SCO is suing Novell for slander of title. Their argument is by Novell saying that they(Novell) own the rights to Unix System V, they are materially harming SCO by saying this while knowing it's not true(got this from Groklaw). This case is unlikely to be in SCO's favor as Novell believes that they do still retain the rights to the source, as based on their interpretation of the Asset Purchase Agreement(APA) between SCO and Novell.
An interesting note: SCO did not provide the necessary licensing information to Novell for, at least, the first two quarters of 2003, leading Novell to start an audit, as provided for by the APA.
It won't. SCO has had two orders from the court to specify the code, both of which they didn't comply. The second time, Feb. 6, SCO said they were trying in good faith, and the judge lifted the stay of discovery.
How many more times can SCO thumb the nose of Judge Wells? SCO should be held in contempt, and if they don't produce the code, which they should know what at least the offending code in the kernel is, the case should be dismissed.
In the "best of all possible worlds", a summary judgement would be made in favor of IBM, but without the code, that can't happen, and SCO will live to sue again another day.
I doubt that they are paying full price for each license. SCO is probably taking a page out of the RIAA's book...they'll settle for a more agreeable price while claiming victory.
Oh...and the check is payable to Boies, Schiller, & Flexner, LLP.
"Daniel DuVarney and R. Sekar of the State University of New York-Stony Brook are exploring 'benign mutations' that would diversify software, preserving the functional portions of code but shaking up the nonfunctional portions that are often targeted by viruses."
If there is non-functional code that can be modified without causing problems, shouldn't that code be removed?
Hmmm...actually, Apple is taking on M$'s Power Point, part of the Office suite. Apple released Keynote, XML based presentation software that is, in many ways superior to Power Point(ex. slide changes, image rendering, etc.).
The key to this is compatibility with Office for Windows. As much as we hate to admit it, it is the standard by which all others is judged. Any suite that wants to replace Office, or at least become a major player in the office suite arena, has to be fully compatible with M$ Office. OpenOffice is close, koffice needs work, and Apple has yet to show a word processing app capable of Word's abilities(note: even Office v.X[for OS X] isn't 100% compatible). Make no mistake, Apple is working on it(that's why TextEdit can edit Word docs.).
Microsoft will be shipping VirtualPC 7 as part of Office 2004 Professional Edition(current shipping version of VPC 6.1), to be available sometime "late summer" 2004.
I am beginning to wonder if M$ bought Connectix to get the PPC x86 emulator software for the Xbox 2? The fact they will control all future installs of Windows on Macs was just a bonus. Oh...and can't foget the Linux on Windows emulators Connectix had.
In three months, the judge will set the end for discovery. Novell will say, They
didn't give us what we wanted. The judge will rule compelling SCO to
give Novell what they want or SCO will be held in contempt. At the end of this
time
period, SCO will say we need Novell to respond to our requests before we can
respond to their requests.
Sound familiar?
I'm surprised that Novell didn't do something sooner. According to the purchase
agreement, SCO had to provide Novell with all of the licensing information
for royalties to be paid, which SCO failed to do since early 2003(late 2002?).
So, Novell started an
audit, which, from what I saw in the letters,
SCO still didn't respond. At least Novell won't have to worry about any
SCO sales since the time period covered by the audit.
I saw a study done on VW Beetles, one with the pop-up spoiler and one without, and up to 150mph, there was little noticeable difference.
The big question is the shape of the cars. People are talking about F1. F1 cars are designed to have maximal downforce, but the wing(front and back) configurations change slightly based on the track(less for Monza/Indy, more for Monte Carlo). If you want a better demonstration, look at Champ(CART) cars. For ovals(especially like Michigan), the front wings are smaller, since too much downforce is a bad thing. For road courses(slower speeds), the front wings are huge in comparison.
If you want to maximize downforce, put an air dam on the front of your car(ever wonder why the front of your Monte Carlo/Grand Prix/Intrepid doesn't look the same as it's NASCAR counter part?). It doesn't allow air under the car, which creates the lift. The bad part? Watch for driveways with steep approach angles and big bumps in the road.
I think this is a good thing, as long as the ax swings both ways(e.g. Intel saying they make the fastest chips, M$ saying Windows XP is the most stable version yet). It's difficult for any computer manufacturer to say they are the fastest, most powerful, etc. because that's true for only a very short period of time.
