As many of you are aware for the last few weeks a Mr Connolly of Furthemore.com and Literati Inc has made several threats and claims to the Mambo Community regarding alleged use of his code and his ideas in producing "the leading story functionality." in the frontpage of Mambo. We were initially very surprised at Mr Connolly's claim as they date back to an alleged breach of copyright that occurred 366 days ago.
We have investigated these claims and believe that:-
1. The dispute relates to an alleged breach of contract between Mr Connolly and the privately commissioned developer and is thus nothing to do with Mambo 2. The code in question is a derived work of existing GPL code and therefore must remain GPL. 3. By continuing to distribute Mambo on his site, Mr Connolly has acknowledged that Mambo is GPL and Copyright Miro International Pty.
In addition it has always been a fundamental part of Mr Connolly's claims that whilst he is perfectly happy for the code to remain within Mambo he wants:-
1. The code to be released under a non GPL License 2. The right to prevent the code being used on ANY site that HE decides is in competition with Futhermore.com
Mr Connolly alleges that a contract exists between himself and the developer but despite numerous requests he has refused to produce it.
We the Mambo Dev team together with Miro International Pty. are not prepared to tolerate this situation any further. The personal abuse, threats etc issued by Mr Connolly have no place in an Open Source community project. As a result earlier today we issued Mr Connolly with a final ultimatum to produce his evidence. Not surprisingly he has not.
We therefore take the view that these claims are frivolous and without substance.
This matter is now in the hands of our legal advisors and we will be making no further public statements, nor will we permit any further discussions on this matter to take place in the official forums as they have only resulted in further personal abuse.
All of this has been a traumatic experience for the Mambo Dev Team who have had to suffer abusive emails and telephone calls. All of which has taken us away from the development of Mambo and the release of 4.5.1
Show your support of the Mambo Dev Team and the Mambo Community itself by voting for mambo as the Best Free Software Project of 2004 at http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/awards.
We, the Mambo Dev Team, would like to publicly thank all of you, the Mambo Community, who have offered support over this difficult time. Last Updated( Friday, 03 September 2004 )
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...between himself and the developer but despite numerous requests he has refused to produce it."
He should just type one up in MS Word and use that.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Stephen Hawking starts his book A Brief History Of Time with an anecdote about a scientist giving a public lecture on the nature of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy. After his talk, an elderly woman rises from her chair and says "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." "Ah. And what is the tortoise standing on?" asks the scientist. "You're very clever, young man, very clever," retorts the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/native/arts_ cu lture_media/ture_turtles.asp
"BayStar, the venture capital outfit that wants its money back from SCO - a highly uniquely situation even for the computer business - has suddenly and out of the blue doubled its position in the company."
Bill is not going to give up on this stalking horse.
"In a widely quoted study, Baruch Lev of the Brookings Institution reported that in 1982, 62% of the market value of companies in the S & P 500 Index could be attributed to tangible assets, and only 38% to intangibles. By 1992, Lev noted, the ratio had essentially reversed: 32% of the assets for S & P companies were tangible, while 68% were intangible. A follow-up study by Brookings in 1998 reported that the asset ratio had shifted even more, with 85% of assets intangible, and only 15% tangible."
This sounds more like accounting fraud than anything caused by open source software.
Does anybody remember a couple of companies named Arthur Anderson and Enron?
Instead of Ghost or DriveImage, I use Knoppix to copy my Windows 2000 install to another partition. When I want a fresh install I just boot up in Knoppix and copy it back.
"As a top IT executive for a fortune 50, I spend a lot of time on global conference calls. I would be extremely annoyed, and would consider it an attack on both me personally, and me professionally (and, by extension, my company) if someone were to jam my cellular during an important conference call."
How often do you make "global conference calls" from a movie theater or a public restaurant?
Nobody is going to try to jam your cell phone while you are on your business property or the property of a client.
Owners of public establishments put up signs all the time that say "No Firearms Allowed" in states that allow concealed carry of handguns by private citizens. They could probably even put up metal detectors if they wanted too.
What gives you the right to disregard their wishes if they don't want you disrupting the other customers on their property with your "global conference calls?"
There is a time and place for "global conference calls," and it is NOT at public events in public places.
Yes, and as we all know, private corporations never make stupid mistakes trying to cover their asses. I'd be shocked to hear of some corporation cutting corners in the pursuit of greater profit at the expense of safety.
The primary thing that the government excels at is collecting taxes.
"But many users with Winmodems likely won't download the cd image in the first place."
I give copies of Knoppix to people all the time. I love Knoppix, and if you have a serial modem it works like a champ, but it doesn't even know a Winmodem is there.
As soon as Mom and Pop are comfortable using Linux, Micro$oft's days as a 500 pound gorilla are numbered.
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Statement regarding Furthermore.com
As many of you are aware for the last few weeks a Mr Connolly of Furthemore.com and Literati Inc has made several threats and claims to the Mambo Community regarding alleged use of his code and his ideas in producing "the leading story functionality." in the frontpage of Mambo.
We were initially very surprised at Mr Connolly's claim as they date back to an alleged breach of copyright that occurred 366 days ago.
We have investigated these claims and believe that:-
1. The dispute relates to an alleged breach of contract between Mr Connolly and the privately commissioned developer and is thus nothing to do with Mambo
2. The code in question is a derived work of existing GPL code and therefore must remain GPL.
3. By continuing to distribute Mambo on his site, Mr Connolly has acknowledged that Mambo is GPL and Copyright Miro International Pty.
