Me too. Though it may not last.
Note that SCO's market cap ($62.1 million) is just about at it's cash value ($61.3 million).
If they fall a couple more percent, someone could buy them for their cash, if (and its a big if) they can make the legal risks go away. My guess is IBM won't buy them, for fear of setting a "please sue us" precident (like I think EV1 and Sun did by payingn SCO). But perhaps someone with a intellectual-property agreement with IBM that has a "we won't sue each other" clause could.
Anyway, it's probably too risky for anyone to buy them because of the harm it would do to their brand image. Any company who bails them out of this mess will be hated by many for a long time.
SCO hits back at IBM dismissal bid
Peter Williams, 08.18.04, 4:15 PM ET
The SCO Group has responded robustly to IBM's attempt to have a US district court dismiss some of SCO's main claims in its multi-billion dollar lawsuit....
The rest of the article doesn't really say why they thought the response was "robust", though.
" How about their stagnant Unix that is wrapped in GPL software so that it is functional?"
How 'bout a name change: GNU/SCOUnix! GNU/Openserver Cool.
More seriously, I'm starting to think it should be called GNU/Linux not so much because of Stallman's contributions of lots of user mode software, but rather in honor of his brilliance of the GPL. No matter what people say about RMS, the GPL is beautiful.
Note that this IBM move wouldn't work with the BSD license. To a large extent I think the GPL is a big part of the reason why Linux seems to havae more momentum than BSD. Companies like RedHat, IBM, Tivo, Linksys etc seem far more likely to "give back" to Linux; meaning a bigger pool of contributors.
If this works, I'll switch from thinking GNU/Linux is a silly name to thinking RMS deserves it for his legal brilliance that he foresaw long before anyone thought it might be important.
Techies like to ignore branding; but this is an excellent example of how hard it can be to overcome a negative brand image.
Real's done lots of decent (appearing, anyway?) things like open-source/helix, etc; but people have a hard time getting over the time that they were the obnoxious-spyware-company.
I think this is interesting because it's a case where Branding is meaningful to techies. A good brand image (Apple) vs. a bad brand image (Real) influences people at least as much as the technical details (yeah, it'd be cool if all content played anywhere).
Please just give me a phone that lets me do stuff phone related.
I want a phone that will:
Make calls
maintain a phone book
let me upload my voicemails to my computer for archiving Even my oldest answering machine in the 80s let me change tapes to save messages.
Why do they keep adding crap like virus-ridden operating systems and video games, when they don't even have the basic voice features working yet.
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The gain of the three-color retinas in the eyes didn't line up well with gains of three-color camera sensors making anomolous colors like
blue things looking red with certain camera sensors.
Also, each of the three colors commonly used (rgb) are artificially dark, with each one blocking about 2/3 of the light (since the only let that one color through). So if you think about it, your "white" background is really not as bright as it could be. Some DLP projectors I think use red, green, blue, and white to get some of this contrast back. But I think these guys have a more interesting idea. Your cyan pixel, letting through both blue and green light, would be brighter than either your plain blue or plain green or blue&green next to each other.
Also, strange because Kazaa's "Gold" or whatever they called it downloads are a quite effective channel for distribution of legal software.
This article sounds like more like FUD to distract from the existing file-sharing networks to me. Specific examples of lameness in the article:
"The paper claims that this system enables legal file trades, something that isn't guaranteed"
Their system doesn't "guarantee" it either -- for example even "copyright aware" tech can't know if Linux is covered by SCO copyrights without help.
"that the long-term goal of this system is to catalog every human creation in existence that can be expressed by a digital medium"
Absurd. Personally, I wouldn't want to give them a license to distribute all my copyrighted works; and I doubt Enron would use them to share internal memos. And wonderful human creations like sandcastles and orchestral productions and a good meal have their beauty in their transience.
It'd be interesting if there were two sets of contests: One for 'natural' and one for 'enhanced' athletes.
