The purpose of the insider trading regulations is not to keep insiders from selling stock. Granted, in any company there are always going to be insiders who are allowed to sell their stock providing they adhere to the guidelines and laws.
Those guidlines and laws are to prevent "Front running", Buying or selling before the news is available to the general public.
It is illegal and a crime to tip investors off, for profit or other valuable consideration. The valuable consideration part is what gets alot of insiders confused. They don't have to make money themselves to be charged with insider trading activity. By merely helping somebody else capitalize on the news before hand, they are doing something illegal.
In the case of the Scox execs, as long as they are filing and notifying in a proper manner, there is nothing illegal there. Insider trading is restricted and heavily watched.. thats why we get insider trading activity reports.
Now, artificially inflating or deflating the stock with lies and false reports, thats another story and type of crime. But even here, I don't think you are going to do more then attract scrutiny to what SCO is doing. However dumb we feel their actions are... there is no crime in being dumb. They have filed lawsuits, they have hired lawyers and they are actively pursuing somethign that they are contending is real. It's going to be very very difficult to prove any thing illegal.
Now, my personal opinion is somebody involved should ask for a Gag order on the case to keep them from extoring customers.
Yea, so what? Sun is merely fulfilling its obligation to its shareholders -- Which I am one of them.
Furthermore
The pact, signed earlier this year, expanded the rights Sun acquired in 1994 to use Unix in its Solaris operating system. But there's more to the relationship: SCO also granted Sun a warrant to buy as many as 210,000 shares of SCO stock at $1.83 per share as part of the licensing deal, according to a regulatory document filed Tuesday.
point out, Sun was expanding its rights as from the original 1994 AT&T agreement to include additional componants and additional benefits of Unix within solaris... NOTE: This is not a deal with linux involved, but rather Solaris, Suns own flag ship operating system.
So, whith your irrelevant point aside.. what is your point? Sun is secretly encouraging SCO to be stupid and commit corporate suicide?
Before just putting up a fact, find out what your fact deals with first.
Mod me down for flame bait plz
Don't drag Sun into this. It's already been published and shown that SUN bought it's license years ago, pre-present day SCO, and obviously negotiated a rock solid right to use right to distribute license such that it can't be touched today.
Why would they do such a seemingly stupid thing? Is the Fix already in? Do they have the a politician or two in their back pocket? IBM has virtualy said nothing in regards to the merits and it looks like it is really left to the community to get SCO to shut up. (Red Hat Et Al)
Laughs, wouldn't it be funny if the Government simply came out tomorrow and Imunized itself from the whole thing.
Sorry Sco, you can't sue us because we aren't going to let you.
Is the crime that nobody even knows about. So what the cyber sleuths are catching all the low hanging fruit? Their comments are very ignorant and over reaching and woefully disregard the hacker mentality. Keep challenging them and the'll keep coming back with more and more sophisticated or simple elegant solutions.
Take for example:
Invite only private networks. Physically separated networks such as in dorms and college campuses. Family networks sharing the family
Funny, how about double server networks where half the song is supplied by one random server, and the other half by yet another random server, it's not even the song until combined by the recipient, sneaker net, Geek Raves and lan parties.
Why do I have this vision of 15th century monks trying to track down people using printing presses instead of buying hand copied books from monastaries.
While I agree with almost everything you say here reference this being a not so hot and not so fool proof way, I do disagree as to the reason mp3.com got owned. mp3.com got owned because of a lack of understanding of this new market and what they were trying to accomplish.
My understanding of mp3.com was that they were only letting people who currently own the record or song download it and play it in mp3 format. That to me seemed fair.
Prediction... when the audio copying issue and accessibility via the internet is finaly settled, the lawsuites are going to fly for patent infringment, IP theft and the like. I hope first in line is the erstwhile napster, who after the RIAA sued them out of business, will likely have issues with the RIAA using methods similar in design and intent of Napster.
