User: Ping the Penguin

Open Source Success

On: Oracle Boss Says OSS Needs Big Business

So Larry hasn't heard of Apache or Samba then...

I think that pleny of people would consider these somewhat successful projects mission critical.

I also don't recall any big companies helping them but I can think of one trying to kill them...

Re:Nearly impossible?

On: Security Predictions of 2004

D'oh!

(checks grammar)

Yeah, D'oh!

Wrong on both counts. I guess I'll crawl back under my rock with my tail between my legs and wait for the next opportunity to embarrass myself

Re:Nearly impossible?

On: Security Predictions of 2004

I'll agree about my inability to spall ;-) but the grammar is correct...

The spam score belongs to it therefore it is it's spam score...

I do like a good Slashdot pedantfest :-)

Re:Nearly impossible?

On: Security Predictions of 2004

What I would like to see is a spell chacker in spamassassin.

That way an email which has words that are deliberately mis-spelt or broken up by punctuation or even spaces will still increase it's spam score.

I'd have a go myself but me programming something isn't good for anyone....

Re:That is actually a fair thing

On: SCO's Lawyers Analyzed

But the debacle surrounding the greek font on the powerpoint slides proved that SCO have absolutely no idea where their code came from.

I think that the lawyers got involved believing that the case was a lot stronger than it has since been shown to be.

Mr Boies is probably mighty pissed off with little Darl right now...

He obviously hasn't used anyone else's distro

On: Red Hat's CEO Suggests Windows For Home Users

I'll agree that RedHat isn't ready for the desktop...

or server...

Re:Outrageous!

On: SCO Invoices For Unix Licenses Get Closer

Come on, it's not like their hardware protection is worth a damn.

Me: The server is faulty

Dell support: It's a software problem

Me: One NIC works and the other's stopped

Dell support: It's a software problem

Me: There's smoke coming out of it

Dell support: It's a software problem

Re:Also

On: Moving Outlook/vCards to an LDAP Address Book?

I use the Linux Groupwise (Beta) client - it makes the windows one seem fast.

They're moving all the client stuff onto Java, but the admin stuff is moving to web based...

GW is pretty bad but the file serving still rocks...

Re:SCO hasn't engaged in litigation, SCO has decla

On: SCO Prepares To Sue Linux End Users

It's kinda funny that after SCO said the GPL was invalid they announced that They were including Samba 3 in the next release of their crapware. Option 1 So if the GPL is valid and they released thier code in the kernel under the GPL, effectively giving it away and now conning companies to pay them for free software therefore: SCO = thieves Option 2 The GPL is invalid as SCO have claimed and they are including samba code that they have no right to therefore: SCO = thieves

Re:Yes, it's the same.

On: European Copyrights Expire; RIAA Nervous

So what you're saying is that Disney don't want their most famous character being used by any old mickey mouse outfit...


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