In 2014, the UN will declare that Linus is a treasure for the human race.
(I think I'm kidding, but if Linux is running as much of the world's infrastructure as I think it will be in 2014, then maybe this is a realistic prediction...)
Yes, they do have a history of being racist, both in doctrine (blacks were the cursed sons of Ham, who received black skin as a mark of their curse) and in practice (within the Mormon church, blacks were denied the priesthood until 1979 or thereabouts).
"The polygamy crap" that you see on the news now is grounds for excommunication from the Mormon church, but until about 1890 it was official church doctrine (you couldn't reach the highest level of heaven - which enabled you to become a god yourself - unless you were a polygamist). But the church changed it's position (current doctrine is that polygamy is only for the hereafter, but will get you excommunicated if you do it here and now). But there are a number of Mormon-ish splinter groups who believe that the Mormon church was correct before 1890 but went astray when they abandoned polygamy, and said splinter groups adhere (more or less) to the official pre-1890 Mormon doctrine.
For the record: I live in Utah, I'm not Mormon, but I pay attention to their position.
"Not doing anything blatantly illegal"? Um, dude, ever hear of the Lanham act? If this scenario were true, the issue wouldn't just be PR, it would be Microsoft breaking the law in a way that it could get seriously nailed for (not criminally, if I understand correctly, but seriously on the financial front.
Let's see... SCO is headquarterd in Utah and incorporated in Delaware. AutoZone is headquartered in Memphis. I don't know where they're incorporated. So, the obvious location for the lawsuit is... Nevada?
What's up with that? Doesn't the legal system kind of frown on shopping for the friendliest jurisdiction? Isn't the first move going to be to transfer jurisdiction to someplace sane? (Not a comment on Nevada's sanity, just that as a jurisdiction for this trial, Nevada makes no sense).
So, doesn't filing this in Nevada just serve to stall? Is this another SCO "we want the publicity from having done something, but we don't ever want anything to get resolved" move? Or have I missed something, and Nevada actually makes sense for some reason?
"Most people consider it to have a larger memory footprint"? Um, I've gotten vxWorks down to about 16 KB, IIRC (of course, that was just the task scheduler and semaphores - no drivers, not even serial ports). But I have my doubts that you can get embedded Linux down that low...
No, it's because as you learn more about the technology, you learn that it isn't perfect. And this is a good thing.
We need people who will look at the computers output and say, "That can't be right. I don't care if it came from the computer, it can't be right!" Like especially the doctor who is just about to remove a cancerous lymph node, and the computer is telling him/her to amputate your leg.
That doesn't mean that the judge likes abusers of the court system, just because they happen to also be Mormon.
Look, I live in Utah, and I'm as anti-Mormon as the next person (and more than most - I actually have looked rather carefully at what they believe, and, well, they shouldn't even claim to believe the Bible, their position is that far away from orthodox Christianity). But I have to stand up for the ethics of most Mormons. (With Darl, either his ethics are flawed, or his intelligence is, or his grasp on reality - at least one of the three isn't working.)
I mean, I work with a bunch of Mormons (duh, it's Utah), and here we are, five or six miles from SCO's headquarters, and they're Mormons and so is Darl, and my co-workers are pretty much appalled at SCO.
I don't agree with their religion, but you still have to be fair to them. Most Mormons understand justice a lot better than they understand SCO's antics.
Now the bad news: Posting it on Groklaw seems to have been enough to/. the court's server, so you're going to have to wait a while to read it (and no, I didn't grab a mirror while I had it - my bad).
Of course, posting the link here is far worse than posting it on Groklaw, so maybe you should try to read it tomorrow...
Late update: I re-tried the link when I did the preview, and got it - so it's back, or perhaps intermittent. I'm going to try to grab it right after I post...
So, um, forgive me for asking, but... What would have happened if you just told them to get lost? Are you legally required to pay them, even though you haven't signed any sort of contract with them? If you are, then the laws are pretty wacked. If not, then as a performer, you probably had more muscle available (in the form of your band + audience) than they did, and you shouldn't have let them intimidate you.
It occurs to me that it may matter a great deal whether you are playing your own material or covers of other bands (that SABAM does represent). You didn't say, so I won't assume, but it would be nice to know...
