Responsding to myself, but this just occurred to me: I wonder how this will affect the FreeDOS project. My first guess would be that they'll have to rewrite the project to use ext2 or some other file system.
Software patents have been commonly regarded as the "nukes" of the software world. I'm beginning to think that MS has decided it has nothing to lose by going nuclear on the free software world.
Yep, if killing the FAT file system isn't the objective, it will be the result. It's probably aimed at preventing Linux interoperability with Windows machines. I don't know how that will play out, in court or otherwise, but if MS has patents on FAT, then presumably they may want, or be able, to prevent people from distributing free code to access FAT files systems.
Certainly, any company using FAT for its products will switch to a different file system. SCO may want to sue MS for infringing on its patented "Cock Pistol, Shoot Foot" algorithm.
Overall, I kind of think it might be a good thing that MS is doing this. It provides yet another reason for tech companies to consider embedded Linux for their devices. And the more prevalent Linux becomes in that sector, a) the sooner Linux driver support will improve, and b) the more home users will consider Linux.
Note: Blake Stowell doesn't say they won't sue Google, just that they haven't decided on a target yet. He does admit that Google is one of the Fortune 1000 they sent letters to.
This is, of course, just another way for SCO to pump up the stock action. Not really denying the story spreads the rumor, without courting the kind of suit Red Hat slapped them with.
D'oh. Should be "server farm". Although, to get linguistic, one could use "render" in the sense of rendering responses to queries, rather than just the specialized technical sense of rendering images.
If SCO wasn't thinking of suing Google before, then they're even stupider than I take them for, and that's pretty stupid to begin with.
Everyone who gave it two seconds thought had to suspect that Google would be on SCO's radar. I mean, c'mon... with a well-publicized render farm of over 6000 Linux PC's who would be a more public target than Google. Since we all know this is a stock scam at this point, SCO is best off going after one of the biggest targets they can find to hype up the the amount of money they'll have coming in, you know, someday when they've won all their lawsuits.
You're right, I missed that one (unusual for me, I've been a regular at Groklaw since May or June), but it's still pretty limited. It only applies to software including the back-licensed Sys V code, and only if that software "directly competes" with a SCO "core" server offering.
The way I read it, even in the unlikely event that SCO wins its suit with IBM, they still might not have a case against Novell. To show that Novell was violating this "non-compete" clause, SCO would have to show that there is Sys V copyrighted code in Linux, not just "derivitave" code.
The soundtrack titles have already been released and "The Grey Havens" is the last instrumental piece before the credit music. So we can exect the bittersweet sadness of the books ending. I do kind of hope they preserve the last scene of the book though:
[Sam] drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
"...Jackson will likely be tinkering with the editing until a week before release."
Close. He worked on it till the last minute, which was in the first week of November. There were in fact some final changes he wanted that didn't make it into the film. It had to shipped for transfers.
I expect Linux momentum to accelerate even more once Longhorn is released. The whole DRM focus will just make the OS more difficult to use, and no one really wants it except for some lawyers and publishers. Once word gets out that the next version of Windows will feature more vendor lock-in and more difficulty of use via DRM, both corporations and individual users will be taking more of a look at Linux.
There is no non-compete clause. There is some fairly limited language in regard to Novell not selling or providing monetary incentives to its salespeople with respect to System V, but even that clause is rendered inoperative due to a Change of Control clause that went into effect when Caldera purchased the Unix assets from Old SCO (now Tarantella).
"No sense of loyalty or obligation to the ones who hired them in the first place."
After years of down-sizing and raided pension funds, many employees have learned their sense of coporate loyalty and obligation from the corporations themselves.
And I hardly see how this is a "blue-collar" experience.
Too expensive in CG? Nah, the Huorns are in TTT EE. It was cut to keep the running time under 3 hours. Though why PJ had to add that whole sequence of Aragorn going over a cliff, revived by his horse, and then those adds-nothing-to-the-narrative let's watch Viggo ride through NZ on his horse scenes, is beyond me. That's a real head-scratcher.
PJ didn't need that sequence at all to tell the story, when he could have given us more of the Ents and and resolved the ending of Saruman instead.
Saruman is not in ROTK, the book, either. There is, however some significant material left out of TTT, the movie, that I thought they would use in ROTK.
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There probably weren't any FAT12 patents. Software patents were particularly difficult to get until the mid-80's/early-90's.
M... Shit with Salt. Yummy.
Didn't they used to serve that in the army?
Responsding to myself, but this just occurred to me: I wonder how this will affect the FreeDOS project. My first guess would be that they'll have to rewrite the project to use ext2 or some other file system.
Software patents have been commonly regarded as the "nukes" of the software world. I'm beginning to think that MS has decided it has nothing to lose by going nuclear on the free software world.
Yep, if killing the FAT file system isn't the objective, it will be the result. It's probably aimed at preventing Linux interoperability with Windows machines. I don't know how that will play out, in court or otherwise, but if MS has patents on FAT, then presumably they may want, or be able, to prevent people from distributing free code to access FAT files systems.
