the internet is currently dealing with tons of scams, spam, spyware, hijackers.. and they are concerned about gmail?? An optional email service by a company. Gmail is one of the far more legit things going on here.
What is with bootloaders recently. 9 years of using Linux I never had a problem with bootloaders and now this weekend I haven't been able to get any to work. Why did Linux distros move to Grub from Lilo anyways?
Ff course this all works better if you are able to connect the Holy Grail to the Story Jesus. This is a lot harder to do, as the myth probably came from Celtic traditions first.
This doesn't even pass the smell test. Novell owns Ximian, which makes it's money selling GNOME and GTK based applications. For them to all of sudden move to Qt would cost lots of money and splinter the Gnome business away from Novell. Before this would happen Novell would purchase Trolltech in order to make sure they could continue to sell propiertary applications without the license from a third party. As a final note, if Novell had planned on using Qt, they would have purchased the Kompany rather than Ximian.
they obviously don't understand modern business principles. What you are suppose to do is let people use it for free, then when it is used by everyone, start charging them at that time.
I first saw Rexx back in 1995 as it was included as a batch extension in IBM PC DOS 7.0. I saw it again as a batch extension in OS/2 Warp. I wrote one program with it, was kind of neat.
I remember when upgrading from my Apple II, the choice was between a Mac and a DOS machine. Despite having learned the mouse on the Apple II, when I sat down to the Mac, I couldn't make it do anything. I didn't know the concept of double click, and the menus weren't that helpful. DOS on the other hand seemed more straight foward, even if more cryptic.
Also at the time I had several friends who knew DOS, so I was willing to take that risk. Knowing people that can help makes a big difference.
I use GAIM for chat. If Yahoo! stopped working with it, I'd use something besides Yahoo!, not GAIM.
But this has happened before. I doubt we have anything to worry about.
I'm sorry, but for the most part I don't think you can expect your Microsoft Certified Engineers to adapt to Linux. You'd be better off hiring new people to be the Linux experts.
So asking them about the details of the license is DOS? Asking them what I'm buying is a DOS? No, this is standard product information that they are required by law to provide if I ask for it.
I'm amazed that they can afford this. I know Massachusetts can't even afford books for students, let alone laptops. And New Hampshire has a lot less taxes then mass. They seem to be doing something right with their budget.
I used to think that multiple desktops environments on Linux was bad, now I think it's good. Besides giving you greater flexibility and competition, it also gives the advantage to free software applications. This is because a good free software application will be ported over to all the different environment by the users, while closed source applicatons have to be done by the company.
I less care about Linux being successful and more about it being better while being successful.
To understand, you just have to picture McBride as Monty Haul. You can chose to pay the license fee now, or wait to see what the courts say and maybe pay double! I just wish they would give us the option of taking what's in the box.
I still can't figure out what they mean when they say this? Are they talking about 100 versions of the same program? Thus claiming since new version are still not under BSD they still can protect it?
Reading your letter, I have to point out at you an even more sticky wicket concerning not showing the offending code. Some of us received Linux as a source products. We then compiled some of that source product into binary form. The license from SCO is only for the binary version of their code, not source. So how do we know that we compiled their code into our binaries? Without being told one parts of the source is owned by them, we don't know.
Now this easily violates my state's consumer regulations which state that you need to be given full information on the product you are buying if you request it.
As a linux end user, personal and for my business, I've tried to ask SCO for info regarding it's Linux License: warrenty, support, what I am buying. So far SCO has ignored me and refused to reply. Now they want to sue me? I think it's time for a consumer complaint.
The only thing that gives SCO the right to distribute any GPL software is the GPL license. If they do not accept the GPL license in full, then they have no right to distribute any GPL software and by doing so are violating copyright law.
This means no GPL software should be allowed in their versions of Unix. Luckily for SCO, other important software is license under GPL clones, given them some elbow room
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the internet is currently dealing with tons of scams, spam, spyware, hijackers.. and they are concerned about gmail?? An optional email service by a company. Gmail is one of the far more legit things going on here.
