I can't do any better than to point you to a site where this is more completely covered. Go to groklaw and review the legal documents if you would become more informed on this issue. If you can't be bothered, well, then I claim superior knowledge of the subject because I did and have followed the conflict since 2003 (and have followed the products since 1980).
SCO did not have the right to grant Sun the right to open Solaris. This is a proven legal fact. Novell owns that right, and they have not yet granted it.
Open Solaris is and will be in doubt until Novell endorses it. Until then it's pirate software and no more legal than "Hot XP SP3 Warezz NOKEY" from TPB.
Parent. Read it. Moderate it. And then moderate this post redundant. I don't care for my Karma, but I don't want rational viewpoints to be silenced, nor the moderation system to be abused. And if this gets modded down then that's the way it is, but at least you had a choice.
Imaging this: Get you CC debited for Norton's Premium HyperSmart All-In-One Global Professional Internet Security with Anti-Virus + AntiMalware + AntiRogue + AntiSpam download all from a central place! Users and developers will flock to it.
It's interesting that you mention all of that. Did you know that OS-X and Linux users don't have to deal with all that (forgive me) crap? On rational platforms all that junk just does not run and if it could by some fluke run it wouldn't spread because the systems are designed differently. Non Windows systems assume that the network is hostile because it is.
Now, at the foot of this thread, I'll repost what I said that offended you:
Cute. You had a root kit. It had total control of your operating system for an indeterminate period of time. During that time it could download any software from the internet it wanted, and use it to patch any operating system or application file it liked - or all of them.
But you can fix it "sure fire" by using FIXMBR. That will restore the boot block and all will be well again!
Please don't give any more computer advice until you've been detarded.
I meant it then and I mean it still. Please don't try to give advice about things you don't understand. Please don't try to justify yourself. You're just making it more and more obvious that you're an idiot.
It's Open Solaris. It will be a decade before Sun settles with Novell to grant the right to open Solaris, which right Sun previously bought from SCO, who didn't actually own it. In the mean time if you code for this your output's ownership will always be in doubt. It is better to code on a platform where the exegenesis is more certain.
Somebody doesn't like you in moderator land but you're perfectly right -- though I wouldn't dig all the way back to the PIII and the PII is way too far. I'm a packrat and even I have given up on stuff that old. That an OS is useful on hardware that old is no longer even indicative of what it can do on the lowest power modern gear. It's of historical interest, and embedded platform interest, only. Maybe as unit tests for prelaunch satellites, though I understand they prefer BSD.
The Atom PC at 35 watts is ideal for emerging markets, cheapo PHBs and treehuggers. It runs all the decent business software just fine, works with the latest technologies like SATA and PCIe, and burns less coal-powered watts than the dimmest desk lamp bulb. In comparison a P4 3.6GHz blows enough amps to power a pair of hot halogen floods.
This is important in the US if you want to evince energy independence. It's even more important in emerging markets where if you want to build out a call center you have to provide the watts yourself.
But the Atom not only doesn't run Windows Vista well - it doesn't run it in any acceptable way and Windows 7 will be "less bad" but still not useful.
A picture is really worth a thousand words. In case you haven't heard there has been some dissent about the value of speculative future business, some doubt about the viability of current businesses, the current reliability of certain previously reliable credit rating agencies, the real value of certain assets and the value of the buck.
On a positive note, soft gold still warms in your hand, continues to have value and cannot declare bankruptcy. If gold fails you, it wouldn't hurt to have a gun.
Yahoo is no longer interesting because they no longer control a large enough share of either search or search advertising to make a good add for Microsoft's own failing search and search ad business. That's not going to change. This deal is not going to happen ever. Yahoo will fail, and shortly thereafter Microsoft will abandon their failing and money-losing effort saying "it's not important", then file antitrust suits against Google for prevailing by demonstrating excellence. Because excellence is not fair to Microsoft and other competitors in the field.
You're off by an order of magnitude. 3 months from now they could offer $2 or less and close the deal, but they won't. Alas! They're not quite that dumb.
You may as well execute plan "save yourself" right now. Actuarially Yahoo doesn't look good to survive 1Q'09. Get a good backup of your data and have a disaster plan at the very least. It doesn't hurt to have a plan "b" (and in this market, a plan "c" and a plan "gun").
I'll agree. It's quite a show. Just last week GM gave up the ghost on a plan that involved getting a government bailout for the purpose of adding to their inventory another failing car maker. It's like we're on the Titanic, and the captain thinks he's playing bumper cars with the icebergs. Now GM says they probably won't make Christmas without a bailout, but if we give them one they're going to throw it down the same hole they sent the last $75B in cash they flushed in the last year. Nobody has even broached the subject of maybe getting some concessions from the unions. If the unions like GM's situation so much, they could buy it. They have the money, but their greed impairs them so much they would watch the entire auto industry fold up before they would give an inch on pay & benefits even in a global crisis.
Google has got search and search ads sewn up. They did it not by buying other players but by providing relevant results. Just yesterday I spent $250 on the stores they sent me to, and was glad to do it - do you have any idea how hard it is to find "skinny jeans" in stores for teens these days? I could wander all the malls for days like some shopper zombie on a hopeless quest, but instead it was over in 15 minutes with Google.
