Instead of a boycott, you can probably reach more, if you can convince the business-owner of his 'mistake' in insight. Or would you rather bankrupt an honest, be it a bit naive, company? And make a lot of people jobless?
You are absolutely right about giving MS courses will teach people to be a MS Parrot. However, still too many schools only support MS products, sadly. So while we run our (illegal?) Linux boxes, there are people being educated, who haven't seen a prompt in years, if at all...
"We're working with a variety of hardware and software partners to provide this level of protection against future viruses, threats from hackers or anyone seeking to acquire personal information or digital property with malicious intent," Gates said.
and who desides what digital property would be with malicious intent?
And what do they mean with malicious intent?
Hamre said that critics of TIA, who have worried that it may lead to the creation of a computerised dossier on every American, are misinformed. "They've engineered privacy into it... We need people to shoulder their honest responsibilities for oversight."
And who will guarantee this privacy, when they collect just about any information they can find on you?
Just some questions that arise from reading this material.
BTW, I think it is funny how Microsoft is able to destroy a nice name (Palladium) into an unpronouncable acronym (NGNCB).
If they really cared about their Linux customers, they would flag the (alleged) offending code immediately and, if not replace it themselves, at least alert the kernel developers, so that a legal fix could be released. Nice idea, and great solution, however, SCO won't gain anything with it. Why else would everyone who has given access to review the violating code need to sign a NDA? If SCO would flag the alleged offending code, they would in fact say that the NDA is void, and also that way every programmer working on the kernel can erase and replace the reason for the lawsuit SCO is now planning against IBM.
I would like to see this solution, but I'm afraid it won't happen in the near future.
i agree with you to some extent. I agree that this case could well blow open the way to a society where GPL is accepted by even the big corporations.
However, I will not root for SCO, because I think it's their only solution, when they don't have the ability to gain profit from their own business, to sue others who can.
If SCO wins, where will it stop.
In a NYT article which was posted here on/. recently (can't find it at the moment), one of the members of the SCO-board was quoted saying that it was not their intention of crippling Linux, but that the free days of Linux are over. And I personally strongly oppose to that.
ecommerce, please do not abuse these services...
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I hope that those e-commerce sites won't abuse the online fora, to increase their own sales etc, by word of mouse, as this article calls it.
Because I think that would lead to a downfall of the quality of those services, and they would cut themselves in the fingers.
btw, on a side note, I find this quote rather funny: "I think that, now, the power of the Internet is captured in the ability of everyday Americans to give their opinion on any product or event that they want," Mr. Gulbransen said.
As if no other inhabitant of other countries in the world uses the internet to express their opinions about certain products.
Of course I realise that this is an American Newspaper, read mostly by Americans, but still, its content is on the global internet:)
NYTimes wrote:[snip]
One programmer said there was a patent matter that "we can't just ignore."
Mr. Torvalds replied, "Actually, we can, and I will."
"I do not look up any patents on principle because (a) it's a horrible waste of time and (b) I don't want to know."
[snip]
SCO mentioned this as some sort of proof that Linus will not acknowledge IP. But I think IP is something totally different than patents, which btw is utterly stupid in the software world, but that's just my view on it.
If I write some sort of program, then it is my Intellectual Property, but I don't have a patent on it, unless I request it, and pay big bucks to maintain it.
SCO is really missing the point here.
[snip]...They may not be the source of SCO's vitrol and venom, but as long as they sit quietly and let the day traders pimp and pump the stock....[snip]
I saw in the C|NET article, that the stock of SCO is dropping:) (You can see it at the bottom of the article)
Ever seen the matrix scene where Neo is fighting those hundreds of Agents Smiths for the first time? I couldn't really see the difference between real and CG there, although it was done in CG almost completely... I agree that in some movies it is done real bad, at least the image-quality, but on the whole I think that most CG-teams are really doing great jobs. And if you don't use a technique, how do you think it can evolve into something better?
Actually, MTV is known for its censorship... even the videoclips gets censored. So I think it wasn't done for humor value, but to protect those 'innocent' ears of those young kids who don't already know what those bleeps mean
No you don't. Please stop inventing your own law. Explain to me then, if you advertise something for 10 bananas you can't then sell it for 250 bananas.. Apart from the fact that it would be d*mn stupid (you'll lose credibility and most likely all your customers. Besides, who would pay with bananas, anyway?;-) ) It is also illegal to do so. Only if you can prove that the advertised price is a typo or something, then you can ask the higher price. To stay in this example)
If you claim that we have invented our own law, give us examples where you can prove you are right. Just saying we are inventing our own law, is too easy.
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isn't this just a leetle beet off topic?
No, I think they would refuse it. Because it is not a Microsoft product.
Instead of a boycott, you can probably reach more, if you can convince the business-owner of his 'mistake' in insight.
Or would you rather bankrupt an honest, be it a bit naive, company? And make a lot of people jobless?
