Maybe because IBM doesn't need to indemnify their customers. Lets think about this for a second, SCO has not proven anything so if SCO sends invoices to IBM's or Red Hat's or any other Linux distributer's customers, SCO will be hit up with massive lawsuits for attempting to extort money from customers. IBM also knows that SCO has no valid claims(the OSS community has proven it time and time again) and they probably aren't doing anything to stop them, since they most likely want SCO to loose all crediblity with everyone. One of my friends that works for IBM says they are just waiting for SCO to destroy itself rather then put up money for such a frivolous lawsuit. Really what this comes down to is SCO and Sun aswell, being pissed that IBM is moving itself away from UNIX to Linux, because IBM holds more power then both of those companies combined, and with that more and more people are going to be moving away from UNIX platforms to Linux.
You pay a monopoly tax with your cable bill if you have cable, since cable services are basically monopolies since you can get service from only one company since they don't have to share lines. So I believe it already has spilled into other industries.
Yahoo doesn't act like a phone, people can't pick up the phone and call your Yahoo ID to talk to you. VOIP uses a phone with a phoneline connected to a box which connects to a cable modem or dsl modem, or even into a router. Ofcourse there is a reason to tax it, from a goverment perspective, a source of revenue, its just like anything else, like taxing clothing.
However atleast the virus isn't deleting core os files, like it does in Windows, and you should make back-ups of important_document.txt and your an idiot if you don't.
They complain that there is no multiplayer in the original product and that it was added later. They also sight it was just Quake with better graphics. For the multiplayer section, I think that's a bit unfair, what did most people have then 28.8k so even if multiplayer did ship it would have been quite laggy. Doom III isn't going to have much in terms of multiplayer either is that going to make it over-hyped? I doubt it. Sure multiplayer offers replay value and you can see in games like STEF2 that the screwed up multiplayer aspect with lack of dev support(took too long to get radiant out and it didn't offer much) ruined the games mod potential. However I always like to think of Id games as a demonstration of graphical talent. Its like a vanilla kernel, and games that use it are like patch sets, still using the underlying tech, with changes to it and additions.
well the P2P with legal uses like BitTorrent. Doom III will use a P2P system although why they designed a system like that again is beyond me, I happen to like the client server system that supports many more players, hopefully it will be brought back again. However whether or not the illegal P2P survives is dependent on the if the RIAA survives.
Principles like "free as in freedom" don't come into play when you're talking about the bottom line.
It does when your the client and you like the principal.
support nightmare. I don't think it's worth it, atleast not right now. You may only have to pay 5% of what you grossed(that's how much money you recieved not how much profit, which makes it less reasonable to use), but to pay the support people may make it not worth it when it comes down to the total cost.
Funniest thing, I was walking down the street in NYC and the hobo on the sidewalk playing pots and pans, a kitchen sink, and a shopping cart, with a spoon and a fork, said the exact same thing.
According to Netcraft, Solaris, and I looked on Archive.org and the earliest site is Nov 11, 1999 and its the same blank parent directory page. Check for yourself
You'd rank it up to Logitech's level of quality, eh? Hey do me a favor and turn you Microsoft mouse over and see who actually makes Microsoft mice. You'll find it says Logitech.
How many? The money has to run out sometime, and nobody with some commonsense is going to pay for your Linux license. How many companies would actually care to buy a Unix license to develop a Unix Operating System? SCO's targets for a next lawsuit are so rediculus, at one point they were going to go up against the U.S. goverment.
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Maybe because IBM doesn't need to indemnify their customers. Lets think about this for a second, SCO has not proven anything so if SCO sends invoices to IBM's or Red Hat's or any other Linux distributer's customers, SCO will be hit up with massive lawsuits for attempting to extort money from customers. IBM also knows that SCO has no valid claims(the OSS community has proven it time and time again) and they probably aren't doing anything to stop them, since they most likely want SCO to loose all crediblity with everyone. One of my friends that works for IBM says they are just waiting for SCO to destroy itself rather then put up money for such a frivolous lawsuit. Really what this comes down to is SCO and Sun aswell, being pissed that IBM is moving itself away from UNIX to Linux, because IBM holds more power then both of those companies combined, and with that more and more people are going to be moving away from UNIX platforms to Linux.
