To answer someone elses question first, SCO are doing this so that the management can action their share options while the stock is low and sell at near 400%+. For example, as a manager I have a share option for 2000 shares at $1 costing me $2000...Now, the going rate at around $10 is high and you might be able to sell around $6...it's a 600% profit for doing nothing but FUD (work it out, that is 2000*5$ profit...erm $10,000)...
Now onto my curiosity...Why did the article before this one talk about Linus leaving for oh, about a year, to work full-time on the kernel? To me this sounds like either something is wrong (and Linus knows what it is and is gonna go hammer and tongs at changing it), or he envisages a battle ahead...Or it could be just that he has some great ideas to put into development...I still find it weird...
Oh yeah, and it is only right to force the small man to have to fight a massive legal battle, with a few dollars in his pocket, with a huge man with millions of dollars...
Which one do you think will have to give up first, even if they are right? Definitely not the little man...So much for your free market!
I believe that there is a very simple solution to ALL patent issues, and that is to CAP the number of patents any one company holds. That will force the companies with lots of money to develop new (read better) ideas, give up an old patent (giving smaller companies chances to pick up those patents and work on them). It would also stop the stifling of innovation from up-start companies.
What do you think?
It would also reduce the cost of running the patent office, would make it easier for them to review prior art, and be more efficient.
Patents can be made by people who just sit on those patents and do nothing with them, therby preventing other people from developing the idea...If, however, the company makes a new patent for a bright new idea, they would probably release a patent that they are not using...Would also bring a whole new strategic importance to business. I also believe it would help the economy by allowing the little people back into the market...
I found the code that SCO is complaining about. In fact, it is so obviously SCO's code that I think they may have a case...Not sure if it is IBM that put it in there though..."What is it?", I hear you scream...well, without further ado, from the bowels of the linux kernel I bring you SCO's code:
George W. Bush invoked a little known (and recently added) law that allows him to enforce the implanting of digital GPS devices into each new-born as matter of procedure. His argument for this is that it will enable him and his government to track terrorists...
In a related article, media and advertising companies are lobbying GWB to allow them access to the data from such devices to allow them to change wall-mounted adverts to reflect the person that is walking past them...
In more related material, B. Gates has implemented a functionality into windows that allow it to confirm that the person using the computer is a licensed user.
"Eventually", a spokeperson for the whitehouse starts,"we will own the arses of everyone."
Have you been to sweden? Blimey then, you should think about it...What do you do when there is nothing else to do? That's right, abuse other peoples bodies...Trust me, well worth the visit, especially if you like yours blond and rather exessive in bed...
What I do is keep a list of ALL products and services that I see advertised in a way that bugs me and boycott the product/service.
I think we need to do this because I see a future with M$ that I REALLY don't like...You remember the active desktop thing from 9x days? Yup? Well, it is still there, just kind of hidden...Now, image the future...M$, with all this palladium rubbish, will be able to target specific people, and place adds ON YOU DESKTOP...That's right, per user advertisements...Oh the capitalists and freudian desire fulfillers would love that!
Where I live, in this little country known as Luxembourg, we are bound to a SINGLE internet service provider, namely P&T.
Not too bad, you would say, but then let's look at the details for ADSL:
Installation: $149.50 (1Euro=1$ for simplicity).
Monthly fee for line: LuxDSL Start: $49.95
Monthly fee for ISP: SpeedSurf Start: $29.33
So, a total of $80 per MONTH for 256Kbit...Now, that is without ADSL modem...Now, what is that for? 1Mb d/l? No, that is for 256Kbit/s d/l and 64Kbit/s u/l.
For 512?...
LuxDSL Run (for phone line right?): $65.55
For ISP: $39.10
So, a total of $105 per MONTH for 512Kbit...I can't believe that the price goes up on the phone line dependant on the speed at which I surf...There is NO REASON for this. (This is a LUX RANT). This should be against human rights:D
Yep, aren't you impressed. Sorry not everyone is as clued up as you and I. However, you assume I didn't know this, whereas all I was merely doing was quoting a very very very funny scene...
