If SCO are found to have no case, then their worth will mostly be in copyrights on a codebase that can be mostly replaced by the then judicially cleared Linux and *BSD kernels. It would almost be like suing a dead horse to get a refund.
Thanks for the pointer, I finally sat through the whole interview and got a strong whiff of BS throught his presentation. If you haven't read this already, check out this interview with SCO's Mr. Sontag at Byte for some direct contradiction to what Darl says. Seems that SCO thinks they are the kings of the os world.
I wish they would stay with a single story now, but once the trial starts they will have to stop dancing around and choose a single presentation that matches the suit they filed.
If they can drag this out long enough, it becomes almost irrelevant whether they win a lawsuit. The fear level generated can be even more effective than a victory.
It would not surprise me to find that MS and SCO are having strategy sessions. The moves that SCO is making are too good and too forward thinking for the principals at SCO to be working alone (given their old track record). Remember that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Also remember that MS used to own 25% of SCO and may still get royalties for portions of their Xenix code.
Now it would really suck if MS starts claiming that portions of Xenix code have ended up in the Linux kernel. I shudder at the thought.
As for IBM, this attack by SCO will have the desired effects even if no code were copied. Remember that IBM is a giant behemoth with layers of managment. If SCO can prompt IBM to put in layer after layer of code review groups, IP review groups, code accountability groups, managment groups and the paperwork jockeys to track the information flowing between groups, then IBM will have essentially shut down the useful rate of their work on Linux. Bingo! MS and SCO both make significant progress towards winning this phase of the game.
I also ask myself some more questions here. MS is a licensee of SCO now right? So they have full access to the source now for sure. But how long have they had source to peruse? I am sure that MS has many more programmers that could painstakingly compare Linux source to the code they could access before formally licensing the code and IP.
Does SCO have the manpower for such a task? Well, at their jobs page there is only a single sales position listed. Nothing for OS support, driver developer or low-level kernel programmer. This dosen't sound like a healthy technology company to me. Hmmm, how many code monkeys could they throw at the Linux kernel source?
SCO contends that Linux could not have gotten the "enterprise" features without IBM copying Unix code and pasting it into the Linux kernel. That is the only real claim I have heard (read).
A couple of questions I have. If I am using linux in desktop mode on a single cpu, how can I possibly be using the actual features that they claim were necessary to scale beyond 4 processors?
I also have a client that is running a 4 year old Linux distro on a closed network that just runs night and day. How could this possibly infringe since it predates the IBM kernel contributions that SCO claims started this bruhaha? Yet they seem to want a license fee for any vintage of running Linux.
SCO wants to distribute a binary only Unixware runtime that can execute Linux binaries, presumably as the only "legal and non-infringing" platform for doing so. How can they completely incorporate this capability without taking any GPL'd code and ignoring the license?
My opinion after dwelling on this for a while is this:
1 - SCO is trying to overthrow the entire Linux movement that threatens their struggling business. They are scaring the heck out of businesses that currently run or were thinking about deploying Linux. They are not allowing any access to information about their claimed code swap. This means they have no desire to co-exist, but to supercede completely. Their steps so far support this opinion, future moves may change this opinion. Kernel coders have expressed great interest in learning which features supposedly infringe on SCO IP so they can be replaced. It seems that SCO has been completely unwilling to inform them without having them sign an NDA that would then prevent them from fixing any actual code infringment.
2 - SCO is attempting to openly break and defy the terms of the (L)GPL. If they can do so, then they weaken it tremendously and encourage others to dissent too. They are also attempting to change established precedent concerning IP infringment and end user rights. Way back in the early 1990's Microsoft stole compression technology from Stac and had to pay them a large settlement. The outcome for consumers that had already purchased the infringing product? They got to keep possession and continue to use the product they had payed for. Some people got free upgrades, but the ones that chose to keep using the original MS stealware didn't have to get an additional license from Stac to remain legal. Microsoft also countersued claiming that Stac had illegaly reverse engineered part of MS-DOS to enable them to seemlessly integrate their product below the filesystem level. MS won the counter-suit and a smaller $13million award. Customers that had purchased Stac products still had the legal right to use them too. This is because the customer or end user wasn't involved in the actual theft and only indirectly get benefit from the illegal acts on both sides. This precedent holds true in all of the cases that come easily to mind, but there may be exceptions. What the freak is SCO trying to pull?
