Torvalds opted for a version of the GPL that forbade anyone from making money selling modified versions of Linux.
1. It makes no sense to talk of choosing versions of the GPL. There are versions, but only two, and the difference has nothing to do with making money.
2. It must be news to Red Hat and everybody else that it is forbidden to amke money from selling modified versions.
Makes me wonder how much of the rest of the interview is bogus.
SCO is in Utah. Surely that counts for something. Probably even more so if the job is a lawyerly marketing kind of job, and the multiple monitors are watching stock prices.
You are saying Apple would lose sales if they dropped their prices. What errant nonsense! The only customers they would lose that way would be snobs. They would gain a whole heck of a lot more customers than they would lose. But they would lose net income because their software and hardware is a low volume specialty niche.
The only possible change for Apple would be to port their software to wintel PCs, and then their hardware would be in direct competition with Dell at al. It would be a gamble that increased software sales would make up for lower hardware sales. Certainly some people would continue to buy expensive Apple hardware, but most people would take the lower price for ordinary style. Some people would take even lower prices and put up with crappier hardware. The lower hardware sales might be counterbalanced by cheaper components, but that's just part of the equation they must consider.
The ones that were closer were the ones like the recent one that hit Orissa. This wasn't even the closest one that could do any damage, it was too small to have even survived the atmosphere. That recent one in Wales which was recorded by the skateboarder -- that was about 80,000 kilometers closer.
Sheesh.
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This has ZERO to do with RFIDs or anything remotely similar to RFIDs. This is a combination ankle bracelet and cell phone and uses GPS.
They need vaccinations, help with ordinary diseases, cholera, broken bones, babies who are sick, all that small stuff. Satellites will only help for consultations for major problems, heart surgery and so on. They don't need consultations, they need vaccines and bandages and needles.
Isn't Grouch Marx supposed to have said "I don't want to join any club that would let me be a member"... maybe this is the reverse case, maybe the supreme court panel is saying the guy isn't sleazy enough...
As a kid in the 60s, I read every Heinlein I could. When I went back 10 or 20 years later and tried to reread them, even the very ordinary adventure ones, I couldn't, his political agenda kept on getting in the way, like he had to preach in everything he wrote, and even tho I agreed with a lot of it, I got tired of it, and gave up. To this day, I can't stand reading Heinlein, the preaching jumps out and obscures the story.
The absolutely best investment any tenant can make is to buy a book on tenant rights, no matter where you live. Check every year for new editions, can't hurt.
In California, the landlord can only charge for cleaning beyond normal wear and tear. There can be no cleaning fees if you have been there more than a year, unless you parked your Harley on the carpet and it dripped oil, or you practiced sladgehammer martial arts on the walls. I had a lease, lived in a place 4 years, the agency tried to deduct $125 for cleaning because the lease said it had to be cleaned professionally. Uh uh, no no, not legal, even if it wasn't called an explicit cleaning fee, they got zapped in small claims court. In California, at least then, you could also ask for up to $600 in extra fines, I forget the legal name for them. Plus, a conviction (not a settlement) is a blot on their record, which they are terrified of.
Get that tenant rights book! Look up, for example, how to bill for repairs the landlord won't make. Lots of surprises for most people.
Do you think MS doesn't even use their own software?
It doesn't matter if M$ uses their own software, they don't produce even good crap. At least from my experience, it doesn't matter whose dog food they are eating, it is still processed dog food, i.e., shit.
One. In 1987 or so, I had to use the M$ debugger. Whenever you stepped into a C subroutine that it didn't have the source for, it dropped automatically into asm mode, and when you stepped back into the source code, it did not erase the registers and other parts of the asm debug display before putting the source code back on the screen, so it was a weird mixture of asm register leftovers and source code and line numbers. How could they ship crap like that, did they never use it themselves?
Two. In the early 90s, I had to use Word to maintain technical documents. Whenever we revved the software, even for minor tweaks like the copyright date, we also had to rev the documents. So we would edit, changing only the date and rev number, and it would screw up the pagination, with the last page printing as page 33 of 32. This happened maybe half the time. Sometimes a quick change and backspace would cure it, sometimes a print preview, sometimes half an hour of cursing and fussing would be required. You will never convince me they hadn't encountered this bug themselves. We all ran into it.
Three. Several years ago, I had to use the M$ development environment. In the first day alone, I found four bugs. Now maybe I just don't use it like the manual says, but they shouldn't have been present anyway. The only one I remember now is that I would click on the button to add a function or variable, it would do so, I would hit the X to close the window, and apparently that was not the proper way, because the next time it had to open that file, it would yap that the disk file had changed, horrors, should it reload?
I hardly ever use M$ software, those three periods were probably the only times in the last 15 years, which means they are 3 for 3 in producing shit. That's a pretty atrocious record.