In addition it has always been a fundamental part of Mr Connolly's claims that whilst he is perfectly happy for the code to remain within Mambo he wants:-
1. The code to be released under a non GPL License
2. The right to prevent the code being used on ANY site that HE decides is in competition with Futhermore.com
Mr Connolly alleges that a contract exists between himself and the developer but despite numerous requests he has refused to produce it.
We the Mambo Dev team together with Miro International Pty. are not prepared to tolerate this situation any further. The personal abuse, threats etc issued by Mr Connolly have no place in an Open Source community project. As a result earlier today we issued Mr Connolly with a final ultimatum to produce his evidence. Not surprisingly he has not.
We therefore take the view that these claims are frivolous and without substance.
This matter is now in the hands of our legal advisors and we will be making no further public statements, nor will we permit any further discussions on this matter to take place in the official forums as they have only resulted in further personal abuse.
All of this has been a traumatic experience for the Mambo Dev Team who have had to suffer abusive emails and telephone calls. All of which has taken us away from the development of Mambo and the release of 4.5.1
Show your support of the Mambo Dev Team and the Mambo Community itself by voting for mambo as the Best Free Software Project of 2004 at
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/awards.
We, the Mambo Dev Team, would like to publicly thank all of you, the Mambo Community, who have offered support over this difficult time.
Last Updated( Friday, 03 September 2004 )
...between himself and the developer but despite numerous requests he has refused to produce it."
He should just type one up in MS Word and use that.
A fake document can be used as evidence.
Just ask Dan Rather.
...too bad.
...but Amazon does.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Stephen Hawking starts his book A Brief History Of Time with an anecdote about a scientist giving a public lecture on the nature of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy. After his talk, an elderly woman rises from her chair and says "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." "Ah. And what is the tortoise standing on?" asks the scientist. "You're very clever, young man, very clever," retorts the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."
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http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/native/arts
...just long enough to drive all the commericial ISPs out of business.
Then the benevolent city fathers, searching as always for ways to help "the children," will start levying taxes to support the "free" service.
"Free" Internet service will prove to be far more expensive than just paying for it.
All he seems to be able to do is copy other peoples' ideas, then act like he had the idea first.
Windows was copied from Apple Macintosh, but now nobody can use the name "Windows" except Microsoft.
Oracle and PostgreSQL are SQL servers, so Bill grabs the name "SQL Server" and acts like the market for databases is supposed to belong to him.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
...that Sun is not going to release Java under the GNU General Public License anytime soon.
The problem with pencil and paper is that it makes it too difficult for DEMO(N)cRATS to perpetrate election fraud.
Paper trails tend to do that.
...that we are all going to die some day.
78%-80% of schools were already connected to the Internet when ERate was passed.
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=11894
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.9135/pub_det ail.asp
It was about paying off Al Gore's supporters in Silicon Valley. NEC was doing exactly what it was supposed to do.
They can't use your criminal record in a trial. For sentencing yes, but the guilt or innocence is determined by the evidence alone.
"BayStar, the venture capital outfit that wants its money back from SCO - a highly uniquely situation even for the computer business - has suddenly and out of the blue doubled its position in the company."
Bill is not going to give up on this stalking horse.
This could go on forever.
I guess that's the whole freaking idea.
This sounds more like accounting fraud than anything caused by open source software.
Does anybody remember a couple of companies named Arthur Anderson and Enron?
Instead of Ghost or DriveImage, I use Knoppix to copy my Windows 2000 install to another partition. When I want a fresh install I just boot up in Knoppix and copy it back.
"Independents like me are also protected by copyright."
True only until somebody with deep pockets and lots of lawyers decides that your "intellectual property rights" are an inconvenience to them.
Remember Stacker disk-compression software?
They went out of business long before they were able to enforce their "rights" against Microsoft's theft of their technology.
"As a top IT executive for a fortune 50, I spend a lot of time on global conference calls. I would be extremely annoyed, and would consider it an attack on both me personally, and me professionally (and, by extension, my company) if someone were to jam my cellular during an important conference call."
How often do you make "global conference calls" from a movie theater or a public restaurant?
Nobody is going to try to jam your cell phone while you are on your business property or the property of a client.
Owners of public establishments put up signs all the time that say "No Firearms Allowed" in states that allow concealed carry of handguns by private citizens. They could probably even put up metal detectors if they wanted too.
What gives you the right to disregard their wishes if they don't want you disrupting the other customers on their property with your "global conference calls?"
There is a time and place for "global conference calls," and it is NOT at public events in public places.
Rockin' On Without Microsoft
The primary thing that the government excels at is collecting taxes.
Everything else is secondary.
The more that the federal government has gotten involved in and spent on education, the worse our kids have done.
That is a totally inarguable fact.
But evidently you think that only the government knows how to do things right.
It's obvious that you are a product of the government education/propaganda system.
You probably even believe in global warming, even though there is no evidence of it, and what little evidence there has been was falsified.
NASA, that is, not the shuttles.
Aren't two NASA culture-induced shuttle disasters enough?
Both shuttles disasters can be directly traced to NASA brass CYA maneuvers at the expense of human lives.
Privatize space exploration and get rid of NASA once and for all.
I give copies of Knoppix to people all the time. I love Knoppix, and if you have a serial modem it works like a champ, but it doesn't even know a Winmodem is there.
As soon as Mom and Pop are comfortable using Linux, Micro$oft's days as a 500 pound gorilla are numbered.
Once you can get on the 'Net with Linux, you're in business.
If you can't get on the 'Net, most people won't even bother with it.
And it runs just fine under Linux. Mandrake and Knoppix both find it without any help.