I know I'm responding to a troll, but I can only assume people didn't go because they really don't care. We love to rake SCO over the coals here on the old/., but does that zeal extend to real life?
What would I rather do than spend a couple of hours hearing what new and ludicrous stuff has floated from the bowels of SCO? Hmmm, play with my kids, have sex with my wife, go outside and enjoy the cooler weather, get that coding project done, or even get a root canal (umm, not all at one time).
Well, the torrent is giving me a steady 60K per second right after a release anouncement for a disto that is getting tons of downloads. It sucks if you're behind a firewall that you cannot poke holes in, but for the rest of us, it's a great tool.
I know, bad form replying to myself, but I like the slander provision. Since the EULA says nothing about libel, I guess that I can write that SkyOS is open source all I want.:D
I found the following version of their EULA in the SkyOS forums. It's dated 8-27-2003, so it's fairly current, though not quite as current as the 9-5-2003 google cache the parent linked appears to be. I don't know if this is official or not, but it bears a strong resemblance to the parent's link. I post it here for your reading enjoyment. I'd like to point out that there are no clauses that stipulate acceptance of the EULA, nor anything prohibiting me from posting it (this is a general discussion)
SkyOs 4.0.0 EULA
By Andrew Youll (Youlle Owner Of deNUX)
SkyOs is a registered Trademark Of SkyOs Inc. and as such anyone who wishes to use the Name SkyOs, must apply for usage, the only way this can be ignored is if it is for a editorial, review or in general discussion, but any person / company is forbidden to impersonate SkyOs or SkyOs Inc in any way shape or form, impersonating SkyOs or SkyOs Inc will result in court action.
SkyOs is a product of SkyOs Inc. and is such only SkyOs Inc. has the right to the source code, this means that by continuing to use SkyOs or continuing with the installation of SkyOs you agree to the following; you will not de-compile SkyOs to gain access to the source code, you will not disassemble, and if you do come across SkyOs source code by continuing you agree not to re-compile SkyOs and claim it as your own, as this is in breach of the agreement above.
SkyOs is not Open source, and as such you are not entitled to view the source code and you can not demand to see the source code as SkyOs is a Closed Source Os produced by SkyOs Inc. the only time you are allowed to view or use the source code is if SkyOs Inc. gives you explicit Permission to do so.
SkyOs is a i386 or x86 Os, this means it is designed to be run on IBM-Pc Compatible systems, based on Intel Compatible CPU's if this Os is found on any other platform such as PPC, M68k, C64, etc please contact SkyOs Inc. immediately as this may be illegal port of the Os, this does not affect your statutory rights.
If Linux Code / Applications are used in SkyOs you can not claim that this makes SkyOs open sourced the only code you have the right to view is the Linux code / other open source code included in SkyOs. If you agree to this EULA and claim that SkyOs is open source because of the Linux code / open source code you will be liable for slander against SkyOs Inc.
SkyOs Inc. reserves the right to place charges on SkyOs Inc. services, it also reserves the right to change the system requirements at anytime with out prior warning this also goes for features and app support, also the exclusion of applications in further releases is at the soul discretion of SkyOs Inc. and its contributors.
SkyOs includes ported software that is GPL'd this means that it is open source, these binaries/drivers/libraries are widely available on the internet, and as such you should not harass SkyOs Inc. or any contributor for the Source code of these ported apps, also these GPL'd binaries/drivers/libraries do not in anyway affect the SkyOs Kernel or SkyGI and as such you have no right as a user, developer or other party to demand to view the Source Code of SkyOs.
SkyGI is a registered trademark of SkyOs Inc. and should be held in context to the same usage as SkyOs mentioned in the above. SkyGI is a Closed Source system, and as such you have no rights under the law to view any of its code, SkyGI uses designs / widgets / graphics from contributors or from SkyOs Inc. it's self and you do not have the right to use these graphics / widgets / designs with out SkyOs Inc.'s expressed permission. Failure to request permission may result in legal action on the behalf of SkyOs Inc.
SkyFS is a part of SkyOs and as such is property of SkyOs Inc. SkyFS support maybe dropped in future releases of SkyOs but the File System is still the property of SkyOs Inc. and as such any one wishing to incorporate it into their own Os must ask SkyOs Inc. first and must give credit to SkyOs Inc. for development and creation of the FS.
I would add that only an idiot would write an email client so that it defaults to HTML format for mail composition. Why should the user be the idiot for not changing the default behavior when a neophyte would assume that is the appropriate format?
The term "sabotage" relates to disgruntled French workers who, in revolt, cut the sabots holding the railway lines in 1912. A popular misunderstanding is Luddites threw their wooden shoes into the machines to brake them up. However likely this may be it is not the origin of sabotage
I hate to say it, but that is precisely why I use Nvidia based cards in my computers. Their hardware may not be the best, and they won't open the specs for the cards, but at least I can get full functionality out of my video card under FreeBSD and Linux.
