http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/ar chives/2005/04/the_truth_about_1.html http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/lin ux/story/0,10801,82070,00.html Laura DiDio, an analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston, said she was shown two or three samples of the allegedly copied Linux code, and it appeared to her that the sections were a "copy and paste" match of the SCO Unix code that she was shown in comparison. DiDio and the other analysts were able to view the code only under a nondisclosure agreement,... "The courts are going to ultimately have to prove this, but based on what I'm seeing... I think there is a basis that SCO has a credible case," DiDio said. "This is not a nuisance case."
Moglen is a bad advocate, an ecclectic intellectual nightmare. But even worse, he sits on the shoulder of giants and is nothing but a braggart. His contributions are insignificant.
Richard Stallman is a radical but he is trustworthy.
A flamebait against Moglen? No.
The problem is that Moglen has a different ideology and free-rides on the free software movement and spreads his dangerous ideas.
I am an opponent of software patents but I believe that audiences will not realise that Moglen did *nothing* against US software patenting. So talking is nice. Action is better. The reason why there are still software patents in the US is that people like Moglen simulate action while there is no organised movement.
So the real question is whether it is really illegal under Russian law.
Joining the WTO is likely not only based on the Us opinion. Would be a severe mistake to exclude the WTO although the WTO as I know it is a very aerogant and intransparent body when it comes to civil society.
Nice, but the main problem for me is interoperability and control over my maschine. I have no problem with a root account, I know my password, I can change settings. But what annoys me most is having an administered machine with limited access rights running windows administered by person a.
And everytime I want to run the software which makes me productive or the machine usable for me, I have to ask a and a is unwilling because it requires work for them.
In my opinion admins are obsolete. I want a plug and play machine. I hat nothing more than corporate maschines.
Downloading is a mass phenonemon. Nerds are the only people who mostly have a 100% unpirated system.
The core of the post is not piracy but that pirats talk like business, in order to satsfy their customers.
"A sales assistant at one Shanghai DVD shop said the initial copies were 'pirated overseas' and that 'better quality' versions would probably be available early next month."
It is not a real lie, as everybody knew there was no Iraq-Al Quaida relation. It was dirty rhetorics for the masses and everybody knew.
"We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America."
Probably even this is wrong as the US is out of reach for Iraq and we don't know whether it recognised the US as an enemy or planned attacks on the US.
Intrestingly this here is almost true:
"We know that the United States of America and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- Saddam Hussein. We know that the USA and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders went to the USA. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader, who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that the US has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases."
"Windows Vista was going to include a completely rewritten file system, based on SQL Server and once called Storage+. Later renamed to WinFS, this file system was downgraded to a "storage engine," meaning that it would, in fact, run on top of the decades-old NTFS file system. Then WinFS was stripped out of Windows Vista because the performance was so horrible. WinFS will supposedly ship around the same time as Windows Vista now, as an add-on. Or maybe it will be later than that. Maybe it will never ship. Who the heck knows? Who cares anymore?"
Intresting to add that afaik it was removed because of the stupid software patent laws Microsoft supports so much. Oh, yes. If Microsoft was smart and unideological they would take ReiserFS.
I agree that a takeover of Mandriva would be best choice.
Mandriva is strong and solid. It fits to Oracles product line. Many ERP software manufacturers chose Mandriva. Mandriva is also strong aimed at the desktop, the French Suse so to speak.
When we speak of Novell we mean SuSe Linux. Suse is a KDE centric distribution which has a respectable market share on Linux desktops in Europe. Currently some Novell desktop strategist try to achieve the same with Gnome centric solutions, with limited success.
(K)Ubuntu has no market as the product is not sold.
Companies can justify to buy another company and lose a lot of money for the strategic advantage. They cannot justify to donate large portions of money, even when the effect would be the same.
The other issue is control. When Oracle buys Novell they can control corporate policy but they will have no say over Ubuntu. And I do not believe they will buy canonical.
