Apple Corps. and the lawsuit with the Beatles publishing company over the music biz thing.
Compuiter company Apple is American. Music company is british (if I remember). Americans ignore the rest of the world. So, no problem here.
Firewire. Apple MADE firewire, but because they refused to let anybody use firewire as the name of the device all these odd names like IEEE1394, i.Link, and others crowded the market.
Call it "Fir*wir*" (aka *n*x) - and you won't have any problem.
Actually the term unix is used generically everywhere.
Both terms "Apple" and "Macintosh" were generic years before computer era. Let's all build our own PCs and call them "Apples" and "Macintoshes". Well, if you build it and sell it - call it "A*ple" or "M*cintosh" - just for a case:)
I used Quark Express (5 or older - don't remember) the version for "classic" MacOS on my G4 underl MOL (Mac-on-Linux). That way I used "classic" Mac applications running the best modern OS - Linux!!!
The prerformance was fine. And it worked stable. It never crashed the "main" OS (Linux). And it much less often crashed its shelling OS (MacOS9), in fact just one time - compare it to booting MacOS9 and count how many times you have to reset your Mac per day!
No Linux version of Quark Xpress for Linux so far? Apple made Quark Xpress only for Apple OS? That's not a news. I knew it before. Tell me what I did not know yet.
The act of the lawsuit long time ago in the past between ATT and BSDi/UCB doesn't guarantee that last year SCO employee were mimiqued as non-SCO developers and contributed such code to BSD CVS.
Is there any CVS moderator who checks offical IDs about all committers? Don't tell me that CVS moderators read all signed NDAs from all past and current employment places for every committers!
Is there any procedure to check any submitted code that it is not a part of SCO IP? Don't tell me that CVS moderators are sending all submitted code to every potantial similar IP holder to approve that they dont have it already done!
Face it - every open source project, if its CVS tree is developed by anonymous commiters, potentially can be a subject of lawsuit attacks by loosers like SCO. Especially when organized in a deep shadow conspiracy by sharks like Microsoft.
BSD, PostgreSQL, Mozilla, OpenOffice - you name it. Even a big company behind cannot guarantee such check procedures.
Only GNU/FSF supported projects have more chances to survive in such attacks as paranoid check procedures is exactly what RMS is trying to do for years.
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There seems to be a flood of PHP/MySQL books out there
Most of books are for most of peoples. The smarter the subject the fewer people can understand and demand it.
That's why you see most of books about VB, ASP, JSP, PHP. Less about Perl/CGI. Even less about Python/CGI. Just 2 good (totally 4 found) books about Zope. No books (at least in several stores I've checked) about web-programing with Lisp, Scheme, OCaml or Haskell.
Well, in the past the reading the hard-printed books was a sign of smart/educated people. Now we are living in the other millenium when:
online texts are the only reliabe source about smart and quickly evolving technologies (try to find any books about Gentoo Linux);
smart people are capable to find needed info somewhere online, while lazy/stupid people are not capable to find anything on the web and have to go to a book store;
Conclusion: some day in future we may pro-claim the death of hard-printed books. But we might already pro-claim the death of smart books.
Win what? Once SCO will finish with Linux (no matter with any success or without) they will begin with BSD. Somehow I am sure their developer have already submitted Unix IP code into every BSD tree that they could get an access. So, Apple with OSX (and probably Sun with Solaris) will be next after IBM with Linux.
Seriously, how can you be sure that SCO won't do it to BSD as well?
Out of interest, what the hell sort of software are your idiot coworkers using if they can't load a simple PNG?
Your comment is a typical illustration of ignorance, which doesn't let many open source projects find a better place in the IT industry.
Basically, your main fault is that you ignore the fact that other people are different than you. You think that your tools and your environemtn is the best and all people around the world must use the same (or die).
There is a big difference between software engineers and other people in terms of computer usage. Software engineers are using what's they thin is the best. Other people use what they found installed on PC they have bought.
Even in companies with IT/MIS departments the chief of IT/MIS will most likely say: "I agree with you that PNG looks better than GIF, but we donn't know if our online customers can read it. So let's keep our current corporate policy saying about formats we are using that we use GIF and JPEG. PERIOD."
PNG is better but its place has been already taken by GIF and JPEG. Too late - nothing will be changed unless Microsoft decided that the dominant browser will drop GIF in future releases. It's not gonna happen. Similar thing about SVG vs Flash.
Big corporations decide what most of people use. Open Source projects are just wasting time and efforts in many innovations. Nothing will be changed unless goverments (of which countries?) will decide otherwise.
Take two those tabletpc's and wipe their disks out. Now, try to intsall Linux on one of them and Windows XP on the other. Statistically, you have equal chances for equal installation times.
Now, give on tabletpc with Linux pre-installed, and the other with Windows Xp pre-installed. What the difference in "hassle"?
The point is that hardware vendors are still slaves of Microsoft. Everything what's done to help to liberate them is good. Good for them, vendors, and good for us, customers.
