And what if its a company that doesn't have the resources to fight back in that fashion. The whole idea is to give the little guys the opportunity to become the big guys.
After 1929, I stopped believing the market will always work itself out for the best.
Before cable modem was available in my neighborhood I actually put a modem in a Linux box and set up NAT. So one phone line provided access to like 4-5 PCs.
The only thing I didn't have was an automatic redialer but that wouldn't be too hard to find.
The problem with Microsoft's patches (especially services packs) is they have a HORRIBLE reputation of breaking stuff.
Most companies cannot in their right mind apply patches to desktops blindly when they have half a dozen desktop applications that could potentially stop working when Microsoft decides to break binary compatibility.
The best they can do is put the patch into a very short life cycle test phase. Perhaps 2 weeks.
Just imagine:
You patch 3,000 desktops and then your in house developed claim filing application stops working. Now you get to sit back and watch the business grind to a hault.
I don't know about all the locations but I do know that some of it was filmed in Chicago.
But it does look like Warner has decided to make this one less craptastic than the live-action cartoon that was Batman and Robin.
Fedora's base install will never include mp3 and ntfs until either U.S. patent law is reformed or patents on Mp3 and NTFS expire. Its really not that hard to get mp3 and ntfs support. Its included in a nice FAQ list.
I agree that it would be nice to get mp3 support built in but Red Hat is just covering their legal ass. And its a great example of how software patents are problematic.
As for installing software via commandline, you can get around that by using Synaptic. After installing APT in Fedora, just apt-get install synaptic. Makes it a little less scary.
Judge: You are being charged with criminal fraud and anti-competive and damaging business practices.. How do you plead? McBride: I plead insanity. Judge: On what grounds? McBride: Are you kidding? Did you see all the crazy shit I said? I was rambling for months that "they" were out to get me!
Of course, I'm still cynical enough to believe that this whole thing is an exercise in legality. SCO isn't looking to the future, well unless you're an exec dreaming about tropical climates.
I wonder how the morale of SCO's employees is. Ya know, the ones who will be left with a worthless company with an worse corporate image when McBride is done with them. A lot of them aren't benefitting from the stock price as much as the execs are and currently I'm sure they'd rather be able to keep their job.
If I were working there, I would be fighting internally to stop McBride and his buddies from driving something that I have worked for straight into the ground. Perhaps an open letter to SCO employees is an order? Just a thought.
While these quotes probably wouldn't be too useful as evidence in court. It does well to show that these guys are throwing darts to choose how to go forth with this legal campaign.
ftp.sco.com isn't really a backdoor.
More like a frontdoor.
Plus the src rpm they have there no longer contains any actual source, but it did long after they filed the lawsuit.
I can understand dismissing broadcast media as something you don't care about. But if you combine the effects of this ruling along with the death of DSL competition. This could really get worse every year.
If the FCC uses methods such as these to try to revitalize the economy by giving big media "a break", big media will get bigger every year we are in a recession.
Imagine 5-6 megacompanies controlling both broadcast media and the pipes to the internet. It seems like a frightening idea to me. But the way we are headed, it does not seem impossible.
Even stranger than that, is UnitedLinux, which people seem to be forgetting about. If SCO knew that there were IP violations in Linux while they were working on and promoting UnitedLinux, something isn't lining up right.
Also, this was almost certainly an exit stragegy. If you look at there stock price before and after their filing the complaint, its very obvious they wanted to use this to bump up the cost of the company long enough to get bought by IBM to make them go away. Unfortunatly for them, companies started coming out the woodwork to actually fight them.
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And what if its a company that doesn't have the resources to fight back in that fashion. The whole idea is to give the little guys the opportunity to become the big guys.
After 1929, I stopped believing the market will always work itself out for the best.
"Intel, IBM, Sun and Microsoft all seem to agree that FOSS is a welcome presence in computer software."
Shared Source maybe, but FOSS?