It seems that several manufacturers that were warming up to the Linux community have now reversed positions. Does anyone have contacts within companies like Dlink, Linksys or Netgear that can tell us why? Will Intel continue to shoot us a bird with the centrino too?
It would be easier to understand if the companies had been a-holes all along. I hate to see the change as it is effecting the buying patterns I had become comfortable with.
The business case assumes that many applications will not migrate to Linux; instead, the bulk of applications requiring Windows will probably be Web-enabled and accessed through a browser. Munich will accommodate any remaining applications using virtual machine software, such as VMware. Too many VMware implementations or other workarounds will reduce the benefits of the Linux migration, and the residual reliance on Windows would likely be higher than planned.
All of the vmware discussion is based upon guesses in the Gartner report. It is assumed that the bulk will be web based and a small remainder will need something like vmware or win4lin. These unknown apps may run well enough under wine or crossover office.
It seems that IBM and Suse understand enough about the current apps that Munich currently runs to have accomodated this in the proposal where they gave a solid price. The Gartner group is making guesses, seems like they don't need to base reports on solid facts does it?
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Most cars would be riced out if some of the following are added:
6-inch exhaust can
Chrome wheel covers w/ fake disc brakes
Lowered by cutting springs
Neon lights underneath car
Spent more on vinyl graphics than engine mods
3 foot 'Aero' wing out back
Add some of these to a Civic or mom's hand-me-down Camry and you have instant rice! The wing on the Evo is about the only thing rice-like in your list .
I use a cassette adapter to use my Rio in my Jetta because of no usable AUX audio input. It can be less than fun putting in an aftermarket system because the stock stereo is part of the in-car network. Many dealers won't work on a car that has a different stereo even if the k-line (network link) has been severed because they have damaged expensive code scanners in the past. Seems that VW would make a standard DIN or RCA input to ease this problem.
My old 1990 Eclipse is the new home for my pioneer hu and homemade AUX input. It sounds much better than the cassette adapter interface for my mp3 player. Isn't the progress of technology marvelous?
Slashdot maven LinuxGeek issues a press release to announce his new, innovative and terribly valuable service:
Dog Spleen, Utah (AP) - New, Innovative and terribly valuable service is announced to the world. LinuxGeek: Terribly Valuable Services, LLC is announcing the commencement of our Terribly Valuable Service today at 1:43pm Eastern Time.
This service is patterned after the new and very successful launch by SCO ( also of Utah, but no relation. Well, maybe a slight relation due that time in prison and the whole common law marriage thingie) of charging license fees for free things. This is new and innovative because it is about the opposite! I, err, We, meaning my crack staff will be selling the service of *not* thinking bad thoughts of those clients that are smart enough to contract our services!
Those unfortunate few that ignore the obvious benefits of contracting with LinuxGeek: Terribly Valuable Services, LLC will suffer needlessly while I, uhh, our crack staff of angry thought thinkers spend every waking moment thinking bad thoughts about them. Think of the endless hours you would waste worrying about what someone in a cardboard box just off of main street in Dog Spleen, Utah is thinking about you while you try to enjoy that movie and popcorn. Ease your already troubled mind during those negotiations with the District Attorney by not having to worry that someone that almost has their G.E.D. and the sheer determination to not bathe for weeks at a time is not thinking angry thoughts about you, the source of their unemployment.
To inquire about our lucrative franchising possibilities, please contact us at:
General Delivery C/O Postmaster Dog Spleen, Utah 13374
I remember the name Keating, but not the amounts. That happened 9 years ago, but the people that were strongly effected still remember.
When an local ex-comissioner ran again after 20 years out of office, the people that did remember him presiding over a doubling of property taxes made sure to remind new voters. Guess who didn't win.
I'm not sure if you are just playing devil's advocate here, but pay attention to what is going on in California. Citizens don't always roll over and play dead when they get screwed.
Do you really believe voters will remember? I think more often than not they don't.
Are you kidding? Voters don't really remember things like who got funding for a new park or school passed. They sure do remember who wasted $2Billion or raised their taxes though. I think the state probably had to raise state taxes to allow for the $1.45Billion in actual tax credits that Verizon got for providing the high-speed infrastructure.
The citizens of Pennsylvania have already paid and Verizon is trying to weasel out of having to provide what they promised. I hope the citizens make sure that Verizon "can hear them now".
to be a Pennsylvanian state legislator when the tax payers find out about all this. Too bad that the real bastards ( at Verizon) won't pay as high a price. Plus most of the legislators that made the original deal in 1994 probably aren't in office anymore. It dosen't sound like they put many checks or penalties into the agreement.