You pay a monopoly tax with your cable bill if you have cable, since cable services are basically monopolies since you can get service from only one company since they don't have to share lines. So I believe it already has spilled into other industries.
Yahoo doesn't act like a phone, people can't pick up the phone and call your Yahoo ID to talk to you. VOIP uses a phone with a phoneline connected to a box which connects to a cable modem or dsl modem, or even into a router. Ofcourse there is a reason to tax it, from a goverment perspective, a source of revenue, its just like anything else, like taxing clothing.
However atleast the virus isn't deleting core os files, like it does in Windows, and you should make back-ups of important_document.txt and your an idiot if you don't.
They complain that there is no multiplayer in the original product and that it was added later. They also sight it was just Quake with better graphics. For the multiplayer section, I think that's a bit unfair, what did most people have then 28.8k so even if multiplayer did ship it would have been quite laggy. Doom III isn't going to have much in terms of multiplayer either is that going to make it over-hyped? I doubt it. Sure multiplayer offers replay value and you can see in games like STEF2 that the screwed up multiplayer aspect with lack of dev support(took too long to get radiant out and it didn't offer much) ruined the games mod potential. However I always like to think of Id games as a demonstration of graphical talent. Its like a vanilla kernel, and games that use it are like patch sets, still using the underlying tech, with changes to it and additions.
How many people really live in the tundra areas or around the artic circle? You may have more sq/km but its a lot of no use space.
the worst job of all is the guy that has to find out what's in the person stool sample.
well the P2P with legal uses like BitTorrent. Doom III will use a P2P system although why they designed a system like that again is beyond me, I happen to like the client server system that supports many more players, hopefully it will be brought back again. However whether or not the illegal P2P survives is dependent on the if the RIAA survives.
That's because you have to Fix or Repair Daily. I guess the owner finally gave up.
Principles like "free as in freedom" don't come into play when you're talking about the bottom line. It does when your the client and you like the principal.
support nightmare. I don't think it's worth it, atleast not right now. You may only have to pay 5% of what you grossed(that's how much money you recieved not how much profit, which makes it less reasonable to use), but to pay the support people may make it not worth it when it comes down to the total cost.
Funniest thing, I was walking down the street in NYC and the hobo on the sidewalk playing pots and pans, a kitchen sink, and a shopping cart, with a spoon and a fork, said the exact same thing.
So rip out the installer an use something else, like Anaconda perhaps.
Maybe because people duel-boot between Windows and Linux because there aren't as many games for Linux as there are for Windows at this moment.
According to Netcraft, Solaris, and I looked on Archive.org and the earliest site is Nov 11, 1999 and its the same blank parent directory page. Check for yourself
You'd rank it up to Logitech's level of quality, eh? Hey do me a favor and turn you Microsoft mouse over and see who actually makes Microsoft mice. You'll find it says Logitech.
People have had success running Gentoo on the Xbox go to the Gentoo forums under Gentoo on Alternate Architectures and you'll see it.
Linus to SCO: "Please Grow Up"
SCO to Linus: "My OS can beat up your OS. Nyah nyah nyah!"
Linus to SCO(Rebuttle): Oh yeah, well your a poopy-pants.
SCO to Linus: Oh yeah, well I'm telling your mommy.
Nope, I have a machine with a VIA KT400a, and it doesn't halt for the PS/2 mouse.
I just finsihed compiling Test-4, and now I read this.
How many? The money has to run out sometime, and nobody with some commonsense is going to pay for your Linux license. How many companies would actually care to buy a Unix license to develop a Unix Operating System? SCO's targets for a next lawsuit are so rediculus, at one point they were going to go up against the U.S. goverment.
DDoS attacks, maybe your getting DDoS because everyone's trying to get to your site to buy a Linux license from you.
I'll give them a cheeseburger, and that will be well-done.
If your one of the unlucky ones, you can't get out of it, because only the ones not sued can admit to fileswapping.
Wouldn't that be spark an Anti-Trust lawsuit?