I can feel the flames coming. Please note that I do hate SCO as much as the rest of you, Darl McBride should burn with Hitler, etc, etc, etc....IANAL, etc, etc...
The way I see it, it goes like this: SCO finds out that IBM contributed code to Linux, and believes that it is derived from their intellectual property (which is under debate). Of course they can't specify the code in question because they don't have access to it, so SCO is asking IBM for the AIX code to compare it to the Linux kernel to validate their claims. If substantial evidence is found that AIX code is also in Linux, SCO must prove that IBM violated their contract by submitting that code into the Linux kernel, AND that SCO owns the System V code.
That said, there is still no excuse for them to claim intellectual property rights over code that they did not write that is possibly derived from code that may not belong to them.
We wouldn't have a problem with MS if it wasn't a convicted monopoly, or more specifically didn't do all the things it did to bring about that judgement. We get really antsy because it is a closed, expensive system, whose primary goal is vendor lock-in. Linux is about open standards, not technological serfdom.
If MS released a "Linux Upgrade Kit", it wouldn't be free, and people would laugh.
...hmmmm...how exactly can one connect to a system that is not listening for connections? expecially if there are no services installed yet? A deaf man might as well listen to the sound of one hand clapping.
Swiftech Copper Helicoid HS (MCXC-370). Replace the 43dB Pabst fan with 80mm adapter and quiet 32dB Panaflow fan (with a higher CFM at that!). The spring clip will prevent you from cracking your core too. Keeps my 75w Athlon T-Bird nice and cool. Not THAT quiet, but still lower dB than the power supply.
The answer to this is really simple. Not everyone will be interested in this DRM crap, or even running Windows. China is forcefully moving towards Linux, and if Linux cannot run on these new boards, their govt. will buy/support/develop hardware that does. With an installed base that large (and relatively cash strapped), you KNOW that there will be cheap and relatively open hardware to run your choice of OS.
Screw MS and Intel. I have not purchased software or hardware from either in almost a decade. We have a free global market on our side, and their products are not necessary. These are just 2 US companies in a global market. Let the sheep enslave themselves. We have options.
Being a nerd got me several hot (non-nerd) GF's in high school. I guess they liked those compliments they could barely understand. Hint...study romantic literature, Shakespeare, Tolkien.
"In a new $34 million NASA laboratory here, part of Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists are using subatomic particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light to slam into materials that could be used in a spaceship, and tissue samples and small animals. Using tools like PET and M.R.I. scans and DNA sequencing, they hope to shed light on ways that radiation damages biological tissue, and what can be done about it"
Today: NASA puts cuddly animals in particle accelerators...tomorrow: world destroyed by giant mutant rodents!!! Why isn't PETA having a field day with this???
For hardware I would recommend a VIA C3 mini-atx system (no fan necessary for the slower processors), use aliases on your network adapter, and connect it to a cheap switch; or an underclocked Pentium with a monster passive heatsink and filled with cheap NIC's.
For software run Debian Stable, and use WebMin to administer your firewall (and system). Set up a cron job to "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" every day. The system will run like an appliance. Stable, reliable, secure. You might have to reboot the thing for a kernel security update once in a blue moon.
WebMin's web interface makes firewall configuration extremely easy (as well as configuration of your entire system). You will only need a monitor to do the initial install of Debian. After that...go headless.
Gentoo is an option. Pop in the cd, do a quick configure of the network card, start ssh (included on the install cd), then perform the install remotely. Of course the gentoo install is pretty involved (almost entirely manual).
That or customize a Morphix cd (an easy to customize Knoppix clone, debian based) to load ssh or VNC on boot.
Buy yourself an old ATI AIW, or better yet a DTV card, and build a Linux based HTPC now or soon (before the cards start "featuring" the broadcast flag restriction). Make double or triple backups of your HD. Now you are set for a decade or more.
Obviously the democrats have chosen a superior platform to host their *cough* platform. The Republicans have apparently adopted inferior technology in the name of capitalism (go big business!!!). That, or their web admins are horribly inept.
