Who do you propose should perform the little tricks that you suggest? The US government has already proven itself incapable of making sane, useful, effective, and enforceable laws regarding the Internet.
Sun still builds honking high-end bulletproof servers. There are several companies and even industries that will never use x86 computers for their enterprise applications. It does not appear that Sun is moving away from Sparc. The change is that Sun is expanding it's lower end with x86 machines and Linux. I do wonder if Sun Service is starting to lose it's edge. Last night Sun shipped three of the wrong hard drives to repair an array, it took an extra 45 minutes to get the proper drives delivered.
Have we ran out of unique brand names?
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Why is it that computer companies think that they can Trademark dictionary words that are in common use? There was the Apple and then the Pineapple, Orange, and Pear knockoffs. Palm is a favorite (non)trademark of mine, right next to Windows. Commodore is stretching things. Altair (from MITS) was a unique tradename, Exidy was also unique (although Sorcerer could have caused issues). Tomy was a unique, although scary name for a computer.
All of these non-unique tradenames are lawsuits just waiting to start.
S. Korea produces cell phones and televisions, which are not in short supply and W knows nothing about. Iraq produces oil which is in short supply and W has many friends in the oil industry.
There is a water based product called Microbe-Clean made by Georgetown Environmental Group that contains nonpathogenic microbes that break down animal waste and odors. I know that it works great with dog piss and cat puke, it may work with pig smells. It is water based so it would have to be used with care on computers. I get it at Whole Foods Market http://www.wholefoods.com/
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Jesus, another lame patent holder sues the devil. Is this another one of those times where we have to root for the evil company? I really hate having to root for IBM (I have a long memory), Microsoft, and now the RIAA. I feel so dirty.
Who the hell are you to tell me what software to use? I am not alone in choosing BSD/Apache licenses, about 60% of web servers use BSD/Apache licensed software. Yeah, I do modify the code and using BSD/Apache licensed software relieves me of having to make sure that I am following any other license. I do not dislike the GPL but if I have a choice and if it is for anything that could possibly be considered distribution, I prefer not to use GPL'ed software. I have tried several distributions of Linux, even recent versions, and still prefer the "feel" of Solaris or FreeBSD to Linux. I do use quite a bit of GPL'd applications along with Solaris and FreeBSD. BTW, contrary to rumors, some of the *BSD distributions are doing very well
Sendmail Inc. http://www.sendmail.com/ is a commercial company that provides an open source Sender-ID (sid-milter) http://www.sendmail.net/ for Sendmail and provides Sendmail source code to the Sendmail Consortium http://www.sendmail.org/.
The Sendmail Consortium maintains the open source version of Sendmail (from source code provided by Sendmail Inc.) and does not support Sendmail sid-milter.
Guess which Sendmail entity (.com or.org) wins any arguments?
It is probable that many people have used BSD licensed code in commercial products without releasing source code. I am not so sure about Apache code being used very often in this manner. In either case, with certain other condions, the BSD and Apache licenses allow this use. I am not really a programmer but will occasionally put together a solution for a customer (at no charge). I like to use BSD/Apache licensed code because it can be released to customers without being concerned about the terms of the GPL. What is your point?
I find it pretty amazing that the IETF accepts encumbered "standards". Protocols should either be industry standards or propietary. It could become interesting if an RFC calls for the use of an encumbered standard and half of the Internet chooses to ignore the standard.
I find it pretty amazing that SCO has the cajones to believe that anybody would be interested in taking them over. I believe that their stock is as high as it is right now (if under $4 a share is high) only because SCO has been buying it's own stock. What do they own? They have some money in the bank, much of which they owe to their lawyers and to others; they also own a UNIX distribution that that people are not busting down the doors to buy. SCO seems to believe that they own the copyright to System V, Linux and UNIX in general; they may actually own some sort of rights to System V, but SCO's copyright claims are being contested by somed of the current owners. SCO has a number of pending lawsuits, and so far the verdicts in their lawsuits have been against them. Their anti-takeover defense is as useless as any of their other claims.