I've seen alot of posts regarding the strength of the GPL and how SCO can't break it. I'm not so sure now. Who defends the GPL?
It's becoming clear to me (at least) that SCO's ultimate goal is not capitulation from IBM, but to coopt Linux.
We are being duped with the IBM/SCO legal manuevers. SCO, with a sleight of hand is now selling LINUX binary licenses for 2.4+, declaring anybody running 2.4+ in violation of their copyright (IP or whatever) and at risk, unless they of course buy the new SCO binary license.
Now, there is alot of ranting and raving about GPL this, GPL that, the question is, who is going to step up to the plate with money and lawyers and defend the GPL?
The GPL is weak when it comes to protecting GPL code. The reason why it is weak is nobody has any vested interest in defending it. Now SCO is going to coopt LINUX and nobody can do anything about it?
SCO is going to offer binary licenses, some are going to buy. Those that buy help strengthen
SCO's claim. Eventually, without somebody coming in and stopping SCO via a Infringement lawsuite claim of their own, SCO is slowly going to tighten the noose around LINUX. Now, who is going to defend against somebody licensing software and selling it, that is alreay licensed and distributed for free.
My best guess is that all those Linux Distributers who have money, oughtta get together and start a class action and cease and desist against SCO before SCO owns them.
The post was and is a whole creation of original thought from me and me alone. I didn't cut and past from anywhere, nor did I read any such article and paraphrase it. If it is similar to anything else, it is mere coincidence. Moderators, moderate anyway you like.
Chris K.
1. Your casual player, just having fun. They extract their enjoyment from playing and figuring out quests, discovery, and exploration, and achievment within the confines of the game.
2. Your Ebay player. They have fun playing, but additionaly, the have fun from actually transfering the time they spend in game into real life money. Auctioning can be quite addicting, and the money can be quite good... enough to offset the monthly price, cost of game, and typicaly all the upgrades to your computer to play the advanced ones.
3. Your automated player. These types I'm sure that the peeps (mmorpg slang for people) from/. understand, not only get their enjoyment from playing, ebay'ing, but also derive a certain snug satisfaction by "beating" the game somewhat. I mean creating elaborate unattended play scripts or macros for their toons (slang for their characters).
Now of course there are others, mostly variations of the above with different levels of dedication and interest.
Like, the "Corporations". Power gamers intent on making huge $$$ by selling items, money and toons from the game to those casual players who really have little hope or little time to get them through ordinary games means. These are peeps, few in number mostly, but share the common trait of having multiple computers and multiple accounts. They bludgeon their way to riches, then as the prices come down, they auction of thier toons on ebay and move on to the latest games.
Then of course there are the "outside devs", they are the ones that break the program, hack the packets and develope automated play tools, then sell access or subscriptions to the tools, occasionaly even offering and fufulling support.
Then, on to the 'Sploiters. The ones that don't really develope, but find and abuse and exploit bugs to their advantage. The mmorpg addage goes, exploit early and exploit often, because once discovered, they are quickly fixed. Typicaly with no punishment to those that abused.
All in all, each category is deriving fun and satisfaction from some aspect of the game. Even if it is an unattended aspect.
On to next topic... It's a delicate balance that the mmorpg game developers and server and fees maintainers tread when they enforce their COC and license rules. Just like in real life, these are the Enforcers. They understand that a little bit of hanky panky is going to happen, they just don't want it rampant to the point were it hurts the name brand and the game itself. They also dont' want to come down too hard and chase off revenue. And they will chase off revenue if they do come down hard. The reason is, they are limiting the types of players to those of basicaly the worst sort... the casual gamer who loses attention to the repetativeness of the game.
Anyway, before you go off knocking those who enjoy these games in the myriad of ways that they provide, look closely at what you do for your own personal entertainment. I havn't watched TV for over 5 years now. Have two top of the line computers, programming tools, and books all provided for by my hobby. I've met good people, bad people, learned certain aspects about myself (that I am inherently good and incapable of true evil), and I get to communicate with my children in a playfull and rich medium that these games provide, even though they live 1500 miles away.