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...have they bought asteroid insurance?
You are presuming that he'd win if he fought it out here. I'm not at all sure of that...
One word: Groklaw.
Yes. That is exactly what they are afraid of.
(I think I'm kidding, but if Linux is running as much of the world's infrastructure as I think it will be in 2014, then maybe this is a realistic prediction...)
"The polygamy crap" that you see on the news now is grounds for excommunication from the Mormon church, but until about 1890 it was official church doctrine (you couldn't reach the highest level of heaven - which enabled you to become a god yourself - unless you were a polygamist). But the church changed it's position (current doctrine is that polygamy is only for the hereafter, but will get you excommunicated if you do it here and now). But there are a number of Mormon-ish splinter groups who believe that the Mormon church was correct before 1890 but went astray when they abandoned polygamy, and said splinter groups adhere (more or less) to the official pre-1890 Mormon doctrine.
For the record: I live in Utah, I'm not Mormon, but I pay attention to their position.
Disclaimer: IANAL
What they lose by this is a customer - probably more than one...
What's up with that? Doesn't the legal system kind of frown on shopping for the friendliest jurisdiction? Isn't the first move going to be to transfer jurisdiction to someplace sane? (Not a comment on Nevada's sanity, just that as a jurisdiction for this trial, Nevada makes no sense).
So, doesn't filing this in Nevada just serve to stall? Is this another SCO "we want the publicity from having done something, but we don't ever want anything to get resolved" move? Or have I missed something, and Nevada actually makes sense for some reason?
Right. The surprise is that we weren't (or maybe just I wasn't) expecting anything shipping until 2005 or 2006.
Yeah, Intel is pretty much doing that with the instruction set - except that they aren't suing AMD for using their "new" IA32e instruction set yet...
"Most people consider it to have a larger memory footprint"? Um, I've gotten vxWorks down to about 16 KB, IIRC (of course, that was just the task scheduler and semaphores - no drivers, not even serial ports). But I have my doubts that you can get embedded Linux down that low...
I can't believe that nobody's challenged this statement yet. Somehow I don't think that Lisp or Prolog aspire to Perl 5's expressions...
Seriously. This is not cool. If it's not cool if someone were to do it to us, it's not cool when someone does it to MS. If it's sauce for the goose...
The patents thing is interesting, though - Microsoft does have some patents, and implementing similar code could get you into patent infringement.
But, as someone noted earlier, it's illegal (copyright infringement) to grab this code in the first place.
I got suckered by a disguised link once. Fun isn't the way I would describe seeing that image...
We need people who will look at the computers output and say, "That can't be right. I don't care if it came from the computer, it can't be right!" Like especially the doctor who is just about to remove a cancerous lymph node, and the computer is telling him/her to amputate your leg.
Look, I live in Utah, and I'm as anti-Mormon as the next person (and more than most - I actually have looked rather carefully at what they believe, and, well, they shouldn't even claim to believe the Bible, their position is that far away from orthodox Christianity). But I have to stand up for the ethics of most Mormons. (With Darl, either his ethics are flawed, or his intelligence is, or his grasp on reality - at least one of the three isn't working.)
I mean, I work with a bunch of Mormons (duh, it's Utah), and here we are, five or six miles from SCO's headquarters, and they're Mormons and so is Darl, and my co-workers are pretty much appalled at SCO.
I don't agree with their religion, but you still have to be fair to them. Most Mormons understand justice a lot better than they understand SCO's antics.
Followed, of course, by destroying SCO's pretensions on those 17 files by documenting how they actually got into Linux...
Any volunteers?
Now the bad news: Posting it on Groklaw seems to have been enough to /. the court's server, so you're going to have to wait a while to read it (and no, I didn't grab a mirror while I had it - my bad).
Of course, posting the link here is far worse than posting it on Groklaw, so maybe you should try to read it tomorrow...
Late update: I re-tried the link when I did the preview, and got it - so it's back, or perhaps intermittent. I'm going to try to grab it right after I post...
(ducks and runs...)
It occurs to me that it may matter a great deal whether you are playing your own material or covers of other bands (that SABAM does represent). You didn't say, so I won't assume, but it would be nice to know...
Maybe it depends on whether you have the $2970...
Embedded and real-time are not equivalent.