This is an Air Force guy, the chances are pretty slim that he is keeping watch/guard over an encampment. Rotating shifts at 4 hours intervals would be a total bitch, the most sleep that you would get at a stretch is about 3 hours. It is likely that you would get less quite a bit less than three hours of sleep at a stretch. I know about the dragging at about 0400, when I worked 12 hour days I worked 1900 to 0700. I have also worked several years of 0000 to 0800 shifts. The 0400 drag on a 12 hour day is not different from the 0400 drag on an 8 hour day. For commanders with troops in remote areas there are great advantages to running 12 hour shifts; the troops have less off time, meaning that there is less chance for the troops to get into trouble. 12 hour shifts are most effective in countries that have limited receational activities available.
Here's a novel idea for you: WORK while you are on your 12 hour shift. My tax money is not paying for you to watch movies while you are on a 12 hour shift. If that sounds out of touch, it isn't. I worked a great many 12 hour/6 days a week shifts while stationed overseas with the USAF.
MSIE. There were no other popular free browsers available at the time that they started giving it away free, they later claimed they integrated MSIE into Windows. MS ran Netscape out of business, dropped IE for Unix and for Mac, and now they require the purchase of Windows in order to get MSIE.
I believe that MS is guilty of many things (including predatory pricing for certain applications), I never said that I thought that MS was engaging in predatory pricing for their OSS's.
There are two parts to "predatory pricing" and both must exist for there to be "predatory pricing"; the first part involves selling a product below what competitors are able to charge for their products, with the intention of eliminating the competition , the second part is the intention to raise prices after the competitors are gone. I believe that it would be very difficult to prove the that Suse or Red Hat are doing the first part, it would be even more difficult to prove the second part. It likely would be impossible to prove if Suse is considered to be a competitor of Red Hat. The CATO institute has an interesting view of predatory pricing http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-169es.html/
What PR war? What IBM spin on events? I haven't heard or seen anything from IBM about this case outside of their smashing legal documents.
How is "Linux is an unlicensed version of Unix"? Linux is licensed under the GPL and related licenses. Linux never claimed to be certified as being UNIX, so there is no need to license it with The Open Group. The Open Group does not seem to have any sort of heartburn about Linux, especially since they sell a Linux license plate (with proper credit to Linus Torvolds). http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/n910.ht m
If SCO really did plant seeds of doubt about Linux or tarnish Linux's reputation, they sure did a crappy job. The number of new corporate Linux installations is steadily increasing. As long as the court battle plays out the way that it looks like it will, Linux and the GNU license both stand to actually benefit from this. It appears that SCO is going to crash HARD and the GNU contract will be upheld in court. The media exposure that Linux is getting is tremendous and when IBM wins this battle any doubts about Linux and the GNU license will be squashed.
Just about every day this week (including today) SCO's stock price pushes the 52 week low price ever lower. The low price so far today is 3.59. Over the past few months SCO had been buying stock to boost the price, it seems that they may have given up on that. Maybe SCO will start buying stock again when it gets down to about a dollar.
I doubt that the EFF had any real choice but to drop the suit. After agreeing that the music was in the public domain, the claimed copyright holder conceeded the case to the EFF; at which point the EFF no longer had a case. If the EFF took the case before a judge it is possible that the judge could have sanctioned the EFF for a frivolous case as the defendant had already conceeded.
According to the article, the DMA is funding this "crackdown". They are trying to make it easier for DMA members to get their spam noticed. The DMA got the you CAN Spam law written they way that they wanted it written, now they are using it to kill the competition. This is just one more example of an industry cartel using laws that they bought and paid for to kill anybody who is not a member of the cartel.
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Who do you propose should perform the little tricks that you suggest? The US government has already proven itself incapable of making sane, useful, effective, and enforceable laws regarding the Internet.