Too bad we couldn't apply this in the US. Especially during the campaign season. Imagine politicians can't throw mud at each other. Better yet, imagine if they can't mention their opponent at all. Then they really would be at a loss for something to say.
"Among the new treasures in store for fans are several more moments with Gollum, more background on the Ents and additional scenes involving Treebeard in Fangorn Forest, Gandalf telling Aragorn that Sauron is afraid of what he may one day become, Theodred's funeral at Edoras, more of Faramir capturing Frodo and Sam, new scenes between Aragorn and Eowyn on the road to Helm's Deep, more intense footage during all of the major battles... and this is just scratching the surface. There's also a major new flashback scene in which we see Faramir with his brother, Boromir, and their father, Denethor, who is the Steward of Gondor. We learn why Boromir tried to take the Ring from Frodo in the last film, and why Faramir struggles with the same decision here. It's fantastic stuff that really fleshes out both Faramir and Boromir. It's also important for introducing us to the character of Denethor, who plays a larger part in the forthcoming Return of the King."
"'In my initial conversations with them, they said they weren't going to fix 10.2, but I wouldn't be surprised if they change that,' he said." "'...this is the first time they have hinted that they will not be supporting any particular OS X version for more than that year...'" Though Apple has been slow in providing updates to fully support their hardware in OS X (e.g. the ATI driver issue), this story is based on speculation on the part of the people interviewed. Also, there is no comment from Apple, so much for quality journalism.
Why do they(Nvu, Macromedia, etc.) insist on using FTP to update remote sites? SSH would be a lot more secure.
Sarcasm and self-importance aside, there is some validity to "if they need a gui, they shouldn't have a web site". The average Windows user has little to no need for web page design software. Having said that, it's good that Lindows is creating tools for your average Windows user. Making "idiot proof" apps is the best way to get Windows users to use Linux.
Actually, the later generations of Mirror Drive Door G4 (1.42 dual processors) were the first to have USB 2.0 support. When shipped, they only ran 1.0, but a system update(or maybe firmware...I can't remember) activated the 2.0 capability.
OS X does have software RAID, though my guess is the Alienware machines have hardware RAID(something Apple hasn't figured out, due to, I'm sure, firmware issues), which tests have shown is faster.
I agree, these benchmarks are little more than propaganda for x86-64. Apple makes "the fastest, most powerful personal computer". Until, as many others argue, Dell, HP, and Gateway sell the Athlon 64 chips in a consumer machine, Apple will continue to own that claim.
After thinking about the whole liability issue, and the (poor) comparison to cars, I haven't come up with an answer. With the forementioned alleged electrical outages caused by worms/viruses(which I give little creedence too), it's possible that a voracious worm could shut down a power grid, and someone could die. A couple of people have advocated pulling such vital infrastructure as power stations, hospitals, etc. off of the network, but they NEED to be on the network for monitoring in the case of power plants, insurance record access for hospitals.
The underlying problem is Window's saturation of the market. Blame whoever you want(Bill Gates, Andrew Boies[sp?], Novell for not developing a real network server), but the reality is Windows is installed on the vast majority of computers, including those in the forementioned infrastructure.
The solution, whatever that will be, will work itself out in the marketplace. Companies have already started to openly discuss other OSs, and that migration will either make M$ respond by making their software more secure or losing marketshare. It's not going to happen overnight, or even over a couple of years. Windows is so engrained into business, that it's going to take twice as long to get rid of it as it did to get to it's position.
"In other words, SCO is saying, "We believe we have no legal right to distribute a huge amount of the software that we are in fact distributing." Which member of their legal brain trust thought that one up?"
That would be the one who broke up Microsoft and got Al Gore elected president.
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Apple Records was started in 1968 as a tax shelter for the Beatles. The tax laws in Britain at the time took 95% of the profits from sales(hence the line "It's one for you, nineteen for me" from Tax Man). The White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Let it Be, and Hey Jude are all Apple Records albums.
When the Beatles were legally dissolved in 1974, Apple Corps continued. The judge ordered the profits divided 5% to each member, 80% to the holding company. They continued making money with the 1962 - 1966 and 1967 - 1970 albums until the mid-80's, and then started making money again with the release of the Anthologies and "1" album in 2000.
Ok...all the history aside...notice they sue when they stop making money...hmmm.... Co-incidence or bad timing by Apple Computer? Here's an idea...since Beatles music isn't on the net yet...work out a deal to get the music on iTMS. Oh wait...they wouldn't profit from it.
