Re:Suing SCO in small claims court?
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AFAIK IANAL
A license agreement is a contract, copyright law is what prevents someone from distributing your copyrighted work without one, the license itself is a contract giving them permission to do so in x ways, under x conditions.
The license which allows them distribute, if they violate the license it's a breach of contract, with the contract invalided it's also copyright infringment. If there was no license to begin with it'd simply be copyright infringment.
In short, distribute with no license and you have:
copyright infringment
have a license but violate it and continue distributing and you have:
breach of contract AND copyright infringment
They agreed to the terms of the contract when they distributed the code under it terms to begin with, by not distributing the source code to those they distributed it to, they have violated that contract.
copyright infringment is a violation of federal law and would need to be pursued in federal court... but I'm pretty sure the breach of contract could be persued in small claims court. Just because you pursue one doesn't mean you have to persue the other...
It's small claims court...
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It doesn't matter if someone wins or loses in small claims court, it sets no precedent. It's not like higher courts where it sets a precedent that's as good as law.
There is nothing about communism itself that requires cooperation not be voluntary.
The sum of communism is this, if you have a number of people who work together resulting in a direct benefit of the group rather than the individual (or as well as the individual), you have communism.
That isn't bad at all, it's a tool, a method of progression that open source shows can work in practice. The implementations that have existed and were combined with dictatorship and made more strongly evil by the propoganda spread in the cold war were actually closer to a monarchy (a dictator is a king, regardless of title) with a socialist economy.
Open source is ideal communism in practice. Real communism (something I've never seen practiced on a large scale outside of the open source world) is not a bad thing at all, it's a very good thing.
Just because communism was turned into a dirty world in the US because of all the FUD and propoganda spread during the cold war doesn't mean a group of people with an average IQ well above the average idiot should consider it a dirty word here.
Re:For what it's worth...
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hmm I just do it the old fashioned way, I typed www.sco.com into my browser and noted how nothing came up;)
Re:SCO.TXT w/ English trans
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Not when their using 5yr old security on it it's not. Linux has erm progressed in the security department a tad from what this file indicates their using.
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It's SCO who would like to keep the battles in the courtroom. This is war. You can fight like the english if you wish in the colonies, you can form two lines like a "gentleman". Or you get with it and start breaking the rules and fighting dirty gorilla warfare. England refusing to reduce themselves to the level of the colonists lost them a parcel of land that spawned a new nation which currently dominates the world.
I haven't considered attacking SCO's site and servers personally. But I hardly condemn those who do, every day their servers are down costs them $$$ and eats their reserves. The less money they have the less time they'll have to finance their attack.
This is war, if you wish to remain civilized by all means enjoy your notions. But being civil has no business in a war. The courts of no nation have juristiction here, this is the digital and cyber world. The authority of those lauching attacks and defending against them supercedes that of any physical government. THIS world was built and is run by hackers (both those who build, and crackers who attack), it is they who are in charge here.
You can say the corporate world pays for the servers, that's fine and dandy, but it'd be hard to do that if nobody had the knowledge to build the infrastructure they bought, to deploy it, and to administer it.
"Don't hire smokers, they waste too much time and cost too much to take care of. Spend money on child care instead."
Amendment, don't hire nonsmokers, or at least xsmokers and nonsmoking evangalists who produce loud noise and whine about smokers. Hire those who may not smoke but don't care, or those who smoke to begin with. This way everyone can just smoke in the office and you won't have to listen to anyone whine. Your smokers won't have to waste time going outside or have increased stress waiting for breaks to smoke.
Everyone can see what you hang up. So put up things that everyone will enjoy viewing. If your going to put up porn, make sure it's high quality porn hand picked from your collection and printed with a good printer on photo paper. Make sure to have a variety of male+2xfemale, 2xfemale, and 1xfemale action so there is something for those of all sexual preferences to view and nobody is offended.
no it simply depends on certain features in the compiler. They exist in other compilers. Last I checked EVERY operating system requires fairly advanced features in it's compiler.
