I just send a short synopsis to two magazines that had just poste the SCO press release.
Stating that the DDOS attach was most likely a Made for Wallstreet effort by SCO and pointing to some relevant information. Including the Netcraft News Graph.
Maybe do the same with lesser known Magazines. You can find a whole slew via Google News
Be polite and let them know they are being used as a pawn by SCO.
A corporate sponsor of Linux International, SCO has always supported open standards, UNIX Systems and server-based technologies and solutions that benefit business computing. Our engineers have continuously participated in the Open Source movement, providing source code such as lxrun, and the OpenSAR kernel monitoring utility.
Compare this to the legal filing they made here a few days ago telling the Judge that they never contributed Code.
What nonsense. Anyone that works inside a major corporation can attest to much bigger Freuds going on inside those, but they are not (or rarely) done in public.
Take HP as an example. What do you think some of the Alpha / True64 guys have conjured up against the Itanium/ Microsoft camp and conversely. That should give you a picture of main stream corporate infighting.
Inside corportions peoples job's are at stake and they fight hard and nasty.
Open source is a polite debating society in comparison.
they can be done if you know values of log 2, 3, 5, 7, trignometric ratios from 0-360 at 30 deg intervals, common
If you have the time and inclination you should try and get a copy of Richard Feynmans Surely you are joking book. There is a section where he talks about the folly of rote learning like this, and how the physics student in Brazil has a lot of mental "information" available but understand almost no physics.
This is not a Code war, it is a PR war and the geeks are losing
First lets see who wins the war, you can win most of the battles and still lose the war, Think Vietnam.
That being said the PR war is being won by OpenSource. The reason being that the more fluffy technical press like eweek et al, have started to cover this issue in some details and they have started to see that SCO is blowin smoke. In the process a lot of the people that matters is getting more informed.
What some wallstreet speculators thinks and how that effects the price of SCO's shares is of no direct consequense for the uptake of FOOS.
Lastly the more it infromation about Microsofts involvement (if any) that leaks the better.
Nothing, I mean Nothng will help Linux more that a general understanding among the technical inclined that they are running scared.
The whole issue of convenient Domain names is a bit passee.
Often used url's I have as book marks and when i need some other site, it is much easier to make a guess via Google. What I am looking for is almost always on page one of googles choices.
Sure Google could find a way to handle the special characters and make an intelligent suggestion, if nothing else based on IP address of the request. If it is from Burundi chances of needing a German umlaut is slim
I recently heard Noam Chomsky respond to a comment like yours. He said that this woud be the same as saying to
Alexander Solzhenitsyn that since he didn't like the regime in USSR he should just leave.
If he had maybe we would still be in the thralls of the Cold War.
You should always leave a link allowing the uninitiated to learn
FYI, I saw Naked Gun on ABC here a few years ago and they had removed that comment by Jane. What is the point of showing a movie like that and then censor out the jokes?
This is a lawsuit against IBM with billions of dollars at stake
Not at all. Just because SCO is asking for $3B does not mean theire is any risk of them getting it, even if IBM is found at fault.
There is no commection between what they ask for and what they alledge IBM has done wrong, "Punitive Damages" wouldn't eve cover it as it caps out at pretty much 3X in practice. The silly awards you hear about always gets overturned or reduced by the judge.
I could sure my Ex for Zillions if I wanted but that does not mean that there is Zillions at stake.
Slashdot Mirror
Iceland gained independence from Denmark following WW2. Now look at Denmark, The oldest Kingdom in existence and it has always been independent.
Only country in the world, with that record.
What about using Supermarket Rebate cards like Thumb Toms Reward card.
They know pretty much all you bought by item, incl. the Booze you bought that your soon to be Ex is going to use against you at the Custody trial.
So always swap those cards with friends, or better find one left at the counter.
Like these guy's suing Pfizer the maker of Viagra.
Stating that the DDOS attach was most likely a Made for Wallstreet effort by SCO and pointing to some relevant information. Including the Netcraft News Graph.
Maybe do the same with lesser known Magazines. You can find a whole slew via Google News
Be polite and let them know they are being used as a pawn by SCO.
