Until 1988, BSD Unix required an AT&T license, since each release included AT&T UNIX code. Basically AT&T kept upping the price so BSD released their system under the BSD open source license in 1989. AT&T and BSD went to court in 1992 and it went BSD's way.
So anything that appeared in BSD before 1992 is open source under a BSD license even if it came directly from UNIX. Also it can be re-licensed under the GPL because the BSD license allows this.
To sum up, this code is in 2.4.x but not 2.5.x, was also present in BSD which means its open source based on the case the BSD creators went through in the early 1990s.
Have SCO really so poorly researched these examples that this is the best they can show us?
Of course, I guess this could mean they just have enough slots for 8GB of main system RAM on the current motherboard. Still, it's an odd quote. Then again, maybe I'm just stupid...
The Power Mac G5 is the world's fastest personal computer and the first with a 64-bit processor -- which means it breaks the 4 gigabyte barrier and can use up to 8 gigabytes of main memory.
8GB?? Sounds like it's a 64-bit processor with a 33-bit address bus. Even the 32-bit P4 can address 64GB.
I think we have this the wrong way round. Surely we should be teaching children how to use a computer and not how to use Microsoft Whatever (TM).
It'll be great for them in 10 years when some other company or consortium is producing the dominant operating system and all those hours of IT classes will be for absolutely nothing.
I don't know what they're teaching kids these days, but a word processor is a word processor and a spreadsheet is a spreadsheet no matter what it says on the box or what operating system it uses. Shouldn't they be teaching people to look beyond the Microsoft Excel toolbar and realise that when it boils down to it, practically all these programs do the same thing? Sure perhaps OpenOffice.org doesn't do pivot tables like Microsoft Excel does them. But I have yet to see a school that teaches kids how to do pivot tables.
Teaching them exclusively on one platform leads to the possibility of giving them a false sense of intuitiveness. Just because a you can't find C:\ or the Start Menu doesn't mean a platform is harder to use - unfortunately this is what many people seem to believe these days.
If taught right, you should be able to pick up the basics of pretty much any program or operating system in about an hour.
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I do to an extent. I am a PC Linux user and have been for a while, but I must admit to getting a bit fed up with grey boxes. Sure there's all those PC case modification bits around but all the neon in the world won't make your machine look as good as an iMac. I really like the latest design, especially the screen. I thought the previous iMac was alright but never considered it to be as groundbreaking as a lot of people made out. I think some of the G4 cubes are pretty hot too.
But these days when I look at a Mac, I'm seeing a stylish machine, with decent oomph (maybe not as much oomph as a 3GHz P4) - and the killer - a mature, stable UNIX-style operating system with a great graphical user interface.
That said, darned thing doesn't fit my budget. Until they come down in price a bit more I just can't justify the added expense. If they'd just release the MacOSX port for x86 I'd put it on my machine, but it seems this ain't going to happen, and we have the usual culprit, Microsoft, to blame IMO. If Apple released their x86 port, MS would discontinue Office for MacOSX in a flash, creating serious problems for their potential market. Until Apple create a decent office suite themselves (OpenOffice.org with a Cocoa interface, anyone?), they'll be pretty stuck.
Hotplug is improving all the time.
However I'm still annoyed at the lack of interaction between it and the user. What I want is a wizard that lets me load a driver off a disk. This doesn't exist in Linux at the moment, if hotplug doesn't know about a piece of hardware and can't find the relivent kernel module it doesn't work.
I think it's an interesting reflection on humanity when evolution can throw up designs that we can't properly understand even with all of our apparent science and technology (bees, water striders, the thought process).
It just goes to show that for every fact or theory we think we know there are far more that we don't, which gives me great confidence in the progress of human science and technology over the next few thousand years.
When no vertical scrolling is sensible (like a wave editor) the scrollwheel should cause horizontal scrolling. I've seen this trick in quite a few apps.
The point is that there's very little need for two dimensional scrolling, it's mostly an "either-or" situation.
What, you mean Microsoft copied something from Apple? This is news... how?
Am I the only one who uses a repeated backward "flick" of the finger to get through a document really quickly? If the wheel didn't have any resistance it wouldn't stop, and wouldn't be to useful.
Another advantage of GPL and similar licenses is that if a company gets [bored|bought|bankrupt] some other group can continue development. This is why we don't have a lot to worry about with Novell's Ximian aquisition. Even if they decide to stop development of XD2, Mono, Evolution etc, I'm sure some other people or company might want to continue doing so.
Obviously this doesn't help much in your case, but it's worth thinking about for people developing new software.
Try Mozilla Firebird then. The Gecko engine is much more w3c-conformant than Internet Explorer. Also Firebird doesn't come with Outlook Express. Eugh.
I could read in to your post and interpret you wanting pages to render correctly as meaning "exactly as in MSIE". This is just wrong...
