Its amazing that SCO has, in a relatively short time, taken over the reigns of "most reviled on slashdot" from the usual list of suspects including: Rambus, Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, UCITA, DMCA, AOL, DRM....
Look at these nice pretty maps of the valley, the superfund sites, the polluted air down in the valley...
http://www.mapcruzin.com/svtc_maps/
and here is a list of the 179 superfund sites and sites that don't quite make the superfund list in the valley, the company names and addresses are scary....
http://www.mapcruzin.com/svtc_maps/list.htm
The GPL already is DRM
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Linus on DRM
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Actually the GPL is already a form of DRM. Here's my work, you can modify and extend it, but your extensions must extend to others the same digital rights that you were given to create your extension. It's been the "community" at large that has been enforcing that people stay within the digital rights offered by the GPL now people just want to do it with software...
So now is Stallman going to want to call it GNU/DRM?
Yes you can with a little luck
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a group of employees including myself got such a case settled about 10 years ago. But you will need some luck on your side. You will need your time sheets documenting your overtime. And now the luck part. typically, an employer will have rules (like a behaviour guidelines/holiday leave policy etc) and will spell things out for non-professional staff such as secretaries, admin support staff etc and a set of guideliness for professional employees etc. if you have proof that they ever changed your employment class ie treated you like an hourly employee when you are on a salary they are toast.
In our case the employer did two stupid things: the company docked one programmer 1 days worth of pay for taking a two hour lunch and wrote a memo demanding that professional employees should routinely work 15-20 hours of overtime a week.
call this a troll or a flaim bait, but this is pretty accurrate. the population of users running a commercial unix on a desktop has pretty much dried up. Notice everyone talks about servers and never about their workstations anymore?
This will be until your are required a license to practice like mechanics, lawyers, doctors etc. Overnight, the pool of "programmers" dries up like you wouldn't believe.
Sorry, unless you are licensed, you aint getting write access to CVS....
not a problem. you'll just be in a consulting role. there will always be people who are needed to provide knowledge of documentation, augmentation or integration.
also with there will come a day soon when some projects will needed license and certified coders and that will cost people $$$ to get software from such professionals. free or not.
The ones who are qualified to abandon ship are either already poached for a better job or have the ability to sell them sells when they hear the ship is sinking. it's usually the useless chaffee thats left holding the bag when the major RIF comes down.
When the RIF does happen, people have a tough time because their skill set looks like every other chimp whos been laid off at ever other company. (sometimes I wonder if there isn't a template that monster.com puts out to make the C.V's look all the same). If the hobbies include (backpacking or hiking ) they go to the shredder, but when I see a hobby include kernel hacking, modding XBOX etc. those geeks get called...
It seems everyone is trying to take credit for his capture. The pakistani intel is saying they did found him, state department says they found him.
My guess is echelon like everyone else is putting it this out there to justify their existance and thus continued funding.
We have transformed ourselves into a society of surveillance...
>It isn't really DLLs either, but rather.NET >assemblies..NET assemblies are the equivalent >of DLLs for the.NET system, but this won't >solve the problem of "DLL hell" unless all >applications are re-written in.NET.
DLL hell is gone in.NET. Welcome to Assembly Hell:)
Is this really just a problem of the resources that can be brought to bear on producing the final product? Does the quality simply come from the shear number of people that plays on the law of averages/big numbers ? ie the open source got 10,000 hours of development time vs 2,000 hours in a closed source environment restricted by cost/budget/time etc.
If the resources to producing the "product" were the same would the quality be any different ?
Do you think quality happens becuase the number of people working on it primarily have a CS/EE/CE background and know a lot about what the code should and shouldn't do?
What about the code quality of the open source where the developers are experts in their domain (ie Mechanical/aerospace/structural engineers, chemists, physicicts, geologists etc) but not masters of code ie only had a semester or two of fortran/C++ can you draw any conclusion or correlation to that ?
I'm not sure that IBM is looking at these to be consumer mass market devices per se. IBM is mostly doing hardware these days to support service work/integration and have a reliable platform. I would envision these being used for data capture applications like meter reading, inventory, package tracking (like the entire fedex fleet), facilities management applications etc.
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Its amazing that SCO has, in a relatively short time, taken over the reigns of "most reviled on slashdot" from the usual list of suspects including: Rambus, Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, UCITA, DMCA, AOL, DRM....
Thats ok, windows wasn't a real operataing system when it ran on top of DOS. hmmmmm. come to think of it, it still isn't..
Where's the Kaboom?!?!
The was supposed to be an earth shattering Kaboom!?!?
When we terminated the AIX license there was supposed to be an earth shattering Kaboom....
News story
Apparently they are going to switch their software to run on Java, giving new meaning to "tape delay"...