I think it would be a great benefit for society, because then the legalized genetic enhancements would become a highly lucrative legimate business that does controlled experiments only on willing participants. What better way of advancing biotech, growth hormone therepies, genetic engineering techniques than funding it with huge sports franchises and only using them on people who want to be using them.
What makes you think all these guys installing software as root wouldn't mess with their policy files.
IMHO the problem isn't with SELinux vs traditional root stuff; it's that all the damn package managers require root to run.
I'd love to see a distro where all the non-core (anything beyond the kernel and/sbin?) packages installed under/usr/local/bin/ as some user other than the root user; instead of requiring root access just to install a web broser in the default location.
Horde is both a piece of software and a project. The Horde Project comprises a set of Web-based productivity, messaging, and project-management applications, each of which is described below. The Horde Framework is a common code-base used by Horde applications, including libraries and a common user interface.
The Horde Framework doesn't do anything on its own; as a user, you will always be interacting with a Horde-based application.
I'd rather see "more coverage area". I can barely get my home-wireless-network from the coffee shop at the end of the block; and prettymuch everyone there (except those I'm sharing it with) is pretty jealous.
Security can be handled on the end-systems (install SP2:), iptables, etc).
Range isn't so easy in real-world (obstructed) environments.
So who would be for reasonable copyright use? Badnarik?
Just remember, unless the voting results in an exact tie, you're throwing your vote out anyway, so a vote for a third party candidate is as good as any.
Yet it seems customers (perhaps Daimler/Chrysler, since they're now sensitive to the issue), would start demanding that proprietary software they buy gets audited for IP rights.
I don't expect anyone (except the fringes in he open source community) to start auditing their own code out of the goodness of their hearts -- but now that AutoZone, Cognos/Timeline and friends have woken up to the fact that you can be sued merely for using inventions that infringe, I would think they would want assurances that software they buy is Legal from an Intellectual Property point of view.
I also bet the large auditing firms (KPMG, E&Y, etc) would love this new industry. If I had lots of spare time, I'd love to engage them on offering such a service and getting customers to demand it from their suppliers.
I also bet the open source community would favor it because their code is alredy largely audidted.
Finally, I bet this practice would wake up industry to the problems of the current state of Software Patent Law.
" First you would have to have the source code. I suppose it could be de-compiled? I don't know how that works. Are there laws against that?"
Even proprietary vendors
make their source code available
to important customers
"to conduct security reviews of the products" - why shouldn't they do the same for Intellectual Property Rights?
Furthermore, you could have third-party auditing companies provide that service in the same way they audit other confidential information such as company finances.
I would still like to know if anyone's audited the source code for any of the proprietary OS's for patent violations.
Seems Linux will be one of the safest kernels from a (patent point of view) to run, since it has had the most companies scouring it's source code looking for infringements.
Right now it's 54 degrees in Nome AK, 64 degrees in Anchorage, 63 degrees in Fairbanks, 64 in Juneau, and even 46 degrees in Barrow (at the northern top of alaska).
If they want something frozen right now, they need a freezer.
Better, you can see all the competitors for.ORG answering ICANN's questions about databases
here. It has the best summaries of Oracle vs PostgreSQL I've seen, because it comes from vendors competing for a big project arguing their pointts.
Oh, and a link to
Oracle's FUD when they were trying to keep control of the.org comain:
"PostgreSQL is used primarily
in the embedded system market because it lacks the transactional
features, high availability, security and manageability of any
commercial enterprise database... Jenny Gelhausen
Oracle Marketing"
Seems Oracle didn't even do the homework to see which open source database she was talking about.
Computerworld
had an interesting article of the case when PostgreSQL beat Oracle(cool) to enable Afilias to power the.org domain when they took it away from Verisign (also cool).
We believe that the key point relating to databases for the.ORG redelegation is not which database the operator is using, but, rather, whether the database will support the.ORG registry in a stable, scalable, and highly available manner.
Afilias has over a year of experience running a large scale gTLD registry--the.INFO registry. This direct experience, the load & stress tests conducted by Afilias (and listed in our proposal <http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/applicati ons/isoc/section3.html#c17.10>), and Afilias' compliance with ICANN's service level requirements clearly demonstrate that the PostgreSQL database used by Afilias performs at the level of reliability and availability required for the mission critical operations of a global gTLD registry.
