From the news.com article:
The first target will be a company that has a Unix license from SCO already, giving SCO some contractual leverage in the case. McBride said. In addition, the suit will involve copyright infringement claims.
I think it will be either SGI or Sun. I recall reading on Groklaw where it was shown in several cases where SGI contributed code and whole license preambles were removed from source files.
Failing that, I actually hope that Sun gets sued just to shut the tinfoil hat types up who think that Sun is somehow behind SCO's evil plot.
Yes, after some experimentation I have discovered it works under Windows (which I am forced to use at work), but it doesn't work under Linux or Solaris, probably because neither have the notion of a 'default mail application'.
As I said in my message, I am a happy Firebird user. I think things are confused in this thread, because in the Winblows version, mailto: works fine, but on Linux (or Solaris), it doesn't.
Unless you have some extensions installed, it most certainly does not open them in your default mail program. (Well, maybe it does under Windows, but I'm not running Windows...). Clicking on a mailto: link in Firebird 0.7 under Linux produces a dialog box with the message:
mailto is not a registered protocol
I'll have to try on my Windows computer at work and see what it does.
While I am also a happy Firebird user, it is lacking a few key things, e.g. mailto URLs are not handled properly. Also, there are still significant bugs, such as pages which cause the browser to completely croak, and bugs with the password manager.
I'm sure the majority of the glaring errors or lacking features will be addressed before it becomes an official product.
Outsourcing saved us a little... Offshoring saved us some more... Off-planeting is gonna save us a ton!!! Those martians grow up doing C++, SQL, and Oracle database administration! And they do it for a third of what the Chinese and Indians are charging!!!
I wonder if Wipro, EDS, CSC, and IBM GS are going to sponsor the mission?
I once saw a person driving down the freeway (in the fast lane), with a bowl of cereal in his left hand and a spoon in the other... Made me want to go in front of him and slam on the brakes just to see the Froot Loops go flying:)
The article *is* about installing the Sun supplied version of KDE which comes on the Software Companion CD. Nowhere does it mention sunfreeware.com. Also, These packages are NOT supported by Sun, which you are supposed to agree to when you install it. Sun (currently) only provides support for CDE and Gnome.
... I must say for one thing, that was probably one of the worst articles I've ever seen... A monkey could figure out how to stick the Solaris Companion CD in the drive and install KDE.
That aside, I would personally recommend not installing the sun provided KDE, but rather, the packages assembled by Stefan Teleman, available through ftp.kde.org. This is version 3.1.4, whereas the Sun provided version is 3.1.1a.
How the hell did this get modded as insightful if it isn't even about Solaris? It looks like he took a Debian troll form letter and (poorly) replaced Debian with Solaris!
CDE is only at 2.2? There's no such thing! CDE is version 1.5!
XFree86? Solaris doesn't even come with XFree86!
Java Desktop and Sun Linux forks of Solaris? WTF?!?! Java Desktop is SuSE Linux and Sun Linux isn't even offered anymore!
I can't fathom why <a href="http://oami.eu.int/search/trademark/la/EN_T<nobr>M<wbr></wbr></nobr> _Detail.cfm?ID=000306399&CFID=5804729&CFTOKEN=653<nobr>5<wbr></wbr></nobr> 9777">this</a> didn't get accepted!
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I've been accused (Solaris Sys Ad)... My typical passwords are 12-18 characters in length
That's pretty pointless, since only the first 8 characters of your password are significant in Solaris unless you've replaced your authentication mechanism....
Slashdot Mirror
Here's an interesting page listing the Fortune 1000 and their domain registrars.
Failing that, I actually hope that Sun gets sued just to shut the tinfoil hat types up who think that Sun is somehow behind SCO's evil plot.
Yeah... Too bad there is no such thing as the number Google.
There is, however, the number googol, which may be "infinite for all practical purposes", but, come on, this is Slashdot.
Without the googol, you couldn't have the googolplex, and without the googolplex you couldn't have things like this
Maybe Slashdot got slashdotted by the Bizarro Slashdot...
"SCO's Claim to ownership of Linux"
Yes, after some experimentation I have discovered it works under Windows (which I am forced to use at work), but it doesn't work under Linux or Solaris, probably because neither have the notion of a 'default mail application'.
As I said in my message, I am a happy Firebird user. I think things are confused in this thread, because in the Winblows version, mailto: works fine, but on Linux (or Solaris), it doesn't.
I'm sure the majority of the glaring errors or lacking features will be addressed before it becomes an official product.
To Randal L. Schwartz
(Just Another Perl Hacker):
Next time, rename 'crack'.
my $balls = "are itchy"
and "they are turning to red";
warn "girlfriend of crabs";
Letter from lawyers != getting sued
(at least not yet)
Here's some reference material:
Hot
Not
Hot
Not
Here's a page you could print out and carry around as a handy pocket reference.
Not quite, but check this out...
root@somewhere# grep ^.nu$ /usr/share/dict/words
gnu
I wonder if Wipro, EDS, CSC, and IBM GS are going to sponsor the mission?
I once saw a person driving down the freeway (in the fast lane), with a bowl of cereal in his left hand and a spoon in the other... Made me want to go in front of him and slam on the brakes just to see the Froot Loops go flying :)
The article *is* about installing the Sun supplied version of KDE which comes on the Software Companion CD. Nowhere does it mention sunfreeware.com. Also, These packages are NOT supported by Sun, which you are supposed to agree to when you install it. Sun (currently) only provides support for CDE and Gnome.
... I must say for one thing, that was probably one of the worst articles I've ever seen... A monkey could figure out how to stick the Solaris Companion CD in the drive and install KDE.
That aside, I would personally recommend not installing the sun provided KDE, but rather, the packages assembled by Stefan Teleman, available through ftp.kde.org. This is version 3.1.4, whereas the Sun provided version is 3.1.1a.
How the hell did this get modded as insightful if it isn't even about Solaris? It looks like he took a Debian troll form letter and (poorly) replaced Debian with Solaris!
CDE is only at 2.2? There's no such thing! CDE is version 1.5!
XFree86? Solaris doesn't even come with XFree86!
Java Desktop and Sun Linux forks of Solaris? WTF?!?! Java Desktop is SuSE Linux and Sun Linux isn't even offered anymore!
I can't fathom why <a href="http://oami.eu.int/search/trademark/la/EN_T<nobr>M<wbr></wbr></nobr> _Detail.cfm?ID=000306399&CFID=5804729&CFTOKEN=653<nobr>5<wbr></wbr></nobr> 9777">this</a> didn't get accepted!
I've been accused (Solaris Sys Ad) ... My typical passwords are 12-18 characters in length
That's pretty pointless, since only the first 8 characters of your password are significant in Solaris unless you've replaced your authentication mechanism....
I dont know... None of the servers I support even have video cards, keyboards or mice!
I think this guy doesn't know the difference between a true "server" and a PC providing services.
I'd love to see their air conditioning bill!