How do you figure profit by taking over the management of a bankrupt corporation that never had much of a viable source of income to begin with? All you manage there is to go from the nothing your stock is now worth to vast and extreme debt.
SCO is claiming ALL the linux source code belongs to them now. Not just the tainted portions. The only way they can avoid distributing what they claim is theirs is to not distribute at all. They are also distributing under a license they claim is invalid.
True without moore's law in place technology might be released much faster. Since moores law is there they only have to double, instead of jumping from 3ghz to 300ghz even though they already have 300ghz technology.
I'm fairly sure they've been using moore's law as an excuse to delay the release of technologies long since working the lab for quite awhile now. Do you really think intel fly's by the seat of their pants praying AMD won't discover technology that boosts chip speeds to 200 or 300ghz? Yeah right, both sides are already WAY beyond what's being released, they are only ramping up what they have to. They compete at the high end sure, but it's in terms of how long they can make their predeveloped technology last... NOT on the how well they can actually produce the current generation of processor.
Ok, so you didn't download the complete installation. Something you freely admit was part of your own stupidity. Then you claim that debian, due solely to the fact that you don't have to download as much during the one time process of getting the install is superior despite the fact it is blatantly inferior on and cumbersome on the process which is performed many times (installation).
Personally I'd take downloading 3 cd's over a bad install when I have to perform the install numerous times during the lifetime of those cd's.
Unless you like to do fresh installs to clear out the clutter you've created from time to time, to try new things and such and need to be able to install an OS on a regular basis. Or you produce pc's and handle support on them and therefore need a system you can setup on a new set of hardware in under an hour pretty much consistantly. In which case debian sucks.
Debian is ok for people who just need something to install and work through once and then keep updated. For someone working with versitle hardware who has to perform numerous installs a day on different hardware, it doesn't even begin to make par. Windows works ok for this, since the drivers are easy to find. Redhat was definately better, 90% of the time it doesn't require anything not on the cd.
Note how there IS a massively popular gnome desktop in existance due to the programming efforts of those people you claim haven't stepped up to the plate.
Not that this is a bad idea, this isn't downplaying those who code for free as some people like to imply. This is simply freeing their hands to work on other things and having a bit of fun.
Opera was a fad, most people got over it within 10 days of initial release. IE was also a fad, people are still regretting it. Neither of them really count anyway.
In a default linux install you'll find Mozilla, Konqueror, and Galeon. So obviously these are the only browsers that matter anyway. I really see no reason whatsoever to make the site windows compliant.
When those browsers properly render standards based code, then their worth using. In the meantime IE won't be able to render slashdot, guess it's time to get a better browser eh?
The clause is not unreasonable. That they have the power to see it inserted in a bill that has absolutely NO relation to them whatsoever is the problem. This law wouldn't make their actions illegal by any measure WITHOUT that clause being there.
The big issue today isn't even the actions of these corporations, it's the power and influence they hold. That microsoft illegally abuses it's monopoly is one thing, that microsoft had the power to weasel out of the issue is far far worse. That the RIAA is suing 12 and 15yr olds is one thing, that they have the power to insert whatever they want into any law they want is again FAR FAR worse.
This is the new millenium, we SHOULD take down the ancient hubble and put up a newer bigger better one.
Give me $600 million and though I know little about telescopes today or space flight, I bet I could get you a new and improved hubble into orbit with it. I'm sure NASA could manage it with a mere $10bil or so.
okay, maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm wrong. But I was under the impression that/bin/sbin's primary reason for existance was the same hole this/rescue directory will be filling? And how does it use LESS space (as if space were an issue anymore compared to speed in which case static is USUALLY, not always, better anyway), to simply move the static versions of the binaries in/bin and/sbin to/rescue and add dynamic versions to/bin and/sbin.
Since/rescue now becomes as fundementally critical as/bin and/sbin have been before it certainly counts as part of the base system. If you move the static binaries, and add something, isn't that BIGGER than just the static binaries?
Well it's hard, there is very little you can honestly say about Microsoft that doesn't fall in that category. The only way I could manage to say more than 5% positive things in my lifetime would be to simply not speak on 95% of topics involving microsoft or lie.
"Just because they hired in/head hunted a bunch of developers of the Digital VMS team, it doesn't mean they didn't developpe the kernel themselves.. And I thought the definition of an OS goes further than "just" a kernel.."