I won't be holding my breath.
Rather than concentrate on your breating, why don't you get with the program and start supporting OSS.
Looks like an excellent business opportunity, strike out on you own.
Head over to Netcraft News and see how this server "died". If this is a DDOS attach I am Queen of Spain.
This is for people that want to be Buzz-word complient but have little real understanding of the technology behind it all.
As in Mouse that roared with Peter Sellers
Click Here if you want to hear it.
Here is Caldera or go to main site and search on any name or technology. Like Hellwig or Numa
Once the Groklaw site is no longer slashdotted go there and look at the discussion about Mr. Hellwig
He was not a peon and his boss was in charge of a couple of programs that SCO publicly supported. Like LSB.
That being said all the code writes to some extend are peons, but that does not mean SCO managements are not responsible
Lastly they will have an impossible task claiming that their peons are different from IBM's peons.
If SCO is not responsible neither is IBM. If works both ways.
Look here and enjoy SCO's own word on how they supported and contributef to Linux. Year 2000 is the best.
Quote from May 2000
A corporate sponsor of Linux International, SCO has always supported open standards, UNIX Systems and server-based technologies and solutions that benefit business computing. Our engineers have continuously participated in the Open Source movement, providing source code such as lxrun, and the OpenSAR kernel monitoring utility.
Compare this to the legal filing they made here a few days ago telling the Judge that they never contributed Code.
Take HP as an example. What do you think some of the Alpha / True64 guys have conjured up against the Itanium/ Microsoft camp and conversely. That should give you a picture of main stream corporate infighting.
Inside corportions peoples job's are at stake and they fight hard and nasty.
Open source is a polite debating society in comparison.
If you have the time and inclination you should try and get a copy of Richard Feynmans Surely you are joking book. There is a section where he talks about the folly of rote learning like this, and how the physics student in Brazil has a lot of mental "information" available but understand almost no physics.
Maybe your ability to be sarcastic is somewhat due to the fact that Intel backed down and switched the default to Off.
This to me makes a good point for shunning Phoenix
First lets see who wins the war, you can win most of the battles and still lose the war, Think Vietnam.
That being said the PR war is being won by OpenSource. The reason being that the more fluffy technical press like eweek et al, have started to cover this issue in some details and they have started to see that SCO is blowin smoke. In the process a lot of the people that matters is getting more informed.
What some wallstreet speculators thinks and how that effects the price of SCO's shares is of no direct consequense for the uptake of FOOS.
Lastly the more it infromation about Microsofts involvement (if any) that leaks the better.
Nothing, I mean Nothng will help Linux more that a general understanding among the technical inclined that they are running scared.
Often used url's I have as book marks and when i need some other site, it is much easier to make a guess via Google. What I am looking for is almost always on page one of googles choices.
Sure Google could find a way to handle the special characters and make an intelligent suggestion, if nothing else based on IP address of the request. If it is from Burundi chances of needing a German umlaut is slim
I recently heard Noam Chomsky respond to a comment like yours. He said that this woud be the same as saying to Alexander Solzhenitsyn that since he didn't like the regime in USSR he should just leave.
If he had maybe we would still be in the thralls of the Cold War.
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You should always leave a link allowing the uninitiated to learn
FYI, I saw Naked Gun on ABC here a few years ago and they had removed that comment by Jane. What is the point of showing a movie like that and then censor out the jokes?
We should be able to take that one down as well.
How about using the Slope Function inside the Math section on the spreadsheet itself.
Or even better tell them how Linear regression is done, IF you are able to.
Most of the IT job is being outsourced to low cost regions. What should I do?
A:
prepare plans to migrate..
Ask Dylan
Not at all. Just because SCO is asking for $3B does not mean theire is any risk of them getting it, even if IBM is found at fault.
There is no commection between what they ask for and what they alledge IBM has done wrong, "Punitive Damages" wouldn't eve cover it as it caps out at pretty much 3X in practice. The silly awards you hear about always gets overturned or reduced by the judge. I could sure my Ex for Zillions if I wanted but that does not mean that there is Zillions at stake.