I'm pretty convinced it does. I had the beta versions tested on my boxes way back then and it was also built on top of Redhat initially, not Caldera Linux (which was more suprising than anything else). If only I kept a copy of the CDs before I left the company (a SCO main distributior in an EMEA country). I was in a hurry to leave the shithead bastards so I couldn't do anything about it. I just handed my notice and the next day I was gone. One of the best decisions I've made in my life. (The worst one was actually joining them, exactly a year before I left the company).
Caldera's Linux distribution was a nice, polished distribution when Debian was still being considered modern and innovative, Redhat finally managed to get hot with Redhat 6 and Suse was finally getting rid of its Slackware roots with its version 7. CalderaLinux 2 was a good looking, very solid distro.
On the other hand, Caldera had a very small distribution network, it was completely unknown outside US and never had the network and people to market itself and sell its (pretty good) product. At least it was a viable replacement to RedHat in many ways.
SCO, on the other hand, had an aging piece of crap operating system known as OpenUnix. Every sysadmin I knew was trying to move from it and because of a good reason. SCO had bought Unixware 2 from Novell at that time and decided to push Unixware 7 to replace OpenUnix. On the other hand Unixware 7, although a lot mature compared to OpenUnix, it was getting a little bit stale with the advent of Linux and its innovations. These are the days when having 4 CPUs running on Linux was a big deal. Unixware handled 4 CPUs without a problem and would scale up quite nicely. Also it could handle unholy (for those days) amounts of memory like 4GB and still be stable.
On the other hand with NT4 and later Win2k, there was no way SCO could survive, especially when they were losing money at an alarming rate since '98 (WinNT 3.5, later WinNT4 ate their backoffice market pretty quickly). From its own ranks Linux started to grow and take over the rest of the available growth. Any sysadmin moving away from OpenUnix would need quite a lot of convincing and in some cases bribery in order to switch to Unixware, most clever ones wouldn't and move over to Linux or mitra-forbid, NT.
SCO had dealers in all continents, had a good base in US and especially in EMEA. They had lots of trained salespeople and support staff. The only thing they lacked was a good product. They tried to make more money by writing some interesting software and the result is Tarantella, which was/is quite an interesting product.
When SCO ran out of money, Caldera moved in to utilise this sales chain and failed miserably. Tarantella was spun off and it is still somewhat solvent. Most of the sales branches just fired all competent staff and scaled down. Any clever staff moved on (and this is when I left a SCO distributer in EMEA as its sole technical staff, I never liked the products and especially loathed OpenUnix. One year away from Linux was too much for me and I couldn't convince the shitheads in management to start selling Linux instead of these two pieces of shit).
Caldera (along with two other marginal Linux companies) made a big mistake by ditching its own Linux development department by outsourcing SuSE's enterprise system, as a result for a short time we had UnitedLinux. To this day UnitedLinux 1.0 actually means SuSE Enterprise 7. There was never an UnitedLinux 2 because SuSE simply refused to play and withdrew from the UnitedLinux consortium. Out of the three UnitedLinux companies left, two just dissapeared to oblivion (they still might exist but they are no longer big players) and SCO decided to play nasty.
The rest is history. Caldera, under some stupid twats' leadership changed name and decided that suing IBM would gain them something.
And that's why Caldera had a Linux before buying SCO and it was a good product. I hope it was an entertaining read.
Most of my Linux boxes are set up with icewm with a light theme. Only one button works: the one that spawns an Xterm. Rest is good old CLI.:) It works.
disclaimer: written on a DragonFly BSD system with xfce4
What do you mean it isn't a monopoly. Can I get a powermac clone which is fully compatible with Apple's powermac? No. Apple is a completely closed monopoly, in many ways even worse than Microsoft.
That logic is flawed. There is no supreme being therefore why should I waste all that energy on it? There are more worthwhile pursuits in the world so I'm channelling my energy to those.In the other hand Goddess Eris, the goddess of mischief and chaos is quite useful if I want to beleve in something.
Ah... Kernel bloat... As usual with my old 486 I could have all the functionality I wanted and it would still run faster than anything I have now. Trying to use Firefox on a Pentium 150 feels like a painful experience these days, how on earth I used 486DX33+8MB of RAM and Netscape and I was pretty satisfied with the speed and the overall response of the system. I was probably mad.
There are alternatives to Jesus and his lot. When I have time and energy I follow the teachings of Eris and I'm quite happy with the outcome so far.
Oh, also I'm an ordained Priest of Universal Life Church but that ordination was probably done by the hand of Eris, nothing else. At least I can argue with a priest on the same level, both of us are the man of cloth, so to speak.