MMORPGS are a sort of entertainment and therapy that perhaps most of you don't understand. I see nothing but positives with MMORPGS for the future. I see military training possibilities, I see Prisoner rehabilitation, advanced learning, and a whole new economy that is just in it's infant stage. 30 to 40 years from now who knows what value mmorpg will have been passed off to the next generation of young people. It may be that we'll all be living like thx1178 and our only real freedoms will be virtual freedoms, or it could be that we all spread out a bit and report into work every morning by logging into our work based mmorpg.
He is somewhat educated and I'd guess he is in the "bright average" category in terms of intelligence, but he is wilfully ignorant and often holds simplistic views.
MBA Harvard is somewhat educated eh? As compared to what? An Oxford Dropout? There is a saying amoungst professional poker [gamblers] players. "If you want to be successfull in business, surround yourself with smart people. If you wan't to be successfull in poker, surround yourself with dumb people". So far, I'll play poker with anybody that truly believes GW is dumb cause my first assessment of you that you are conceited and an egotistical elitist. The kind that I would like to surround myself with at the poker table.
...but I don't think he has the intelligence of Clinton...
Yes, I remember how brilliant CNN declared Clinton's statement of: "It depends upon what the meaning of is is". All I could think of is where is Mark Twain or Dorothy Parker when you really need'em.
Now, I'm not posting and responding to try and convince you of anything. I'm posting and responding to remind you that yours is just opinion and is no more correct or certain then mine.
Think about this: I want a President that is diligently and faithfully administering this country rather then one worried about where he's going to get his next blow job and how he's going to keep it a secret.
It's amazing how the same critics complain that we didn't react to somewhat unrealiable information regarding 9/11, that are critical of U.S reacting to equally unrealiable information regarding Iraq.
I also love all these hollywood high school dropouts calling Bush (MBA Harvard) dumb.
I love Bush. I love his plain no nonsense talk. I love his convictions, he would not state false information, he would however, as one who is charged with the responsibility and security of 100's of millions of Americans err on the side of caution and prudence.
You can't judge a man by what his enemies say about him, you can judge though, by who his enemies are. When I look at the round table of Democrats opposing him, it warms my heart to know that GW is in charge and not some socialist anti-american, "lets be like Europe" twits.
Two more positive election cycles for the GOP and that will put the nail in the coffin of the social fascists who hijacked the Democratic party. Then we can get back to real elections where both parties politely disagree, but at least represent America.
Still, Sun is not going to just add publicaly licensed drivers that access thier privately developed kernel code. What I will say is Sun's legal department has a strong say in what Sun does and what Sun uses. These are not part time programmers/lawyers. These guys are full time corporate legal eagles, who's sole job is to keep SUN out of legal troubles.
BTW: Looking at early X86 Solaris, there are copyright Xenix headers and SCO headers.
It is not strange that Sun signed up and paid SCO, obviously SUN received notification from SCO about license issues and acted accordingly and in the best interest of SUN. That they managed to swing warrants out of the deal, more power to their negotiating team... it probably arose from SUNS skeptacism, if anything, rather then conspiracy in regards to SCO's lawsuite against IBM.
IBM has every right to fight the accusations as they see fit. I happen to believe that SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on. Apparently SUN is covering their but, letting IBM take the defense and either way, SUN is going to come out ahead on this one. Good going on their part. But you certainly can't say they are out to get [SUN] Linux, even if a good solid Linux distribution on hurts Sun more then just about anybody else.
Yes, I'm kinda biased. I make my living off of Sun products. But I objectively don't think it is fair or correct to start pointing fingers at Sun merely because they are protecting their own hides.
"They could have just adapted drivers from BSD with little licensing restrictions."
