Yeah, well, if Richard Branson's spaceships are anything like his trains, it'll be stuffy, under-manned, and nine hours late... that's if it doesn't break down two miles outside Birmingham.
Oh, and the sandwiches suck.
Yeah, well, this wonderful service they provide (cheap GNU/Linux boxes) may be great for all you Americans - but it ain't gonna take off in the same way throughout the rest of the World without a similar rock-bottom outlet doing the same. (/me mourns living in rip-off UK)
It's 'cos, as everyone knows, they can't park - and in the olden days this used to cause the breakage of many a hard drive, and they've since been discouraged.
Whilst I'm wholly opposed to Daryl and his chums getting any joy from this shambles, I think one has to spare some thought for SCO's customer base - these folks are innocent and may well be structurally dependant on a maintained UnixWare / OpenServer future. If someone big were to buy out SCO than these folks could be rescued from an impending crisis. (And no - you cannot glibly point out that they could easily migrate to GNU/Linux or Solaris, or whatever - that isn't always feasible. )
Yes there is - a matter $30m, roughly. If Baystar get their way, they could get back their entire $50m, as opposed to the $22m that SCO are offering, as far as I can tell.
Ugbog and Moon-Pixie Spears have contested the copyright expiration of the classic Earth music their late, departed genetic Mother* Britney produced in the dark half of the twenty-first century. Moon-Pixie has amassed a considerable thought-petition amongst the noble citizenry of the outer satellites of the Lewinsky-Shatner system. She has mind-beamed a long list of names to the central Solar executive, and is awaiting their synaptic consent. The music of the former Earth-President Britney has been studied extensively for the last 30 years by a range of conscious and super-conscious experts. They have all agreed that the sub-spiritual quality of her sonic poems, when combined with the post-Leno auto-referentialism that abounded at the time, make her work of particular historical importance. Moon-Pixie Spears is seeking to prevent the mass humming of Britney's work by neural-construction engineers that has been popular in the outer quadrants for decades, as this is an infringement of the original copyright provision.
( * Mother - an example of early 21st century outmoded genetic relationship nomenclature - it's common usage is all but illegal today. )
Exactly! Thank you! With the SCO case I couldn't help thinking that even if IBM did bung some SCO-owned code into the linux kernel, any subsequent dispute is between SCO and IBM - users of that code - or anyone exposed to that source haven't done anything wrong and so deserve no legal retribution.
Bottom line - if you are a proprietary code outfit and somehow you have let slip some of your source to the World - tough sh*t!! You should have been more careful.
- one of the big vendors decide to publicly ship a consumer desktop machine with a GNU/Linux install (or even a dual install), will I start to think that the challenge is on.
My hardware was (almost) free - a very well-behaved, quiet and easily powerful enough second user Dell (certainly powerful enough for my purposes!) - purchased for a mere 25 quid. And - guess what? The software was also free - (RH9 borrowed from work).
So, Billy boy was almost right - except for one thing - the nearly-zero hardware budget is already here. You just need an OS that doesn't demand too much from it.:-)
The 1.6 GHz G5 is 1400. With a 1.8 exchange rate that amounts to $2520. As much as I believe Macs are way too expensive for what you get here in the UK, I don't think it serves anyone's purpose to tell big fibs.
My question: do the ongoing legal machinations of various behemoth companies with regard to software patents really threaten the liberties that Free Software programmers around the World currently enjoy? Or, are we guilty of hyping this up?
Mod the parent up! Doesn't he/she have a point? Seems to be a pretty fair assessment of the value / bucks ratio: i.e., it sounds like a lot of money for a low-spec piece of kit.
Yes, but worth repeating as there are still countless journalists out there who are creating headlines as if the payment was primarily for linux licences, and, therefore, substantiating SCO's case. It is lazy journalism by hacks who are unable to research past SCO's press releases.
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Branson's ship was impeccably clean... until William Shatner. *groan*
Virgin be a limey org... we don't need no stinkin' Euro!
Yeah, well, if Richard Branson's spaceships are anything like his trains, it'll be stuffy, under-manned, and nine hours late... that's if it doesn't break down two miles outside Birmingham. Oh, and the sandwiches suck.
