants; so that corrupt local police needed an (hopefully) outside party to confirm their actions.
Well put, though. I know several professional librarians and they are all up in arms (figuratively speaking) over this. Madder'n'hell would not be a misrepresentation...
SB
If their network card is borked they need someone there in person to fix it in any case, eh?
Read the rest of my post.
As to the firewalled broadband, you have a point. But that is one of the nice things about Linux of most stripes: firewalls running inside the OS work, unlike crap like zonealarm and the XP "firewall", which are the major reasons a windows machine needs a hardware router/firewall. I can tell G'ma how to disable it over the phone, easily (in Mandrake - control center, shorewall settings, enable the ssh port) or for that matter, with a hardware firewall log in and change the setting.
Again, if the network card is borked, either they have to change it themselves (walk thru over the phone hopefully, if not they need a physical visit from someone anyway).
My *point* was that you don't need to walk G'ma thru recompiling a kernel on the phone, that can be gotten around.
SB
The city I recently moved to is. But nobody expects it to last.
:-)
What I moved away from was getting really bad, and it was very, very rural. Now I'm even more rural...but people here are keeping it decent.
What's wild about that is I'm less than half an hour from Sturgis SD (where the annual bike rally is held). Go figure
SB
LOL too true
:-))))
Now I didn't say the social part was *easy*, did I?
SB
I, for one, would welcome our new Canadian overlords.
Heh. Not entirely joking.....
SB
"Ordered the arrest, jailing and deportation of Congressmen"
:-)
This is bad?
SB
The 10th Amendment has been more or less meaningless since before I was born. Precedent was set for ignoring it back in the 50s, IIRC (can't remember the specific case, but I believe it had something to do with the beginnings of the cold war)
SB
Yeah, that'd be nice. I used to think UT was bad, but UT2003 is phenomenally bad.
I suspect that most of it has to do with texture loading times. At least those directories seem to be what is being accessed during the wait.
SB