The ignorance of such a statement is astounding. So what they had solaris working on intel years ago. Does that mean the license was current?
Your post is not insightful, its pure speculative and assigning blame and motive to what amounts to good sound CYA business decisions.
Yea, I suppose they [SUN] could have... like multi-billion dollar companies just throw any old public GNU/GPL set of drivers into their software dist, and then resell them all the time.
Further more, In 1995 I took my $1500 copy of SCO and $3000 license for open server and threw it in the trash can and installed BSDI.
BSDI at the time was the best PC unix hands down at the time. ARe they the folks that got sued by USL?
Linux is the cause of Unix explosion on Intel in the 2000's. It didnt' rob SCO if anything. SCO's branding, quality, and product service were incapable of penetrating wet brown paper, none the less the PC OS market.
I love preaching to the choir.
I didn't understand one bit of that
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That was just as incomprehensible as George Will is some times.
When I was in grade school I was given an examples of literary irony.
Gift of the Magi -- Where the husband pawns his cherished watch to buy his wife a comb set for her beautiful hair, while the wife cut and sold her beautiful hair to buy her husband a beautiful watch fob for his cherished watch.
Aesop, as in Aesop's Fables had another good example of irony. I bird trades it's feathers for a favor, some time later the bird was brought down by an hunters arrow, while dying the bird noticed the arrow was fletched with his own feathers.
Irony is not dead so long as the universe itself exists. If the saying that "luck is where opportunity meets preparation" is true, then irony is certainly a device of the divine, and therefor is not in mans domain to be declared dead.
I kinda agree with the decision. I don't like blocking information and I utterly hate "compelling interest" arguments; However, I don't want public libraries to give access to p0rn sites. Just like I don't want their magazine sections to carry Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler or whatever adult magazines there are.
To me the answer seems simple. All web sites and web pages should have a self assigned ratings for graphic content. Like XXX, NC17, or whatever system seems reasonable. Then the browser should do the filtering. No need for 3rd party filters.
So while the self assigned rating system may be abused, we could then add an oversight committee that could assign or re-assign the ratings. Perhaps the web site ratings could be assigned or kept at the DNS level?
I'm not some type of censor freak or right winger, but I have two children ages 9 and 10, and it scares me at what they can view.
Children don't need access to web sites with pictures of women with sperm all over their faces and cocks up their bum.
Probing all the linux systems to get the name and address of everybody running linux. Expect a letter from their lawyers asking for the new Sco/Linux License fee.
Slashdot Mirror
Is a sure loser. If it wasn't they would be charging an arm and a leg for it.
Those guidlines and laws are to prevent "Front running", Buying or selling before the news is available to the general public.
It is illegal and a crime to tip investors off, for profit or other valuable consideration. The valuable consideration part is what gets alot of insiders confused. They don't have to make money themselves to be charged with insider trading activity. By merely helping somebody else capitalize on the news before hand, they are doing something illegal.
In the case of the Scox execs, as long as they are filing and notifying in a proper manner, there is nothing illegal there. Insider trading is restricted and heavily watched .. thats why we get insider trading activity reports.
Now, artificially inflating or deflating the stock with lies and false reports, thats another story and type of crime. But even here, I don't think you are going to do more then attract scrutiny to what SCO is doing. However dumb we feel their actions are ... there is no crime in being dumb. They have filed lawsuits, they have hired lawyers and they are actively pursuing somethign that they are contending is real. It's going to be very very difficult to prove any thing illegal.
Now, my personal opinion is somebody involved should ask for a Gag order on the case to keep them from extoring customers.
I dont' know why SCO is bragging about violating the GPL license, they've just lost their license to redistribute Linux.
Alot of people gripe about buying items from Fry's. You just simply have to learn how to shop their. Here is quick rule of thumb.
For every item you want or are specificaly going to Fry's for, plan on 3 trips.
