Microsoft paid for both the study and the report. A tried and true method of marketing is to set up a study that is guaranteed to show what you want it to.
"In the last two months Linux has made a net gain of over 100 enterprise sites; sites which have migrated to Linux including Royal Sun Alliance, Deutsche Bank,"
Wasn't it a statement from a securities analyst from Deutsche Bank that was being waved by SCO as their latest "Look, someone believes us, they REALLY believe us!" PR ploy? And isn't that guy a bit out of the loop at DB if he doesn't know his IT department has deployed Linux and the rest are happily discussing SuSE?
I think they mean using a bit more formality about how the code gets submitted to core projects... commercial magazine and book publishers have a statement the author signs - a declaration that the submitted work is original authorship and that the authorhas the rights to it. It's enough to get the publisher off the hook if they discover I ripped off an obscure novelist, or stole an article from Plumber's Weekly.
It is also totally not needed. In both copyright and patent issues, the infringing party is the author or the manufacturer/publisher/distributor, not the end user. The holder of the patent or cpoyright has to go after the infringer for damages, not the innocent purchaser, reader, or viewer. SCO's threat to end users is not only FUD, it's legal bullshit, and getting damned close to extorion.
Take the just-settled patent suit between Intel and Broadcom, with Broadcom being the LOSER. Intel does not have had any legal standing to sue anyone whose equipment has a Broadcom chip. Broadcom has already paid Intel for those chips - that's what the damages are for, what Intel would have made if Broadcom had not infringed on Intel's patents.
We need broadband, but this is not the solution. We need to remove the barriers for DSL and cable. Power companies could leapfrog the telcos and cable companies with fiber into the home or unlicensed wireless from their poles.
You mean the way the Arizona Public Service (electric company) leases their unused fiberoptic capacity... they installed the cable for their own communications needs, but it apparently comes in only one size: big.
See here: for further informaton on how the power companies are doing it without having to ruin radio.
"If broadband can be extended to an extra 100 million people, and 100 thousand people can't use HAM radios anymore, that seems like a worthy tradeoff."
That's also the frequency range used by a lot of fire and police departments. And when LA has its next big quake, wiping out power, cell phone towers, and snapping fiberoptic cables... who you gonna call? How you gonna call? Smoke signals?
Yes, most of them would. They are low power, and most ham setups have batteries. Within a few hours of the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings (which had most of the cell phone relays for that area), they had communication via ham radio in and out. Most of the delay was in moving more equipment in.
After the big Mexico City earthquake in the 1980s, some ham operators stayed on the air by using batteries from their neighbor's cars, but they stayed on the air.
" With the internet giving worldwide communication and stable voice transmission at your fingertips, why would anyone use ham radio?... And don't say ham radio would be useful in some sort of natural disaster, seeing as the internet WAS designed to withstand a nuclear attack!"
OK... you get lost in the desert or the Colorado mountains and we'll use the internet to coordinate the rescue effort on the ground. With everyone driving 50 miles to the nearest payphone to check what's happening in the search, you should be well skeletonized before you are found.
Although the internet was designed to be robust and "withstand a nuclear attack", it's only because they can route traffic around areas where the network has been destroyed. For the people in that destroyed area, there may be no internet, or phones. When the cell phone towers lose power or fall down, so does the ability to communicate. When the routers lose power or the cables snap... there goes the internet.
"Does ham radio have any advantages over current technology?"
Yes. It is a distributed network of independent nodes, most of which have generators and battery backups, whose primary reason for existing is for emergency communications. In case of massive disruption of power and other transmissions... they can keep broadcasting. It's low-tech, cheap, and easy. Can even be mobile. And in the intervals between emergencies, you can chat.
After the big Mexico City earthquake, all the microwave towers had to be realigned, the phones were out until lines and power to switching equipment could be restored, and none of the TV stations could reach their satellites - one TV building collapsed. For the critical first few hours, the hams in Mexico City (civilian, military and diplomatic nodes) were the sole source of contact between the city and the rest of the world... much of it through New Zealand hams who then relayed the information to North America because of an odd bounce in the transmissions.
