This was a better, kinder move by Microsoft and I applaud them. They are behaving themselves much better in regards to licensing issues now than in the past. Since this move sounds like a defensive mesaure due to pressure put upon them by the open source alternatives, its safe to say that open source is providing the consumer and student with better licensing and hence a better product. Open source is good for the market.
If anyone can make a good assesment of the situation without compromising any IP, its Richard M. Stallman. He should be allowed, paid even, to view all the documents and given time to make a critical assesment.
"During that project we often came across sections of code that looked very similar, in fact we wondered why even variable names were identical. It looked very much like both codes had the same origin, but that was good as the implementation of 95 percent of all Linux system calls on the Unix kernel turned out to be literally 'one-liners'," the source said.
which implies that the code with the same variable names is actually original Linux. It appears to me that the reporter, especially one from eWeek, knows what he's talking about, and this further explains the statement in the second paragraph.
A source close to SCO, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told eWEEK that parts of the Linux kernel code
were copied into the Unix System V source tree by former or current SCO employees. [emphasis mine]
I'd bet on SCO for that proof, if I were you. So far, we've seen them armed for bear: Novell thought they had SCO, and now look like fools, then OSS types thought the evidence didn't exist, and now we know they were wrong. I'd guess that SCO has affadavits from the original programmers for the code they showed to the analysts.
This is a real, big problem and the question remains who, exactly, put it into the kernel source and under what pretext. I am hesitant to believe IBM did it because they take measures to see that this doesn't happen, unless, of course, a disgruntled IBM employee put it in there and yes, dare I bring the word up again, its looking more and more like an intentional act of sabotage.
She should know enough to be able to compare two side-by-side source code listings and tell if they are similar.
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What I liked least about the article was the author's insistence that code could be quietly slipped into Open Source software and that nobody might notice that it was a trojan horse or that it violated patents. His suggestion is simply outrageous. All companies and individuals all over the world are free to look at the source code for any of the products and check to see that there is/is not anything wrong with the code. The hiding of patented and copied code is probably more common than one might think in Proprietary Code.
But consider a case of sabotage where the copyright or patent owner place a plant within the developers. That developer gains the trust of fellow developers to the point he or she has access to the CVS tree and after awhile starts the copying and pasting. How can any of the other developers know its proprietary? They can't because the original code is proprietary.
By that, I mean how could God relate an implant to John? An embedded microchip is, for all practical purposes, a mark or form thereof. Say, if I "mark" someone with a marks-a-lot, and write upon that person, "Coca Cola", then I'm marking it with "Coca Cola" but in order to accomodate an cashless society, something more - a lot more - will be needed besides a few words, specifically numbers. For, if physical currency is exchanged then there could be no check on a person's affiliation with the beast, but, OTOH, by implanting some kind of "numeric mark" (albeit embedded), such a system could easily be implemented.
Perhaps its an improvement since you were last there, but there are two side-by-side tracks in the tunnel so I do not see any compelling reason why they could not move two trains through the tunnel although the two tracks converge into one track at the end of the tunnel/at the Tandy Center.
It is a light rail system for most of its track but as it enters the Tandy Center, it goes through a tunnel.
Anyway,
the rail system itself is very old and goes back to a previous merchandiser in Fort Worth, Lennings or something similar. They were pretty famous because they were the department store in Fort Worth (and the surrounding small cities) for a while.
They may have a wake for him August in San Fran.
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Most of the problems people are encountering with the MPAA and RIAA could be avoided if people simply realized that popular movies and popular recordings are of very little value.
There are some very unscrupulous people in the IT business who will go to great lengths to conceal their criminal activities, such as painting a legitimate, highly-skilled computer operator a thief after she tries to blow the whistle on them.
This sounded like a legitimate news story, too: near New York, a man was cutting fish and one of them began to speak in Hebrew about apocolyptic things.
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If 10 people have a copy of kernel-2.4.20.tar.gz then can p2p software download different parts from each person?
This was a better, kinder move by Microsoft and I applaud them. They are behaving themselves much better in regards to licensing issues now than in the past. Since this move sounds like a defensive mesaure due to pressure put upon them by the open source alternatives, its safe to say that open source is providing the consumer and student with better licensing and hence a better product. Open source is good for the market.
If anyone can make a good assesment of the situation without compromising any IP, its Richard M. Stallman. He should be allowed, paid even, to view all the documents and given time to make a critical assesment.
The article goes on to say,
which implies that the code with the same variable names is actually original Linux. It appears to me that the reporter, especially one from eWeek, knows what he's talking about, and this further explains the statement in the second paragraph.do you not understand? The article states:
This is a real, big problem and the question remains who, exactly, put it into the kernel source and under what pretext. I am hesitant to believe IBM did it because they take measures to see that this doesn't happen, unless, of course, a disgruntled IBM employee put it in there and yes, dare I bring the word up again, its looking more and more like an intentional act of sabotage.
She should know enough to be able to compare two side-by-side source code listings and tell if they are similar.
But consider a case of sabotage where the copyright or patent owner place a plant within the developers. That developer gains the trust of fellow developers to the point he or she has access to the CVS tree and after awhile starts the copying and pasting. How can any of the other developers know its proprietary? They can't because the original code is proprietary.
Few have made mention that this may be a case of sabotage.
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By that, I mean how could God relate an implant to John? An embedded microchip is, for all practical purposes, a mark or form thereof. Say, if I "mark" someone with a marks-a-lot, and write upon that person, "Coca Cola", then I'm marking it with "Coca Cola" but in order to accomodate an cashless society, something more - a lot more - will be needed besides a few words, specifically numbers. For, if physical currency is exchanged then there could be no check on a person's affiliation with the beast, but, OTOH, by implanting some kind of "numeric mark" (albeit embedded), such a system could easily be implemented.
Perhaps its an improvement since you were last there, but there are two side-by-side tracks in the tunnel so I do not see any compelling reason why they could not move two trains through the tunnel although the two tracks converge into one track at the end of the tunnel/at the Tandy Center.
It is a light rail system for most of its track but as it enters the Tandy Center, it goes through a tunnel.
Anyway, the rail system itself is very old and goes back to a previous merchandiser in Fort Worth, Lennings or something similar. They were pretty famous because they were the department store in Fort Worth (and the surrounding small cities) for a while.
here maybe a road trip is in order.
Anyway, I'm kind of bummed out now. Codd really is one of the great CS pioneers, like Turing and Van Neumann.
he shall be missed.
I greatly respect and admire the man. He achieved a good deal.
and not a keyboard. But its neat because one can stack them and add more functionality so the pc's turn out like a cube.
here is that particular page.
Most of the problems people are encountering with the MPAA and RIAA could be avoided if people simply realized that popular movies and popular recordings are of very little value.
There are some very unscrupulous people in the IT business who will go to great lengths to conceal their criminal activities, such as painting a legitimate, highly-skilled computer operator a thief after she tries to blow the whistle on them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2854189.stm
This sounded like a legitimate news story, too: near New York, a man was cutting fish and one of them began to speak in Hebrew about apocolyptic things.
Ask him to return the money and send him on his way.
hmmmm?
That was the problem because I'm not a crook but they want to paint me a crook so they can continue on their wicked ways.