IANAL, but if the code was written during company time and company resources, the code belongs to the company as almost all employment contracts bind you to hand anything you've done with given resources over. That's all clear. The developer has stepped over his contractual obligations with his/her employee and surely in fault. The GPL on that software should be revoked. OTOH, the company can play dirty and might try to claim something that was developed outside company resources (time, equipment, money). In this case it is not the GPL that's challenged in court, it is the contract between the employee and employer.
well I always preferred the 3rd Doctor's one and only scientist companion but she got instructed to scream, like the rest of the companions pretty quickly. OTOH, I can't remember her name but I remember the savage chick's body.:)
I wouldn't mind that. Woman scientists and engineers appeal to me. It's better than a stupid bimbo. You can have sex and have meaningful discussion. You can't say this for the majority of Doctor's companions.
I was very suprised when I heard BBC comedy Coupling was being re-done in USA and I thought it would be a nightmare and it was, the US editions are not bearable. Although Coupling doesn't have sex in it, it is completely about sex and quite funny as well. I'm always suprised how American movies can be so violent but you can't air an ugly tit on TV.
It says: "Get off my coat-tails, you free-loader". And I can't really argue against that.
And that's why we have this licence called GPL, to stop people just stealing code (as someone would clain what a BSD licence would amount to). "Share and enjoy" is the mantra, not "don't piss me off you buggers or I'll take your toy away". If I dislike all closed source systems why shouldn't I dislike this McVoy as well?
As everyone with a gram of brain pointed out: reverse engineering is a legitimate action and should not be banned. If McVoy thinks he is such a brilliant programmer and only he can think of such thing he has a thing coming.
What really pissed me off (and this was ages ago) was the fact that he arbitrarily changed the licence as he felt like in the past and the most annoying one was preventing anyone using his precious product while writing an other revision control system which is complete bollocks.
What the BK licence boils down to is: "I'm great and don't try to duplicate what I've done 'cause only I'm capable of coming up with something like this. If you accidentally type some code similar to or better than my system, you're a liar, you reverse-engineered my precious product and you are going to burn in hell! And just to make you more evil in other people's eyes, I'll revoke EVERYONE's licences, not only yours! Bwhahahahhahahahah".
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I'm pretty convinced it does. I had the beta versions tested on my boxes way back then and it was also built on top of Redhat initially, not Caldera Linux (which was more suprising than anything else). If only I kept a copy of the CDs before I left the company (a SCO main distributior in an EMEA country). I was in a hurry to leave the shithead bastards so I couldn't do anything about it. I just handed my notice and the next day I was gone. One of the best decisions I've made in my life. (The worst one was actually joining them, exactly a year before I left the company).
On the other hand, Caldera had a very small distribution network, it was completely unknown outside US and never had the network and people to market itself and sell its (pretty good) product. At least it was a viable replacement to RedHat in many ways.
SCO, on the other hand, had an aging piece of crap operating system known as OpenUnix. Every sysadmin I knew was trying to move from it and because of a good reason. SCO had bought Unixware 2 from Novell at that time and decided to push Unixware 7 to replace OpenUnix. On the other hand Unixware 7, although a lot mature compared to OpenUnix, it was getting a little bit stale with the advent of Linux and its innovations. These are the days when having 4 CPUs running on Linux was a big deal. Unixware handled 4 CPUs without a problem and would scale up quite nicely. Also it could handle unholy (for those days) amounts of memory like 4GB and still be stable.
On the other hand with NT4 and later Win2k, there was no way SCO could survive, especially when they were losing money at an alarming rate since '98 (WinNT 3.5, later WinNT4 ate their backoffice market pretty quickly). From its own ranks Linux started to grow and take over the rest of the available growth. Any sysadmin moving away from OpenUnix would need quite a lot of convincing and in some cases bribery in order to switch to Unixware, most clever ones wouldn't and move over to Linux or mitra-forbid, NT.
SCO had dealers in all continents, had a good base in US and especially in EMEA. They had lots of trained salespeople and support staff. The only thing they lacked was a good product. They tried to make more money by writing some interesting software and the result is Tarantella, which was/is quite an interesting product.
When SCO ran out of money, Caldera moved in to utilise this sales chain and failed miserably. Tarantella was spun off and it is still somewhat solvent. Most of the sales branches just fired all competent staff and scaled down. Any clever staff moved on (and this is when I left a SCO distributer in EMEA as its sole technical staff, I never liked the products and especially loathed OpenUnix. One year away from Linux was too much for me and I couldn't convince the shitheads in management to start selling Linux instead of these two pieces of shit).
Caldera (along with two other marginal Linux companies) made a big mistake by ditching its own Linux development department by outsourcing SuSE's enterprise system, as a result for a short time we had UnitedLinux. To this day UnitedLinux 1.0 actually means SuSE Enterprise 7. There was never an UnitedLinux 2 because SuSE simply refused to play and withdrew from the UnitedLinux consortium. Out of the three UnitedLinux companies left, two just dissapeared to oblivion (they still might exist but they are no longer big players) and SCO decided to play nasty.
