~Buying SCO's Unix IP and going after Linux with that would most likely result in more antitrust attention at Microsoft. It is much more convenient for them that someone else is doing the suing.
What if Microsoft tells SCO something along the lines of:
MS: "We will offer you a nice amount for our licensing Unix, but only if you take out anyone who 'infringes' on your IP"
SCO: ".... but,.... but we cant afford the litigation...."
MS: "How much do you want? As we said, we can offer a 'generous amount' to license it, perhaps enough to cover litigation. And after that we can assimilate you, your knowledge will become ours, your IP rights, also ours"
~My guess is you pay about that each month to get ads on your TV. Why would the big media companies want it to be any different here?
The reason that the internet is already dead is that it is already like TV in that regard. TV makes people dead from the neck up, and like it, the internet is doing the same quickly.
~Is the register now the tech equivalent of the weekly world news? Every damn article they run is biased and sensationalist with barely a grain of fact to back it up.
Thats funny, so are both of my local dailies. Difference is they shill for the (s)elected government.
~If you do a little digging you will see that Michael Powell and his family own a lot of shares of AOL/Time Warner which is why he supports this change in media ownership as well as why he opposed any regulation to force interoperable instant messaging.
And if you look at The way Bush punishes anyone that says 'no' to him, you will see why the media has lost all objectivity and prints his press releases as if the word of god.
Let me say it out loud. If the media criticise the pResident or his staff, they will be punished by not being allowed to crush their competition.
~They took the UI from the Mac, and the guts from OS/2.
Unfortunately, the whole windows experience was a fork directly off of os/2, which, at least for a time was being co-developed between IBM and Microsoft.
I have a few comments to this, mostly stemming from being a long-time former NYer....
1. is this to be in what NYers call NYC (Manhattan) or NYC in what the NYC government calls NYC (The 5 boroughs, Including Manhattan). Typically It means Manhattan, Which has a majority of the businesses, and relatively few residents. (fourth most populous borough in NYC, following Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, if you count residents). A majority of the pay phones are in Manhattan, but like all other telcom in the city had been "deregulated" years ago.
2. This is an attempt to take away the 'hot spot' advantage that T-mobile has with its Starbucks Affiliation. In NYC, they seem to be on every block, Unlike seattle (where they seem to have two on every block).
3. NYC seems to have a plethora of pay phones in NYC, and odd Dead zones as well, Particularly after the loss of the WTC which was the basis of a lot of cell traffic (and TV reception, and Phone exchanges, Electric substations, etc). Why bother with WIFI when verizon cant even get cell phones working properly on 68th and First Avenue?
~Michael Jackson (what's new eh?) song (the one used in that Free Willy movie) that sounded just about exactly like another song music wise that an artist claimed to have wrote before Jackson wrote his song.
Was that the BeeGees one? If so, then the answer is: Michael was sued and he lost. It was too close.
~ If you're excerpting a very small part of another work and using it in a work that is substantially of your own creation, isn't that the point of fair use? Isn't this somewhat similar to quoting a line from a book in your own book?
In the case of a book, it must be attributed and the like. Fair use does not cover making $$$ off anothers work.
You buy Anti-Virus software. Install it on the machine.
3 years later you get a virus released after the AV software was released. Should you sue the AV software maker? Of course not. It's your own fault for not updating the definitions on the damn AV software.
Now, is there anyone in the Computer world that Doesn't know you need to constantly patch M$ software?
~If MS can't secure their own network from their own products vulnerabilities what hope does their customers have??
AS if MS does anything but development and Sales. From what I know, they outsource their own MIS and Tech Support. I know of at least two companies that do this role for them.
Having lived in NYC at the time of 9/11, and hearing the rhetoric that has occurred since then, I have found myself wordering whether we are winning this 'war on terr'a'. Here are the things as I see them.
1. OBL attacked the US because of his dislike of the US presence in Saudi Arabia. Within the last two weeks the US government has issused a press release (reported as news) that the military will leave Saudi Lands.
2. We have attacked two countries, one of which we have created a new government. yet even in that one (Afghanistan), US troops are still being attacked. I thought the war in afghanistan is over.
3. Bin Laden, Dead or Alive.... Anyone remember this? What happened to him? What about Saddam?
4. We now have a bunch of Shiites who dislike us in Iraq, because the US government will not let them have the government THEY want ('Muslim Democracy') but rather what is in 'The US's Best Interest'. Does this make us more or less secure?