Sounds more like a company that is grasping at straws on the side of the river bank as they are drowning. The 'license fee' that MS recently paid them amounts to throwing them a string that will only be helpful if someone else decides to tie a rope onto the string. My guess is that their only hope is for a judge to make IBM tie on that rope.
So I guess I'll still have to shell out $200+ to upgrade my Slot A to anything over 900Mhz...:(
Not at all, 2100+ cpu/MB combos starting at $100US. Not the greatest motherboards, but not bad for the price. Keep looking until you find stuff that will work with your existing ram, video, etc...
No, I have not "missed the obvious" and your scenarios are complete bullshit. They did not say "MS drop the xbox price 90% or else".
They did say something like:
MS, we will run linux on unmodified xboxen that we purchased, this you cannot stop. Our method works but also allows copied games to be run so we seek to cooperate with MS to get a signed linux bootloader that will leave security intact.
MS chose to make an appointment to see the exploit and then canceled 24 hours before the meeting. Then they ceased communication and ignored the proposal to cooperate. If I want to run linux on an xbox ( which I don't own yet), then I have one simple choice that would also allow me to play copies of games. If MS had just produced a signed bootloader, then that option would have been limited to just running linux. Don't try to convince me that I should feel sorry for MS because they called the Free-X bluff and they weren't bluffing.
You have no monopoly on xbox enlightenment and perspective. I do not agree with your opinion on what this information means and how MS is the victim. Just because I don't agree dosen't mean I do not understand.
For the exchange, we were requesting but not demanding the following:
- Complete access to all documentation (chipsets, video etc.) to assist in developing a better Linux for the XBox. - A signed Linux loader. - Protection from Microsoft or support if any organisation/government attempted to prosecute members of our team. - Refunding of the cost occured during the agreement period.
This is a request that would usually begin a negotiation process. MS refused to even consider the process of negotiating by not responding. The ball was in their court, they had a fish on the line, it was their turn, their light had turned green, they were sitting on the pot, the sun had risen and the bank was open for business.
Am I to assume that you consider not responding to multiple parties over the span of a month to be a valid business tactic.
In other words folks, they, the end user, is DEMANDING that Microsoft do whatever they want -- or else.
Silly me to expect a company to listen to an end user; yes, we bow to the implicit logic of your argument and submit that you are correct.
Wow, I hadn't thought of it this way yet. If you only need an xbox and MS MechWarrior to get this expliot into place, then MS does deserve a share of the $100,000 prize.
What you are describing points to Mandrake not being ready for prime time. I too have an Nforce2 board and under gentoo, my onboard nic and sound work just fine. The sound is a version of the Intel ICH audio controller and is supported by the vanilla linux kernel. Mandrake is not detecting it or setting things up properly. Alsa supports the nforce audio more completely than the kernel drivers. My GeForce3 is fully supported too and plays games very well.
I can understand your frustration though, just point it in the proper direction and problems get solved much quicker. Many games now run fine in plain wine or winex. You could either pay for a winex subscription and get binary packages or compile the CVS version.
Also keep in mind the simple truth that you are free to not run linux. It is not as easy to find support for new hardware or run the newest software on and I understand that. I choose to run linux and still choose to run WinXP. I've seen several people put much more effort into whining about how bad linux is than it would take to learn how to properly configure an installation.
MS is paying less than the cost of manufacture for the integrated chipset/graphic controller in the xbox. See this report and scroll down to the Microsoft Agreement heading. Microsoft also needed changes to the encryption keys hard coded into the chipset and left Nvidia with almost 10 million chips that they couldn't sell at all. They settled on February 6, 2003 with Nvidia agreeing to help further reduce the costs of making the current xbox. Just a couple of months later, MS announces they are partnering with Ati for the xbox2 design. Don't be fooled into thinking that nvidia made money on the xbox chips.
I now think that when microsoft describes a company as "partner", they really mean "loss leader subsidiary" or "biatch".
My systems are available for work during a kernel compile, not so for a windows crash. I've never been hacked either. Are you trying to equate normal linux system maintainence with windows system crashes? If so, then you don't seem to be familiar enough with either linux or windows to be accurate. Call us back after you have supported several hundred windows desktops that you deployed.
