Seems like every other week, we get a story about IBM telling SCO to put up or shut up. How many of them have we had now?
Well the difference this time is that IBM is no longer asking for the code. Big Blue is telling the judge that SCO has nothing, nada, zip. After several requests SCO has still produced nothing. So IBM is asking the judge to rule that IBM did NOT dump any of SCO's valuable code into Linux.
Well, someone, somewhere in this thread probably has already said this. Mark me Redundant
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I used to keep my character sheets in a nifty little program me and my cousin wrote together on a TRS-80 model 1. It did saving rolls, to hit rolls, and damage rolls for us too. Go ahead, try to beat that.;)
HAH!
I wrote a friggen module on my CoCo, (TRS-80 Color Computer).
ED: You see a well-groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo.
ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it?
ED: (Pause) It's white, Eric.
ERIC: How far away is it?
ED: About 50 yards.
ERIC: How big is it?
ED: (Pause) It's about 30 feet across, 15 feet high, with a pointed top.
ERIC: I use my sword to detect whether it's good.
ED: It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo!
ERIC: (Pause) I call out to it.
ED: It won't answer. It's a gazebo!
ERIC: (Pause) I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way?
ED: No, Eric. It's a gazebo!
ERIC: I shoot it with my bow (rolls to hit). What happened?
ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it.
ERIC: (Pause) Wasn't it wounded?
ED: Of course not, Eric! It's a gazebo!
ERIC: (Whimper) But that was a plus-three arrow!
ED: It's a gazebo, Eric, a gazebo! If you really want to try to destroy it, you could try to chop it with an axe, I suppose, or you could try to burn it, but I don't know why anybody would even try. It's a @#%$*& gazebo!
ERIC: (Long pause - he has no axe or fire spells) I run away.
ED: (Thoroughly frustrated) It's too late. You've awakened the gazebo, and it catches you and eats you.
ERIC: (Reaching for his dice) Maybe I'll roll up a fire-using mage so I can avenge my paladin...
Since most projects are different from one another I mainly use it as a guide or reference. But there are some function's that I've written that I use consistently. Mostly date/time functions.
I see several responses above claiming it to be 'illegal' to transport code from job to job. I find that silly. Sure I keep a code library - but even if I didn't, I still have everything locked up inside my head. Christ, pretty soon even this knowledge will be deemed 'illegal'.
"We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code," - Darl McBride, 5/1/2003
Mr McBride asserts that there is line-by-line code copied into the Linux Kernel
"When you look in the code base and you see line-by-line copy of our Unix System V code... you see that everything is taken straight across. Everything is exactly the same except they have stripped off the copyright notices and pretended it was just Linux code. There could not be a more straightforward case on the Linux side." - Darl McBride, 6/27/2003
Darl is confident that the SCO case is just and good. It couldn't be any more straightforward. The line-by-line copying is so blatant that SCO will win.
"To date, we claim that more than one million lines of UNIX System V protected code have been contributed to Linux through this model. The flaws inherent in the Linux process must be openly addressed and fixed." - Darl McBride, 9/9/2003
Millions, and millions lines of code have been copied right into the Linux kernel!
"A lot of code that you'll be seeing coming on in these copyright cases is not going to be line-by-line code. It will be more along the lines of nonliteral copying, which has more to do with infringement." - Darl McBride, 4/1/2004
Darl.. what happened? For the last year there has been line-by-line copying from UNIX V to Linux. Now "when the rubber hit's the road" that line-by-line thing isn't happening. It is more along the lines of infringement? I'm so disappointed.
I think moving YAST out to the GPL is a great move by Novell. I've been a big fan of the SuSE distro for awhile. I thought It was the best installer out there. Now it can be used by anyone slapping together a distro. That's really good news.
It's come a long way since those "text menu" installers I remember dinking around with. (Most recently Debian.)
Well, to be fair, I do remember hearing that Debain has improved the install process.. tho I haven't tried it.
From the article:
"Any report that we made a cash payment of seven figures is highly exaggerated, and it disappoints me that that quote is out there in the media," Marsh said. "The contract that we signed with SCO specifically prohibits any party from discussing the economics of the transaction. If you have an agreement that calls for certain aspects to be protected, then you would hope that that would be respected."
