Object Linking Environment (OLE)
Microsoft settled a suit with Wang Labs over patent infringement code portions of OLE, which is also the heart of Microsoft's ActiveX.
This meaning it's the end of java not of DotNet
DRAFT 10/30/01
Chapter Twelve
Purpose
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
--Jesus, Matthew 5:44
"In other news, the Evil Empire of Redmond announced that..." Sigh. It was a rare week that passed without some kind of unrestrained verbal assault upon Microsoft appearing in the industry tabloids. With its unprecedented success, high energy, and occasionally unorthodox methods, Microsoft tends to evoke emotional extremes. People love it or they hate it. Whether it has some correlation to one's profits in Microsoft stock, I do not know. But one thing is certain: Microsoft is no stranger to attack. It is a testimony to the company's internal strength and the quality of its leadership that it has continued to thrive in the face of so many challenges.
Prior to the advent of the U.S. government's recent anti-trust activity, one of Microsoft's greatest challenges came in the early 1990's. Apple Computer, watching their Macintosh line steadily lose market share to Windows, was looking for a way to halt the trend. They apparently found their opportunity in an old licensing agreement that the two companies had signed almost a decade earlier. Interpreting the terms of the agreement in a favorable light, Apple sued Microsoft for 350 counts of copyright and patent infringement and asked the courts to put an immediate stop order on the sale and distribution of Microsoft Windows.
We were a little shocked when we heard the news. It had always been one of our principles to compete through innovation, not litigation. It saddened us to see a great company like Apple taking this approach because we knew it was in their power to innovate if they wanted to. It was also sad because Apple had so often cooperated with us in the past; now it seemed that they wanted to do nothing but fight.
It was a painful time. In the hostile environment created by the lawsuit, anyone who had a bone to pick with Microsoft came out of the woodwork and let loose their criticism. Every week would bring new insults to Microsoft from the weekly trade rags whereas Apple was made out to be the force of righteousness. For those of us who represented the "Evil Empire" in public, this certainly made for some interesting road trips!
Opinions aside, we had to fight, and fight we did. Not only did Microsoft successfully block the stop order but gradually whittled Apple's list of 350 claims down to 10, 5, 2, 1, and finally zero. When it was all over Apple had spent several years' worth of research capital for nothing. Actually, their loss was much worse--over the course of the lawsuit the personal computer market expanded tremendously, but Apple wasn't there to claim their rightful share. That share pretty much fell into Microsoft's lap: Windows emerged the victor by a factor of ten to one over the Macintosh, and Apple was sadly left struggling against bankruptcy.
While I had to personally bear an occasional insult over this whole mess, I wasn't involved enough for it to affect me all that much. Indeed, Apple's lawsuit actually goaded many of us to concentrate even more passionately on our work, be it creating more innovative software or helping others understand it more deeply.
Other challenges, however, hit much closer to home. In 1994, for example, another lawsuit arrived from Wang Corporation. This one was aimed specifically at OLE, the centerpiece of my whole career. Wang was going through Chapter 11 reorganization at the time and their creditors were doing their rightful duty to find anything of value in the corporate files. Discovering a number of patents to which certain design elements of OLE bore a striking resemblance, they promptly sued us for infringement.
The columnists of the computer weeklies, of course, had a hey-day with this one! They flooded their pages with new attacks on Microsoft and OLE and even used this latest lawsuit to bolster the outlandish idea that Microsoft had a megalomaniac desi
Object Linking Environment (OLE)
Microsoft settled a suit with Wang Labs over patent infringement code portions of OLE, which is also the heart of Microsoft's ActiveX.
I think it's a hint from.....................
Object Linking Environment (OLE)
Microsoft settled a suit with Wang Labs over patent infringement code portions of OLE, which is also the heart of Microsoft's ActiveX.
(Kodak buys Wans patents)
A easy way to make money.
I think that they know it doesn't make sense this papers, but they have to make noise.
