I s'pose that us "fans of Linux and other open source software" have a get out clause in that we could take MySQL's existing codebase under the GPL and develop it the way we want, free from SCO influence.
Of course it'll probably turn out that SCO wrote MySQL at some point and we'll all have to start using postgres instead.
BTW: I think the "important bit of software" made by Innobase in the article is the InnoDB table storage engine (cf. this slashdot article).
"The dirty little secret that Microsoft has been hiding all these years is that piracy was GOOD for them in creating their monopoly. Now that they have a monopoly, however, they believe the illegal copying does them no good, so they are trying to stop it."
To be fair it wasn't a secret as such:
"Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
Not AFAIK, but apache is really easy to pick up. I learned enough to deploy Apache from the o'reilley book in about 4 or 5 working days - including trickier stuff like virtual hosting, getting mod_perl working, et al.
More generally, I guess all this cert stuff is mainly to do with motivation. Sometimes it helps you to focus if you've got some sort of framework to fit your learning into. Personally, I don't find I need that framework for techie learning, but I find it extremely useful when pursuing more academic studies. YMMV;-)
"More than half of the [world's] fastest supercomputers -- which recently might be more accurately described as super clusters that are assemblies of many lower-power processors -- run on Linux, and Top 500 super list co-compiler and original editor Erich Strohmaier does not foresee any change in the open source operating system's dominance anytime soon."
1. most musicians make very little money from cd sales.
2. most record companies like to sell music rather expensively in order to maximize their profits, they can do this because they have an oligopoly market with quite high barriers to entry.
3. many people like to download/share/'steal' music, and a fair number of them would like to see the people who made the music paid properly, even if record companies are somewhat bad at this.
4. you can find contact details for many musicians or their agents by googling.
OK, so I have a genius plan.
If you download something that you like, rather than buying the cd, why not send a cheque to the person who made the music/their producer/someone else involved in the recording?
They'll do better financially from that than they would from buying a cd anyway and you won't be supporting market distorting monopolist business models that have yet to catch up to the reality of the situation.
The recording industry is fast becoming an irrelevancy to a large number of people and no draconian laws/drm/suing kids is actually going to change the situation.
Some time ago they blocked our IP, ostensibly for sending spam. I contacted them, and eventually managed to persuade them to unblock it, as we weren't evil spammers, but a student campaigning organization.
So they insisted on having an address to send service complaints to, which is cool, we don't want to piss people off with spam. I gave them postmaster@.
Then I start getting through the occasional service complaint (scomp@aol.com). Unfortunately these babies:
a. Don't tell you what the complaint is b. Don't tell you who made the complaint
Their tech support tell me that they can't tell me who is complaining or about what because of privacy issues, which is probably not the best way to get it resolved.
So now I'm left with around 5-10 unspecified complaints of unspecified users from AOL a week, which I dutifully keep in a folder marked ???
SCO seem to want to be bought at the moment, which made me think if everyone on/. had a single share in sco, we could bring forward proposals at their agm and get voting rights on how the company was run.
Big corporations can keep the crappy, empty, mind-numbingly tedious corporate MTV sludge they churn out, whilst we create our own free and open media. They're the ones who'll lose out when I don't buy their snake-oil...
L'etranger, Albert Camus - because you just need to.
The Last Days of Christ the Vampire,JG Eccarius - Jesus turns out to be a vampire who's zombie followers are trying to destroy the world through nuclear annihilation.
On Having No Head, DE Harding - zen classic.
Mutual Aid, Pyotr Kropotkin - the argument is that co-operation within a species is a more powerful factor in evolution than competition, a bit dated but worth reading for its anarchist politics
What if countries refuse? -- and I can't really see the rest of the world adding biometrics to their passports just becuase the US tells them to.
The UK are intending to introduce biometric id cards - there's already been consultation (so called) about it. The US biometric thing was sited by David Blunkett as a reason for us needing them...
Details here
Like you hint, we also need to create our own media outside and beyond, building an alternative to dull, uniform, lifeless world of the multinationals. Projects like IndyMedia and Consume.net are already doing it. It's empowering to build the solution, as well as refusing to participate in the problem!
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No, Depose me!
I am sparti^H^H^H^H^H^H P.J.
> the SCO Group is trying to subpoena Pamela Jones of Groklaw... ...
> SCO's lawyers apparently believe that "Pamela Jones" does not exist
Is anyone else troubled that fictional characters can now, apparently, be subject to lawsuits?
Wil-e-coyote is fscked!
I s'pose that us "fans of Linux and other open source software" have a get out clause in that we could take MySQL's existing codebase under the GPL and develop it the way we want, free from SCO influence.
