Granted IANAL, but think about this... These big companies (DirectTV,RIAA,SCO,etc..) are using (and in my opinioin abusing) the civil courts to twist the law in their favor, right or wrong - they go after the small companies and individuals, who simply have (and very possibly innocent) ties (using/linking) to organizations that apparently are illegal.
In reality, in seems to me that while abusing the law to get there way (and they are) - they are also setting precidant, to where "there" relationship, no matter how small or innocent, with some organization out there that infact in someway physicallys harms others, that they are also guilty of support and facilitating this. Just as these sites that link to the pirates sites, and 9 year olds downloading MP3's that didnt know any better.
For example: They are going after sites, that are doing nothing more that linking (the relationship) to other sites that seem to be homes for evil pirates (and ofcourse terrorists). Well, they very much support (much more than a mere link in correlation) these numerous rap artists that talk/sing about killing others and cops - A creative and ballzy attorney out there could use the very same precidents that they them selves set, against them and practically put them out of business - IE: numerous wrongfull death suits...
"This helps to ensure IP compliance across Microsoft solutions and supports our efforts around existing products like Services for UNIX that further UNIX interoperability,"(EWeek)
Here is my confusion - that 20/21 million was just for a license for there "unix services", that I personally never really heard of (from Microsoft atleast). 1) Since when does microsoft invest 20 million into interoperability with there competition, let alone research and development? 2) If it costs 20 million just to license the IP rights to develop services like LPD and NFS (which it standard and open anyway) - just off the top of my head I would think that it would be 100's of millions to license the IP rights to develop an entire OS - and if that is the case and SCO has a handfull of companies giving them 100's of millions of dollars, why are they so broke?
I keep getting "500 internal server" errors from slashdot -AND- it very much looks like this page is very much active...
This page was made public to put pressure on Microsoft, in the hope that they may patch the listed security holes.
Vulnerabilities listed on this page work (among others) with the latest versions of Internet Explorer, with all patches installed.
Until proper patches have been provided, the only fix is to disable scripting.
This page is, and always will be, a work in progress. This is not a definitive list of vulnerabilities.
Man, can this guy spin numbers... I'm assuming that these are these M$ ONLY hosting providers - MYHosting.com First, 32,810 customers is not all that much when you consider the 5th largest hosting co in the world has 150,000-200,000 (CI Host. Where I believe hosting.com is around 500,000.
Then lets go into these numbers a little deeper... 49% (153K) to be upgrades from other Windows platforms(.49*32810) 16,077 (15.7K), 5% (16.5K) to be migrations from Linux(.05*32810) 1640 (1.6K), and 1% from FreeBSD (3K) (.01*32810) 328(0.3K),...
The guy either missed a decimal place, or was thinking in terms of kilo bits... Also, from being in this industry for a while - of the 1600 people migrating from linux, I can tell you from experience that a lot of people love this frontpage thing but it IS a pain to support and administer. Since myhosting.com is NOT a linux shop and does not seem to offer linux - those 1600 people would have to come from another hosting co - why did they leave???? Also, what kind of churn rate does this place have? 42% of there customers are from the last 3 months - no hosting company grows like that... Put simply - these numbers dont mean squat. They are surveys (bought by M$) from company's forcing an upgrade on there customers - most likely shared, who doesnt know any better. Ill bet you ten to one, that the remaining 2% are bigger clients that WILL not move to 2003.... From my experience in the hosting world - the ONLY reason you find customers on M$ boxes are because of frontpage/ASP, everyone else uses Linux. I wonder what these numbers would like with the big guys (cihost,hosting,yahoo,etc..). Oh - and lets not forget that these are meer hosting customers - NOT general company's like the headline elluded...
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Granted IANAL, but think about this... These big companies (DirectTV,RIAA,SCO,etc..) are using (and in my opinioin abusing) the civil courts to twist the law in their favor, right or wrong - they go after the small companies and individuals, who simply have (and very possibly innocent) ties (using/linking) to organizations that apparently are illegal. In reality, in seems to me that while abusing the law to get there way (and they are) - they are also setting precidant, to where "there" relationship, no matter how small or innocent, with some organization out there that infact in someway physicallys harms others, that they are also guilty of support and facilitating this. Just as these sites that link to the pirates sites, and 9 year olds downloading MP3's that didnt know any better. For example: They are going after sites, that are doing nothing more that linking (the relationship) to other sites that seem to be homes for evil pirates (and ofcourse terrorists). Well, they very much support (much more than a mere link in correlation) these numerous rap artists that talk/sing about killing others and cops - A creative and ballzy attorney out there could use the very same precidents that they them selves set, against them and practically put them out of business - IE: numerous wrongfull death suits...
"This helps to ensure IP compliance across Microsoft solutions and supports our efforts around existing products like Services for UNIX that further UNIX interoperability," (EWeek)
Here is my confusion - that 20/21 million was just for a license for there "unix services", that I personally never really heard of (from Microsoft atleast). 1) Since when does microsoft invest 20 million into interoperability with there competition, let alone research and development? 2) If it costs 20 million just to license the IP rights to develop services like LPD and NFS (which it standard and open anyway) - just off the top of my head I would think that it would be 100's of millions to license the IP rights to develop an entire OS - and if that is the case and SCO has a handfull of companies giving them 100's of millions of dollars, why are they so broke?
I keep getting "500 internal server" errors from slashdot -AND- it very much looks like this page is very much active...
This page was made public to put pressure on Microsoft, in the hope that they may patch the listed security holes. Vulnerabilities listed on this page work (among others) with the latest versions of Internet Explorer, with all patches installed. Until proper patches have been provided, the only fix is to disable scripting.
This page is, and always will be, a work in progress. This is not a definitive list of vulnerabilities.
Man, can this guy spin numbers... I'm assuming that these are these M$ ONLY hosting providers - MYHosting.com
...
First, 32,810 customers is not all that much when you consider the 5th largest hosting co in the world has 150,000-200,000 (CI Host. Where I believe hosting.com is around 500,000.
Then lets go into these numbers a little deeper...
49% (153K) to be upgrades from other Windows platforms (.49*32810) 16,077 (15.7K), 5% (16.5K) to be migrations from Linux (.05*32810) 1640 (1.6K), and 1% from FreeBSD (3K) (.01*32810) 328(0.3K),
The guy either missed a decimal place, or was thinking in terms of kilo bits...
Also, from being in this industry for a while - of the 1600 people migrating from linux, I can tell you from experience that a lot of people love this frontpage thing but it IS a pain to support and administer. Since myhosting.com is NOT a linux shop and does not seem to offer linux - those 1600 people would have to come from another hosting co - why did they leave???? Also, what kind of churn rate does this place have? 42% of there customers are from the last 3 months - no hosting company grows like that...
Put simply - these numbers dont mean squat. They are surveys (bought by M$) from company's forcing an upgrade on there customers - most likely shared, who doesnt know any better. Ill bet you ten to one, that the remaining 2% are bigger clients that WILL not move to 2003.... From my experience in the hosting world - the ONLY reason you find customers on M$ boxes are because of frontpage/ASP, everyone else uses Linux.
I wonder what these numbers would like with the big guys (cihost,hosting,yahoo,etc..). Oh - and lets not forget that these are meer hosting customers - NOT general company's like the headline elluded...