Please no SCO messages anymore on Slashdot.
Microsoft has taken its lumps, he concedes, but the problem is how patches are implemented, not whether Windows is natively insecure, he says. Furthermore, he says recent evidence indicates that security vulnerabilities with Linux are vast, too.
"If those genius teen-age hackers out there start picking on those guys instead of Microsoft, it could be devastating because the open-source guys just don't have the infrastructure and ecosystem to deal with it like Microsoft does," he says.
TalkBack
An nmap scan on debian.org found they run gnutella. I don't know they do that under root. But it's real stupid thing.I very pissed.
Imagine that Microsoft is running kazaa on their main webserver.
With this kind of behaviour Debian linux is not ready fot the enterprise.
You have to see nothing only the open ports !! This kinds of configurations you see if you make your rules by shorewall or some other tool.
I see they run samba and gnutella on their main webserver.
How is it possible after the hacks!
In a commercial organisation you will be dismissed
Try Redhat and see de difference.
How is it possible. They have to learn how to work with iptables!! Incredible.
Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on www.de.debian.org (141.76.2.5):
(The 1583 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
111/tcp filtered sunrpc
135/tcp filtered loc-srv
136/tcp filtered profile
137/tcp filtered netbios-ns
138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
161/tcp filtered snmp
162/tcp filtered snmptrap
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
515/tcp filtered printer
593/tcp filtered http-rpc-epmap
873/tcp open rsync
1993/tcp filtered snmp-tcp-port
4444/tcp filtered krb524
6346/tcp filtered gnutella
The reason Microsoft is succesfull, because everyone can install it at home (maybe illegal). So Linux. Everyone can learn at home how to administer Linux. Unix is expensive, not suitable for X86 and haven't nice applications to play with
If the redhat E.S. is different then the Fedora project, I think a lot of systemadministrators are not recommending Redhat anymore. And what to do with all the webservers on the whole world.
You can build you busisness with a company like that.
They are digging their own grave.
I read a lot of answers to switch to Suse. But I'm thinking it will be a very hard job to persuate your manager not to switch to Microsoft
They think that volunteers are making money for them. Give a beta release away. So Microsoft does.
The last months we hear a lot about how worse Sun and SCO is.Maybe Microsoft is the most polite company of all.
For me Redhat is too expensive for a lot of not really good working stuff. And all other Linux companies are following RedHat, I bet.
It's quit simple. This is a capitalized society and only their rules works.
Maybe tomorrow things are going to change.
I think there is a lot of support for SCO's case. Not because they are right. The bigger problem is China and other countries in Asia.China is a very big marketplace for all software compagnies in the US. If China are developing there own softwareindustry with help of Open Source there is no market anymore for Sun, HP or Microsoft.
The same you can say about the Europe goverments.Open Source is destructing for a big part of the American software industry
Look at the problem with this perspective and you can understand why Linux has to die.
Don't understand me wrong. I'm a very big supporter of Open Source Software.
I think there is a lot of support for SCO's case. Not because they are right. The bigger problem is China and other countries Asia.China is a very big marketplace for all software compagnies in the US. If China are developping there own softwareindustry with help of Open Source there is no market anymore for Sun, HP or Microsoft.
Look at the problem with this perspective and you can understand why Linux has to die and his big supporter.
Don understand me wrong I'm a very big supporter of open Source Software.