Certainly, any company using FAT for its products will switch to a different file system. SCO may want to sue MS for infringing on its patented "Cock Pistol, Shoot Foot" algorithm.
Overall, I kind of think it might be a good thing that MS is doing this. It provides yet another reason for tech companies to consider embedded Linux for their devices. And the more prevalent Linux becomes in that sector, a) the sooner Linux driver support will improve, and b) the more home users will consider Linux.
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Note: Blake Stowell doesn't say they won't sue Google, just that they haven't decided on a target yet. He does admit that Google is one of the Fortune 1000 they sent letters to.
This is, of course, just another way for SCO to pump up the stock action. Not really denying the story spreads the rumor, without courting the kind of suit Red Hat slapped them with.
D'oh. Should be "server farm". Although, to get linguistic, one could use "render" in the sense of rendering responses to queries, rather than just the specialized technical sense of rendering images.
If SCO wasn't thinking of suing Google before, then they're even stupider than I take them for, and that's pretty stupid to begin with.
Everyone who gave it two seconds thought had to suspect that Google would be on SCO's radar. I mean, c'mon... with a well-publicized render farm of over 6000 Linux PC's who would be a more public target than Google. Since we all know this is a stock scam at this point, SCO is best off going after one of the biggest targets they can find to hype up the the amount of money they'll have coming in, you know, someday when they've won all their lawsuits.
I guess this means that all RotK items are going to rehash The Matrix Re: sequels until RotK is released?
I mean, didn't the last RotK item also quickly degenerate into a debate on the merits of The Matrix sequels.
You're right, I missed that one (unusual for me, I've been a regular at Groklaw since May or June), but it's still pretty limited. It only applies to software including the back-licensed Sys V code, and only if that software "directly competes" with a SCO "core" server offering.
The way I read it, even in the unlikely event that SCO wins its suit with IBM, they still might not have a case against Novell. To show that Novell was violating this "non-compete" clause, SCO would have to show that there is Sys V copyrighted code in Linux, not just "derivitave" code.
There is: it's zero. If you're using a reversible logic gate, you can, in theory, perfectly conserve energy.
The soundtrack titles have already been released and "The Grey Havens" is the last instrumental piece before the credit music. So we can exect the bittersweet sadness of the books ending. I do kind of hope they preserve the last scene of the book though:
[Sam] drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
"...Jackson will likely be tinkering with the editing until a week before release."
Close. He worked on it till the last minute, which was in the first week of November. There were in fact some final changes he wanted that didn't make it into the film. It had to shipped for transfers.
Well, yes. The point was that SCO/Caldera has even managed to piss off Bill Gates.
I expect Linux momentum to accelerate even more once Longhorn is released. The whole DRM focus will just make the OS more difficult to use, and no one really wants it except for some lawyers and publishers. Once word gets out that the next version of Windows will feature more vendor lock-in and more difficulty of use via DRM, both corporations and individual users will be taking more of a look at Linux.
It really is close to a no-brainer.
DR-DOS.
There is no non-compete clause. There is some fairly limited language in regard to Novell not selling or providing monetary incentives to its salespeople with respect to System V, but even that clause is rendered inoperative due to a Change of Control clause that went into effect when Caldera purchased the Unix assets from Old SCO (now Tarantella).
"No sense of loyalty or obligation to the ones who hired them in the first place."
After years of down-sizing and raided pension funds, many employees have learned their sense of coporate loyalty and obligation from the corporations themselves.
And I hardly see how this is a "blue-collar" experience.
Well, I thought it was LSD that made you see things, not yarn.
In New York City, $13.75/hr. is the equivalent of about $6.50-$7.00/ hr. in the rest of the country.
Believe it. I live in Manhattan, and it's expensive as hell here.
And equated Linux users with terrorists.
Point taken re: Alan Cox. But that doesn't explain leaving Red hat out of the subpoenas. Only Red Hat's suit does that.
Nope, they're going after Andrew Morton, assigned maintainer of the 2.6 kernel and former(?) Digeo employee.
He's with OSDL now. I'm actually not sure about the "former" part of that statement, as he may be on sabbatical from Digeo.
Notice how they're not going after Alan Cox or Red Hat in the subpoenas? Looks like Red Hat's suit has given them some protection from SCO predation.
Too expensive in CG? Nah, the Huorns are in TTT EE. It was cut to keep the running time under 3 hours. Though why PJ had to add that whole sequence of Aragorn going over a cliff, revived by his horse, and then those adds-nothing-to-the-narrative let's watch Viggo ride through NZ on his horse scenes, is beyond me. That's a real head-scratcher.
PJ didn't need that sequence at all to tell the story, when he could have given us more of the Ents and and resolved the ending of Saruman instead.
"ILLERTERATE"
Well, that says it all really.
Saruman is not in ROTK, the book, either. There is, however some significant material left out of TTT, the movie, that I thought they would use in ROTK.