How long until workers in industries "ruined" by scientific development (though only ever valued for the rareness of their product) develop a cult-like anti-scientific religion and take over the world?
I wonder if Boies is just sitting on his ass and that's all he's supposed to do.
At this point in the case, that is all he's supposed to do.
David Boies is a very talented trial lawyer, and I'm sure that he'll be arguing SCO's case in court if it ever gets that far. (Assuming that SCO can still afford him at that point.) Right now, though, it doesn't make any sense for him to spend his time digging through old Unix source code and licensing agreements.
Because investigating and prosecuting crimes costs money. Just imagine the outcry on Slashdot and elsewhere if a politician were to suggest giving more of the people's money to government bureaucrats.
SCO doesn't own the Unix name (trademark). The Open Group does.
SCO owns the copyright to the Unix System V source code and the license agreements that AT&T, USL, SCO (#1), and Novell negotiated with Unix vendors such as IBM, Sun, HP, Sequent, DEC, Pyramid, Stratus, SGI, etc.
How is it any different than Red Hat bundling Mozilla and mplayer with their distro?
It's different because Red Hat doesn't have a 90% or higher share of any market. Under United States, and presumably European Union, anti-trust laws the rules change when a company achieves a certain (unspecified) level of market dominance.
I remember thinking during the Microsoft anti-trust trial that Gates, Balmer, etc. never really accepted this fact. They just couldn't understand that actions that were perfectly legal for the Microsoft of 1985 were illegal for the Microsoft of 1995. (Some of the "free marketroids" on Slashdot seem to have the same difficulty.)
So, I buy this piece of software included in my machine purchase but I cannot use it unless I use it on the e-machine. Seems slightly ridiculous to me.
In this case, the OEM (E-machine) is paying Microsoft less for a license that is tied to a specific machine. In theory, they're passing this savings on to you. (If they're not, find an OEM that does.)
I'm generally quite anti-Microsoft, but I don't think that you have anything about which to complain.
You know a typical answer of project managers: "Make it just for IE and as flashy/sexy as possible... Who cares about Mozilla?.. All our customers use IE..."
Do all of your customers use Windows? Once you have something that will work in both Internet Explorer and Safari, I'll take my chances with Mozilla.
Despite the reality that Apple's desktop market share will probably soon fall below that of Linux, I still think (hope?) that most businesses will be unwilling to just kiss those customers goodbye.
Is that the rpmlib API is almost completely undocumented. As GoRK pointed out, management tools such as apt, rpmfind, up2date, etc. are far more important than the underlying package format.
But it's very difficult to create those management tools for RPM when the API is a "black art" known only to a few. Questions on the RPM mailing list/newsgroup will generally be met with the advice to "use the source, Luke"--all several hundred thousand lines of it!
I've been selling hardware, software, and I/T services to large enterprises for almost 10 years, and I've never seen a project where business requirements truly drove the design.
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How long until workers in industries "ruined" by scientific development (though only ever valued for the rareness of their product) develop a cult-like anti-scientific religion and take over the world?
Ever heard of De Beers?
I don't see how Palm can possible be infringing this patent. AFAICT, there's no way to store anything securely on my Palm V.
In Soviet Russia the topic is on you.
How's that?
Yes, but they'd have to actually make that fork.
And then they'd have to come up with a licensing scheme.
What is this Way of Milk that you speak of?
I wonder if Boies is just sitting on his ass and that's all he's supposed to do.
At this point in the case, that is all he's supposed to do.
David Boies is a very talented trial lawyer, and I'm sure that he'll be arguing SCO's case in court if it ever gets that far. (Assuming that SCO can still afford him at that point.) Right now, though, it doesn't make any sense for him to spend his time digging through old Unix source code and licensing agreements.
Because investigating and prosecuting crimes costs money. Just imagine the outcry on Slashdot and elsewhere if a politician were to suggest giving more of the people's money to government bureaucrats .
SCO doesn't own the Unix name (trademark). The Open Group does.
SCO owns the copyright to the Unix System V source code and the license agreements that AT&T, USL, SCO (#1), and Novell negotiated with Unix vendors such as IBM, Sun, HP, Sequent, DEC, Pyramid, Stratus, SGI, etc.
How is it any different than Red Hat bundling Mozilla and mplayer with their distro?
It's different because Red Hat doesn't have a 90% or higher share of any market. Under United States, and presumably European Union, anti-trust laws the rules change when a company achieves a certain (unspecified) level of market dominance.
I remember thinking during the Microsoft anti-trust trial that Gates, Balmer, etc. never really accepted this fact. They just couldn't understand that actions that were perfectly legal for the Microsoft of 1985 were illegal for the Microsoft of 1995. (Some of the "free marketroids" on Slashdot seem to have the same difficulty.)
I'm wondering that myself. Wouldn't radio telegrams, like the ones sent from the Titanic in 1912, constitute prior art?
It certainly will be if you install the Flash plugin that's required to view the site.
Anyone else find it hilarious that they're apparently not interested in getting their message out to the largest possible audience.
Simple. They'll quickly start ignoring the system and just body cavity search anyone who "looks suspicious."
Haven't you ever heard of the dreaded permanent record ?
So, I buy this piece of software included in my machine purchase but I cannot use it unless I use it on the e-machine. Seems slightly ridiculous to me.
In this case, the OEM (E-machine) is paying Microsoft less for a license that is tied to a specific machine. In theory, they're passing this savings on to you. (If they're not, find an OEM that does.)
I'm generally quite anti-Microsoft, but I don't think that you have anything about which to complain.
AFAIK, Red Hat Linux has never included Tomcat. The apache package was renamed to httpd sometime in the last few releases, and it's still there.
Isn't that the exact same expression as the Sta-Puff Marshmallow Man?
You know a typical answer of project managers: "Make it just for IE and as flashy/sexy as possible... Who cares about Mozilla?.. All our customers use IE..."
Do all of your customers use Windows? Once you have something that will work in both Internet Explorer and Safari, I'll take my chances with Mozilla.
Despite the reality that Apple's desktop market share will probably soon fall below that of Linux, I still think (hope?) that most businesses will be unwilling to just kiss those customers goodbye.
Maybe I'm just feeling particularly Jeffersonian today, but the more fouled up the "Ministry" of Homeland Security is, the safer I feel.
Would this be the same fundraising drive that's killed their mailing lists/newsgroups for the past two weeks?
Just make them rename it to SkyNet.
Is that the rpmlib API is almost completely undocumented. As GoRK pointed out, management tools such as apt, rpmfind, up2date, etc. are far more important than the underlying package format.
But it's very difficult to create those management tools for RPM when the API is a "black art" known only to a few. Questions on the RPM mailing list/newsgroup will generally be met with the advice to "use the source, Luke"--all several hundred thousand lines of it!
4.2.3 The commodification of the operating system
I'm pretty sure this isn't a word.
Thanks!
I've been selling hardware, software, and I/T services to large enterprises for almost 10 years, and I've never seen a project where business requirements truly drove the design.
Care to point to some evidence for this?