You thought wrong. The kernel is the Operating system. Red Hat is not an operating system, it's a distribution, Linux is the operating system. Windows is both an operating system and a distribution, since it includes both the kernel and dependent files (in truth the operating system is whatever makes up the lowest level API above the bios or despite the bios, this includes slightly more than the kernel in a microkernel system). The rest of the applications included regardless of purpose are just that, applications.
As for NT, it was developed by said VMS team and IBM. It was a joint project to produce OS/2. Like many other business ventures MS is involved in they gave IBM the shaft and split off, taking the right to use the code along. MS slapped their gui on it and released it as windows NT, IBM finished it up and released it as OS/2.
"How about OS/2? Afaik Microsoft did the groundwork on it and I thought OS/2 Warp was pretty kewl in the Win 3.1x day's.. I believe IBM still uses the OS but labelled it something like E-business server orso.."
Since they split up on the project IBM has done alot of work on OS/2. Microsoft has done some on NT, most significantly they bought NTFS and took the already existing LDAP and modified it just enough to be proprietary. They also made the gui much more bloated and added a few device drivers (this part is a work in progress of course).
Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1974 were Bill Gates and Paul Allen, a couple college kids. Not microsoft. It also was not the invention of BASIC. They were merely the first ones to port BASIC to microcomputers.
It was a deal in which IBM and a group of VMS developers bought by microsoft wrote the code. Then MS broke off and gave IBM the shaft like they have done with most of their other business partners, slapped their gui on top and called it NT.
Redhat 9 has a very simple install and incredible hardware detection that blows windows away.
99% of the time the only thing you'll have to setup after install is 3d acceleration for your video card if it's an ati or nvidia card.
Don't listen to all these mandrake pushers, when you get done with the install the system will be broken and the configuration applets won't work right. Go out and get ya rh9 and save yourself the headaches:)
Well I saw what it converts to $13-15 US dollars, that's damn good for tech support. But nobody who actually meets those requirements should be working at the lowest level of the tech food chain!
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How do you figure profit by taking over the management of a bankrupt corporation that never had much of a viable source of income to begin with? All you manage there is to go from the nothing your stock is now worth to vast and extreme debt.
SCO is claiming ALL the linux source code belongs to them now. Not just the tainted portions. The only way they can avoid distributing what they claim is theirs is to not distribute at all. They are also distributing under a license they claim is invalid.
True without moore's law in place technology might be released much faster. Since moores law is there they only have to double, instead of jumping from 3ghz to 300ghz even though they already have 300ghz technology.
I'm fairly sure they've been using moore's law as an excuse to delay the release of technologies long since working the lab for quite awhile now. Do you really think intel fly's by the seat of their pants praying AMD won't discover technology that boosts chip speeds to 200 or 300ghz? Yeah right, both sides are already WAY beyond what's being released, they are only ramping up what they have to. They compete at the high end sure, but it's in terms of how long they can make their predeveloped technology last... NOT on the how well they can actually produce the current generation of processor.
clock speed doesn't equal processor speed. It just means they'll have a yet higher number to tote to the idiots who think it does.
lol a grammar troll responding to a troll that slips a comment about cmdrtaco's small penis into the article. Funny shit.
Ok, so you didn't download the complete installation. Something you freely admit was part of your own stupidity. Then you claim that debian, due solely to the fact that you don't have to download as much during the one time process of getting the install is superior despite the fact it is blatantly inferior on and cumbersome on the process which is performed many times (installation).
Personally I'd take downloading 3 cd's over a bad install when I have to perform the install numerous times during the lifetime of those cd's.
Unless you like to do fresh installs to clear out the clutter you've created from time to time, to try new things and such and need to be able to install an OS on a regular basis. Or you produce pc's and handle support on them and therefore need a system you can setup on a new set of hardware in under an hour pretty much consistantly. In which case debian sucks.
Debian is ok for people who just need something to install and work through once and then keep updated. For someone working with versitle hardware who has to perform numerous installs a day on different hardware, it doesn't even begin to make par. Windows works ok for this, since the drivers are easy to find. Redhat was definately better, 90% of the time it doesn't require anything not on the cd.
That hardly constitutes justification.
The US Congress didn't sneak this in. The RIAA did.
Niether would be right. But Congress is supposed to have the authority, not the RIAA.
Note how there IS a massively popular gnome desktop in existance due to the programming efforts of those people you claim haven't stepped up to the plate.
Not that this is a bad idea, this isn't downplaying those who code for free as some people like to imply. This is simply freeing their hands to work on other things and having a bit of fun.
Opera was a fad, most people got over it within 10 days of initial release. IE was also a fad, people are still regretting it. Neither of them really count anyway.