> And WIPO is only one such treaty, among others. 1. WIPO is an UN organisation, to be more precise a diplomatic conference WIPO = World Intellectual Property Organisations. WIPO has little institutional political interests. 2. You probably refer to ab WIPO treaty.
> If we do not put corporations under the law, soon, laws will be issued at an international level by the corporations and enforced on us.
At WIPO corporations are more or less weak as stakeholders. The main influential stakeholders at WIPO are the Us movie industry and Cptech. Strong stakeholders are also patent attorneys associations and national patent offices. Delegates to WIPO are representatives from member states. Any organisation can accredit to WIPO and sure they do.
> The aim of WIPO is to enforce the harshest possible IP protection, so states are required to cross-apply judgements from other members of the treaty.
No, the aim of some members of WIPO is to enforce these harshest possible protection e.g. the US. WIPO is full of IP critics, esp. Brazil. The only problem of WIPO itself is that it takes part in propaganda activities.
Wipo is currently shaked. The solution is to apply for accreditation or support organisations which are represented there. I fear forum shifting is far more dangerous. TRIPs e.g. is no WIPO contract.
This is a problem. Gnome is ugly in our eyes. But despite that it is our second choice. KDE offers a real innovative community desktop and in fact Linux on the desktop means KDE. In nations where Gnome rules Linux made no inroads on the desktop.
Unfortunately RedHat made the decision in favour of Gnome which was a huge mistake. Then they gave up their Desktop strategy. SuSE was a succesful KDE distribution and strong on the desktop in Europe. Mandrake chose KDE. Now we see Ximian "Novell" guys perverting SuSe into a Gnome desktop while we as users never wanted anything but KDE.
> Oh boo-fucking-hoo. Cry me a river. Maybe because Gnome *IS* the default standard for Ubuntu, and KDE is an offshoot?
KDE based environments get under pressure from Gnome embracement strategies which intend to move us away from KDE which is the desktop of our choice. I am in favour of letting the users decide.
I can accept Kubuntu but this is only an embracement strategy. I predict Gnome will be no success on the Desktop because I as a user do not want it. And I cannot stand the Gnome imperialism.
Interestingly the root of evil is US broken patent law. This is an internationally recognised fact. The cases are just effects.
What's different in the Us is the lack of an organisation such as FFII which puts pressure on parliament and proposes solutions to solve the mess. US citizens prefer to leave Us patent reform to Ms lobbyists and the pharmaceutical industry. And then we also see some usual suspects EFF action and numerous eloquent commentators -- not the right approach to get impact and solve the damn problems.
The funny part of it is that you will hardly get a company to donate 1 Million to these civil society organisations of software developers which enables them to solve the mess (sure they would be able to with less lobbying money). But they will pay 56 million$ for settlements with the EVIL GUY (tm) which funds the US patent enforcement industry. And they will pay millions to unsound clueless lobbyists for "more and better protection" of "intellectual property".
US Companies just pay the prize for their good business relationships with the community of patent attorneys and lawyers.
Slashdot Mirror
Is shelleytherepublican website a joke or mental-illness?
I wonder why the name reminds me of Frankenstein.
So Steven Hilton updated Andy Tai's map.
The only problem is that the map is wrong.
a) SCO is nof no importance
b) Where is Gnu Classpath?
c) Ximian does not exist anymore.
d) Mozilla is stronger
Then there are a few hills in the hands of Microsoft:
- table PC
- Xbox
ha
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/ar chives/2005/04/the_truth_about_1.htmln ux/story/0,10801,82070,00.html ... "The courts are going to ultimately have to prove this, but based on what I'm seeing ... I think there is a basis that SCO has a credible case," DiDio said. "This is not a nuisance case."
s /videos/didio_video.wvx
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/li
Laura DiDio, an analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston, said she was shown two or three samples of the allegedly copied Linux code, and it appeared to her that the sections were a "copy and paste" match of the SCO Unix code that she was shown in comparison.