After I figure up the value of my mental anguish, lost work/productivity from crashes and premature aging from 24 hour reinstall marathons, they will owe me millions!
All we have to do is tally up the greatest possible value of alternative actions we could have taken instead of working through problems created by their junk. Alternatively, I don't have that much spare time to waste on 20 years worth of calculations.
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If SCO are found to have no case, then their worth will mostly be in copyrights on a codebase that can be mostly replaced by the then judicially cleared Linux and *BSD kernels. It would almost be like suing a dead horse to get a refund.
Thanks for the pointer, I finally sat through the whole interview and got a strong whiff of BS throught his presentation. If you haven't read this already, check out this interview with SCO's Mr. Sontag at Byte for some direct contradiction to what Darl says. Seems that SCO thinks they are the kings of the os world.
I wish they would stay with a single story now, but once the trial starts they will have to stop dancing around and choose a single presentation that matches the suit they filed.
If they can drag this out long enough, it becomes almost irrelevant whether they win a lawsuit. The fear level generated can be even more effective than a victory.
It would not surprise me to find that MS and SCO are having strategy sessions. The moves that SCO is making are too good and too forward thinking for the principals at SCO to be working alone (given their old track record). Remember that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Also remember that MS used to own 25% of SCO and may still get royalties for portions of their Xenix code.
Now it would really suck if MS starts claiming that portions of Xenix code have ended up in the Linux kernel. I shudder at the thought.
As for IBM, this attack by SCO will have the desired effects even if no code were copied. Remember that IBM is a giant behemoth with layers of managment. If SCO can prompt IBM to put in layer after layer of code review groups, IP review groups, code accountability groups, managment groups and the paperwork jockeys to track the information flowing between groups, then IBM will have essentially shut down the useful rate of their work on Linux. Bingo! MS and SCO both make significant progress towards winning this phase of the game.
I also ask myself some more questions here. MS is a licensee of SCO now right? So they have full access to the source now for sure. But how long have they had source to peruse? I am sure that MS has many more programmers that could painstakingly compare Linux source to the code they could access before formally licensing the code and IP.
Does SCO have the manpower for such a task? Well, at their jobs page there is only a single sales position listed. Nothing for OS support, driver developer or low-level kernel programmer. This dosen't sound like a healthy technology company to me. Hmmm, how many code monkeys could they throw at the Linux kernel source?
SCO contends that Linux could not have gotten the "enterprise" features without IBM copying Unix code and pasting it into the Linux kernel. That is the only real claim I have heard (read).
A couple of questions I have. If I am using linux in desktop mode on a single cpu, how can I possibly be using the actual features that they claim were necessary to scale beyond 4 processors?
I also have a client that is running a 4 year old Linux distro on a closed network that just runs night and day. How could this possibly infringe since it predates the IBM kernel contributions that SCO claims started this bruhaha? Yet they seem to want a license fee for any vintage of running Linux.
SCO wants to distribute a binary only Unixware runtime that can execute Linux binaries, presumably as the only "legal and non-infringing" platform for doing so. How can they completely incorporate this capability without taking any GPL'd code and ignoring the license?
My opinion after dwelling on this for a while is this:
1 - SCO is trying to overthrow the entire Linux movement that threatens their struggling business. They are scaring the heck out of businesses that currently run or were thinking about deploying Linux. They are not allowing any access to information about their claimed code swap. This means they have no desire to co-exist, but to supercede completely. Their steps so far support this opinion, future moves may change this opinion. Kernel coders have expressed great interest in learning which features supposedly infringe on SCO IP so they can be replaced. It seems that SCO has been completely unwilling to inform them without having them sign an NDA that would then prevent them from fixing any actual code infringment.
2 - SCO is attempting to openly break and defy the terms of the (L)GPL. If they can do so, then they weaken it tremendously and encourage others to dissent too. They are also attempting to change established precedent concerning IP infringment and end user rights. Way back in the early 1990's Microsoft stole compression technology from Stac and had to pay them a large settlement. The outcome for consumers that had already purchased the infringing product? They got to keep possession and continue to use the product they had payed for. Some people got free upgrades, but the ones that chose to keep using the original MS stealware didn't have to get an additional license from Stac to remain legal. Microsoft also countersued claiming that Stac had illegaly reverse engineered part of MS-DOS to enable them to seemlessly integrate their product below the filesystem level. MS won the counter-suit and a smaller $13million award. Customers that had purchased Stac products still had the legal right to use them too. This is because the customer or end user wasn't involved in the actual theft and only indirectly get benefit from the illegal acts on both sides. This precedent holds true in all of the cases that come easily to mind, but there may be exceptions. What the freak is SCO trying to pull?
