A truly pathetic case didn't even actually encrypth the file, but just appended the mangled password to the front, and checked it in their program to see if they should allow you to open the file in it. Surely noone will get through _that_ protection. Except if you were willing to use a hex viewer instead of their program, that is.
You are not talking about DVD CSS protection, are you?
Same way colors fade when being exposed to direct sunlight.
You have never seen paintings exposed in such a way, have you? Flash creates high intensity light beam, and however short it is one, the cumulative effect from all of them would be equivalent to pretty long exposure. If you think about it, higher energy UV photons, most probably, break pigments and IR photons are breaking oil.
Microsoft has arguably deliberate policy of giving their products generic names: Windows, Office, Word, SQL Server, Access, Works and then threaten companies which do not even directly compete with them (wxWindows were renamed to wxWidgets even though wxWindows were miles away from OS market.) thus denying competition possibility even clearly identify their products without running into trademark infringement.
I am not sure how USPTO gave them rights to these names in the first place, however I am glad that somebody stands up and defends public domain from hijacking.
It is not the question of what YOU can do with you computer. It is a question what OTHERS can do with your computer. You (and I mean it in general sense) do not need this feature to operate your computer.
Use this however you like, do whatever you want with it, just be sure that once you're done with whatever you're doing you let others see what you've done and do whatever they want to do with what you've done.
The latest argument which was disscussed on Groklaw, was that you can not set forth in the license any conditions under which derivative work is distributed, since such conditions normally require separate contract to be signed between copyright holders of the original and derivative parts of the work.
The 'elegance' of the GPL is that if you want this contract to be signed, then good luck, you a free to contact every copyright holder of the original work and license their parts under any conditions you want (even non-GPL.) However, before you do this you just can not distribute GPLed work.
GPL also gives you an 'easy way out' saying that you might want just to skip signing contract stuff if you do this and that. So, legality of the last statement is what is challenged.
the comparatively recent allegation of purloined header files was never central to the dispute
And would have never been, but the judge ordered SCO to comply with IBM's motions to compell, demanding to present proofs they based their allegations on with satisfactory specificity, before the judge even considers SCO's motions to compell.
Screaming that SCO are fscking liars will help much less then calm explanation what the ABI is and why SCO will have hard time to assert its copyrightability.
It is also irrelevant, if management itself becomes emotional sometimes, what is relevant, is that how they perceive you, and here the AC is right - flaming geek is hardly a source of trustworthy opinion for them (do not ask me how I know it.)
We came out last summer and put out some code that the Linux community on one hand said, preposterous, that's [Berkeley software]. On the other hand, some people in the Linux community said, hold on, you may have some copyright issues there....
I guess, he says exactly what he said last summer when presented with the same arguments, which is that it is just an example of a copyright infringement in Linux code, but not an example of SCO's copyrights infringement.
I have also read that we do not share any genes with them besides those that are found in our common ancestor.
OTOH, they were much better suited to cold climate (short, stocky bones, meaning shorter, thicker extremities.) They lived in Europe since first migration from Africa, while Cro-Mags (longer, thinner bones - longer, thinner extremities) migrated from Africa (second migration) much later and could not possibly develop natural adaptation to cold climate that fast.
However, this disadvantage was more than offset by clothes and knowledge of fire. And, as you said, Cro-Mags had better weapons.
the fucking consumers sending SMS messages and talking to friends that the movie is garbage, destroying a very well planned (and expensive) marketing plan
Why morons are even allowed to be businessmen. They should have asked them to sign NDA in the first place.
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution"
I must be missing your point. How it is different from how postal service or phone service works?
Are you going to sue the postal service because they delivered to you a parcel from the unibomer or a letter with anthrax? Or now postal service has to look up into every piece of correspondence to see if there some copyrighted material being illegaly dissiminated?
Or you think that a phone company has to evesdrop on every phone call, or be accused with abeting to a crime, if they do not?
While you believe that 'Oh, I did not know what I was routing' does not hold much water, I believe that an ISP should have no more rights at looking what it is routing then postal service to read letters or phone companies to listen to phonecalls.