Paul...why did you talk Michael into buying music rights? You could have had the whole catalog for a decent price. For those of you that don't know...while recording "Say Say Say", Paul McCartney told Michael Jackson to invest by buying rights to music.
Looking through the history of 2:03cv00294/ SCO Grp v Intl Bus Mach Inc, I found the schedule for when things are going to happen.
10/1: Amending of Pleadings 10/22: Discovery Cutoff 11/10: Deadline for Filing motions 3/11/05: Attorney Conference 3/28/05: Final Pretrial Conference for 2:30 4/11/05: 5 Week Jury Trial
By the 22nd of next month, SCO will have to release to IBM the offending code as part of the discovery phase. The question is how fast it will be leaked.
And we get to watch this whole specatacle until May!
"He also characterized his detractors as a vocal minority. 'I would say that the silent majority is behind SCO in this case,' he said."
The silent majority silenty got up and jumped ship...the few that there were. Soon he will be the only one left, and the captain will go down with the ship.
Thinking about this lawyer's comments, I was wondering why anyone would hire David Boies as their lead counsel? Last two jobs? Failed takedown of Microsoft. Counsel for Al Gore on his failed litigation for vote counting in Florida.
As mentioned before, Other World Computing does have a DVD-R (1X) drive for $380 that is compatible with iDVD. To me, that's a little pricey, considering you could have an external enclosure with 4X write for $100 less.
That said, I found a page that briefly describes installing the drive, which looks to be pretty easy(if you think putting the bottom of a tiBook's case back on is easy). Here's the link(for some reason I can't get rid of the white space between the o and d in Module...just copy and paste and make the correction):
http://www.powerbooktech.com/knowledge,name-DVD- Mo dule,type-Titanium.htm
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This deal reminds me of the Apple/Microsoft deal. If you can't beat 'em, give them a whole lot of money to become "technical partners."
I wonder how StarOffice for Windows fits into this? I doubt that it's going to be around to much longer.
This would also explain why Sun doesn't want to open source Java.
SCO is suing Novell for slander of title. Their argument is by Novell saying that they(Novell) own the rights to Unix System V, they are materially harming SCO by saying this while knowing it's not true(got this from Groklaw). This case is unlikely to be in SCO's favor as Novell believes that they do still retain the rights to the source, as based on their interpretation of the Asset Purchase Agreement(APA) between SCO and Novell.
An interesting note: SCO did not provide the necessary licensing information to Novell for, at least, the first two quarters of 2003, leading Novell to start an audit, as provided for by the APA.
It won't. SCO has had two orders from the court to specify the code, both of which they didn't comply. The second time, Feb. 6, SCO said they were trying in good faith, and the judge lifted the stay of discovery.
How many more times can SCO thumb the nose of Judge Wells? SCO should be held in contempt, and if they don't produce the code, which they should know what at least the offending code in the kernel is, the case should be dismissed.
In the "best of all possible worlds", a summary judgement would be made in favor of IBM, but without the code, that can't happen, and SCO will live to sue again another day.
I doubt that they are paying full price for each license. SCO is probably taking a page out of the RIAA's book...they'll settle for a more agreeable price while claiming victory.
Oh...and the check is payable to Boies, Schiller, & Flexner, LLP.
"Daniel DuVarney and R. Sekar of the State University of New York-Stony Brook are exploring 'benign mutations' that would diversify software, preserving the functional portions of code but shaking up the nonfunctional portions that are often targeted by viruses."
If there is non-functional code that can be modified without causing problems, shouldn't that code be removed?
Hmmm...actually, Apple is taking on M$'s Power Point, part of the Office suite. Apple released Keynote, XML based presentation software that is, in many ways superior to Power Point(ex. slide changes, image rendering, etc.).
The key to this is compatibility with Office for Windows. As much as we hate to admit it, it is the standard by which all others is judged. Any suite that wants to replace Office, or at least become a major player in the office suite arena, has to be fully compatible with M$ Office. OpenOffice is close, koffice needs work, and Apple has yet to show a word processing app capable of Word's abilities(note: even Office v.X[for OS X] isn't 100% compatible). Make no mistake, Apple is working on it(that's why TextEdit can edit Word docs.).
Microsoft will be shipping VirtualPC 7 as part of Office 2004 Professional Edition(current shipping version of VPC 6.1), to be available sometime "late summer" 2004.