It seems that several manufacturers that were warming up to the Linux community have now reversed positions. Does anyone have contacts within companies like Dlink, Linksys or Netgear that can tell us why? Will Intel continue to shoot us a bird with the centrino too?
It would be easier to understand if the companies had been a-holes all along. I hate to see the change as it is effecting the buying patterns I had become comfortable with.
All of the vmware discussion is based upon guesses in the Gartner report. It is assumed that the bulk will be web based and a small remainder will need something like vmware or win4lin. These unknown apps may run well enough under wine or crossover office.
It seems that IBM and Suse understand enough about the current apps that Munich currently runs to have accomodated this in the proposal where they gave a solid price. The Gartner group is making guesses, seems like they don't need to base reports on solid facts does it?
6-inch exhaust can
Chrome wheel covers w/ fake disc brakes
Lowered by cutting springs
Neon lights underneath car
Spent more on vinyl graphics than engine mods
3 foot 'Aero' wing out back
Add some of these to a Civic or mom's hand-me-down Camry and you have instant rice! The wing on the Evo is about the only thing rice-like in your list .
I use a cassette adapter to use my Rio in my Jetta because of no usable AUX audio input. It can be less than fun putting in an aftermarket system because the stock stereo is part of the in-car network. Many dealers won't work on a car that has a different stereo even if the k-line (network link) has been severed because they have damaged expensive code scanners in the past. Seems that VW would make a standard DIN or RCA input to ease this problem.
My old 1990 Eclipse is the new home for my pioneer hu and homemade AUX input. It sounds much better than the cassette adapter interface for my mp3 player. Isn't the progress of technology marvelous?
Slashdot maven LinuxGeek issues a press release to announce his new, innovative and terribly valuable service:
Dog Spleen, Utah (AP) - New, Innovative and terribly valuable service is announced to the world. LinuxGeek: Terribly Valuable Services, LLC is announcing the commencement of our Terribly Valuable Service today at 1:43pm Eastern Time.
This service is patterned after the new and very successful launch by SCO ( also of Utah, but no relation. Well, maybe a slight relation due that time in prison and the whole common law marriage thingie) of charging license fees for free things. This is new and innovative because it is about the opposite! I, err, We, meaning my crack staff will be selling the service of *not* thinking bad thoughts of those clients that are smart enough to contract our services!
Those unfortunate few that ignore the obvious benefits of contracting with LinuxGeek: Terribly Valuable Services, LLC will suffer needlessly while I, uhh, our crack staff of angry thought thinkers spend every waking moment thinking bad thoughts about them. Think of the endless hours you would waste worrying about what someone in a cardboard box just off of main street in Dog Spleen, Utah is thinking about you while you try to enjoy that movie and popcorn. Ease your already troubled mind during those negotiations with the District Attorney by not having to worry that someone that almost has their G.E.D. and the sheer determination to not bathe for weeks at a time is not thinking angry thoughts about you, the source of their unemployment.
To inquire about our lucrative franchising possibilities, please contact us at:
General Delivery
C/O Postmaster
Dog Spleen, Utah 13374
I remember the name Keating, but not the amounts. That happened 9 years ago, but the people that were strongly effected still remember.
When an local ex-comissioner ran again after 20 years out of office, the people that did remember him presiding over a doubling of property taxes made sure to remind new voters. Guess who didn't win.
I'm not sure if you are just playing devil's advocate here, but pay attention to what is going on in California. Citizens don't always roll over and play dead when they get screwed.
Are you kidding? Voters don't really remember things like who got funding for a new park or school passed. They sure do remember who wasted $2Billion or raised their taxes though. I think the state probably had to raise state taxes to allow for the $1.45Billion in actual tax credits that Verizon got for providing the high-speed infrastructure.
The citizens of Pennsylvania have already paid and Verizon is trying to weasel out of having to provide what they promised. I hope the citizens make sure that Verizon "can hear them now".
to be a Pennsylvanian state legislator when the tax payers find out about all this. Too bad that the real bastards ( at Verizon) won't pay as high a price. Plus most of the legislators that made the original deal in 1994 probably aren't in office anymore. It dosen't sound like they put many checks or penalties into the agreement.