1. Trip #1 is to buy item.
2. Trip #2 is to return #1 item and get what you really wanted.
3. Trip #3 is to return #2 item and get one that works.
Furthermore
The pact, signed earlier this year, expanded the rights Sun acquired in 1994 to use Unix in its Solaris operating system. But there's more to the relationship: SCO also granted Sun a warrant to buy as many as 210,000 shares of SCO stock at $1.83 per share as part of the licensing deal, according to a regulatory document filed Tuesday.
point out, Sun was expanding its rights as from the original 1994 AT&T agreement to include additional componants and additional benefits of Unix within solaris ... NOTE: This is not a deal with linux involved, but rather Solaris, Suns own flag ship operating system.
So, whith your irrelevant point aside .. what is your point? Sun is secretly encouraging SCO to be stupid and commit corporate suicide?
Before just putting up a fact, find out what your fact deals with first. Mod me down for flame bait plz
And people who haven't the foggiest notion of what they are talking about generalize, stygmatize, itemize and stereotype.
My second is, what do they have up their sleeves?
Why would they do such a seemingly stupid thing? Is the Fix already in? Do they have the a politician or two in their back pocket? IBM has virtualy said nothing in regards to the merits and it looks like it is really left to the community to get SCO to shut up. (Red Hat Et Al)
Laughs, wouldn't it be funny if the Government simply came out tomorrow and Imunized itself from the whole thing.
Sorry Sco, you can't sue us because we aren't going to let you.
Take for example:
Invite only private networks. Physically separated networks such as in dorms and college campuses. Family networks sharing the family Funny, how about double server networks where half the song is supplied by one random server, and the other half by yet another random server, it's not even the song until combined by the recipient, sneaker net, Geek Raves and lan parties.
Why do I have this vision of 15th century monks trying to track down people using printing presses instead of buying hand copied books from monastaries.
My understanding of mp3.com was that they were only letting people who currently own the record or song download it and play it in mp3 format. That to me seemed fair.
Prediction ... when the audio copying issue and accessibility via the internet is finaly settled, the lawsuites are going to fly for patent infringment, IP theft and the like. I hope first in line is the erstwhile napster, who after the RIAA sued them out of business, will likely have issues with the RIAA using methods similar in design and intent of Napster.
It's becoming clear to me (at least) that SCO's ultimate goal is not capitulation from IBM, but to coopt Linux.
We are being duped with the IBM/SCO legal manuevers. SCO, with a sleight of hand is now selling LINUX binary licenses for 2.4+, declaring anybody running 2.4+ in violation of their copyright (IP or whatever) and at risk, unless they of course buy the new SCO binary license.
Now, there is alot of ranting and raving about GPL this, GPL that, the question is, who is going to step up to the plate with money and lawyers and defend the GPL?
The GPL is weak when it comes to protecting GPL code. The reason why it is weak is nobody has any vested interest in defending it. Now SCO is going to coopt LINUX and nobody can do anything about it?
SCO is going to offer binary licenses, some are going to buy. Those that buy help strengthen SCO's claim. Eventually, without somebody coming in and stopping SCO via a Infringement lawsuite claim of their own, SCO is slowly going to tighten the noose around LINUX. Now, who is going to defend against somebody licensing software and selling it, that is alreay licensed and distributed for free.
My best guess is that all those Linux Distributers who have money, oughtta get together and start a class action and cease and desist against SCO before SCO owns them.
Abrubtly cut short when he was asked about the marked improvement in his writing style and ability since his death.
The post was and is a whole creation of original thought from me and me alone. I didn't cut and past from anywhere, nor did I read any such article and paraphrase it. If it is similar to anything else, it is mere coincidence. Moderators, moderate anyway you like. Chris K.
1. Your casual player, just having fun. They extract their enjoyment from playing and figuring out quests, discovery, and exploration, and achievment within the confines of the game.
