So where did you find this wife? Cause the one I got is the messiest, most disorganized human being I've ever met. My computer room is the cleanest room in the house and that's not saying much.
How is it possible that they are getting away with the things that they are
doing and nothing is being done about it?
First they start demanding that people pay them for a license when it hasn't
even been proven in court that they own the product they are licensing.
Now they're willfully, blatantly and openly violating a license.
Both of these were done simply because they say so. Is this the new system of
justice? Companies can break the law just because they don't agree with it?
What the hell?
Cripes. Did the GPL steal your happy meal or something? Ya, the guy is pretty outspoken but I wouldn't say that he rammed the GPL down my throat. I've been using Linux for a while and until recently, was only vaguely aware of who Stallman was. You act as though your family and friends were herded into an arena by armed soldiers and forced to listen to him scream at you via a massive five story view screen and loud speakers.
Really, what do expect him to say? Everything that needs to be said is being said by lots of other people. Evetually it gets to the point where saying more just makes you look scared and defensive. The only thing left to do now is wait for the GPL's day in court.
I wasn't really sure where to put this but this seemed like a likely enough spot. SCO has been for years, and is still now, developing and destributing software under the GPL have they not? So wouldn't that mean that they AGREED to the terms of the GPL? So now that it's not working in their favor, they are saying that it's unconstitutional? So did it just suddenly occur to them that the GPL is unconstitutional or did they think so when they initially agreed to it's terms? You'd think that they would have looked into it with the same care and attention to detail when they first agreed to it, knowing that their customers where agreeing to the EXACT same terms. I don't know where exactly I'm going with this but hopefully you get the jist of it.
I don't use Windows at home, can't play WMA files. So downloading them to my harddrive is useless. I also don't remember reading anything about whether or not Linux will be able to decrypt the other half either.
And let's say, hypothetically, that I don't own the CD. I'm borrowing it from a friend.
Worst case scenario:
It is encrypted, Linux won't read it.
So I pop the CD into my home system, pipe the output into the aux. input on my sound card, record that to a wave file, then convert to mp3.
Might take a little longer but it'll work.
Actually I read an article a while back about how a bunch of SCO employess were really pissed off about it and were letting the company know. But I can't find it again.
That figures
...the notion that SCO is in bed with Microsoft. First the lawsuit, then the FUD, then MS purchasing the UNIX license and now SCO is describing the GPL in the same manner as Bill Gates and company. Of course the dishonest, hypocritcal, underhanded business tactics are also quite similar.
I've been brushing off the idea as pure paranoia and overzealous slashdotters with not enough to bitch about. But this is just getting to be too much.
I'm starting to get this mental image of Bill gates standing on Darl Mcbrides desk screaming "WHAT'S MY NAME BITCH!"
I meant after the court hearing, if it gets that far, I think it will. I believe they'll have to release it all during discovery if they plan on entering it into evidence, at that point it's public record.
I agree. This could very well set Linux back quite a bit but in the long run this is all just going to be a speed bump.
If there is stolen code, it will be rewritten. If SCO wins, they've still lost nearly every friend they had in the GNU community. It's going to take some serious PR spinning to get the every day non-contributing linux user to forgive them and I think that the serious developers and contributors, whose hard work and dedication is being dragged through the mud, aren't going to forget about this, much less forgive.
In the meantime, the serious players seem to be continuing along like it's business as usual. In my oppinion that's proof enough that Linux is going to push through this just fine.
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So where did you find this wife? Cause the one I got is the messiest, most disorganized human being I've ever met. My computer room is the cleanest room in the house and that's not saying much.
How is it possible that they are getting away with the things that they are doing and nothing is being done about it?
First they start demanding that people pay them for a license when it hasn't even been proven in court that they own the product they are licensing.
Now they're willfully, blatantly and openly violating a license.
Both of these were done simply because they say so. Is this the new system of justice? Companies can break the law just because they don't agree with it?
What the hell?
Hehe, I had to read it twice. I thought that was what it said. Those damn commies!
Cripes. Did the GPL steal your happy meal or something? Ya, the guy is pretty outspoken but I wouldn't say that he rammed the GPL down my throat. I've been using Linux for a while and until recently, was only vaguely aware of who Stallman was. You act as though your family and friends were herded into an arena by armed soldiers and forced to listen to him scream at you via a massive five story view screen and loud speakers. Really, what do expect him to say? Everything that needs to be said is being said by lots of other people. Evetually it gets to the point where saying more just makes you look scared and defensive. The only thing left to do now is wait for the GPL's day in court.
I wasn't really sure where to put this but this seemed like a likely enough spot. SCO has been for years, and is still now, developing and destributing software under the GPL have they not? So wouldn't that mean that they AGREED to the terms of the GPL? So now that it's not working in their favor, they are saying that it's unconstitutional? So did it just suddenly occur to them that the GPL is unconstitutional or did they think so when they initially agreed to it's terms? You'd think that they would have looked into it with the same care and attention to detail when they first agreed to it, knowing that their customers where agreeing to the EXACT same terms.
I don't know where exactly I'm going with this but hopefully you get the jist of it.
I don't use Windows at home, can't play WMA files. So downloading them to my harddrive is useless. I also don't remember reading anything about whether or not Linux will be able to decrypt the other half either. And let's say, hypothetically, that I don't own the CD. I'm borrowing it from a friend.
Worst case scenario: It is encrypted, Linux won't read it. So I pop the CD into my home system, pipe the output into the aux. input on my sound card, record that to a wave file, then convert to mp3. Might take a little longer but it'll work.
Actually I read an article a while back about how a bunch of SCO employess were really pissed off about it and were letting the company know. But I can't find it again. That figures
hehe The GPLDLYEL!
...the notion that SCO is in bed with Microsoft. First the lawsuit, then the FUD, then MS purchasing the UNIX license and now SCO is describing the GPL in the same manner as Bill Gates and company. Of course the dishonest, hypocritcal, underhanded business tactics are also quite similar. I've been brushing off the idea as pure paranoia and overzealous slashdotters with not enough to bitch about. But this is just getting to be too much. I'm starting to get this mental image of Bill gates standing on Darl Mcbrides desk screaming "WHAT'S MY NAME BITCH!"
I meant after the court hearing, if it gets that far, I think it will. I believe they'll have to release it all during discovery if they plan on entering it into evidence, at that point it's public record.
I agree. This could very well set Linux back quite a bit but in the long run this is all just going to be a speed bump. If there is stolen code, it will be rewritten. If SCO wins, they've still lost nearly every friend they had in the GNU community. It's going to take some serious PR spinning to get the every day non-contributing linux user to forgive them and I think that the serious developers and contributors, whose hard work and dedication is being dragged through the mud, aren't going to forget about this, much less forgive. In the meantime, the serious players seem to be continuing along like it's business as usual. In my oppinion that's proof enough that Linux is going to push through this just fine.