After things settled down a bit, I spent hours at a local tech college's ham setup with other bilingual persons, recieving and transcribing "we're OK" messages, while other students relayed the messages to the closest ham station they could reach that might be able to get the message through. On the Mexican end, mobile ham units were relaying messages, neighborhood by neighborhood. (most of those neighborhoods don't have running water, let alone cable for boradband).
If suing IBM and getting bought out became seen as a way for small, failing companies to get rich, IBM would be sued by hundreds of them. IBM knows this, which is why they will not do a buyout even for $1.
It's cheaper for them to do what it takes, now, and leave SCO bleeding on the courthouse steps than to buy them out. I read all 40+ pages of the response and countercomplaint... any lawyer who reads that and doesn't break out into a sweat is a lunatic! It's terse, it's meticulous, it flatly denies almost all of SCO's assertions, and then they break out the legal artillery and accuse them of various legal shenanigans to promote the "unjust enrichment" of SCO.
It's a VERY interesting way to get a projection screen that doesn't block traffic, for a fast exit from a movie house, or a less expensive way to have a large screen.
As to the prior art, thye are not the first to have used fog as a screen. Many years ago we took a slide projector out to the riverbottom on a foggy night, right after the bars closed, and projected images onto the fogbank hanging near the road. A still of Godzilla got little response, but projecting a scantily clad barbarian maiden almost caused a wreck.
Dang! It probably IS too dumb to know it can't flow uphill... let's see... idiocy flowing west and over the Sierras hits California upstream of Sacramento, which explains a lot. The eastbound flow must land somewhere near Eagle, Colorado. Or else the high idiocy quotient there is a side effect of the recent media swarm.
It's a bunch of patent counter claims that have nothing to do with the orginal suit. That's called "upping the ante".
IBM as a unix licensee is in posession of SysV source code. IBM could do a source code compare between the SysV code and Linux and point out any illicitly copied code, or if none found, declare that fact..... and do you think they have not already done this? IBM has a long history of saying very little when involved in research or litigation.
>>IBM as a unix licensee is in posession of SysV source code.
>Not any more, SCO pulled their ticket.
No. SCO told IBM that they were cancelling the license and IBM said "No, you are not". One would assume they still have the source code.
Linux didnt go from the limited 2.2 4-way SMP to scaling to 512+ procs by magic or some independent brainstorm. Serious big iron code has appeared.
SCOs UNIX has never had that level of multi-processor capability. I believe that Caldera loaned Alan Cox some multi-processor equipment to develop on, and the various Linux-based "Beowulf" projects over the past few years have had an effect on multi-processor capability.
I have seen news reports that their servers are running Linux. This Deutche Bank person is neither a programmer not an IT manager, he's a securities analyst... a glorified stockbroker...
""Our review of source code and documents appears supportive of SCO claims, though we are not legal experts and IP matters are not always transparent," Deutsche Bank Securities analyst Brian Skiba said in a research note Thursday after visiting SCO's headquarters in Lindon, Utah, Wednesday.
So he saw the same code snippets that the other analysts have seen, with no dates, file names or other means to see when they were developed.
no one it seems, is preparing to challenge SCO and get this resolved
And what was RedHat's complaint filed in Delaware, and IBM's filing yesterday in Utah, if not a challenge to SCO? We're just the GreekChorus (or the peanut gallery).
Normally I don't repost, but I wrote this too late in the last posting cycle and I want a +5 Funny rating.
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Now look at them SCO-yo's that's not the way to do it They say we're infringing on their IP. It ain't workin' the way they try to do it They're getting nowhere, lawsuits ain't free. No it ain't workin', not the way they do it Lemme tell ya them guys are dumb They gots a lawsuit from them RedHat people And a 'nuther from that IBM.