Of course it'll probably turn out that SCO wrote MySQL at some point and we'll all have to start using postgres instead.
BTW: I think the "important bit of software" made by Innobase in the article is the InnoDB table storage engine (cf. this slashdot article).
All shockwave, not even a 'download shockwave plugin' link for us mere mortals??!!
I guess the National High Tech Crime Unit are too 'High Tech' to make their website accessible...
to summarise: - lack of experience - alcohol - being difficult for other drivers to see
Not AFAIK, but apache is really easy to pick up. I learned enough to deploy Apache from the o'reilley book in about 4 or 5 working days - including trickier stuff like virtual hosting, getting mod_perl working, et al.
More generally, I guess all this cert stuff is mainly to do with motivation. Sometimes it helps you to focus if you've got some sort of framework to fit your learning into. Personally, I don't find I need that framework for techie learning, but I find it extremely useful when pursuing more academic studies. YMMV ;-)
ff 1.0 on debian blocked one popup (on the coca cola page), then I didn't get any more from the other top level categories...
http://grids.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?s
"More than half of the [world's] fastest supercomputers -- which recently might be more accurately described as super clusters that are assemblies of many lower-power processors -- run on Linux, and Top 500 super list co-compiler and original editor Erich Strohmaier does not foresee any change in the open source operating system's dominance anytime soon."
... providing we're allowed to stick "Christianity is only a theory" stickers on all the school bibles as well.
1. most musicians make very little money from cd sales.
2. most record companies like to sell music rather expensively in order to maximize their profits, they can do this because they have an oligopoly market with quite high barriers to entry.
3. many people like to download/share/'steal' music, and a fair number of them would like to see the people who made the music paid properly, even if record companies are somewhat bad at this.
4. you can find contact details for many musicians or their agents by googling.
OK, so I have a genius plan.
If you download something that you like, rather than buying the cd, why not send a cheque to the person who made the music/their producer/someone else involved in the recording?
They'll do better financially from that than they would from buying a cd anyway and you won't be supporting market distorting monopolist business models that have yet to catch up to the reality of the situation.
The recording industry is fast becoming an irrelevancy to a large number of people and no draconian laws/drm/suing kids is actually going to change the situation.
just a thought...
I'm a sys admin too,
.
Some time ago they blocked our IP, ostensibly for sending spam. I contacted them, and eventually managed to persuade them to unblock it, as we weren't evil spammers, but a student campaigning organization.
So they insisted on having an address to send service complaints to, which is cool, we don't want to piss people off with spam. I gave them postmaster@
Then I start getting through the occasional service complaint (scomp@aol.com). Unfortunately these babies:
a. Don't tell you what the complaint is
b. Don't tell you who made the complaint
Their tech support tell me that they can't tell me who is complaining or about what because of privacy issues, which is probably not the best way to get it resolved.
So now I'm left with around 5-10 unspecified complaints of unspecified users from AOL a week, which I dutifully keep in a folder marked ???
"...He compares the situation to that in Europe in 1938..." :-)
Do you suppose this allusion allows one to invoke Godwins Law
You may want to consider using green electricity from 100% renewable sources? In the UK try these guys
Oh yes you do :-/
SCO seem to want to be bought at the moment, which made me think if everyone on /. had a single share in sco, we could bring forward proposals at their agm and get voting rights on how the company was run.
...
Just a thought
We're capitalists, however Speak for yerself.
Big corporations can keep the crappy, empty, mind-numbingly tedious corporate MTV sludge they churn out, whilst we create our own free and open media. They're the ones who'll lose out when I don't buy their snake-oil...
L'etranger, Albert Camus - because you just need to. The Last Days of Christ the Vampire,JG Eccarius - Jesus turns out to be a vampire who's zombie followers are trying to destroy the world through nuclear annihilation. On Having No Head, DE Harding - zen classic. Mutual Aid, Pyotr Kropotkin - the argument is that co-operation within a species is a more powerful factor in evolution than competition, a bit dated but worth reading for its anarchist politics
I read Random Acts of senseless violence about 10 years ago, and thought it was genius. Thanks for reminding me of it! Down to the bookshop with me ...
What if countries refuse? -- and I can't really see the rest of the world adding biometrics to their passports just becuase the US tells them to.
...
Details here
The UK are intending to introduce biometric id cards - there's already been consultation (so called) about it. The US biometric thing was sited by David Blunkett as a reason for us needing them
Yes, Boycott corporate media!
Like you hint, we also need to create our own media outside and beyond, building an alternative to dull, uniform, lifeless world of the multinationals. Projects like IndyMedia and Consume.net are already doing it. It's empowering to build the solution, as well as refusing to participate in the problem!
Fanx for a brilliant post...