The police should have issued this warning...
Don't worry about flashing hundred dollar bills, or flashing your credit cards, or wearing flashy gold jewellery because it has become evident that muggers will only attack you if you have an Ipod.
10 years ago I had an Amstrad PC with Dos and GEM as a GUI...
now I've got WinXP...but I don't remember GEM ever asking me every 5 minutes if I wanted to send an error report...
Sometimes I wonder...did we ever innovate, or did we just move to one provider.
Which leads us to another question...if a word is not recognized by Microsoft's spellchecker, is it really a word?Have you looked to see if monopoly is a word in the Microsoft spell check lately?
Did anyone just hear that tree fall in the forest?
Have any of the wonderful people that have helped develop Linux over the years been offered any compensation from SCO for the license fees they have received so far?
Let us speculate that some of SCOs code is actually in Linux. There would then still be lots of other code that would not belong to SCO. Are they planning on sharing their license fees with the many who have developed that code??
I say for every dollar of license fees collected on Linux, Darl gets 1 penny, and the other developers get 99 cents which should be donated to anyone who has a pending trial with SCO over Linux.
I could condense all of this into 4 words...
I do not care.
The Argument in a Nutshell:
A) The Open Source community loves open source (hurray for self love)
B) Some of us don't care (really...it's true)
C) Open source has some great stuff, but hey - so do giant software companies (I can't believe I said that)
D) Giant software companies hate open source (and yet, most of there developers probably use tons of open source software)
Who wins?? We do! Open source brings a strange type of competition to the market that keeps software companies "honest". But we should not look past these software companies, because they have brought us some amazing innovations that would not have been made without the countless dollars they made from selling their software.
So who cares what the internet is run on? Does it run? Yes! Do I have an OS that works? Yes! Do I use OSS because I don't like Americans? No! Do I feel better around my peers because I use open source? ummmmm...nope.
This act has been in place in Canada for 3 years, it has only now been extended to all businesses and organizations. If people are to read the act and understand it, it is quite meaningful.
It is indeed very serious for all businesses, and if they don't know the implications of it, they should consult the act. It requires each entity to have a person specifically setup to handle all personal information, and the entity is also required to have a specific policy in regards to how they safeguard people's info.
I think it is a huge step forward.
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The police should have issued this warning... Don't worry about flashing hundred dollar bills, or flashing your credit cards, or wearing flashy gold jewellery because it has become evident that muggers will only attack you if you have an Ipod.
Wake up!!!
My advice is don't talk to muggers
Keep up the anonymous posting. I was that douchebag.
Who is the Douchebag motherfucker who is scared to post there user name with that comment??
And I might be slow,but I'm not stupid...wait a second...I meant, the link is not that important STUPID!.
Enjoy your day!
10 years ago I had an Amstrad PC with Dos and GEM as a GUI...
now I've got WinXP...but I don't remember GEM ever asking me every 5 minutes if I wanted to send an error report...
Sometimes I wonder...did we ever innovate, or did we just move to one provider.
Which leads us to another question...if a word is not recognized by Microsoft's spellchecker, is it really a word?Have you looked to see if monopoly is a word in the Microsoft spell check lately?
Did anyone just hear that tree fall in the forest?What the &*^% are you talking about??? I think the Aussies can make up their own mind.
And why wouldn't you let some other country fight it out before you worried about it?
It makes sense to have a precedent before you go ahead with anything!!
Have any of the wonderful people that have helped develop Linux over the years been offered any compensation from SCO for the license fees they have received so far?
Let us speculate that some of SCOs code is actually in Linux. There would then still be lots of other code that would not belong to SCO. Are they planning on sharing their license fees with the many who have developed that code??
I say for every dollar of license fees collected on Linux, Darl gets 1 penny, and the other developers get 99 cents which should be donated to anyone who has a pending trial with SCO over Linux.
I could condense all of this into 4 words...
I do not care.
The Argument in a Nutshell:
A) The Open Source community loves open source (hurray for self love)
B) Some of us don't care (really...it's true)
C) Open source has some great stuff, but hey - so do giant software companies (I can't believe I said that)
D) Giant software companies hate open source (and yet, most of there developers probably use tons of open source software)
Who wins?? We do! Open source brings a strange type of competition to the market that keeps software companies "honest". But we should not look past these software companies, because they have brought us some amazing innovations that would not have been made without the countless dollars they made from selling their software.
So who cares what the internet is run on? Does it run? Yes! Do I have an OS that works? Yes! Do I use OSS because I don't like Americans? No! Do I feel better around my peers because I use open source? ummmmm...nope.
This act has been in place in Canada for 3 years, it has only now been extended to all businesses and organizations. If people are to read the act and understand it, it is quite meaningful. It is indeed very serious for all businesses, and if they don't know the implications of it, they should consult the act. It requires each entity to have a person specifically setup to handle all personal information, and the entity is also required to have a specific policy in regards to how they safeguard people's info. I think it is a huge step forward.