Not sure if you mean/. topic IE SUN's role or the sub story that started this thread about the CTO leaving. The SUN investment is not particular interesting and most likely part of a standard mode of licensing and investment by SUN. The amount is way too small to merit the potential bad press.
The circumstances about the CTO leaving has higher information value as it gives some insight into the strategy and thinking inside SCO.
The Yahoo thread referenced has a Anonomyous Poster stating the guy is so incompetent he would not even recognise the Language the code was written in. It was in refererence to that I Googled to see what education the guy had.
I will venture that this is not the last we hear of this, I expect the guy to go public if he really resigned.
The thread that claims he was fired for technical incompetence is not credible.
As the old Adage says, "better to have him in the tent pissing out, that outside pissing in"
He will with 100% certainty be on the list of witnesses in this case and firing him not is plain stupid. Keeping him on board would cost very little compared with the "cost" of his testimony.
Most likely he was the guy that authorized the "donation" of SCO code from his department to the Linux Kernel (if any). Most likely, the "letting go" of Opinder is part of a strategy to charging him with MisConduct later, maybe even claiming he was in collusion with IBM as he most certainly had a fair amount of contacts during the Monterey days. They can't really fo this while employed.
FYI, Here is his educational background
Bawa holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from City University of New York and a master's degree in Business and Information Technology from University of Phoenix.
Let me remind you that the guy that bombed the bejesus out of Cambodia and responsible for umpteen atrocities, plus currently sought extradited from US to possible stand trial for Crimes against Humanity won the Peace prize together with Le Duc Tho.
At least Duc Tho had the decency to decline the price.
a "disorderly conduct" charge or something like that could probably be made to stick.
Real bad idea
Trying to pin some abitrary felony on someone using part of the penal code way outside it's intended use is pretty much first step toward police state.
Try and Google Sedition and you will get a good feel for the risk involved.
It's a replay of the Handset OS battle. The makers of consumer devices do not want to be PC'ed by Microsoft.
There is no margins in PC's and it's impossible to truely innovate as the infrastructure is pretty much owned by MS/Windows. The handset makers like Nokia etc. realized this early and they conseqently shun MS regardless of the quality / price of CE.
An opensource OS standard for consumer products are just what they want since no one controls the direction of the OS. Everyone can innovate and get a first mover advantage and at the same time make a credible case to the consumer that what they offer will not be a dead-end.
Finansial institutions is one of the earliest and most avid adopters of Linux. Use Google for info but here is an eWeek article probabluy not the best (it's eWeek) but the first I found
I wouldn't accuse the SCO folks of running an illegal pump-and-dump scam in a public forum
The chances is small they would entertain such a thing, since affirmative defense it that they did.
They wouldn't want to have to disclose ALL the contracts and ALL the agreements that has taken place inside SCO. That includes outside investors like the Canopy scumbags.
Not only that but using alternative 3.1 Rom images found Here you can change the default usage of memory. Buy a SD card and keep all your applications on that, leaving plenty of space for runtime useage.
That pretty much makes a 5500 = 5600 except for battery advantage. 5500 Can still be found for around $200.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed.
But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes.
The senator's site makes extensive use of a JavaScript menu system developed by Milonic Solutions, a software company based in the United Kingdom. The copyright-protected code has not been licensed for use on Hatch's website.
"It's an unlicensed copy," said Andy Woolley, who runs Milonic. "It's very unfortunate for him because of those comments he made."
There is not one word in this document of the Cost of interoperability or rather the lack of it using closed source SW. Why is that? In general I have never seen anything in any TCO analysis that takes this into account.
It might make MS stuff look better in the short term, but I think we need to send emails etc. to the makers of theres TCO analysis and demand it be included. Why would the cost of interoperability be any less than say education of system Operators.
Once the component is included it is much easier to have a sober debate on the long term cost of "lock-in"
SCO SEC filing states that is will be a long and costly affaire. Article Here.
We need some counter suits from a mutlitude of places to make them vanish. As long as they have a single target in IBM I think they can manage, once there is a risk of them loosing everything they might win from IBM to 3,000 Linux developers it's Game Over.
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The circumstances about the CTO leaving has higher information value as it gives some insight into the strategy and thinking inside SCO.