Either way, this report does not reflect well on the IT abilities of the RNC.
You haven't read the GPL? We don't take kindly to non-GPL reading folk 'round here!...no really, just kidding
If your program depends on GPL code (whether its in your program itself or in a library), the entire work must be GPL. The spirit is that if you use the shared work of another, you must share your own.
...you make money through support contracts. Like RedHat. Simple enough. They charge over $1000 for their server Linux software. Of course, all their artwork in the distro is not public domain, so its not like you can download the iso for free. As long as buyers are given full source code and allowed to install on as many computers as they please (though support must be paid for)
"Trusted Computing" operates under the assumption that the system itself is trusted. Given the number of security flaws in OS software in general, this is an obviously flawed assumption. In essence, a remote attacker exploiting a security flaw in your "Trusted Computing" OS has more control over your computer than you do.
Quite literally, not only are you just leasing your software, you are giving complete access and control of your data and hardware to third parties, often without your knowledge.
How many reading this would want a technology such as this serving as the platform and network infrastructure underlying government operations? The threat is not only to your own computer, but to your information as maintained by social services and law enforcement.
Yeah, lets give all the power to software vendors (including convicted monopolists), and hackers, while the normal computer user is left in the dark.
I pledge to use only open standards in all the solutions and networks I create. Freedom is far more important than "promised" security.
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
They should be sending this to legal(at)linksys.com, or even better, a dead tree letter sent certified mail attn: Legal Dept. to their headquarters mailing address (which is available on their website). I am sure these Linksys receives all sorts of B.S. via email and are blowing their story off. A
Yes, its encouraging for large corporations to adopt open sources software, but they MUST play the rules. Too many people and businesses see open source as just free to use and abuse as they please. Once you use, or especially, modify GPL code, you are a member of the community. And you must participate in the community. This is doubly true if you profit from it. The spirit of the GPL is open cooperation between developers. A spirit evidently violated.
The sad reality is that Linksys doesn't want to play by the rules. They used the work of thousands of developers and violated the good faith license that it was released under by not sharing their modifications. In reaction to the public outcry of this violation, they apparently released incomplete code to satisfy the malcontent, hoping that no-one would notice. Well it was noticed.
(just in case some parties don't believe in free speech, the above statements are strictly the opinions of the author)
It is mazing that an assosciation so bent on defending copyright, doesn't understand the definition of it. Kazaa's lawsuit has nothing to do with copyright, and everything to do with digital tresspass and unauthorized use of computer systems. Not only is the RIAA responsible for these intrusions, but the companies and contractors hired to do them.
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According to the thin client, web application paradigm, Linux would make even more sense (than Windows). An extremely scaled down OS meant to run a web browser, preferably running on cheap hardware. Linux would fit the bill perfectly: for its price, reliability, customizability, low hardware requirements, and hardware support.
With the web application revolution, we are also seeing an immense waste of processing power and software. 90% of the software on client computers is unnecessary, if even used. The processing is also offloaded to the server. So you have workstations with 1Ghz+ processors, and hundreds of dollars of software, used only to display a web page.
With Microsoft discontinuing a stand-alone IE, not only a OS upgrade will be necessary, but hardware as well.
Linux vs. Microsoft is escalating, IMHO. And it's becoming an easier decision day by day.
After enduring the install and using the system for more than a few days, you will become a zealot as well.
Experience the joy of a bloat-free system, entirely assembled and optimized for your architecture, to your specifications. a single command downloads and compiles an application, and its dependencies as well.
i spent many days to no avail attempting to install the maze of applications necessary to rip DVD's on my RedHat install, then Debian. With Gentoo, all it took was ONE command 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge dvdrip'
Its all about power and ease of use.
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I can feel the flames coming. Please note that I do hate SCO as much as the rest of you, Darl McBride should burn with Hitler, etc, etc, etc....IANAL, etc, etc...