That's what he gets for messing around with a company like SCO.
On a related note (since I try to stomp out FUD where I find it)... rampant piracy that is driving small record chains out of business.
Funny you should mention stomping out FUD while you are spewing FUD with this statement. Rampant piracy is not driving small record chains out of business. It is large retail chain's like Best Buy and Wal-Mart that are cutting the price of CD's below cost, which in turn is hurting record store's.
Why don't you buy a dog and name it Clue so you will have one.
I don't spend any amount more than I am willing to loose. I don't make any purchases over $50.
I also cannot understand why on earth someone would go on eBay and spend 100's of dollars. Wake up! You are sending your money to *some guy* in God knows where, to purchase an item unseen.
If you are so desparate to get a deal on a higher priced used item, try your local paper, swap meet, hack shop. I'm pretty sure you could pick whatever high priced item you desire without taking such a risk.
I have no sympathy for someone who plop's down $500 dollars to some unknown person, for an unseen product.. based only on eBay's "feedback".
"We've always seen this case as protecting the Nissan brand and not about money," he said. "What we are saying is the word Nissan by itself is our registered trademark and we're the only ones with the right to use the name Nissan by itself."
Our society has come to the point where a corporate name that has been around only 20yrs or so can come along and demand that a person cannot use his last name, which has been around for 100's of years.
I have Word95 running on my really old laptop.
I have Word97 running on my Win98 partition.
I have Word2000 running on my box at work.
Now I only use Word for simple documenting.. well it's simple to me but I'm sure some admin assistant would be completely lost. The ONLY difference I have found between these three versions of word are the doc file sizes. The same amount of text.. formatted the same way.. results in larger doc file.
True story - One day while talking to a MSCE tech I mentioned the current EULA Microsoft was throwing around... the MSCE didn't know what an EULA was.. I had to explain it to her.
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But what the hell. Here are some random thoughts on Firefox.
I'm currently running Firefox on all my machines. And I have been for quite some time. I really like the upgrade from 0.8 to 0.9.
I use it on my main computer, Linux (Fedora2) and two Win2k boxes. No problems on either platform.
I honestly do not care for Mozilla at all. I find firefox far more stable than any version of IE.
The best theme you can go with is the Noia 2.0 eXtreme.
Well the difference this time is that IBM is no longer asking for the code. Big Blue is telling the judge that SCO has nothing, nada, zip. After several requests SCO has still produced nothing. So IBM is asking the judge to rule that IBM did NOT dump any of SCO's valuable code into Linux.
Well, someone, somewhere in this thread probably has already said this. Mark me Redundant
HAH!
I wrote a friggen module on my CoCo, (TRS-80 Color Computer).
Who's the geek?
Dungeon Hack.. Now there's a game.
First module ever played.. 1980/81.
B2 - The Keep on the Borderlands / Caves of Chaos.
My God those were fun days.
ED: You see a well-groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo.
ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it?
ED: (Pause) It's white, Eric.
ERIC: How far away is it?
ED: About 50 yards.
ERIC: How big is it?
ED: (Pause) It's about 30 feet across, 15 feet high, with a pointed top.
ERIC: I use my sword to detect whether it's good.
ED: It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo!
ERIC: (Pause) I call out to it.
ED: It won't answer. It's a gazebo!
ERIC: (Pause) I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way?
ED: No, Eric. It's a gazebo!
ERIC: I shoot it with my bow (rolls to hit). What happened?
ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it.
ERIC: (Pause) Wasn't it wounded?
ED: Of course not, Eric! It's a gazebo!
ERIC: (Whimper) But that was a plus-three arrow!
ED: It's a gazebo, Eric, a gazebo! If you really want to try to destroy it, you could try to chop it with an axe, I suppose, or you could try to burn it, but I don't know why anybody would even try. It's a @#%$*& gazebo!
ERIC: (Long pause - he has no axe or fire spells) I run away.
ED: (Thoroughly frustrated) It's too late. You've awakened the gazebo, and it catches you and eats you.
ERIC: (Reaching for his dice) Maybe I'll roll up a fire-using mage so I can avenge my paladin...