If you have personal problems with P2P networks you do not have to use them. If you are a concerned citizen, you welcome to redress your grievances to the Goverment and have P2P networks outlawed (why stop with them, though, go for the whole Internet.) But you should not turn public services into Big Brother's Eye, otherwise you may end up with something quite different then what you are striving for.
--In Soviet Russia you need protection from Homeland Security.
You are being right on premises outside of the original poster's point. His point is not about sa much as 'sticking to API' as to availability of the full API to everyone and to the scrutiny of the full API by everyone.
Such brain-dead solutions as Direct${SALES_PITCH} technologies do not survive in the open source environment. If somebody asked Linus to put a special hook into the kernel by which an application thread could get direct access to shared resources, my guess, his suggestion would be to stop smoking weed for at least two weeks before asking it again.
Personally, I think that the WIndows trademark should be nullified
IANAL either, but AFAIK 'Windows' can not be trademarked (in the US, at least) at all, since unqualified nouns are not trademarkable. I.e. you can trademark 'X Windows' or 'MS Windows' but not 'Windows'. Is it different in Europe?
If it weren't for that small group in every generation we would still be living in the trees with the apes.
That fact
I would expect that a man of your intellectual grandeur should at least realize that calling your unprovable statement a fact severely diminished your, otherwise impeccable, proof of your mental superiority.
"It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!"
- Kurt Vonnegut. Sirens of Titan.
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They do not want to profit. They do not want to rectify damages (which I strongly believe never occurred). They do not want to protect their copyrights (which I strongly believe were never violated). They are focused on one solitary goal, and that is to destroy (or damage, to the greatest extent possible) Linux.
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Yarro won't apologize for the IBM lawsuit. "I'm not a guy who goes away quietly in the night. I fight," he says. "If you take something from me, if you break a promise, I'm going to come after you."
My theory is that Canopy Group wanted to use Monterey project to corner 64-bit Enterprise-level OS market. I remember an interview with Stowell, where he said that even if 64-bit Linux may exist, it will always inferior to SCO's product, exactly because of Monterey project.
When the thing did not work out, and I believe that IBM is not completely without blame for terminating the contract. I am not sure what happened, but most probably each side thought that the other side is too greedy.
Anyhow, IBM, well taught by one software vendor about all implications of dealing with 'the only game in town' situations walked away to do Monterey on Linux, leaving SCO high and dry in the middle of nowhere, with mostly usless SVRX.
First Canopy Group reaction was: 'You've made shit of SCO. You'll buy it.' When it did not work out either, the whole thing degenerated into bloody vendetta, with the only Linux's fault that it happened to be the OS, IBM laid their eyes on.
I am sure, that if it were BSD (hypothetically, of course, since BSD License is too lax for IBM's patents protection,) we would have been talking about IBM and Apple rather then IBM and RH.
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They are called BayStar Capital ($20 mil) and Royal Bank of Canada ($30mil.) As I understand there are two of them because the law prohibits more then $30 mil PIPE investements.
It is an implementation of their 'flushed out' GUI paradigm.
You can read more about it in their "Java(TM) Look and Feel Design Guidelines." But briefly, the main idea is to dim out all inactive GUI elements in order to help users to concentrate on their current task.
Since ELQ 'does not get it' (along with the majority of GUI users, you and I, apparently, included,) she complained that all inactive windows are barely detailed. Colors are default Swing colors, which, incidentally, are SUN's corporate colors.
I see and understand your point about personal responsibility very well, like I have found it highly idiotic, that I can not swim at the sea after 6pm because the guards have left.
On the other hand you may be mistaken in your deduction that they stopped somewhere in the middle of the bell-curve.
Keeping cofee at near boiling point creates a body of vapor over the cofee surface, preventing it from oxydizing, thus you can prepare cofee in bigger batches, because you can keep it longer, and, hence, brew it cheaper, even though customers may find it too hot.
Having cofee in a styrofoam cup, you have no way to find out how hot it is until you try it. Try to seep something hot and if it is so hot it causes 2nd degree burns, try not to drop it off your hands.
And there are reasonable expectations that it can happen because dropping something hot off your hands is a reflex, not a conscious action. And this is the reason why they must put seemingly stupid 'too hot' warning on the cup. They are the only ones who know how really hot it is.