M$ produces crap software. That is why I have never liked their products, along with frozen unconfigurable features, lack of control, updates which introduce incompatibilities just for the sake of forcing upgrades, and so on. Dislike of Bill Gates' ethics is a poor second to all these reasons.
Wasn't C-130s, it was something with two radial engines, C-119? They had a mission delivering food to a village, rice at least, and a cow. One engine failed, they had to unload the cargo in a hurry, including the cow, but the cow was too smart to walk out the back door, so he fired his.45 next to it, not to hit it, just to scare it, the cow got the hint, and some farmer got a strange surprise next day. The cow also evacuated its bowels as it left...
Keep a list of all assigned projects, whether on a web page for all to see, or on a whiteboard, and make damn sure everybody knows where it is. Get priorities assigned, not as in TOP but as in position on the list.
Here's a little story you might find enlightening, the importance of priorities in keeping requests under control. This is relevant, very relevant.
I worked with a guy who was an air force loadmaster in Vietnam, early 60s. He had some scut job at the main Saigon airbase. They used to extract carriage fees from shipments of steak and whiskey going up to the officers club at Cam Ranh Bay. One day, some ensign showed up, fresh as a daisy, said there were pallets going up to the club, and he was in charge of making sure they arrived intact, and demanded they be sent up on the next available plane. My friend had been in too long to give a shit about some wet behind the ears ensign, and furthermore, had the distinct attitude of What Are You Going To Do, Send Me To Vietnam? So he slapped a bunch of clipboards up on the counter, said fine, you tell me what cargo you want to take off, sir, and we'll see that your steak and whiskey gets up there right away sir. Now what will it be... body bags, medicine, ammunition, combat rations, fuel.... and the ensign got all huffy and backed down.
That's the end of the relevant part of the story. Remember, make the job assigner decide not TOP priority, but where exactly on the list, so when other people complain, you can point to new jobs added above theirs. The goal is to get the suits hassling each other, not you. Don't argue with them. If they berate you, just say you need to know whose jobs to bump down the list. Be quiet and form, you need to know the positional priority.
OK, the rest of the story is more fun, not as relevant, but may help you to remember this trick.
The ensign demanded that someone stand guard over the pallets of steak and whiskey. My friend just sneered at him, Sir, you have a sidearm, why don't you use it? And the ensign did, he stood gaurd over the precious pallets for some time, until some crusty old chief, who had spit more sea water than the ensign had ever seen, showed up with a case of whiskey under one arm and a case of steaks under the other, slapped them down on the counter, and the pallets went out on the next flight.
There's a moral to that story to, but it's probably not a good idea to start taking bribes to shuffle your boss's priorities...
Microsoft's corporate policy is complete control, and they have focussed to thoroughly on that alone that they have lost touch with reality. Just as an M$ monoculture is easy grounds for virii and worms, their corporate dependence on thinking soley in terms of control will be their downfall. If they had maintained their lead based on competence, they would not be in this position. Fact is, they don't know how to compete on competence, and worrying about the technical side of things would distract them from worrying about the political side, so they don't
You aren't paying attention. Previous artificial diamonds are too small for gems, they are used as abrasives in drill bits and so on.
These new companies are not making diamond dust, they are making gem size diamonds, and plan to use the income from that, as they destroy deBeers, to finance making diamonds for semiconductors, as in huge wafers.
Maybe you could come up with some definition for "industrial" diamonds, whatever that is, and then update it for the new artificial diamonds, and realize it has no more meaning.
I have long wondered, here in the USA, what would happen if speeding laws were actually thoroughly enforced. The politicians would not want that. People will take a certain amount of onerous tax like speeding fines, but no more, and the politicians and police are pretty good at judging the limit, to milk as many golden eggs as possible without killing the goose that lays them. I'd love to see real enforcement; so many people would clog the court system, and so many suspended licenses would cause a revolt in traffic laws. Politicians know that. I imagine any policeman who actually wrote speeding tickets all day long, as any of them could, would quickly learn a lesson from his boss.
All I thought of was that he and some others (Bruce? Linux? RMS or FSF?) were getting som elegal response up, and had visions of a donation page to helpo the cause. The vision of thousands of geeks donating for lawyers ought to set off alarm bells in SCO shareholders...
IBM and AT&T added a side agreement (I think of several hundred clauses) which overrode the standard AT&T contract, and which specifically kept IBM code owned by IBM.
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It says, quote "a version of the GPL". Regardless of what actually happened, the writer is wrong, there is no such version of the GPL.
Torvalds opted for a version of the GPL that forbade anyone from making money selling modified versions of Linux.
1. It makes no sense to talk of choosing versions of the GPL. There are versions, but only two, and the difference has nothing to do with making money.
