In their story at http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article .asp ?liArticleID=130700&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID =2&liChannelID=28&li
I'm really interested to see the agendas show up in the way these things are reported. The author of the Computerweekly page seems to subtly slander the FSF and characterize SCO's agenda as the moral champion.
My own thought is that sticking to your legal rights and requirements is only good sense. Considering the aims of the FSF I find it refreshing that its sharing some of the legal papers with the developer world it supports.
I wasn't surprised when any of the subpoenas were by any party were challenged & defined. Considerring how much back pedalling SCO has done I don't doubt they have a whole new round of enquiry justification based on their new claims.
All of the SCO talk of conspiracy only hightens my sense that there is a corporate rats nest for which SCO is only a poor lacky.
I will never do business with anyone associated with the Canopy group.
1. Software companies not 'developers'. No creation will be possible without a legal department.
2. Competition by litigation not excellence. Expect a flurry of pantents held by failed projects to sap the strength and inovation from successful ones.
3. Logic squatting - people who don't want to create but to create Tolls on expression of a system or working idea. The only currency for these tolls will be money so non profit projects are doubly damned -- they didn't ask money to begin with so they have no money to give now.
4. Further undermining of the legitimacy of copyright and patent law. Genuinely moral people will be drawn into a creative contributions to society and will be made criminals by this bad law.
Sadly I think many people would sell their vote for a $5 video rental coupon. Truly private voting, even without fraud could be abused in a very scarry way.
Imagine the Java App which accepts your vote and, if you vote the right way, sends you free porn for a month.
Public Voting has the merit of being public and creating a body of people who at least care enough to walk a block for their country.
Are you saying that "fair and accurate voting tech" is not a requirement of American Voters?
Do you want to characterize the Dieboldt voting machines as a financial exchange, in which non customers have little say, or as part of the Democratic Process in which every American has a say?
I remember the puffery on the news about Tiannamen and the great things that the internet was doing for democracy. The world after all, had a right to those images and as terrible as they were every newstation found a way to decry the brutality and praise the pictures.
Without equating the two morally, I wonder at the treatment of images leaked from Iraq by modern media and the control entrenched powers have to stifle reporting.
I think it is the supreme court steps that read Eternal Vigilance is the cost of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson. It is frightening that the atmosphere in Amerca today is so in favour of censorship. Without information we cannot be vigelant. We may not like what we see, but sometimes thats the point!
Should market a powerred belt buckle with enough strength of signal to jam everything in a reasonable area. I imagine a suitably rebelious buckle with a little battery.
I know people who would buy one just to be difficult, others because they are smart.
He made no sudden moves, he was clearly away from the vehicle and made no motion to escape. He asked if he was illegally parked several times and got no answer. His hands never went to a threatening stance. He wasn't armed. He was belligerant but at no time did the police ask his name or express any concern for his circumstance.
"Have you had an argument with a woman in your truck? Is she alright? We need to speak to her. Whats your name?" If that was said it might have defused this whole thing.
It must suck to be one of the wicked witches flying monkeys. At least the witch had some real power. The monkeys generally had no opinion of their own that matterred. They didnt even seem to notice they didn't have any pants So I guess they would shit a lot wherever they went. I wonder if any of them thought they were like the Mouth of Sauron or even partly respected.
In this case it seems that the Apache license review is just in advance of the GPL license review process. A stance on Patents is an obvious license addition and the FSF should be examining this to make a clear position public PDQ IMHO.
I hope these licenses say things like:
Software Patents are bad and we support their abolition but if they are enforced in your area these are the rules you must follow regarding this software etc..... If you don't like these rules help abolish _all_ software patents.
They wrote the code, they license it as they want.
'Outing' Sun in public letters is pretty rude. Some may say its warranted, some may agree with ESR but I have a healthy dose of respect for Sun and I'm willing to give them some slack on a request to 'give us your copyrights because I think its a good idea'(paraphrase).
I actually think he deserves a fair treatment for responding at all. Having an 'official version' can be good for interroperability. An open source Java might be split and hijacked by Redmond. If Sun has not been the best stewards in my mind they certainly have not been the worst.
At this point I think it would be too dangerous for them to sue anyone who would put up much of a fight. I imagine an unamed user, or one of their few remaining friends. Perhaps a Microsoft shell company.
The suit can be filed. Vague statements can be made. Face can be saved. The recipient of the suit might not even contest it. More smoke and mirrors.
I dont think even Darl McBride is foolish enough to risk a big name with the legal problems they're having.