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Until 1988, BSD Unix required an AT&T license, since each release included AT&T UNIX code. Basically AT&T kept upping the price so BSD released their system under the BSD open source license in 1989. AT&T and BSD went to court in 1992 and it went BSD's way. So anything that appeared in BSD before 1992 is open source under a BSD license even if it came directly from UNIX. Also it can be re-licensed under the GPL because the BSD license allows this.
It's also in a 1986 Berkley file: http://unix-archive.pdp11.org.ru/PDP-11/Trees/2.11 BSD/sys/sys/subr_rmap.c
To sum up, this code is in 2.4.x but not 2.5.x, was also present in BSD which means its open source based on the case the BSD creators went through in the early 1990s. Have SCO really so poorly researched these examples that this is the best they can show us?
Of course, I guess this could mean they just have enough slots for 8GB of main system RAM on the current motherboard. Still, it's an odd quote. Then again, maybe I'm just stupid...
I think we have this the wrong way round. Surely we should be teaching children how to use a computer and not how to use Microsoft Whatever (TM).
It'll be great for them in 10 years when some other company or consortium is producing the dominant operating system and all those hours of IT classes will be for absolutely nothing.
I don't know what they're teaching kids these days, but a word processor is a word processor and a spreadsheet is a spreadsheet no matter what it says on the box or what operating system it uses. Shouldn't they be teaching people to look beyond the Microsoft Excel toolbar and realise that when it boils down to it, practically all these programs do the same thing? Sure perhaps OpenOffice.org doesn't do pivot tables like Microsoft Excel does them. But I have yet to see a school that teaches kids how to do pivot tables.
Teaching them exclusively on one platform leads to the possibility of giving them a false sense of intuitiveness. Just because a you can't find C:\ or the Start Menu doesn't mean a platform is harder to use - unfortunately this is what many people seem to believe these days.
If taught right, you should be able to pick up the basics of pretty much any program or operating system in about an hour.
Woah, have we met?
I do to an extent. I am a PC Linux user and have been for a while, but I must admit to getting a bit fed up with grey boxes. Sure there's all those PC case modification bits around but all the neon in the world won't make your machine look as good as an iMac. I really like the latest design, especially the screen. I thought the previous iMac was alright but never considered it to be as groundbreaking as a lot of people made out. I think some of the G4 cubes are pretty hot too.
But these days when I look at a Mac, I'm seeing a stylish machine, with decent oomph (maybe not as much oomph as a 3GHz P4) - and the killer - a mature, stable UNIX-style operating system with a great graphical user interface.
That said, darned thing doesn't fit my budget. Until they come down in price a bit more I just can't justify the added expense. If they'd just release the MacOSX port for x86 I'd put it on my machine, but it seems this ain't going to happen, and we have the usual culprit, Microsoft, to blame IMO. If Apple released their x86 port, MS would discontinue Office for MacOSX in a flash, creating serious problems for their potential market. Until Apple create a decent office suite themselves (OpenOffice.org with a Cocoa interface, anyone?), they'll be pretty stuck.
Hotplug is improving all the time. However I'm still annoyed at the lack of interaction between it and the user. What I want is a wizard that lets me load a driver off a disk. This doesn't exist in Linux at the moment, if hotplug doesn't know about a piece of hardware and can't find the relivent kernel module it doesn't work.
I think it's an interesting reflection on humanity when evolution can throw up designs that we can't properly understand even with all of our apparent science and technology (bees, water striders, the thought process). It just goes to show that for every fact or theory we think we know there are far more that we don't, which gives me great confidence in the progress of human science and technology over the next few thousand years.
When no vertical scrolling is sensible (like a wave editor) the scrollwheel should cause horizontal scrolling. I've seen this trick in quite a few apps. The point is that there's very little need for two dimensional scrolling, it's mostly an "either-or" situation.
What, you mean Microsoft copied something from Apple? This is news... how?
Am I the only one who uses a repeated backward "flick" of the finger to get through a document really quickly? If the wheel didn't have any resistance it wouldn't stop, and wouldn't be to useful.
I thought by definition pretty much any license other than the GPL was incompatible with the GPL. By design...
Sounds nice, but strikes me as a good price, considering that some USB keyrings are that expensive without having the voice capability.
Wonder what format it records in? If it uses MP3, pity because they could have saved on licensing fees if they'd chosen an open format like OGG.
Another advantage of GPL and similar licenses is that if a company gets [bored|bought|bankrupt] some other group can continue development. This is why we don't have a lot to worry about with Novell's Ximian aquisition. Even if they decide to stop development of XD2, Mono, Evolution etc, I'm sure some other people or company might want to continue doing so. Obviously this doesn't help much in your case, but it's worth thinking about for people developing new software.
Try Mozilla Firebird then. The Gecko engine is much more w3c-conformant than Internet Explorer. Also Firebird doesn't come with Outlook Express. Eugh. I could read in to your post and interpret you wanting pages to render correctly as meaning "exactly as in MSIE". This is just wrong...