I had Yahoo for some services for many years. They sold me a lot of domain names. Unfortunately they recently jacked the renewal rate from $8 to $30 and didn't even bother to tell me - I had to read about it on some blog. Fortunately I found out before they charged me. They need the money, but the quality of service is not worth the price premium. They're not getting another buck from me -- domains are not worth that much.
Microsoft's stock is sure to go back up after the recovery comes. Does anyone honestly think Yahoo's is going to rise all that much?
That word "after"... you might want to change that to "if".
And "if" the recovery takes a quarter century like last time the point is probably moot as we'll have neither a Yawho? nor a Microsoft. The companies that survive the retirement of their founders by that long is in the low single digits.
You've confused the iPhone App Store with Google's Android Market.
And some of us don't care if Microsoft ports the entire Gnome environment, complete with Gnome-yum to MinWin and call it Windows 8, as long as they comply with the licenses and post the source.
Hey... that's actually not a bad idea. I won't buy it, but I'd definitely test the crud out of it.
I know you're a whiny astroturfing AC troll, but I can't let this pass.
If Microsoft OS software had a feature that worked like GNU/linux's software repositories, that would be a huge benefit for the end user and a major selling point. Install any of many thousands of apps in every category for free just by clicking on it? Free apps so plentiful they require their own search engine? Automatic dependency resolution? Integrated updates for all apps in one system? Slam dunk. There's even a spot for it in their control panel: the forgotten "add programs" part of add/remove programs.
But they won't because they can't. Every commercial software vendor would port to GNU/Linux the very next week, and the game would be over for them before the Justice department even launched the antitrust investigation.
So sad for MS. So good for everybody else. That is the "that was easy" button.
Compared to California property is also cheap for now. If you want to recruit workers who know what they're doing and pay them under $150k, that's a plus.
You haven't figured out yet that I'm just leading you on to eat up your output in this forgotten thread. Yes, please don't give any more computer advice until you've been detarded. C'mon. Level with me. You're a bot, aren't you?
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I can't do any better than to point you to a site where this is more completely covered. Go to groklaw and review the legal documents if you would become more informed on this issue. If you can't be bothered, well, then I claim superior knowledge of the subject because I did and have followed the conflict since 2003 (and have followed the products since 1980).
SCO did not have the right to grant Sun the right to open Solaris. This is a proven legal fact. Novell owns that right, and they have not yet granted it.
Open Solaris is and will be in doubt until Novell endorses it. Until then it's pirate software and no more legal than "Hot XP SP3 Warezz NOKEY" from TPB.
Parent. Read it. Moderate it. And then moderate this post redundant. I don't care for my Karma, but I don't want rational viewpoints to be silenced, nor the moderation system to be abused. And if this gets modded down then that's the way it is, but at least you had a choice.
Imaging this: Get you CC debited for Norton's Premium HyperSmart All-In-One Global Professional Internet Security with Anti-Virus + AntiMalware + AntiRogue + AntiSpam download all from a central place! Users and developers will flock to it.
It's interesting that you mention all of that. Did you know that OS-X and Linux users don't have to deal with all that (forgive me) crap? On rational platforms all that junk just does not run and if it could by some fluke run it wouldn't spread because the systems are designed differently. Non Windows systems assume that the network is hostile because it is .
Now, at the foot of this thread, I'll repost what I said that offended you:
Cute. You had a root kit. It had total control of your operating system for an indeterminate period of time. During that time it could download any software from the internet it wanted, and use it to patch any operating system or application file it liked - or all of them.
But you can fix it "sure fire" by using FIXMBR. That will restore the boot block and all will be well again!
Please don't give any more computer advice until you've been detarded.
I meant it then and I mean it still. Please don't try to give advice about things you don't understand. Please don't try to justify yourself. You're just making it more and more obvious that you're an idiot.
Count me among those who don't care.
It's Open Solaris. It will be a decade before Sun settles with Novell to grant the right to open Solaris, which right Sun previously bought from SCO, who didn't actually own it. In the mean time if you code for this your output's ownership will always be in doubt. It is better to code on a platform where the exegenesis is more certain.
No. Unless by "a possible" you didn't mean "an essential".
Why would they (commercial vendors) do that?
Because they would finally realize that they were just grist for the mill that is Microsoft.
Somebody doesn't like you in moderator land but you're perfectly right -- though I wouldn't dig all the way back to the PIII and the PII is way too far. I'm a packrat and even I have given up on stuff that old. That an OS is useful on hardware that old is no longer even indicative of what it can do on the lowest power modern gear. It's of historical interest, and embedded platform interest, only. Maybe as unit tests for prelaunch satellites, though I understand they prefer BSD.
The Atom PC at 35 watts is ideal for emerging markets, cheapo PHBs and treehuggers. It runs all the decent business software just fine, works with the latest technologies like SATA and PCIe, and burns less coal-powered watts than the dimmest desk lamp bulb. In comparison a P4 3.6GHz blows enough amps to power a pair of hot halogen floods.