Second, I have fairly good explanation why they heat up an apple pie to insane temperatures. May be, indeed, their marketing research shown that customers prefer having mild burns over having mild diarhea:).
My point that their choice of what they did was more affected by the desire of reducing catering costs than by having customers satisfied. As well as you, I do not have any sympathy to frivolous suers, but in this case McD clearly stood up in 'FU dude' position, so I do not have any sympathy to them either.
And completely practical question. If Darl is dead, how is that going to help?
I think only of two reasons for him to have bodyguards, first and the most important is PR (you know how crazy those FOSS free riding Linux commi terrorsits can be) and the second one comes to mind if you remember that his allusion to James Bond. The guy is on a mission to save the world, of course he needs bodyguards.
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You are not talking about DVD CSS protection, are you?
You have never seen paintings exposed in such a way, have you? Flash creates high intensity light beam, and however short it is one, the cumulative effect from all of them would be equivalent to pretty long exposure. If you think about it, higher energy UV photons, most probably, break pigments and IR photons are breaking oil.
Microsoft has arguably deliberate policy of giving their products generic names: Windows, Office, Word, SQL Server, Access, Works and then threaten companies which do not even directly compete with them (wxWindows were renamed to wxWidgets even though wxWindows were miles away from OS market.) thus denying competition possibility even clearly identify their products without running into trademark infringement.
I am not sure how USPTO gave them rights to these names in the first place, however I am glad that somebody stands up and defends public domain from hijacking.
It is not the question of what YOU can do with you computer. It is a question what OTHERS can do with your computer. You (and I mean it in general sense) do not need this feature to operate your computer.
They do already. Mandrake 10 beta 1 ISOs available for club members
The latest argument which was disscussed on Groklaw, was that you can not set forth in the license any conditions under which derivative work is distributed, since such conditions normally require separate contract to be signed between copyright holders of the original and derivative parts of the work.
The 'elegance' of the GPL is that if you want this contract to be signed, then good luck, you a free to contact every copyright holder of the original work and license their parts under any conditions you want (even non-GPL.) However, before you do this you just can not distribute GPLed work.
GPL also gives you an 'easy way out' saying that you might want just to skip signing contract stuff if you do this and that. So, legality of the last statement is what is challenged.
And would have never been, but the judge ordered SCO to comply with IBM's motions to compell, demanding to present proofs they based their allegations on with satisfactory specificity, before the judge even considers SCO's motions to compell.
So, SCO really scraps the bottom of the barrel.
:%s/judge/juror/g
Screaming that SCO are fscking liars will help much less then calm explanation what the ABI is and why SCO will have hard time to assert its copyrightability.
It is also irrelevant, if management itself becomes emotional sometimes, what is relevant, is that how they perceive you, and here the AC is right - flaming geek is hardly a source of trustworthy opinion for them (do not ask me how I know it.)
I guess, he says exactly what he said last summer when presented with the same arguments, which is that it is just an example of a copyright infringement in Linux code, but not an example of SCO's copyrights infringement.
OTOH, they were much better suited to cold climate (short, stocky bones, meaning shorter, thicker extremities.) They lived in Europe since first migration from Africa, while Cro-Mags (longer, thinner bones - longer, thinner extremities) migrated from Africa (second migration) much later and could not possibly develop natural adaptation to cold climate that fast.
However, this disadvantage was more than offset by clothes and knowledge of fire. And, as you said, Cro-Mags had better weapons.
Why morons are even allowed to be businessmen. They should have asked them to sign NDA in the first place.
Are you going to sue the postal service because they delivered to you a parcel from the unibomer or a letter with anthrax? Or now postal service has to look up into every piece of correspondence to see if there some copyrighted material being illegaly dissiminated?
Or you think that a phone company has to evesdrop on every phone call, or be accused with abeting to a crime, if they do not?
While you believe that 'Oh, I did not know what I was routing' does not hold much water, I believe that an ISP should have no more rights at looking what it is routing then postal service to read letters or phone companies to listen to phonecalls.
If you have personal problems with P2P networks you do not have to use them. If you are a concerned citizen, you welcome to redress your grievances to the Goverment and have P2P networks outlawed (why stop with them, though, go for the whole Internet.) But you should not turn public services into Big Brother's Eye, otherwise you may end up with something quite different then what you are striving for.
