The Linux claims are skinny in the Novell case, but they are still alive. Part of Novell's case was that even if SCO owned the copyrights they're still forbidden to sue over them since SCO is contractually prevented from doing so by membership in the UnitedLinux consortium.
Judge Kimball split that bit off from the rest of the case since by the contract the matter is subject to arbitration. The arbitration was stayed by the Bankruptcy Court (it had been scheduled to run in parallel with the jury trial in Utah), but can now go forward.
In fact, the stuff of most interest to Linux users is still to come! The bulk of Novell was about copyrights and SCO-as-fiduciary. Without evidence of infringement, these are directly of interest to Linux users. But the GPL is about to get a hearing. That is of considerable interest!
Darl is no longer associated with SCO, and he has no axe to grind: his options are worthless and have been for a while.
OTOH, there is the invisible Ralph Yarro, majority stockholder and now priority creditor. And there is also Judge Cahn, the Trustee appointed by the bankruptcy court. Yarro has supplied cash, and Cahn seems to have drunk the kool-aid.
Immediately after the verdict, Cahn announced that SCO will go forward with the IBM case. SCO may not have standing to sue for infringement, but they do have contract claims.
That may be a legitimate motivation for some litigants, but it's hardly sufficient for SCO. They can't just avoid losing, they have to win something (e.g. $$$) or it will be worse than not having played. Either way they go out of business and possibly expose the big players, esp. Darl and Ralph Yarro, to personal liability and their lawyers to sanctions.
What causes many, including myself, to wonder is that SCO has proceeded - apparently in the most expensive way possible - to this point (where they can't win anything) when they must known long ago that losing was inevitable. Surely the damage to themselves could have been mitigated. So why are they committing corporate suicide? There must be an insurance policy of which we're unaware.
IFF summary judgement completely disposes the case, then you're right. As much as it may be warranted, I don't expect that it will happen.
In fact, I wouldn't be all that surprised if SCO moved for a stay pending resolution of Novell if it looks like they will lose all claims on summary judgement. (Not saying that it would be granted, but it could be.) So the schedule on dispositive motions isn't set in stone either.
Craig was right and I recognize that since I know what the controversy is really about.
But Scott made the stronger case for the vast majority of NPR listeners. He did it by raising issues that aren't in dispute, by claiming benefits that do not flow from his position, and by hitting high-Q buzzphrases.
What really p**d me off about the duel was that they ran the two presentations on different days! As usual with NPR, the form is everything. Those who heard Scott the first day were swayed toward his position, and *if* they heard Craig the second day, didn't remember enough about it to think it was refuted (since there wasn't time for Craig to do a formal rebuttal). Those that heard only Craig knew that they didn't have the other side so likely resisted making a conclusion.
NPR is really good at this type of slant. Anyone hear the hatchet job on Larry Summers this morning? On the surface it sounded quite collegial, but the lingering (unfair) impression is that of a misogynist.
You're assuming, of course, that they don't end up in jail...
Assuming SCO loses, McBride won't be hired as flak. He's too well known now for bullshit. I'd say $250,000 tops, if he can find a Mormon to hire him at all.
There are still over 100 claims from SCO that have to be dealt with before Red Hat can proceed.
Don't be so sure of that. The latest noises from Delaware indicate that the judge is under increasing pressure to do something with the case. I think she may wait until summary judgements in SCO v. IBM are over (shouldn't be too long now - maybe fall) and then make some moves of her own.
I'd be interested to know if some or all of these vulnerabilites were discovered through code inspection? It would be a big feather in OSS' cap if so. (Although it could be spun the other way, were one sufficiently unscrupulous...)
As much as I hate to say this, WPS was not one of the things that was done right on OS/2. It looks good in theory, but there's a fundamental problem with inheritance that didn't show up until they started mixing and matching 3rd party developed desktop classes. Unless the entire hierarchy is stable and well-known, you can't predict behavior. You have no idea what someone else may have done to the your superclasses in the runtime environment. Suddenly your parents don't act as you expected (or tested). Lots of unexpected field failures that didn't help endear OS/2 to developers or graphical users.
Microsoft got this one right ([arrg!] it burns!) with composition rather than inheritance. It makes programming less elegant, but it makes an unknown runtime environment a lot easier to survive.
That's not true. While IBM has helped with Eclipse, Eclipse was around long before they got involved. The engine internally is nothing like VAJ. (VAJ, like most VA products, was built on a Smalltalk engine.) One big problem VAJ had was that because it required a purpose-built JRE IBM was paying to essentially duplicate the work, and it still always lagged the Sun spec. So IBM accepted the Eclipse engine with it's pluggable JRE. (And good performance, platform near-neutrality, and independent (ie. free) staff.