2. Your Ebay player. They have fun playing, but additionaly, the have fun from actually transfering the time they spend in game into real life money. Auctioning can be quite addicting, and the money can be quite good ... enough to offset the monthly price, cost of game, and typicaly all the upgrades to your computer to play the advanced ones.
3. Your automated player. These types I'm sure that the peeps (mmorpg slang for people) from /. understand, not only get their enjoyment from playing, ebay'ing, but also derive a certain snug satisfaction by "beating" the game somewhat. I mean creating elaborate unattended play scripts or macros for their toons (slang for their characters).
Now of course there are others, mostly variations of the above with different levels of dedication and interest.
Like, the "Corporations". Power gamers intent on making huge $$$ by selling items, money and toons from the game to those casual players who really have little hope or little time to get them through ordinary games means. These are peeps, few in number mostly, but share the common trait of having multiple computers and multiple accounts. They bludgeon their way to riches, then as the prices come down, they auction of thier toons on ebay and move on to the latest games.
Then of course there are the "outside devs", they are the ones that break the program, hack the packets and develope automated play tools, then sell access or subscriptions to the tools, occasionaly even offering and fufulling support.
Then, on to the 'Sploiters. The ones that don't really develope, but find and abuse and exploit bugs to their advantage. The mmorpg addage goes, exploit early and exploit often, because once discovered, they are quickly fixed. Typicaly with no punishment to those that abused.
All in all, each category is deriving fun and satisfaction from some aspect of the game. Even if it is an unattended aspect.
On to next topic ... It's a delicate balance that the mmorpg game developers and server and fees maintainers tread when they enforce their COC and license rules. Just like in real life, these are the Enforcers. They understand that a little bit of hanky panky is going to happen, they just don't want it rampant to the point were it hurts the name brand and the game itself. They also dont' want to come down too hard and chase off revenue. And they will chase off revenue if they do come down hard. The reason is, they are limiting the types of players to those of basicaly the worst sort ... the casual gamer who loses attention to the repetativeness of the game.
Anyway, before you go off knocking those who enjoy these games in the myriad of ways that they provide, look closely at what you do for your own personal entertainment. I havn't watched TV for over 5 years now. Have two top of the line computers, programming tools, and books all provided for by my hobby. I've met good people, bad people, learned certain aspects about myself (that I am inherently good and incapable of true evil), and I get to communicate with my children in a playfull and rich medium that these games provide, even though they live 1500 miles away.
MMORPGS are a sort of entertainment and therapy that perhaps most of you don't understand. I see nothing but positives with MMORPGS for the future. I see military training possibilities, I see Prisoner rehabilitation, advanced learning, and a whole new economy that is just in it's infant stage. 30 to 40 years from now who knows what value mmorpg will have been passed off to the next generation of young people. It may be that we'll all be living like thx1178 and our only real freedoms will be virtual freedoms, or it could be that we all spread out a bit and report into work every morning by logging into our work based mmorpg.
lol, Lameness filter wouldn't let me do the whole thing in caps .... kinda cool.
MBA Harvard is somewhat educated eh? As compared to what? An Oxford Dropout? There is a saying amoungst professional poker [gamblers] players. "If you want to be successfull in business, surround yourself with smart people. If you wan't to be successfull in poker, surround yourself with dumb people". So far, I'll play poker with anybody that truly believes GW is dumb cause my first assessment of you that you are conceited and an egotistical elitist. The kind that I would like to surround myself with at the poker table.
Yes, I remember how brilliant CNN declared Clinton's statement of: "It depends upon what the meaning of is is". All I could think of is where is Mark Twain or Dorothy Parker when you really need'em.
Now, I'm not posting and responding to try and convince you of anything. I'm posting and responding to remind you that yours is just opinion and is no more correct or certain then mine.
Think about this: I want a President that is diligently and faithfully administering this country rather then one worried about where he's going to get his next blow job and how he's going to keep it a secret.
I also love all these hollywood high school dropouts calling Bush (MBA Harvard) dumb.