I am beginning to wonder if M$ bought Connectix to get the PPC x86 emulator software for the Xbox 2? The fact they will control all future installs of Windows on Macs was just a bonus. Oh...and can't foget the Linux on Windows emulators Connectix had.
In three months, the judge will set the end for discovery. Novell will say, They didn't give us what we wanted. The judge will rule compelling SCO to give Novell what they want or SCO will be held in contempt. At the end of this time period, SCO will say we need Novell to respond to our requests before we can respond to their requests.
Sound familiar?
I'm surprised that Novell didn't do something sooner. According to the purchase agreement, SCO had to provide Novell with all of the licensing information for royalties to be paid, which SCO failed to do since early 2003(late 2002?). So, Novell started an audit, which, from what I saw in the letters, SCO still didn't respond. At least Novell won't have to worry about any SCO sales since the time period covered by the audit.
I saw a study done on VW Beetles, one with the pop-up spoiler and one without, and up to 150mph, there was little noticeable difference.
The big question is the shape of the cars. People are talking about F1. F1 cars are designed to have maximal downforce, but the wing(front and back) configurations change slightly based on the track(less for Monza/Indy, more for Monte Carlo). If you want a better demonstration, look at Champ(CART) cars. For ovals(especially like Michigan), the front wings are smaller, since too much downforce is a bad thing. For road courses(slower speeds), the front wings are huge in comparison.
If you want to maximize downforce, put an air dam on the front of your car(ever wonder why the front of your Monte Carlo/Grand Prix/Intrepid doesn't look the same as it's NASCAR counter part?). It doesn't allow air under the car, which creates the lift. The bad part? Watch for driveways with steep approach angles and big bumps in the road.
However, if you go here, you can download the installer package for iTunes 4.2(Mac and Windows).
Linus is from Finland.
Finland has never been part of Norway(only Sweden and Russia have invaded/occupied it).
I think this is a good thing, as long as the ax swings both ways(e.g. Intel saying they make the fastest chips, M$ saying Windows XP is the most stable version yet). It's difficult for any computer manufacturer to say they are the fastest, most powerful, etc. because that's true for only a very short period of time.
Too bad we couldn't apply this in the US. Especially during the campaign season. Imagine politicians can't throw mud at each other. Better yet, imagine if they can't mention their opponent at all. Then they really would be at a loss for something to say.
Here are the added/lengthened scenes:
"Among the new treasures in store for fans are several more moments with Gollum, more background on the Ents and additional scenes involving Treebeard in Fangorn Forest, Gandalf telling Aragorn that Sauron is afraid of what he may one day become, Theodred's funeral at Edoras, more of Faramir capturing Frodo and Sam, new scenes between Aragorn and Eowyn on the road to Helm's Deep, more intense footage during all of the major battles... and this is just scratching the surface. There's also a major new flashback scene in which we see Faramir with his brother, Boromir, and their father, Denethor, who is the Steward of Gondor. We learn why Boromir tried to take the Ring from Frodo in the last film, and why Faramir struggles with the same decision here. It's fantastic stuff that really fleshes out both Faramir and Boromir. It's also important for introducing us to the character of Denethor, who plays a larger part in the forthcoming Return of the King."
"'In my initial conversations with them, they said they weren't going to fix 10.2, but I wouldn't be surprised if they change that,' he said."
"'...this is the first time they have hinted that they will not be supporting any particular OS X version for more than that year...'"
Though Apple has been slow in providing updates to fully support their hardware in OS X (e.g. the ATI driver issue), this story is based on speculation on the part of the people interviewed. Also, there is no comment from Apple, so much for quality journalism.
Why do they(Nvu, Macromedia, etc.) insist on using FTP to update remote sites? SSH would be a lot more secure.
Sarcasm and self-importance aside, there is some validity to "if they need a gui, they shouldn't have a web site". The average Windows user has little to no need for web page design software. Having said that, it's good that Lindows is creating tools for your average Windows user. Making "idiot proof" apps is the best way to get Windows users to use Linux.
Lifespan of panther: 20 -30 years
Lifespan of penguin: 10 - 20 years
Lifespan of butterfly: 20 - 40 days
Which would you rather be?
Actually, the later generations of Mirror Drive Door G4 (1.42 dual processors) were the first to have USB 2.0 support. When shipped, they only ran 1.0, but a system update(or maybe firmware...I can't remember) activated the 2.0 capability.
I guess the kills any speculation of Apple using a G3 with Alti-Vec.
