There are other companies that manage to do online game distribution without requiring the games to call home... see http://totalgaming.stardock.com/
Galactic Civilizations, Galactiv Civiliations II Beta, and other games....
A few weeks ago one of our people brought in a laptop that XP wouldn't boot anymore. ERD Commander couldn't find Windows. However, I popped in Knoppix and backed up all of her files onto the network. Read-only NTFS and network access was all we needed....
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Verisign putting up their Sitefinder search engine. What ICANN had an issue with is the mismanagement of the DNS entries. If I want sitefinder, I'll go to www.sitefinder.com. If I go to www.stiefinder.com, I want a "host/domain not found" error, not a search engine.
OK, I'm in Canada and use Starchoice, but I think the "satellite is useless if it rains hard" excuse is somewhat overblown. I've had my satellite signal degrade far enough that I had to do anything about it a total of about 4 times (over approx 3 years). Once was due to the object the dish was mounted to was collapsing (resulting in the dish pointing at the ground), an the other 3 times was due to snow piled up on the dish. Heavy rain only degrades my signal from 5-10 points (where I'm usually around 80, and the picture doesn't seem to degrade until under 50....).
Re:Darl does NOT deserve ANY respect.
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It appears that instead of developing software, they have changed their mission statement to, "Litigate everybody out of business."
Actually, the mission statement appears to be
"Litigate ourselves out of business":)
OK, but wouldn't "licencing" the code be implicit consent for it to be there? (on top of the argument that they are distributing the kernel _knowingly_)
Since the alleged SCO code is linked directly into the kernel, wouldn't that make it a 'derivative' work according the GPL? As a result, they can't distribute it unless it is also GPLed?
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There are other companies that manage to do online game distribution without requiring the games to call home... see http://totalgaming.stardock.com/ Galactic Civilizations, Galactiv Civiliations II Beta, and other games....
A 20 foot by 20 foot board?!? Egad... are you plaing with real humans instead of stones?
A few weeks ago one of our people brought in a laptop that XP wouldn't boot anymore. ERD Commander couldn't find Windows. However, I popped in Knoppix and backed up all of her files onto the network. Read-only NTFS and network access was all we needed....
To coin a joke I heard a while ago: MCSE = Mouse-Clicking-Solutions-Expert
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Verisign putting up their Sitefinder search engine. What ICANN had an issue with is the mismanagement of the DNS entries. If I want sitefinder, I'll go to www.sitefinder.com. If I go to www.stiefinder.com, I want a "host/domain not found" error, not a search engine.
OK, I'm in Canada and use Starchoice, but I think the "satellite is useless if it rains hard" excuse is somewhat overblown. I've had my satellite signal degrade far enough that I had to do anything about it a total of about 4 times (over approx 3 years). Once was due to the object the dish was mounted to was collapsing (resulting in the dish pointing at the ground), an the other 3 times was due to snow piled up on the dish. Heavy rain only degrades my signal from 5-10 points (where I'm usually around 80, and the picture doesn't seem to degrade until under 50....).
Actually, the mission statement appears to be "Litigate ourselves out of business" :)
OK, but wouldn't "licencing" the code be implicit consent for it to be there? (on top of the argument that they are distributing the kernel _knowingly_)
Since the alleged SCO code is linked directly into the kernel, wouldn't that make it a 'derivative' work according the GPL? As a result, they can't distribute it unless it is also GPLed?