I'd say that selling millions of shrink wrapped boxes of Caldera Linux for several years under the GPL will most definately be construed as accidently giving up your rights by the court and true justice will prevail and SCO will win.
"(SCO) has received U.S. copyright registrations for UNIX System V source code, a jurisdictional pre-requisite to enforcement of its UNIX copyrights."
But they haven't a) proven that System V code is infact present in the Linux kernel and b) explained their problem with that given that they themselves distributed said code under the GPL.
Case dismissed, costs awarded against SCO for wasting the court's time.
The whole point of RFIDs are for stock control- shelf and point of sale.
Umm - so why the cameras? A bar code can provide perfect stock control. These RFIDs are for MARKETING so lets not kid ourselves any longer.
Two years ago I lived 20 miles outside Cambridge (now 5000 miles away) - if I was still there I'd let the cam snap me picking them up, drop them elsewhere in the store and have a good argument on the way out when the store security guard tries to get physical.
I have recently been helping windows using friends realise whats going on inside their PCs by installing Ad-Aware for them and Mozilla (with the 'ask before setting cookie' box checked). They are pretty amazed at all the marketing crap going on in there. Especially all the third party cookies that some sites try to set.
Soon changes their opinion about some websites that they frequent.
Hats off to Mozilla!
1. According to Census Canada, only 4 % of Canada's population outside the province of Quebec are Francophones.
2. According to the Official Languages Commissioner, the Federal government spends on average $500 million a year on Official Bilingualism; this does not include unforecasted expenses. The cost of official bilingualism is $4 billion per year.(a figure the accuracy of which our federal government has never challenged).
3. Author Scott Reid estimates that since its inception in 1969 Official Bilingualism has added $49 billion to our national debt and a permanent loss to Canadian consumers of $40 billion worth of consumption.
4. The cost of classifying military personnel by language - $50 million annually
5. Translation costs for technical documents for patrol frigate project- $45 million, for tribal class refitting- $26.7 million, for 27 other current projects over $100 million.
6. Cost of the 42 members of the official languages branch doing paperwork at National Defence Headquarters, $1.5 million annually.
7. The cost of Moncton's two-day Francophone Summit - $35 million
8. In the 1999-2000 fiscal year the federal government handed out $62,591,832 in French minority language grants outside the province of Quebec, only $3,341,000 was given in English minority language grants inside the province of Quebec even though there are more English speaking Canadians in Quebec than there are French Canadians outside of Quebec.
9. The Commissioner of Official Languages' department has a staff of 109; 79 (72.4%) are Francophones and 30 (27.5%) are Anglophones. This department is in place to ensure the rights of minority languages. Figures quoted are from 1998.
10. Every province in Canada participates in the reciprocal Medicare program except Quebec. If you visit Quebec this means that your provincial Medicare card is valid for hospital costs only, not doctors' services, for this you must pay cash and get reimbursed by your home province. When Quebec patients come to Ontario hospitals, they only pay $450/day for a bed. It costs the General Hospital $823/day (i.e. Ontario taxpayers subsidize Quebec patients to the tune of $373/day when they come to Ontario hospitals).
11. The federal government controls immigration into every province except Quebec, they have their own Ministry of Immigration.
12. An already cash strapped Canadian Olympic Association was ordered to train Olympic athletes bilingually or lose funding. This came as a result of a Quebec athlete training in Calgary who was unable to receive service in French upon entering the training centre. Former Olympian and present track and field coach Dianne Jones-Konihowski said "this would mean that we would lose even more athletes to England and Australia because funding would be taken from them and used to bilingualize training centres and hire staff".
13. Of the $6.8 million the federal government spent on Canada Day festivities in 2000, $5 million was given to Quebec; contrast this with Ontario, which received $553,900.
14. At the party's two day national council in Laval in April 2000, the Parti Quebecois unanimously voted to remove all Canadian flags from public buildings under provincial control, these include schools, hospitals and city halls.
15. Since 1968 we have had 10 federal elections, in 9 of them we have elected Quebec Francophone or Francophile prime ministers for a total of 31 out of the last 32 years.
