At least in the USofA. Just image all of the opportunities to sue the crap out of ppl. "I did not have control of my car, that is why I hit the other guy"... "I tried to accelerate, but the car would not respond" My mind just reels with the number of possibilities!;-)
Of course in England... I expect the "subjects" to just roll over as they have on so many other issues. Remember, in England, even "self defence" (note British spelling;-)) is illegal! Cameras on every lamp post, manditory DNA banking (maybe soon), and on and on!
I can not name the company, if it got back how I know, someone would get fired for sure... I am also glad to see that this is the RAREest of exceptions... Note that this is NOT a small company. We are talking about 30B$ in sales per year! Large DP staff and lots of infrastructure.
The company I know has held all Linux work and turned off all Linux systems (where possible) because of the SCO letter received by the legal staff. Any of the techies using a personally installed Linux desktop for real work had to abandon them.
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What about Ximian / Novell bounties? Sounds like the same damn thing to me!
This patent crap is *WAY* **WAY** out of control.
At least in the USofA. Just image all of the opportunities to sue the crap out of ppl. "I did not have control of my car, that is why I hit the other guy" ... "I tried to accelerate, but the car would not respond" My mind just reels with the number of possibilities! ;-)
;-)) is illegal! Cameras on every lamp post, manditory DNA banking (maybe soon), and on and on!
Of course in England... I expect the "subjects" to just roll over as they have on so many other issues. Remember, in England, even "self defence" (note British spelling
-TJ
I can not name the company, if it got back how I know, someone would get fired for sure... I am also glad to see that this is the RAREest of exceptions... Note that this is NOT a small company. We are talking about 30B$ in sales per year! Large DP staff and lots of infrastructure.
The company I know has held all Linux work and turned off all Linux systems (where possible) because of the SCO letter received by the legal staff. Any of the techies using a personally installed Linux desktop for real work had to abandon them.
Talk about knee-jerk, un-educated reactions!!
--TJ