Further, the actual operating performance record of Afilias compares very favorably to the records of the other.ORG applicants, many of whom use commercial databases. A review of each bidder.s answers to Question 14 <http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/questions-to-applic ants-14.htm> illustrates the kind of hard data and real world registry experience that ICANN is basing its decision on. Afilias has delivered this level of performance based in part on its stable, reliable database, PostgreSQL.
The successful operation of a registry extends beyond simply which database software is in use. It also requires a skilled operating staff with the ability to design and implement reliable systems as well as establish clearly defined resolution paths should problems occur. Afilias' solid operating performance lends support to the claims in our .ORG proposal regarding our ability to effectively manage the.ORG domain.
We do not take issue with the recitation of the many features and benefits of Oracle's products. However, any suggestion that PostgreSQL is unsuited for registry use is in direct contradiction to the facts.
Fujitsu foots the bill for new PostgreSQL database features Thursday July 01, 2004 (07:04 AM GMT) ... Berkus described the new Fujitsu-formed features as follows:
* Tablespaces is a means of partitioning large amounts of data easily and efficiently on separate storage devices, a key requirement for maintaining PostgreSQL's performance on large databases in the hundreds of gigabytes, and terabyte range; * Nested Transactions allows application developers a very granular level of control over database commits and rollbacks, which is particularly significant for maintaining data integrity and porting applications from other database platforms; * Robust support for stored procedures in Java that exceeds the goals of the SQLJ specification in the ANSI SQL99 standard.
And thanks to Afilias (the guys who run the.org domain) - from the same article:
More recently,.org and.info domain registry company Afilias has sponsored developer Jan Wieck to work full time on developing a new, enterprise-class replication system for PostgreSQL called Slony-I, to be presented next month at OSCON in Portland, Ore.
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If they fall a couple more percent, someone could buy them for their cash, if (and its a big if) they can make the legal risks go away. My guess is IBM won't buy them, for fear of setting a "please sue us" precident (like I think EV1 and Sun did by payingn SCO). But perhaps someone with a intellectual-property agreement with IBM that has a "we won't sue each other" clause could.
Anyway, it's probably too risky for anyone to buy them because of the harm it would do to their brand image. Any company who bails them out of this mess will be hated by many for a long time.
How 'bout a name change: GNU/SCOUnix! GNU/Openserver Cool.
More seriously, I'm starting to think it should be called GNU/Linux not so much because of Stallman's contributions of lots of user mode software, but rather in honor of his brilliance of the GPL. No matter what people say about RMS, the GPL is beautiful.
Note that this IBM move wouldn't work with the BSD license. To a large extent I think the GPL is a big part of the reason why Linux seems to havae more momentum than BSD. Companies like RedHat, IBM, Tivo, Linksys etc seem far more likely to "give back" to Linux; meaning a bigger pool of contributors.
If this works, I'll switch from thinking GNU/Linux is a silly name to thinking RMS deserves it for his legal brilliance that he foresaw long before anyone thought it might be important.
Real's done lots of decent (appearing, anyway?) things like open-source/helix, etc; but people have a hard time getting over the time that they were the obnoxious-spyware-company.
I think this is interesting because it's a case where Branding is meaningful to techies. A good brand image (Apple) vs. a bad brand image (Real) influences people at least as much as the technical details (yeah, it'd be cool if all content played anywhere).
If they'd publish a SDK and you'll have *millions* of programmers saving Tivo, instead of just one.
- Make calls
- maintain a phone book
- let me upload my voicemails to my computer for archiving Even my oldest answering machine in the 80s let me change tapes to save messages.
Why do they keep adding crap like virus-ridden operating systems and video games, when they don't even have the basic voice features working yet.Also, each of the three colors commonly used (rgb) are artificially dark, with each one blocking about 2/3 of the light (since the only let that one color through). So if you think about it, your "white" background is really not as bright as it could be. Some DLP projectors I think use red, green, blue, and white to get some of this contrast back. But I think these guys have a more interesting idea. Your cyan pixel, letting through both blue and green light, would be brighter than either your plain blue or plain green or blue&green next to each other.