16. In 1969 Pierre Trudeau declared Canada officially bilingual and in the process transferred 32,000 public service jobs from Ottawa to Hull, Quebec from 1970 to 1982.
17. Canada is the only nation in the world that does not have its national history museum located in its capital city. In 1989 the Federal government under Brian Mulroney relocated the National Museum of Canadian history from Ottawa to Hull, Quebec. The name was changed to
I wonder why the French are trying so hard to get the world to speak French, it was only sixty years ago they were doing everything they could to have the whole world speaking German!
Nothing is ever black or white, especially in politics ! There was and there still is abuse on both sides. But you clearly don't have any clue about what's going on over here....
OK The hows this for black and white. Quebec forces the whole of the rest of Canada to be Bi-Lingual (costing billions of dollars and effectively rendering Canada banckrupt for several generations).
This means all public signs and official documentation must give equal prominence to French as English even in far flung places as rural BC where a French speaker is about as common as rocking horse shit, and then several years later passes a law to exclude itself from its very own law so that Quebec can legally be 100% French language (or have English displayed less prominently). In fact as if that isn't enough they then make it ILLEGAL to display English equally as prominently as French on signs in Quebec.
Can anyone lucidly and consisely defend this outrageous behaviour?
I thought not. Like most things French it is indefensable (including France apparently)
"(it still sucks as a desktop OS despite your mama's running of it at home),"
Either you're very stupid, or you're very, very stupid. I use Gentoo with WindowMaker for my desktop and it kicks ass. With Firebird as the browser and all the good free productivity and multimedia tools it beats windoze hands down. Try gmplayer for example - it plays just about any video right out of the box (emerge:) - try that with winmedia player. I have multiple workspaces that I can scroll between with the mouse wheel and countless other goodies. I could never go back to windows just for the work environment....
And by the way - I run a gateway and a web server using OpenBSD - its alive and kicking (ass) as far as I'm aware.
" I bet there are people who are naked and/or having sex right now!"
Nah, pretty unlikely, theres only about 4 billion people in the world - hardly likely any of them are at it.
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Thats a very good point. I hope that the court reads your post!
Sry no mod points!
I'd say that selling millions of shrink wrapped boxes of Caldera Linux for several years under the GPL will most definately be construed as accidently giving up your rights by the court and true justice will prevail and SCO will win.
I have total faith in the US legal system.
Signed
O.J.Simpson.
"(SCO) has received U.S. copyright registrations for UNIX System V source code, a jurisdictional pre-requisite to enforcement of its UNIX copyrights."
But they haven't a) proven that System V code is infact present in the Linux kernel and b) explained their problem with that given that they themselves distributed said code under the GPL.
Case dismissed, costs awarded against SCO for wasting the court's time.
This is amazing - read that link and copy it into a letter to Tesco pointing out that you object (if you object :)
The whole point of RFIDs are for stock control- shelf and point of sale.
Umm - so why the cameras? A bar code can provide perfect stock control. These RFIDs are for MARKETING so lets not kid ourselves any longer.
Two years ago I lived 20 miles outside Cambridge (now 5000 miles away) - if I was still there I'd let the cam snap me picking them up, drop them elsewhere in the store and have a good argument on the way out when the store security guard tries to get physical.
Or a linux VM inside the Windows VM on their Linux boxes :)
I have recently been helping windows using friends realise whats going on inside their PCs by installing Ad-Aware for them and Mozilla (with the 'ask before setting cookie' box checked). They are pretty amazed at all the marketing crap going on in there. Especially all the third party cookies that some sites try to set. Soon changes their opinion about some websites that they frequent. Hats off to Mozilla!
They win one thing... 1st prize for most laughed at and despised race on the planet. Hey Frenchies - when you're in a hole - STOP DIGGING!
Taken from www.languagefairness.org
Inequities between Quebec and the R.O.C
1. According to Census Canada, only 4 % of Canada's population outside the province of Quebec are Francophones.
2. According to the Official Languages Commissioner, the Federal government spends on average $500 million a year on Official Bilingualism; this does not include unforecasted expenses. The cost of official bilingualism is $4 billion per year.(a figure the accuracy of which our federal government has never challenged).
