2. Ideas and their (abstract) expressions have no monetary value, since they can be copied infinitely. It's a no brainer as well, as in X/INFINITY==0.0;
Not to nitpick...actually it is nitpicking...You can't divide a number by infinity. Even if you could, it would never = 0. It would approach 0, but never actually reach it.
You sir have no clue do you. You are responsible for the content on your PC. "Honest Judge, I don't know how the 20 Gigs of MP3s became organized and shared on Kazaa".
Why not just assign everything an IPv6 IP address under the notion that someday you will be able to plug it in. There's enough addresses in that space to go around...plus your sweater and can of chicken soup one day will be net-enabled anyways.
And why isn't a DSL 'modem' not a 'modem'? Does it modulate and demodulate? Yes. Ok then, I guess it fits the definition of a modem. Same thing applies to cable 'modems'.
Remember, Australia is on the opposite side of the world, so everything is backwards. Summer is winter...winter is summer Truths are lies...lies are truths. Not doing something means they are going to do something.
I think I understand where you are getting your numnbers from. You are taking the $3b settlement / their market cap (rounded to $189m). That would be about a 16-fold increase of value. I think that this is how you got your 19-fold number, just using older numbers.
Except you forgot to take in to account laywer fees. I have no idea what that would run in a case like this, but I'd be suprised if it was less then 40%.
Then you have to remember who you are dealing with. When Caldera and Microsoft were arguing over the DR-DOS lawsuit, Microsoft eventually settled up with Caldera Inc. Not Caldera Systems. Caldera Inc at the time was basically The Canopy Group before they became the Canopy Group if I remember correctly. Caldera Systems never saw a dime of the money. Caldera Inc spun off Caldera Systems to remove it from the lawsuit.
It wouldn't suprised me if something similiar would happen here. After the lawyers, most of the money would probably going to go to a few people or organizations (read Canopy Group). Common investors would see a small portion. Nothing near the 16x increase that would be in an ideal setting.
Further, SCO has already said that licenses would be $199 for desktop linux installations and $699 for servers. These fees would double after Oct 15th. This is significantly more then the $100 license.
So if you have your same 10 serves and you get your license now, it's going to cost you $6990 now or $13990 later. Assuming you invest now, your now out $437 ($6990/16) in common stock. Their stock would have to increase 32x in order to cover the licensing costs...if they are still at the $1399 price.
Your right. $.336 per day per stream isn't that much, until you consider that they are streaming multiple streams. They could have several thousand streams going at once. Lets assume that are a very small shop and have 10 streams going. That is now $3.36 a day or $1226.40 a year. A larger shop doing 100 streams would pay $12,264 a year. 1000 streams would be $122,640 a year. Spinner.com does 22 million songs a week. That's $800,000 a year . Now they will have to pay those fees back to 1998, so you are going to have to multiply those figures by 5. Now do you see where the problem is?
I wasn't complaining about the SCO articles. My parent was. I personally prefer to see them as I use SCO products daily. I was just commenting that his request to have a SCO/. (similar to the Mac/.) was too much and just a group would be sufficient to do what he wanted to do.
And I do agree with you...if you don't want to read the article, don't click on the link.
First, SCO is not Caldera. Well, actually it is, but they no longer go by that name since they officially changed names a few months back. Second, current SCO postings haven't been filed under Caldera anyways. So even if you did turn off Caldera articles, you'd still get them.
I'd think that there is a sufficent number of SCO articles to warrent the use of a SCO subject group.
Thanks for standing up to the playgound bullies. It's good to hear someone from my hometown puting up a fight. It is also slightly refreshing to hear that the system is actually starting to work the way it should.
If anyone here is looking for an excellent source for fine chocolate, check out Tim Beere's "patent infringing" website, Debrand Fine Chocolate.
Actually, you can. And you better pray that the mother didn't see you. Because if she did, you will see rage like you have never seen before. Once she catches you, you will wish for the protection of a 6x6 foot cell.
I think all this applies to the SCO vs. Everyone situation. SCO is dangerously close to crossing the line between "We're fucking stupid" and "Oh fuck, we are fucking screwed." You can only poke people so many times before they lash back at you.