That is named the MonkeyBoy Dance. Please remember this for future funny posts.
Reference 1, the original file was named dancemonkeyboy.mpg
I don't have squat for outbound bandwidth, but I have the movies. Anyone want them for a torrent?
Sounds more like a company that is grasping at straws on the side of the river bank as they are drowning. The 'license fee' that MS recently paid them amounts to throwing them a string that will only be helpful if someone else decides to tie a rope onto the string. My guess is that their only hope is for a judge to make IBM tie on that rope.
Not at all, 2100+ cpu/MB combos starting at $100US. Not the greatest motherboards, but not bad for the price. Keep looking until you find stuff that will work with your existing ram, video, etc...
No, I have not "missed the obvious" and your scenarios are complete bullshit. They did not say "MS drop the xbox price 90% or else".
They did say something like:
MS, we will run linux on unmodified xboxen that we purchased, this you cannot stop. Our method works but also allows copied games to be run so we seek to cooperate with MS to get a signed linux bootloader that will leave security intact.
MS chose to make an appointment to see the exploit and then canceled 24 hours before the meeting. Then they ceased communication and ignored the proposal to cooperate. If I want to run linux on an xbox ( which I don't own yet), then I have one simple choice that would also allow me to play copies of games. If MS had just produced a signed bootloader, then that option would have been limited to just running linux. Don't try to convince me that I should feel sorry for MS because they called the Free-X bluff and they weren't bluffing.
You have no monopoly on xbox enlightenment and perspective. I do not agree with your opinion on what this information means and how MS is the victim. Just because I don't agree dosen't mean I do not understand.
This is a request that would usually begin a negotiation process. MS refused to even consider the process of negotiating by not responding. The ball was in their court, they had a fish on the line, it was their turn, their light had turned green, they were sitting on the pot, the sun had risen and the bank was open for business.
Am I to assume that you consider not responding to multiple parties over the span of a month to be a valid business tactic.
Silly me to expect a company to listen to an end user; yes, we bow to the implicit logic of your argument and submit that you are correct.
Wow, I hadn't thought of it this way yet. If you only need an xbox and MS MechWarrior to get this expliot into place, then MS does deserve a share of the $100,000 prize.
What you are describing points to Mandrake not being ready for prime time. I too have an Nforce2 board and under gentoo, my onboard nic and sound work just fine. The sound is a version of the Intel ICH audio controller and is supported by the vanilla linux kernel. Mandrake is not detecting it or setting things up properly. Alsa supports the nforce audio more completely than the kernel drivers. My GeForce3 is fully supported too and plays games very well.
I can understand your frustration though, just point it in the proper direction and problems get solved much quicker. Many games now run fine in plain wine or winex. You could either pay for a winex subscription and get binary packages or compile the CVS version.
Also keep in mind the simple truth that you are free to not run linux. It is not as easy to find support for new hardware or run the newest software on and I understand that. I choose to run linux and still choose to run WinXP. I've seen several people put much more effort into whining about how bad linux is than it would take to learn how to properly configure an installation.
MS is paying less than the cost of manufacture for the integrated chipset/graphic controller in the xbox. See this report and scroll down to the Microsoft Agreement heading. Microsoft also needed changes to the encryption keys hard coded into the chipset and left Nvidia with almost 10 million chips that they couldn't sell at all. They settled on February 6, 2003 with Nvidia agreeing to help further reduce the costs of making the current xbox. Just a couple of months later, MS announces they are partnering with Ati for the xbox2 design. Don't be fooled into thinking that nvidia made money on the xbox chips.
I now think that when microsoft describes a company as "partner", they really mean "loss leader subsidiary" or "biatch".
My systems are available for work during a kernel compile, not so for a windows crash. I've never been hacked either. Are you trying to equate normal linux system maintainence with windows system crashes? If so, then you don't seem to be familiar enough with either linux or windows to be accurate. Call us back after you have supported several hundred windows desktops that you deployed.
After I figure up the value of my mental anguish, lost work/productivity from crashes and premature aging from 24 hour reinstall marathons, they will owe me millions!
All we have to do is tally up the greatest possible value of alternative actions we could have taken instead of working through problems created by their junk. Alternatively, I don't have that much spare time to waste on 20 years worth of calculations.
I took care of that already this morning, so that isn't the problem. Well, back to my "Howard Stern's tips to get hot chicks" guide.
I have had several ladies tell me that I was on their don't call list. How can one get this entry cleared?