In a default linux install you'll find Mozilla, Konqueror, and Galeon. So obviously these are the only browsers that matter anyway. I really see no reason whatsoever to make the site windows compliant.
When those browsers properly render standards based code, then their worth using. In the meantime IE won't be able to render slashdot, guess it's time to get a better browser eh?
Not by this guy, he did a great job recreating the existing site, but did you look at his alternative skin? Dear god no...
The clause is not unreasonable. That they have the power to see it inserted in a bill that has absolutely NO relation to them whatsoever is the problem. This law wouldn't make their actions illegal by any measure WITHOUT that clause being there.
The big issue today isn't even the actions of these corporations, it's the power and influence they hold. That microsoft illegally abuses it's monopoly is one thing, that microsoft had the power to weasel out of the issue is far far worse. That the RIAA is suing 12 and 15yr olds is one thing, that they have the power to insert whatever they want into any law they want is again FAR FAR worse.
Since Stevey himself is a debian developer him saying it could be taken as confirmation by some...
How is this new? go to msn.com, there you'll find *gasp* that microsoft already has one!
This is the new millenium, we SHOULD take down the ancient hubble and put up a newer bigger better one.
Give me $600 million and though I know little about telescopes today or space flight, I bet I could get you a new and improved hubble into orbit with it. I'm sure NASA could manage it with a mere $10bil or so.
okay, maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm wrong. But I was under the impression that /bin /sbin's primary reason for existance was the same hole this /rescue directory will be filling? And how does it use LESS space (as if space were an issue anymore compared to speed in which case static is USUALLY, not always, better anyway), to simply move the static versions of the binaries in /bin and /sbin to /rescue and add dynamic versions to /bin and /sbin.
/rescue now becomes as fundementally critical as /bin and /sbin have been before it certainly counts as part of the base system. If you move the static binaries, and add something, isn't that BIGGER than just the static binaries?
Since
"Hmm, this really smells like anti-M$ FUD..."
Well it's hard, there is very little you can honestly say about Microsoft that doesn't fall in that category. The only way I could manage to say more than 5% positive things in my lifetime would be to simply not speak on 95% of topics involving microsoft or lie.
"Just because they hired in/head hunted a bunch of developers of the Digital VMS team, it doesn't mean they didn't developpe the kernel themselves.. And I thought the definition of an OS goes further than "just" a kernel.."
You thought wrong. The kernel is the Operating system. Red Hat is not an operating system, it's a distribution, Linux is the operating system. Windows is both an operating system and a distribution, since it includes both the kernel and dependent files (in truth the operating system is whatever makes up the lowest level API above the bios or despite the bios, this includes slightly more than the kernel in a microkernel system). The rest of the applications included regardless of purpose are just that, applications.
As for NT, it was developed by said VMS team and IBM. It was a joint project to produce OS/2. Like many other business ventures MS is involved in they gave IBM the shaft and split off, taking the right to use the code along. MS slapped their gui on it and released it as windows NT, IBM finished it up and released it as OS/2.
"How about OS/2? Afaik Microsoft did the groundwork on it and I thought OS/2 Warp was pretty kewl in the Win 3.1x day's.. I believe IBM still uses the OS but labelled it something like E-business server orso.."
Since they split up on the project IBM has done alot of work on OS/2. Microsoft has done some on NT, most significantly they bought NTFS and took the already existing LDAP and modified it just enough to be proprietary. They also made the gui much more bloated and added a few device drivers (this part is a work in progress of course).
Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1974 were Bill Gates and Paul Allen, a couple college kids. Not microsoft. It also was not the invention of BASIC. They were merely the first ones to port BASIC to microcomputers.
I could be wrong, and I'm not sure your intent. But somehow I think that makes my point, not breaks it ;)
It was a deal in which IBM and a group of VMS developers bought by microsoft wrote the code. Then MS broke off and gave IBM the shaft like they have done with most of their other business partners, slapped their gui on top and called it NT.
Somehow I don't think the phone company will object to giving you your number back.
probably because mandrake has lousy hardware detection. so they based it on redhat instead ;)
Redhat 9 has a very simple install and incredible hardware detection that blows windows away.
:)
99% of the time the only thing you'll have to setup after install is 3d acceleration for your video card if it's an ati or nvidia card.
Don't listen to all these mandrake pushers, when you get done with the install the system will be broken and the configuration applets won't work right. Go out and get ya rh9 and save yourself the headaches
Well I saw what it converts to $13-15 US dollars, that's damn good for tech support. But nobody who actually meets those requirements should be working at the lowest level of the tech food chain!