Prediction: OS 10.5 will not support G3s(will require Alti-Vec). Also, a Powerbook G5 is less than one year away(maybe even MacWorld SF).
OS X does have software RAID, though my guess is the Alienware machines have hardware RAID(something Apple hasn't figured out, due to, I'm sure, firmware issues), which tests have shown is faster.
I agree, these benchmarks are little more than propaganda for x86-64. Apple makes "the fastest, most powerful personal computer". Until, as many others argue, Dell, HP, and Gateway sell the Athlon 64 chips in a consumer machine, Apple will continue to own that claim.
After thinking about the whole liability issue, and the (poor) comparison to cars, I haven't come up with an answer. With the forementioned alleged electrical outages caused by worms/viruses(which I give little creedence too), it's possible that a voracious worm could shut down a power grid, and someone could die. A couple of people have advocated pulling such vital infrastructure as power stations, hospitals, etc. off of the network, but they NEED to be on the network for monitoring in the case of power plants, insurance record access for hospitals.
The underlying problem is Window's saturation of the market. Blame whoever you want(Bill Gates, Andrew Boies[sp?], Novell for not developing a real network server), but the reality is Windows is installed on the vast majority of computers, including those in the forementioned infrastructure.
The solution, whatever that will be, will work itself out in the marketplace. Companies have already started to openly discuss other OSs, and that migration will either make M$ respond by making their software more secure or losing marketshare. It's not going to happen overnight, or even over a couple of years. Windows is so engrained into business, that it's going to take twice as long to get rid of it as it did to get to it's position.
"In other words, SCO is saying, "We believe we have no legal right to distribute a huge amount of the software that we are in fact distributing." Which member of their legal brain trust thought that one up?"
That would be the one who broke up Microsoft and got Al Gore elected president.
Apple Records was started in 1968 as a tax shelter for the Beatles. The tax laws in Britain at the time took 95% of the profits from sales(hence the line "It's one for you, nineteen for me" from Tax Man). The White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Let it Be, and Hey Jude are all Apple Records albums.
When the Beatles were legally dissolved in 1974, Apple Corps continued. The judge ordered the profits divided 5% to each member, 80% to the holding company. They continued making money with the 1962 - 1966 and 1967 - 1970 albums until the mid-80's, and then started making money again with the release of the Anthologies and "1" album in 2000.
Ok...all the history aside...notice they sue when they stop making money...hmmm.... Co-incidence or bad timing by Apple Computer? Here's an idea...since Beatles music isn't on the net yet...work out a deal to get the music on iTMS. Oh wait...they wouldn't profit from it.
Paul...why did you talk Michael into buying music rights? You could have had the whole catalog for a decent price. For those of you that don't know...while recording "Say Say Say", Paul McCartney told Michael Jackson to invest by buying rights to music.
Looking through the history of 2:03cv00294/ SCO Grp v Intl Bus Mach Inc, I found the schedule for when things are going to happen.
10/1: Amending of Pleadings
10/22: Discovery Cutoff
11/10: Deadline for Filing motions
3/11/05: Attorney Conference
3/28/05: Final Pretrial Conference for 2:30
4/11/05: 5 Week Jury Trial
By the 22nd of next month, SCO will have to release to IBM the offending code as part of the discovery phase. The question is how fast it will be leaked.
And we get to watch this whole specatacle until May!
"He also characterized his detractors as a vocal minority. 'I would say that the silent majority is behind SCO in this case,' he said."
The silent majority silenty got up and jumped ship...the few that there were. Soon he will be the only one left, and the captain will go down with the ship.
Thinking about this lawyer's comments, I was wondering why anyone would hire David Boies as their lead counsel? Last two jobs? Failed takedown of Microsoft. Counsel for Al Gore on his failed litigation for vote counting in Florida.
Here's the pitch...STRIKE THREE!
As mentioned before, Other World Computing does have a DVD-R (1X) drive for $380 that is compatible with iDVD. To me, that's a little pricey, considering you could have an external enclosure with 4X write for $100 less.
- Mo dule,type-Titanium.htm
That said, I found a page that briefly describes installing the drive, which looks to be pretty easy(if you think putting the bottom of a tiBook's case back on is easy). Here's the link(for some reason I can't get rid of the white space between the o and d in Module...just copy and paste and make the correction):
http://www.powerbooktech.com/knowledge,name-DVD
Good luck.