After reading that, you can see what SCO are up to. There is _NO_ actual product (or sales)... just a string of purchases/deals/shares (were does the real money come from?) to keep the share price up and cause investment to the coffers - all electronic, of course - no 'real paper money' to actually have in yer wallet.
The rats themselves do not carry diseases (they are clean animals) - the fleas that live on them do - ala the Black Death in Europe during the middle ages.
Trouble is, if you run XP as a user, the configuration to allow that user to do normal day to day stuff, like install printers/software/access certain files is so complicated, what does harry homeowner do? Yes, run as root all the time.
Until M$ learn how to build a 'proper' system, without all the shit (i.e. registry) to allow a simple administration of the machine, this problem will continue.
Of course, if IBM has emails out there that state they NEVER intended to finish Monterey and that the sole purpose of Monterey was to rip off SCO for Sys5, then a court will have to decide if intent overrides the contract as fraud.
Yes. But what was the case about. Law evades me, but what SCO started with is now totally changed?
And let's be serious, how many employees really have access to valuable and confidential information?!
And people that have sensitive information are trusted Company employees anyway (or should be). This is a human problem, not a USB/stealing data problem.
I will get on to my HR Dept. It will give them something to do.
Nick
As an aside, I wonder how long it will be before we see the first 'boot type virus' (or perhaps a FAT FS virus) on these things like the good old days of floppies?
Is the same... I expect the same low turn-out of around 26% voted - the same people that voted Tony Bliar into Dictatorship (and he has done a far site better than Hitler and Napolean ever wanted to do to England).
What about ARPNET, from what the Internet spawned from?
The beginnings of the internet go back at least as far as 1957, which marks the founding of the Defence Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to the Soviet Union launching Sputnik. In 1963, ARPA asked the Rand Corporation to ponder how to form a command-and control network capable of surviving attack by atomic bombs.
The Rand Corporation's response (made public in 1964) was that the network would "have no central authority" and would be "designed from the beginning to operate while in tatters". These two basic concepts became the defining characteristics of what would eventually become the Internet.
The Internet was conceptualized from the beginning as having no central authority, while operating in a condition of assumed unreliability (bombed-out cities, downed telephone lines) or, in other words, having maximum redundancy. All nodes would be coequal in status, each with authority to originate, relay, and receive messages.
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After reading that, you can see what SCO are up to. There is _NO_ actual product (or sales)... just a string of purchases/deals/shares (were does the real money come from?) to keep the share price up and cause investment to the coffers - all electronic, of course - no 'real paper money' to actually have in yer wallet.
Bubble gum money - non-existant.
The Earth is about 7000 miles in diameter (read small), we are a pretty insignificant rock in space for anything to hit, unfortunately.
The rats themselves do not carry diseases (they are clean animals) - the fleas that live on them do - ala the Black Death in Europe during the middle ages.
And if the person is dead, eat them, thus saving costly search 'n' find excursion parties.
MS lawyer: "It all worked in the flight2000 simulator? We always rebooted after every crash and everytime it was OK afterwards?"
I am not on about business networks. I am on about 'Harry home owner' running XP at home on AOL. Read what I said.
Trouble is, if you run XP as a user, the configuration to allow that user to do normal day to day stuff, like install printers/software/access certain files is so complicated, what does harry homeowner do? Yes, run as root all the time.
Until M$ learn how to build a 'proper' system, without all the shit (i.e. registry) to allow a simple administration of the machine, this problem will continue.
Of course, if IBM has emails out there that state they NEVER intended to finish Monterey and that the sole purpose of Monterey was to rip off SCO for Sys5, then a court will have to decide if intent overrides the contract as fraud.
Yes. But what was the case about. Law evades me, but what SCO started with is now totally changed?
I would like to see the OS graph of machines sending spam/virus 1998 -> / 2004 -> |
Yesifthefirstlinewasalllikethisthenthepagewouldren derproperlyandexpaintosuit.
Linuxworld indeed. They haven't a clue.
Most amusing would be if IBM helped get the documents unsealed and called there bluff.
And to be honest, I really don't think IBM have anything to hide anyway, so it will not surprise if they do now.
If that is the case, then that surely is another lawsuit separate from the 'millions of lines of code found in Linux' one going on here.
SCO have lost the plot.
Law is an ass, and there is no way to tell which way this will still come out - on all the arguments.
It only takes a . out of line to sway the legal result, not necessary the correct and right result.
It not over until the fat penguin sings, then we can all rejoice.
And let's be serious, how many employees really have access to valuable and confidential information?!
And people that have sensitive information are trusted Company employees anyway (or should be). This is a human problem, not a USB/stealing data problem.
I will get on to my HR Dept. It will give them something to do. Nick
FUCK RIGHT OFF, I AM BUSY!
:)
Put it on the helpdesk please.
They don't. Problem solved
'Ctrl a' helps a lot.
I dunno about you lot, but the link colour scheme fucked my eyes up after a few minutes.
As an aside, I wonder how long it will be before we see the first 'boot type virus' (or perhaps a FAT FS virus) on these things like the good old days of floppies?
I when I said 'owe' I meant as in beer :D We owe him, because what else would there be? So yes, we owe him.
Thanks, great bit of history. Makes us all humble really, doesn't it?
A google reveals this snippet too The Alderson Drive
Yes, one of RMS's weaker moments, but if it wasn't for RMS and GCC, I doubt any of us would have any free software at all.
RMS coding GCC (see The Rebel Code by Gyn Moody) was inspirational... and later on allowed Linus to build his stuff.
We all owe the man one hell of a lot.
All clap everybody!
The more you think about it, the more you realise more work and man hours has gone into GNU/Linux/FOSS than it did to send man to the moon!
59% turn out. Those that voted Bliar in was an actual 26% of the 100% of the population.
Is the same... I expect the same low turn-out of around 26% voted - the same people that voted Tony Bliar into Dictatorship (and he has done a far site better than Hitler and Napolean ever wanted to do to England).
What about ARPNET, from what the Internet spawned from?
The beginnings of the internet go back at least as far as 1957, which marks the founding of the Defence Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to the Soviet Union launching Sputnik.
In 1963, ARPA asked the Rand Corporation to ponder how to form a command-and control network capable of surviving attack by atomic bombs.
The Rand Corporation's response (made public in 1964) was that the network would "have no central authority" and would be "designed from the beginning to operate while in tatters".
These two basic concepts became the defining characteristics of what would eventually become the Internet.
The Internet was conceptualized from the beginning as having no central authority, while operating in a condition of assumed unreliability (bombed-out cities, downed telephone lines) or, in other words, having maximum redundancy.
All nodes would be coequal in status, each with authority to originate, relay, and receive messages.