Full story here
Since most projects are different from one another I mainly use it as a guide or reference. But there are some function's that I've written that I use consistently. Mostly date/time functions.
I see several responses above claiming it to be 'illegal' to transport code from job to job. I find that silly. Sure I keep a code library - but even if I didn't, I still have everything locked up inside my head. Christ, pretty soon even this knowledge will be deemed 'illegal'.
A code library is just a short cut. Nothing more.
Mr McBride asserts that there is line-by-line code copied into the Linux Kernel
"When you look in the code base and you see line-by-line copy of our Unix System V code... you see that everything is taken straight across. Everything is exactly the same except they have stripped off the copyright notices and pretended it was just Linux code. There could not be a more straightforward case on the Linux side." - Darl McBride, 6/27/2003
Darl is confident that the SCO case is just and good. It couldn't be any more straightforward. The line-by-line copying is so blatant that SCO will win.
"To date, we claim that more than one million lines of UNIX System V protected code have been contributed to Linux through this model. The flaws inherent in the Linux process must be openly addressed and fixed." - Darl McBride, 9/9/2003
Millions, and millions lines of code have been copied right into the Linux kernel!
"A lot of code that you'll be seeing coming on in these copyright cases is not going to be line-by-line code. It will be more along the lines of nonliteral copying, which has more to do with infringement." - Darl McBride, 4/1/2004
Darl.. what happened? For the last year there has been line-by-line copying from UNIX V to Linux. Now "when the rubber hit's the road" that line-by-line thing isn't happening. It is more along the lines of infringement? I'm so disappointed.
Isn't it illegal not to watch television?
After all you are stealing time and money away from the poor advertisers.
Isn't there some sort of law against this? Time piracy or what-ever.
I think moving YAST out to the GPL is a great move by Novell. I've been a big fan of the SuSE distro for awhile. I thought It was the best installer out there. Now it can be used by anyone slapping together a distro. That's really good news.
It's come a long way since those "text menu" installers I remember dinking around with. (Most recently Debian.)
Well, to be fair, I do remember hearing that Debain has improved the install process.. tho I haven't tried it.
Guess you missed the article. About the violent games nerds play.
Gimmie my BFG!
From the article: "Any report that we made a cash payment of seven figures is highly exaggerated, and it disappoints me that that quote is out there in the media," Marsh said. "The contract that we signed with SCO specifically prohibits any party from discussing the economics of the transaction. If you have an agreement that calls for certain aspects to be protected, then you would hope that that would be respected." That's what he gets for messing around with a company like SCO.
Now those were the days :)
Funny you should mention stomping out FUD while you are spewing FUD with this statement. Rampant piracy is not driving small record chains out of business. It is large retail chain's like Best Buy and Wal-Mart that are cutting the price of CD's below cost, which in turn is hurting record store's.
Why don't you buy a dog and name it Clue so you will have one.
I don't spend any amount more than I am willing to loose. I don't make any purchases over $50.
I also cannot understand why on earth someone would go on eBay and spend 100's of dollars. Wake up! You are sending your money to *some guy* in God knows where, to purchase an item unseen.
If you are so desparate to get a deal on a higher priced used item, try your local paper, swap meet, hack shop. I'm pretty sure you could pick whatever high priced item you desire without taking such a risk.
I have no sympathy for someone who plop's down $500 dollars to some unknown person, for an unseen product.. based only on eBay's "feedback".
Take my money PLEASE!
Our society has come to the point where a corporate name that has been around only 20yrs or so can come along and demand that a person cannot use his last name, which has been around for 100's of years.
That's sick
I have Word95 running on my really old laptop.
I have Word97 running on my Win98 partition.
I have Word2000 running on my box at work.
Now I only use Word for simple documenting.. well it's simple to me but I'm sure some admin assistant would be completely lost. The ONLY difference I have found between these three versions of word are the doc file sizes. The same amount of text.. formatted the same way.. results in larger doc file.
True story - One day while talking to a MSCE tech I mentioned the current EULA Microsoft was throwing around... the MSCE didn't know what an EULA was.. I had to explain it to her.