The executives are mostly German, the company is incorporated in Germany, over 75% of stockholders are in Germany. I think it is pretty much a German company now. The US is just its biggest market.
The reason we are ridiculing Intel is that Intel has been badmouthing AMD's 64-bit technology for months and now suddenly decides to copy AMD.
This would be like Microsoft releasing a Linux distro after all those negative ads about how bad Linux is.
95% of the people out there are actually nice and generally non-violent
You are looking to be modded +5 Funny, right?
Otherwise, it is you're view of the world that is unrealistic. It is human nature that causes violence. That is the reason that we have laws. Without laws or other restraints, even the nicest people would become mean and violent creatures.
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It's more like SCO gave away the butter (SCO distributed Linux) and then wants to claim ownership of the whole cake.
They also want ownership of all future cakes and refuse to identify the butter so that it can be replaced with margarine.
I'm not sure if this was posted before, but Ebgames.com is selling pre-orders of the 2-disc DVD special edition for $40 (regular price $60), which is the same price as the 6-cd edition.
The DVD has a lot of extra features (like behind the scenes, etc) that are not included in the cd-rom release. In addition, you don't have to swap out the discs 6 times while installing the game.
Charter did not "catch" WIN32BLAST virus. Only customers without a firewall were affected by this Windows vulnerability. The Win32blast virus affected everyone without the proper protection (restricting traffic thru RPC ports), regardless of ISP.
Charter upgrades its service from time to time because bandwidth is getting cheaper, not because of any viruses that may be circulating. The recent upgrade in speed is actually part of a promotion.
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The executives are mostly German, the company is incorporated in Germany, over 75% of stockholders are in Germany. I think it is pretty much a German company now. The US is just its biggest market.
If SCO's experience with other Germans (SUSE) is any indicator, SCO may have picked a poor target.
I doubt DaimlerChrysler will just roll over and accept a settlement offer.
How could you hide a back door in Linux if the entire code base is open?
The reason we are ridiculing Intel is that Intel has been badmouthing AMD's 64-bit technology for months and now suddenly decides to copy AMD. This would be like Microsoft releasing a Linux distro after all those negative ads about how bad Linux is.
95% of the people out there are actually nice and generally non-violent
You are looking to be modded +5 Funny, right?
Otherwise, it is you're view of the world that is unrealistic. It is human nature that causes violence. That is the reason that we have laws. Without laws or other restraints, even the nicest people would become mean and violent creatures.
It's more like SCO gave away the butter (SCO distributed Linux) and then wants to claim ownership of the whole cake.
They also want ownership of all future cakes and refuse to identify the butter so that it can be replaced with margarine.
I'm not sure if this was posted before, but Ebgames.com is selling pre-orders of the 2-disc DVD special edition for $40 (regular price $60), which is the same price as the 6-cd edition.
The DVD has a lot of extra features (like behind the scenes, etc) that are not included in the cd-rom release. In addition, you don't have to swap out the discs 6 times while installing the game.
we have Linux/GPL zealots
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Don't you mean GNU/Linux/GPL zealots?
"A civillian can purchase a fully automatic firearm provided he... ...pays the $250 per year license fee."
Actually it is a $200 one-time tax per Class 3 firearm (Machine Gun, Suppressor, etc.).
Charter did not "catch" WIN32BLAST virus. Only customers without a firewall were affected by this Windows vulnerability. The Win32blast virus affected everyone without the proper protection (restricting traffic thru RPC ports), regardless of ISP. Charter upgrades its service from time to time because bandwidth is getting cheaper, not because of any viruses that may be circulating. The recent upgrade in speed is actually part of a promotion.
Or as RMS put it: "Treacherous Computing"!