You gotta buy their UNIX license Or else they gonna sue you guys They gotta keep that FUD stream flowing They gotta keep that stock price high.
See little Darl with the options and delusions He's got no braincells under his hair That little Darl wants his own jet airplane Little Darl wants to be a millionaire
You gotta buy their UNIX license Or else they gonna sue you guys They gotta keep the FUD stream flowing They gotta keep that stock price high.
I shoulda learned to play the market I shoulda learned to pump and dump Look at them, they got all those profits Man I could have some fun Darl's up there in Utah making lawyer noises Bangin' out lawsuits like a chimpanzee It ain't workin' the way they try to do it They're getting nowhere, lawsuits ain't free.
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Microsoft paid for both the study and the report. A tried and true method of marketing is to set up a study that is guaranteed to show what you want it to.
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Wasn't it a statement from a securities analyst from Deutsche Bank that was being waved by SCO as their latest "Look, someone believes us, they REALLY believe us!" PR ploy? And isn't that guy a bit out of the loop at DB if he doesn't know his IT department has deployed Linux and the rest are happily discussing SuSE?
I think they mean using a bit more formality about how the code gets submitted to core projects ... commercial magazine and book publishers have a statement the author signs - a declaration that the submitted work is original authorship and that the authorhas the rights to it. It's enough to get the publisher off the hook if they discover I ripped off an obscure novelist, or stole an article from Plumber's Weekly.
Take the just-settled patent suit between Intel and Broadcom, with Broadcom being the LOSER. Intel does not have had any legal standing to sue anyone whose equipment has a Broadcom chip. Broadcom has already paid Intel for those chips - that's what the damages are for, what Intel would have made if Broadcom had not infringed on Intel's patents.
So, could I tap into the signal and get free pr0n?
You mean the way the Arizona Public Service (electric company) leases their unused fiberoptic capacity ... they installed the cable for their own communications needs, but it apparently comes in only one size: big.
See here: for further informaton on how the power companies are doing it without having to ruin radio.
Who needs those tornado alerts anyway, as long as they have broadband access to pr0n sites?
That's also the frequency range used by a lot of fire and police departments. And when LA has its next big quake, wiping out power, cell phone towers, and snapping fiberoptic cables ... who you gonna call? How you gonna call? Smoke signals?
And how is this any better than Microsoft's "shared source" idea, where all the changes get sucked one way?
You've never seen a power line running through a poor neighborhood, on its way to a rich neighborhood?
After the big Mexico City earthquake in the 1980s, some ham operators stayed on the air by using batteries from their neighbor's cars, but they stayed on the air.
OK ... you get lost in the desert or the Colorado mountains and we'll use the internet to coordinate the rescue effort on the ground. With everyone driving 50 miles to the nearest payphone to check what's happening in the search, you should be well skeletonized before you are found.
Although the internet was designed to be robust and "withstand a nuclear attack", it's only because they can route traffic around areas where the network has been destroyed. For the people in that destroyed area, there may be no internet, or phones. When the cell phone towers lose power or fall down, so does the ability to communicate. When the routers lose power or the cables snap ... there goes the internet.
Who you gonna call?
Yes. It is a distributed network of independent nodes, most of which have generators and battery backups, whose primary reason for existing is for emergency communications. In case of massive disruption of power and other transmissions ... they can keep broadcasting. It's low-tech, cheap, and easy. Can even be mobile. And in the intervals between emergencies, you can chat.
After the big Mexico City earthquake, all the microwave towers had to be realigned, the phones were out until lines and power to switching equipment could be restored, and none of the TV stations could reach their satellites - one TV building collapsed. For the critical first few hours, the hams in Mexico City (civilian, military and diplomatic nodes) were the sole source of contact between the city and the rest of the world ... much of it through New Zealand hams who then relayed the information to North America because of an odd bounce in the transmissions.