I would try to count no-immigrants, but the rest of them all live in Indian reservations.
Well, I am glad that H1B stream is almost stopped (at first politically, only after - economically) and now the big business is outsourcing everything offshore. Now, people in India, China, Russia etc can appreciate America's kindness locally, with improvement of their local life without killing their personal culture (that what they would have to do otherwise in the cultureless country of fast food and TV).
It's a very good cold refreshing shower for stupid overpaid Americans. Your "safe" days are gone. Adapt to new millenium or die - that's what you used to suggest to third world, didn't you?
$24M? it's just about $1M per country if 24 goverments are in.
Counting the fact that first class countries must help third ones, it makes sense if G8 + other next 16 the most developed ones will pay it. Actually it's them who should be blamed for the Microsoft monopoly. So, let them fix what they've done. And the price ($1M) is not really high for that.
Coders should not decide to reuse or not. That's the decision a software architect should make. Some (few) good coders are good architects as well - and they often study someoneelse's code. But most of coders think they are the best (and they are not because they think they are the best) and they don't want to study anyoneelse's code ("It's easy to re-write than to understand!"). Remember, the smarter you are the less you think that you are smart!
I think I made it clear: it's a job of system architects (or technology evangelists) to study the sources, to look for patterns, to evaluate patterns, using pattern knowledge to evaluate the source code, and, working very closely with software requirements, design and specs, to decide that some code is good to be reused or not.
Decision to reuse the code requires another style of thinking than most of coders have. Don't assign such job to coders unless coder's and architect's skills are combined in the same brains.
The Chaos in deps of Perl modules was one of reasons I've abandoned Perl in all project where I am architecting. (Perl's obfuscated syntax is the other one).
Speaking about dependencies: I found Gentoo's Portage is the best way to handle them. All software developers should look for patterns studding Portage just for that - for learning how to control dependencies.
One of the greatest things about global economy is that it's good for America and other labor-overpaid countries - it's pushing them to improve the production efficiency. Finally, they may begin to count money smarter than they did in the boom of Y2K.
As for worless labor - nah. Overpaid labor will cut the cost, making the whole economy more efficient. Underpaid labor will create new areas for investments, expanding markets and making global trade more intensive.
Anyway, offshore outsourcing is a good thing. I am in. So, who has a project to be done and who has a labor I can hire for that project?
At least in two cases they explained to me that what they are doing is patented by others and there are some problems (not only financial) to establish working relationships with patent holders.
They are makeing software and online services mostly for clients in Europe, Asia and Latin America anyway, and their abandoning the US market won't really hurt.
Goverment? What goverment? We are talking about open data formats for Internet, not for national network of one country, right? If so then the law should be international. Otherwise - it's wasting of time and efforts.
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The marketing would be even better. Imagine "OSX is the most sellable Linux distro!". Or even "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of OSX!" :)
Also imagine if they would hire Linus and made PPC as the major codeline in the tree, while x86 would be among others.
Hmm... imagine if they would hire RMS!..
You didn't live enough time. Otherwise you would think of Solaris, AIX, HP/UX and Irix *at least* (counting survived ones).
Most of Unix people thought it's a shame that Apple links "Unix" to their "Mac OSX".
BSD had a special relationship with the name. As for Linux - it's GNU, and "Gnu's Not Unix", just by the definition.
P.S. When you hear of "Windows" you think of Microsoft, right? I usually counterask: "Which Windows? MS or X11?"
Firewire. Apple MADE firewire, but because they refused to let anybody use firewire as the name of the device all these odd names like IEEE1394, i.Link, and others crowded the market.
Call it "Fir*wir*" (aka *n*x) - and you won't have any problem.
Both terms "Apple" and "Macintosh" were generic years before computer era. Let's all build our own PCs and call them "Apples" and "Macintoshes". Well, if you build it and sell it - call it "A*ple" or "M*cintosh" - just for a case :)
The prerformance was fine. And it worked stable. It never crashed the "main" OS (Linux). And it much less often crashed its shelling OS (MacOS9), in fact just one time - compare it to booting MacOS9 and count how many times you have to reset your Mac per day!
No Linux version of Quark Xpress for Linux so far? Apple made Quark Xpress only for Apple OS? That's not a news. I knew it before. Tell me what I did not know yet.
Is there any CVS moderator who checks offical IDs about all committers? Don't tell me that CVS moderators read all signed NDAs from all past and current employment places for every committers!
Is there any procedure to check any submitted code that it is not a part of SCO IP? Don't tell me that CVS moderators are sending all submitted code to every potantial similar IP holder to approve that they dont have it already done!
Face it - every open source project, if its CVS tree is developed by anonymous commiters, potentially can be a subject of lawsuit attacks by loosers like SCO. Especially when organized in a deep shadow conspiracy by sharks like Microsoft.
BSD, PostgreSQL, Mozilla, OpenOffice - you name it. Even a big company behind cannot guarantee such check procedures.