This is important in the US if you want to evince energy independence. It's even more important in emerging markets where if you want to build out a call center you have to provide the watts yourself.
But the Atom not only doesn't run Windows Vista well - it doesn't run it in any acceptable way and Windows 7 will be "less bad" but still not useful.
Because google.ca has to pay a lot of money to get those images from google.com?
I'm sorry. You had me for a minute and then you lost me.
A picture is really worth a thousand words. In case you haven't heard there has been some dissent about the value of speculative future business, some doubt about the viability of current businesses, the current reliability of certain previously reliable credit rating agencies, the real value of certain assets and the value of the buck.
On a positive note, soft gold still warms in your hand, continues to have value and cannot declare bankruptcy. If gold fails you, it wouldn't hurt to have a gun.
Yahoo is no longer interesting because they no longer control a large enough share of either search or search advertising to make a good add for Microsoft's own failing search and search ad business. That's not going to change. This deal is not going to happen ever. Yahoo will fail, and shortly thereafter Microsoft will abandon their failing and money-losing effort saying "it's not important", then file antitrust suits against Google for prevailing by demonstrating excellence. Because excellence is not fair to Microsoft and other competitors in the field.
You're off by an order of magnitude. 3 months from now they could offer $2 or less and close the deal, but they won't. Alas! They're not quite that dumb.
You may as well execute plan "save yourself" right now. Actuarially Yahoo doesn't look good to survive 1Q'09. Get a good backup of your data and have a disaster plan at the very least. It doesn't hurt to have a plan "b" (and in this market, a plan "c" and a plan "gun").
I'll agree. It's quite a show. Just last week GM gave up the ghost on a plan that involved getting a government bailout for the purpose of adding to their inventory another failing car maker. It's like we're on the Titanic, and the captain thinks he's playing bumper cars with the icebergs. Now GM says they probably won't make Christmas without a bailout, but if we give them one they're going to throw it down the same hole they sent the last $75B in cash they flushed in the last year. Nobody has even broached the subject of maybe getting some concessions from the unions. If the unions like GM's situation so much, they could buy it. They have the money, but their greed impairs them so much they would watch the entire auto industry fold up before they would give an inch on pay & benefits even in a global crisis.
Google has got search and search ads sewn up. They did it not by buying other players but by providing relevant results. Just yesterday I spent $250 on the stores they sent me to, and was glad to do it - do you have any idea how hard it is to find "skinny jeans" in stores for teens these days? I could wander all the malls for days like some shopper zombie on a hopeless quest, but instead it was over in 15 minutes with Google.
I had Yahoo for some services for many years. They sold me a lot of domain names. Unfortunately they recently jacked the renewal rate from $8 to $30 and didn't even bother to tell me - I had to read about it on some blog. Fortunately I found out before they charged me. They need the money, but the quality of service is not worth the price premium. They're not getting another buck from me -- domains are not worth that much.
Microsoft's stock is sure to go back up after the recovery comes. Does anyone honestly think Yahoo's is going to rise all that much?
That word "after"... you might want to change that to "if".
And "if" the recovery takes a quarter century like last time the point is probably moot as we'll have neither a Yawho? nor a Microsoft. The companies that survive the retirement of their founders by that long is in the low single digits.
It's good to know that although the US has surrendered the leadership role, progress will go on.
You've confused the iPhone App Store with Google's Android Market.
And some of us don't care if Microsoft ports the entire Gnome environment, complete with Gnome-yum to MinWin and call it Windows 8, as long as they comply with the licenses and post the source.
Hey... that's actually not a bad idea. I won't buy it, but I'd definitely test the crud out of it.
On second thought, maybe they should save the "Runs for sure!" meme for Windows 7.
I prefer "Runs for sure!" It has that link to their DRM efforts that foretells the conclusion, without ruining the ending for the neophyte.
And, on Windows it will probably actually WORK.
I know you're a whiny astroturfing AC troll, but I can't let this pass.
If Microsoft OS software had a feature that worked like GNU/linux's software repositories, that would be a huge benefit for the end user and a major selling point. Install any of many thousands of apps in every category for free just by clicking on it? Free apps so plentiful they require their own search engine? Automatic dependency resolution? Integrated updates for all apps in one system? Slam dunk. There's even a spot for it in their control panel: the forgotten "add programs" part of add/remove programs.
But they won't because they can't. Every commercial software vendor would port to GNU/Linux the very next week, and the game would be over for them before the Justice department even launched the antitrust investigation.
So sad for MS. So good for everybody else. That is the "that was easy" button.
Compared to California property is also cheap for now. If you want to recruit workers who know what they're doing and pay them under $150k, that's a plus.
You haven't figured out yet that I'm just leading you on to eat up your output in this forgotten thread. Yes, please don't give any more computer advice until you've been detarded. C'mon. Level with me. You're a bot, aren't you?
Just keep saying it though. Maybe eventually people will believe you.
I'll agree with that. At least, I would if by "Minnesota" you meant "the world".