She died after filming most of the scenes in Reloaded. They had not yet got to her scenes in Revolutions. I guess this was similar to what happened with Aaliyah.
Are you meaning my quote or my child/your parent comment? If mine, how is it a fraud? I just repeated what was in an article. I had a serious question about what DiDio said....that she could enter a oral NDA by "giving her word" even though Yankee prohibits NDAs.
With that logic, they would step in on IBM's behalf. IBM is much more of a economical giant for the US then SCO has ever been, is, and will be combined.
For those who don't know who Dodo, I mean DiDio is and are too lazy to look in the article:
One analyst Stowell cited was Laura DiDio, of the Yankee Group. DiDio, a personable woman who has been covering technology for decades, first as a journalist and then as an analyst, says that one of her strengths is that "I call it as I see it -- I have no qualms about criticizing any vendor." And when it comes to companies who have bet their fortunes on Linux and other open-source software, Didio says she sees much to criticize.
From a little later in the article:
DiDio did not sign an NDA to see SCO's code -- doing so is against the Yankee Group's policy -- but she says she did give the company her word that she would not violate the terms of the agreement.
With as anal SCO is about showing people the code, I seriously find it hard to beleive that SCO just took her word on the agreement and still gave her the code. If she seriously did verbally agree to the NDA and planned on abiding by it, what difference does it make if you sign it? Does the Yankee Group really say "You can't sign NDAs, but you can give your word that you won't violate the NDA"?
Your right...and smearing superglue all over your face will also block your pores, so I guess you shouldn't eat it ether?
It seemed to me that the original poster was drawing the correlation that eating junk foods led to zits. Nothing was mentioned about smearing your oily hands across your face.
Actualy I think it would be pounder quart avec du fromage. Since they are metric, it would be royale avec du fromage. Either way, it doesn't matter since Burger King doesn't have a presence in France anymore I believe.:)
And there is absolutely no correlation between eating habits and acne. Chocolate, greasy foods, etc don't cause zits. Keep on grabbing your subway sandwich. Your parent can keep on grabbing their cheetos and double quarter pounders with cheese.
And it can piss off the phone company when you refuse to switch over to touch tone. A relative was one of the last people at her CO to switch over to touch tone. The phone comapny was practically begging her to switch over to touch tone so that they could get rid of the old equipment.
This assumes that you are writing 16x or 32x the entire time which usually doesn't happen. You also have the writing of the lead in and lead out that also adds additional time.
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While it's not the pills chasing the kitten, I've always liked Bonsai Kittens.
Wouldn't this make more sense if it was the MPAA cracking down?
You sir have no clue do you. You are responsible for the content on your PC. "Honest Judge, I don't know how the 20 Gigs of MP3s became organized and shared on Kazaa".
Why not just assign everything an IPv6 IP address under the notion that someday you will be able to plug it in. There's enough addresses in that space to go around...plus your sweater and can of chicken soup one day will be net-enabled anyways.
And why isn't a DSL 'modem' not a 'modem'? Does it modulate and demodulate? Yes. Ok then, I guess it fits the definition of a modem. Same thing applies to cable 'modems'.
Remember, Australia is on the opposite side of the world, so everything is backwards. Summer is winter...winter is summer Truths are lies...lies are truths. Not doing something means they are going to do something.
Your logic has a few flaws...
I think I understand where you are getting your numnbers from. You are taking the $3b settlement / their market cap (rounded to $189m). That would be about a 16-fold increase of value. I think that this is how you got your 19-fold number, just using older numbers.
Except you forgot to take in to account laywer fees. I have no idea what that would run in a case like this, but I'd be suprised if it was less then 40%.
Then you have to remember who you are dealing with. When Caldera and Microsoft were arguing over the DR-DOS lawsuit, Microsoft eventually settled up with Caldera Inc. Not Caldera Systems. Caldera Inc at the time was basically The Canopy Group before they became the Canopy Group if I remember correctly. Caldera Systems never saw a dime of the money. Caldera Inc spun off Caldera Systems to remove it from the lawsuit.