What is with bootloaders recently. 9 years of using Linux I never had a problem with bootloaders and now this weekend I haven't been able to get any to work. Why did Linux distros move to Grub from Lilo anyways?
Ff course this all works better if you are able to connect the Holy Grail to the Story Jesus. This is a lot harder to do, as the myth probably came from Celtic traditions first.
So the industry that has a boycott on it went down in sales? Durring a recession? Must be P2P.
This doesn't even pass the smell test. Novell owns Ximian, which makes it's money selling GNOME and GTK based applications. For them to all of sudden move to Qt would cost lots of money and splinter the Gnome business away from Novell. Before this would happen Novell would purchase Trolltech in order to make sure they could continue to sell propiertary applications without the license from a third party. As a final note, if Novell had planned on using Qt, they would have purchased the Kompany rather than Ximian.
they obviously don't understand modern business principles. What you are suppose to do is let people use it for free, then when it is used by everyone, start charging them at that time.
I first saw Rexx back in 1995 as it was included as a batch extension in IBM PC DOS 7.0. I saw it again as a batch extension in OS/2 Warp. I wrote one program with it, was kind of neat.
I remember when upgrading from my Apple II, the choice was between a Mac and a DOS machine. Despite having learned the mouse on the Apple II, when I sat down to the Mac, I couldn't make it do anything. I didn't know the concept of double click, and the menus weren't that helpful. DOS on the other hand seemed more straight foward, even if more cryptic.
Also at the time I had several friends who knew DOS, so I was willing to take that risk. Knowing people that can help makes a big difference.
Counter sue SCO, get your lawsuit combined with their Lawsuits against IBM. Then you just have to wait for the gravy train to come in.
I watching the guy pace back and forth while on his cell phone. I think he's saying "What do I do!"
Well, I'm glad those stupid ads that danced over the screen I was trying to look at served some useful purpose for the company.
I use GAIM for chat. If Yahoo! stopped working with it, I'd use something besides Yahoo!, not GAIM. But this has happened before. I doubt we have anything to worry about.
I'm sorry, but for the most part I don't think you can expect your Microsoft Certified Engineers to adapt to Linux. You'd be better off hiring new people to be the Linux experts.
So asking them about the details of the license is DOS? Asking them what I'm buying is a DOS? No, this is standard product information that they are required by law to provide if I ask for it.
I'm amazed that they can afford this. I know Massachusetts can't even afford books for students, let alone laptops. And New Hampshire has a lot less taxes then mass. They seem to be doing something right with their budget.
I less care about Linux being successful and more about it being better while being successful.
To understand, you just have to picture McBride as Monty Haul. You can chose to pay the license fee now, or wait to see what the courts say and maybe pay double! I just wish they would give us the option of taking what's in the box.
I didn't make up the joke, but of course GNU will stand for Gnu's Now Unix!
I still can't figure out what they mean when they say this? Are they talking about 100 versions of the same program? Thus claiming since new version are still not under BSD they still can protect it?
Who would run nuclear safety equipment on windows? Does Homer Simpson really work at our nuclear plants?
Now this easily violates my state's consumer regulations which state that you need to be given full information on the product you are buying if you request it.
As a linux end user, personal and for my business, I've tried to ask SCO for info regarding it's Linux License: warrenty, support, what I am buying. So far SCO has ignored me and refused to reply. Now they want to sue me? I think it's time for a consumer complaint.
The only thing that gives SCO the right to distribute any GPL software is the GPL license. If they do not accept the GPL license in full, then they have no right to distribute any GPL software and by doing so are violating copyright law. This means no GPL software should be allowed in their versions of Unix. Luckily for SCO, other important software is license under GPL clones, given them some elbow room
If I game on linux is open source it can be easily hacked and made into new games. A game on a PS2 is basically only going to be that game on the PS2.
I still don't see anywhere to donate money. The open source fund right now seems little more then redhat.