This story was covered in the Australian press a few days ago. Other sources report that the GMA has apologised, describing the acction as a "youthful indescretion".
Something tells me that these people probably aren't the target audience of the film anyway.
Cause, you know, there's no reason to believe that people who rush out to see a screen adaptation of one of the great works of fantasy would want to see a screen adaptation of one of the great works of science fiction.;-)
I mean, if Santa can visit EVERY SINGLE HOUSE ON THE PLANET in one night, delivering presents to each child in the world, you'd think the richest man in the world would be able to figure out how to personally speak with each Linux user. Geez....
Ummm.... I hate to tell you this, but Bill Gates doesn't exist.
Having examined the problem from all angles, they found it to be plainly hopeless. Logic informed them that, under the circumstances, the only possible action would have to be one of desperation.
Please do not, under any circumstances and no matter how unintentioned, compare Darl McBride with Mr Spock in "The Galileo Seven".
As far as what is typical in the industry - typically the inventor gets nothing but name recognition.
Does the legal concept of moral rights - ie, (as I understand it) acknowledgement of creatorship, if not legal ownership of an item - extend to inventions?
AFAIK moral rights have been introduced (via legislation) for creative works such as books, paintings or screenplays, but I don't know about non-creative works.
Can't read the article as it's been slashdotted but the concept makes sense. Telcos are one of the few businesses which have the processing of micropayments (small amounts of money for small amounts of utility) as a core competency.
You can currently buy a Coke in Australia from a vending machine by using your mobile phone to dial the machine with the cost being tacked onto your bill. However currently this is limited to one carrier (Telstra) and of course caller ID has to be enabled for it to work.
Adding a Bluetooth SD card will set you back around a hundred bucks. A bluetooth headset another hundred bucks. And that's assuming that the software will support the headset.
I decided to go to the SCO "City to City Tour" (%s/City to City/Farewell/g) out of morbid curiosity - what did SCO say about itself? I was especially interested to see if the time allotted to "roadmap" would even mention shippable product (o; It was interesting - not exactly as I expected, but interesting nonetheless. Highly recommended.
And apparently easy to attend. 64 seats, less than 20 attendees. Considering that when I applied I went to a waiting list, I was expecting a higher turnout... it may be worth putting yourself on the list for future stops of the show...
Grandest cheese at the presentation was VP of Marketing, Jeff Hunsaker. He started out with an hour the company's report card & backgrounder. Here's the view of SCO painted: 330 employees, 2+ million deployed units (no mention of OS breakdown - would be interesting to see what % of that is Caldera Linux), target market is small-ish business. Reference accounts seem to be franchised fast food & drug oriented. Think Pizza Hut & Wallgreens (Arnold Clarke & Argos were UK references, Shoppers Drug thrown in for us Canuks). Nothing IT-intensive. Avaya & Lucent were mentioned on the laundry list, however no detail was given, and I cannot imagine descendants of AT&T paying too much to some guys in Utah for hideous product (searches on their sites for SCO only brings mention of their "Special Customer Operations" group).
Oddly enough, market cap & stock price were mentioned extensively (who'd have thought?). Reference was made to using their capitalization as a means of acquisition; however no details were given (assuming there were any details to give). The fabled '2 quarters of profitability' was also mentioned. The name Caldera was dragged through the dirt, as they were never profitable. From the slides you'd think SCO had roots much, much deeper than the MS Xenix junk they spawned from. In fact, the analogy they whip out is that of Harley-Davidson (HD was purchased by AMF, went to hell, then arose re-branded as the mega-label you know today). I refrained from pointing out that pre/post-AMF Harley produced respected product, and did not send threatening letters to Yamaha owners...
Mention of the legal battle? Nothing technical. Representatives were up-front about their lack of legal knowledge, and inability to comment. It never got past the mud-slinging stage. Same old, same old. Their interest is in protecting their IP. This is about a breach of contract. Linux 2.4 code review shows Monterrey-esqe code relating to memory-access that must have come from AIX 5L. Caldera Linux customers are indemnified against legal action. Blah blah blah.
Interesting bits?