Unless either of these can make my mpg, mp3 or jpg files smaller I really am not likely to care about any thing "new" these tools have to offer.
My Hp1200 does go anywhere near 12ppm...
My NIC doesn't give me 100 megabits.
When I upgrade the firmware on my linksys 802.11g router, i know i'm not going to be getting the 54mbits I was promised originally....
yada yada yada...
However, if its me converting/ripping your content into my digital media of choice, its copy prevention denying me my god given rights :)
How much code are we talking about? what are we talking about filesystems? SMP?
what percentage of the kernel in use today is based on code comming from ibm.com?
Assurance Program? You Bet! It's a way for Microsoft to assure a fat stream of revenue quarter after quarter...
Your subroutines look particularly lovely today....
Anyway we could harness the kinetic energy from the ants running around inside and cool the graphics card down?
http://www.mapcruzin.com/svtc_maps/
and here is a list of the 179 superfund sites and sites that don't quite make the superfund list in the valley, the company names and addresses are scary....
http://www.mapcruzin.com/svtc_maps/list.htm
Actually the GPL is already a form of DRM. Here's my work, you can modify and extend it, but your extensions must extend to others the same digital rights that you were given to create your extension. It's been the "community" at large that has been enforcing that people stay within the digital rights offered by the GPL now people just want to do it with software... So now is Stallman going to want to call it GNU/DRM?
In Soviet Russia: .NYET!
a group of employees including myself got such a case settled about 10 years ago. But you will need some luck on your side. You will need your time sheets documenting your overtime. And now the luck part. typically, an employer will have rules (like a behaviour guidelines/holiday leave policy etc) and will spell things out for non-professional staff such as secretaries, admin support staff etc and a set of guideliness for professional employees etc. if you have proof that they ever changed your employment class ie treated you like an hourly employee when you are on a salary they are toast. In our case the employer did two stupid things: the company docked one programmer 1 days worth of pay for taking a two hour lunch and wrote a memo demanding that professional employees should routinely work 15-20 hours of overtime a week.
call this a troll or a flaim bait, but this is pretty accurrate. the population of users running a commercial unix on a desktop has pretty much dried up. Notice everyone talks about servers and never about their workstations anymore?
This will be until your are required a license to practice like mechanics, lawyers, doctors etc. Overnight, the pool of "programmers" dries up like you wouldn't believe. Sorry, unless you are licensed, you aint getting write access to CVS....
not a problem. you'll just be in a consulting role. there will always be people who are needed to provide knowledge of documentation, augmentation or integration. also with there will come a day soon when some projects will needed license and certified coders and that will cost people $$$ to get software from such professionals. free or not.
The ones who are qualified to abandon ship are either already poached for a better job or have the ability to sell them sells when they hear the ship is sinking. it's usually the useless chaffee thats left holding the bag when the major RIF comes down. When the RIF does happen, people have a tough time because their skill set looks like every other chimp whos been laid off at ever other company. (sometimes I wonder if there isn't a template that monster.com puts out to make the C.V's look all the same). If the hobbies include (backpacking or hiking ) they go to the shredder, but when I see a hobby include kernel hacking, modding XBOX etc. those geeks get called...
and to follow up my belief of a serveillance society: Big Blue becomes Big Brother... http://news.com.com/2100-1009-992059.html?tag=fd_t op
It seems everyone is trying to take credit for his capture. The pakistani intel is saying they did found him, state department says they found him. My guess is echelon like everyone else is putting it this out there to justify their existance and thus continued funding. We have transformed ourselves into a society of surveillance...
>It isn't really DLLs either, but rather .NET >assemblies. .NET assemblies are the equivalent >of DLLs for the .NET system, but this won't >solve the problem of "DLL hell" unless all >applications are re-written in .NET.
.NET. Welcome to Assembly Hell :)
DLL hell is gone in
Is this really just a problem of the resources that can be brought to bear on producing the final product? Does the quality simply come from the shear number of people that plays on the law of averages/big numbers ? ie the open source got 10,000 hours of development time vs 2,000 hours in a closed source environment restricted by cost/budget/time etc. If the resources to producing the "product" were the same would the quality be any different ?
Do you think quality happens becuase the number of people working on it primarily have a CS/EE/CE background and know a lot about what the code should and shouldn't do? What about the code quality of the open source where the developers are experts in their domain (ie Mechanical/aerospace/structural engineers, chemists, physicicts, geologists etc) but not masters of code ie only had a semester or two of fortran/C++ can you draw any conclusion or correlation to that ?
I'm not sure that IBM is looking at these to be consumer mass market devices per se. IBM is mostly doing hardware these days to support service work/integration and have a reliable platform. I would envision these being used for data capture applications like meter reading, inventory, package tracking (like the entire fedex fleet), facilities management applications etc.