How does it being released in binary take away any of your benefits, unless you're going to modify the source code? In that case you're not likely to use the binary anyway, but for those of us who don't like taking another 5 minutes to tailor automake files to work on their Linux distro, a binary would be preferable, especially in.deb or.rpm
At least in Canadian law, the answer is no, via a concept we call "willfull blindness"
If you do not exercise due diligence in protecting yourself, and willfully ignore people using your network, then you are fully liable.
Or, as a friend of mine taking law in Carleton would put it "stupidity is never a defence."
If you were not to install Linux before you understood everything about it, then you, and I, and most of the Linux community except perhaps Linus Torvalds would not be installing Linux, because he is likely the only one that can say that he knows everything about Linux.
User-friendliness is the mark of a program that truly cares about it's user base, and is an indicator of great worksmanship on the part of the programming team. MPlayer has improved, that much is for sure, but the do have a ways to go before they can rival the ease of the installs of other applications - Unreal Tournament 2003, for example. You can't tell me it's that hard to put something, even if it is source, into a binary installer! That aside, I'm sure they can make the install process easier on us.
Are we talking SCO or Google.com? - plus, I always thought that you cannot copyright ideas, just patent them. (And thus the EU patent issue is ressurected.. bleh)
It's an interesting enough read, it certainly is interesting to see how one of the biggest-volume servers out there cope. Now, the question is, what can us little server guys do to implement the ideas therein to our server? What can we take from it?
If you define evil as unfeeling and not worried about morality, then about 8/10 or 80% of the companies out there are evil.
(I personally praise the other 20%)
So I don't get what you're talking about. It's not about what's helping the good of humanity for those big corporations. It's about how to better line their wallet.
... how quick people are to get spam? The vote in the American government was all but unaminous, and look how quick it went to effect. I'm happy for Americans that the government has been so descisive in an issue that's plagued us all for far too long. Now I must wait for my Canadian MPs to get a similar bill together.
Until then I just have to have fun with the telemarketers.
I am in strong agreement with the mods on this one. I'll file under flamebait/troll.
The War on Terror is an excuse for America to cover up it's diplomatic screw-ups. God, I'm happy I'm in Canada, with no so-called "Patriot Act" to damper my freedoms.
I think that SCO's claim to own parts of the CODE are valid. As a former contributor to the Linux Kernel I can tell you that there are many parts inside the Kernel (drivers mostly) where copyright notices have been removed, code re-organized and implemented in the Kernel.
Look, fellow slash-dotters, Darl is among us! Quick, get the torches and pitchforks!
If that is the case, the copyrights belong to Novell. Novell never gave the copyright to SCO/Caledra, they just gave the rights to distribute. Educate yourself on the full case before making broad accusations.
Makes me damn happy that the Canadian government is (slowly) switching over to Linux. We may have our own troubles, but you wont see a ship in our navy having to be towed back to port because Windows crashed on their bridge consoles.
Software monoclature is a bad thing. Anyone who has any experience in business can tell you that a monopoly benefits few, and the suffering it inflicts on the rest of that trade far outweighs an financial gain for those few.
I do agree that we live in a society of disclaimers. It is a sad, vaguely Orwellian note, but it is true.
Perhaps with some common sense we can reverse that trend.
I yearn for the day that Linunx topples MS. A lot of people think I'm an idealist for saying so, but for me it's not a matter of if, but when.
As to the issue of the firing, I think it is completely irresponsible for the company to fire an employee for saying what is common sense to any security analyst or seasoned network technician like myself could tell you. I would not fire one of my employees because they had an opinion. I would let them voice their opinions all they want, as they have a right to free speech and it is a right that I hold very dear myself.
The benchmark pretty much proves that some change is needed for it to cater to the standard user, as the standard home Linux user, myself included, only have one processer in their computer.
Yeah, look at all the new intellectual property they can claim there!
Seriously, they'll have a field day prosecuting people on any version of Linux, 2.4 or 2.6. It seems the entire goal of the SCO lawsuit is to defame Linux. The companies on the recieving end should get an injunction to silence SCO until the thing gets resolved.
In the end, the only entity that clearly benefits from all this is Microsoft, cause it's just weakining faith in Linux.