So, in the words of Monty before you decide to fire some ammunition at someone else:
erif dna esra ruoy pu tekcor egral rehtar a evohS
Waitress:...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
If Earth is so much a target for asteroids one has to wonder if:
a) Why Jupiter, who's size compared to Earth is immense, has not had a large asteroid annihalate it yet? (ok, maybe it has, i don't know) or,
b) They are aimed...
Is this just a means to justify the spending of millions of taxpayers dollars and keep some people employed, or is this the first signs of a sentient galactic war?
Slashdot Mirror
Karem
Now onto my curiosity...Why did the article before this one talk about Linus leaving for oh, about a year, to work full-time on the kernel? To me this sounds like either something is wrong (and Linus knows what it is and is gonna go hammer and tongs at changing it), or he envisages a battle ahead...Or it could be just that he has some great ideas to put into development...I still find it weird...
Karem
Which one do you think will have to give up first, even if they are right? Definitely not the little man...So much for your free market!
Karem Lore
What do you think?
It would also reduce the cost of running the patent office, would make it easier for them to review prior art, and be more efficient.
Patents can be made by people who just sit on those patents and do nothing with them, therby preventing other people from developing the idea...If, however, the company makes a new patent for a bright new idea, they would probably release a patent that they are not using...Would also bring a whole new strategic importance to business. I also believe it would help the economy by allowing the little people back into the market...
Karem Lore
int System_Call_Operator = 0;
See that? System_Call_Operator...proof!
That is a blatant use of the SCO name...
In a related article, media and advertising companies are lobbying GWB to allow them access to the data from such devices to allow them to change wall-mounted adverts to reflect the person that is walking past them...
In more related material, B. Gates has implemented a functionality into windows that allow it to confirm that the person using the computer is a licensed user.
"Eventually", a spokeperson for the whitehouse starts,"we will own the arses of everyone."
Karem
Hey, I read the first 3 words and figured your whole post out!!!
Have you been to sweden? Blimey then, you should think about it...What do you do when there is nothing else to do? That's right, abuse other peoples bodies...Trust me, well worth the visit, especially if you like yours blond and rather exessive in bed...
I think we need to do this because I see a future with M$ that I REALLY don't like...You remember the active desktop thing from 9x days? Yup? Well, it is still there, just kind of hidden...Now, image the future...M$, with all this palladium rubbish, will be able to target specific people, and place adds ON YOU DESKTOP...That's right, per user advertisements...Oh the capitalists and freudian desire fulfillers would love that!
Karem
Not too bad, you would say, but then let's look at the details for ADSL:
Installation: $149.50 (1Euro=1$ for simplicity).
Monthly fee for line: LuxDSL Start: $49.95
Monthly fee for ISP: SpeedSurf Start: $29.33
So, a total of $80 per MONTH for 256Kbit...Now, that is without ADSL modem...Now, what is that for? 1Mb d/l? No, that is for 256Kbit/s d/l and 64Kbit/s u/l.
For 512?...
LuxDSL Run (for phone line right?): $65.55
For ISP: $39.10
So, a total of $105 per MONTH for 512Kbit...I can't believe that the price goes up on the phone line dependant on the speed at which I surf...There is NO REASON for this. (This is a LUX RANT). This should be against human rights :D
Karem Lore
Yep, aren't you impressed. Sorry not everyone is as clued up as you and I. However, you assume I didn't know this, whereas all I was merely doing was quoting a very very very funny scene... So, in the words of Monty before you decide to fire some ammunition at someone else: erif dna esra ruoy pu tekcor egral rehtar a evohS
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Hmmm
Karem
Could you not wait until I had finished reading?
Karem
Oh no,I forgot, that right has been taken away from us in the UK...You're a criminal if you don't cough up your encryption key...
Karem
a) Why Jupiter, who's size compared to Earth is immense, has not had a large asteroid annihalate it yet? (ok, maybe it has, i don't know) or,
b) They are aimed...
Is this just a means to justify the spending of millions of taxpayers dollars and keep some people employed, or is this the first signs of a sentient galactic war?
Karem Lore
New Spe(e)chTech presents the all new talking Bitch...
Woof!Do you like that?Woof!
Karem
Karem