DiDio and the other analysts were able to view the code only under a nondisclosure agreement,
Watch the "expert" Laura Didio on video from a credible source:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/fact
Enjoy her!
*lol*
Infringement != crime
Moglen is a bad advocate, an ecclectic intellectual nightmare. But even worse, he sits on the shoulder of giants and is nothing but a braggart. His contributions are insignificant.
Richard Stallman is a radical but he is trustworthy.
A flamebait against Moglen? No.
The problem is that Moglen has a different ideology and free-rides on the free software movement and spreads his dangerous ideas.
I am an opponent of software patents but I believe that audiences will not realise that Moglen did *nothing* against US software patenting. So talking is nice. Action is better. The reason why there are still software patents in the US is that people like Moglen simulate action while there is no organised movement.
So the real question is whether it is really illegal under Russian law. Joining the WTO is likely not only based on the Us opinion. Would be a severe mistake to exclude the WTO although the WTO as I know it is a very aerogant and intransparent body when it comes to civil society.
Nice, but the main problem for me is interoperability and control over my maschine. I have no problem with a root account, I know my password, I can change settings. But what annoys me most is having an administered machine with limited access rights running windows administered by person a.
And everytime I want to run the software which makes me productive or the machine usable for me, I have to ask a and a is unwilling because it requires work for them.
In my opinion admins are obsolete. I want a plug and play machine. I hat nothing more than corporate maschines.
TRIPs mandates 20 years.
Imagine a mining truck and try to transform it to serve the needs of formula one races.
Downloading is a mass phenonemon. Nerds are the only people who mostly have a 100% unpirated system.
The core of the post is not piracy but that pirats talk like business, in order to satsfy their customers.
"A sales assistant at one Shanghai DVD shop said the initial copies were 'pirated overseas' and that 'better quality' versions would probably be available early next month."
I think it is time for a petition to Parliament and a formal complaint.
It is beyond all bearing that our government assists Us business spying.
To be honest, a table with 116 books and a comment section is nothing which does enlight anyone here.
For books there are bibliographies. You find them in your library.
However, I am looking for a web application for book or article collections with reviews, with bibtex export, very 'simple'.
Are there solutions available out there?
Latex is good for writing because the output looks good and the work gets similar to programming which makes things easier.
Patents e.g. http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1376387
This needs to get discussed first.
What about the year 2000 bug?
It is not a real lie, as everybody knew there was no Iraq-Al Quaida relation. It was dirty rhetorics for the masses and everybody knew.
"We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America."
Probably even this is wrong as the US is out of reach for Iraq and we don't know whether it recognised the US as an enemy or planned attacks on the US.
Intrestingly this here is almost true:
"We know that the United States of America and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- Saddam Hussein. We know that the USA and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders went to the USA. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader, who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that the US has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases."
"Windows Vista was going to include a completely rewritten file system, based on SQL Server and once called Storage+. Later renamed to WinFS, this file system was downgraded to a "storage engine," meaning that it would, in fact, run on top of the decades-old NTFS file system. Then WinFS was stripped out of Windows Vista because the performance was so horrible. WinFS will supposedly ship around the same time as Windows Vista now, as an add-on. Or maybe it will be later than that. Maybe it will never ship. Who the heck knows? Who cares anymore?" Intresting to add that afaik it was removed because of the stupid software patent laws Microsoft supports so much. Oh, yes. If Microsoft was smart and unideological they would take ReiserFS.
Now Oracle getting Mandriva makes a lot of sense to me. And an alliance with Debian too.
I agree that a takeover of Mandriva would be best choice.
Mandriva is strong and solid. It fits to Oracles product line. Many ERP software manufacturers chose Mandriva. Mandriva is also strong aimed at the desktop, the French Suse so to speak.
And I assume Mandriva would be a cheap takeover.