The rest is history. Caldera, under some stupid twats' leadership changed name and decided that suing IBM would gain them something.
And that's why Caldera had a Linux before buying SCO and it was a good product. I hope it was an entertaining read.
disclaimer: written on a DragonFly BSD system with xfce4
What about USB?
SSB: Single Side Band
USB: Upper Side Band
LSB: Lower Side Band
Most common TLA used on HF bands.
What do you mean it isn't a monopoly. Can I get a powermac clone which is fully compatible with Apple's powermac? No. Apple is a completely closed monopoly, in many ways even worse than Microsoft.
Simply put, it is the chances of having more offsprings before the female or the male is infertile/dead. It's not rocket science.
Thank Mitra for that. This means I don't have to feel guilty looking at them. I'm not sinned. Horraaay horraaay!
It is spanking dammit, not spaking! Arrgh, I hate this keyboard and myself 'cause I didn't proofread it.
Why should I run file system check on the kid? Spaking the little bastard once in a while should be enough. Am I missing something here?
That logic is flawed. There is no supreme being therefore why should I waste all that energy on it? There are more worthwhile pursuits in the world so I'm channelling my energy to those.In the other hand Goddess Eris, the goddess of mischief and chaos is quite useful if I want to beleve in something.
Why should I bother? I don't believe in god or God.
2.4?? Rubbish. Suse 9.1 system:
Linux version 2.6.5-7.151-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Fri Mar 18 11:31:21 UTC 2005
Even this kernel is showing its age but this is one of my off-the-mill PCs, nothing fancy so no kernel rebuilds.
Ah... Kernel bloat... As usual with my old 486 I could have all the functionality I wanted and it would still run faster than anything I have now. Trying to use Firefox on a Pentium 150 feels like a painful experience these days, how on earth I used 486DX33+8MB of RAM and Netscape and I was pretty satisfied with the speed and the overall response of the system. I was probably mad.
Oh, also I'm an ordained Priest of Universal Life Church but that ordination was probably done by the hand of Eris, nothing else. At least I can argue with a priest on the same level, both of us are the man of cloth, so to speak.
Grafitti eh? Romanes Eunt Domus!
Maybe it was just a try-catch snipplet instead of a full test?
IANAL, but if the code was written during company time and company resources, the code belongs to the company as almost all employment contracts bind you to hand anything you've done with given resources over. That's all clear. The developer has stepped over his contractual obligations with his/her employee and surely in fault. The GPL on that software should be revoked. OTOH, the company can play dirty and might try to claim something that was developed outside company resources (time, equipment, money). In this case it is not the GPL that's challenged in court, it is the contract between the employee and employer.
well I always preferred the 3rd Doctor's one and only scientist companion but she got instructed to scream, like the rest of the companions pretty quickly. OTOH, I can't remember her name but I remember the savage chick's body. :)
I'm in Cambridge, UK and I'm playing 86.9p a liter you damn yanks!
Because they are camouflaged. Did you ever see a nice yellow army camouflage uniform? (Hmm, does desert stuff count? probably not).
I wouldn't mind that. Woman scientists and engineers appeal to me. It's better than a stupid bimbo. You can have sex and have meaningful discussion. You can't say this for the majority of Doctor's companions.
Mitch Benn is a musician/comedian. Quite funny guy.
I was very suprised when I heard BBC comedy Coupling was being re-done in USA and I thought it would be a nightmare and it was, the US editions are not bearable. Although Coupling doesn't have sex in it, it is completely about sex and quite funny as well. I'm always suprised how American movies can be so violent but you can't air an ugly tit on TV.
Ah... That was a movie I never managed to finish. Now I wonder how it ends.
And that's why we have this licence called GPL, to stop people just stealing code (as someone would clain what a BSD licence would amount to). "Share and enjoy" is the mantra, not "don't piss me off you buggers or I'll take your toy away". If I dislike all closed source systems why shouldn't I dislike this McVoy as well?
As everyone with a gram of brain pointed out: reverse engineering is a legitimate action and should not be banned. If McVoy thinks he is such a brilliant programmer and only he can think of such thing he has a thing coming.
What really pissed me off (and this was ages ago) was the fact that he arbitrarily changed the licence as he felt like in the past and the most annoying one was preventing anyone using his precious product while writing an other revision control system which is complete bollocks.
What the BK licence boils down to is: "I'm great and don't try to duplicate what I've done 'cause only I'm capable of coming up with something like this. If you accidentally type some code similar to or better than my system, you're a liar, you reverse-engineered my precious product and you are going to burn in hell! And just to make you more evil in other people's eyes, I'll revoke EVERYONE's licences, not only yours! Bwhahahahhahahahah".
What a fucktard...