Of course I realise Office supports current office formats. Thats why I mentioned open data formats. The big thing for the future will be keeping those formats open. Patents and business practices make it important to emphasize communication.
It serves OO to reach everyone. It serves M$ to reach everyone with money.
Whatever software wants to support business communications is going to need to reach everyone or have open, compatible document types.
Cnet has just announced Microsoft will release a version of office for Hindi.
I think local (foreign to the USA) peoples are going to mistrust M$ and, right now, Open Office looks like the logical choice. The more people Open Office represents the more people you can easily reach in its file formats!
If governments etc have to do any work to create local code to support their environment they shouldnt just roll over and give it to Redmond. Not if they want local support!
Everything else being similar I'd go where I could get free internet.
At this point its probably more expensive to bill and track than it is to deliver. I hope it rapidly becomes a case where no wifi is the exception. Heck there might be cases where no office connection is a feature!
I'm not defending Patriot but I think the reason that you get litigation only companies going after big companies is created by the patent process.
A small company with a few influential patents would be silly to try and stay in the technology business once they entered a legal dispute with a bigger company. If I have 2 patents and I sue you, I'm going to be counter sued and there are going to be patents I haven't considered that will force me to close my business. Bigger portfolios of patents will shut down active companies. Before you sue a bigger portfolio you have to shut down your own company to protect against countersuits.
Email has a technical flaw and businesses are lining up to introduce 'traction' or fees to slow bad email. This remind sme of the Douglas Adams Quote:
"Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
Beyond personal taste, I think the only criticism an Auditor could really level is if the package failed its accounting. Open source is by its nature more accountable.
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In their story at
http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/articl
I'm really interested to see the agendas show up in the way these things are reported. The author of the Computerweekly page seems to subtly slander the FSF and characterize SCO's agenda as the moral champion.
My own thought is that sticking to your legal rights and requirements is only good sense. Considering the aims of the FSF I find it refreshing that its sharing some of the legal papers with the developer world it supports.
I wasn't surprised when any of the subpoenas were by any party were challenged & defined. Considerring how much back pedalling SCO has done I don't doubt they have a whole new round of enquiry justification based on their new claims.
All of the SCO talk of conspiracy only hightens my sense that there is a corporate rats nest for which SCO is only a poor lacky.
I will never do business with anyone associated with the Canopy group.
1. Software companies not 'developers'. No creation will be possible without a legal department.
2. Competition by litigation not excellence. Expect a flurry of pantents held by failed projects to sap the strength and inovation from successful ones.
3. Logic squatting - people who don't want to create but to create Tolls on expression of a system or working idea. The only currency for these tolls will be money so non profit projects are doubly damned -- they didn't ask money to begin with so they have no money to give now.
4. Further undermining of the legitimacy of copyright and patent law. Genuinely moral people will be drawn into a creative contributions to society and will be made criminals by this bad law.
what a parcel of rogues
Sadly I think many people would sell their vote for a $5 video rental coupon. Truly private voting, even without fraud could be abused in a very scarry way.
Imagine the Java App which accepts your vote and, if you vote the right way, sends you free porn for a month.
Public Voting has the merit of being public and creating a body of people who at least care enough to walk a block for their country.
LS
Are you saying that "fair and accurate voting tech" is not a requirement of American Voters?
Do you want to characterize the Dieboldt voting machines as a financial exchange, in which non customers have little say, or as part of the Democratic Process in which every American has a say?
ls
I remember the puffery on the news about Tiannamen and the great things that the internet was doing for democracy. The world after all, had a right to those images and as terrible as they were every newstation found a way to decry the brutality and praise the pictures.
Without equating the two morally, I wonder at the treatment of images leaked from Iraq by modern media and the control entrenched powers have to stifle reporting.
I think it is the supreme court steps that read Eternal Vigilance is the cost of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson. It is frightening that the atmosphere in Amerca today is so in favour of censorship. Without information we cannot be vigelant. We may not like what we see, but sometimes thats the point!
Should market a powerred belt buckle with enough strength of signal to jam everything in a reasonable area. I imagine a suitably rebelious buckle with a little battery.
I know people who would buy one just to be difficult, others because they are smart.
ls
He made no sudden moves, he was clearly away from the vehicle and made no motion to escape. He asked if he was illegally parked several times and got no answer. His hands never went to a threatening stance. He wasn't armed. He was belligerant but at no time did the police ask his name or express any concern for his circumstance.