Did Darl finally move on to another project and change his name?
Before cable modem was available in my neighborhood I actually put a modem in a Linux box and set up NAT. So one phone line provided access to like 4-5 PCs.
The only thing I didn't have was an automatic redialer but that wouldn't be too hard to find.
The problem with Microsoft's patches (especially services packs) is they have a HORRIBLE reputation of breaking stuff.
Most companies cannot in their right mind apply patches to desktops blindly when they have half a dozen desktop applications that could potentially stop working when Microsoft decides to break binary compatibility.
The best they can do is put the patch into a very short life cycle test phase. Perhaps 2 weeks.
Just imagine:
You patch 3,000 desktops and then your in house developed claim filing application stops working. Now you get to sit back and watch the business grind to a hault.
I don't know about all the locations but I do know that some of it was filmed in Chicago.
But it does look like Warner has decided to make this one less craptastic than the live-action cartoon that was Batman and Robin.
Fedora's base install will never include mp3 and ntfs until either U.S. patent law is reformed or patents on Mp3 and NTFS expire. Its really not that hard to get mp3 and ntfs support. Its included in a nice FAQ list.
I agree that it would be nice to get mp3 support built in but Red Hat is just covering their legal ass. And its a great example of how software patents are problematic.
As for installing software via commandline, you can get around that by using Synaptic. After installing APT in Fedora, just apt-get install synaptic. Makes it a little less scary.
No its IBM purchasing stock in prepation of a hostile take over.
Be prepared to see McBride on the Utah freeway with a sign: "Will litigate for food."
A man can wish can't he?
No this is all part of his plan...
Judge: You are being charged with criminal fraud and anti-competive and damaging business practices.. How do you plead?
McBride: I plead insanity.
Judge: On what grounds?
McBride: Are you kidding? Did you see all the crazy shit I said? I was rambling for months that "they" were out to get me!
Yeah he's crazy...Crazy like a fox...
Of course, I'm still cynical enough to believe that this whole thing is an exercise in legality. SCO isn't looking to the future, well unless you're an exec dreaming about tropical climates.
I wonder how the morale of SCO's employees is. Ya know, the ones who will be left with a worthless company with an worse corporate image when McBride is done with them. A lot of them aren't benefitting from the stock price as much as the execs are and currently I'm sure they'd rather be able to keep their job.
If I were working there, I would be fighting internally to stop McBride and his buddies from driving something that I have worked for straight into the ground. Perhaps an open letter to SCO employees is an order? Just a thought.
The funny thing is when all this started there was supposedly no code in the kernel.
Then two weeks later the same guy claims that UnixWare source "is all over the place"
While these quotes probably wouldn't be too useful as evidence in court. It does well to show that these guys are throwing darts to choose how to go forth with this legal campaign.
I think they are going for claims so crazy that when they are on trial for fraud and extortion they can point back and plead insanity.
ftp.sco.com isn't really a backdoor. More like a frontdoor. Plus the src rpm they have there no longer contains any actual source, but it did long after they filed the lawsuit.
I can understand dismissing broadcast media as something you don't care about. But if you combine the effects of this ruling along with the death of DSL competition. This could really get worse every year.
If the FCC uses methods such as these to try to revitalize the economy by giving big media "a break", big media will get bigger every year we are in a recession.
Imagine 5-6 megacompanies controlling both broadcast media and the pipes to the internet. It seems like a frightening idea to me. But the way we are headed, it does not seem impossible.
Even stranger than that, is UnitedLinux, which people seem to be forgetting about. If SCO knew that there were IP violations in Linux while they were working on and promoting UnitedLinux, something isn't lining up right.
Also, this was almost certainly an exit stragegy. If you look at there stock price before and after their filing the complaint, its very obvious they wanted to use this to bump up the cost of the company long enough to get bought by IBM to make them go away. Unfortunatly for them, companies started coming out the woodwork to actually fight them.