The way I see it, it goes like this: SCO finds out that IBM contributed code to Linux, and believes that it is derived from their intellectual property (which is under debate). Of course they can't specify the code in question because they don't have access to it, so SCO is asking IBM for the AIX code to compare it to the Linux kernel to validate their claims. If substantial evidence is found that AIX code is also in Linux, SCO must prove that IBM violated their contract by submitting that code into the Linux kernel, AND that SCO owns the System V code.
That said, there is still no excuse for them to claim intellectual property rights over code that they did not write that is possibly derived from code that may not belong to them.
Linux is "good" because it is open.
We wouldn't have a problem with MS if it wasn't a convicted monopoly, or more specifically didn't do all the things it did to bring about that judgement. We get really antsy because it is a closed, expensive system, whose primary goal is vendor lock-in. Linux is about open standards, not technological serfdom.
If MS released a "Linux Upgrade Kit", it wouldn't be free, and people would laugh.
...hmmmm...how exactly can one connect to a system that is not listening for connections? expecially if there are no services installed yet? A deaf man might as well listen to the sound of one hand clapping.
Swiftech Copper Helicoid HS (MCXC-370). Replace the 43dB Pabst fan with 80mm adapter and quiet 32dB Panaflow fan (with a higher CFM at that!). The spring clip will prevent you from cracking your core too. Keeps my 75w Athlon T-Bird nice and cool. Not THAT quiet, but still lower dB than the power supply.
The answer to this is really simple. Not everyone will be interested in this DRM crap, or even running Windows. China is forcefully moving towards Linux, and if Linux cannot run on these new boards, their govt. will buy/support/develop hardware that does. With an installed base that large (and relatively cash strapped), you KNOW that there will be cheap and relatively open hardware to run your choice of OS.
Screw MS and Intel. I have not purchased software or hardware from either in almost a decade. We have a free global market on our side, and their products are not necessary. These are just 2 US companies in a global market. Let the sheep enslave themselves. We have options.
Being a nerd got me several hot (non-nerd) GF's in high school. I guess they liked those compliments they could barely understand. Hint...study romantic literature, Shakespeare, Tolkien.
"In a new $34 million NASA laboratory here, part of Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists are using subatomic particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light to slam into materials that could be used in a spaceship, and tissue samples and small animals. Using tools like PET and M.R.I. scans and DNA sequencing, they hope to shed light on ways that radiation damages biological tissue, and what can be done about it"
Today: NASA puts cuddly animals in particle accelerators...tomorrow: world destroyed by giant mutant rodents!!!
Why isn't PETA having a field day with this???
For hardware I would recommend a VIA C3 mini-atx system (no fan necessary for the slower processors), use aliases on your network adapter, and connect it to a cheap switch; or an underclocked Pentium with a monster passive heatsink and filled with cheap NIC's.
For software run Debian Stable, and use WebMin to administer your firewall (and system). Set up a cron job to "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" every day. The system will run like an appliance. Stable, reliable, secure. You might have to reboot the thing for a kernel security update once in a blue moon.
WebMin's web interface makes firewall configuration extremely easy (as well as configuration of your entire system). You will only need a monitor to do the initial install of Debian. After that...go headless.
Gentoo is an option. Pop in the cd, do a quick configure of the network card, start ssh (included on the install cd), then perform the install remotely. Of course the gentoo install is pretty involved (almost entirely manual). That or customize a Morphix cd (an easy to customize Knoppix clone, debian based) to load ssh or VNC on boot.
What you describe is a functional democracy...ours is becoming less and less so.
How exactly is a redistricting policy that can effectively nullify my vote in my best interest? It say it isn't.
Those in power want one thing...more power. The interests of the people are secondary.
- one big folder
- use highly descriptive and standardized filenames (ie "12-03-water-bill.tif")
- ls -l | grep water | grep 12-03
VIOLA!!! Always works for me!
You can't get any simpler.
there is no way to know...email headers are usually forged
Here's the recipe for consumer freedom:
Buy yourself an old ATI AIW, or better yet a DTV card, and build a Linux based HTPC now or soon (before the cards start "featuring" the broadcast flag restriction). Make double or triple backups of your HD. Now you are set for a decade or more.
TV sucks anyway.