*Awk! Polly wants a cracker! Awk!*
You are absolutely right about giving MS courses will teach people to be a MS Parrot. However, still too many schools only support MS products, sadly. So while we run our (illegal?) Linux boxes, there are people being educated, who haven't seen a prompt in years, if at all...
"We're working with a variety of hardware and software partners to provide this level of protection against future viruses, threats from hackers or anyone seeking to acquire personal information or digital property with malicious intent," Gates said.
and who desides what digital property would be with malicious intent?
And what do they mean with malicious intent?
Hamre said that critics of TIA, who have worried that it may lead to the creation of a computerised dossier on every American, are misinformed. "They've engineered privacy into it... We need people to shoulder their honest responsibilities for oversight."
And who will guarantee this privacy, when they collect just about any information they can find on you?
Just some questions that arise from reading this material.
BTW, I think it is funny how Microsoft is able to destroy a nice name (Palladium) into an unpronouncable acronym (NGNCB).
it's funny that you even left the spelling errors intact ;)
If they really cared about their Linux customers, they would flag the (alleged) offending code immediately and, if not replace it themselves, at least alert the kernel developers, so that a legal fix could be released.
Nice idea, and great solution, however, SCO won't gain anything with it. Why else would everyone who has given access to review the violating code need to sign a NDA?
If SCO would flag the alleged offending code, they would in fact say that the NDA is void, and also that way every programmer working on the kernel can erase and replace the reason for the lawsuit SCO is now planning against IBM.
I would like to see this solution, but I'm afraid it won't happen in the near future.
i agree with you to some extent. I agree that this case could well blow open the way to a society where GPL is accepted by even the big corporations.
/. recently (can't find it at the moment), one of the members of the SCO-board was quoted saying that it was not their intention of crippling Linux, but that the free days of Linux are over.
However, I will not root for SCO, because I think it's their only solution, when they don't have the ability to gain profit from their own business, to sue others who can.
If SCO wins, where will it stop.
In a NYT article which was posted here on
And I personally strongly oppose to that.
I hope that those e-commerce sites won't abuse the online fora, to increase their own sales etc, by word of mouse, as this article calls it.
:)
Because I think that would lead to a downfall of the quality of those services, and they would cut themselves in the fingers.
btw, on a side note, I find this quote rather funny:
"I think that, now, the power of the Internet is captured in the ability of everyday Americans to give their opinion on any product or event that they want," Mr. Gulbransen said.
As if no other inhabitant of other countries in the world uses the internet to express their opinions about certain products.
Of course I realise that this is an American Newspaper, read mostly by Americans, but still, its content is on the global internet
NYTimes wrote: [snip] One programmer said there was a patent matter that "we can't just ignore." Mr. Torvalds replied, "Actually, we can, and I will." "I do not look up any patents on principle because (a) it's a horrible waste of time and (b) I don't want to know." [snip] SCO mentioned this as some sort of proof that Linus will not acknowledge IP. But I think IP is something totally different than patents, which btw is utterly stupid in the software world, but that's just my view on it. If I write some sort of program, then it is my Intellectual Property, but I don't have a patent on it, unless I request it, and pay big bucks to maintain it. SCO is really missing the point here.
I saw in the C|NET article, that the stock of SCO is dropping
however, IBM did the same (drop that is)
great a nazi... you also have those extremists views on the world? like racism etc?
why do you people use the word Nazi so many times?
You probably have no clue as to what this word means, either. read a book about the holocaust...
hmmm, maybe, that is the whole idea behind this...
to help ms getting rid of that pesky linux and co.
Wasn't MS buying a licence (or something like it) from SCO a few weeks ago?
Ever seen the matrix scene where Neo is fighting those hundreds of Agents Smiths for the first time?
I couldn't really see the difference between real and CG there, although it was done in CG almost completely...
I agree that in some movies it is done real bad, at least the image-quality, but on the whole I think that most CG-teams are really doing great jobs.
And if you don't use a technique, how do you think it can evolve into something better?
is there also a version of Yoda's speech online?
Actually, MTV is known for its censorship... even the videoclips gets censored. So I think it wasn't done for humor value, but to protect those 'innocent' ears of those young kids who don't already know what those bleeps mean
No you don't. Please stop inventing your own law. ;-) )
Explain to me then, if you advertise something for 10 bananas you can't then sell it for 250 bananas.. Apart from the fact that it would be d*mn stupid (you'll lose credibility and most likely all your customers. Besides, who would pay with bananas, anyway?
It is also illegal to do so.
Only if you can prove that the advertised price is a typo or something, then you can ask the higher price. To stay in this example)
If you claim that we have invented our own law, give us examples where you can prove you are right. Just saying we are inventing our own law, is too easy.
have you looked at the public key? It is pretty hard to break contrary to passwords, which can be broken relatively easy.
I think that when AOL revoked the site, it had a reversed effect. Everyone suddenly wants to know what this Waste thing is.
try running office xp on a pentium 2.. I can garantee you that it will be very slow.
Many offices I know work with Office 2000 or Office XP.