Somehow I suspect mac users and the users of any other operating system will be concerned with whether the macosx and other kernels that run on this chip can be compiled with it as well... optimizing an app is great and all, but it can't possibly affect the performance of as many apps as the kernel.
yes but believe it or not, the most critical single items to improving the performance of EVERYTHING on the system is the kernel and those single applications you speed of have a good chance of gaining a boost if the kernel is compiled with this.
This isn't just another compiler, it's a compiler made by the chipmaker to be highly optimized beyond what anyone else can for their G5 chip.
"I just hope that they value a quality assurance process more then the typical software engineer. In a game like this you would not be able to release version 2.0."
utter nonsense, there are billions of people on earth, how many of them do you really think will fit in 1.0? If it crashes there's plenty of room for people to go on 2.0.
Let me use another term people tend to get. It's not pretending to be the win32 api, it's a port.
since the standard c libs were first developed on sysV then does that mean c on every other platform is emulating the REAL standard libs... or since it's a specification not a "thing" and the specification has been implemented on multiple platforms are they all the real thing so long as they follow the spec?
Wine doesn't emulate a win32 api implementation, it's not something else which pretends to be one, IT IS a win32 implementation.
The only problem with the second theory is that although linux doesn't turn on swap if it doesn't need it, this is not true of XP. XP swaps even if you have 2 gig of ram and NOTHING running beyond the OS.
no the speed at which the code and images arrive to your pc is a factor of your line speed. The speed at which that information appears (renders) is a factor of your pc hardware, and your browser.
Simply rendering other elements first so that a page "appears" before loading images and how the loading of those images is handled impacts this.
Of course once a page has been viewed recently your line speed isn't an issue at all, since the page is loading from your hard drive or the local network proxy cache.
I can write you a 20line webpage that will take 10 minutes to render on a 3ghz p4 in IE. HTML renders quickly, CSS is a little slower, javascript much slower, and vbscript DEFINATELY renders more slowly than any of the rest. Take a list of links, surround it in table code that impacts the layout of the links not the slightest, and it will slow the page render time.
Yes to trim the load speed by a second in the case of google requires a cleaner and faster implementation of alot of things, network communication is one of them.
Obviously a webpage will load faster on linux where it is pulled into memory rather than paged, a page your refreshing will be faster even if cache is turned off in IE because of sloppy memory handling. There are alot of factors involved, a seond is a very short period of time and I seriously doubt you have pages loading in less than that. Even google.
Now when we were "formally" checking these page loads it was over a t1 link and we also tested over 56k dialup. Remember, a page is fully loaded when ALL the content has been rendered, not when you can see enough of it to proceed.
aye, it'd take one hell of a table to get it up to 5mb if it weren't autogenerated. With autogenerated crap code it's hard telling how it would render in a browser that actually expects real html and scripting languages.
Take a look at two identitcal pages, one produced in frontpage, one produced in publisher, one hand-coded, and one produced with the built in mozilla editor.
the largest of all will be the publisher output, pretty much everytime. If you actually break this code down and analyze it (should take a few hours for a simple single page) you'll never quite figure out how it manages to render... or how a table of twenty links can result in 1mb of html and CSS and vbscript!
Frontpage will do significantly better than publisher with the same page. Although you'll still never figure out how it renders at least the output will be more like 100k.
Moz generator will do better than either, it will produce real code, crappily formatted and with about the same uneeded junk you'd expect if you wrote the app to generate the code yourself. This should be under 15k
hand coded you'll end up with something about 1-2k max, it will render lightning fast (compared with the other options at least).
Somehow I suspect what we'll find if we look at how these things render is that firebird will win on the real pages that actually have correct code that has some logical excuse for rendering. Frontpage and publisher output will load faster in IE than firebird (although that garbage won't load fast in ANYTHING).
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AFAIK IANAL
A license agreement is a contract, copyright law is what prevents someone from distributing your copyrighted work without one, the license itself is a contract giving them permission to do so in x ways, under x conditions.
The license which allows them distribute, if they violate the license it's a breach of contract, with the contract invalided it's also copyright infringment. If there was no license to begin with it'd simply be copyright infringment.