This is the sword of Damocles. I was a fanatic supporter of Linux , but this is too much for me. And al the SCO shit. I think de Open Source Goeroes are technical not so good as I thought, since this is the site of mr stallmann himself. I think de Unix technolgy is a lost path. I remember only quarrels in history. And is stays the same
SCo only accelerated the process of downunder of Unix and Linux
Gnu is helping with
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Object Linking Environment (OLE) Microsoft settled a suit with Wang Labs over patent infringement code portions of OLE, which is also the heart of Microsoft's ActiveX. This meaning it's the end of java not of DotNet
DRAFT 10/30/01 Chapter Twelve Purpose "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." --Jesus, Matthew 5:44 "In other news, the Evil Empire of Redmond announced that..." Sigh. It was a rare week that passed without some kind of unrestrained verbal assault upon Microsoft appearing in the industry tabloids. With its unprecedented success, high energy, and occasionally unorthodox methods, Microsoft tends to evoke emotional extremes. People love it or they hate it. Whether it has some correlation to one's profits in Microsoft stock, I do not know. But one thing is certain: Microsoft is no stranger to attack. It is a testimony to the company's internal strength and the quality of its leadership that it has continued to thrive in the face of so many challenges. Prior to the advent of the U.S. government's recent anti-trust activity, one of Microsoft's greatest challenges came in the early 1990's. Apple Computer, watching their Macintosh line steadily lose market share to Windows, was looking for a way to halt the trend. They apparently found their opportunity in an old licensing agreement that the two companies had signed almost a decade earlier. Interpreting the terms of the agreement in a favorable light, Apple sued Microsoft for 350 counts of copyright and patent infringement and asked the courts to put an immediate stop order on the sale and distribution of Microsoft Windows. We were a little shocked when we heard the news. It had always been one of our principles to compete through innovation, not litigation. It saddened us to see a great company like Apple taking this approach because we knew it was in their power to innovate if they wanted to. It was also sad because Apple had so often cooperated with us in the past; now it seemed that they wanted to do nothing but fight. It was a painful time. In the hostile environment created by the lawsuit, anyone who had a bone to pick with Microsoft came out of the woodwork and let loose their criticism. Every week would bring new insults to Microsoft from the weekly trade rags whereas Apple was made out to be the force of righteousness. For those of us who represented the "Evil Empire" in public, this certainly made for some interesting road trips! Opinions aside, we had to fight, and fight we did. Not only did Microsoft successfully block the stop order but gradually whittled Apple's list of 350 claims down to 10, 5, 2, 1, and finally zero. When it was all over Apple had spent several years' worth of research capital for nothing. Actually, their loss was much worse--over the course of the lawsuit the personal computer market expanded tremendously, but Apple wasn't there to claim their rightful share. That share pretty much fell into Microsoft's lap: Windows emerged the victor by a factor of ten to one over the Macintosh, and Apple was sadly left struggling against bankruptcy. While I had to personally bear an occasional insult over this whole mess, I wasn't involved enough for it to affect me all that much. Indeed, Apple's lawsuit actually goaded many of us to concentrate even more passionately on our work, be it creating more innovative software or helping others understand it more deeply. Other challenges, however, hit much closer to home. In 1994, for example, another lawsuit arrived from Wang Corporation. This one was aimed specifically at OLE, the centerpiece of my whole career. Wang was going through Chapter 11 reorganization at the time and their creditors were doing their rightful duty to find anything of value in the corporate files. Discovering a number of patents to which certain design elements of OLE bore a striking resemblance, they promptly sued us for infringement. The columnists of the computer weeklies, of course, had a hey-day with this one! They flooded their pages with new attacks on Microsoft and OLE and even used this latest lawsuit to bolster the outlandish idea that Microsoft had a megalomaniac desi
http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapte r12.htm
One of the best analyses I have seenin the past
Also the Wang case is mentioned
http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapte r12.htm
If Microsoft is after this. it,s very brilliant.
They use their old tactics again.
Object Linking Environment (OLE) Microsoft settled a suit with Wang Labs over patent infringement code portions of OLE, which is also the heart of Microsoft's ActiveX. I think it's a hint from .....................
Object Linking Environment (OLE) Microsoft settled a suit with Wang Labs over patent infringement code portions of OLE, which is also the heart of Microsoft's ActiveX. (Kodak buys Wans patents)
This is very interesting! Perhaps the same case http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/notinvented.h tml
A easy way to make money. I think that they know it doesn't make sense this papers, but they have to make noise. Please no SCO messages anymore on Slashdot.