3. Author Scott Reid estimates that since its inception in 1969 Official Bilingualism has added $49 billion to our national debt and a permanent loss to Canadian consumers of $40 billion worth of consumption.
4. The cost of classifying military personnel by language - $50 million annually
5. Translation costs for technical documents for patrol frigate project- $45 million, for tribal class refitting- $26.7 million, for 27 other current projects over $100 million.
6. Cost of the 42 members of the official languages branch doing paperwork at National Defence Headquarters, $1.5 million annually.
7. The cost of Moncton's two-day Francophone Summit - $35 million
8. In the 1999-2000 fiscal year the federal government handed out $62,591,832 in French minority language grants outside the province of Quebec, only $3,341,000 was given in English minority language grants inside the province of Quebec even though there are more English speaking Canadians in Quebec than there are French Canadians outside of Quebec.
9. The Commissioner of Official Languages' department has a staff of 109; 79 (72.4%) are Francophones and 30 (27.5%) are Anglophones. This department is in place to ensure the rights of minority languages. Figures quoted are from 1998.
10. Every province in Canada participates in the reciprocal Medicare program except Quebec. If you visit Quebec this means that your provincial Medicare card is valid for hospital costs only, not doctors' services, for this you must pay cash and get reimbursed by your home province. When Quebec patients come to Ontario hospitals, they only pay $450/day for a bed. It costs the General Hospital $823/day (i.e. Ontario taxpayers subsidize Quebec patients to the tune of $373/day when they come to Ontario hospitals).
11. The federal government controls immigration into every province except Quebec, they have their own Ministry of Immigration.
12. An already cash strapped Canadian Olympic Association was ordered to train Olympic athletes bilingually or lose funding. This came as a result of a Quebec athlete training in Calgary who was unable to receive service in French upon entering the training centre. Former Olympian and present track and field coach Dianne Jones-Konihowski said "this would mean that we would lose even more athletes to England and Australia because funding would be taken from them and used to bilingualize training centres and hire staff".
13. Of the $6.8 million the federal government spent on Canada Day festivities in 2000, $5 million was given to Quebec; contrast this with Ontario, which received $553,900.
14. At the party's two day national council in Laval in April 2000, the Parti Quebecois unanimously voted to remove all Canadian flags from public buildings under provincial control, these include schools, hospitals and city halls.
15. Since 1968 we have had 10 federal elections, in 9 of them we have elected Quebec Francophone or Francophile prime ministers for a total of 31 out of the last 32 years.
16. In 1969 Pierre Trudeau declared Canada officially bilingual and in the process transferred 32,000 public service jobs from Ottawa to Hull, Quebec from 1970 to 1982.
17. Canada is the only nation in the world that does not have its national history museum located in its capital city. In 1989 the Federal government under Brian Mulroney relocated the National Museum of Canadian history from Ottawa to Hull, Quebec. The name was changed to
I wonder why the French are trying so hard to get the world to speak French, it was only sixty years ago they were doing everything they could to have the whole world speaking German!
Nothing is ever black or white, especially in politics ! There was and there still is abuse on both sides. But you clearly don't have any clue about what's going on over here ....
OK The hows this for black and white. Quebec forces the whole of the rest of Canada to be Bi-Lingual (costing billions of dollars and effectively rendering Canada banckrupt for several generations).
This means all public signs and official documentation must give equal prominence to French as English even in far flung places as rural BC where a French speaker is about as common as rocking horse shit, and then several years later passes a law to exclude itself from its very own law so that Quebec can legally be 100% French language (or have English displayed less prominently). In fact as if that isn't enough they then make it ILLEGAL to display English equally as prominently as French on signs in Quebec.
Can anyone lucidly and consisely defend this outrageous behaviour? I thought not. Like most things French it is indefensable (including France apparently)
" I bet there are people who are naked and/or having sex right now!" Nah, pretty unlikely, theres only about 4 billion people in the world - hardly likely any of them are at it.