In short, distribute with no license and you have:
copyright infringment
have a license but violate it and continue distributing and you have:
breach of contract AND
copyright infringment
They agreed to the terms of the contract when they distributed the code under it terms to begin with, by not distributing the source code to those they distributed it to, they have violated that contract.
copyright infringment is a violation of federal law and would need to be pursued in federal court... but I'm pretty sure the breach of contract could be persued in small claims court. Just because you pursue one doesn't mean you have to persue the other...
It doesn't matter if someone wins or loses in small claims court, it sets no precedent. It's not like higher courts where it sets a precedent that's as good as law.
There is nothing about communism itself that requires cooperation not be voluntary.
The sum of communism is this, if you have a number of people who work together resulting in a direct benefit of the group rather than the individual (or as well as the individual), you have communism.
That isn't bad at all, it's a tool, a method of progression that open source shows can work in practice. The implementations that have existed and were combined with dictatorship and made more strongly evil by the propoganda spread in the cold war were actually closer to a monarchy (a dictator is a king, regardless of title) with a socialist economy.
Open source is ideal communism in practice. Real communism (something I've never seen practiced on a large scale outside of the open source world) is not a bad thing at all, it's a very good thing.
Just because communism was turned into a dirty world in the US because of all the FUD and propoganda spread during the cold war doesn't mean a group of people with an average IQ well above the average idiot should consider it a dirty word here.
hmm I just do it the old fashioned way, I typed www.sco.com into my browser and noted how nothing came up ;)
Not when their using 5yr old security on it it's not. Linux has erm progressed in the security department a tad from what this file indicates their using.
In theory? This is done on a daily basis...
It's SCO who would like to keep the battles in the courtroom. This is war. You can fight like the english if you wish in the colonies, you can form two lines like a "gentleman". Or you get with it and start breaking the rules and fighting dirty gorilla warfare. England refusing to reduce themselves to the level of the colonists lost them a parcel of land that spawned a new nation which currently dominates the world.
I haven't considered attacking SCO's site and servers personally. But I hardly condemn those who do, every day their servers are down costs them $$$ and eats their reserves. The less money they have the less time they'll have to finance their attack.
This is war, if you wish to remain civilized by all means enjoy your notions. But being civil has no business in a war. The courts of no nation have juristiction here, this is the digital and cyber world. The authority of those lauching attacks and defending against them supercedes that of any physical government. THIS world was built and is run by hackers (both those who build, and crackers who attack), it is they who are in charge here.
You can say the corporate world pays for the servers, that's fine and dandy, but it'd be hard to do that if nobody had the knowledge to build the infrastructure they bought, to deploy it, and to administer it.
MOST is, MOST isn't good enough though, and not ALL of the kernel can be portable, and some parts can't and maintain any semblence of performance.
hmmm so what are they telling me when they put that thermal paper reciept in the plastic bag they just put my merchandise in?
"Don't hire smokers, they waste too much time and cost too much to take care of. Spend money on child care instead."
Amendment, don't hire nonsmokers, or at least xsmokers and nonsmoking evangalists who produce loud noise and whine about smokers. Hire those who may not smoke but don't care, or those who smoke to begin with. This way everyone can just smoke in the office and you won't have to listen to anyone whine. Your smokers won't have to waste time going outside or have increased stress waiting for breaks to smoke.
Everyone can see what you hang up. So put up things that everyone will enjoy viewing. If your going to put up porn, make sure it's high quality porn hand picked from your collection and printed with a good printer on photo paper. Make sure to have a variety of male+2xfemale, 2xfemale, and 1xfemale action so there is something for those of all sexual preferences to view and nobody is offended.
Every APP depends on the kernel and it's response to system calls. A small gain in the kernel means overall system performance speeds up.
Last I checked the intel compiler cannot compile the kernel, including the linux version.
no it simply depends on certain features in the compiler. They exist in other compilers. Last I checked EVERY operating system requires fairly advanced features in it's compiler.