The Yahoo thread referenced has a Anonomyous Poster stating the guy is so incompetent he would not even recognise the Language the code was written in. It was in refererence to that I Googled to see what education the guy had.
I will venture that this is not the last we hear of this, I expect the guy to go public if he really resigned.
As the old Adage says, "better to have him in the tent pissing out, that outside pissing in"
He will with 100% certainty be on the list of witnesses in this case and firing him not is plain stupid. Keeping him on board would cost very little compared with the "cost" of his testimony.
Most likely he was the guy that authorized the "donation" of SCO code from his department to the Linux Kernel (if any). Most likely, the "letting go" of Opinder is part of a strategy to charging him with MisConduct later, maybe even claiming he was in collusion with IBM as he most certainly had a fair amount of contacts during the Monterey days. They can't really fo this while employed.
FYI, Here is his educational background
Bawa holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from City University of New York and a master's degree in Business and Information Technology from University of Phoenix.
The longer and more content you have per line the higher the likelyhood of error/ line.
As example with one errror in 100 lines you get 1% error. Imagine you could do the whole thing in one line. Now you have 100% error.
link for other interested
Lot's of search sites has emerged so you can pick and choose what you want, and leaving a few uploads open all the time as quid pro quo.
You can even rate the stuff out there.
At least Duc Tho had the decency to decline the price.
If Kissinger can get it why not Linus Torvalds?
As the current US President.
As of right now the convicted party is Microsoft not the hackers just to keep things in perspective.
Apparently you have never seen one
Real bad idea
Trying to pin some abitrary felony on someone using part of the penal code way outside it's intended use is pretty much first step toward police state.
Try and Google Sedition and you will get a good feel for the risk involved.
The major Retailer that they are facing is Walmart and their Lindows or Lycoris Line
It's a replay of the Handset OS battle. The makers of consumer devices do not want to be PC'ed by Microsoft.
There is no margins in PC's and it's impossible to truely innovate as the infrastructure is pretty much owned by MS/Windows. The handset makers like Nokia etc. realized this early and they conseqently shun MS regardless of the quality / price of CE.
An opensource OS standard for consumer products are just what they want since no one controls the direction of the OS. Everyone can innovate and get a first mover advantage and at the same time make a credible case to the consumer that what they offer will not be a dead-end.
You will enjoy the Mug Shotat the Inquirer of OS2/ MS
Finansial institutions is one of the earliest and most avid adopters of Linux. Use Google for info but here is an eWeek article probabluy not the best (it's eWeek) but the first I found
or thought that a real breakthru would be an algorithm to factor large PRIME numbers.
The chances is small they would entertain such a thing, since affirmative defense it that they did.
They wouldn't want to have to disclose ALL the contracts and ALL the agreements that has taken place inside SCO. That includes outside investors like the Canopy scumbags.
That pretty much makes a 5500 = 5600 except for battery advantage. 5500 Can still be found for around $200.
The ones that did what did they do?
Go to the little old librarian and say:
I can't seem to get trhu to Fuckmeinthebuthole.com , when are you going to get that fixed?
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be !
it's hard not to feel a little sentimental when you see good old Commie Scare posters.
Guess the employees protesting felt akin to the Iraqs cheering Sadam at his strolling casual thru streets of Baghdad TV shows.
He can go belly up but that's about it.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed. But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes. The senator's site makes extensive use of a JavaScript menu system developed by Milonic Solutions, a software company based in the United Kingdom. The copyright-protected code has not been licensed for use on Hatch's website. "It's an unlicensed copy," said Andy Woolley, who runs Milonic. "It's very unfortunate for him because of those comments he made."
It might make MS stuff look better in the short term, but I think we need to send emails etc. to the makers of theres TCO analysis and demand it be included. Why would the cost of interoperability be any less than say education of system Operators.
Once the component is included it is much easier to have a sober debate on the long term cost of "lock-in"
These are obviously all indigenous UK companies that need to be protected, by the UK tax payer!!!!!
We need some counter suits from a mutlitude of places to make them vanish. As long as they have a single target in IBM I think they can manage, once there is a risk of them loosing everything they might win from IBM to 3,000 Linux developers it's Game Over.