After things settled down a bit, I spent hours at a local tech college's ham setup with other bilingual persons, recieving and transcribing "we're OK" messages, while other students relayed the messages to the closest ham station they could reach that might be able to get the message through. On the Mexican end, mobile ham units were relaying messages, neighborhood by neighborhood. (most of those neighborhoods don't have running water, let alone cable for boradband).
It's cheaper for them to do what it takes, now, and leave SCO bleeding on the courthouse steps than to buy them out. I read all 40+ pages of the response and countercomplaint ... any lawyer who reads that and doesn't break out into a sweat is a lunatic! It's terse, it's meticulous, it flatly denies almost all of SCO's assertions, and then they break out the legal artillery and accuse them of various legal shenanigans to promote the "unjust enrichment" of SCO.
As to the prior art, thye are not the first to have used fog as a screen. Many years ago we took a slide projector out to the riverbottom on a foggy night, right after the bars closed, and projected images onto the fogbank hanging near the road. A still of Godzilla got little response, but projecting a scantily clad barbarian maiden almost caused a wreck.
Dang! It probably IS too dumb to know it can't flow uphill ... let's see ... idiocy flowing west and over the Sierras hits California upstream of Sacramento, which explains a lot. The eastbound flow must land somewhere near Eagle, Colorado. Or else the high idiocy quotient there is a side effect of the recent media swarm.
Unfortunately, you are infringing on my IP (idiotic parodies) and you owe me $699 for a license to continue to write them.
IBM as a unix licensee is in posession of SysV source code. IBM could do a source code compare between the SysV code and Linux and point out any illicitly copied code, or if none found, declare that fact. .... and do you think they have not already done this? IBM has a long history of saying very little when involved in research or litigation.
>Not any more, SCO pulled their ticket.
No. SCO told IBM that they were cancelling the license and IBM said "No, you are not". One would assume they still have the source code.
Linux didnt go from the limited 2.2 4-way SMP to scaling to 512+ procs by magic or some independent brainstorm. Serious big iron code has appeared.
SCOs UNIX has never had that level of multi-processor capability. I believe that Caldera loaned Alan Cox some multi-processor equipment to develop on, and the various Linux-based "Beowulf" projects over the past few years have had an effect on multi-processor capability.
""Our review of source code and documents appears supportive of SCO claims, though we are not legal experts and IP matters are not always transparent," Deutsche Bank Securities analyst Brian Skiba said in a research note Thursday after visiting SCO's headquarters in Lindon, Utah, Wednesday.
So he saw the same code snippets that the other analysts have seen, with no dates, file names or other means to see when they were developed.
And what was RedHat's complaint filed in Delaware, and IBM's filing yesterday in Utah, if not a challenge to SCO? We're just the GreekChorus (or the peanut gallery).
No. There's a mountain range in the way. It tends to drift across the salt flats into Nevada, and south along the Colorado into Arizona.
Normally I don't repost, but I wrote this too late in the last posting cycle and I want a +5 Funny rating.
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Now look at them SCO-yo's that's not the way to do it
They say we're infringing on their IP.
It ain't workin' the way they try to do it
They're getting nowhere, lawsuits ain't free.
No it ain't workin', not the way they do it
Lemme tell ya them guys are dumb
They gots a lawsuit from them RedHat people
And a 'nuther from that IBM.
You gotta buy their UNIX license
Or else they gonna sue you guys
They gotta keep that FUD stream flowing
They gotta keep that stock price high.
See little Darl with the options and delusions
He's got no braincells under his hair
That little Darl wants his own jet airplane
Little Darl wants to be a millionaire
You gotta buy their UNIX license
Or else they gonna sue you guys
They gotta keep the FUD stream flowing
They gotta keep that stock price high.
I shoulda learned to play the market
I shoulda learned to pump and dump
Look at them, they got all those profits
Man I could have some fun
Darl's up there in Utah making lawyer noises
Bangin' out lawsuits like a chimpanzee
It ain't workin' the way they try to do it
They're getting nowhere, lawsuits ain't free.