IBM plugs their proprietary bits (most from VAJ) into it to make Websphere Studio. Their bits are pretty nifty - visual UI editor and J2EE stuff - but they still charge about $1500 for them, and you can get the Eclipse IDE for free.
In other words, IBM open-sourced nearly NONE of VAJ! They embrace open-source with a great deal of intelligence. They adopt and contribute to what helps them, but still sell the bits that will make them $$. And they don't do the logic-disconnect thing that MS does, concluding that helping others hurts themselves.
Actually, preliminary versions of some articles are posted first with "Members Only" access. This is to get a round of error checking done. Then the 'editted' article is posted publicly.
But I have never seen a "Members Only" article stay "Members Only". They always become public within about a day.
WASP, where is thy sting? is from her collection The Florence King Reader.
If quasi-anthropological analysis turns you on, try Southern Ladies and Gentlemen. I've never seen a more on-point explication of traditional Southern white society, top to bottom.
As for how *Florence* got that way (world-reknowned lesbian misanthrope), much becomes clear when you read about her mother, father, grandmother, and associates in Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.
All of the above, of course, are absolutely hilarious.
Some of this "Historians Say" stuff is simply not true. And one, at least, is mere speculation: "The death toll was probably even...". (I find that intuitively unlikely as the Mexican Army was assaulting a fairly strong fortified position.)
Worst, though, is "The Alamo had no strategic military importance." Few forts of themselves have importance; what is important is what's inside. The Alamo housed one of the strongest collections of guns (cannon) in the Western Hemisphere at the time.
But I'll give you one thing. Texas schools have no interest in teaching Texas history, even though required *by law*. One year, our history teacher passed out a little pamphlet, "Texas Constitution". He said, "Here. Look through this." A couple minutes later he said, "Okay, pass them to the front. That was your Texas Constitution and History requirement for the year."
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Judge Kimball split that bit off from the rest of the case since by the contract the matter is subject to arbitration. The arbitration was stayed by the Bankruptcy Court (it had been scheduled to run in parallel with the jury trial in Utah), but can now go forward.
In fact, the stuff of most interest to Linux users is still to come! The bulk of Novell was about copyrights and SCO-as-fiduciary. Without evidence of infringement, these are directly of interest to Linux users. But the GPL is about to get a hearing. That is of considerable interest!
Darl is no longer associated with SCO, and he has no axe to grind: his options are worthless and have been for a while.
OTOH, there is the invisible Ralph Yarro, majority stockholder and now priority creditor. And there is also Judge Cahn, the Trustee appointed by the bankruptcy court. Yarro has supplied cash, and Cahn seems to have drunk the kool-aid.
Immediately after the verdict, Cahn announced that SCO will go forward with the IBM case. SCO may not have standing to sue for infringement, but they do have contract claims.
And then there's the UnitedLinux arbiration....
What causes many, including myself, to wonder is that SCO has proceeded - apparently in the most expensive way possible - to this point (where they can't win anything) when they must known long ago that losing was inevitable. Surely the damage to themselves could have been mitigated. So why are they committing corporate suicide? There must be an insurance policy of which we're unaware.
IFF summary judgement completely disposes the case, then you're right. As much as it may be warranted, I don't expect that it will happen.
In fact, I wouldn't be all that surprised if SCO moved for a stay pending resolution of Novell if it looks like they will lose all claims on summary judgement. (Not saying that it would be granted, but it could be.) So the schedule on dispositive motions isn't set in stone either.
Craig was right and I recognize that since I know what the controversy is really about.
But Scott made the stronger case for the vast majority of NPR listeners. He did it by raising issues that aren't in dispute, by claiming benefits that do not flow from his position, and by hitting high-Q buzzphrases.
What really p**d me off about the duel was that they ran the two presentations on different days! As usual with NPR, the form is everything. Those who heard Scott the first day were swayed toward his position, and *if* they heard Craig the second day, didn't remember enough about it to think it was refuted (since there wasn't time for Craig to do a formal rebuttal). Those that heard only Craig knew that they didn't have the other side so likely resisted making a conclusion.
NPR is really good at this type of slant. Anyone hear the hatchet job on Larry Summers this morning? On the surface it sounded quite collegial, but the lingering (unfair) impression is that of a misogynist.
Negative. All the $$ are going to Boies and Shiller (sp?).
You're assuming, of course, that they don't end up in jail...