If ATI ever supports non-MS operating systems the same way or better than Nvidia, I may consider purchasing one of their cards.
I recently graduated from Augusta State, and I know the issue has been pointed out to the people responsible for the service. They have taken an "it works well enough stand", and they would rather block access to the service completely rather than allow a student to experience a technical glitch caused by a browser that doesn't like some of their code (a paraphrasing of the response I received after complaining). Several members of the faculty have pointed it out, but they seem unwilling to update the browser detection code. The biggest problem is that it looks for certain browsers to allow access rather than to just block browsers with known problems.
Of course, they were still using Netscape 4.6 when I left this past summer, and Pipeline works with that...
Well my three year old son can play Mario Sunshine. He likes to make Mario run into walls on purpose and to make Mario slide on his stomache, but he is able to play it. The only trouble he has is when he gets Mario into the water, but even then he can usually work Mario back onto land.
We just bought a Taurus last month. One of the papers we signed informed us about the "black box". Perhaps the disclosure rules differ from state to state, but here in GA they were required to inform us. Of course, if you don't read what you're signing then you might not notice it, but it was mentioned on its own document that required a signature.
Comcast Home Network Addendum
Looks like Comcast lets you have up to five computers behind a router. Since they offer a home networking plan now, I guess they had to ease up a bit.
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I know I'm responding to a troll, but I can only assume people didn't go because they really don't care. We love to rake SCO over the coals here on the old /., but does that zeal extend to real life?
What would I rather do than spend a couple of hours hearing what new and ludicrous stuff has floated from the bowels of SCO? Hmmm, play with my kids, have sex with my wife, go outside and enjoy the cooler weather, get that coding project done, or even get a root canal (umm, not all at one time).
How would you plug that into a cell phone?
Well, the torrent is giving me a steady 60K per second right after a release anouncement for a disto that is getting tons of downloads. It sucks if you're behind a firewall that you cannot poke holes in, but for the rest of us, it's a great tool.
I know, bad form replying to myself, but I like the slander provision. Since the EULA says nothing about libel, I guess that I can write that SkyOS is open source all I want. :D
I found the following version of their EULA in the SkyOS forums. It's dated 8-27-2003, so it's fairly current, though not quite as current as the 9-5-2003 google cache the parent linked appears to be. I don't know if this is official or not, but it bears a strong resemblance to the parent's link. I post it here for your reading enjoyment. I'd like to point out that there are no clauses that stipulate acceptance of the EULA, nor anything prohibiting me from posting it (this is a general discussion)
We're working on it. We just need more lions.
I would add that only an idiot would write an email client so that it defaults to HTML format for mail composition. Why should the user be the idiot for not changing the default behavior when a neophyte would assume that is the appropriate format?
I hate to say it, but that is precisely why I use Nvidia based cards in my computers. Their hardware may not be the best, and they won't open the specs for the cards, but at least I can get full functionality out of my video card under FreeBSD and Linux.
If ATI ever supports non-MS operating systems the same way or better than Nvidia, I may consider purchasing one of their cards.
While Corel has been a spectacularly mismanaged company, it has nothing to do with Caldera nor SCO.
Yeah, because we all no that a 52x burner is the equivelent of at least 10 regular burners...
I recently graduated from Augusta State, and I know the issue has been pointed out to the people responsible for the service. They have taken an "it works well enough stand", and they would rather block access to the service completely rather than allow a student to experience a technical glitch caused by a browser that doesn't like some of their code (a paraphrasing of the response I received after complaining). Several members of the faculty have pointed it out, but they seem unwilling to update the browser detection code. The biggest problem is that it looks for certain browsers to allow access rather than to just block browsers with known problems.
Of course, they were still using Netscape 4.6 when I left this past summer, and Pipeline works with that...
clickable link to the SCO message board on Yahoo to get rid of the added spaces in the URL.
Atmel released an open source driver that can be found here.
I've got my tin foil hat pulled down tight over this one.
Well my three year old son can play Mario Sunshine. He likes to make Mario run into walls on purpose and to make Mario slide on his stomache, but he is able to play it. The only trouble he has is when he gets Mario into the water, but even then he can usually work Mario back onto land.
We just bought a Taurus last month. One of the papers we signed informed us about the "black box". Perhaps the disclosure rules differ from state to state, but here in GA they were required to inform us. Of course, if you don't read what you're signing then you might not notice it, but it was mentioned on its own document that required a signature.
Agghhh! Reading that was like watching a train wreck, and yet I still found it funny. I've now lost faith in myself along with the rest of humanity.
Have any of the worms donned a space suit and escaped to save the princess?
Comcast Home Network Addendum Looks like Comcast lets you have up to five computers behind a router. Since they offer a home networking plan now, I guess they had to ease up a bit.
Where was Dihydrogen Monoxide?
What's really sad is that Julio is apparently from techspot. This was no slashdotting; this was server suicide!
I'd have nominated fire ants based on how quickly thier mounds take over a yard.