2. It must be news to Red Hat and everybody else that it is forbidden to amke money from selling modified versions.
Makes me wonder how much of the rest of the interview is bogus.
SCO is in Utah. Surely that counts for something. Probably even more so if the job is a lawyerly marketing kind of job, and the multiple monitors are watching stock prices.
That said, I doubt the SCO execs know how many 0's there are in a billion.
As in billi0n?
You are saying Apple would lose sales if they dropped their prices. What errant nonsense! The only customers they would lose that way would be snobs. They would gain a whole heck of a lot more customers than they would lose. But they would lose net income because their software and hardware is a low volume specialty niche.
The only possible change for Apple would be to port their software to wintel PCs, and then their hardware would be in direct competition with Dell at al. It would be a gamble that increased software sales would make up for lower hardware sales. Certainly some people would continue to buy expensive Apple hardware, but most people would take the lower price for ordinary style. Some people would take even lower prices and put up with crappier hardware. The lower hardware sales might be counterbalanced by cheaper components, but that's just part of the equation they must consider.
The ones that were closer were the ones like the recent one that hit Orissa. This wasn't even the closest one that could do any damage, it was too small to have even survived the atmosphere. That recent one in Wales which was recorded by the skateboarder -- that was about 80,000 kilometers closer.
Sheesh.
This has ZERO to do with RFIDs or anything remotely similar to RFIDs. This is a combination ankle bracelet and cell phone and uses GPS.
They need vaccinations, help with ordinary diseases, cholera, broken bones, babies who are sick, all that small stuff. Satellites will only help for consultations for major problems, heart surgery and so on. They don't need consultations, they need vaccines and bandages and needles.
Isn't Grouch Marx supposed to have said "I don't want to join any club that would let me be a member" ... maybe this is the reverse case, maybe the supreme court panel is saying the guy isn't sleazy enough ...
As a kid in the 60s, I read every Heinlein I could. When I went back 10 or 20 years later and tried to reread them, even the very ordinary adventure ones, I couldn't, his political agenda kept on getting in the way, like he had to preach in everything he wrote, and even tho I agreed with a lot of it, I got tired of it, and gave up. To this day, I can't stand reading Heinlein, the preaching jumps out and obscures the story.
The absolutely best investment any tenant can make is to buy a book on tenant rights, no matter where you live. Check every year for new editions, can't hurt.
In California, the landlord can only charge for cleaning beyond normal wear and tear. There can be no cleaning fees if you have been there more than a year, unless you parked your Harley on the carpet and it dripped oil, or you practiced sladgehammer martial arts on the walls. I had a lease, lived in a place 4 years, the agency tried to deduct $125 for cleaning because the lease said it had to be cleaned professionally. Uh uh, no no, not legal, even if it wasn't called an explicit cleaning fee, they got zapped in small claims court. In California, at least then, you could also ask for up to $600 in extra fines, I forget the legal name for them. Plus, a conviction (not a settlement) is a blot on their record, which they are terrified of.
Get that tenant rights book! Look up, for example, how to bill for repairs the landlord won't make. Lots of surprises for most people.
Do you think MS doesn't even use their own software?
It doesn't matter if M$ uses their own software, they don't produce even good crap. At least from my experience, it doesn't matter whose dog food they are eating, it is still processed dog food, i.e., shit.
One. In 1987 or so, I had to use the M$ debugger. Whenever you stepped into a C subroutine that it didn't have the source for, it dropped automatically into asm mode, and when you stepped back into the source code, it did not erase the registers and other parts of the asm debug display before putting the source code back on the screen, so it was a weird mixture of asm register leftovers and source code and line numbers. How could they ship crap like that, did they never use it themselves?
Two. In the early 90s, I had to use Word to maintain technical documents. Whenever we revved the software, even for minor tweaks like the copyright date, we also had to rev the documents. So we would edit, changing only the date and rev number, and it would screw up the pagination, with the last page printing as page 33 of 32. This happened maybe half the time. Sometimes a quick change and backspace would cure it, sometimes a print preview, sometimes half an hour of cursing and fussing would be required. You will never convince me they hadn't encountered this bug themselves. We all ran into it.
Three. Several years ago, I had to use the M$ development environment. In the first day alone, I found four bugs. Now maybe I just don't use it like the manual says, but they shouldn't have been present anyway. The only one I remember now is that I would click on the button to add a function or variable, it would do so, I would hit the X to close the window, and apparently that was not the proper way, because the next time it had to open that file, it would yap that the disk file had changed, horrors, should it reload?
I hardly ever use M$ software, those three periods were probably the only times in the last 15 years, which means they are 3 for 3 in producing shit. That's a pretty atrocious record.
M$ produces crap software. That is why I have never liked their products, along with frozen unconfigurable features, lack of control, updates which introduce incompatibilities just for the sake of forcing upgrades, and so on. Dislike of Bill Gates' ethics is a poor second to all these reasons.