When we speak of Novell we mean SuSe Linux. Suse is a KDE centric distribution which has a respectable market share on Linux desktops in Europe. Currently some Novell desktop strategist try to achieve the same with Gnome centric solutions, with limited success.
(K)Ubuntu has no market as the product is not sold.
Companies can justify to buy another company and lose a lot of money for the strategic advantage. They cannot justify to donate large portions of money, even when the effect would be the same.
The other issue is control. When Oracle buys Novell they can control corporate policy but they will have no say over Ubuntu. And I do not believe they will buy canonical.
As Oracle I would rather buy Mandriva.
I hate to say it but your are wrong.
> And WIPO is only one such treaty, among others.
1. WIPO is an UN organisation, to be more precise a diplomatic conference
WIPO = World Intellectual Property Organisations.
WIPO has little institutional political interests.
2. You probably refer to ab WIPO treaty.
> If we do not put corporations under the law, soon, laws will be issued at an international level by the corporations and enforced on us.
At WIPO corporations are more or less weak as stakeholders. The main influential stakeholders at WIPO are the Us movie industry and Cptech. Strong stakeholders are also patent attorneys associations and national patent offices. Delegates to WIPO are representatives from member states. Any organisation can accredit to WIPO and sure they do.
> The aim of WIPO is to enforce the harshest possible IP protection, so states are required to cross-apply judgements from other members of the treaty.
No, the aim of some members of WIPO is to enforce these harshest possible protection e.g. the US. WIPO is full of IP critics, esp. Brazil. The only problem of WIPO itself is that it takes part in propaganda activities.
Wipo is currently shaked. The solution is to apply for accreditation or support organisations which are represented there. I fear forum shifting is far more dangerous. TRIPs e.g. is no WIPO contract.
> Duh. Ubuntu is a distro built around Gnome.
This is a problem. Gnome is ugly in our eyes. But despite that it is our second choice. KDE offers a real innovative community desktop and in fact Linux on the desktop means KDE. In nations where Gnome rules Linux made no inroads on the desktop.
Unfortunately RedHat made the decision in favour of Gnome which was a huge mistake. Then they gave up their Desktop strategy. SuSE was a succesful KDE distribution and strong on the desktop in Europe. Mandrake chose KDE. Now we see Ximian "Novell" guys perverting SuSe into a Gnome desktop while we as users never wanted anything but KDE.
> Oh boo-fucking-hoo. Cry me a river. Maybe because Gnome *IS* the default standard for Ubuntu, and KDE is an offshoot?
KDE based environments get under pressure from Gnome embracement strategies which intend to move us away from KDE which is the desktop of our choice. I am in favour of letting the users decide.
I can accept Kubuntu but this is only an embracement strategy. I predict Gnome will be no success on the Desktop because I as a user do not want it. And I cannot stand the Gnome imperialism.
Interestingly the root of evil is US broken patent law. This is an internationally recognised fact. The cases are just effects.
What's different in the Us is the lack of an organisation such as FFII which puts pressure on parliament and proposes solutions to solve the mess. US citizens prefer to leave Us patent reform to Ms lobbyists and the pharmaceutical industry. And then we also see some usual suspects EFF action and numerous eloquent commentators -- not the right approach to get impact and solve the damn problems.
The funny part of it is that you will hardly get a company to donate 1 Million to these civil society organisations of software developers which enables them to solve the mess (sure they would be able to with less lobbying money). But they will pay 56 million$ for settlements with the EVIL GUY (tm) which funds the US patent enforcement industry. And they will pay millions to unsound clueless lobbyists for "more and better protection" of "intellectual property".
US Companies just pay the prize for their good business relationships with the community of patent attorneys and lawyers.
I wonder whether it would be useful to report it tos /competition_policy_and_the_citizen/consumer_liais on/
http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/publication
You know, DG competition is curious to know more about MS anticompetitive pratices.
Sure, just think of parkho.tel...
.pr for the Prussian nation...
I wonder when we will get
Why do you use a Gnome desktop?