Assuming SCO loses, McBride won't be hired as flak. He's too well known now for bullshit. I'd say $250,000 tops, if he can find a Mormon to hire him at all.
Don't be so sure of that. The latest noises from Delaware indicate that the judge is under increasing pressure to do something with the case. I think she may wait until summary judgements in SCO v. IBM are over (shouldn't be too long now - maybe fall) and then make some moves of her own.
Sure it's the same Sandeep Gupta? That name seems to be about as common as Robert Smith.
Probably because of conspiracy theorists such as yourself. ;)
I'd be interested to know if some or all of these vulnerabilites were discovered through code inspection? It would be a big feather in OSS' cap if so. (Although it could be spun the other way, were one sufficiently unscrupulous...)
Meta-laws to regulate the making of laws?
What do you think the Second Amendment is really all about?
As much as I hate to say this, WPS was not one of the things that was done right on OS/2. It looks good in theory, but there's a fundamental problem with inheritance that didn't show up until they started mixing and matching 3rd party developed desktop classes. Unless the entire hierarchy is stable and well-known, you can't predict behavior. You have no idea what someone else may have done to the your superclasses in the runtime environment. Suddenly your parents don't act as you expected (or tested). Lots of unexpected field failures that didn't help endear OS/2 to developers or graphical users.
Microsoft got this one right ([arrg!] it burns!) with composition rather than inheritance. It makes programming less elegant, but it makes an unknown runtime environment a lot easier to survive.
Otherwise, OS/2 rocked!!
A link is hardly attribution.
How many people wvwn know how to decode it. For that matter, how many readers will even know that it *is* a link, much less follow it?
Sorry, forgot the link:
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10998699493176
I've alway respected Ars reportage, but the lack of attribution is unacceptable. Sent email to Caesar.
Besides, the WSJ article is a lot longer and more interesting.
"Catholics" discovered this a long, long time ago.
It's priests and bishops that apparently need to be reminded of it.
That's not true. While IBM has helped with Eclipse, Eclipse was around long before they got involved. The engine internally is nothing like VAJ. (VAJ, like most VA products, was built on a Smalltalk engine.) One big problem VAJ had was that because it required a purpose-built JRE IBM was paying to essentially duplicate the work, and it still always lagged the Sun spec. So IBM accepted the Eclipse engine with it's pluggable JRE. (And good performance, platform near-neutrality, and independent (ie. free) staff.
IBM plugs their proprietary bits (most from VAJ) into it to make Websphere Studio. Their bits are pretty nifty - visual UI editor and J2EE stuff - but they still charge about $1500 for them, and you can get the Eclipse IDE for free.
In other words, IBM open-sourced nearly NONE of VAJ! They embrace open-source with a great deal of intelligence. They adopt and contribute to what helps them, but still sell the bits that will make them $$. And they don't do the logic-disconnect thing that MS does, concluding that helping others hurts themselves.
I installed the xvid codec and it worked great.
Started to install the divx 5.2 codec and only got as far as the license terms. No F*g way I'm agreeing to banners!
BTW, is IV41 a valid AVI format?
Yeah. Me too. WMP 6.4. "No decoder available for download."
How the heck do they manage to screw up a simple AVI? I *really* don't want WMP9 on this machine.
Actually, preliminary versions of some articles are posted first with "Members Only" access. This is to get a round of error checking done. Then the 'editted' article is posted publicly.
But I have never seen a "Members Only" article stay "Members Only". They always become public within about a day.
If quasi-anthropological analysis turns you on, try Southern Ladies and Gentlemen. I've never seen a more on-point explication of traditional Southern white society, top to bottom.
As for how *Florence* got that way (world-reknowned lesbian misanthrope), much becomes clear when you read about her mother, father, grandmother, and associates in Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.
All of the above, of course, are absolutely hilarious.
Some of this "Historians Say" stuff is simply not true. And one, at least, is mere speculation: "The death toll was probably even...". (I find that intuitively unlikely as the Mexican Army was assaulting a fairly strong fortified position.)
Worst, though, is "The Alamo had no strategic military importance." Few forts of themselves have importance; what is important is what's inside. The Alamo housed one of the strongest collections of guns (cannon) in the Western Hemisphere at the time.
But I'll give you one thing. Texas schools have no interest in teaching Texas history, even though required *by law*. One year, our history teacher passed out a little pamphlet, "Texas Constitution". He said, "Here. Look through this." A couple minutes later he said, "Okay, pass them to the front. That was your Texas Constitution and History requirement for the year."
Is that prostitution?
Probably says a lot about how much they paid them for it.