I love Bush. I love his plain no nonsense talk. I love his convictions, he would not state false information, he would however, as one who is charged with the responsibility and security of 100's of millions of Americans err on the side of caution and prudence.
You can't judge a man by what his enemies say about him, you can judge though, by who his enemies are. When I look at the round table of Democrats opposing him, it warms my heart to know that GW is in charge and not some socialist anti-american, "lets be like Europe" twits.
Two more positive election cycles for the GOP and that will put the nail in the coffin of the social fascists who hijacked the Democratic party. Then we can get back to real elections where both parties politely disagree, but at least represent America.
Still, Sun is not going to just add publicaly licensed drivers that access thier privately developed kernel code. What I will say is Sun's legal department has a strong say in what Sun does and what Sun uses. These are not part time programmers/lawyers. These guys are full time corporate legal eagles, who's sole job is to keep SUN out of legal troubles.
BTW: Looking at early X86 Solaris, there are copyright Xenix headers and SCO headers.
It is not strange that Sun signed up and paid SCO, obviously SUN received notification from SCO about license issues and acted accordingly and in the best interest of SUN. That they managed to swing warrants out of the deal, more power to their negotiating team ... it probably arose from SUNS skeptacism, if anything, rather then conspiracy in regards to SCO's lawsuite against IBM.
IBM has every right to fight the accusations as they see fit. I happen to believe that SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on. Apparently SUN is covering their but, letting IBM take the defense and either way, SUN is going to come out ahead on this one. Good going on their part. But you certainly can't say they are out to get [SUN] Linux, even if a good solid Linux distribution on hurts Sun more then just about anybody else.
Yes, I'm kinda biased. I make my living off of Sun products. But I objectively don't think it is fair or correct to start pointing fingers at Sun merely because they are protecting their own hides.
The ignorance of such a statement is astounding. So what they had solaris working on intel years ago. Does that mean the license was current?
Your post is not insightful, its pure speculative and assigning blame and motive to what amounts to good sound CYA business decisions. Yea, I suppose they [SUN] could have ... like multi-billion dollar companies just throw any old public GNU/GPL set of drivers into their software dist, and then resell them all the time.
Further more, In 1995 I took my $1500 copy of SCO and $3000 license for open server and threw it in the trash can and installed BSDI. BSDI at the time was the best PC unix hands down at the time. ARe they the folks that got sued by USL?
I love preaching to the choir.
When I was in grade school I was given an examples of literary irony.
Gift of the Magi -- Where the husband pawns his cherished watch to buy his wife a comb set for her beautiful hair, while the wife cut and sold her beautiful hair to buy her husband a beautiful watch fob for his cherished watch.
Aesop, as in Aesop's Fables had another good example of irony. I bird trades it's feathers for a favor, some time later the bird was brought down by an hunters arrow, while dying the bird noticed the arrow was fletched with his own feathers.
Irony is not dead so long as the universe itself exists. If the saying that "luck is where opportunity meets preparation" is true, then irony is certainly a device of the divine, and therefor is not in mans domain to be declared dead.
Microsoft wasn't being forced to carry Sun Java because Sun Java couldn't compete.
Microsoft was being forced to carry it as a remedy of past anti-trust practices of embrace, extend, then obscure.
To me the answer seems simple. All web sites and web pages should have a self assigned ratings for graphic content. Like XXX, NC17, or whatever system seems reasonable. Then the browser should do the filtering. No need for 3rd party filters.
So while the self assigned rating system may be abused, we could then add an oversight committee that could assign or re-assign the ratings. Perhaps the web site ratings could be assigned or kept at the DNS level?
I'm not some type of censor freak or right winger, but I have two children ages 9 and 10, and it scares me at what they can view.
Children don't need access to web sites with pictures of women with sperm all over their faces and cocks up their bum.
Probing all the linux systems to get the name and address of everybody running linux. Expect a letter from their lawyers asking for the new Sco/Linux License fee.