Sun still builds honking high-end bulletproof servers. There are several companies and even industries that will never use x86 computers for their enterprise applications. It does not appear that Sun is moving away from Sparc. The change is that Sun is expanding it's lower end with x86 machines and Linux. I do wonder if Sun Service is starting to lose it's edge. Last night Sun shipped three of the wrong hard drives to repair an array, it took an extra 45 minutes to get the proper drives delivered.
Why is it that computer companies think that they can Trademark dictionary words that are in common use? There was the Apple and then the Pineapple, Orange, and Pear knockoffs. Palm is a favorite (non)trademark of mine, right next to Windows. Commodore is stretching things. Altair (from MITS) was a unique tradename, Exidy was also unique (although Sorcerer could have caused issues). Tomy was a unique, although scary name for a computer. All of these non-unique tradenames are lawsuits just waiting to start.
S. Korea produces cell phones and televisions, which are not in short supply and W knows nothing about. Iraq produces oil which is in short supply and W has many friends in the oil industry.
There is a water based product called Microbe-Clean made by Georgetown Environmental Group that contains nonpathogenic microbes that break down animal waste and odors. I know that it works great with dog piss and cat puke, it may work with pig smells. It is water based so it would have to be used with care on computers. I get it at Whole Foods Market http://www.wholefoods.com/
Warning: This post includes Cliche's. Jesus, another lame patent holder sues the devil. Is this another one of those times where we have to root for the evil company? I really hate having to root for IBM (I have a long memory), Microsoft, and now the RIAA. I feel so dirty.
Who the hell are you to tell me what software to use? I am not alone in choosing BSD/Apache licenses, about 60% of web servers use BSD/Apache licensed software. Yeah, I do modify the code and using BSD/Apache licensed software relieves me of having to make sure that I am following any other license. I do not dislike the GPL but if I have a choice and if it is for anything that could possibly be considered distribution, I prefer not to use GPL'ed software. I have tried several distributions of Linux, even recent versions, and still prefer the "feel" of Solaris or FreeBSD to Linux. I do use quite a bit of GPL'd applications along with Solaris and FreeBSD. BTW, contrary to rumors, some of the *BSD distributions are doing very well
Sendmail Inc. http://www.sendmail.com/ is a commercial company that provides an open source Sender-ID (sid-milter) http://www.sendmail.net/ for Sendmail and provides Sendmail source code to the Sendmail Consortium http://www.sendmail.org/. The Sendmail Consortium maintains the open source version of Sendmail (from source code provided by Sendmail Inc.) and does not support Sendmail sid-milter. Guess which Sendmail entity (.com or .org) wins any arguments?
It is probable that many people have used BSD licensed code in commercial products without releasing source code. I am not so sure about Apache code being used very often in this manner. In either case, with certain other condions, the BSD and Apache licenses allow this use. I am not really a programmer but will occasionally put together a solution for a customer (at no charge). I like to use BSD/Apache licensed code because it can be released to customers without being concerned about the terms of the GPL. What is your point?
I find it pretty amazing that the IETF accepts encumbered "standards". Protocols should either be industry standards or propietary. It could become interesting if an RFC calls for the use of an encumbered standard and half of the Internet chooses to ignore the standard.
I find it pretty amazing that SCO has the cajones to believe that anybody would be interested in taking them over. I believe that their stock is as high as it is right now (if under $4 a share is high) only because SCO has been buying it's own stock. What do they own? They have some money in the bank, much of which they owe to their lawyers and to others; they also own a UNIX distribution that that people are not busting down the doors to buy. SCO seems to believe that they own the copyright to System V, Linux and UNIX in general; they may actually own some sort of rights to System V, but SCO's copyright claims are being contested by somed of the current owners. SCO has a number of pending lawsuits, and so far the verdicts in their lawsuits have been against them. Their anti-takeover defense is as useless as any of their other claims.