5. Patriot Act II. This could deny Linus of all rights that we in the US take for granted. Penguins don't belong at gitmo.
~does having once been a system v developer, with full access to the code, taint you from being a linux kernel developer?
I would think it depend on your agreement with ATT. I've had several employment contracts that stated that any think that I created while working for company 'X' belonged to that company. Usually it means both the binaries and the source. Frequently it is also backed by a non-compete agreement.
On the other hand, I can also see a way around it, where if you recreate it based on your memory (not your notes or etc.) on what it does, then it is would technically not be a violation of anything, particularly if you do it after the non-compete agreement period.
I can only say that it would go up like a lead balloon. The agency I worked for was entirely head-in-its-butt backward when it came to its IT Procurement.
It used '96 era Machines (pentium 75's with 96 mb RAM, as servers) and new IBM's for desktops. Fer crissakes They were using NT 4.0, Developing in VB6, JSP and Oracle for their internal apps. (and this was in 2002).
On the server side, They might have issues with their home-built apps. On the Desktop side.... Bwahaha.... I have never seen such a bunch of computer idiots. Many of these sity workers are seeing computers for the first time and the concept of turning the computer on seems to baffle them.
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~ Another (more important) reason was that Linux is a cute name for an operating system, and BSD isn't
And UNIX sounds like a castrated guy.
~No no, the Republicans will just declare a War on Chimpanzees, which will take billions of dollars to wage.
And which side would Bush be on?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away
Physical, Data-Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, Application.
~I bet you went to Harvard didn't you. Give me a freaking break.
I think you miss the point. gorillas go to harvard. Chimps go to Yale (Think W)
~Buying SCO's Unix IP and going after Linux with that would most likely result in more antitrust attention at Microsoft. It is much more convenient for them that someone else is doing the suing.
What if Microsoft tells SCO something along the lines of:
MS: "We will offer you a nice amount for our licensing Unix, but only if you take out anyone who 'infringes' on your IP"
SCO: ".... but,.... but we cant afford the litigation...."
MS: "How much do you want? As we said, we can offer a 'generous amount' to license it, perhaps enough to cover litigation. And after that we can assimilate you, your knowledge will become ours, your IP rights, also ours"
SCO: "Gulp.... OK"
~My guess is you pay about that each month to get ads on your TV. Why would the big media companies want it to be any different here?
The reason that the internet is already dead is that it is already like TV in that regard. TV makes people dead from the neck up, and like it, the internet is doing the same quickly.
Corporations don't think. they Strategize.
~Is the register now the tech equivalent of the weekly world news? Every damn article they run is biased and sensationalist with barely a grain of fact to back it up.
Thats funny, so are both of my local dailies. Difference is they shill for the (s)elected government.
damn that AWOL Bush.
~If you do a little digging you will see that Michael Powell and his family own a lot of shares of AOL/Time Warner which is why he supports this change in media ownership as well as why he opposed any regulation to force interoperable instant messaging.
And if you look at The way Bush punishes anyone that says 'no' to him, you will see why the media has lost all objectivity and prints his press releases as if the word of god.
Let me say it out loud. If the media criticise the pResident or his staff, they will be punished by not being allowed to crush their competition.
~Good thing my boss doesn't read /.
/. He doesn't hassle me.. :)
Too bad mine does. But then again, sine he reads
~The Apple takes a bite out of you...
In New York City (The Big Apple) it does too, but it means something altogether different.
~They took the UI from the Mac, and the guts from OS/2.
Unfortunately, the whole windows experience was a fork directly off of os/2, which, at least for a time was being co-developed between IBM and Microsoft.
In case you didn't know
I have a few comments to this, mostly stemming from being a long-time former NYer....
1. is this to be in what NYers call NYC (Manhattan) or NYC in what the NYC government calls NYC (The 5 boroughs, Including Manhattan). Typically It means Manhattan, Which has a majority of the businesses, and relatively few residents. (fourth most populous borough in NYC, following Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, if you count residents). A majority of the pay phones are in Manhattan, but like all other telcom in the city had been "deregulated" years ago.
2. This is an attempt to take away the 'hot spot' advantage that T-mobile has with its Starbucks Affiliation. In NYC, they seem to be on every block, Unlike seattle (where they seem to have two on every block).
3. NYC seems to have a plethora of pay phones in NYC, and odd Dead zones as well, Particularly after the loss of the WTC which was the basis of a lot of cell traffic (and TV reception, and Phone exchanges, Electric substations, etc). Why bother with WIFI when verizon cant even get cell phones working properly on 68th and First Avenue?