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Yeah, well, this wonderful service they provide (cheap GNU/Linux boxes) may be great for all you Americans - but it ain't gonna take off in the same way throughout the rest of the World without a similar rock-bottom outlet doing the same. ( /me mourns living in rip-off UK)
Thank you, Sir. Your cheque will arrive shortly. :-)
It's 'cos, as everyone knows, they can't park - and in the olden days this used to cause the breakage of many a hard drive, and they've since been discouraged.
Whilst I'm wholly opposed to Daryl and his chums getting any joy from this shambles, I think one has to spare some thought for SCO's customer base - these folks are innocent and may well be structurally dependant on a maintained UnixWare / OpenServer future. If someone big were to buy out SCO than these folks could be rescued from an impending crisis. (And no - you cannot glibly point out that they could easily migrate to GNU/Linux or Solaris, or whatever - that isn't always feasible. )
Yes there is - a matter $30m, roughly. If Baystar get their way, they could get back their entire $50m, as opposed to the $22m that SCO are offering, as far as I can tell.
Ugbog and Moon-Pixie Spears have contested the copyright expiration of the classic Earth music their late, departed genetic Mother* Britney produced in the dark half of the twenty-first century. Moon-Pixie has amassed a considerable thought-petition amongst the noble citizenry of the outer satellites of the Lewinsky-Shatner system. She has mind-beamed a long list of names to the central Solar executive, and is awaiting their synaptic consent. The music of the former Earth-President Britney has been studied extensively for the last 30 years by a range of conscious and super-conscious experts. They have all agreed that the sub-spiritual quality of her sonic poems, when combined with the post-Leno auto-referentialism that abounded at the time, make her work of particular historical importance. Moon-Pixie Spears is seeking to prevent the mass humming of Britney's work by neural-construction engineers that has been popular in the outer quadrants for decades, as this is an infringement of the original copyright provision. ( * Mother - an example of early 21st century outmoded genetic relationship nomenclature - it's common usage is all but illegal today. )
Yay! Free vodka for all!
Exactly! Thank you! With the SCO case I couldn't help thinking that even if IBM did bung some SCO-owned code into the linux kernel, any subsequent dispute is between SCO and IBM - users of that code - or anyone exposed to that source haven't done anything wrong and so deserve no legal retribution.
Bottom line - if you are a proprietary code outfit and somehow you have let slip some of your source to the World - tough sh*t!! You should have been more careful.
They migrate.
It's 'cos the haggis are in season. (In high summer they're hard to spot against the heather, what with their natural camouflage).
props to the homey... (whatever that means).
What, you'd prefer Vanilla Ice? ;-)
- one of the big vendors decide to publicly ship a consumer desktop machine with a GNU/Linux install (or even a dual install), will I start to think that the challenge is on.
My hardware was (almost) free - a very well-behaved, quiet and easily powerful enough second user Dell (certainly powerful enough for my purposes!) - purchased for a mere 25 quid. And - guess what? The software was also free - (RH9 borrowed from work). So, Billy boy was almost right - except for one thing - the nearly-zero hardware budget is already here. You just need an OS that doesn't demand too much from it. :-)
The article meant to say that Brian was controlling a video game - and so was his wife!
How did you manage that? It isn't out until May.
The 1.6 GHz G5 is 1400. With a 1.8 exchange rate that amounts to $2520. As much as I believe Macs are way too expensive for what you get here in the UK, I don't think it serves anyone's purpose to tell big fibs.
My question: do the ongoing legal machinations of various behemoth companies with regard to software patents really threaten the liberties that Free Software programmers around the World currently enjoy? Or, are we guilty of hyping this up?
Mod the parent up! Doesn't he/she have a point? Seems to be a pretty fair assessment of the value / bucks ratio: i.e., it sounds like a lot of money for a low-spec piece of kit.
Yes, but worth repeating as there are still countless journalists out there who are creating headlines as if the payment was primarily for linux licences, and, therefore, substantiating SCO's case. It is lazy journalism by hacks who are unable to research past SCO's press releases.
Well, he was a Lynn Anderson fan. "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer,... ein never promised you a rose garden..."