--In Soviet Russia you need protection from Homeland Security.
Such brain-dead solutions as Direct${SALES_PITCH} technologies do not survive in the open source environment. If somebody asked Linus to put a special hook into the kernel by which an application thread could get direct access to shared resources, my guess, his suggestion would be to stop smoking weed for at least two weeks before asking it again.
Actually, they did it in their amended complaint. This is also the reason why the aquired copyright registration from the Copyright Office.
It is not the reason, though, why they want to keep code out of the public eye since you do not you copyrights from public disclosuer (duh.)
IANAL either, but AFAIK 'Windows' can not be trademarked (in the US, at least) at all, since unqualified nouns are not trademarkable. I.e. you can trademark 'X Windows' or 'MS Windows' but not 'Windows'. Is it different in Europe?
Or at least in Sweden and Finland?
Err... GNU/. I mean should it read from which GNU/Linux is derived?
That fact
I would expect that a man of your intellectual grandeur should at least realize that calling your unprovable statement a fact severely diminished your, otherwise impeccable, proof of your mental superiority.
"It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!"
- Kurt Vonnegut. Sirens of Titan.
From Forbes
My theory is that Canopy Group wanted to use Monterey project to corner 64-bit Enterprise-level OS market. I remember an interview with Stowell, where he said that even if 64-bit Linux may exist, it will always inferior to SCO's product, exactly because of Monterey project.
When the thing did not work out, and I believe that IBM is not completely without blame for terminating the contract. I am not sure what happened, but most probably each side thought that the other side is too greedy.
Anyhow, IBM, well taught by one software vendor about all implications of dealing with 'the only game in town' situations walked away to do Monterey on Linux, leaving SCO high and dry in the middle of nowhere, with mostly usless SVRX.
First Canopy Group reaction was: 'You've made shit of SCO. You'll buy it.' When it did not work out either, the whole thing degenerated into bloody vendetta, with the only Linux's fault that it happened to be the OS, IBM laid their eyes on.
I am sure, that if it were BSD (hypothetically, of course, since BSD License is too lax for IBM's patents protection,) we would have been talking about IBM and Apple rather then IBM and RH.
They are called BayStar Capital ($20 mil) and Royal Bank of Canada ($30mil.) As I understand there are two of them because the law prohibits more then $30 mil PIPE investements.
You can read more about it in their "Java(TM) Look and Feel Design Guidelines." But briefly, the main idea is to dim out all inactive GUI elements in order to help users to concentrate on their current task.
Since ELQ 'does not get it' (along with the majority of GUI users, you and I, apparently, included,) she complained that all inactive windows are barely detailed. Colors are default Swing colors, which, incidentally, are SUN's corporate colors.
On the other hand you may be mistaken in your deduction that they stopped somewhere in the middle of the bell-curve.
Keeping cofee at near boiling point creates a body of vapor over the cofee surface, preventing it from oxydizing, thus you can prepare cofee in bigger batches, because you can keep it longer, and, hence, brew it cheaper, even though customers may find it too hot.
Having cofee in a styrofoam cup, you have no way to find out how hot it is until you try it. Try to seep something hot and if it is so hot it causes 2nd degree burns, try not to drop it off your hands.
And there are reasonable expectations that it can happen because dropping something hot off your hands is a reflex, not a conscious action. And this is the reason why they must put seemingly stupid 'too hot' warning on the cup. They are the only ones who know how really hot it is.
Second, I have fairly good explanation why they heat up an apple pie to insane temperatures. May be, indeed, their marketing research shown that customers prefer having mild burns over having mild diarhea:).
My point that their choice of what they did was more affected by the desire of reducing catering costs than by having customers satisfied. As well as you, I do not have any sympathy to frivolous suers, but in this case McD clearly stood up in 'FU dude' position, so I do not have any sympathy to them either.
I think only of two reasons for him to have bodyguards, first and the most important is PR (you know how crazy those FOSS free riding Linux commi terrorsits can be) and the second one comes to mind if you remember that his allusion to James Bond. The guy is on a mission to save the world, of course he needs bodyguards.
I think, they just start licensing BSD code as their IP and I can name at least two companies who gladly buy licenses.