"Have you had an argument with a woman in your truck? Is she alright? We need to speak to her. Whats your name?" If that was said it might have defused this whole thing.
I agree. I was actually impressed with how civil the guy was. I wonder if he knew if he was on tape. The Cop sure did.
It must suck to be one of the wicked witches flying monkeys. At least the witch had some real power. The monkeys generally had no opinion of their own that matterred. They didnt even seem to notice they didn't have any pants So I guess they would shit a lot wherever they went. I wonder if any of them thought they were like the Mouth of Sauron or even partly respected.
The policeman was rude in not even asking the guys name.
" You give me your name Horsemaster and we'll give you ours. " Gimli
In this case it seems that the Apache license review is just in advance of the GPL license review process. A stance on Patents is an obvious license addition and the FSF should be examining this to make a clear position public PDQ IMHO.
I hope these licenses say things like:
Software Patents are bad and we support their abolition but if they are enforced in your area these are the rules you must follow regarding this software etc..... If you don't like these rules help abolish _all_ software patents.
LS
They wrote the code, they license it as they want.
'Outing' Sun in public letters is pretty rude. Some may say its warranted, some may agree with ESR but I have a healthy dose of respect for Sun and I'm willing to give them some slack on a request to 'give us your copyrights because I think its a good idea'(paraphrase).
I actually think he deserves a fair treatment for responding at all. Having an 'official version' can be good for interroperability. An open source Java might be split and hijacked by Redmond. If Sun has not been the best stewards in my mind they certainly have not been the worst.
It's bound to be good for your stock prices. Have you called the Enderle?
Maybe the Royal Bank wants part of each of you!
At this point I think it would be too dangerous for them to sue anyone who would put up much of a fight. I imagine an unamed user, or one of their few remaining friends. Perhaps a Microsoft shell company.
The suit can be filed. Vague statements can be made. Face can be saved. The recipient of the suit might not even contest it. More smoke and mirrors.
I dont think even Darl McBride is foolish enough to risk a big name with the legal problems they're having.
LS
Of course I realise Office supports current office formats. Thats why I mentioned open data formats. The big thing for the future will be keeping those formats open. Patents and business practices make it important to emphasize communication.
It serves OO to reach everyone.
It serves M$ to reach everyone with money.
ls
Whatever software wants to support business communications is going to need to reach everyone or have open, compatible document types.
Cnet has just announced Microsoft will release a version of office for Hindi.
I think local (foreign to the USA) peoples are going to mistrust M$ and, right now, Open Office looks like the logical choice. The more people Open Office represents the more people you can easily reach in its file formats!
If governments etc have to do any work to create local code to support their environment they shouldnt just roll over and give it to Redmond. Not if they want local support!
ls
Everything else being similar I'd go where I could get free internet.
At this point its probably more expensive to bill and track than it is to deliver. I hope it rapidly becomes a case where no wifi is the exception. Heck there might be cases where no office connection is a feature!
LS
It will be nice to see newSCO go down in flames and the legal basis for Linux reaffirmed.
Mostly it will be nice to see the puffery and mugging for stock prices end!
ls
The whole process is really bad.
I'm not defending Patriot but I think the reason that you get litigation only companies going after big companies is created by the patent process.
A small company with a few influential patents would be silly to try and stay in the technology business once they entered a legal dispute with a bigger company. If I have 2 patents and I sue you, I'm going to be counter sued and there are going to be patents I haven't considered that will force me to close my business. Bigger portfolios of patents will shut down active companies. Before you sue a bigger portfolio you have to shut down your own company to protect against countersuits.
The system doesn't serve anyone but lawyers.
I can just see this being the defence used to keep somking areas in restaurants etc...
"Now with the advent of fume busting paint...."
Email has a technical flaw and businesses are lining up to introduce 'traction' or fees to slow bad email. This remind sme of the Douglas Adams Quote:
"Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
LS
If they raid 60 people and find 2 abusers do they have to answer for the extent of their search????
If they know 2 abusers, raid 58 and find nothing, then invade the two abusers they know, are they held responsible????
LS
Just off the top of my head I'd suggest Alan Cox.
Currently heavily involved in Kernel activities and in the midst of his MBA.
There are probably more.
Beyond personal taste, I think the only criticism an Auditor could really level is if the package failed its accounting. Open source is by its nature more accountable.
IANA(Auditor) however
The company supplying the technology is called Amperion. Their website has a description of the kit probably used in the article.
http://www.amperion.com