This is an Air Force guy, the chances are pretty slim that he is keeping watch/guard over an encampment. Rotating shifts at 4 hours intervals would be a total bitch, the most sleep that you would get at a stretch is about 3 hours. It is likely that you would get less quite a bit less than three hours of sleep at a stretch. I know about the dragging at about 0400, when I worked 12 hour days I worked 1900 to 0700. I have also worked several years of 0000 to 0800 shifts. The 0400 drag on a 12 hour day is not different from the 0400 drag on an 8 hour day. For commanders with troops in remote areas there are great advantages to running 12 hour shifts; the troops have less off time, meaning that there is less chance for the troops to get into trouble. 12 hour shifts are most effective in countries that have limited receational activities available.
Here's a novel idea for you: WORK while you are on your 12 hour shift. My tax money is not paying for you to watch movies while you are on a 12 hour shift. If that sounds out of touch, it isn't. I worked a great many 12 hour/6 days a week shifts while stationed overseas with the USAF.
Netscape was not free at the time MS started giving away IE.
MSIE was released in August 1995 as part of a free of charge Plus! package. Netscape released it's first version of Netscape (5.0) in January 1998.
Netscape was bought by AOL/Time Warner in November of 1998.
In May of 2003, MS and AOL/Time Warner settled a lawsuit regarding MS's anticompetitive behavior with MSIE.
MSIE. There were no other popular free browsers available at the time that they started giving it away free, they later claimed they integrated MSIE into Windows. MS ran Netscape out of business, dropped IE for Unix and for Mac, and now they require the purchase of Windows in order to get MSIE.
Damn, I knew that there was a reason for the Preview button.
I believe that MS is guilty of many things (including predatory pricing for certain applications), I never said that I thought that MS was engaging in predatory pricing for their OSS's.
There are two parts to "predatory pricing" and both must exist for there to be "predatory pricing"; the first part involves selling a product below what competitors are able to charge for their products, with the intention of eliminating the competition , the second part is the intention to raise prices after the competitors are gone. I believe that it would be very difficult to prove the that Suse or Red Hat are doing the first part, it would be even more difficult to prove the second part. It likely would be impossible to prove if Suse is considered to be a competitor of Red Hat. The CATO institute has an interesting view of predatory pricing http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-169es.html/
Why are you using MSIE anyway? Google for "IE + security" to see some of the reasons not to use IE.
What PR war? What IBM spin on events? I haven't heard or seen anything from IBM about this case outside of their smashing legal documents.
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How is "Linux is an unlicensed version of Unix"? Linux is licensed under the GPL and related licenses. Linux never claimed to be certified as being UNIX, so there is no need to license it with The Open Group. The Open Group does not seem to have any sort of heartburn about Linux, especially since they sell a Linux license plate (with proper credit to Linus Torvolds). http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/n910.h
If SCO really did plant seeds of doubt about Linux or tarnish Linux's reputation, they sure did a crappy job. The number of new corporate Linux installations is steadily increasing. As long as the court battle plays out the way that it looks like it will, Linux and the GNU license both stand to actually benefit from this. It appears that SCO is going to crash HARD and the GNU contract will be upheld in court. The media exposure that Linux is getting is tremendous and when IBM wins this battle any doubts about Linux and the GNU license will be squashed.
Just about every day this week (including today) SCO's stock price pushes the 52 week low price ever lower. The low price so far today is 3.59. Over the past few months SCO had been buying stock to boost the price, it seems that they may have given up on that. Maybe SCO will start buying stock again when it gets down to about a dollar.
I doubt that the EFF had any real choice but to drop the suit. After agreeing that the music was in the public domain, the claimed copyright holder conceeded the case to the EFF; at which point the EFF no longer had a case. If the EFF took the case before a judge it is possible that the judge could have sanctioned the EFF for a frivolous case as the defendant had already conceeded.
According to the article, the DMA is funding this "crackdown". They are trying to make it easier for DMA members to get their spam noticed. The DMA got the you CAN Spam law written they way that they wanted it written, now they are using it to kill the competition. This is just one more example of an industry cartel using laws that they bought and paid for to kill anybody who is not a member of the cartel.
Remember that there are many different clients to use with Jabber servers. Different clients have different features. The features to compare are with the clients, not necessarily the protocol itself. The best to to find out whether it is the way to go is to try it, it's free.