Might I also add that SCO (Caldera) itself offered to help with the porting work. And yes, I'm a groklaw regular and read all the posts, regardless of the noise ratio...
OK so the Sveasoft license is poorly worded -- at least that's my take so far. FWIW the FSF itself sells CD's for anywhere from $500 to $1500 with updates based on 1 yr from the purchase date, last I checked. And no, I don't expect Sveasoft to support my own "local" hacks; ESR has a similar clause with his books. I'm not sure about $50 for the source, unless they send it on a DAT tape. Otherwise, they're just grubbing a few bucks, just IMHO.
Dunno about you, but I'm a registered republican for the last 20 yrs, and I use P2P to share Slackware and BSD iso's. I already bought and paid for my movies and music. Deal with it.
I've often thought how accurately humanity is reflected on the net sometimes, like a mirror. Including the good, the bad, and the ugly. It looks like human nature is spilling over into the governance of the net itself - so much for neutrality!
On a somewhat related note, I'm wondering if it even makes sense to waste energy bashing governments and corporations anymore. Sure, a corporation is a fictitious person, but that sure looks like real signatures on the contracts and international treaties.
Not true - as mentioned elswhere here and on Groklaw, it's being published by a "vanity" press, which means no huge advances, royalties, or anything. He'll be lucky to break even on the publishing costs.
Are any sociologists and economists studying this phenomenon? I mean, here we are, applying *real* human resources, feelings, thoughts, time, and money to an A-Life. Instead of building "ants" and "bots" for a simulation, we *are* the ants and bots in this one. IMHO, this could get interesting real quick.
the airwaves are *public*. If you want to send something out on your 50-kilowatt xmtr, fine. But don't expect to control what happens to your signal when my antenna picks it up. And if you don't like that, and want to lock everything down, then *don't fsckin broadcast it*.
it's time to play a game of reducito ad absurdium. Because seriously, these folks won't "get it" until their own thought process is commoditized and sold at a profit - by someone else.
There is a difference between the date applied for and the date granted - often measured in years. None of those facts alters the poor ethics of suing a charity (for purposes of the current discussion).
It occurs to me that I could simply bait one of these with Scott Richter's info, among others (just for example). Be efficient; take them both out at once.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn's MS do some kind of TCO study?
Um, yes it is real. Boies was paid in 20% stock, if you read the docs at tucrocks.com and sec.gov.
Might I also add that SCO (Caldera) itself offered to help with the porting work. And yes, I'm a groklaw regular and read all the posts, regardless of the noise ratio...
Old hard disk packs make excellent Klingon prayer wheels. BTW, the purple octopus is wondering if you're edible.
Maybe BusinessWeek should ditch neo-capitalism in favor of cwntral planning by feudal overlords.
Windows datacenter version?
OK so the Sveasoft license is poorly worded -- at least that's my take so far. FWIW the FSF itself sells CD's for anywhere from $500 to $1500 with updates based on 1 yr from the purchase date, last I checked. And no, I don't expect Sveasoft to support my own "local" hacks; ESR has a similar clause with his books. I'm not sure about $50 for the source, unless they send it on a DAT tape. Otherwise, they're just grubbing a few bucks, just IMHO.
Dunno about you, but I'm a registered republican for the last 20 yrs, and I use P2P to share Slackware and BSD iso's. I already bought and paid for my movies and music. Deal with it.
On a somewhat related note, I'm wondering if it even makes sense to waste energy bashing governments and corporations anymore. Sure, a corporation is a fictitious person, but that sure looks like real signatures on the contracts and international treaties.
vi. Just because when all else fails, vi sems to be universal. You can count on it being there, on most any *nix type of system.
And proud of it.
who SCO's next "victim" will be...
n/t
Not true - as mentioned elswhere here and on Groklaw, it's being published by a "vanity" press, which means no huge advances, royalties, or anything. He'll be lucky to break even on the publishing costs.
else it would be *very* discriminating against all those AOL'ers.
Are any sociologists and economists studying this phenomenon? I mean, here we are, applying *real* human resources, feelings, thoughts, time, and money to an A-Life. Instead of building "ants" and "bots" for a simulation, we *are* the ants and bots in this one. IMHO, this could get interesting real quick.
There's no money in support."
Could have fooled me, at $30 per call from a machine with an OEM license.
the airwaves are *public*. If you want to send something out on your 50-kilowatt xmtr, fine. But don't expect to control what happens to your signal when my antenna picks it up. And if you don't like that, and want to lock everything down, then *don't fsckin broadcast it*.
it's time to play a game of reducito ad absurdium. Because seriously, these folks won't "get it" until their own thought process is commoditized and sold at a profit - by someone else.
What with their upcoming IPO and all.
What about copyright? It'll protect their work the same as it protects the GPL and who knows what else.
(J)anus and Lower Horn will be very close together. I will continue to reap the bounty of cheap discarded and powerful hardware for my linux installs.
that Janus and Lower Horn are so entwined. I bet Janus is gonna be huge.
There is a difference between the date applied for and the date granted - often measured in years. None of those facts alters the poor ethics of suing a charity (for purposes of the current discussion).
It occurs to me that I could simply bait one of these with Scott Richter's info, among others (just for example). Be efficient; take them both out at once.