Somehow I suspect mac users and the users of any other operating system will be concerned with whether the macosx and other kernels that run on this chip can be compiled with it as well... optimizing an app is great and all, but it can't possibly affect the performance of as many apps as the kernel.
yes but believe it or not, the most critical single items to improving the performance of EVERYTHING on the system is the kernel and those single applications you speed of have a good chance of gaining a boost if the kernel is compiled with this.
This isn't just another compiler, it's a compiler made by the chipmaker to be highly optimized beyond what anyone else can for their G5 chip.
worthless if it's not gcc compatible to compile the kernal.
royalties are a percentage of the take, an 80% royalty on nothing is nothing.
So why is it I hear about a few of these injunctions every couple of weeks... and that is just on the highly publicized cases.
"I just hope that they value a quality assurance process more then the typical software engineer. In a game like this you would not be able to release version 2.0."
utter nonsense, there are billions of people on earth, how many of them do you really think will fit in 1.0? If it crashes there's plenty of room for people to go on 2.0.
Let me use another term people tend to get. It's not pretending to be the win32 api, it's a port.
since the standard c libs were first developed on sysV then does that mean c on every other platform is emulating the REAL standard libs... or since it's a specification not a "thing" and the specification has been implemented on multiple platforms are they all the real thing so long as they follow the spec?
Wine doesn't emulate a win32 api implementation, it's not something else which pretends to be one, IT IS a win32 implementation.
The only problem with the second theory is that although linux doesn't turn on swap if it doesn't need it, this is not true of XP. XP swaps even if you have 2 gig of ram and NOTHING running beyond the OS.
No, apple releases next to nothing there, almost all that code was available to all BEFORE apple touched it.
For instance the samba work apple did that has active directory working without a hitch on OSX, do you see those contributions anywhere?
no the speed at which the code and images arrive to your pc is a factor of your line speed. The speed at which that information appears (renders) is a factor of your pc hardware, and your browser.
Simply rendering other elements first so that a page "appears" before loading images and how the loading of those images is handled impacts this.
Of course once a page has been viewed recently your line speed isn't an issue at all, since the page is loading from your hard drive or the local network proxy cache.
I can write you a 20line webpage that will take 10 minutes to render on a 3ghz p4 in IE. HTML renders quickly, CSS is a little slower, javascript much slower, and vbscript DEFINATELY renders more slowly than any of the rest. Take a list of links, surround it in table code that impacts the layout of the links not the slightest, and it will slow the page render time.
Yes to trim the load speed by a second in the case of google requires a cleaner and faster implementation of alot of things, network communication is one of them.
Obviously a webpage will load faster on linux where it is pulled into memory rather than paged, a page your refreshing will be faster even if cache is turned off in IE because of sloppy memory handling. There are alot of factors involved, a seond is a very short period of time and I seriously doubt you have pages loading in less than that. Even google.
Now when we were "formally" checking these page loads it was over a t1 link and we also tested over 56k dialup. Remember, a page is fully loaded when ALL the content has been rendered, not when you can see enough of it to proceed.
aye, it'd take one hell of a table to get it up to 5mb if it weren't autogenerated. With autogenerated crap code it's hard telling how it would render in a browser that actually expects real html and scripting languages.
Take a look at two identitcal pages, one produced in frontpage, one produced in publisher, one hand-coded, and one produced with the built in mozilla editor.
the largest of all will be the publisher output, pretty much everytime. If you actually break this code down and analyze it (should take a few hours for a simple single page) you'll never quite figure out how it manages to render... or how a table of twenty links can result in 1mb of html and CSS and vbscript!
Frontpage will do significantly better than publisher with the same page. Although you'll still never figure out how it renders at least the output will be more like 100k.
Moz generator will do better than either, it will produce real code, crappily formatted and with about the same uneeded junk you'd expect if you wrote the app to generate the code yourself. This should be under 15k
hand coded you'll end up with something about 1-2k max, it will render lightning fast (compared with the other options at least).
Somehow I suspect what we'll find if we look at how these things render is that firebird will win on the real pages that actually have correct code that has some logical excuse for rendering. Frontpage and publisher output will load faster in IE than firebird (although that garbage won't load fast in ANYTHING).