Only GNU/FSF supported projects have more chances to survive in such attacks as paranoid check procedures is exactly what RMS is trying to do for years.
Most of books are for most of peoples. The smarter the subject the fewer people can understand and demand it.
That's why you see most of books about VB, ASP, JSP, PHP. Less about Perl/CGI. Even less about Python/CGI. Just 2 good (totally 4 found) books about Zope. No books (at least in several stores I've checked) about web-programing with Lisp, Scheme, OCaml or Haskell.
Well, in the past the reading the hard-printed books was a sign of smart/educated people. Now we are living in the other millenium when:
- online texts are the only reliabe source about smart and quickly evolving technologies (try to find any books about Gentoo Linux);
- smart people are capable to find needed info somewhere online, while lazy/stupid people are not capable to find anything on the web and have to go to a book store;
Conclusion: some day in future we may pro-claim the death of hard-printed books. But we might already pro-claim the death of smart books.Win what? Once SCO will finish with Linux (no matter with any success or without) they will begin with BSD. Somehow I am sure their developer have already submitted Unix IP code into every BSD tree that they could get an access. So, Apple with OSX (and probably Sun with Solaris) will be next after IBM with Linux.
Seriously, how can you be sure that SCO won't do it to BSD as well?
Your comment is a typical illustration of ignorance, which doesn't let many open source projects find a better place in the IT industry.
Basically, your main fault is that you ignore the fact that other people are different than you. You think that your tools and your environemtn is the best and all people around the world must use the same (or die).
There is a big difference between software engineers and other people in terms of computer usage. Software engineers are using what's they thin is the best. Other people use what they found installed on PC they have bought.
Even in companies with IT/MIS departments the chief of IT/MIS will most likely say: "I agree with you that PNG looks better than GIF, but we donn't know if our online customers can read it. So let's keep our current corporate policy saying about formats we are using that we use GIF and JPEG. PERIOD."
PNG is better but its place has been already taken by GIF and JPEG. Too late - nothing will be changed unless Microsoft decided that the dominant browser will drop GIF in future releases. It's not gonna happen. Similar thing about SVG vs Flash.
Big corporations decide what most of people use. Open Source projects are just wasting time and efforts in many innovations. Nothing will be changed unless goverments (of which countries?) will decide otherwise.
Now, give on tabletpc with Linux pre-installed, and the other with Windows Xp pre-installed. What the difference in "hassle"?
The point is that hardware vendors are still slaves of Microsoft. Everything what's done to help to liberate them is good. Good for them, vendors, and good for us, customers.
It would be better if UK would dump Bush and join the rest of EU more closely than now.
I would try to count no-immigrants, but the rest of them all live in Indian reservations.
Well, I am glad that H1B stream is almost stopped (at first politically, only after - economically) and now the big business is outsourcing everything offshore. Now, people in India, China, Russia etc can appreciate America's kindness locally, with improvement of their local life without killing their personal culture (that what they would have to do otherwise in the cultureless country of fast food and TV).
It's a very good cold refreshing shower for stupid overpaid Americans. Your "safe" days are gone. Adapt to new millenium or die - that's what you used to suggest to third world, didn't you?
Counting the fact that first class countries must help third ones, it makes sense if G8 + other next 16 the most developed ones will pay it. Actually it's them who should be blamed for the Microsoft monopoly. So, let them fix what they've done. And the price ($1M) is not really high for that.
I think I made it clear: it's a job of system architects (or technology evangelists) to study the sources, to look for patterns, to evaluate patterns, using pattern knowledge to evaluate the source code, and, working very closely with software requirements, design and specs, to decide that some code is good to be reused or not.
Decision to reuse the code requires another style of thinking than most of coders have. Don't assign such job to coders unless coder's and architect's skills are combined in the same brains.
Speaking about dependencies: I found Gentoo's Portage is the best way to handle them. All software developers should look for patterns studding Portage just for that - for learning how to control dependencies.
I am not sure about vodka, but Russian Ruletka counts for sure :)
As for worless labor - nah. Overpaid labor will cut the cost, making the whole economy more efficient. Underpaid labor will create new areas for investments, expanding markets and making global trade more intensive.
Anyway, offshore outsourcing is a good thing. I am in. So, who has a project to be done and who has a labor I can hire for that project?
Let me try: they know how to use Google. No?
Last time I've checked boys after Stanford were hired by Microsoft and Intel. Conclusion? They propose alternatives only for being noticed and hired.
I'd rather invest money to individual cages than to catching machine.
They are makeing software and online services mostly for clients in Europe, Asia and Latin America anyway, and their abandoning the US market won't really hurt.
I know PHP and PhD. But what is PHB and why is it linked to Java?
Goverment? What goverment? We are talking about open data formats for Internet, not for national network of one country, right? If so then the law should be international. Otherwise - it's wasting of time and efforts.
I know several software companies moving their development shops to Ireland by that reason.