Their definition of IP (I've never seen a formal definition, and so some of the things on the list amused mildly): Copyright, Contracts, Methods, Trade Secrets, and Know-how (Know-how? How about "stuff we have" - can that be a IP subject too?). Their mention of McBride making some soon-to-be-published "top 5 influential executives list" (that'll be a keeper of an article). And heavy mention of HP's support. Reference was made to their web site removing their logo, however they emphatically associate SCOs current operations and HP's approval. Nothing to substantiate, however.
Really interesting bits?
The crowd. I was expecting Linux zealots. It was mostly a room full of SCO resellers. And they were not too big on having a love in. Nothing hostile, however not one positive comment for the morning's session. During the "we be so profitable" section of the spiel, one reseller in the crowd asked "where does the money come from?" The response was largely a pointer to the SCO source initiative. The response? "What you are profitable in will not make me profitable.". Wow. That was good. One raised the points that this quibble is hurting his business. SCO's stance is that they'd love to settle this tomorrow (har
Dual degrees in science and law is common in Australia where most universities force undergraduates to take a combined law degree, ie Science/Law, Arts/Law, Commerce (or Economics)/Law etc.
If you have written a single line of code that is being distributed in a file that SCO is charging a license fee for and are under no contractual obligation to transfer rights of derivitive works to SCO, even if they do own the core operating system code they are still violating your license on your IP.
By law derivitive works belong to the actual author.
Even if the derived work was based on a copyright infringement?
I've always wondered, for instance, if Viacom has ownership of the Star Trek fan fiction out there.
Game developers now have room to seriously push their applications because the processor will be able to cache more (data||instructions). It should vastly improve scores on very memory intensive apps.
Yeah, but will it vastly improve my scores on very memory intensive games??:D
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As a huuuuuuge Orson Scott Card fan who's grown disturbed and depressed over his increasingly rabid right-wing views (clothed in the guise of "Oh but I'm actually a Democrat") I'm astonished to find an op-ed piece of his which I substantially agree with.
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This story was covered in the Australian press a few days ago. Other sources report that the GMA has apologised, describing the acction as a "youthful indescretion".
Baraka
Cause, you know, there's no reason to believe that people who rush out to see a screen adaptation of one of the great works of fantasy would want to see a screen adaptation of one of the great works of science fiction.
Ummm.... I hate to tell you this, but Bill Gates doesn't exist.
At last, Australia will be on top of the world again!!
And of course, don't mention micro and soft.
My trusty hammer.
Sure I've had to change the head a couple of times, and also the handle, but aside from that it's as good as new.
Is it that different to actors' faces and movements being sampled in order to recreate them in today's SFX movies?
Kind of an ironic statement from a poster with the following in his sig:
Please do not, under any circumstances and no matter how unintentioned, compare Darl McBride with Mr Spock in "The Galileo Seven".
Does the legal concept of moral rights - ie, (as I understand it) acknowledgement of creatorship, if not legal ownership of an item - extend to inventions?
AFAIK moral rights have been introduced (via legislation) for creative works such as books, paintings or screenplays, but I don't know about non-creative works.
Can't read the article as it's been slashdotted but the concept makes sense. Telcos are one of the few businesses which have the processing of micropayments (small amounts of money for small amounts of utility) as a core competency.
You can currently buy a Coke in Australia from a vending machine by using your mobile phone to dial the machine with the cost being tacked onto your bill. However currently this is limited to one carrier (Telstra) and of course caller ID has to be enabled for it to work.
Adding a Bluetooth SD card will set you back around a hundred bucks. A bluetooth headset another hundred bucks. And that's assuming that the software will support the headset.
It reallly makes you think twice, doesn't it?
Notes from the SCO Road show
... it may be worth putting yourself on the list for future stops of the show ...
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I decided to go to the SCO "City to City Tour" (%s/City to City/Farewell/g) out of morbid curiosity - what did SCO say about itself? I was especially interested to see if the time allotted to "roadmap" would even mention shippable product (o; It was interesting - not exactly as I expected, but interesting nonetheless. Highly recommended.