Microsoft has taken its lumps, he concedes, but the problem is how patches are implemented, not whether Windows is natively insecure, he says. Furthermore, he says recent evidence indicates that security vulnerabilities with Linux are vast, too. "If those genius teen-age hackers out there start picking on those guys instead of Microsoft, it could be devastating because the open-source guys just don't have the infrastructure and ecosystem to deal with it like Microsoft does," he says. TalkBack
The ports has to be masquerated for the outsite world Gnutella filesharing !!! Why
An nmap scan on debian.org found they run gnutella. I don't know they do that under root. But it's real stupid thing.I very pissed. Imagine that Microsoft is running kazaa on their main webserver. With this kind of behaviour Debian linux is not ready fot the enterprise.
You have to see nothing only the open ports !! This kinds of configurations you see if you make your rules by shorewall or some other tool. I see they run samba and gnutella on their main webserver. How is it possible after the hacks! In a commercial organisation you will be dismissed
Try Redhat and see de difference. How is it possible. They have to learn how to work with iptables!! Incredible. Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on www.de.debian.org (141.76.2.5): (The 1583 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 21/tcp open ftp 22/tcp open ssh 80/tcp open http 111/tcp filtered sunrpc 135/tcp filtered loc-srv 136/tcp filtered profile 137/tcp filtered netbios-ns 138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm 139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn 161/tcp filtered snmp 162/tcp filtered snmptrap 445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds 515/tcp filtered printer 593/tcp filtered http-rpc-epmap 873/tcp open rsync 1993/tcp filtered snmp-tcp-port 4444/tcp filtered krb524 6346/tcp filtered gnutella
The reason Microsoft is succesfull, because everyone can install it at home (maybe illegal). So Linux. Everyone can learn at home how to administer Linux. Unix is expensive, not suitable for X86 and haven't nice applications to play with If the redhat E.S. is different then the Fedora project, I think a lot of systemadministrators are not recommending Redhat anymore. And what to do with all the webservers on the whole world. You can build you busisness with a company like that. They are digging their own grave. I read a lot of answers to switch to Suse. But I'm thinking it will be a very hard job to persuate your manager not to switch to Microsoft
They think that volunteers are making money for them. Give a beta release away. So Microsoft does. The last months we hear a lot about how worse Sun and SCO is.Maybe Microsoft is the most polite company of all. For me Redhat is too expensive for a lot of not really good working stuff. And all other Linux companies are following RedHat, I bet. It's quit simple. This is a capitalized society and only their rules works. Maybe tomorrow things are going to change.
I think there is a lot of support for SCO's case. Not because they are right. The bigger problem is China and other countries in Asia.China is a very big marketplace for all software compagnies in the US. If China are developing there own softwareindustry with help of Open Source there is no market anymore for Sun, HP or Microsoft. The same you can say about the Europe goverments.Open Source is destructing for a big part of the American software industry Look at the problem with this perspective and you can understand why Linux has to die. Don't understand me wrong. I'm a very big supporter of Open Source Software.
I think there is a lot of support for SCO's case. Not because they are right. The bigger problem is China and other countries Asia.China is a very big marketplace for all software compagnies in the US. If China are developping there own softwareindustry with help of Open Source there is no market anymore for Sun, HP or Microsoft. Look at the problem with this perspective and you can understand why Linux has to die and his big supporter. Don understand me wrong I'm a very big supporter of open Source Software.
This is the sword of Damocles. I was a fanatic supporter of Linux , but this is too much for me. And al the SCO shit. I think de Open Source Goeroes are technical not so good as I thought, since this is the site of mr stallmann himself. I think de Unix technolgy is a lost path. I remember only quarrels in history. And is stays the same SCo only accelerated the process of downunder of Unix and Linux Gnu is helping with