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How does it being released in binary take away any of your benefits, unless you're going to modify the source code? In that case you're not likely to use the binary anyway, but for those of us who don't like taking another 5 minutes to tailor automake files to work on their Linux distro, a binary would be preferable, especially in .deb or .rpm
At least in Canadian law, the answer is no, via a concept we call "willfull blindness" If you do not exercise due diligence in protecting yourself, and willfully ignore people using your network, then you are fully liable. Or, as a friend of mine taking law in Carleton would put it "stupidity is never a defence."
If you were not to install Linux before you understood everything about it, then you, and I, and most of the Linux community except perhaps Linus Torvalds would not be installing Linux, because he is likely the only one that can say that he knows everything about Linux.
User-friendliness is the mark of a program that truly cares about it's user base, and is an indicator of great worksmanship on the part of the programming team. MPlayer has improved, that much is for sure, but the do have a ways to go before they can rival the ease of the installs of other applications - Unreal Tournament 2003, for example. You can't tell me it's that hard to put something, even if it is source, into a binary installer! That aside, I'm sure they can make the install process easier on us.
I get about 1 mbps. The upload speed can get really horrible at peek hours, though.
If that was then intention, then it seems to have worked ;)
Are we talking SCO or Google.com? - plus, I always thought that you cannot copyright ideas, just patent them. (And thus the EU patent issue is ressurected.. bleh)
When the profit is made to the determent of another person, even a single person, it is immoral.
It's an interesting enough read, it certainly is interesting to see how one of the biggest-volume servers out there cope. Now, the question is, what can us little server guys do to implement the ideas therein to our server? What can we take from it?
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks! I'll happily go sign up now :)
If you define evil as unfeeling and not worried about morality, then about 8/10 or 80% of the companies out there are evil.
(I personally praise the other 20%)
So I don't get what you're talking about. It's not about what's helping the good of humanity for those big corporations. It's about how to better line their wallet.
... how quick people are to get spam? The vote in the American government was all but unaminous, and look how quick it went to effect. I'm happy for Americans that the government has been so descisive in an issue that's plagued us all for far too long. Now I must wait for my Canadian MPs to get a similar bill together. Until then I just have to have fun with the telemarketers.
I am in strong agreement with the mods on this one. I'll file under flamebait/troll. The War on Terror is an excuse for America to cover up it's diplomatic screw-ups. God, I'm happy I'm in Canada, with no so-called "Patriot Act" to damper my freedoms.
I think that SCO's claim to own parts of the CODE are valid. As a former contributor to the Linux Kernel I can tell you that there are many parts inside the Kernel (drivers mostly) where copyright notices have been removed, code re-organized and implemented in the Kernel.
Look, fellow slash-dotters, Darl is among us! Quick, get the torches and pitchforks!
If that is the case, the copyrights belong to Novell. Novell never gave the copyright to SCO/Caledra, they just gave the rights to distribute. Educate yourself on the full case before making broad accusations.
Makes me damn happy that the Canadian government is (slowly) switching over to Linux. We may have our own troubles, but you wont see a ship in our navy having to be towed back to port because Windows crashed on their bridge consoles.
Software monoclature is a bad thing. Anyone who has any experience in business can tell you that a monopoly benefits few, and the suffering it inflicts on the rest of that trade far outweighs an financial gain for those few.
I do agree that we live in a society of disclaimers. It is a sad, vaguely Orwellian note, but it is true.
Perhaps with some common sense we can reverse that trend.
I yearn for the day that Linunx topples MS. A lot of people think I'm an idealist for saying so, but for me it's not a matter of if, but when.
As to the issue of the firing, I think it is completely irresponsible for the company to fire an employee for saying what is common sense to any security analyst or seasoned network technician like myself could tell you. I would not fire one of my employees because they had an opinion. I would let them voice their opinions all they want, as they have a right to free speech and it is a right that I hold very dear myself.
Just goes to show that Canada *did* contribute to the computer industry before Bioware cropped up :)
The benchmark pretty much proves that some change is needed for it to cater to the standard user, as the standard home Linux user, myself included, only have one processer in their computer.
Yeah, look at all the new intellectual property they can claim there!
Seriously, they'll have a field day prosecuting people on any version of Linux, 2.4 or 2.6. It seems the entire goal of the SCO lawsuit is to defame Linux. The companies on the recieving end should get an injunction to silence SCO until the thing gets resolved.
In the end, the only entity that clearly benefits from all this is Microsoft, cause it's just weakining faith in Linux.