This article sounds like more like FUD to distract from the existing file-sharing networks to me. Specific examples of lameness in the article:
"The paper claims that this system enables legal file trades, something that isn't guaranteed"
Their system doesn't "guarantee" it either -- for example even "copyright aware" tech can't know if Linux is covered by SCO copyrights without help.
"that the long-term goal of this system is to catalog every human creation in existence that can be expressed by a digital medium"
Absurd. Personally, I wouldn't want to give them a license to distribute all my copyrighted works; and I doubt Enron would use them to share internal memos. And wonderful human creations like sandcastles and orchestral productions and a good meal have their beauty in their transience.
I think it would be a great benefit for society, because then the legalized genetic enhancements would become a highly lucrative legimate business that does controlled experiments only on willing participants. What better way of advancing biotech, growth hormone therepies, genetic engineering techniques than funding it with huge sports franchises and only using them on people who want to be using them.
IMHO the problem isn't with SELinux vs traditional root stuff; it's that all the damn package managers require root to run.
I'd love to see a distro where all the non-core (anything beyond the kernel and /sbin?) packages installed under /usr/local/bin/ as some user other than the root user; instead of requiring root access just to install a web broser in the default location.
These guys have great webmail(Imp) ; nice web based file managers (Gollem); a nice CVS viewer.
From their FAQ
Perhaps not an desktop app as much an Enterprise ap; but they're much nicer than other sales software that ran on desktops that I've used.
Security can be handled on the end-systems (install SP2 :), iptables, etc).
Range isn't so easy in real-world (obstructed) environments.
You'd know if you check the MD5 sum. ('course you have to get the MD5 sum from a trusted location, and it's unclear if there was one in this instance)
Just remember, unless the voting results in an exact tie, you're throwing your vote out anyway, so a vote for a third party candidate is as good as any.
Or stock-market fraud as Business Execs discuss their companies won & lost customers, etc.
I don't expect anyone (except the fringes in he open source community) to start auditing their own code out of the goodness of their hearts -- but now that AutoZone, Cognos/Timeline and friends have woken up to the fact that you can be sued merely for using inventions that infringe, I would think they would want assurances that software they buy is Legal from an Intellectual Property point of view.
I also bet the large auditing firms (KPMG, E&Y, etc) would love this new industry. If I had lots of spare time, I'd love to engage them on offering such a service and getting customers to demand it from their suppliers.
I also bet the open source community would favor it because their code is alredy largely audidted.
Finally, I bet this practice would wake up industry to the problems of the current state of Software Patent Law.
Even proprietary vendors make their source code available to important customers "to conduct security reviews of the products" - why shouldn't they do the same for Intellectual Property Rights?
Furthermore, you could have third-party auditing companies provide that service in the same way they audit other confidential information such as company finances.
Seems Linux will be one of the safest kernels from a (patent point of view) to run, since it has had the most companies scouring it's source code looking for infringements.
Right now it's 54 degrees in Nome AK, 64 degrees in Anchorage, 63 degrees in Fairbanks, 64 in Juneau, and even 46 degrees in Barrow (at the northern top of alaska).
If they want something frozen right now, they need a freezer.
Oh, and a link to Oracle's FUD when they were trying to keep control of the .org comain:
"PostgreSQL is used primarily
in the embedded system market because it lacks the transactional
features, high availability, security and manageability of any
commercial enterprise database... Jenny Gelhausen
Oracle Marketing"
Seems Oracle didn't even do the homework to see which open source database she was talking about.
Here's the ISOC's response to Oracle FUD.
Sure. Since about march the Slony replication project has had its 1.0 release out. This replication project is used for a while by Afilias to run the .org and .info domains. [best quote from that one "but Oracle was not happy"]
I just wanted to say thanks to Fujitsu for helping pay for this
And thanks to Afilias (the guys who run the