And apparently easy to attend. 64 seats, less than 20 attendees. Considering that when I applied I went to a waiting list, I was expecting a higher turnout
Grandest cheese at the presentation was VP of Marketing, Jeff Hunsaker. He started out with an hour the company's report card & backgrounder. Here's the view of SCO painted: 330 employees, 2+ million deployed units (no mention of OS breakdown - would be interesting to see what % of that is Caldera Linux), target market is small-ish business. Reference accounts seem to be franchised fast food & drug oriented. Think Pizza Hut & Wallgreens (Arnold Clarke & Argos were UK references, Shoppers Drug thrown in for us Canuks). Nothing IT-intensive. Avaya & Lucent were mentioned on the laundry list, however no detail was given, and I cannot imagine descendants of AT&T paying too much to some guys in Utah for hideous product (searches on their sites for SCO only brings mention of their "Special Customer Operations" group).
Oddly enough, market cap & stock price were mentioned extensively (who'd have thought?). Reference was made to using their capitalization as a means of acquisition; however no details were given (assuming there were any details to give). The fabled '2 quarters of profitability' was also mentioned. The name Caldera was dragged through the dirt, as they were never profitable. From the slides you'd think SCO had roots much, much deeper than the MS Xenix junk they spawned from. In fact, the analogy they whip out is that of Harley-Davidson (HD was purchased by AMF, went to hell, then arose re-branded as the mega-label you know today). I refrained from pointing out that pre/post-AMF Harley produced respected product, and did not send threatening letters to Yamaha owners
Mention of the legal battle? Nothing technical. Representatives were up-front about their lack of legal knowledge, and inability to comment. It never got past the mud-slinging stage. Same old, same old. Their interest is in protecting their IP. This is about a breach of contract. Linux 2.4 code review shows Monterrey-esqe code relating to memory-access that must have come from AIX 5L. Caldera Linux customers are indemnified against legal action. Blah blah blah.
Interesting bits?
Their definition of IP (I've never seen a formal definition, and so some of the things on the list amused mildly): Copyright, Contracts, Methods, Trade Secrets, and Know-how (Know-how? How about "stuff we have" - can that be a IP subject too?). Their mention of McBride making some soon-to-be-published "top 5 influential executives list" (that'll be a keeper of an article). And heavy mention of HP's support. Reference was made to their web site removing their logo, however they emphatically associate SCOs current operations and HP's approval. Nothing to substantiate, however.
Really interesting bits?
The crowd. I was expecting Linux zealots. It was mostly a room full of SCO resellers. And they were not too big on having a love in. Nothing hostile, however not one positive comment for the morning's session. During the "we be so profitable" section of the spiel, one reseller in the crowd asked "where does the money come from?" The response was largely a pointer to the SCO source initiative. The response? "What you are profitable in will not make me profitable.". Wow. That was good. One raised the points that this quibble is hurting his business. SCO's stance is that they'd love to settle this tomorrow (har
A lot of cell phones have include/exclude facilities built-in. A lot of people are eschewing their landlines altogether for their mobile equivalents.
Dual degrees in science and law is common in Australia where most universities force undergraduates to take a combined law degree, ie Science/Law, Arts/Law, Commerce (or Economics)/Law etc.
Even if the derived work was based on a copyright infringement?
I've always wondered, for instance, if Viacom has ownership of the Star Trek fan fiction out there.
Gaiman is Jewish.
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I've actually seen a BIOS error very similar to this on an IBM PC.
What's the Dewey number for porn?
Whoops - they actually tell you: 800.001.
That's gotta be a great come on line for those sexy-looking librarians: "Hey babe, interested in some 800.001?"
Except that she'll probably come back with "Only in your 800.005."
You're saying this like it's a bad thing...
I want to become a wanker with a wireless hands free set.
Yeah, but will it vastly improve my scores on very memory intensive games??
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As a huuuuuuge Orson Scott Card fan who's grown disturbed and depressed over his increasingly rabid right-wing views (clothed in the guise of "Oh but I'm actually a Democrat") I'm astonished to find an op-ed piece of his which I substantially agree with.
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Guilty your honour!
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