Obviously the democrats have chosen a superior platform to host their *cough* platform. The Republicans have apparently adopted inferior technology in the name of capitalism (go big business!!!). That, or their web admins are horribly inept.
Either way, this report does not reflect well on the IT abilities of the RNC.
I take it you live in TX?
You haven't read the GPL? We don't take kindly to non-GPL reading folk 'round here! ...no really, just kidding
...you make money through support contracts. Like RedHat. Simple enough. They charge over $1000 for their server Linux software. Of course, all their artwork in the distro is not public domain, so its not like you can download the iso for free. As long as buyers are given full source code and allowed to install on as many computers as they please (though support must be paid for)
If your program depends on GPL code (whether its in your program itself or in a library), the entire work must be GPL. The spirit is that if you use the shared work of another, you must share your own.
...but you can't sue God!
"Trusted Computing" operates under the assumption that the system itself is trusted. Given the number of security flaws in OS software in general, this is an obviously flawed assumption. In essence, a remote attacker exploiting a security flaw in your "Trusted Computing" OS has more control over your computer than you do.
Quite literally, not only are you just leasing your software, you are giving complete access and control of your data and hardware to third parties, often without your knowledge.
How many reading this would want a technology such as this serving as the platform and network infrastructure underlying government operations? The threat is not only to your own computer, but to your information as maintained by social services and law enforcement.
Yeah, lets give all the power to software vendors (including convicted monopolists), and hackers, while the normal computer user is left in the dark.
I pledge to use only open standards in all the solutions and networks I create. Freedom is far more important than "promised" security.
Unfortunately, that missing code is required to be released under the GPL.
From the GPL:
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
They should be sending this to legal(at)linksys.com, or even better, a dead tree letter sent certified mail attn: Legal Dept. to their headquarters mailing address (which is available on their website). I am sure these Linksys receives all sorts of B.S. via email and are blowing their story off. A Yes, its encouraging for large corporations to adopt open sources software, but they MUST play the rules. Too many people and businesses see open source as just free to use and abuse as they please. Once you use, or especially, modify GPL code, you are a member of the community. And you must participate in the community. This is doubly true if you profit from it. The spirit of the GPL is open cooperation between developers. A spirit evidently violated. The sad reality is that Linksys doesn't want to play by the rules. They used the work of thousands of developers and violated the good faith license that it was released under by not sharing their modifications. In reaction to the public outcry of this violation, they apparently released incomplete code to satisfy the malcontent, hoping that no-one would notice. Well it was noticed. (just in case some parties don't believe in free speech, the above statements are strictly the opinions of the author)
It is mazing that an assosciation so bent on defending copyright, doesn't understand the definition of it. Kazaa's lawsuit has nothing to do with copyright, and everything to do with digital tresspass and unauthorized use of computer systems. Not only is the RIAA responsible for these intrusions, but the companies and contractors hired to do them.
According to the thin client, web application paradigm, Linux would make even more sense (than Windows). An extremely scaled down OS meant to run a web browser, preferably running on cheap hardware. Linux would fit the bill perfectly: for its price, reliability, customizability, low hardware requirements, and hardware support. With the web application revolution, we are also seeing an immense waste of processing power and software. 90% of the software on client computers is unnecessary, if even used. The processing is also offloaded to the server. So you have workstations with 1Ghz+ processors, and hundreds of dollars of software, used only to display a web page. With Microsoft discontinuing a stand-alone IE, not only a OS upgrade will be necessary, but hardware as well. Linux vs. Microsoft is escalating, IMHO. And it's becoming an easier decision day by day.
I'd love to have a FreeBSD devil peeing on the Windows Logo, but people would probably think it was a flag
After enduring the install and using the system for more than a few days, you will become a zealot as well. Experience the joy of a bloat-free system, entirely assembled and optimized for your architecture, to your specifications. a single command downloads and compiles an application, and its dependencies as well. i spent many days to no avail attempting to install the maze of applications necessary to rip DVD's on my RedHat install, then Debian. With Gentoo, all it took was ONE command 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge dvdrip' Its all about power and ease of use.
...is an informed public