~Neo always seemed the creepy necropheliac type to me.
Wrong Movie. That was "My Own Private Idaho"
~ How about if you use a trivial amount of someone else's work, you just make sure you attribute it correctly
You mean kinda like the way Sting did on the First Solo album where he borrows (and attributes) a prokofiev melody?
~Michael Jackson (what's new eh?) song (the one used in that Free Willy movie) that sounded just about exactly like another song music wise that an artist claimed to have wrote before Jackson wrote his song.
Was that the BeeGees one? If so, then the answer is: Michael was sued and he lost. It was too close.
~ If you're excerpting a very small part of another work and using it in a work that is substantially of your own creation, isn't that the point of fair use? Isn't this somewhat similar to quoting a line from a book in your own book?
In the case of a book, it must be attributed and the like.
Fair use does not cover making $$$ off anothers work.
A better analogy is Thus:
You buy Anti-Virus software. Install it on the machine.
3 years later you get a virus released after the AV software was released. Should you sue the AV software maker? Of course not. It's your own fault for not updating the definitions on the damn AV software.
Now, is there anyone in the Computer world that Doesn't know you need to constantly patch M$ software?
~If MS can't secure their own network from their own products vulnerabilities what hope does their customers have??
AS if MS does anything but development and Sales. From what I know, they outsource their own MIS and Tech Support. I know of at least two companies that do this role for them.
~ How many kids were shot dead in East LA and other inner city "hot spots"?
People are getting shot at Star$ucks?
Having lived in NYC at the time of 9/11, and hearing the rhetoric that has occurred since then, I have found myself wordering whether we are winning this 'war on terr'a'. Here are the things as I see them.
1. OBL attacked the US because of his dislike of the US presence in Saudi Arabia. Within the last two weeks the US government has issused a press release (reported as news) that the military will leave Saudi Lands.
2. We have attacked two countries, one of which we have created a new government. yet even in that one (Afghanistan), US troops are still being attacked. I thought the war in afghanistan is over.
3. Bin Laden, Dead or Alive.... Anyone remember this? What happened to him? What about Saddam?
4. We now have a bunch of Shiites who dislike us in Iraq, because the US government will not let them have the government THEY want ('Muslim Democracy') but rather what is in 'The US's Best Interest'. Does this make us more or less secure?
5. Patriot Act II. This could deny Linus of all rights that we in the US take for granted. Penguins don't belong at gitmo.
I think the code SCO is claiming relates to the following Characters:
/ ~! @#$%^&*()_+QWERTYUIOP[]\ASDFGHJKL;'ZXCVBNM,./
`1234567890-=qwertyuiop[]\asdfghjkl;;'zxcvbnm,.
So therefore all linux source code, in fact belongs to SCO. So Pay up.
In fact, just by typing you now owe SCO $$$..
~does having once been a system v developer, with full access to the code, taint you from being a linux kernel developer?
I would think it depend on your agreement with ATT. I've had several employment contracts that stated that any think that I created while working for company 'X' belonged to that company. Usually it means both the binaries and the source. Frequently it is also backed by a non-compete agreement.
On the other hand, I can also see a way around it, where if you recreate it based on your memory (not your notes or etc.) on what it does, then it is would technically not be a violation of anything, particularly if you do it after the non-compete agreement period.
~We use Groupwise in my agency, which is much lower cost than exchange, since Novell cuts us some pretty good deals on state contract.
Really, The agency I worked for used Exchange. Rather than RIM devices, we used pagers. I left that agency when I moved to seattle back in January.
The problem is really more that no one knows what is there than anything else.
I can only say that it would go up like a lead balloon. The agency I worked for was entirely head-in-its-butt backward when it came to its IT Procurement.
It used '96 era Machines (pentium 75's with 96 mb RAM, as servers) and new IBM's for desktops. Fer crissakes They were using NT 4.0, Developing in VB6, JSP and Oracle for their internal apps. (and this was in 2002).
On the server side, They might have issues with their home-built apps. On the Desktop side.... Bwahaha.... I have never seen such a bunch of computer idiots. Many of these sity workers are seeing computers for the first time and the concept of turning the computer on seems to baffle them.
Don't get me started....
Since the PATRIOT Act was signed into law, how many terrorist attacks have we had? None. Zero.
How about John Mohammad? Lee Malvo? The Anthrax Killer.