It wouldn't suprised me if something similiar would happen here. After the lawyers, most of the money would probably going to go to a few people or organizations (read Canopy Group). Common investors would see a small portion. Nothing near the 16x increase that would be in an ideal setting.
Further, SCO has already said that licenses would be $199 for desktop linux installations and $699 for servers. These fees would double after Oct 15th. This is significantly more then the $100 license.
So if you have your same 10 serves and you get your license now, it's going to cost you $6990 now or $13990 later. Assuming you invest now, your now out $437 ($6990/16) in common stock. Their stock would have to increase 32x in order to cover the licensing costs...if they are still at the $1399 price.
Your right. $.336 per day per stream isn't that much, until you consider that they are streaming multiple streams. They could have several thousand streams going at once. Lets assume that are a very small shop and have 10 streams going. That is now $3.36 a day or $1226.40 a year. A larger shop doing 100 streams would pay $12,264 a year. 1000 streams would be $122,640 a year. Spinner.com does 22 million songs a week. That's $800,000 a year . Now they will have to pay those fees back to 1998, so you are going to have to multiply those figures by 5. Now do you see where the problem is?
I wasn't complaining about the SCO articles. My parent was. I personally prefer to see them as I use SCO products daily. I was just commenting that his request to have a SCO /. (similar to the Mac /.) was too much and just a group would be sufficient to do what he wanted to do.
And I do agree with you...if you don't want to read the article, don't click on the link.
I'd think that there is a sufficent number of SCO articles to warrent the use of a SCO subject group.
An easier way would just make SCO it's own subject. Then we could just turn off that subject if we wanted too.
Better watch it. I think that code might have been used in more then one program that SCO wrote^H^H^H^H^Hbought.
Thanks for standing up to the playgound bullies. It's good to hear someone from my hometown puting up a fight. It is also slightly refreshing to hear that the system is actually starting to work the way it should.
If anyone here is looking for an excellent source for fine chocolate, check out Tim Beere's "patent infringing" website, Debrand Fine Chocolate.
I think all this applies to the SCO vs. Everyone situation. SCO is dangerously close to crossing the line between "We're fucking stupid" and "Oh fuck, we are fucking screwed." You can only poke people so many times before they lash back at you.
Oh come on. If you are going to rip off a quote, at least give credit where credit is due...although everyone here already knows who said it. :)
She died after filming most of the scenes in Reloaded. They had not yet got to her scenes in Revolutions. I guess this was similar to what happened with Aaliyah.
Are you meaning my quote or my child/your parent comment? If mine, how is it a fraud? I just repeated what was in an article. I had a serious question about what DiDio said....that she could enter a oral NDA by "giving her word" even though Yankee prohibits NDAs.
With that logic, they would step in on IBM's behalf. IBM is much more of a economical giant for the US then SCO has ever been, is, and will be combined.
From a little later in the article:
With as anal SCO is about showing people the code, I seriously find it hard to beleive that SCO just took her word on the agreement and still gave her the code. If she seriously did verbally agree to the NDA and planned on abiding by it, what difference does it make if you sign it? Does the Yankee Group really say "You can't sign NDAs, but you can give your word that you won't violate the NDA"?
Your right...and smearing superglue all over your face will also block your pores, so I guess you shouldn't eat it ether?
It seemed to me that the original poster was drawing the correlation that eating junk foods led to zits. Nothing was mentioned about smearing your oily hands across your face.
Actualy I think it would be pounder quart avec du fromage. Since they are metric, it would be royale avec du fromage. Either way, it doesn't matter since Burger King doesn't have a presence in France anymore I believe. :)
And there is absolutely no correlation between eating habits and acne. Chocolate, greasy foods, etc don't cause zits. Keep on grabbing your subway sandwich. Your parent can keep on grabbing their cheetos and double quarter pounders with cheese.
And it can piss off the phone company when you refuse to switch over to touch tone. A relative was one of the last people at her CO to switch over to touch tone. The phone comapny was practically begging her to switch over to touch tone so that they could get rid of the old equipment.
This assumes that you are writing 16x or 32x the entire time which usually doesn't happen. You also have the writing of the lead in and lead out that also adds additional time.