Gosh. Maybe navy supplies move thru air force bases.
Wasn't C-130s, it was something with two radial engines, C-119? They had a mission delivering food to a village, rice at least, and a cow. One engine failed, they had to unload the cargo in a hurry, including the cow, but the cow was too smart to walk out the back door, so he fired his .45 next to it, not to hit it, just to scare it, the cow got the hint, and some farmer got a strange surprise next day. The cow also evacuated its bowels as it left ...
Keep a list of all assigned projects, whether on a web page for all to see, or on a whiteboard, and make damn sure everybody knows where it is. Get priorities assigned, not as in TOP but as in position on the list.
... body bags, medicine, ammunition, combat rations, fuel .... and the ensign got all huffy and backed down.
...
Here's a little story you might find enlightening, the importance of priorities in keeping requests under control. This is relevant, very relevant.
I worked with a guy who was an air force loadmaster in Vietnam, early 60s. He had some scut job at the main Saigon airbase. They used to extract carriage fees from shipments of steak and whiskey going up to the officers club at Cam Ranh Bay. One day, some ensign showed up, fresh as a daisy, said there were pallets going up to the club, and he was in charge of making sure they arrived intact, and demanded they be sent up on the next available plane. My friend had been in too long to give a shit about some wet behind the ears ensign, and furthermore, had the distinct attitude of What Are You Going To Do, Send Me To Vietnam? So he slapped a bunch of clipboards up on the counter, said fine, you tell me what cargo you want to take off, sir, and we'll see that your steak and whiskey gets up there right away sir. Now what will it be
That's the end of the relevant part of the story. Remember, make the job assigner decide not TOP priority, but where exactly on the list, so when other people complain, you can point to new jobs added above theirs. The goal is to get the suits hassling each other, not you. Don't argue with them. If they berate you, just say you need to know whose jobs to bump down the list. Be quiet and form, you need to know the positional priority.
OK, the rest of the story is more fun, not as relevant, but may help you to remember this trick.
The ensign demanded that someone stand guard over the pallets of steak and whiskey. My friend just sneered at him, Sir, you have a sidearm, why don't you use it? And the ensign did, he stood gaurd over the precious pallets for some time, until some crusty old chief, who had spit more sea water than the ensign had ever seen, showed up with a case of whiskey under one arm and a case of steaks under the other, slapped them down on the counter, and the pallets went out on the next flight.
There's a moral to that story to, but it's probably not a good idea to start taking bribes to shuffle your boss's priorities
Microsoft's corporate policy is complete control, and they have focussed to thoroughly on that alone that they have lost touch with reality. Just as an M$ monoculture is easy grounds for virii and worms, their corporate dependence on thinking soley in terms of control will be their downfall. If they had maintained their lead based on competence, they would not be in this position. Fact is, they don't know how to compete on competence, and worrying about the technical side of things would distract them from worrying about the political side, so they don't
You aren't paying attention. Previous artificial diamonds are too small for gems, they are used as abrasives in drill bits and so on.
These new companies are not making diamond dust, they are making gem size diamonds, and plan to use the income from that, as they destroy deBeers, to finance making diamonds for semiconductors, as in huge wafers.
Maybe you could come up with some definition for "industrial" diamonds, whatever that is, and then update it for the new artificial diamonds, and realize it has no more meaning.
I have long wondered, here in the USA, what would happen if speeding laws were actually thoroughly enforced. The politicians would not want that. People will take a certain amount of onerous tax like speeding fines, but no more, and the politicians and police are pretty good at judging the limit, to milk as many golden eggs as possible without killing the goose that lays them. I'd love to see real enforcement; so many people would clog the court system, and so many suspended licenses would cause a revolt in traffic laws. Politicians know that. I imagine any policeman who actually wrote speeding tickets all day long, as any of them could, would quickly learn a lesson from his boss.
900% means it's gone up by ten times. Your numbers are all off by 100.
Now do you get the idea?
All I thought of was that he and some others (Bruce? Linux? RMS or FSF?) were getting som elegal response up, and had visions of a donation page to helpo the cause. The vision of thousands of geeks donating for lawyers ought to set off alarm bells in SCO shareholders ...
It's the user name, not a story title.
Read it again. It says "USER writes ESR RESPONDS" where USER is the mailto link, and ESR RESPONDS is the story link.
... I drink milk :-)
What goes around comes around.
I can karma whore too :-)
Try Books-A-Million and avoid supporting Amazon patents and non-privacy.
Har de har har, a self fulfilling luser :-) :-)
IBM and AT&T added a side agreement (I think of several hundred clauses) which overrode the standard AT&T contract, and which specifically kept IBM code owned by IBM.